Re: case fan speed

2025-04-15 Thread Eben King
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

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

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
st remember that land mine if and when I want to do forensic work. > eben@cerberus:/$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-31-amd64] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org > > ===

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
same swap partition and reinitialize it. Eben, have you find a reliable way to avoid swap reuse? The environment from which I do the backups is system-rescue.org . AFAICT it doesn't mount anything automatically. I don't generally mount a source partition, but this time I needed som

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

Re: two separate GPUs

2025-02-26 Thread eben
On 2/24/25 02:17, Felix Miata wrote: > e...@gmx.us composed on 2025-02-23 16:43 (UTC-0500): > >> OK, I got it to show up by adding /etc/X11/50-onboard.conf which contains > >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Card1" >> Driver "intel"... > The intel display driver has been unofficially de

Re: two separate GPUs

2025-02-23 Thread eben
On 2/23/25 17:29, Felix Miata wrote: > Graphics: > Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor > Device-2: NVIDIA GF119 [NVS 310] vendor OK, so two video cards and > Monitor-1: DP-1 pos: top-left model: NEC EA243WM > Monitor-2: DP-3 mapped: DP-1-3 pos: primary,bottom-l model: Acer K272HUL >

Re: two separate GPUs

2025-02-23 Thread eben
On 2/23/25 13:42, Eben King wrote: > 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 rot

Re: two separate GPUs

2025-02-23 Thread eben
On 2/23/25 15:37, Felix Miata wrote: > Eben King composed on 2025-02-23 13:42 (UTC-0500): > >> 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

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

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread eben
On 2/10/25 05:04, Yassine Chaouche wrote: > Le 2/10/25 à 04:18, William Torrez Corea a écrit : >> Firefox is using much memory and using swap memory: > > Hello William. > I recommend installing the Great Suspender / Tab Suspender extension. > It will save you a few gigs of RAM by putting unused tab

Re: Bluetooth

2025-02-11 Thread eben
On 2/10/25 23:17, Gregory Forster wrote: > I've been looking on Amazon.  Is there a bluetooth dongle I can plug into my > desktop PC USB port that will work with Debian GNU/Linux 12.8?  Everything I > find specify s for Windows. I have one of these: Bus 001 Device 025: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Sili

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-10 Thread eben
On 2/10/25 05:16, Ceppo wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:36:28AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> Thermal compound (if there is any) dried out? > > There's none. At least not visible, or replaceable. > >> If you can trigger a failure by heating the device with say a hair >> dryer, that's supporting

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-06 Thread eben
On 2/6/25 06:06, Ceppo wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:17:40PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> On 2/5/25 10:16, Ceppo wrote: >> >> Also, is this USB or a card? If USB, does it have a case you can >> remove? > > It's USB, and I think I can't remove the outer plastic case without > breaking it. See

Re: Issues with D-Link DWA-160 network adapter

2025-02-05 Thread eben
On 2/5/25 10:16, Ceppo wrote: > At first I didn't bother to even look for a solution, since this > happened only once in a few days. However, now it happens several times > a day, and most often when I reach high download speeds. Anything around > 2 MiB/s for more than a handful of seconds seems t

Re: continuing GPU woes

2025-01-28 Thread eben
On 1/28/25 03:50, Anssi Saari wrote: > Eben King writes: > > I don't know if there's more history to this issue but a couple of > things come to mind. > >> Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) >> Your card is supported by all

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

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 17:46, Roger Price wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >>> That works for me too, but not in cron. Could you create a temporary >>> personal >>> cron job with crontab -e which sets >>> >>> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" >>> >>> and runs >>> >>> M H * * * aplay /u

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 16:58, Roger Price wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 13:52:00 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >>> Maybe a difference in some software? I ran >>> eben@cerberus:~$ env - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 /usr/bin/aplay >>> /export/media/sounds/woow1.wav >&

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
ME_DIR . > > I found that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is necessary but not sufficient. I added > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" to my personal crontab, but this did not > solve the problem. I added > > export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)" > >

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread eben
On 1/24/25 09:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 2) At least one of my environment variables is required: > > hobbit:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav > Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Side_Left.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little > Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono > hobbit:~$ env - aplay /usr/share/

Re: HFS+

2025-01-20 Thread eben
On 1/20/25 22:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 18:18:19 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: >> ii hfsplus 1.0.4-17amd64Tools to >> access HFS+ formatted volumes >> ii hfsutils 3.2.6-15amd64Tools for >> readin

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-20 Thread eben
On 1/20/25 11:15, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Also: > > sudo mount -t exfat /dev/nvme0n1 /mnt/nvme0n1 > mount: /mnt/nvme0n1: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/ > nvme0n1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. > > makes no difference. If it thinks exfat is the wrong type,

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread eben
On 1/18/25 22:21, Default User wrote: > Hi, Eben! > > I hate to sound stupid, but how would I do that. I have never used mkfs > before. I've never used LUKS before, so we're even. With a non-encrypted filesystem, you would unmount the partition mkfs -t whatever /d

Re: rsync: source and destination drive data used sizes differ

2025-01-18 Thread eben
On 1/18/25 21:50, Default User wrote: > Hi Andy! > > Thanks for the reply. > > I may just delete everything on DRIVE2 overnight, Might be faster to mkfs than to rm *.

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

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-14 Thread eben
On 1/14/25 10:30, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > On 14/01/2025 15:14, Hans wrote: >> >> It looks like Adam wants to copy a Windows system to another drive. Maybe he >> could delete hyberfile.sys, pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys before rsyncing. >> >> These are not necessary and will be recreated at boot fro

Re: Finding appropriate support for packages in Debian repository

2025-01-11 Thread eben
On 1/11/25 09:01, Fred wrote: > On 1/11/25 05:58, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> I looked for an mp3 player whose GUI took up >> a very minimal amount of screen real estate. I was referred to several >> overpowered complex candidates and chose VLC as most straight forward. >> > Hi, > mpg123 is a comma

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-10 Thread eben
On 1/10/25 15:30, mick.crane wrote: > On 2025-01-10 14:39, John Hasler wrote: >> Tomas writes: >>> Past experience shows that we'll live with this for a while (watch >>> the US still on their Imperial measures, >> >> Pedanticism: The US is not and never has been on the Imperial system. >> We use bo

Nvidia fans not activating

2025-01-08 Thread Eben King
abled lets it keep up by passive radiation. Is there an easy fix to this ("don't use Nvidia" is probably not easy at this point)? Thanks. eben@cerberus:~$ nvidia-smi -q ==NVSMI LOG== Timestamp : Wed Jan 8 13:17:50

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-07 Thread eben
On 1/7/25 11:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 11:05:01AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> On 1/7/25 10:44, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: > 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > only though! After fromating

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-07 Thread eben
On 1/7/25 10:44, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jan 07, 2025, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name >>> only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable >>> space. >> >> 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if yo

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-31 Thread eben
On 12/31/24 12:32, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Dec 31, 2024, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> On 12/31/24 07:44, Dan Purgert wrote: >>> On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: 2. I have a virtualbox Windows XP machine. With the HP printer, it worked through CUPS and needed to find /dev/lp0.

Re: seeking new laser printer [solved, mostly]

2024-12-31 Thread eben
On 12/31/24 07:44, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Dec 30, 2024, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: >> On December 7, 2024 4:21 PM, I wrote: >> >> I would typically print with something like "cat file > /dev/usb/lp1". >> Now, though, with the new laser and a straight USB connection (no >> wireless), I see th

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread eben
On 12/29/24 13:17, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > Good luck with yours. FINALLY fixing this a couple years ago was so > empowering. Without boot, we got no computers. :) Wow, thanks. I've heard that switching an existing system to EFI can be disruptive and error-prone, so I'll probably try again whe

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread eben
On 12/29/24 12:51, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Eben King wrote: > >> My motherboard is a Gigabyte H170 > > That doesn't seem to be precise enough. They make multiple boards with > that general name and all but one support UEFI. But the GA-H170TN does > not me

Re: booting by UEFI?

2024-12-29 Thread eben
On 12/29/24 11:38, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 11:26:38AM -0500, Eben King wrote: >> The boot device is currently /dev/sdb which has a GPT partition table, and >> its first few partitions are >> >> number size mount point ... >

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

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-27 Thread eben
On 12/27/24 12:21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 27 Dec 2024 at 11:27:18 (-0500), eben wrote: >> On 12/27/24 11:18, David Wright wrote: >>> On Sun 22 Dec 2024 at 01:16:31 (-0500), Alex Wahl wrote: >>>> Is there any point to worrying about what's masked and disab

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

2024-12-27 Thread eben
lib/systemd or /usr/lib/systemd. Hmm. Maybe that applies to certain versions? I don't think I've touched that directory. eben@cerberus:~$ ls -l /etc/systemd/ total 44K 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3K Sep 20 2023 journald.conf 4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.6K Sep 20 2023 logind.co

Re: Where is my Brave executable

2024-12-23 Thread eben
; Shows how much about Linux I know, I had never previously heard about the > command called command. > > An Internet search was not great since "command" is such a common term, > however I managed to find some info using the usual Linux 'get help' options. >

Re: Very frustrating help and support on all channels -----------Fwd: fail message dirmanager

2024-12-23 Thread eben
On 12/23/24 12:43, koffie wrote: > > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: fail message dirmanager > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:38:24 +0100 > From: koffie > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Ubuntu / Oracular > Hello, > > It is not possible to download an iso file. From where? How

Re: network streaming URL

2024-12-21 Thread eben
On 12/21/24 08:35, 郭 灵贤 wrote: > Who can give me some network streaming URL that play movie ? yt-dlp can, but it'll be ugly.

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-14 Thread eben
On 12/14/24 15:02, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was unaware, that a native installed linux is capable from booting at > the USB-port! > > I put a harddrive with linux with a native installed linux (native > means, the harddrive was built-in) in an usb-case and could boot from > it. This was nice!

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 14:25, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/12/24 10:15, gene heskett wrote: >> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver >> Device Descriptor: > > I would remove the USB receiver, the wireless keyboard, and the wireless > mouse.  Connect a known good wired USB keybo

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 07:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I normally watch Youtube videos in Google Chrome. My experience is > that everything works well except certain live streams -- these will > consume more and more memory until the tab "crashes" with a "something > went wrong" message, and a Reload button.

Re: How to enable the fonts in xfonts-terminus?

2024-12-12 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 04:32, Chris Green wrote: > I have a program that uses 'real' X bit-mapped fonts. I'm running > Debian 12. The default installation provides basic bit-mapped X fonts > but on previous systems I was using the 'terminus' bit-mapped fonts. > > So, I have installed the xfonts-terminus pac

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread eben
On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote: > > I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox.  I typically enable only > enough JavaScript to get a site working.  YouTube recently changed their > site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com is blocked.  > When I enabled goog

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread eben
On 12/11/24 19:42, Nate Bargmann wrote: > From reading the rest of the thread, IMO, the OP hasn't been running an > ad blocker which is just simply a necessity these days. I suspect that > even running uBlock Origin that the situation will improve. Another > step that may help is running a lighte

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread eben
On 12/11/24 07:33, Tom Browder wrote: > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? > > There may be related problems with my newly installed HP printer which > sometimes hangs when attempting to print random w

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread eben
On 12/7/24 16:21, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > If you are able, please recommend a black-and-white Postscript laser > printer that will work well with Debian (Bookworm). After 29 years, I'm > finally, and sadly, giving up on my HP LaserJet 5MP. At work I had > problems with Linux drivers fo

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-06 Thread eben
On 12/6/24 18:46, e...@gmx.us wrote: > overengineered Greg's solution is better.

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-06 Thread eben
On 12/6/24 17:11, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: These > rsync \ > --exclude '*.mp3' \ >--exclude '*.mp4' \ > rsync \ > --exclude=$exclusions are not the same. In the first one you have "--exclude" for each pattern, and in the second you have it once. I suspect the first one is correct,

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 21:39, nsrxnst wrote: > booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my > sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. > > how do I go about recovering this??? If you do something like mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/temp -o ro -t ext4 (modify as appropriate) doe

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 21:03, nsrxnst wrote: > upon selecting the appropriate option from grub, manually or > automatically, it begins the boot process, displays errors too fast to > comprehend, You may be able to read the errors if you video-record the screen during boot (higher fps=better) then single-step

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 17:26, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 04:06:17PM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> To find out if the motherboard imposed any limitations, I checked the >> manual. I found these tables, which I can't see the implications of: >> >> M2D_32G M.2 connector >> +-+--

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 13:07, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)? > > It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x drives (but I'm > sure there may be some cheaper dri

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread eben
On 12/5/24 09:59, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:42:08AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> Is it different when you boot from an nvme drive? I have what I was >> told was one and it appears as /dev/sdb or /dev/sda depending how the >> OS feels that day. I didn't buy it new, it was g

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread eben
erboard disables one of the SATA ports, which is unfortunate. eben@cerberus:~$ lsb_release --description No LSB modules are available. Description:Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) eben@cerberus:~$ uname -r 6.1.0-27-amd64 eben@cerberus:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Model=TOSHIBA KSG60ZMV256

Re: Profile order

2024-11-30 Thread eben
On 11/30/24 17:02, Bitfox wrote: > If /etc/profile and home dir’s .bash_profile have included the same command > but with different arguments. Which one will be used then? Thank you. I think /etc/profile gets called first, but this is definitely a time for a diagnostic echo or two.

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-27 Thread eben
On 11/26/24 01:03, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > But there are no icons left on the desktop - no more Portal, and none of > the utilities I downloaded were on my $PATH. > > How do the rest of you deal with all the user-added stuff that vanishes > when you do a fresh install? Are there some tricks I can

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread eben
On 11/25/24 12:36, Default User wrote: > > Thomas, would you mind elaborating on, or give a link to an > explanation of: > > "Of course, this UUID uniqueness thing starts looking ever more > flimsy once you start bit-copying file systems . . . " > > I'm not sure I understand what bit-copying of fil

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread eben
On 11/25/24 10:21, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 25 Nov 2024 at 10:07:35 (-0500), eben wrote: >> On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: >>> I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant >>> partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-25 Thread eben
On 11/25/24 02:26, George at Clug wrote: > I would create a folder into which to mount the HD's relevant > partition, then used "blkid" to find the UUID and manually added a > mount point to "/etc/fstab".  The resulting paths may be a bit ugly, > but I am lazy. I find PARTLABELs to be a lot more h

Re: Lost password need help!

2024-11-22 Thread eben
On 11/22/24 11:56, The David wrote: > We have been using the debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae for our company. We are moving > to another state and we forgot the password. Is there anyway to recover this > without losing data? Thank you. Boot off rescue media, mount the victim's / partition somewhere, the

Re: auto interactive jobs

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/21/24 19:37, Bitfox wrote: > On 2024-11-22 08:28, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> On 11/21/24 19:24, Bitfox wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I have a interactive command like the following, >>> >>> $ ./filen >>> / > upload upt-snappy / >>> Uploading upt-snappy [] 100% | ETA

Re: auto interactive jobs

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/21/24 19:24, Bitfox wrote: > Hi > > I have a interactive command like the following, > > $ ./filen > / > upload upt-snappy / > Uploading upt-snappy [] 100% | ETA: > 0s | 1.4 KiB / 1.32 KiB > / > > > > the command "filen" will open a interactive shell, a

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/21/24 11:46, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/21/24 11:07, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> On 11/20/24 10:13, e...@gmx.us wrote: >> >>> Just for kicks: >>> This line has no trailing spaces. >>> This line has one trailing space. >>> This line has two trailing spaces. >> >> OK, I changed "mail.html_compose" fr

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/21/24 11:07, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 11/20/24 10:13, e...@gmx.us wrote: > >> Just for kicks: >> This line has no trailing spaces. >> This line has one trailing space. >> This line has two trailing spaces. > > OK, I changed "mail.html_compose" from true to false.  Now to see if it > makes a di

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/21/24 11:07, e...@gmx.us wrote: OK, I changed "mail.html_compose" from true to false.  Now to see if it makes a difference: This line has no trailing spaces. This line has one trailing space. This line has two trailing spaces. Narrator: It did not.

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/20/24 10:13, e...@gmx.us wrote: Just for kicks: This line has no trailing spaces. This line has one trailing space. This line has two trailing spaces. OK, I changed "mail.html_compose" from true to false. Now to see if it makes a difference: This line has no trailing spaces. This line

Re: mail sig separator (was Re: BD backup?)

2024-11-21 Thread eben
On 11/20/24 15:31, gene heskett wrote: On 11/20/24 15:16, gene heskett wrote: On 11/20/24 11:24, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 11/20/24 10:20, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 10:13:20 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: Just for kicks: This line has no trailing spaces. This line has one trailing s

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