chromium launch fails

2024-08-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
On a fresh installation of Debian 12 on a Dell inspiron, chromium [127.0.6533.99-1~deb12u1] fails to launch. libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed The same version of chromium is working properly on another machine. The same version of chromium was working pro

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/08/2024 20:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference of course. You do not have AAC in the list of supported codecs and I am unsure if it is due to alsa backend o

usermod video,audio (was: Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970)

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/08/2024 06:15, George at Clug wrote: usermod -a -G video,audio [myusername] It should not be necessary. Udev and systemd-logind "uaccess" feature grants permissions to the current active user through ACLs.

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 13:47, Hans wrote: Hi Ebon, you said, it is flashing? Or do you have a blamk screen? It's all black, but the backlight flashes. I'll see if making the fixmonitors script correct works. I wrote that script and it uses xrandr to reset the monitors to the way they should be. Now thei

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
You can use davical[1]. While it focuses on caldav, it also supports carddav. [1] https://wiki.davical.org/index.php?title=CardDAV On August 15, 2024 9:31:39 AM CDT, Tom Browder wrote: >On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 08:04 Charles Curley < >charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Aug 20

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread David
On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 at 15:46, George at Clug wrote: > On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > > FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. > > Is this what is called a "Frankendebian" ? Hi, for your information, this wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian has

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 16-08-2024 at 03:30 Hans wrote: > > What Steam games do you have working under Nvidia? I have watched people on > > YouTube play some interesting and modern games using Nvidia + Linux and > > with ray-tracing, but they have to do a lot of customisation from what I > > could tell. From my

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 16-08-2024 at 03:57 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 00:48:20 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > > > FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. > > > > Is this what is called a "Frankendebian" ? > > No. Back

Metapackaging

2024-08-15 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Hi, The existing tutorials on `equivs` tools are few and not very detailed, so I'm looking for some clarification. What do `equivs-control`/`build` do beyond what can already be accomplished with a `DEBIAN/control` file and `dpkg --build`? Thanks

[RESOLVED] Re: Was linux-image-6.1.0-22-amd64 spontaneously rebooting?

2024-08-15 Thread Mike
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you have problems after using a live image, it might be that the first > of those was to use a live image :( > > The netinst and DVD installers are more mature and potentially better tested. > The live installer generally relies on different code if you use calamares,

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2024 à 19:17, e...@gmx.us a écrit : [...] > Aug 15 12:57:24 cerberus lightdm[1085]: Error getting user list from > org.freedesktop.Accounts: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files [...] didier@hp-

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
> > You don't get security updates for backport kernels, so I'd strongly > oppose it if you're running an exposed server. But for a desktop system > in a normal kind of setup (behind a firewall, or on a private network) > it should be within reasonable expectations of security. Huh, this is an

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 00:48:20 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > > FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. > > Is this what is called a "Frankendebian" ? No. Backports are reasonably safe. Installing one doesn't break all your dep

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
Hi Ebon, you said, it is flashing? Or do you have a blamk screen? This can happen, when the resolutionb of the monitor is out of sync. You can try to create an /etc/xorg.conf file, where you can set the resolution. Xorg.conf is not needed any more, as the monitor is telling the resolution and

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
> What Steam games do you have working under Nvidia? I have watched people on > YouTube play some interesting and modern games using Nvidia + Linux and > with ray-tracing, but they have to do a lot of customisation from what I > could tell. From my experience basic distribution installations do not

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 12:54, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/15/24 05:05, Hans wrote: If it is now starting well, you are good and can move your loginmanagers back. After reboot, it should automatically starting the -Server witrh a login greeter. OK, I'll try that. I haven't changed anything but we'll see wh

Re: Was linux-image-6.1.0-22-amd64 spontaneously rebooting?

2024-08-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 06:45:33AM -0400, songbird wrote: > Mike wrote: > > > I just installed Debian 12.6.0 (from a Debian Live ISO image) on new server > > hardware. On the way to getting it installed, it was suddenly rebooting. > > I even got so far as installing it and running "apt upgrade",

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
I am currently running in X with the GTX. Only two of three monitors are connected. The right one currently has a VGA cable which doesn't work with this card. In the console, the left (sideways, DVI) worked but the center (HDMI) didn't until "startx". How can I fix that, or is the DVI one the

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 05:05, Hans wrote: Hi Ebon, I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a charme. No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and everything elese is working great. FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. Proba

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > Hi Ebon, > > I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a > charme. > > No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and > everything elese is > working great. What Steam games do you have wo

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 08:04 Charles Curley < charlescur...@charlescurley.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:36:02 + > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > > I too was going to suggest Nextcloud; with the caveat that I don't see > > the server portion in the Debian Bookworm repos (though it is free

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 10:21:01AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I have not found the real source of the problem, It's a browser, after all ;-D > but I have found out why it worked on other machines and not on this one: \o/ > some months > (years?) ago I made this i386 machine use `firefox-esr

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have not found the real source of the problem, but I have found out why it worked on other machines and not on this one: some months (years?) ago I made this i386 machine use `firefox-esr:amd64` because Firefox tabs kept crashing (even for fairly simple pages). [ I've been using the i386 version

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you have libavcodec installed (from "Recommends") then it might be some > testing issue. There is no problem in bookworm. I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference of course. > Firefox exposes

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I have no idea what sandbox settings you're referring to. >> How/where can I find those to "tinker" with? > [1a] also: about:config -> security.sandbox.* Hmm... I set both `security.sandbox.socket.process.level` and `security.sandbox.content.level` to 0 as well as `media.cubeb.sandbox` to false

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Kj??rling wrote: > On 14 Aug 2024 21:22 -0600, from charlescur...@charlescurley.com (Charles > Curley): > >> I am looking at Contacts+ as a possible solution. Has anyone had any > >> good experience with it, or do you have a better solution to > >> recommend? > > > > Take a look at Nextc

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:36:02 + Michael Kjörling wrote: > I too was going to suggest Nextcloud; with the caveat that I don't see > the server portion in the Debian Bookworm repos (though it is free and > open source). I sit corrected. Nextcloud itself is not in the Debian repos, although a nu

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:13:15PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: Except the original plan did not hold water, even at the time. yes, that's why Reiser continued to add non-traditional filesystem features right up to the end. and the more it diverged from a traditional filesystem, the less like

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 15/08/2024 18:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in various formats and none of them work (hence the error messages ment

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 07:46:19AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm > > It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. > > That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in > various formats and none of them wor

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 07:43:16AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Aha -- so you are using pipewire's pulseaudio emulation? > > Yes. > > > Search engineering (hah) turns up some noises like this [1] which at > > least suggest to tinker with sandbox settings. They might have painted > > themselve

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm > It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in various formats and none of them work (hence the error messages mentioning other "decoder not found" mime type

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

2024-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Aha -- so you are using pipewire's pulseaudio emulation? Yes. > Search engineering (hah) turns up some noises like this [1] which at > least suggest to tinker with sandbox settings. They might have painted > themselves again into a corner by not allowing some processes to see > some paths in th

Re: Cross-platform contacts program/app recommendations?

2024-08-15 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 14 Aug 2024 21:22 -0600, from charlescur...@charlescurley.com (Charles Curley): >> I am looking at Contacts+ as a possible solution. Has anyone had any >> good experience with it, or do you have a better solution to >> recommend? > > Take a look at Nextcloud. Open source, free, available in De

Re: Was linux-image-6.1.0-22-amd64 spontaneously rebooting?

2024-08-15 Thread songbird
Mike wrote: > I just installed Debian 12.6.0 (from a Debian Live ISO image) on new server > hardware. On the way to getting it installed, it was suddenly rebooting. > I even got so far as installing it and running "apt upgrade", when it > rebooted again. > > Then that upgraded linux-image-6.1.0-2

Re: anyone uses ReiserFS today

2024-08-15 Thread Nicolas George
Michael Stone (12024-08-14): > The short answer is that the reason it handles small files well is because > Reiser wanted the filesystem to be used for direct storage of small objects, > whereas most applications dealing with small objects combine them into a > larger object which is what is stored

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
Hi Ebon, I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a charme. No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and everything elese is working great. FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. If your card i