Re: Re: nvidia driver not loaded after install

2025-01-16 Thread Anil F Duggirala
Thanks Dan, I disabled Secure Boot and sure enough, the driver was loaded. I actually decided to make a clean install of Debian on this machine and left Secure boot disabled. I tried multiple times and was unable to get the driver to load. This is strange however because it did work before. I w

nvidia driver not loaded after install

2025-01-15 Thread Anil F Duggirala
I am trying to install the Nvidia driver on my Dell XPS 9550 fresh Debian 12 machine. I followed all instructions in https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_12_.22Bookworm.22 including: apt install linux-headers-amd64 Including the extra instructions given here: https://lists.deb

Re: Re: Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

2025-01-05 Thread Anil F Duggirala
Thank you Olafur and George for your answers. I am using Gnome, so that is not the issue here. Doing:  sudo mv /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/61- gdm.rules.bak Worked for me. I get gdm with options and Wayland by default. I'm back in business thanks to you. I however d

Re: Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

2025-01-05 Thread Anil F Duggirala
Thank you both for your instructions. I have followed the exact instructions as proposed by Oli and have managed to successfully install and load the nvidia driver. However, apparently I am now stuck in an X session instead of the Wayland session I had before. I have followed the additional instr

Re: Re: secure boot key enrolling questions

2025-01-05 Thread Anil F Duggirala
Thank you both for your instructions. I have followed the exact instructions as proposed by Oli and have managed to successfully install and load the nvidia driver. However, apparently I am now stuck in an X session instead of the Wayland session I had before. I have followed the additional instr

secure boot key enrolling questions

2025-01-04 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello everyone, I am looking to install the Nvidia proprietary driver in my Debian 12 machine. This is a clean install on a Dell XPS 9550 laptop. I have Secure boot enabled. The instructions say that I need to enroll an mok key (have no idea what that means). Running the command: sudo mokutil

best Debian available package to sync files

2020-04-26 Thread Anil F Duggirala
I know I may be misusing the word "sync". I would like to ask if anyone can recommend the easy, yet "free" way of getting some kind of file synchronization with a remote (like dropbox, or onedrive). What would be the best way to set this up using packages readily available in Debian. Can someone re

how to install python packages, again

2020-04-25 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, Im having an issue while installing a piece of software with pip3: pip3 install --user -r contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-48wlqr39/PyQt5/ I had previously installed: apt install python3-pyqt5. No

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-19 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 04:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/17/2020 03:01 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > > Hello, > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Fonts > > Thank you. That page and it's links seem to provide a good > introduction > to WINE. Installing WINE has been on my to-do

fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-16 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I would like to ask anyone using wine, if its possible for Wine to use the fonts in my system?; short of copying those fonts into the .wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts folder. I don't know why Wine won't see fonts in my /usr/share/fonts or even in the /usr/share/wine/fonts (which I believe are fo

multiple desktop environments and performance

2020-04-14 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I would like to know if having multiple (say 3) different desktop environments would have an effect in performance of my machine, as opposed to having a single one. If I have Gnome already installed and then install Lxqt and Mate. Would you expect to see any effect on the performance when us

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> > > > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in > > thinking that you are located in your DC? > So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. > And > Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10 meter radius > of > my actual location. That i

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 10:33 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise > > location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all. > > As far as I can tell it depends a lot on t

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 09:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Apr 2020 at 07:49:46 (-0500), Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even > > though > > my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to > &

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -, Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one'

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 15:35 +, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > > > > > > It does and can quite often depend on *user configur

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 14:27 +, Curt wrote: > The paradox or enigma here might be the fact that the OP complained > in > this forum that his Night Light feature had gotten his location > rather > wrong by what we can only assume was the same, IP-based method > (before he > presumably manually fe

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it > > > usually > > > puts me on the oth

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 15:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it > > > usually > > > puts me on the other

geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-09 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my location on the map. thank you,

Re: tpm error on startup

2020-04-07 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 08:31 -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am getting this error on startup, albeit my system boots up > correctly: > [9.009859] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id > 4) > [9.017416] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred att

tpm error on startup

2020-04-07 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I am getting this error on startup, albeit my system boots up correctly: [9.009859] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 4) [9.017416] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred attempting the self test Can someone give me some insight on why this happens? thank you,

flatpak and root access

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I know there have been some security concerns with flatpak, which are too high level for me to understand, but I want to ask, is it normal for flatpak to ask for the root password when installing a new package? Are these packages not supposed to be sandboxed? thank you,

Re: advisable to use installer script?

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> I'm assuming it's this one: > https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#linux Thats the one. > > Can anyone give a broad idea of what this install script does? > > Extracts a HUEG tar.bz2 archive full of (presumably) Python and R > modules of unknown quality. Why would anyone (short of Windoze

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> Python provides virtualenv, plus one can install most of the modules > locally with pip3 install --user which will install the > modules > in ~/.local/lib and tools in ~/.local/bin, so don't forget to add > this > to your PATH. > Could you please explain (to a newbie) exactly what are the adva

advisable to use installer script?

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I am looking to install Anaconda in my machine, Debian Buster. There suggested installation method is using an installer that is downloaded from their site. Is it advisable to install software in this manner? Can anyone give a broad idea of what this install script does? Does make changes to