Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/23/25 22:03, Gareth Evans wrote: I'm based in the UK and am looking for a new PC to use as a NAS with the capacity for at least two NVMe/SSD drives. I note many mini PCs seem to limit the upgradable/installable SSD to 2TB. Can anyone recommend a make or model of any kind (mini, desktop, t

Re: Staples Dell refurbished computer for bookworm and trixie

2025-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/25 10:21, Eddie wrote: I am looking at the Staples Dell refurbished desktops for a debian machine. No windows! I believe a hard drive and around 16gb but am not sure of processor and do not want nvidia card. Thoughts appreciated. Dell factory refurbished computers are pricey. Used De

Re: Xpra

2025-04-24 Thread Antonio Russo
On 2025-04-24 15:27, Michael Stone wrote: yes, xpra has been in bad shape for a while, but nobody seemed to care enough to fix it No quite! Anyone can check out my PR [1] that gets it working with 6.0. I stopped tracking upstream for my own personal builds of Xpra a few months ago (admittedly

Re: Ethernet interfaces ignoring 'Connect Automatically' setting on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

2025-04-24 Thread coffeeforblood . pardon117
12 Apr 2025, 03:59 by jeremy_ardley_at_gmail_com_lluoq...@simplelogin.co: > > On 12/4/25 08:16, coffeeforblood.pardon...@slmail.me wrote: > >> The short version is that if the behavior with "Connect Automatically" and >> "Make available to other users"  is down to NetworkManager, then I >> sympa

Re: Xpra

2025-04-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:05:41PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: I understand Trixie is frozen and that means in particular that packages in sid but uninstallable and not in Trixie will not be in the release. That include Xpra, a X11 server proxy where you do: yes, xpra has been in bad shape fo

Xpra

2025-04-24 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. I understand Trixie is frozen and that means in particular that packages in sid but uninstallable and not in Trixie will not be in the release. That include Xpra, a X11 server proxy where you do: xpra --start-child=firefox --exit-with-children start ssh:ssecem:15 and you get firefox running

Re: apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-24 Thread Lee
On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM Van Snyder wrote: > > KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. > > I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." "apt update" just gets the latest package info "apt list --upgradable" shows you what packages have up

R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
Thanks! Debian 12 only. So... mdadm! CPA Da: Dan Ritter Inviato: Giovedì, 24 Aprile, 2025 16:29 A: Pier Antonio Corradini Cc: Debian Users Oggetto: Re: R: R: R: Grub problem Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitilit

R: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
ON Ctrl+M LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility Configure Clean Configuration Debian Live KDE Konsole sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install dmraid sudo /usr/sbin/dmraid -r /usr/sbin/dmraid -r sudo wipefs -n /dev/sda sudo wipefs -n /dev/sdb (DEVICE OFFSET TYPE UUID LABEL sda 0x1fe dos and so fo

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 05:18 +, Johannes Krottmayer wrote: > Settings->Shortcuts->Plasma->Activate Application Launcher Widget > > On my system (running Debian 12) there was ALT-F1 predefined for > opening the KDE menu. Aha! I didn't know that mapping was already there. This works for me, so I

Re: Staples Dell refurbished computer for bookworm and trixie

2025-04-24 Thread Felix Miata
Eddie composed on 2025-04-24 13:21 (UTC-0400): > I am looking at the Staples Dell refurbished desktops for a debian > machine. No windows! I believe a hard drive and around 16gb but am not > sure of processor and do not want nvidia card. Thoughts appreciated. I have about 16 Optiplexes of vario

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 08:57 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > xev told me that the "Windows" key on my keyboard (which opens the > KDE > menu) is "Super_L". "Menu" probably is another key that is meant to > open > the context menu (same as right clicking generally). I had originally gotten "M

Staples Dell refurbished computer for bookworm and trixie

2025-04-24 Thread Eddie
I am looking at the Staples Dell refurbished desktops for a debian machine. No windows! I believe a hard drive and around 16gb but am not sure of processor and do not want nvidia card. Thoughts appreciated.

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 11:04 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Is there a > linux utility that shows scan codes? Use "xev" It also reports when the mouse moves into or out of a rectangle.

R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7fy-2331-01en.pdf (see page 59). Maybe I didn't understand this software well or maybe I should have found an old page of Fujitsu.com that no longer exists and that would have helped

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:04:27 +0100 "Jeremy Nicoll" wrote: > > Is there a linux utility that shows scan codes? showkey -- kind regards Frank pgp4zkrfOGg1B.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:24:14 + Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > This RAID is a RAID > “firmware” (aka “fakeraid”). It seems better mdadm (array: /dev/mdX) > instead of dmraid (with the activation by dmraid -ay; array: > /dev/mapper) but does legacy BIOS "impose" the use of dmraid? If you don

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread Eben King
On 4/24/25 02:58, Roger Price wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote: On 24/4/25 13:03, Gareth Evans wrote: I would prefer to buy one off the shelf than build my own, but that's an option too. You can go to Dell but when you look into the actual specs you end up paying a lot more

Re: R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You are right! > LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitility Ver A.63, 2010; BIOS Versione > A.09.04151432R. > Chipset Intel 3200 + ICH9R ( > https://www.fujitsu.com/cl/Images/ds-py-tx100-s1.pdf: Intel 3200 server > chipset, ECC memory and RAID 0/1). > This RAID is

R: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Pier Antonio Corradini
You are right! LSI Software RAID Configuration Uitility Ver A.63, 2010; BIOS Versione A.09.04151432R. Chipset Intel 3200 + ICH9R ( https://www.fujitsu.com/cl/Images/ds-py-tx100-s1.pdf: Intel 3200 server chipset, ECC memory and RAID 0/1). This RAID is a RAID “firmware” (aka “fakeraid”). It seems

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread john doe
On 4/24/25 07:03, Gareth Evans wrote: I'm based in the UK and am looking for a new PC to use as a NAS with the capacity for at least two NVMe/SSD drives. I note many mini PCs seem to limit the upgradable/installable SSD to 2TB. Can anyone recommend a make or model of any kind (mini, desktop, t

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:57:16 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > xev told me that the "Windows" key on my keyboard (which opens the KDE menu) > is "Super_L". "Menu" probably is another key that is meant to open the > context menu (same as right clicking generally). On my system (which has an

Re: R: R: Grub problem

2025-04-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Pier Antonio Corradini wrote: > You can find everything about the LSI system I described at this link: > https://www.fujitsu.com/global/imagesgig5/b7fy-2331-01en.pdf (see page 59). This document is too generic; it does not tell us the most important part: which chipset family is in use. LSI's 2

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 23/04/2025 20:24, Van Snyder wrote: xev said "pause" is 127, so I used xmodmap to set 127 to Menu: xmodmap -e "keycode 127 = Menu" xev than said the "pause" key is "Menu." But it didn't raise the KDE menu the way the Window key does, even though xev also says the "Window" key is "Menu" I

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, at 05:01, David Wright wrote: > I don't define Menu in my Window Manager, but I can test > it works in FireFox. It has the same effect as pressing the > righthand mouse button ... In Windows itself the Windows key and the Menu key are two different keys, so surely the scan c

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/4/25 16:06, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Informal advice is always "Write it in Word, then let Word convert it to PDF" That works if the author is disciplined and knows how to tag, heading orders and so on - but it can still produce tagged PDFs that are nominally accessible to screen readers

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/4/25 15:11, Roger Price wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote: On 24/4/25 14:58, Roger Price wrote: A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over 9 hours. Only the WDs have failed. Were the WDs Red? There is a major difference in life with them No, I use Gre

Re: How to extract TABULAR data from a PDF document?

2025-04-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:48:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 11:32:23AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > On 24/4/25 10:31, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > > > By the way, PDF files may be tagged for screen readers. Is there a > > > dedicated structure to explicitly ma

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread Roger Price
On Thu, 24 Apr 2025, jeremy ardley wrote: > On 24/4/25 14:58, Roger Price wrote: > > A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over 9 > > hours. Only the WDs have failed. > Were the WDs Red? There is a major difference in life with them No, I use Green (Desktop) WDs. The WD Green

Re: PC recommendations for Debian 12

2025-04-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/4/25 14:58, Roger Price wrote: A cheapo Seagate in one of my RAID 1's now has well over 9 hours. Only the WDs have failed. Were the WDs Red? There is a major difference in life with them