Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-05 Thread Dan Ritter
white-wolf wrote: > Hi, > > Apparently, the era of the Minitel is truly over... > 200€ for an acceptable machine, it's clear that given the price of VPS, > my idea is not profitable... > > Another question, how can I offer a managed IT services for > individuals, more or less on a large scale? T

Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-05 Thread Frank Guthausen
On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:14:24 +0200 white-wolf wrote: > > I am looking to set up a system using my Dell Latitude E4300 as a thin > client connected to an OVH VPS to create a decentralized desktop > environment. My Dell no longer has enough power to run Debian/Linux > with GNOME e

Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-05 Thread white-wolf
t; On 6/4/25 18:14, white-wolf wrote: > > Dear Debian Users, > > > > I hope this message finds you well. > > > > I am looking to set up a system using my Dell Latitude E4300 as a > > thin > > client connected to an OVH VPS to create a decentralized deskto

Re: Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-05 Thread David Christensen
On 6/4/25 18:14, white-wolf wrote: Dear Debian Users, I hope this message finds you well. I am looking to set up a system using my Dell Latitude E4300 as a thin client connected to an OVH VPS to create a decentralized desktop environment. My Dell no longer has enough power to run Debian/Linux

Setting up a Thin Client System with Dell Latitude E4300 and OVH VPS

2025-06-04 Thread white-wolf
Dear Debian Users, I hope this message finds you well. I am looking to set up a system using my Dell Latitude E4300 as a thin client connected to an OVH VPS to create a decentralized desktop environment. My Dell no longer has enough power to run Debian/Linux with GNOME effectively, and instead

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-06-01 Thread mick.crane
On 2025-05-31 09:00, rob stone wrote: Hello, if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in /etc/default/keyboard? I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character. TIA, Robert I've a

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 31 May 2025 at 18:00:30 (+1000), rob stone wrote: > if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in > /etc/default/keyboard? I had a British Latitude D430, and I had: XKBMODEL="latitude" XKBLAYOUT="gb" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS=&

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Sat, 2025-05-31 at 14:06 +, xuser wrote: > Are you sure the keyboard works, properly ex. (no dead keys)? > I have a Dell Latitude E6500 and all of the keys on the keyboard work > fine. Nice call. We're always asking if external parts like cables work, but onboard keyboard

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread Hans
working there, too. Hope this wil be fixed in Trixie, but if not, it is not a big problem for me. Best Hans > On 5/31/25 3:00 AM, rob stone wrote: > > Hello, > > > > if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, > > I have a Dell Latitude E6410 > > > what values

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread xuser
Are you sure the keyboard works, properly ex. (no dead keys)? I have a Dell Latitude E6500 and all of the keys on the keyboard work fine. On Sat, 31 May 2025, Richard Owlett wrote: Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 06:18:52 -0500 From: Richard Owlett To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dell

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/31/25 3:00 AM, rob stone wrote: Hello, if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, I have a Dell Latitude E6410 what values are in /etc/default/keyboard? I see: > # KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE > > # Consult the keyboard(5) ma

Re: Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 31. Mai 2025, 10:00:30 CEST schrieb rob stone: > Hello, > > if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in > /etc/default/keyboard? > > I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash > sym

Dell latitude keymap

2025-05-31 Thread rob stone
Hello, if you are running a Dell Latitude laptop, what values are in /etc/default/keyboard? I've tried "pc105" (default) and "latitude" and neither echo the hash symbol (Shift-3) nor the pipe character. TIA, Robert

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-12 Thread Hans
Good news! I got partly success with this issue. Now volume upand down is workiing in KDE, but still NOT screen brightness. What did I do? I first created a new user and then could see, volume is working. After that I moved some directories from my old user away. First ~/.local - no success. t

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-11 Thread Hans
related. Thus, I can not deinstall these. So far so well. Now to the weired things: In plasma (let me name it "KDE" further on) and in LXQT, none of the keys are working. I tried different keyboard setings, like "pc105" "nodeadkeys" as well as "DELL Latitude&quo

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-11 Thread Nicolas George
Hans (12025-02-10): > All keys are working. > > For example: > > xxd /dev/input/event12 > (This example is for FN+screen_brightness_up and > FN+screen_brightness_down.) Then your problem is easy. If some keys did not generate events, getting them to work might have been a nightmare or impos

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-10 Thread Hans
Yes, did so. All keys are working. For example: xxd /dev/input/event12 : 2644 aa67 4336 0900 &D.gC6.. 0010: 0100 e000 0100 2644 aa67 &D.g 0020: 4336 0900 C6.. 0030: 2644

Re: FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-10 Thread Nicolas George
Hans (12025-02-10): > However, it is clear, the functions like screen brightness etc. stop working, > as soon as the kernel loads. That is not surprising. Before the kernel loads, the key are handled by the firmware and control the computer. After the kernel loads, the keys are handled by the ker

FN hotkeys not working after kernel loads (Was: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?)

2025-02-10 Thread Hans
Still hasseling with this problem I am now believing, that the reason of the problem is either a BIOS issue or a kernel issue. Tested several things and I the issue appears as soon as the kernel is started. In the internet I found informations, that if the BIOS does not see Windows, it may

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-09 Thread Hans
> > Have you tried just going in the Shortcut settings in Plasma and > manually assigning the keys that you want? That way, it doesn't really > matter what Plasma thinks the keys are because you are directly entering > them in the settings dialog. > > Settings -> Shortcuts -> Shortcuts -> Power M

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-08 Thread Russell S.
Hans writes: > No, I am running Plasma in X as well as XFCE. I am no friend of Wayland, so I > avoiding it. > > Best > > Hans >> So is this a difference between Wayland and X then? You run Plasma in >> Wayland and XFCE in X since it only runs in X? Have you tried just going in the Shortcut sett

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-07 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Wed 05 Feb 2025 at 11:38:00 (-0500), Hans wrote: > No, thwe problem is, the windowmanager or the system itself does not > recognize the code or suppresses it somehow. Are you running under X or Wayland? If X, try running "xev" and pressing the keys to see what the system thinks you're

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-06 Thread Hans
kb_symbols { include "pc+de+inet(evdev)+compose(lwin)+terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp)" }; xkb_geometry { include "dell(latitude)"}; And here it is for XFCE: xkb_keymap { xkb_keycodes { include "evdev+aliase

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-06 Thread Hans
No, I am running Plasma in X as well as XFCE. I am no friend of Wayland, so I avoiding it. Best Hans > So is this a difference between Wayland and X then? You run Plasma in > Wayland and XFCE in X since it only runs in X?

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > In console and in Plasma the Brightness can not be adjusted, but in XFCE it > can. However, I could not get, which keyboard setting XFCE is using, does pne > know? So is this a difference between Wayland and X then? You run Plasma in Wayland and XFCE in X since it only runs in X

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/02/2025 18:57, Hans wrote: In console and in Plasma the Brightness can not be adjusted, but in XFCE it can. However, I could not get, which keyboard setting XFCE is using, does pne know? Save output of the following command executed in XFCE and KDE setxkbmap -print and compare it to

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Hans
all for the last time I changed my own: > > +++ BEGIN INTERNET SEARCH RESULT +++ > > To change the Fn function on a Dell Latitude 5400, navigate to the BIOS > by pressing "F2" during startup, then go to "POST Behavior" > "Fn Lock > Options" wher

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On Wed, 2025-02-05 at 12:57 +0100, Hans wrote: > Dear list, > > is anyone by chance using a Dell Latitude 5400 with Plasma? > > I am looking for the keyboard setting for Debian wuith this hardware. > The > problem is, the Function-keys are not working. > > Not work

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Hans
Some checks showed, that obviously the events are read correct, if I see this corect. Please see: $ acpi_listen button/mute MUTE 0080 K button/volumedown VOLDN 0080 K button/volumeup VOLUP 0080 K 9DBB5994-A997- 00d0

Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-05 Thread Hans
Dear list, is anyone by chance using a Dell Latitude 5400 with Plasma? I am looking for the keyboard setting for Debian wuith this hardware. The problem is, the Function-keys are not working. Not working means: The second level do not work like "volume higher/lower" "bright

Re: Installation on second hand Dell Latitude 5420

2024-10-31 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/10/24 16:32, Angus Mackenzie wrote: I purchased a 2021 Dell Latitude 5420 i7 with 16GB from a refurbisher. It runs Windows 10 Pro well as far as I can see, but I want to install Debian since I've preferred it for nearly 20 years. There is a BIOS admin password set, so I cannot chang

Re: Installation on second hand Dell Latitude 5420

2024-10-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 31 Oct 2024 08:32 +, from an...@bellheath.org (Angus Mackenzie): > And finally the question - if I buy a new M2 SSD and install Debian to it > using > another machine, would that be expected to boot normally in place of the UEFI > Windows 10 SSD which is there at the moment? As long as y

Installation on second hand Dell Latitude 5420

2024-10-31 Thread Angus Mackenzie
I purchased a 2021 Dell Latitude 5420 i7 with 16GB from a refurbisher. It runs Windows 10 Pro well as far as I can see, but I want to install Debian since I've preferred it for nearly 20 years. There is a BIOS admin password set, so I cannot change the boot device and install from a USB

Secure boot [was: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst]

2023-01-24 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 12:12:53PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: [...] > >The biggest accomplishment SecureBoot achieved under Windows 8 was > >locking out other operating systems. And that did not last very long. > > Sigh. Secure Boot also does a reasonable job of blocking persistent > pre-boot

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jeff wrote: >On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> 2) So I turn on Secure Boot? > >I recommend turning SecureBoot off. > > - UEFI > * GPT = on > * SecureBoot = off > >And legacy modes, like BIOS legacy = off. > >In SecureBoot, the only thing that is attested are th

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My Dell Inspiron E1505 shipped in 2007 with a 32-bit Core Duo > T2250 processor. In 2016, I STFW and saw that certain 64-bit Core 2 Duo > processors sometimes worked in this laptop (depending upon motherboard > hardware revision?). I bought and installed a T7400, and it works! Same here: I upgr

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-23 Thread David Christensen
On 1/23/23 09:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit. Actually, the first "Core" branded CPUs ("Core Solo" and "Core Duo") were still 32bit, back in 2006 (that was the time-window during which AMD had already switched to 64bit CPUs and Intel still h

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit. Actually, the first "Core" branded CPUs ("Core Solo" and "Core Duo") were still 32bit, back in 2006 (that was the time-window during which AMD had already switched to 64bit CPUs and Intel still hoped it could move people over to IA64 in

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-23 Thread Dan Ritter
Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a D

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Felix Miata
Russell L. Harris composed on 2023-01-22 04:15 (UTC): > Inspiron 3542 > Intel Core i5-4210U > ram = DDR3L > No indication of 32-bit or 64-bit. There is no such thing as an Intel Core* CPU that is 32bit. Yours is from 2014, roughly 8 years after Intel quit making 32bit X86 mainline processors:

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 1/22/23 18:51, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 11:06:10PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > In SecureBoot, the only thing that is attested are the disk images. > > There's no guarantees about the program once it is in-memory and > > executing. What's being executed in-memory is the important thing. > > Indeed, it's impor

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
gt;> >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > >> >>3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > >The Latitude 3510 was released in 2020. I doubt it is a

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 04:15:19AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Actually, I received three old laptops. I got Debian 11 running on > one of them; the BIOS reports: > > Inspiron 3542 > Intel Core i5-4210U > ram = DDR3L > > No indication of 32-bit or 64-bit. All Intel Core i5 processors are

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:47:02PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In SecureBoot, the only thing that is attested are the disk images. > There's no guarantees about the program once it is in-memory and > executing. What's being executed in-memory is the important thing. Indeed, it's important to remember tht SecureBoot's name comes from the fact that it's desig

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > >>3510 to cause it

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:51:05AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > > 3510

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). For

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). RLH On 1/20/23 07:34, Russell L. Harris wrote: > # cp debian-11.

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 03:18:31PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > [...] > > >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? > > > > After d

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread David
On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 07:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > # cp debian-11.6.0-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb > > # sync > > I believe you should use dd to preserve the ph

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread David
t; On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > >> > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > >> > > 11) written to USB fla

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:35 AM Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > [...] > >How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? > > After downloading the official netinst iso image, I copied it to the > flash stick (I ro

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
ut how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). BTW you don't say whether you've ever booted it from any kind of stick. The machine was a gift; this is my fi

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread Russell L. Harris
d out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). The problem is that the "one-time menu" does not include the flash device. How did you create the flash de

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 05:23:06 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > &g

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:23:06AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude >

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). Typically you'd tap away at F12

dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-19 Thread Russell L. Harris
I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 laptop lockup

2021-12-27 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2021-12-27 21:05 (UTC-0800): > I moved the Debian 10 system disk to an Intel DQ67SW motherboard with an > Intel Core i7-2600S processor and Intel HD Graphics 2000. It played ~90 > minutes of Amazon video flawlessly. I believe Debian 10 is now using > the i915 gra

Re: Dell Latitude E6520 laptop lockup

2021-12-27 Thread David Christensen
On 12/26/21 9:34 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/26/21 9:13 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: David - there's a very similar set of queries on debian-laptop at the moment also about a Dell E6520. Are you using one that has Nvidia graphics with the Nvidia N4200M? I moved the Debian 10 system

Dell Latitude E6520 laptop lockup

2021-12-26 Thread David Christensen
On 12/26/21 9:13 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: David - there's a very similar set of queries on debian-laptop at the moment also about a Dell E6520. Are you using one that has Nvidia graphics with the Nvidia N4200M? Yes. 2021-12-26 21:27:09 root@laalaa ~ # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2019-12-04 00:48, Victor wrote: Le 03 Dec 2019, David Christensen a écrit : Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. Thanks for the reply. :-) I’ve been using xfce for the last 3 or 4 years on a latitude E5440 (bought

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2019-12-03 22:02, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: Thanks for the reply.  :-) Do you use X?  If so, which display manager or desktop?  What are the hardware specs and how does it hold up with heavy desktop usage? Yes X and TDE former KDE3 as display manager (might be exotic to so

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-04 Thread Victor
Le 03 Dec 2019, David Christensen a écrit : debian-user: Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. I’ve been using xfce for the last 3 or 4 years on a latitude E5440 (bought seconhand). - Worked seamingless right after

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-03 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the reply.  :-) > > > Do you use X?  If so, which display manager or desktop?  What are the > hardware specs and how does it hold up with heavy desktop usage? Yes X and TDE former KDE3 as display manager (might be exotic to some, but it is so stable and has

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2019-12-02 21:32, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: debian-user: Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. David https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Latitude5480 https://wiki.debian.org

Re: RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-02 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude > 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. > > > David > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Latitude5480 > > https://wiki.d

RFC Debian and Xfce daily desktop on Dell Latitude 54XX

2019-12-02 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Is anyone running Debian and Xfce as a daily desktop on a Dell Latitude 54XX laptop? If so, please comment. David https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Latitude5480 https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Latitude5490

Re: Sound problem Dell Latitude E7470

2016-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Hedvig Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian Stretch on a Dell Latitude E7470 and I get almost > no sound. After running alsactl init as root I have a buzzing sound in > my speakers, as well as a short beep when I unmute in alsamixer. But &g

Re: Sound problem Dell Latitude E7470

2016-08-23 Thread deloptes
Hedvig Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > I am running Debian Stretch on a Dell Latitude E7470 and I get almost > no sound. After running alsactl init as root I have a buzzing sound in > my speakers, as well as a short beep when I unmute in alsamixer. But > that is all the sound I

Sound problem Dell Latitude E7470

2016-08-23 Thread Hedvig Kamp
Hi, I am running Debian Stretch on a Dell Latitude E7470 and I get almost no sound. After running alsactl init as root I have a buzzing sound in my speakers, as well as a short beep when I unmute in alsamixer. But that is all the sound I get. I tested with speakertest. What is the problem and

Installation of Wheezy on a Dell Latitude E6320 [SSD Only]

2014-11-28 Thread Jean-Louis Crouzet
Hello dear Debian user reading me, I've been struggling with this configuration for the past few days (2,5) before I decide to post here. Hopefully this will be the right place?! So here are the physical elements of my story: Machine => Dell Latitude E6320 With a single SSD such as

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I have an E7420 running Debian on it for work. The 7.4 ISO was plenty to get it working and I used UEFI as well with GRUB bootloader. I did have to upgrade it to testing (jessie) however to get all the devices working and get the newer XORG that would support the graphics card. I don't have it

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:16:25PM +0200, Stanislav Bocinec wrote: > Hello Craig, > > i'm using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on E7440 (i7, 16GB Ram, SSD disk, intel GPU) > without any major issues. Only thing i experienced problem with was that > external monitor was sometimes losing signal from display port (

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-07-01 Thread Craig L.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:25:21PM -0400, ken wrote: > On 03/22/2014 01:29 PM Craig L. wrote: > > I found folks > >running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any > >problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in this. > > One of the nice things

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-06-24 Thread Stanislav Bocinec
Hello Craig, i'm using Ubuntu 14.04LTS on E7440 (i7, 16GB Ram, SSD disk, intel GPU) without any major issues. Only thing i experienced problem with was that external monitor was sometimes losing signal from display port ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1062571). I'm not sure whether i

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-06-24 Thread ken
On 03/22/2014 01:29 PM Craig L. wrote: I found folks running other distros on the E7440, so we're going with it. If I have any problems I will pass them along for anyone else that is interested in this. One of the nice things about GNU/Linux is that, if one distro works on a particular ma

Re: Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/19/14, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:57:56AM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: >> I have a similar problem. > > Just started happening on my homebuilt system, as well. Should we file a > bug report? Against which package? I would think first off against the kernel (3.12-rt and 3.13-

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-22 Thread Craig L.
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:44:41PM -0400, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400 > ken wrote: > > > It's not going in the trash though. It's still good for a headless > > linux box. Long ago I buffed it up with a big HD and 2G of RAM, the > > cat5 and 8

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:37:39 -0400 ken wrote: > I'm where you are, currently using a decades-old Dell Latitude with a > couple cracks in it and a non-working screen. It's plugged into an > old CRT monitor. Although, like yours, the battery lasts maybe > fifteen minute

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-21 Thread ken
. Thanks Mike. Unfortunately this laptop is now a two-piece system, if you know what I mean, and it is just more trouble than it is worth to repair. Time to move on. *sigh* Mike I'm where you are, currently using a decades-old Dell Latitude with a couple cracks in it and a non-working s

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Craig L.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 04:03:36PM -0400, Mike McGinn wrote: > > On Thursday, March 20, 2014 15:28:32 Craig L. wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and > > I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looking at the Dell E7440, >

Re: Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Mike McGinn
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 15:28:32 Craig L. wrote: > Hello list, > > Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and > I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looking at the Dell E7440, > and my initial look tells me I will be getting something that should run

Debian on a Dell Latitude E7440

2014-03-20 Thread Craig L.
Hello list, Sadly, my 11 year-old Toshiba laptop has become physically unusable*, and I will be receiving a new laptop at work. We are looking at the Dell E7440, and my initial look tells me I will be getting something that should run a pure Debian main installation, but I figured I would ask to b

Re: Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 07:57:56AM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > I have a similar problem. Just started happening on my homebuilt system, as well. Should we file a bug report? Against which package? -- Carl Fink ca...@li-con.org Chair, LI-CON, March 29-30, 2014, Rockville

Re: Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-19 Thread Marcelo Laia
I have a similar problem. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg00808.html Any help? -- Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140319

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-19 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
gt; > > > > > > > > > > > Another issue with my Dell Latitude E6440 with AMD hybrid graphics is > suspend not working. Suspend leads to a black screen, the system does not > go to sleep and seems to be still running (power LED and fan are still on). > > >

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-19 Thread Winfried Boxleitner
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: Another issue with my Dell Latitude E6440 with AMD hybrid graphics is suspend not working. Suspend leads to a black screen, the system does not go to sleep and seems to be still running (power LED and fan are still on). I already tried different

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 31.01.2014 18:29, schrieb Steven Rosenberg: > I had success with suspend by adding resume=/path/to/swap to my GRUB bootline. > > To find your /path/to/swap, use: > > $ swapon -s > > And use that to create your own /resume=/dev/sda2 type of line > (remember, yours will vary depending on your i

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-03-18 Thread Michal Kvasnicka
Ghislain Vaillant gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > Another issue with my Dell Latitude E6440 with AMD hybrid graphics is suspend not working. Suspend leads to a black screen, the system does not go to sleep and seems to be still running (power LED and fan are st

Re: Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-02-25 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
Thanks guys for your suggestions. I have tried kernel 3.12 and then the recently released 3.13 in sid without any luck. The thing is that, from time to time, suspend works (maybe 1 out of 15 attempts) for whatever reasons.

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-01-31 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/1/14, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > I had success with suspend by adding resume=/path/to/swap to my GRUB > bootline. > > To find your /path/to/swap, use: > > $ swapon -s Suspend has usually worked for me, without any swap partition. However, the kernel has been where the significant differences

Re: Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-01-31 Thread Steven Rosenberg
.dailynews.com/click stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com ste...@stevenrosenberg.net On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > Another issue with my Dell Latitude E6440 with AMD hybrid graphics is > suspend not working. Suspend leads to a black screen, the system does not go > to sleep

Suspend leads to black screen without sleep [Dell Latitude E6440]

2014-01-31 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
Another issue with my Dell Latitude E6440 with AMD hybrid graphics is suspend not working. Suspend leads to a black screen, the system does not go to sleep and seems to be still running (power LED and fan are still on). I already tried different kernel: 3.5 (Ubuntu LTS), 3.12 and 3.13 (Debian sid

dell latitude D531 and suspend

2013-09-06 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I installed debian wheezy on dell latitude D531 laptop and I can't resume from suspend (black screen) and the system seems to be froozen...: fan goes on... I have to switch off the computer.. Is there a (known) solution? There were no problme with a previous fedora install

Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

2012-10-09 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 08:38:14PM +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote: > > Thanks a lot! > I have now successfully installed Debian with image firmware-6.0.6-amd64- > i386-netinst.iso and it works fine. I used that because I read that my wifi > card > needs non free firmware. However the

Re: Installation problem on Dell Latitude D810

2012-10-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Oct 2012 at 20:38:14 +0200, Cesar Enrique Garcia Dabo wrote: > I have now successfully installed Debian with image firmware-6.0.6-amd64- > i386-netinst.iso and it works fine. Good. > I used that because I read that my wifi > card > needs non free

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