On 5/26/25 15:20, accipiter wrote:
I updated an old laptop to bookworm - but on reboot the hard-wired
ethernet connection wouldn't work.
Maybe the ethernet hardware is unsupported? Can you see in journalctl
where the module loads? You can find the driver name with
ls -l /sys/class/net//
On 5/14/25 15:02, Van Snyder wrote:
When I start up, my 1920x1200 monitor is in a 1280x1024 mode, no matter
whether I use GDM or SDDM. But the login manager is trying to project a
1920x1200 picture. The result is that the little icon in the lower
right corner is about two inches beyond the ri
On 5/15/25 11:42, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
Hi,
Given this function.
ev () { case $# in
0) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 ;;
1) /usr/bin/evince --display=:0 $1 ;;
*) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac }
Can improvements be suggested?
When you refer to a variable you should wrap it i
On 5/12/25 04:03, Anssi Saari wrote:
Arbol One writes:
I'd like to install Debian 12 in a GMKtec NucBox M3 PLUS, but the installation
cannot find the network connection.
Is this box compatible with Linux? anyone!
Network hardware is sometimes newer than what Debian has support for in
th
On 5/11/25 12:05, Felix Miata wrote:
Eben King composed on 2025-05-11 10:02 (UTC-0400):
On 5/11/25 Anssi Saari wrote:
Stefan Monnier wrote:
FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my
old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer
On 5/11/25 08:46, Anssi Saari wrote:
Stefan Monnier writes:
FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my
old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer
battery life, much lighter, much smaller pixels), it wasn't terribly
faster, and it suffe
On 5/7/25 21:37, Van Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 2025-05-07 at 20:47 -0400, Eben King wrote:
On 5/7/25 20:03, Van Snyder wrote:
I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.
The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of scrolling.
That there is what happens if the ctrl
On 5/7/25 20:03, Van Snyder wrote:
I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech.
The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of scrolling.
That there is what happens if the ctrl key is down. Maybe yours is
stuck, or the computer lost track of its up-down state? Try ta
On 5/1/25 16:12, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote:
Hello
Does somebody know how to turn on the keyboard light of a MacBook Pro mid
2009 running Debian? Please.
Thanks
I have a Dell Inspiron somethingorother. It has a lighted keyboard.
For a long time I thought it didn't work in Linux because the
On 4/30/25 15:24, Eben King wrote:
On 4/30/25 13:36, john doe wrote:
On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote:
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails
to myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or
whatever, just a few wo
On 4/30/25 15:25, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 15:21:26 -0400, Eben King wrote:
I guess I don't currently have an MTA.
eben@cerberus:~$ type sendmail
bash: type: sendmail: not found
1
The sendmail program (or symlink) lives in /usr/sbin which is probably
not in your
On 4/30/25 13:36, john doe wrote:
On 4/30/25 17:35, Eben King wrote:
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to
myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or
whatever, just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I c
On 4/30/25 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote:
Eben King wrote:
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to
myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever,
just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it
I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to
myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever,
just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to
work reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). What can I use
to replac
On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote:
Hi,
Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I get when
I ping other machine:
ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a
placeholder.
Is [hostname].local in /etc/hosts or
On 4/25/25 13:58, tuxi...@posteo.de wrote:
Hi!
I have added a few lines to /ets/fstab like this:
//u271407.your-storagebox.de/backup /mnt/hetzner cifs
iocharset=utf8,rw,user=u271407,pass=**,uid=1000,gid=1000,cache=loose 0 3
//192.168.0.4/Root /mnt/rp64-root cifs
iocharset=utf8,rw,user=n
On 4/25/25 12:15, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I recently installed
Handbrake but can't figure out how to use it.
The issue is that there is no menu entry for it on my Plasma desktop
menu and the command line program has too many options for me to sort
thr
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
I have a computer called "alexandria". Usually I log in via SSH. I
only log in at the console when it's broken so that networking doesn't
work, and even then I almost always use a text console. So I very
rarely need X, but still want it there to use if I need it. However it
would be nice if
On 4/23/25 11:01, David Wright wrote:
When I had an IBM clicky keyboard, I think I got the same effect
as a windows key from holding down both Ctrl and Alt.
Does that remove the ability to type ctrl+alt+whatever?
On 4/21/25 18:36, Anders Andersson wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM Eben King wrote:
Hi. I have a 4-disk 5.4 TiB (raw) BTRFS array. It is used pretty much
exclusively for backups. Today I backed up the NAS to it. Since there
had been a lot of changes, the total size of the backup
Hi. I have a 4-disk 5.4 TiB (raw) BTRFS array. It is used pretty much
exclusively for backups. Today I backed up the NAS to it. Since there
had been a lot of changes, the total size of the backup was some 300
GiB. During the backup, the "estimated free space" as reported by
"btrfs filesyst
On 4/16/25 06:27, Lee wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote:
Add a printer manually using the Printers applet.
Where does one find this applet? Or what is it called - I'm
I have a "Print Setting" applet (system-config-printer 1.5.18 "A CUPS
configuration tool")on
On 4/15/25 09:48, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
Hello Eben :)
Le 13/04/2025 à 22:15, Eben King a écrit :
I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).
Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost
never work, and I can't afford to repla
On 4/14/25 04:33, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Sun Apr 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM BST, Eben King wrote:
sudo modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728
then running "sensors" shows
it8728-isa-0a40
Adapter: ISA adapter
<9 voltages>
<5 fans, one of which is 0 RPM>
<3 temps>
intrusion0
On 4/13/25 16:52, Eben King wrote:
On 4/13/25 16:18, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
There might be a driver for a fan controller on the board that you
can use to control them. Try the lm-sensors package to see what it can
discover.
It shows just temps. I assume there are other sensors there
On 4/13/25 16:18, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Sun Apr 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM BST, Eben King wrote:
I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).
Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost
never work, and I can't afford to replace it wit
I have a video card which has fans (GTX 970) on Debian Bookworm (12.10).
Unfortunately the card is broken in such a way that the fans almost
never work, and I can't afford to replace it with one that isn't broken.
Changing the GPU's internal clocks has little to no effect on
temperature (or perf
On 4/10/25 05:26, Roland Mueller wrote:
When starting the terminal with some command from command line one can add
the -H flag to keep the terminal open. This way the window does not close
after completion of the command but it cannot be used for running commands.
/usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
On 4/4/25 17:00, Eben King wrote:
Also it suspends the OS after a few minutes, so I
gotta find out where that's controlled.
/etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults looks to be a likely candidate, as in
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/748759/disabling-suspend-etc-on-debian-12
I chang
On 4/4/25 18:08, Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 17:00:09 -0400
Eben King wrote:
to run synaptic you would need to do this on the computer itself,
not remotely unless you are using a remote X or Wayland client like
VNC.
So ssh is right out? That sucketh much. It's not
On 4/4/25 16:41, George at Clug wrote:
Hi,
I believe you are using a terminal from another computer, and not using a remote X or
Wayland client like VNC? (e.g. "I usually access it via ssh")
That is correct, ssh in bash in xfce4-terminal in XFCE in X11 under
kernel 6.1.0-32-amd64.
If so
Hi. I have this machine "alexandria" onto which I installed Debian
yesterday:
eben@alexandria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.10
It has a video card and a keyboard, but to log in there I have to get
down on the floor, so I usually access it via ssh. Right now I'm trying
to use synaptic to instal
On 4/1/25 14:02, Brad Rogers wrote:
The error message that now displays, is thus;
"
Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service
It looks like you may be using an ad blocker. Video playback is blocked
unless YouTube is allowlisted or the ad blocker is disabled.
Ads allow YouTube to be used
On 3/31/25 17:36, mick.crane wrote:
Xfce4
I've loads of Perl scripts dotted about in different directories I'd
like to select them in Thunar and run them in a terminal with a click or
two.
"Open terminal here" in Xfce desktop is very handy but still have to
list the directory contents, find th
On 3/21/25 18:06, Will Mengarini wrote:
* Eben King [25-03/21=Fr 15:32 -0400]:
I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds
a backup. It's starting to become too small, not because it's
shrinking, but because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to
do somethi
I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds a backup.
It's starting to become too small, not because it's shrinking, but
because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to do something that ends up
with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 disks. It'd be nice if it supports
disks of disp
On 3/20/25 13:36, 🦓 wrote:
Eben King :
NAS:/nfs/Movies is mounted on alexandria by NFS as /files/movies. Alex
exports /files by NFS. My computer mounts alexandria:/files and sees
/files/movies/ as empty.
Why don't you
mount alexandria:/files /files &&
mount nas:/nfs/
On 3/20/25 01:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 01:29:39AM -0400, Eben King wrote:
On 3/19/25 16:19, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:53:51PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NF
On 3/19/25 16:19, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 02:53:51PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount
point appears empty, even though you can
On 3/19/25 15:05, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 14:53:51 -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount
point appears empty, even though you can ssh to
I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas
via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount
point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and see everything
there that should be. How do I get it to share the contents of that mount?
On 3/15/25 11:01, halbtaxabo-...@yahoo.com wrote:
I upgraded from bookworm to trixie a couple of weeks ago (on an ordinary AMD64
desktop running xfce and lightDM).After the upgrade it no longer boots into the
GUI. I have to login and then run startx. Why? What's the recommended way make
it
On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote:
This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen
in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text
gets wrapped at column 80 in vim.
I can then tell vim to reflow to get back to 72 character widths but is
there a
On 3/6/25 12:32, songbird wrote:
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
If you're talking about ads, Noscript and Ghostery on FF take care of
them for me.
On 3/11/25 10:19, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have recently put a new computer into service. It is a Dell Vostro
3910 running Windows 11. In addition to the C:\ drive , I have a 2TB SSD
for Linux which the OS found as the D:\ drive.
The installation went as I have come to expect, until it got
On 3/2/25 14:35, David Christensen wrote:
At this point, I am uncertain if the /home ext4 file systems are correct
on either the OS disc or the copied image disc (?).
I did a "fsck -f" on each filesystem. Many had no errors, most of the
rest were just "this inode is too wide". So they're
On 3/6/25 20:24, Maureen Thomas wrote:
I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying
that my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room
for it.
First, find out where the space is being used. Something like baobab
might be useful. It might the
On 3/6/25 00:21, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 05 Mar 2025 at 17:04:12 (-0500), Eben King wrote:
On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and wh
On 3/5/25 09:22, Runamile Czyborra wrote:
my df -hl / is at 8.7G/11G=89% after sudo apt update && sudo apt install
python3 pip && sudu pip3 install vosk in my crouton and what do you use
to ergonomically present installed candidates to apt purge a few gigabytes?
deborphan --show-section --sh
On 3/4/25 21:59, Max Nikulin wrote:
In this particular case I do not think it is a drive failure. I suspect
mounting /home was a mistake.
Indeed. "-ro" is not read only when a journal is in play.
Booting a live image may destroy hibernation data since live system may
mount the same swap
On 3/3/25 05:03, Dan Purgert wrote:
Well, at least those read errors were all corrected ;)
None of the first three bits are absolute proof that the drive is going,
but they're certainly cause for suspicion.
Is there a way of seeing how many spare blocks are left?
The "space at the end of a
On 3/2/25 14:46, Chris Green wrote:
Anssi Saari wrote:
Eben King writes:
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
On 3/2/25 14:23, Anssi Saari wrote:
Eben King writes:
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
with the backup drive,
On 3/2/25 12:03, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500
Eben King wrote:
So what can I do to fix this, while still
keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc?
I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is
failing. I would first boot to a live CD and
I backed up my system on Saturday (yesterday), and pulled a stupid.
I'll explain.
Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive
and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated
drive. The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it
wit
I want to put one monitor (L, HDMI) on the onboard card (the one provided by
the i5) and two more (M, DVI; and R, DP) on a graphics card (GTX 970). The
card works as well as it ever did, and its two work fine. The onboard one
is rotated. It is connected, but when I run "startx" it retains the
si
Hi. I have one of these:
eben@cerberus:~$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce
GTX 970] [10de:13c2] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions
When I run xfce-terminal, I don't get the aliases defined in .profile but I
do get the ones from .bashrc. I run X as "startx" from a console login, so
somewhere along the line someone's dropping the ball.
So what's the proper fix to this? Telling xfce-terminal to spawn a login
shell works, but c
Hi, I have an Nvidia GTX 970 with driver 535.216 on Debian 12.9. The fans
don't generally come on on the video card, and if I let it get to the mid
90s it crashes. Sometimes the driver behaves and holds the card in the mid
60s, but not always. As a workaround, running with one monitor disabled
l
I think I've done everything reasonable in my firmware to ensure booting by
EFI. I have:
Storage boot option control UEFI only
Other PCI device ROM priorityUEFI only
(other options for both are "Legacy only" and "Disabled")
The boot device is currently /dev/sdb which has a GPT partition
My wife bought a Blu-ray disk at a library sale, and now I need to transcode
its contents and stick them on the media server so we can watch it. So, I
did the naïve thing and tried to read it using Handbrake 1.6.1. It read
titles 23 (5:00) and 25 (0:47). Obviously something's not right. DVDs w
I have a variable-speed CPU. Normally the OS manages it. If I want to make
less heat inside the case, is it possible to cap it at a certain speed?
--
Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange a w
I have an EVGA Nvidia GTX 970, Nvidia driver 470, and three monitors. If I
hibernate at night and resume in the morning, the GPU gets in a state where:
temp<60C: fan speed is actually and reported 0
temp>60C: fan speed is actually 0, but is reported as crazy non-contiguous
values
Which means I
I have an NVME drive as well as a spinning-rust drive. I've got swap on the
spinning drive, but I'd like to put the hibernate area on the NVME. Is that
possible, to have swap on one and hibernate on another?
--
My parents went to a planet where the inhabitants have no
bilateral symmetry, and
Hi. I have bash 5.2.15(1). When I cd into an empty directory, and type "cd
", the shell offers 178 possibilities. If I restrict it to an
initial letter and hit once, I think the spurious offerings are from
$HOME. How can I make it not do that and only offer me things I ask for?
--
Unfortunat
Since I installed a GTX 970 and the Nvidia driver on my Bookworm (12)
system, I've noticed some odd behavior. I'll start with the most obnoxious.
I'm open to any ideas. Well, not _any_ any.
1. Last night before I went to bed I suspended my computer at 2:24:55. The
next log message is at 7:08:
Short version:
Please help me install the Nvidia drivers for a GTX 970 on a Bookworm
system. Is there a Q&D guide that doesn't assume I'm an idiot, or is it
easy enough to explain?
Long version:
Yes, I'm the same guy who was considering the Nouveau driver a while back.
I decided to try the stock
Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver
handles this card. Is this correct?
If so, do I just install the packages, install the card, tell the BIOS to
use it, power off, move the monitors, and that's it? With the card
connected, I can log in from console, but
I have an older WD Mycloud Connect NAS. I'm currently trying to mount it
via sshfs (I prefer NFS, but can't make it work either). When it's not
mounted, /mnt looks like this to me:
eben@cerberus:~$ \ls -l /mnt
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 23:39 server
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096
Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have
three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm
can't seem to get that or the monitor positions correct I wrote a script
that calls xrandr to set things up.
I thought the errors from the monit
If this is off topic, let me know a better forum please.
Overnight, I'm getting errors every 2s from lightdm.
Jun 04 01:57:01 cerberus lightdm[1546921]: xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1200
Jun 04 01:57:03 cerberus lightdm[1546948]: xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1200
Jun 04 01:57:05 cerberus lightd
Hey. Occasionally I'll install a package and it brings some other
dependencies with it. Fine. Then if I decide it doesn't work for me and
want to uninstall it, I have to go to the installation history, see what was
installed with it, and for each one find it and flag it for removal. You
can se
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