Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

Regarding the following, written by "jeremy ardley" on 2024-08-26 at 09:58 Uhr GMT: It's almost 20 years old now but it's still pretty relevant since Debian hasn't changed that much. 20 years old means it's missing all the systemd stuff. That's quite important. True. However, systemd is als

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sunday, August 25th, 2024 at 9:39 PM, Will Mengarini wrote: > I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means > it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used > Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance. There are a number of desktop towers a

Re: Debian hardware: coping with Windows

On 8/25/24 20:39, Will Mengarini wrote: I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance. A special complication is that I just had a computer apocalypse in which a Power Surge From Hell nuked *everything*,

Debian hardware: coping with Windows

I need to buy a new desktop tower, which means it'll have Windows installed. I haven't used Windows since the 90s, so need some guidance. A special complication is that I just had a computer apocalypse in which a Power Surge From Hell nuked *everything*, so trivial tasks like writing netinst to a

Re: nvidia package 340xx

On 23/08/2024 18:51, Hans wrote: 2. Enter the line for sid into your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free non-free-firmware [...] 5. Do NOT upgrade any other files! Do NOT aot upgrade or aptitude upgrade now although it will install many other pack

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On August 25, 2024 5:37:05 PM PDT, "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: >On Saturday 24 August 2024 03:36:28 pm Joe wrote: >> Not trivial, >> laptops don't come apart easily, but actual component failure is going >> to be very difficult to diagnose and maybe impossible to fix. > >Yup. I have three lapt

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

On 26/8/24 08:17, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: I really like The Debian System by Martin Krafft https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593270690/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's almost 20 years old now but it's still pretty rel

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

On Sun, 2024-08-25 at 19:17 -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > I really like The Debian System by Martin Krafft > > https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593270690/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 > > It's almost 20 years old now but it's still pretty relevant since > Debian hasn't changed that much. In fa

Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

I really like The Debian System by Martin Krafft https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1593270690/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It's almost 20 years old now but it's still pretty relevant since Debian hasn't changed that much. On August 24, 2024 11:08:27 AM CDT, Eric Richards <2eric.richa...@gmail.co

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On Saturday 24 August 2024 03:36:28 pm Joe wrote: > Not trivial, > laptops don't come apart easily, but actual component failure is going > to be very difficult to diagnose and maybe impossible to fix. Yup. I have three laptops over there that I was given, waiting for me to do something with th

(SOLVED PARTIALLY) Re: Cups problems adding printer Epson in new Debian install

I want to thank Joe B for the suggestion to also install the printer-driver-escpr pkg, and David Wright to whom I want to say that Epson Connect is the app for Smartphones Android that I have used to print in the last few days by transferring files from the PC to the Smartphone. As for Thorsten

Re: Where was my app installed?

Thanks everyone, the problem is resolved... I think. On 2024-08-22 8:38 p.m., Arbol One wrote: After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres --version' and got this msg: *bash: postgres: command not found* 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this messag

Re: tbird hot keys.

> Well, i'll be typing along, have most assuredly not done a ctl+a, but all > the text will high light, and the next keystroke deletes it all. Sometimes In Emacs we have the `view-lossage` command to see what keys have been received recently so you can find out which funny key sequence you acciden

Re: Request for Download Link for Debian 10 Installer

On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 19:39:39 +0200 Łukasz Kalamłacki wrote: > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/10.13.0/amd64/iso-cd/ Some of the problems Jayram Gaonkar reported might be due to faulty CD/DVD images. There are md5sums, sha*sums, and signatures for the ISO images on that page. Us

Re: Request for Download Link for Debian 10 Installer

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/10.13.0/amd64/iso-cd/ On 25.08.2024 16:55, Jayram Gaonkar wrote: Dear Debian Team, I am writing to *request a reliable download link for the Debian 10 ISO* file. We have a project that specifically requires this version, and I have encountere

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 9:21 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 25/08/2024 13:16, Joe B wrote: > > > > root@debian:~# upower --dump > [...] > > energy-full: 57.0714 Wh > > energy-full-design: 61.32 Wh > > So the battery has degraded a bit but capacity is still high enough. I > hope it is reported correc

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 17:01, Max Nikulin wrote: On 25/08/2024 12:39, Joe B wrote: On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? [...] I gave up and now using K-9 mail and it seems to be working fine. I use Thunderbird an

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 25/08/2024 13:16, Joe B wrote: root@debian:~# upower --dump [...] energy-full: 57.0714 Wh energy-full-design: 61.32 Wh So the battery has degraded a bit but capacity is still high enough. I hope it is reported correctly. There is no apparent sign of failure. [...] joe@debian:~$ grep '

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 12:39, Joe B wrote: On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? [...] I gave up and now using K-9 mail and it seems to be working fine. I use Thunderbird and IMAP for gmail. Perhaps I stressed too m

Re: Request for Download Link for Debian 10 Installer

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 08:25:45PM +0530, Jayram Gaonkar wrote: > Dear Debian Team, > > I am writing to *request a reliable download link for the Debian 10 ISO* > file. We have a project that specifically requires this version, and I have > encountered difficulties finding a working installer. The

Re: Request for Download Link for Debian 10 Installer

On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 08:25:45PM +0530, Jayram Gaonkar wrote: > Could you please provide me with a direct and reliable link to download the > full Debian 10 ISO file? You don't say which architecture you're looking for, or which particular flavour of iso, but you might start at https://get.d

Request for Download Link for Debian 10 Installer

Dear Debian Team, I am writing to *request a reliable download link for the Debian 10 ISO* file. We have a project that specifically requires this version, and I have encountered difficulties finding a working installer. The links I have found so far either lead to incomplete DVD images or result

Re: tbird hot keys.

On 8/25/24 08:29, Darac Marjal wrote: On 24/08/2024 23:50, gene heskett wrote: I need to know how to totally disable t-birds hot keys. I mean I don't want it to happen unless I have actually clicked on a command with the mouse. If I didn't click on it, it doesn't happen, it can't happen. I ha

Re: tbird hot keys.

On 24/08/2024 23:50, gene heskett wrote: I need to know how to totally disable t-birds hot keys. I mean I don't want it to happen unless I have actually clicked on a command with the mouse. If I didn't click on it, it doesn't happen, it can't happen. I have a feeling that, strictly speaking, t

Re: internal keyboard does not work

Hi Lina, Thanks for coming back. On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 05:07:22AM -0400, lina wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM Andrew M.A. Cater > wrote: > > > > > Hi Lina, > > > > It would be helpful for everyone to know a few more details. > > > > This is an Intel Mac. If it has a touchbar, does t

Re: internal keyboard does not work

Hi, I feel some packages are missing, You are right. More precisely, what is missing is a firmware, the brcm/brcmfmac4364-pcie.Apple Inc.-MacBookPro15,1.bin firmware. Cheers, Jerome On my side, apt-file cannot find it on Sid. [    5.253947] brcmfmac :03:00.0: firmware: failed to l

Re: internal keyboard does not work

Hi Lina, I'm not sure if this will help, but I found this earlier. https://gist.github.com/roadrunner2/1289542a748d9a104e7baec6a92f9cd7 I managed to install 12.06 on a early 2015 Macbook Pro without much trouble, but I admit I didn't have the touch bar. Best wishes Emyr On 25/08/2024 11:16

Re: internal keyboard does not work

Further information: # dmesg | grep error [0.113970] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB._OSC due to previous error (AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT) (20240322/psparse-529) [0.114139] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_PR.CPU0.GCAP due to previous error (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS) (20240322/psparse-529) [0.114146

Re: internal keyboard does not work

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 11:06:44PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > Quoting Nicolas George: > > > lina (12024-08-22): > > > > however, the internal keyboard does not work > > > Sorry to ear it. Did it been laid off? Is it eligible for unemp

Re: internal keyboard does not work

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 11:06:44PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > Quoting Nicolas George: > > > lina (12024-08-22): > > > > however, the internal keyboard does not work > > > Sorry to ear it. Did it been laid off? Is it eligible for unemp

Re: internal keyboard does not work

The internal keyboard does not work during installation, I have been using the external keyboard starting from installation. On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 5:06 PM Eddie wrote: > You might try disconnecting the external keyboard and try to boot a > live-usb of the desired os. If the live-usb boots, a

RE: Cups problems adding printer Epson in new Debian install

Hello, On all the distros I've been on, the driver I needed was part of the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package. install that close everything go back to cups login add printer once you are there you should be able to see your printer (hopefully network printer) once done then you should be able to

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 10:39:24PM -0700, Joe B wrote: > On August 24, 2024 7:10:08 PM PDT, Max Nikulin wrote: > >On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: [...] > >> I noticed on the list there is a message id. is it possible to copy > >> the message id to the email so the chain just keeps going ? > >