Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread Brian J. Oney
Interesting things to look at: Menuconfig, Kernel patches, Custom > Drivers. > > > > > On 12/13/2017 02:22 PM, Brian J. Oney > wrote: > > > > > Dear David, > > > > > > > >

Re: overcoming known kernel bug

2017-12-13 Thread Brian J. Oney
Dear David, this is different issue. My CPUs are just fine and I can use the laptop without issue. Still the my laptop whines. Downgrading, upgrading to a rolling release, or (gasp) installing windows would be running from the problem. Ideally, a kernel shepherd would teach me to coax my sheep to

Re: Need Help restoring a filesystem on an external drive WD 'My Book'

2017-11-28 Thread Brian J. Oney
Hello, the last bit made me laugh. If the situation is truly dire, you may consider file carving with 'scalpel' or 'foremost', both of which are in the repositories. $ apt-cache show foremost scalpel Package: foremost Version: 1.5.7-6 Installed-Size: 123 Maintainer: Raúl Benencia Depends: libc6

Re: software to do drawings of houses, gardens, etc.

2017-11-28 Thread Brian J. Oney
Hello there, if you want to make the investment in learning CAD and want to do drawings programmatically, then FreeCAD with the the CadQuery Module for FreeCAD (https://github.com/jmwright/cadquery-freecad-module) is an elegant option. CheersBrian On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 15:37 +1100, Erik Christia

overcoming known kernel bug

2017-11-26 Thread Brian J. Oney
Dear Debian User List, I am having trouble with my 2016 lenovo thinkpad yoga 11e (3rd gen) running the current version of debian stable (stretch). The on wake-from-suspend the fan runs on high. Specifically, I have: ~ $ uname -a Linux tinkbox 4.9.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.51-1 (2017-09-28) x