Re: "Tips"?

2025-05-14 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-05-14 at 19:41 +0100, Joe wrote: > So now, before I log > > on, after establishing myself as the user, I click a little icon in > > the lower right corner of the screen and a menu pops up, giving me > > different choices of GUI desktops: GNOME, GNOME classic, MATE, > > CINNAMON, XFCE a

Ultrium DLT drives

2025-05-13 Thread Van Snyder
I have three Ultrium fibre-channel scsi DLT drives, and a few cartridges. One had a probably-inadequate internal power supply added to it. I was told they were in operating order when they were given to me, but I didn't get any fiber-channel scsi cards for my computer so I didn't try them myself.

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-08 Thread Van Snyder
I've worked out the cause of the problem, and the weirdness of the apparent solution. I broke both shoulder blades in a recent fall. In particular, I still can't raise my right hand onto the mouse pad on the right side of my keyboard, and there's no space for one on the left. So I put my wireless

Re: Mouse weirdness

2025-05-07 Thread Van Snyder
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 happen

Mouse weirdness

2025-05-07 Thread Van Snyder
I have two mice: One is wireless, the other USB, both Logitech. Suddenly today, the buttons started deciding on their own what they meant. For example, the left button in the center of a Firefox tab closed the tab instead of "topping" it. The scroll wheel magnifies or shrinks instead of scrolling.

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

2025-04-29 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 13:46 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Level 0 is shutdown > Level 1 is single user > Level 2 is multi user > Level 3 is multi user with networking > Level 4 is not used > Level 5 is GUI > Level 6 is reboot > Your list matches > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runlevel#Linux_

Re: Starting Debian 12 in run level 3

2025-04-29 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-04-29 at 08:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Your run levels are incorrect.  "3" included the graphical Display > Manager and "2" did not. Level 0 is shutdown Level 1 is single user Level 2 is multi user Level 3 is multi user with networking Level 4 is not used Level 5 is GUI Level 6

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 05:18 +, Johannes Krottmayer wrote: > Settings->Shortcuts->Plasma->Activate Application Launcher Widget > > On my system (running Debian 12) there was ALT-F1 predefined for > opening the KDE menu. Aha! I didn't know that mapping was already there. This works for me, so I

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 08:57 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > xev told me that the "Windows" key on my keyboard (which opens the > KDE > menu) is "Super_L". "Menu" probably is another key that is meant to > open > the context menu (same as right clicking generally). I had originally gotten "M

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-24 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 11:04 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Is there a > linux utility that shows scan codes? Use "xev" It also reports when the mouse moves into or out of a rectangle.

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 17:04 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 13:52:07 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 14:26 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > >   > > > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" >

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 13:55 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 11:48:49 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote: > > > On 4/23/25 11:01, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > When I had an I

apt update vs. KDE Discover?

2025-04-23 Thread Van Snyder
KDE discover put a popup on my screen saying there are updates available. I ran "apt update" and it said "nothing to see here; move on." So I pushed the little button in the tool tray with the little red dot and Discover said there were 250 updates occupying 454 MB.

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 102-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 14:26 -0500, David Wright wrote: >   XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" xev says the Windows key is known to X as "Menu." XKBOPTIONS="pause:menu" didn't work. Yes, I did reboot after editing /etc/default/keyboard.

Re: Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-23 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-23 at 12:40 -0400, Eben King wrote: > 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. That doesn't open the KDE menu for me. The real question is "how do I map

Configure a "widows" key on a 120-key keyboard

2025-04-22 Thread Van Snyder
I use an IBM PS-2 keyboard, the kind with 102 keys, and therefore no "Windows" key. How do I set up a windows key, for example "Pause" or "Ctrl-Pause"? I tried XKBOPTIONS=Pause:Menu and XKBOPTIONS=pause:menu in /etc/default/keyboard but those didn't work.

Re: Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-18 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-04-18 at 23:29 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > I found many pages about how to get the BCM43228 wireless card to > > work > > in Bookworm, but the recommended packages > > > > b43-fwcu

Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-18 Thread Van Snyder
I found many pages about how to get the BCM43228 wireless card to work in Bookworm, but the recommended packages b43-fwcutter broadcom-wl broadcom-sta combo-wifi-driver-pack firmware-b43-installer are not found. I have the recommended deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-

add-apt-repository broken

2025-04-17 Thread Van Snyder
I'm using Debian 12. I tried to add a PPA repository but it failed: root@Blue:~# add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 362, in sys.exit(0 if addaptrepo.main() else 1) ^ File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line

Broadcom BCM43228

2025-04-15 Thread Van Snyder
I'm setting up an old laptop for a friend. It has a Broadcom BCM43228 wireless card. Instructions say to install kmod-wl, but it isn't at the places the web pages say I can find it. Where is it?

Re: Web server access

2025-04-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 01:17 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I am able to reach The Van Snyder's Web Site using the above IP > address and URL on port 80 but not 443. I got a certificate error on > 443.  I've never before set up a secure server. I followed instructions at a web page, whose UR

Re: OT: Re: Web server access

2025-04-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-04-03 at 15:16 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 4/3/25 01:19, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 15:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > I added port 443 only because my router converted the port 80 > > request > > to a port 443 requ

Re: Web server access

2025-04-02 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 15:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I got a security error too. It says the problem is that the > > certificate > > is self-signed. I have no idea what that means or how to repair it. > > *If* you want to go down this road, the simplest way is to install > one > of the "

Re: Web server access

2025-04-02 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 11:25 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-04-02 at 01:17 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I am able to reach The Van Snyder's Web Site using the above IP > > address and URL on port 80 but not 443. I got a certificate error > > on 443. 

Web server access

2025-04-01 Thread Van Snyder
This might be the wrong forum for this question, but most likely somebody can tell me a better place. I have a web server listening to port 80 (http) and 443 (https). I can load pages from it from any computer in my house, all behind the same router, using its IP number. I enabled port forwardin

Re: Web server access SOLVED

2025-04-01 Thread Van Snyder
ld. On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 18:07 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > Forwarded Message > From: jeremy ardley > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Web server access > Date: 04/01/2025 05:29:23 PM > > > On 2/4/25 08:21, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: >

Re: Web server access

2025-04-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 21:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 17:52:55 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > The server is on the LAN side of the router (192.168.1.65). It's > > not in > > the DMZ. My server isn't running Apache ACLs or iptables or TCP >

Re: Web server access

2025-04-01 Thread Van Snyder
Forwarded Message From: jeremy ardley To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Web server access Date: 04/01/2025 05:29:23 PM On 2/4/25 08:21, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Ok so if I understand you correctly then you are attempting to port > forward 80 and 443 throug

Re: Web server access

2025-04-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 20:21 -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Ok so if I understand you correctly then you are attempting to port > forward 80 and 443 through the router's WAN Wide Area Network > interface to a server located in the DMZ DeMilitarized Zone. Does the > server have Apache ACL's, I

Re: Web server access

2025-04-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 22:30 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 4/1/25 21:10, Van Snyder wrote: > > I have a web server listening to port 80 (http) and 443 (https). > > > > I can load pages from it from any computer in my house, all behind > > the > > same router, using

Re: Apache2 permissions?

2025-03-08 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 21:44 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > It is not clear to me why you want vsnyder:adm, and why you want the > world to have access to anything. > > Here's how I set up permissions on Apache. It is part of my hardened > system. > >     # Root owns everything. Apache only gets r

Re: Apache2 permissions? Solved?

2025-03-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 14:29 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 20:44 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Somewhere there should be a DocumentRoot which you might want to > > adjust accordingly. > > There is no DocumentRoot setting in the /etc/apache2/apache2.con

Re: Apache2 permissions?

2025-03-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 20:44 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Both have web pages in /opt/www, not /var/www, so they don't > disappear > > when I re-install. > > They shouldn't, but I don't know how you "re-install", When I reinstall, I reformat / and /boot, and /var isn't in a separate partition,

Re: Apache2 permissions?

2025-03-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 11:10:48AM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > I have two computers, both running Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.1.0-31- > amd64 >  > Both are running Apache/2.4.62 (Debian), Server built: 2024-10- > 04T15:21:08 >  > Both machines show one "/usr/sbin/apache2

Re: Apache2 permissions?

2025-03-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-03-07 at 20:44 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Somewhere there should be a DocumentRoot which you might want to > adjust accordingly. There is no DocumentRoot setting in the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf on either machine. One works, the other doesn't. On both machines, ServerRoot is co

Apache2 permissions?

2025-03-07 Thread Van Snyder
I have two computers, both running Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.1.0-31- amd64 Both are running Apache/2.4.62 (Debian), Server built: 2024-10- 04T15:21:08 Both machines show one "/usr/sbin/apache2 -k start" process owned by root and three owned by www-data. Both have web pages in /opt/www, not /var/

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-04 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2025-03-04 at 10:02 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Van Snyder writes: > > > The nvidia-driver package from non-free apparently doesn't work > > with a Quadro K2200. > > But you didn't check? The release notes tell a different story. After I install

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-02 Thread Van Snyder
On Sun, 2025-03-02 at 21:35 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Van Snyder writes: > > > I install the driver by running the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64- > > 570.124.04.run script at level 3, then rebooting. > > Why? > > > Is that DKMS? > > To be clear, it'

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 22:38 +, Andy Smith wrote: > If it's a DKMS, which is what my nvidia driver is, then it will try > to > be built for any kernel install and should work as long as you have > headers installed. Though there have been times that things have > changed > and its build is broke

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 21:02 +0100, Hans wrote: > With an upgrade the build of the nvidia-kernel-module should run > automatically. The NVidia kernel module is built by running a bash script. It's not a .deb package. Will it still be automatigically rebuilt?

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 22:00 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > That's correct.  You're probably missing the metapackage that brings > in new kernels automatically.  For an amd64 machine, that metapackage > is named "linux-image-amd64".  (If you use DKMS kernel m

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2025-03-01 at 04:06 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:27:40 -0800 > > Van Snyder wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 22:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > > &g

Re: Hardware question

2025-02-28 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 12:46 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 14:34 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:27:40 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > > "apt update" says everything is up to date, but the kernel is > > > 6.1.0-18. &g

Re: Hardware question

2025-02-28 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-02-28 at 14:34 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:27:40 -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > "apt update" says everything is up to date, but the kernel is > > 6.1.0-18. > > I believe there are several newer ones, maybe up to 6.1.0-3

Re: Hardware question

2025-02-28 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2025-02-27 at 22:35 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Your kernel is older than your CPU by about a year, so likely doesn't > have enough > backporting to fully support it properly. A newer kernel could be all > it takes to > make those MCEs go away. What's "mce?" "apt update" says everything i

Hardware question

2025-02-27 Thread Van Snyder
While running at level 3 in Debian 12.5, I got the following messages: mce: {Hardware Error]: CPU: 8 Machine Check: 0 Bank 0: 80440005 mce: {Hardware Error]: TSC 1838aa435b6d mce: {Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0: b0671 TIME 140710368 SOCKET 0 APIC 20 microcode 12b Motherboard is Micro-Star

Re: software to document and develop projects

2025-02-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2025-02-07 at 17:28 -0800, Gary L. Roach wrote: > I have been trying  to find a software package that would allow me to > do math calculations along with running documentation.I have tried > using -Octave but it doesn't allow modification of content once you > hit the enter key. After a few

VGA + HDMI not working right

2025-01-27 Thread Van Snyder
I just bought a new MSI Z790 motherboard with an Intel i9 and 32 GB of memory. It has one HDMI built in and one antique NVidia for which Debian drivers are no longer available. "inxi -G" says 12Device-1 Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] 12driver i915 12v kernel 12Device-2 NVIDIA GF108 [

gkrellm with 32 threads

2025-01-27 Thread Van Snyder
I just bought a new MB with an Intel i9 processor. /proc/cpuinfo says there are 32 processors — I think 24 cores with eight of them having two hyperthreads, or something like that. gkrellm only shows 16 of the 32 threads; the other 16 are presumably below the bottom of the screen. Is there a versi

gkrellm with 32 threads

2025-01-26 Thread Van Snyder
I just bought a new MB with an Intel i9-14900 processor. /proc/cpuinfo says there are 32 processors — 24 cores with eight of them having two hyperthreads. gkrellm only shows 16 of the 32 threads; the other 16 are presumably below the bottom of the screen. Is there a version of gkrellm, newer than

VGA + HDMI not working right

2025-01-26 Thread Van Snyder
I just bought a new MSI Z790 motherboard with an Intel i9 and 32 GB of memory. It has one HDMI built in and one antique NVidia for which Debian drivers are no longer available. "inxi -G" says 12Device-1 Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] 12driver i915 12v kernel 12Device-2 NVIDIA GF108 [

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-13 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 16:54 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > I've > seen cases where force-reloading (Ctrl+F5) or closing one page that > had > been loaded in a tab for a while, and then waiting a couple minutes > to > give the JavaScript engine's garbage collector time to do its job, > freed about 8 GiB

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 06:11 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I am wondering whether the two RAM cards are compatible. I believe they are identical. But I'll check. lshw and dmidecode say only one slot has a working RAM strip installed.

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 23:15 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Van Snyder (12024-12-12): > > Some languages have dynamic-memory facilities that inherently do > > not > > leak, unless you are intentionally careless. > > There is nothing more careless in adding an el

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 06:02 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/12/24 05:41, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, > > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > Van Snyder > > > <mailt

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 05:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > Van Snyder > > <mailto:van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote: > > > > Afte

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 13:23 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 13:20:28 -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 December 2024 06:00:37 pm Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > This makes memory leaks less common, but when they *do* occur, > > > they're > > > quite difficult t

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Van Snyder wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a > > minute > > or two for wndows to close or

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:00 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Does your version of Firefox have the task manager feature - here, > (using > FF 115.18.0esr on Windows) that's offered via the application > hamburger > menu (at extreme rhs of toolbar in my FF) - More tools - Task Manager > ... and it runs

Re: 1401, was Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 16:53 +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 12/12/24 16:18, Bret Busby wrote: > > > > > > The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had > > > 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes, > > > > Wasn't that data type named EBCDIC, or something like that? > > Tha

Re: 1401, was Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 17:34 -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly > > > > marginal > > > spe

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal > spec > > for a desktop 2024. The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400 6-bit characters, not bytes, not kB, not MB, not GB. That's why IBM ca

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top > of > which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the > web > applications), is the malignant use of javascript client-side > processing. Shortly after

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 22:06 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:01:53PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > MB has all the RAM it can take, so more RAM would require a new MB. > > What is the motherboard out of interest? >From dmidecode:

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 21:37 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is this system at its max of memory? If not, then maxing it out will > be > a very cheap upgrade that will be absolutely worth it. If you don't > know > if it's maxed, tell us the motherboard, show us the output of "sudo > lshw" or something.

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things > > run a > > lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again. > > > I believe that 4GB of RAM is now not enough for web browsing, > especially > with web browsing invol

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > I call this "memory leakage". I don't know if actual code bugs, or > > the > > sloppy way Firefox allocates and frees memory. As far as I know, > > all > > browsers suffer from this. If you find one which doesn't, let us > > know. > > > >

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 23:01 +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote: > > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? > > > > > You conspicuously omit your

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 20:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a > > minute or

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 12:30 -0800, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a > > minute or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox > > has 19 processes running. Memory is

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets > > really > > slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or > > two for > > wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes > > running.

Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Van Snyder
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill Firefox and restart

Re: No kernel

2024-11-06 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-11-06 at 15:01 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Van Snyder wrote: > > I tried to use the netinst to install Debian 12.5 onto a Dell > > Inspiron > > 15. Eventually, after the usual things, it said there was no > > kernel. So > > I tried the 12.1.0 neti

No kernel

2024-11-06 Thread Van Snyder
I tried to use the netinst to install Debian 12.5 onto a Dell Inspiron 15. Eventually, after the usual things, it said there was no kernel. So I tried the 12.1.0 netinst and it also said there was no kernel. What happened? How can I install?

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-30 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 15:50 +0200, Loris Bennett wrote: > I subsequently bought an Epson, which also works fine with Debian. > However, I print so little these days that when I do, the nozzles > have > always dried up and I have to go through the whole maintenance > rigmarole > and use up half a do

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-30 Thread Van Snyder
ned it and now I'm still looking ... I will think about what Van > Snyder > wrote and look elsewhere than at HP ? I have an Epson EcoTank 2720 printer/scanner, and a Brother HL5470DW duplexing laser printer, both of which work without significant problems in Debian 12.5 I have a Cano

Re: printer replacement

2024-08-29 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-08-29 at 14:41 +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > my old hp ptotosmart printer died. It worked fine with HPLIP. Now I > have to > buy a new one but they all use "HP Smart" for Windows exclusively. I > would > like to know if these printers are still compatible with HPLIP. The > prin

Re: Is anybody maintaining nedit?

2024-08-27 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-08-27 at 20:01 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Which key is Compose? I've gone to KDE System Settings => Keyboard => Advanced => Position of compose key and selected the right-ALT key. > In nedit, does it do whatever is engraved on it, or whatever the Highlight something with left drag

Is anybody maintaining nedit?

2024-08-27 Thread Van Snyder
Is anybody maintaining nedit? There's a list of developers on the "Help => Version" menu but no addresses. The "Help => problems and defects" and "Help => Version" menus give a URL that lands on a site in Finland. I assume it's in Finland because it's all in Suomi, and has nothing to do with nedit

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my > experience is that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with > their own drivers (as packaged with Linux). If Debian and NVidia decide not to keep the driver available

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Also Grub gets a different video mode, maybe 24x80 instead of so tiny > as to > > > be nearly illegible. You can change the grub fonts. I think the default is unicode.pf2, which is usually too small to read on anything but VGA. I found DejaVu

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Van Snyder
NVidia's driver search at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx says that many drivers still available with Debian 12 support this card. I don't know which one is installed by "apt install nvidia-drivers" but it might be 535. You can get a script to install a specific driver from the search pag

Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size

2024-08-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2024-08-03 at 23:49 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-08-01 12:12:31 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Should I switch to the proprietary nvidia driver on these > > > machines? > > > >

Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size

2024-08-01 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I have several Debian/unstable machines, all with a Nvidia card. > > On one of them, due to a bug in nouveau in the past, I use the > proprietary nvidia driver: libnvidia-legacy-390xx-* packages. > And the initrd size is reasonable: … >

Re: Running 32-bit static exeutable on 64-bit Debian

2024-07-20 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 09:31 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Van Snyder wrote: > > And there's still the mystery why a statically-linked executable > > wants to > > load a shared object library. > > I doubt that it is possible to make a purely static

Re: Running 32-bit static exeutable on 64-bit Debian

2024-07-19 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 05:54 +, David wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 at 04:56, Van Snyder > wrote: > > > I'm trying to run a 32-bit static executable on 64-bit Debian 12.5 > > "bookworm." > > > > When I launch it, I get > > > > ./L

Running 32-bit static exeutable on 64-bit Debian

2024-07-19 Thread Van Snyder
I'm trying to run a 32-bit static executable on 64-bit Debian 12.5 "bookworm." When I launch it, I get ./LinuxSusser: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11- 2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Why is a static executable wanting to load a .so file? i386

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-18 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 07:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 08:00:06PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 22:17 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > > On 7/17/24 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > I'm running Debian/Trixie o

Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?

2024-07-17 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 22:17 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 7/17/24 21:25, Gary Dale wrote: > > I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system, using the Plasma 5 > > over X > > desktop. Firefox 115.12.0esr is crashing multiple times per day. It > > frequently happens when page I'm transfers to anothe

Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group

2024-07-09 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 07:55 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My particular problem is finding an active user oriented list/group > for > KDE's Kate editor. All I found is a developers' list. This is somewhat tangential to the main question, but I find that nedit has everything I need. If you can't

Re: Kernel panic....

2024-07-08 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2024-07-08 at 17:46 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 07:07:26PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > > I recently installed Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.5.0.0 on an antique > > Dell > > Vostro 1700. Occasionally it crashes with > > > > &qu

Kernel panic....

2024-07-07 Thread Van Snyder
I recently installed Debian 12.5 with kernel 6.5.0.0 on an antique Dell Vostro 1700. Occasionally it crashes with "Kernel Panic - not syncing: Can not allocate SWIOTLB buffer earlier and can't now provide you with the DMA bounce buffer" I saw some remarks about this from 2013 in the context of re

Re: small font

2024-07-06 Thread Van Snyder
On Sat, 2024-07-06 at 15:41 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > It's not my responsibility to deal with messages the senders aren't > > serious about being read. > > It's up to you of course but if that's your opinion then you always > have the option of simply not reading messages that a

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work. Thanks to Hans for the detailed list, which I was not able to use successfully. I had probably either broken something first, or didn't follow the instructi

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 15:04 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't use Evolution, but I suspect being a Gnome application that > it works like > web browsers, where fonts can be enlarged using Ctrl-+ as many times > as it takes > to grow the fonts adequately. Possibly it also has a minimum > displayed

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:07 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > I'm not able to read this message. > > Can you suggest to us why you think that might be? Because the message was composed in html using a very small font, and my mail reader (evolution) automatically prefers to read mail in html. I've n

Re: small font

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
I'm not able to read this message. On Fri, 2024-07-05 at 14:01 +0200, Richard wrote: > You really need to better read who writes what. I didn't start the > discussion on message sizes due to HTML, I simply ended it because of > irrelevance. > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 1:30 PM Greg Wooledge > wrot

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi van Snyder, > > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work. The solution did indeed allow to install the driver. But it removed at least KDE, and now it won't enter run

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

2024-07-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 15:31 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 7/3/24 15:20, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 18:38 +0200, Richard wrote: > > > For anything further, you'll have to research yourself as > > > ghostscript > > > is very complex but

Re: Creating PDF/A from LaTeX source and from existing PDF

2024-07-03 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 18:38 +0200, Richard wrote: > For anything further, you'll have to research yourself as ghostscript > is very complex but used by many people. Please stop using such a dinky font. There are plenty of old farts trying to read this list. Can ghostscript convert a PDF generate

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