[SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 5 A515-45 touchpad suddenly stopped working on debian 12.5

2024-07-05 Thread Steinar Bang
> Steinar Bang : > Sometime (a day or so maybe) before <2024-06-26 Wed 19:59> the touchpad > stopped working on my Acer Aspire 5 with a MATE desktop on debian 12.5. > At the time the laptop had gone 50 days since the last reboot so I > figured something had gone wrong during the time and a re

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread David Christensen
On 7/5/24 19:06, Max Nikulin wrote: On 7/5/24 21:14, George at Clug wrote: Thank you for your replies. The underlying issue appears to be that my old-school Linux console network administration skills have been rendered obsolete by systemd and NetworkManager. I typically install Xfce whe

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread jeremy ardley
On 6/7/24 09:16, David Christensen wrote: I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/sect.network-config.en.html#sect.interface-ethernet As I said in my earlier post, it

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread George at Clug
David, How are your efforts toward setting a static IP address going? Have you succeeded. I set up a lot of test servers (for fun and no profit), and hence work with Hypervisors (KVM more than Virtual Box), and have some experience in this area. But at this point I am not sure if you need ass

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work. Thanks to Hans for the detailed list, which I was not able to use successfully. I had probably either broken something first, or didn't follow the instructi

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/07/2024 01:01, Van Snyder wrote: I'm not able to read this message. I do not think you will manage to achieve anything on this way. The person has clearly expressed that their are not going to follow recommendations concerning message format and do not care if messages cause trouble fo

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 06/07/2024 08:16, David Christensen wrote: I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: [...] https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration?action=info The following sentence: "Make sure to disable all DHCP services, e.g. dh

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread David Christensen
On 7/4/24 21:08, Felix Miata wrote: On 7/4/24 21:10, jeremy ardley wrote: On 7/5/24 11:44, Franco Martelli wrote: Thank you all for the replies. I can find no statement in The Debian Administrator's Handbook regarding disabling DHCP when using a static IP: https://www.debian.org/doc/ma

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 15:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't use Evolution, but I suspect being a Gnome application that > it works like > web browsers, where fonts can be enlarged using Ctrl-+ as many times > as it takes > to grow the fonts adequately. Possibly it also has a minimum > displayed

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2024-07-05 11:45 (UTC-0700): > On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:07 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> > I'm not able to read this message. >> Can you suggest to us why you think that might be? > Because the message was composed in html using a very small font, and > my mail reader (ev

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:07 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > I'm not able to read this message. > > Can you suggest to us why you think that might be? Because the message was composed in html using a very small font, and my mail reader (evolution) automatically prefers to read mail in html. I've n

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-05 Thread Franco Martelli
On 05/07/24 at 04:06, David Christensen wrote: The VM currently has a DHCP address.  I would like to set a static IPv4 address.  The Debian wiki tells me to edit /etc/network/interfaces and provides some example settings that I believe I can adapt to my use-case: ... What is the correct meth

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2024-07-05 11:01 (UTC-0700): > I'm not able to read this message. Can you suggest to us why you think that might be? > On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:01 +0200, Richard wrote: >> You really need to better read who writes what. I didn't start the >> discussion on message sizes d

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
I'm not able to read this message. On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:01 +0200, Richard wrote: > You really need to better read who writes what. I didn't start the > discussion on message sizes due to HTML, I simply ended it because of > irrelevance. > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM Greg Wooledge > wrot

Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud

2024-07-05 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 05-07-2024 at 20:46 Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > > What video device does your VM use? Maybe it uses real hardware, or does > > it use a virtual device like QLX or Virtio? I have been using virtio. I > > also tried QLX and it works. > > It is the qemu vga driver. I alrea

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Richard
Thank god nobody needs help from people so hung up on absolute irrelevant stuff and rules that haven't made sense in decades - if ever. As you may have read from the threads, those rules aren't undisputed at all. If they where seen as relevant as some people want to make believe, the list maintaine

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Nicolas George
Richard (12024-07-05): > You really need to better read who writes what. I didn't start the > discussion on message sizes due to HTML, I simply ended it because of > irrelevance. And that ended the willingness of many people to help you. Good luck with your problems. -- Nicolas George

Solution [Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-07-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2024 12:17 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] When searching for information on regular expressions I came across one that did it by searching for {"1 thru 9" OR "10 thru 99" OR "100 thru 999"} . I lost the reference ;

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Richard
You really need to better read who writes what. I didn't start the discussion on message sizes due to HTML, I simply ended it because of irrelevance. On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > [...] you chose to shift the topic to message > sizes (which isn't the primary reason HTML e

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 10:51:12 +0200, Richard wrote: > And who was talking about transport? The whole discussion was about > storage, and storing mail compressed is hardly a security issue. The discussion was originally about your messages containing directives to render all of your text in a sm

Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud

2024-07-05 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > What video device does your VM use? Maybe it uses real hardware, or does it > use a virtual device like QLX or Virtio? I have been using virtio. I also > tried QLX and it works. It is the qemu vga driver. I already tried qemu virtio and qemu vmware drivers, they have the same problem

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le 05/07/2024 à 11:31, Nicolas George a écrit : [...] There is another property of Nix I need: Nix never replaces a file, it only creates new files under different directories. This is important for me as I intend to use the same snapshot of the /nix volume connected read-only on multiple virtual

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-05 Thread Nicolas George
didier gaumet (12024-07-04): > I tried the Debian way (installing nix-setup-systemd, which install nix-bin) > without success. I then tried the method quoted in this webpage: > https://ariya.io/2020/05/nix-package-manager-on-ubuntu-or-debian > also without success but I indicate it because perhaps

Re: Using packaged Nix

2024-07-05 Thread Nicolas George
didier gaumet (12024-07-04): > (sorry Nicolas, I first sent you a private mail instead of posting on this > list, my bad) No problem, I just wondered for a few seconds why it arrived twice. > Guix, the GNU version of Nix, seems (at least basically) functional from the > start on Debian: > > sudo

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Richard
And who was talking about transport? The whole discussion was about storage, and storing mail compressed is hardly a security issue. On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 5:02 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Compression is a security hole. It leaks information. It should be > disabled. Infact, TLS v1.3 removed it f

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Richard
Not how lossless compression works. The final size depends much more on the content than on how much content there is. By no means it's "proportional". On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 10:09 PM Michel Verdier wrote: > Compression reduces the size but it's proportionnal so don't negate the > extra html siz

Re: GUI-Login on bookworm-VM in a cloud

2024-07-05 Thread George at Clug
Christoph, What video device does your VM use? Maybe it uses real hardware, or does it use a virtual device like QLX or Virtio? I have been using virtio. I also tried QLX and it works. See below for other questions. On Friday, 05-07-2024 at 01:16 Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > To get

[SOLVED] Re: Results of Testmail_1-3

2024-07-05 Thread Hans
Hi folks, first of all: No, I can not change my provider nor use another smtp server. second: I thought, this issue involves other people on this list, too, which might be interesting for them. third: I supposed, this issue is caused by debian mailservers, because this issue appears ONLY at t