Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In real life no one wants to care of it! Nvidia not, because this > costs money and the developers not, because this is Nvidia and > proprietrary (what is not quite correct, because the kernel-module, > which is the part, that can not be build, is open-source). Since you say it's "open

Re: Thinkpad T14 Gen 5, touchpad not detected

2024-06-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I just installed Debian Testing on my new Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 and I found out > that the touchpad is not actually detected by the system. Maybe it's the same issue as the one posted very recently under the subject: Touchpad not detected by kernel on ThinkPad X13 Gen5 - Stefan

Re: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-05-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> while being on old-old-stable still (buster) and preparing for an > upgrade to bookworm, i noticed, that GNOME once again lost compatibility > to my preferred extensions, giving me a hard choice to either go on with > my outdated system as long as possible, or find a replacement and change > my

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'd like to shop for such a device, but I don't know what it's called. I think it's called a "wireless bridge". Any device with a wifi card and (at least) an ethernet port can do that. So "any" wifi router will do the trick, as long as you can get it to run a firmware that's not hopelessly

Re: Solution for KVM via a cat 5 connection

2024-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Has anyone had experience using a KVM setup (at least one HDMI and two USB > ports) and using cat 5/6/7 between user and the computer? I don’t need to > handle multiple computers or high-def video movies, just programming and > office work. I need a bit more distance from my computer which must

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin >> >> I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll >> need things like >> >> apt install libc-bin/bookworm > > To install a single backported (or other release) package, > apt-get install

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I needed to install a version of sendmail from testing a while back to > test it. Downgrading Debian packages is not well supported, by and large. So installing `testing` packages into a `stable` install is manageable (tho it itself can bring trouble) but going back to `stable` afterwards tends

Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

2024-05-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian > virtual machines to run tests ? I'd expect most of them do, but at least SourceHut does according to https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md#debian Stefan

Re: Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I found this [1], quoting: "I'd also like to share an issue I've > discovered: if /boot's partition is a LV, then there must not be a > raidintegrity LV anywhere before that LV inside the same VG. Otherwise, > update-grub will show an error (disk `lvmid/.../...' not found) and GRUB > cannot

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you have read permission on a directory but *not* execute permissions, > then the only thing you can do is read the contents of that directory -- > the filenames and their inode numbers. You cannot stat() the files, > so you can't see who owns them or even what kind of files they are. > Just

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Actually I've been tempted to teach my mail reader to transform HTML >> into some lightweight markup (yeah, you need a bit of heuristics for >> that ;-) -- say Org, but why not its poor sister Markdown. > Please don't settle for markdown. I would love a org filter! > org-mode just handles

Re: Markup in mail messages

2024-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> When this sort of subject comes up (as it does, every so often), I wonder > why `text/markdown` isn't offered as a mime type for sending emails. FWIW, last time I tried to send `text/(x-)markdown` messages, I discovered that many "popular" MUAs do not display those at all (they treat them as

Re: sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward [was: How to run automatically a script as soon root login]

2024-05-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> $ su - > Password: > # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > # ^D > logout > $ > > I don't need no stinkin' sudo :-) And if you only have `sudo`, but not the root password, of course: % sudo zsh -l # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # ^D logout % 

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You don't need to, but I definitely think he does.  ^^ [ Oh, bias, when will you leave me alone? ] Stefan

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward >> This doesn't sound right. Maybe you should investigate why you're > No need to “investigate”, the answer is obvious: in You don't need to, but I definitely think he does.  Stefan

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > work only if I'm root. It does not work using sudo. This doesn't sound right. Maybe you should investigate why you're seeing this behavior, rather than work around the problem. `sudo` *is* root. Stefan

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Is there some package, or a simple workaround, that will allow me to use > a basic Emacs without all the cruft? I think the usual answers look like: - Use Zile (or some other small Emacs-inspired editor). - Use Tramp (i.e. run Emacs outside the container and access the container's files as a

Re: Zoom in the official repo is outdated

2024-04-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
Jeffrey Walton [2024-04-24 20:13:57] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 7:13 PM Van Snyder wrote: > >> On Wed, 2024-04-24 at 16:42 -0300, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> (Please cc me when replying as I'm not subscribed to the list) >> >> >> Earlier this month, I noticed I

Re: [OFFTOPIC] youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > is blocked? Now that you got answers, a question: what made you post this here? AFAICT this has nothing to do with Debian (if you use Debian, you'd more naturally install that tool from `apt` which won't fetch it from Github).

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I doubt the new drive is slower than the old drive: Overall, agreed. Tho AFAICT the new drive spins slower (5400rpm vs 7200rpm), so it has a slightly higher rotational latency. This means that in *some* cases it can be slower. Now, I have no idea whether that's the cause of the glitches.

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > Do you have any suggestion as to which list would be better to contact? >> > Original: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00324.html >> Maybe `reportbug debian-installer`? > but perhaps without all the deception crap, unless you really mean > to impugn the developers' motives.

Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Recently I decided to upgrade its storage capacity, and replaced > its 500GB hard drive (which was pretty large at the time I bought > it) with a 4TB drive. I did an install from scratch using a > network install CD, then copied my /home partition (using rsync) > from the old drive. [...] >

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Do you have any suggestion as to which list would be better to contact? > Original: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00324.html Maybe `reportbug debian-installer`? Stefan

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If Debian is going to continue promoting itself with those "Our Philosophy" > and "Why Debian" pages, there should at least be opt-ins during the > installation process of every Debian download, as well as prominent warnings > of the new policy on the download pages. Agreed. It should be easy

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Actually, if I understand correctly, LibreOffice will really be > removed on some architectures (armhf ppc64el s390x mips64el riscv64).  Stefan

Re: e1000e driver Network Card Detected Hardware Unit Hang

2024-04-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> It has been known to happen that drivers implement workarounds for issues > in the hardware itself, so that hardware bugs do not get tripped (or are > tripped less often).  You make it sound like it's a rare occurrence, but it's actually quite common. Most of it is discrete so you'll rarely

Re: removed foreign architecture

2024-04-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In any case, I wouldn't recommend using precompiled code from > a for-profit company: if they don't distribute the source code, it > clearly means they're not proud of their code and have something > to hide. And of course, the same applies for a non-for-profit company, tho somehow it seems

Re: removed foreign architecture

2024-04-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> ...printer manufacturer(s) only provided Linux drivers for 32bit. >> The one I'm using that does or did so is Brother. I haven't checked >> lately to see if it has changed its policy. > I just got a Brother printer two days ago and everything they provide > is 32-bit. In any case, I wouldn't

Re: Why LVM

2024-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If I have a hot-pluggable device (SD card, USB drive, hot-plug SATA/SAS > drive and rack, etc.), can I put LVM on it such that when the device is > connected to a Debian system with a graphical desktop (I use Xfce) an icon > is displayed on the desktop that I can interact with to display the

Why LVM (was: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity)

2024-04-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
David Christensen [2024-04-08 11:28:04] wrote: > Why LVM? Personally, I've been using LVM everywhere I can (i.e. everywhere except on my OpenWRT router, tho I've also used LVM there back when my router had an HDD. I also use LVM on my 2GB USB rescue image). To me the question is rather the

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write > protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature. Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing. It just tells your card reader that you'd like to avoid writing to it.

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The most obvious alternative to ZFS on Debian would be Btrfs. Does anyone > have any comments or suggestions regarding Btrfs and data corruption bugs, > concurrency, CMM level, PSP, etc.? If you're worried about such things, I'd think "the most obvious alternative" is LVM+ext4. Both Btrfs and

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yes, it does. I was hoping for something simple but it's becoming > clear to me that there's no simple "make Debian secure for dummies" > checklist to follow. I think to a significant extent, Debian maintainers do aim to make Debian "secure by default", to the extent possible (i.e. based on

Re: Bookworm Networking Issues

2024-03-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Can anybody suggest how to get the networking running? Have you searched the web for answered? I suspect searching for "get the networking running" or "fix my problems" will get you up and running in no time. Stefan

Re: Ethernet not working on a Dell notebook

2024-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> advantage. Plugged in cable is detected immediately. With dhclient running > by ifupdown, it may take some minutes till next DHCP request is sent. [ It can take *many* minutes. ] You can use `ifplugd` to make it react to plugging/unplugging the cable, in case you don't want to use

Re: Possible to feed a scan from HPLIP Toolbox to ocrmypdf?

2024-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> pdf. Also the quality of the scan with xsane is as poor as gscan2pdf. There > must be something in HPLIP that makes better scans. IIUC the scanning is done by the same library in the end, so it *should* be possible to get the same quality with any tool. Maybe instead of the resolution you need

Re: indi Debian Astro

2024-03-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm using debiain on a rock64 for astrophotography and noticed all the indi > packages except indi-eqmod are from 2022.  > I was hoping for some updates to the drivers and some new drivers added like > the svbony drivers and zwo am5 driver. > How does one go about moving this forward? I suggest

Re: ARMv7 problematic?

2024-02-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Building binaries when you have a 32-bit system and using a 64-bit kernel > will never work. And yet I do it every day, Stefan

ARMv7 problematic? (was: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version)

2024-02-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
> He is most likely using armv7 and that comes with its own issues, ie > cpu type and floating point (hard/soft, neon and simd). aarch64 much > easier to build on. I'm using Debian armhf here on various machines (most of them with ARMv7 CPUs but some one of them with an ARMv8 CPU (and kernel)).

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> You should not be running trim in a container/virtual machine >> Why not? That's, in my case, basically saying "you should not be running >> trim on a drive exported via iscsi" Perhaps I shouldn't be but I'd like >> to understand why. Enabling thin_provisioning and fstrim works and gets >>

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Well, I was merely hoping that someone might finally have come up >> with a working solution ... > Stop smoking, lose weight, have a healthy diet and exercise. And most importantly: be lucky! Stefan

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So the question I'm getting to is: Do we have a utility that can be paired > with whatever wifi/bluetooth this thing uses and would allow it to work? With a bit of luck it can be "paired" with your "2TB" SSDs? Stefan "sorry, couldn't resist"

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
but what are the advantages of journald's representation compared to a naive one? >>> >>> in short: querability without text parsing. That's about it. >> >> They have to parse the binary format, so that's not in and of itself >> an upside compared to parsing CSV. >> >> I've made my

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> systemd's design philosophy, observed from the outside, goes > like this: Let's try and stick to the subject of the log representation in `journald`, because we all know about the varied opinions about SystemD. Being an "old-hand", I'm not in love of SystemD, but the thing does have its

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Oh, that bug report is quite interesting, thanks. >> Makes one wonder why they don't use naive append-only "plain text" >> logs (tho with appropriate delimiters (maybe some kind of CSV) to make >> searches more reliable than with old-style plain text logs)? >> >> What are the advantages of

Journald's qualities (was: Selective rotation of journald logs)

2024-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> [13:37:48]cthulhu:/var/log/journal☠ journalctl |dd of=/dev/zero bs=1M > 0+15442 records in > 0+15442 records out > 63643115 bytes (64 MB, 61 MiB) copied, 5,47791 s, 11,6 MB/s > du -h /var/log/journal/ > 337M /var/log/journal/44cf6f547971fc33309d1e9e02e7 > 337M /var/log/journal/ > > (I've

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots. Another possibility is a (few) large file(s) that is/are still open for some process(es) but have been `rm` (`unlink`) so they don't have a name any more. Stefan

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> One of the 1T samsungs in the md raid10 isn't entirely happy but mdadm has >> not fussed about it, and smartctl seems to say its ok after testing. >>  Other than that the gui access delay (30+ seconds) problems I have did >> NOT go away when I moved /home off the raid to another SSD, so I may

Re: Package Identification Assistance

2024-02-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software > sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads > "Ubuntu Software" If all else fails, you can always try something like: find / -mount -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -al "Ubuntu Software" to find

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Now the question remains howinhell do I put a label on a drive such > that it does survive making a raid or lvm device with it? LVM/MD take control of a block device (usually a partition), so any info in that block device can't be used for your purpose. IOW you have to put the info somewhere

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> AFAIK the bogus 128TB drives do properly report such ridiculous sizes: >> the reality only hits when you try to actually store that amount of >> information on them. >> [ I'm not sure how it works under the hood, but since SSDs store their >>data "anywhere" in the flash, they can easily

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

2024-02-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from? > I have a Tripp-Lite sitting next to me here that replaced an APC and has > 2-1/2 times the capabiliity. Been in service several weeks and so far I'm > pretty happy with it... Would they accept a warranty claim without having to run some

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> So, if you want to use `badblocks`, you may want to do it on an >> encrypted partition (that covers the whole device) rather than on the >> raw device. > This is an interesting idea. I haven't wrapped my head around "what if > the controller maps several block addresses to the same physical

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-02-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> BTW2, there is a program for that, "badblocks", part of e2fsprograms, so > chances are it's installed. I'd look into that man page. `badblocks` sadly writes the same pattern on every block, AFAIK, so if the drive just remaps new logical blocks to already used physical blocks, `badblocks` may be

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Test it with Validrive. > https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm Looks like proprietary software for Windows. Stefan

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Well the 2T memory everybody was curious about 3 weeks ago got here early. > > From dmesg after plugging one in: > [629240.916163] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 39 using xhci_hcd > [629241.066221] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, > idProduct=1234, bcdDevice= 2.00 >

Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim]

2024-02-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it is > more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of having > worked for decades, C-Ins S-Ins S-Del existed way before the C-C C-V C-X > tryptich, and still working today in most contexts. Indeed, IIUC these key

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I had my share of discussions back then (before Wayland) in the > context of GNOME and I don't need that again. Discussions are tiresome, yes. Knowing it won't go well, it's important to keep them short. > But do keep your optimism: that's what makes the world better. I'm not very

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm not aware of any projects aimed at recreating mature, traditional > working environments in Wayland. Maybe they exist and I'm simply not > aware of them. Maybe nobody who's capable of developing such an > environment has the motivation to do so. I'm afraid X11 users should make an effort

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I figure there's a high percentage of keyboard jockeys here so .. > which keyboard do you like and why? My favorites are the old Thinkpad USB UltraNav travel keyboards (http://salestores.com/stores/images/images_747/31P9490.jpg). They even come with a 2-port USB hub so you can connect a mouse

Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

2024-01-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I don't think you're looking at the right thing. "packagekit" seems > to be an interface to dbus. By itself, it doesn't do what you think > it does. Aha! > There is probably some other package that's *using* packagekit to do > the thing you don't want done. Is "unattended-upgrades"

Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

2024-01-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> How can I stop those downloads? >> >> Currently, I did >> >> systemctl mask packagekit > > Well, you might just get rid of the package. > > apt purge packagekit > > should do it. Of course, but that also gets rid of packages I do want to keep (such as the `gnome` metapackage). > To

Stop packagekitd from downloading updates

2024-01-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
Apparently, there's now a thing called `packagekit` whose daemon seems to like to download updates "in the background" for me. Thanks, but no, thanks. This tends to occur at inopportune times for me and it's not far enough "in the background", so it gets in the way (furthermore, I like to

Re: Playing a sound when initrd wants a password

2024-01-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
[ Sorry, didn't read the actual post, just answering the Subject: ] What makes you think initrd will be satisfied with a sound? Stefan 

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The problem might be in between of > > lspci -vnn Spews out a lot of stuff, the relevant part being presumably: 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03) Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61 [17aa:20ac]

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
BTW, instead of rescue mode, you can use the initramfs to do such things (I like to do that when I don't have a LiveUSB at hand because it lets you manipulate *all* partitions, including /). I.e. do something like: - Reboot - In Grub, edit your boot script (with `e`) to add `break=mount` to the

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But since `pactl` seems to still be useful for Pipewire, I tried > `pavucontrol` and it shows me no device from which to select in the > "Output Devices". Hmm... actually, not quite: there is one output device, called "Dummy Output". And there is similarly just one input device listed, called

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Server Version: 15.0.0 >> Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz >> Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right >> Default Sink: @DEFAULT_SINK@ >> Default Source: @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ >> Cookie: 40db:2cde >> % >> >> Not sure what the `Cookie` does and even

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> OK. First diagnostic: `pactl info`. > > On my bookworm desktop, I get this: > > $ pactl info > Server String: /run/user/1042/pulse/native > Library Protocol Version: 35 > Server Protocol Version: 35 > Is Local: yes > Client Index: 13692 > Tile Size: 65472 > User Name: dsr > Host Name: spike >

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> some sort of 2T SSD's that comes as a usb-c drive, skipping the sata > convertor entirely at $27/copy. If it works as an 8T lvm with a 2T holding AFAIK 2T for $27 doesn't exist yet in the current real world. You can find a fair number of creatively sized USB disks in that price range, but they

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Last message is, that a new USB device is found, then the screen goes > blank. I can make some snapshots of a video, by interest. My crystal ball blames the video driver (presuming that the DRM module for your video card is loaded around the same time as that USB device is found).

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That I'm contemplating, using a pi clone but still running the amanda I just > installed all 3 debs of on a bananapi-m5. How does an 8T backup server > sound for another $200 in hdwe? Very enticing and I do have the sheckel's. I remember Amanda fondly from the days when I was backing up a

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That's the way it was built -- just mimicking the "real terminal cum > firmware" which was replaced with "DOS/Windows PC cum terminal application". I think it's more than that. It's a design that makes a lot of sense: it would be more complex having to connect both the terminal and the printer

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home > > Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. > > Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it right > first time! lvreduce --size -50G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home ? Stefan

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So: have you considering replacing the whole system? You mean, fix this one well-understood problem, and replace it with an unknown number of unknown problems? Sounds great! Stefan

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Does mplayer give any more interesting errors? Oh, I didn't notice it at first, but now that you ask, yes it does: after something like a timeout period it says: AO: [pulse] Init failed: Timeout Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse' And lo and behold if I start it with `mplayer

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Did you notice, that I was talking about the reduced, crippled OpenSource > browser: chromium, which is based on chrome. But I was not talking about the > chrome itself. > > AFAIK are these Google related parts removed in chromium; at least > they were several years ago. I wonder if that's the

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

2024-01-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Most informative. thank you a lot Eike. I have, on another workspace after > installing it "xournal" has opened that pdf, I have enabled the add > annotations function but not killed a tree to test print. I see both > "print" and "Export as pdf" in the file menu. FWIW, the world of "filling

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This should be the Intel 4500 integrated gpu, which is part of > the i915/i965 family. It needs: > > - an intel kernel module According to `lsmod | grep '^i'` I have `i915` loaded. Is that the one? > - X11 running the intel video driver Interesting. I was using the `modesetting` driver. So

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
Max Nikulin [2024-01-21 10:51:36] wrote: > On 21/01/2024 06:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> [GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI >> connection. > [...] >> Any idea what might be going on? Any hint how I could diagnose the problem? > I

Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
Whenever I try to view videos in Firefox in my trusty Thinkpad T61, Firefox just eats up the CPU but doesn't actually show the video. At startup I get the following message: [GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to initialise VAAPI connection. So, IIUC the problem is that the

Re: standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I haven't tried it but I would assume that if the user exists then the > package uses that. So cresting a template /etc/passwd before > installing packages would fix this. That works, indeed. Maybe Someone™ should develop a small "UGID server" which integrates into Debian's `adduser/addgroup`

Re: standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I agree this is annoying, and hardish to fix once servers are deployed. FWIW, I have "fixed" such things after the fact without too much trouble by editing the /etc/{passwd,group,...} files and do a recursive `chown`. I'm sure it can result in a broken system depending on the details, tho. 

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > However, I have read that using rsync --delete instead of rsync -- >> > delete-after is faster and uses less memory, and so is more efficient.  >> I'd be surprised if it makes a significant difference. > If you use --delete-after (and some other options) then rsync has to > check every file

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> However, I have read that using rsync --delete instead of rsync -- > delete-after is faster and uses less memory, and so is more efficient.  I'd be surprised if it makes a significant difference. Stefan

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Unfortunately, COM ports have become quite rare :( They disappeared from almost all my computers, indeed (except for serial consoles on SBCs), but I see them quite often among the various pieces of hardware in checkout counters. Stefan

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

2024-01-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Now, after the disk_image has arrived, it looks very odd. fdisk > thinks it is 8 times bigger than it really is, and thinks it has 4K > sectors. I can't use "kpartx" to get at the partition inside it, and > fsck.ext4 doesn't like its first partition at all. Thanks for this experiment. I was

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Thank you for your suggestion. As I mentioned earlier, our development team > primarily focuses on the server-side application and is not competent to > modify the client-side emulator, which is crucial in our case. They have > already examined the PuTTY source code and confirmed that this type

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The purpose of my request is to explore the possibility of moving away from > a third-party terminal emulator that runs on Windows and is compatible with > somewhat older hardware and operating systems. It should be pretty easy to take an existing terminal emulator and add the corresponding

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> manufacturers in different memory banks, but since it's always > possible to power down, replace or just remove memory, and power > up again, Hmm... "always"? What about long running computations like that simulation (or LLM training) launched a month ago and that's expected to finish in

Re: disable auto-linking of /bin -> /usr/bin/

2024-01-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you were to issue 'ls -l /' You'll find that /bin, /sbin, > lib{32,64,x32} are linked to their counterparts in /usr/. I under- > stand the logic in doing so. However, for specific reasons that would > require exhaustive explanations that I would prefer to save us all from > me doing, I would

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT

2024-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
David Wright [2024-01-09 10:07:26] wrote: > but what seems most likely is that the root directory filled up. > The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16. > Long filenames will eat it up more quickly still. Long file names are actually kept in a (hidden) files, so they don't

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

2024-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long >>filenames. > Seen it happen; I have serious doubts about the "it". > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of > a session of copying multiple files would be lost because the FAT was > filled, and

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The time to physically go through all those CDs, now that's a slightly > different issue. Once you've setup your "rip" tool (I used mostly `grip` back then, not sure what's still maintained, maybe `abcde`?), it's a small matter of putting the next CD in the drive when the previous one is

Re: Content of /etc/ethers

2024-01-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Which tools read /etc/ethers, what do they expect in there, what do > they do with the contents? AFAIK it's mostly unused nowadays. I have such a file on my DHCP server, where `dnsmasq` reads it (lets me give static IP addresses to some of my machines, even though they're configured via DHCP,

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have the >> support. Even the package description says that. > Could you provide me the URL to the package description please? I think it's better to refer to the actual behavior, since that's the only thing that matters in the end.

Re: APT preferring `stable` over `stable-security`

2023-12-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> What am I missing? > https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Be_careful_with_APT::Default-Release Indeed! Thank you! Apparently the release notes didn't warn me loudly enough about it :-( Stefan

Re: APT preferring `stable` over `stable-security`

2023-12-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I take it this is bookworm. In that case, you also need: >> >> # bookworm-updates, to get updates before a point release is made; >> # see >> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main

Re: APT preferring `stable` over `stable-security`

2023-12-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The `sources.list` files says: >> >> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable-security main >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stable main > > I take it this is bookworm. In that case, you also need: > > # bookworm-updates, to get updates before a point release is made; > # see >

APT preferring `stable` over `stable-security`

2023-12-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
I noticed today that one of my machines was still running openssh 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u1 rather than 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u2 even though it is supposed to do its unattended-upgrades, so I tried a manual upgrade and the result was still the same. Only after apt install openssh-server/stable-security

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