Nvidia graphic card and newer kernels (open source driver)

2021-04-23 Thread Malte Marwedel
Has anyone experience with Nvidia cards without closed source drivers and newer kernels? Recently my AMD card died, so I got a fast replacement from a friend - a GeForce GTX 660. With the kernel 5.5.9, the PC stops booting after GRUB. The kernel tries to set the resolution of the console and sto

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-12 Thread Malte Marwedel
Am 12.11.20 um 09:35 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:57:08PM +0100, mmdebmail2...@marwedels.de wrote: I don't know (not sure I'd want to) where Gtk keeps its MIME types database these days. But, as a shot in the dark: have you checked that your /etc/mime.types is sane? Wha

GTK can't load images

2020-11-11 Thread Malte Marwedel
Hello, since recently, several applications (firefox, pavucontrol, pidgin...) fail to load images with gtk. This happens when logging in as different user too, so its unlikely this is a setting in the ~ directory. The error message is as following: $ pavucontrol (process:13818): Gtk-WARNING *