Re: dovecot packages

On 19. 04. 21 19:38, Reco wrote: > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-([\.0-9]+)\.tar\.gz I think this should still match the latest dovecot release that Michael mentions: https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.14.tar.gz Best regards Tomaž

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

On Monday 19 April 2021 14:24:09 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > A warning to others, a "sudo apt install avrdude" did a just barely > > announced reboot of my machine, and it has taken me nomonally half > > an hour to restore everything that had x jerked out from under it. > > It killed

Postfix configuration on Bullseye

On installing on Bullseye, I usually install postfix, then configure it with "dpkg-reconfigure postfix". I use postfix here only for logwatch and other system emails, so the setup isn't concerned with the Internet at large. The default list of systems to accept mail for doesn't look right to me:

Re: dovecot packages

On 19. 04. 21 19:00, Michael Grant wrote: > Is this 'action needed' something that is updated manually? This warning is generated automatically. New upstream versions are detected by looking at URLs specified in the debian/watch file in the source package. https://wiki.debian.org/debian/watch A

Re: dovecot packages

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:49:52PM +0200, Tomaž Šolc wrote: > On 19. 04. 21 19:38, Reco wrote: > > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-([\.0-9]+)\.tar\.gz > > I think this should still match the latest dovecot release that Michael > mentions: > > https://dovecot.org/releases/2.3/dovecot-2.3.

Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

Hello, I hit a strange emacs issue, which appeared after upgrading to bullseye (I think): I have a virtualbox filesystem mounted using the standard virtualbox mechanisms: rd@Testing:~$ mount |grep dor1rt dor1rt on /mnt/dor1rt type vboxsf (rw,nodev,relatime) rd@Testing:~$ rd@Testing:~$ ls -l /

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:49:06 -0300 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > There are some wireless hdmi kits, you plug one in the computer, one > in the display, and it works like a cable, but without the actual > cable. You should be able to find them on Amazon and other stores. > I've never tried th

Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 06:48:41PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I hit a strange emacs issue, which appeared after upgrading to bullseye (I > think): > > I have a virtualbox filesystem mounted using the standard virtualbox > mechanisms: > > rd@Testing:~$ mount |grep dor1rt > dor1rt

Re: dovecot packages

On Lu, 19 apr 21, 13:00:24, Michael Grant wrote: > > Is this 'action needed' something that is updated manually? I > coulnd't easily find the debian maintainer to pass this on. > Suggestions? or should I just ignore it and eventually someone will > get to it? You can always just write to @packag

Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I'd like to use the TV as an extra display for my laptop. Basically, > as if it were connected with an HDMI cable, but over the network. And > use both displays, the same way one usually uses two displays. > > Unless there's a usage of x11vnc that I don't understand,

Re: scanner recommendation

On Mon 19 Apr 2021 at 14:02:22 -0400, Default User wrote: [...} > Okay, thanks guys! > > Now it's either: > 1 - shop online, buy something sight-unseen, and hope it works, or > 2 - shop by visiting one or more of the few physical stores remaining, and > risk dying of Covid-19 or its mutations.

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

> not support stretching your desktop to it) and it has a Java viewer > applet that can be used to connect to it from a web browser. There's a good chance the browser hardcoded in the TV doesn't support Java applets. Stefan

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Of note: Being the package that other packages build upon, maybe > there's not room to add that declaration within the package because of > conflicts that might then occur. In that case, maybe it's something > that could become of those ~2 or 3kb optional external package

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

On 4/19/21, deloptes wrote: > Long Wind wrote: > >> these days communists pay only lip service to communism ideology >> concepts such as red or revolution are rarely used in communists' >> propaganda > > this is why I wrote it is a joke. We do not understand why you want to > change the color. AFA

Re: Problems opening Linuxquestions link [WAS Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata]

Hi, 19 avr. 2021, 11:31 de amaca...@einval.com: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:04:23AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > >> > A visit to the following may prove fruitful moving forward: >> >

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

On Lu, 19 apr 21, 14:17:05, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I'd like to use the TV as an extra display for my laptop. Basically, > as if it were connected with an HDMI cable, but over the network. And > use both displays, the same way one usually uses two displays. It seems you mean to expand your

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

Gene Heskett wrote: > A warning to others, a "sudo apt install avrdude" did a just barely > announced reboot of my machine, and it has taken me nomonally half an > hour to restore everything that had x jerked out from under it. It > killed x before it announced it on a text screen. The reboot was,

Re: scanner recommendation

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 09:12 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:48:12AM +0200, john doe wrote: > >You could choose a scanner that is 'complete'ly supported from the Sane > >(1) project > > > >1) www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS > > Excellent advice. For this reason I

Re: dovecot packages

Hi. On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:00:24PM -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > V2.1.14 has been around for about a month. What's surprising is that > on the tracker web page, usually there's an 'action needed' with a 'A > new upstream version is available...' but not here. Is something > broken th

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Why risk hurting someone's feelings "just for" a joke? Why risk > putting someone at risk of state repression? I do not risk anything

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

Long Wind wrote: > these days communists pay only lip service to communism ideology > concepts such as red or revolution are rarely used in communists' > propaganda this is why I wrote it is a joke. We do not understand why you want to change the color. AFAIK the color is part of the theme you ar

dovecot packages

Just noticed on the dovecot.org site, the latest version of dovecot seems to be v2.3.14, but on the dovecot package tracker on the debian site: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dovecot, we're at v2.3.13. V2.1.14 has been around for about a month. What's surprising is that on the tracker web page, u

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

Greg Wooledge composed on 2021-04-19 11:31 (UTC-0400): > If you're at the GRUB menu, you can edit the kernel selection before > booting into it, and add a boot parameter to this list: > systemd.unit=multi-user.target > That will override the default target for one boot only. So will simply 3, a

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

On Monday, April 19, 2021, 8:30:23 PM GMT+8, deloptes wrote: Joke: he doesn't like the blue color in the VU meter in the pavucontrol, because in China red is required to be on the safe side :) these days communists pay only lip service to communism ideology concepts such as red or revol

Re: FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:27:37PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > If Nouveau is going to work - it will "just work", I think, as Felix Miata > > says. If it definitely doesn't work at all and just freezes, > > then you'll need

Re: FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:27:37PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If Nouveau is going to work - it will "just work", I think, as Felix Miata > says. If it definitely doesn't work at all and just freezes, > then you'll need to effectively reinstall, do the text only install trick, > install t

FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" To: Susmita/Rajib , debian-u...@lits.debian.org Subject: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:3

FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:04:34 + From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" To: Susmita/Rajib , debian-u...@lits.debian.org Subject: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:38:45PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > One question, as I am having cold feet, expecting heartbreak. > > Does nouveau boot into GUI before purging the driver with any of the three: You're confused. Let's go back to basics. When your system is powered on, the first thin

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

On Monday 19 April 2021 07:11:04 Anssi Saari wrote: > Gene Heskett writes: > > It looks as if dfu-programmer might work, but I just went to a > > buster machine and installed dfu-* but the --targets listing output > > does not include this particular ATmega1284p chip. > > avrdude might work inste

Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

> There are some wireless hdmi kits, you plug one in the computer, one in the > display, and it works like a cable, but without the actual cable. You should > be able to find them on Amazon and other stores. I've never tried them, > though. Sure, that would work! But it does seem a shame to no

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 04:11:18PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Why? > > why "joke" or why the joke Why risk hurting someone's feelings "just for" a joke? Why risk putting someone at risk of state repression? Cheers - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata

One question, as I am having cold feet, expecting heartbreak. Does nouveau boot into GUI before purging the driver with any of the three: apt purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau aptitude purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau I am sorry for the misinformation poste

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Why? why "joke" or why the joke

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

Long Wind wrote: > it seems that pulseaudio is about to supersede alsa? no, pulseaudio is an application friendly layer on top of alsa

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

On 19/04/2021 12:24, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I have a smart TV which includes a browser. (An LG running WebOS, as > it happens.) It can, of course, display video streams from a given > URL. So I'm hoping someone has figured out a way to create a virtual > display on a Debian computer which s

Re: [?]List of Best Debian-approved laptops in India

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:44:03 +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Vendors not responding [WAS Re: [?]List of Best > Debian-approved laptops in India] [...] > Message-id: <[🔎] 20210419074403.ga4...@einval.com> > In-reply-to: <[🔎] > caeg4czu

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

On 19/04/2021 08:24, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: I have a smart TV which includes a browser. (An LG running WebOS, as it happens.) It can, of course, display video streams from a given URL. So I'm hoping someone has figured out a way to create a virtual display on a Debian computer which streams

Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

I'd like to use the TV as an extra display for my laptop. Basically, as if it were connected with an HDMI cable, but over the network. And use both displays, the same way one usually uses two displays. Unless there's a usage of x11vnc that I don't understand, there are two issues with using x11vnc

Re: Whether Man pages could visually be structured in an abstract form to be understood easier

> Also, other man pages are similarly converted. Really, man pages are > sick without a teacher, for me of course. > Rajib Rajib, The pushback you will get here is not because it isn't a good idea to have some documentation that is easier to use. The problem is historical and one of standardizat

Re: scanner recommendation

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:48:12AM +0200, john doe wrote: You could choose a scanner that is 'complete'ly supported from the Sane (1) project 1) www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html#SCANNERS Excellent advice. For this reason I recently bought a 2nd-hand Canon LiDE 25 and I'm perfectly happy wi

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:24:57PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > What is the problem you are trying to solve? > > Joke: [...] Why? - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Whether Man pages could visually be structured in an abstract form to be understood easier

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:18:32PM +0100, Joe wrote: > Man pages were written as pure text files, beginning in a period when > that was pretty much all the Web could do. You can read man pages on a > server, which will not usually have any graphic display ability beyond > curses/ncurses. Man pages

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > What is the problem you are trying to solve? Joke: he doesn't like the blue color in the VU meter in the pavucontrol, because in China red is required to be on the safe side :)

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

Gene Heskett wrote: > It looks as if dfu-programmer might work, but I just went to a buster > machine and installed dfu-* but the --targets listing output does not > include this particular ATmega1284p chip. I also use avrdude & co - never had that big ATmega chip

Re: Whether Man pages could visually be structured in an abstract form to be understood easier

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:45:58 +0530 "Susmita/Rajib" wrote: > My illustrious List Leaders, Members and support-givers, > > In one of my earlier posts I had posted a request with the subject: > Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines > with examples, scripts, self-expla

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

On Lu, 19 apr 21, 11:52:54, Long Wind wrote: > such feature is available in PulseAudio Volume Control, > but it's blue bar, not colorful bar i desirei've seen it in MS > Windowsi think it's standard featurei can't believe it's unavailable > in alsa ALSA is the basic plumbing, the applications

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

On Lu, 19 apr 21, 12:24:21, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > I have a smart TV which includes a browser. (An LG running WebOS, as > it happens.) It can, of course, display video streams from a given > URL. So I'm hoping someone has figured out a way to create a virtual > display on a Debian computer w

Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

I have a smart TV which includes a browser. (An LG running WebOS, as it happens.) It can, of course, display video streams from a given URL. So I'm hoping someone has figured out a way to create a virtual display on a Debian computer which streams its contents out as a live video stream on some nic

Whether Man pages could visually be structured in an abstract form to be understood easier

My illustrious List Leaders, Members and support-givers, In one of my earlier posts I had posted a request with the subject: Request: A Debian public Wiki repository/bank for complex code lines with examples, scripts, self-explanatory with terminal, otherwise Minimal explanatory texts Link: https

Re: scanner recommendation

On Mon 19 Apr 2021 at 09:31:47 +0200, Klaus Jantzen wrote: [...] > I am using a CanoScan LiDE 400. I bought it because they have a (very > simple) Linux support. > > The software is a not very clever but works nicely. The images (jpg, pdf) > are good. There are a lot of buttons on the machine bu

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:55:10 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: [...] > All of the following should be equivalent: > > apt purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > aptitude purg

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata

On 19/04/2021, Susmita/Rajib wrote: [...] > All of the following should be equivalent: > > apt purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > aptitude purge xserver-xorg-vide

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

Gene Heskett writes: > It looks as if dfu-programmer might work, but I just went to a buster > machine and installed dfu-* but the --targets listing output does not > include this particular ATmega1284p chip. avrdude might work instead. I haven't done much with ATmega anything in a while thoug

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

On Lu, 19 apr 21, 03:01:37, Long Wind wrote: > i've run alsamixer, it's not what i want > i want it  to  show loudness of sound in real time by changing or flashing > colorful bar  Then you are looking for a VU meter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VU_meter For pure ALSA you might be able to (a

Problems opening Linuxquestions link [WAS Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:04:23AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Changing the subject Line: > From: > Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather > than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have > drivers available? How? > Last thread: https://lists.deb

Basics for fresh install [WAS Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers available? How?]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:00:59AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:12:29 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Ref: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00530.html > > "... > Unless and until all traces of NVidia's driver installation and associated > configuration changes h

Building Xorg using Linux from Scratch [WAS Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers availabl

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 09:40:54AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Would the setps as described in the following link be necessary? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/xorg-server.html > > --- > Installation of Xorg Se

Basics for text mode install [WAS Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers available? How?]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:15:45AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:56:46 +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > [QUOTE] > [...] > I followed through the screenshots you provided. > [...] > You can't ignore the source - you may have to apply it to a kernel. > [/QUOTE] > > > Ok

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata

Susmita/Rajib composed on 2021-04-19 12:45 (UTC+0530): > ... sufficient to purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and restart X to > engage the modesetting DIX. ... > Query: you meant apt-get purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau ? Could you > please help with the exact line?

Vendors not responding [WAS Re: [?]List of Best Debian-approved laptops in India]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:16:06AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Perhaps these lines in the post: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=149280 were missed. > > [quote="bkpsusmitaa"]Have been referring to the page: > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn#OfficialDocumentation > [...]

Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata

So my queries before I proceed: Is the installer ISO, "firmware-10.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso", from the link: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-10.9.0-amd64-netinst.iso, sufficient for the purpose? Are the steps (i summarise yo

Re: scanner recommendation

On 4/18/21 9:57 PM, Default User wrote: Hi! It may be time for a new scanner. For years I have used a Visioneer OneTouch 7100 usb flatbed scanner on various x86 computers running various versions of Debian and simple-scan. Currently: Debian Unstable (updated, of course) Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 #1