Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/20/25 21:34, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 23:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: But if the OP is intent upon converting the disk, a more manual approach, I'm the OP. Dell told me that there's a Windoze 10 product key burned into the MB. They said to download a Win 10 installer and i

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 23:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > But if the OP is intent upon converting the disk, a more manual > approach, I'm the OP. Dell told me that there's a Windoze 10 product key burned into the MB. They said to download a Win 10 installer and it would register automagically. So I

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Aug 2025 at 11:04:01 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > >> When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and > > >> skipped: > >

Re: Understanding why http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/ exists

2025-08-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Aug 20, 2025 at 06:47:57PM +0100, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > the updates dir seems to be a link to itself: I think it was because there used to be an /updates in the sources URL so the virtual link was put there so that people's configuration wouldn't break. i.e. it's historical. Than

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/20/25 03:04, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to GPT without blowing away the partition table. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

Re: Uglier emacs font in trixie

2025-08-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2025-08-20 19:55:33+0200, Steinar Bang wrote: >> Dan Ritter : >> Why not change it to what you like? > Complaining is much easier. M-x customize-face RET default RET [X] Font Family: DejaVu Sans Mono [State] / Save for Future sessions Or from menu: 1. Options / Set Defautl Fon

Re: Uglier emacs font in trixie

2025-08-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Steinar Bang wrote: > > Dan Ritter : > > However, arguing about font choice is completely ridiculous: find > > something you like. > > But I don't know what I like! Only what I don't like! Oh, OK: https://www.programmingfonts.org/ has about a hundred, all of which you can compare. Or htt

Re: Uglier emacs font in trixie

2025-08-20 Thread Steinar Bang
> Dan Ritter : > Why not change it to what you like? Well... laziness...? Complaining is much easier. > Either you are using emacs in a terminal, in which case the > terminal font is what you want to change, or you are using emacs > in X11 mode, and so: > https://www.gnu.org/software/emac

Understanding why http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/updates/ exists

2025-08-20 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Hello Debianeros, So, deb.debian.org has a dists directory, dists has a directory for each version of debian, and pseudo-versions like bookworm and bookworm-updates, inside if which are sections like main, contrib and non-free. Like this: $ tree -L 2 -n dist/ dist/ ├── bookworm │   ├── contrib

Re: Uglier emacs font in trixie

2025-08-20 Thread Steinar Bang
> Ralf Doering : > Steinar Bang writes: >> Most noticable change was the font used in emacs, which was, I have to >> say, uglier. > If it is really a changed font family, then switch it back to your > prefered one: (customize-face 'default). Or just use the menu entry > somewhere in the "Opt

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

2025-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/08/2025 22:47, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/08/2025 20:39, Sander Marechal wrote: I can probably work without a camera, but I'd really like to get the internal speakers working. does not look encouraging. My bad, it seems "detected" is usual s

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

2025-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/08/2025 20:39, Sander Marechal wrote: I can probably work without a camera, but I'd really like to get the internal speakers working. does not look encouraging. It seems 2 kernel modules are registered for these devices: snd-hda-intel and s

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

2025-08-20 Thread Sander Marechal
On 8/19/25 15:06, Kent West wrote: > On 8/19/25 4:26 AM, Sander Marechal wrote: >> I got a new laptop from work and I installed Debian Trixie on it. It works >> great mostly, >> but I can't get audio and the camera working. When connected at work (with a >> thunderbolt >> dock) it only sees my he

Re: No audio, camera on Dell XPS 14 9440 with Trixie?

2025-08-20 Thread Sander Marechal
On 8/19/25 15:06, Kent West wrote: > On 8/19/25 4:26 AM, Sander Marechal wrote: >> I got a new laptop from work and I installed Debian Trixie on it. It works >> great mostly, >> but I can't get audio and the camera working. When connected at work (with a >> thunderbolt >> dock) it only sees my he

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Van Snyder writes: > DFSee typically requires that all existing partitions be deleted before > converting a disk from MBR to GPT, which means it > does not retain existing partitions during the conversion process. Always > ensure to back up your data before proceeding > with such conversions. >

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread debian-user
David Christensen wrote: > On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > >> When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and > >> skipped: > > > > When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an > > MBR dis

Screen scaling, which is the best way (or are they all the same)?

2025-08-20 Thread Chris Green
I have a (fairly) new 4k screen and I'm puzzling over the various ways of making things a bit bigger overall. I'm after maybe 20% or so increase in size. I know I can adjust individual things like font size in terminal windows and default GUI font sizes etc. but there's a couple of places where I

about #1069087 (systemstats_linux: unexpected header length)

2025-08-20 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, Using a Bookworm system with the backported linux-image 6.12.38+deb12-amd64, the same issue is occurring. Could be snmpd version 5.9.4 be also backported? Regards, Patrice