Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2022-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Replying to this old mail, as I have new information... On 2020-04-21 19:09:32 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-04-21 17:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Sometimes packages get renamed. A renamed package becomes a > > "transitional package", which can be tracked by deborphan and > > can sa

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 22:10:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:00:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero >wrote: > >>On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:20:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero >>wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata >>> wrote: >>> Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-06 15:45 (UTC-0400): > It must simply be something about not being able to manage 1440x900 > resolution. It might be worth trying an in between resolution, e.g. 1280x800, which like 1440x900, is a 16:10 mode, unlike 1024x768, which is 4:3. In troubleshooting mod

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 18:00:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:20:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero >wrote: > >>On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata >> wrote: >> >>>Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18 (UTC-0400): >>> Everything is ok until I load a program of any s

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-06 11:37 (UTC-0400): >>On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:50:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>>On all old limited >>>resource systems like this I automatically ease up the load by disabling >>>compositing > How can I do that? >>># cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-extensions.conf

Re: GNOME brightness controls have no effect on brightness

2022-04-06 Thread Juan R.D. Silva
On 2022-04-05 7:06 p.m., David Wright wrote: 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

Re: Problems with the nouveau driver

2022-04-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 10:15:42PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > 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 > do

Re: No dbg packages for Plasma?

2022-04-06 Thread Patrick Franz
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2022, 15:20:49 CEST schrieb Luiz Romário Santana Rios: > I just noticed that there seem to be absolutely no debug packages for > plasma-desktop or for plasma frameworks. The only thing I can find > online is this plasma-desktop-dbgsym package[1], which is only > availabl

Re: Problems with the nouveau driver

2022-04-06 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2022, 18:04:35 CEST schrieb Leandro neto: Hi, I do not like the nouveau driver, because it is badly maintained, as other people also confirmed. Did you try the nvdia-driver? For your card it is the 390xx, so look at packages with this name. You need the kernel-package and

Re: Problems with the nouveau driver

2022-04-06 Thread Leandro neto
i kjnow the problem since 2019 it is a vulnerqability. publish it ojm virustotal. but nobody cares it will destriy your hardware   leandro +552122366155 Enviado via UOL Mail Assunto: Problems with the nouveau driver De: jamesaalls...@googlemail.com Enviado em: 5 de abril de

Re: QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-04-06 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:42:43 +0100 schrieb Gareth Evans : >A different invocation method, but does this help, or give a clue to something >equivalent? > >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/09/msg00691.html The link was the path to the solution. For gtk output in a newly created window I h

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:20:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero wrote: >On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata > wrote: > >>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 immed

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 05:40:01 +0200, David Wright wrote: >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 deb

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >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. > >Us

Re: No dbg packages for Plasma?

2022-04-06 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 4/6/22 06:20, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: I just noticed that there seem to be absolutely no debug packages for plasma-desktop or for plasma frameworks. The only thing I can find online is this plasma-desktop-dbgsym package[1], which is only available for Sid. I believe the Debian Dev

No dbg packages for Plasma?

2022-04-06 Thread Luiz Romário Santana Rios
I just noticed that there seem to be absolutely no debug packages for plasma-desktop or for plasma frameworks. The only thing I can find online is this plasma-desktop-dbgsym package[1], which is only available for Sid. Why? Is this a bug? Thank you in advance. P.S.: I'm not subscribed to the

Re: Can't create a password successfully.

2022-04-06 Thread Chris Mitchell
On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 22:45:27 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 4/3/22 21:07, ghe2001 wrote: > > I kinda thought it probably was. It's pretty obvious. The idea is > > to generate a bunch of gibberish that could be easily remembered. > > It's not gibberish; it has meaning. The meaning is wh