Re: case fan speed

2025-04-14 Thread Eben King
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

Re: case fan speed

2025-04-13 Thread Eben King
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

Re: case fan speed

2025-04-13 Thread Eben King
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

case fan speed

2025-04-13 Thread Eben King
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

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-04-12 Thread Eben King
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

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-05 Thread Eben King
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

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-04 Thread Eben King
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

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-04 Thread Eben King
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

X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-04 Thread Eben King
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

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-04-01 Thread Eben King
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

Re: Xfce run executable file in terminal

2025-03-31 Thread Eben King
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

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-22 Thread Eben King
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

array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread Eben King
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

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-20 Thread Eben King
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/

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-20 Thread Eben King
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

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-19 Thread Eben King
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

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-19 Thread Eben King
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

recursively share NFS

2025-03-19 Thread Eben King
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?

Re: Doesn't boot into GUI after Trixie upgrade

2025-03-15 Thread Eben King
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

Re: format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Eben King
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

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread Eben King
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.

Re: Debian Bookworm Installation Problem

2025-03-11 Thread Eben King
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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-09 Thread Eben King
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

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Eben King
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

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-06 Thread Eben King
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

Re: how do you find installed bloatware to apt purge?

2025-03-05 Thread Eben King
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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-05 Thread Eben King
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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-03 Thread Eben King
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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Eben King
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

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Eben King
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,

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Eben King
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

filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Eben King
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

two separate GPUs

2025-02-23 Thread Eben King
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

continuing GPU woes

2025-01-27 Thread Eben King
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

XFCE-terminal doesn't have .profile items

2025-01-14 Thread Eben King
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

Nvidia fans not activating

2025-01-08 Thread Eben King
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

booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread Eben King
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

BD backup?

2024-11-16 Thread Eben King
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

lower CPU speed

2024-10-23 Thread Eben King
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

workaround for Nvidia vs hibernate

2024-09-29 Thread Eben King
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

hibernate area

2024-09-10 Thread Eben King
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

tab completion being overenthusiastic

2024-09-07 Thread Eben King
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

strange behavior with Nvidia driver on Bookworm (12)

2024-08-20 Thread Eben King
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:

nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-14 Thread Eben King
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

nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Eben King
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

mount permissions

2024-07-23 Thread Eben King
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

system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread Eben King
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

lightdm errors

2024-06-04 Thread Eben King
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

Uninstalling a package and its entourage

2024-05-27 Thread Eben King
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