Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18 (UTC-0400): > Everything is ok until I load a program of any size, pan, kmail, > thunderbird, worker file manager. Worker immediately freezes up > debian. This was not true at 1024x768. Using which DE or WM? Konsole, Worker & MC are all running fine he

Re: password

On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 08:59:15 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 05:30:01 +0200, David Wright wrote: > >On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 21:25:45 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah S

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 13:09:57 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > > Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a > piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take > more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of > ram for itself in a ramd

Re: toshiba video problem

On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:50:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:09:57 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a >> piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take >> more video ram. That while debian

Re: Problems with the nouveau driver

James Allsopp composed on 2022-04-05 22:15 (UTC+0100): > I've just had to replace the motherboard, cpu and ram in my PC, and after a > few hoops got to the point where I can boot Debian Testing in kde. > However I keep getting screen windowing problems before eventually X shuts > down. Mouse sti

Re: toshiba video problem

On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:50:01 +0200, Brian wrote: >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 15:43:02 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20:01 +0200, Brian >> wrote: >> >> >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge >

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:09:57 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a > piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take > more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of > ram for itself in a ramdisk.

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On 4/5/2022 3:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You gotta be careful: kicking out an IP for just one login failure might shut *you* out because you forgot to ssh-add your key (or because you mistyped your password once). OTOH, if "they" keep changing their IP address for each retry, you wouldn'

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 15:43:02 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20:01 +0200, Brian > wrote: > > >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge > >> wrote: > >> > > >> >I think Arch uses it, and they have

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 03:01:30 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > mail2world, whom shentel uses as a mailserver, running dovecot could do a > better job of filtering that, but I probably field 2 to 4 such emails > that aren't actually addressed to me a day. I don't understand the > mechanism that p

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 15:42:46 (-0400), Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > On 2022-04-04 5:17 a.m., davidson wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 Juan R.D. Silva wrote: [ … ] > > > Sorry for the rant but it looks that either GNOME folks decided they > > > know it best what it should be for everyone or they are so b

Problems with the nouveau driver

Hi, I've just had to replace the motherboard, cpu and ram in my PC, and after a few hoops got to the point where I can boot Debian Testing in kde. However I keep getting screen windowing problems before eventually X shuts down. Mouse still works for a while, the graphics card is an nvidia GT 730

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20:01 +0200, Brian wrote: >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge >> wrote: >> > >> >I think Arch uses it, and they have an extremely good wiki. Sometimes, >> >searching Google for the answer to a

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge > wrote: > > > >I think Arch uses it, and they have an extremely good wiki. Sometimes, > >searching Google for the answer to a Debian question will turn up a > >link to the Arch wiki.

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:00:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way t

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tue, Apr 05 2022 at 09:23:11 AM, wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:01:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46:32 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [fail2ban] > >> Well, it seems to me that if something as automatic as fail2ban were to >> be used, its better use would

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > > > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xp

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not > > in .profile. > > To the best

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 18:40:02 +0200, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:00:01 +0200, Dan Ritter >wrote: > >>Felix Miata wrote: >>> Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): >>> >>> xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 >>> -

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not > in .profile. To the best of my knowledge, Debian does not use ~/.xprofile when starting a standar

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:00:01 +0200, Dan Ritter wrote: >Felix Miata wrote: >> Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): >> >> xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 >> -HSync -VSync >> xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" >> xrand

Re: toshiba video problem

Felix Miata wrote: > Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): > > xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 > -HSync -VSync > xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" > xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" > > Upthread you indicated

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

tomas writes: > Yes, some providers would get my "trusted" badge. Don't know much > about those two, though. Pobox is owned by Fastmail, which has been in business for more than twenty years. They were recommended by several friends. Email is their only business. Gandi has also been in business

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 09:28:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Too late. Note the part about POP3. The upstream MTA is Pobox or > > Gandi. They have already completed the SMTP transaction with the sender. > > Any anti-spam efforts involving SMTP termination are in their hands. > > tom

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

I wrote: > Too late. Note the part about POP3. The upstream MTA is Pobox or > Gandi. They have already completed the SMTP transaction with the sender. > Any anti-spam efforts involving SMTP termination are in their hands. tomas writes: > That's why I run my own MTA :) I did that for many years.

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

writes: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 08:09:10AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> tomas writes: >> > The only credible action left is to decide while the SMTP transaction >> > is in process, and to terminate it early. Then, the upstream MTA will >> > notice that something went wrong. >> >> > Most MTAs t

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 08:09:10AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > The only credible action left is to decide while the SMTP transaction > > is in process, and to terminate it early. Then, the upstream MTA will > > notice that something went wrong. > > > Most MTAs these days support

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

tomas writes: > The only credible action left is to decide while the SMTP transaction > is in process, and to terminate it early. Then, the upstream MTA will > notice that something went wrong. > Most MTAs these days support this option. Too late. Note the part about POP3. The upstream MTA is Pob

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 03:23:11 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:01:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46:32 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [fail2ban] > > > Well, it seems to me that if something as automatic as fail2ban were > > to be used, it

Re: logcheck shows only accounting tool, Debian 11?

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 08:02:45PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Can /etc/cron.d/sysstat and /etc/cron.daily/sysstat simply be removed? > Those files "belong" to the sysstate package. To ensure that your modifications are preserved on upgrade, then the best way to handle it is to simply commen

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 03:01:30AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46:32 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [fail2ban] > Well, it seems to me that if something as automatic as fail2ban were to > be used, its better use would be in the router, stopping such before it > reaches

Re: toshiba video problem

Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 -HSync -VSync xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" Upthread you indicated

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:46:32 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 03:44:24PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Monday, 4 April 2022 12:03:59 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 11:51:47AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > [...] > > > Tomas, I've had fail2ban