Re: Weird WiFi problem

2021-05-23 Thread David Christensen
On 5/23/21 4:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than mine. Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatic

kernel: perf: interrupt took too long

2021-05-23 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I see messages like this frequently for a day or two after rebooting a particularly slow old machine (Atom-based HP thin client, running as an OpenVPN endpoint): May 23 05:36:37 ovpn kernel: [14268.392418] perf: interrupt took too long (4020 > 3996), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sa

Weird WiFi problem

2021-05-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than mine. Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatically to 5G. 2.4G is reserved for my printer

Re: xv

2021-05-23 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 1:23 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > i wrote: > > > halve_jpeg.c > > Dan Hitt wrote: > > It was unwilling to deal with a non-color image that i had ("Unsuitable > JPEG > > format with 1 components per pixel"), [...] > > if i need to deal with non-color images, i can try

Re: xv

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > halve_jpeg.c Dan Hitt wrote: > It was unwilling to deal with a non-color image that i had ("Unsuitable JPEG > format with 1 components per pixel"), [...] > if i need to deal with non-color images, i can try to modify it. It is much ad-hoc work, i have to confess. The images whic

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >On Sat 22 May 2021 at 18:52:18 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> I have no idea about xv specifically, but you might consider qiv, which >> is in Debian. It's lightweight (87K for the binary, 204K by my count for >> the package), I've never had difficulty with its command-line interface >

Re: Debian vs. Arch wikis [WAS:] Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 May 2021 19:20:29 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 23 May 2021 at 13:52:11 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > It's not just a question of personal preference; ArchWiki is just > > objectively (often? usually?) much better than Debian Wiki. A recent > > example: compare the ArchWiki U2F page with

Re: Debian vs. Arch wikis [WAS:] Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Brian
On Sun 23 May 2021 at 13:52:11 -0400, Celejar wrote: > It's not just a question of personal preference; ArchWiki is just > objectively (often? usually?) much better than Debian Wiki. A recent > example: compare the ArchWiki U2F page with the Debian Wiki one: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/U

Debian vs. Arch wikis [WAS:] Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 May 2021 11:46:13 -0400 Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/23/21, Celejar wrote: ... > > You may find something useful on the ArchWiki MTP page, although it > > doesn't have much on mtp-tools: > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Media_Transfer_Protocol > > > Ditto on ArchWiki all

Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
On 2021-05-23 11:46 a.m., Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/23/21, Celejar wrote: >> On Sun, 23 May 2021 01:12:50 + (UTC) >> Long Wind wrote: >> >>> https://wiki.debian.org/mtp >>> i have success with jmtpfs, but it's very slowi want to use mtp-tools, but >>> can't find documentation >>> i use

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Brian
On Sat 22 May 2021 at 18:52:18 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I have no idea about xv specifically, but you might consider qiv, which > is in Debian. It's lightweight (87K for the binary, 204K by my count for > the package), I've never had difficulty with its command-line interface > (in point of fa

Re: xv

2021-05-23 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 4:33 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dan Hitt wrote: > > Thomas, that sounds awesome, please do post somewhere (and provide a link > > here, if you would be so kind). > > So on popular demand by one potential user here it is > > http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/halve_

Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/23/21, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2021 01:12:50 + (UTC) > Long Wind wrote: > >> https://wiki.debian.org/mtp >> i have success with jmtpfs, but it's very slowi want to use mtp-tools, but >> can't find documentation >> i use twm and try gui tool gmtp, with no success > > Sorry, I can'

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 11:50:57AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: I have to fall back to another viewer (usually ristretto, which I really don't like) to view these files. (Working on a file that xv likes with the Gimp is one good way to make a file it doesn't like.) I used xv, a long time ago. T

Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 01:12:50AM +, Long Wind wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/mtp i have success with jmtpfs, but it's very slow i want to use mtp-tools, but can't find documentation i use twm and try gui tool gmtp, with no success Try go-mtpfs. On my system jmtpfs will transfer large fi

Re: xv

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dan Hitt wrote: > Thomas, that sounds awesome, please do post somewhere (and provide a link > here, if you would be so kind). So on popular demand by one potential user here it is http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/halve_jpeg.c SHA256SUM: b4c9322cd7d20a09a5196ccbcec257bf363d9dea1284333afc