Re: laptop installs

2024-08-29 Thread Paul van der Vlis
ting an iso file on to a USB stick won't quite do it. You have to put it the right way on the stick, not as a regular file, but as an image: https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch04s03.html You can also use "dd". dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress

zathura and databases

2024-08-22 Thread Paul Scott
via sqlite backend. info: No plain database available. Continuing with sqlite database. and then nothing happens and it doesn't return. I've Googled and left a message with Zathura with no answers that I can make sense of. TIA for any ideas, Paul

Re: Remote desktop Debian -> ChromeBook

2024-07-18 Thread Paul van der Vlis
SSH using the same server). I have it a long time working, and it works fine. With regards, Paul -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen https://vandervlis.nl

Re: usb => serial port converter

2024-07-08 Thread Paul Duncan
gs like RS-422 and RS-485, I would recommend a Moxa uPort 1150. Be aware that you will have to install the Moxa driver to use this - its not generally included with the kernel. Cheers, Paul. On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 at 22:02, Lee wrote: > What's everybody using for a usb => serial port c

Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread Paul M Foster
All "copies" of that file on the backup link to that one copy. Saves a tremendous amount of room. I keep 7 backup directories on my backup drives (one for each day), and a cron job fires of the backup each day. You can take a look at the script at: https://gitlab.com/paulmfo

alt-~ in xfce

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Scott
(Debian sid) Can alt-~ in  XFCE switch windows of the same application? TIA, Paul

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 06:47:18AM -0400, Jessica Litwin wrote: >On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 17:09 Paul M Foster ><[1]pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > > Folks: > At some point this year, I'm moving into a new house, and it is not > wired >

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 03:13:26PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2024-05-28, Paul M Foster wrote: > > but I'd rather not. Since the wifi signal will permeate the whole house, it > > seemed more reasonable to plant a device in each room which could pick up > > the wifi, and

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Paul M Foster
s. That is, unless you have > more than one computer in a room and they must be wire-interconnected. If I have more than one internet connected device in room, I just put in a switch, which is then wired to whatever the source of the internet is in that room. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Paul M Foster
rent legs around the property with a common neutral and common > ground. I've never see a 3 phase in a house. Common in commercial/industrial, though. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 08:15:36AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > We're moving across the state, and from what I've seen, providers there > > will do something similar-- provide a router and/or modem which has wired > > and wireless capabilit

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-28 Thread Paul M Foster
thernet over power, they thankfully > don't do that. > > Me personally, like others on this list, I'd try to find a way to get > an ethernet cable to the other rooms, but in some cases, this just > isn't practical. I have an ethernet cable up the wall outside my > house and over the top of the roof, not in a conduit! Been like that > for more than a decade. But it rarely freezes here. Your > mileage/kilometerage may vary! > > Michael Grant > -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 12:11:32PM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 28/05/2024 10:05 am, Paul M Foster wrote: > > It appears there are two solutions. One is wifi extenders, and one is a > > mesh network. In both cases, the device sits in the room and communicates > &g

Re: "Repeaters", etc. - FRITZ!Box 7490

2024-05-27 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 12:43:14PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 28-05-2024 at 12:05 Paul M Foster wrote: > > On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > > Folks: > > > > > > At some point this year,

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > Folks: > > At some point this year, I'm moving into a new house, and it is not wired > for internet (WHY aren't new houses wired with Cat5/6/7?). The local > internet provider will likely provide a wirele

"Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread Paul M Foster
, and possibly preferred brand names? I'd appreciate it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

2024-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
nd what appeared in /etc/hosts. There > is some subtle reason, which I used to know but have now long forgotten, > why Debian started using 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts instead. As far as I'm > aware, any 127. address will resolve to localhost. > My understanding is that 127.0.1.1 is used fo

Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD

2024-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 06:40:09PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:45:56AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > [...] > > > If I send an email directly to pa...@yosemite.mars.lan from buckaroo, it > > arrives. That means this confi

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

2024-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
OpenSMTPD. In fact, there is or was a bug in it, such that if you had two instances of 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file, OpenSMTPD would fail with a message that it couldn't listen on address 127.0.0.1 because it was already in use (or somesuch). Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Aliases and OpenSMTPD

2024-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
there a way to hack Debian so that mails generated from root processes to go an offsite email rather than just root? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Address 127.0.1.1

2024-05-24 Thread Paul M Foster
d it cause problems with email (Exim4 or OpenSMTPD)? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

2024-05-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 01:50:21PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:08 PM Paul M Foster > wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:54:31AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >[...] > > > Also, I think you should be using *.home.arpa,

Re: OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

2024-05-23 Thread Paul M Foster
ult. > > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- > So if you use smtp+notls or pure smtp - maybe 'paulf@' is wrong > here? I think you may be right. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

2024-05-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:54:31AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 12:43 AM Paul M Foster > wrote: [snip] > > On the video server, run nslookup and see if it can resolve yosemite.mars.lan. Nslookup fails. However, yosemite.mars.lan is in the hosts file

Re: OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

2024-05-23 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 06:38:11AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 09:37:18PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > > > Here's a shot in the dark. I've looked up and down the internet, and can't > > find a solution. > &g

OpenSMTPD can't parse smarthost

2024-05-22 Thread Paul M Foster
file which says: "warn: Failed to parse smarthost smtp+notls://pa...@yosemite.mars.lan:25" Note that the "protocol" doesn't matter. I can use "smtp" alone as the protocol, and it still won't parse. And yes, yosemite.mars.lan is in my local hosts file. Any

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315 [finished]

2024-05-13 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/12/24 21:30, David Wright wrote: On Sun 12 May 2024 at 21:10:16 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: On 5/9/2024 1:59 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: The error I'm getting is during "Install base system."  The only way I knew to s

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/9/2024 1:59 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: The error I'm getting is during "Install base system."  The only way I knew to save the log was with a camera. Even though I resized the image this list apparently didn't allow

Re: Spurious messages at the console

2024-05-11 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 07:54:28AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 05:30:44PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > > > I've installed Debian (latest) without X on a small form factor PC, and > > typically SSH into it, though I

Spurious messages at the console

2024-05-10 Thread Paul M Foster
if you can come up with a reason, I'd be interested. But I'm not really fixated on that. Instead, what I'm interested in is how to make them stop. Any help would be appreciated. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: Installing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/9/2024 9:32 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 5/2/2024 11:31 PM, Sirius wrote: I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions, Check the PCI ids of your Ethernet controller. Download the kernel image you are considering, check if any of its modules matches these ids. n I may need to do that

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
tting is during "Install base system."  The only way I knew to save the log was with a camera. Even though I resized the image this list apparently didn't allow the attachment. How else can I save the log during install? TIA, Paul

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-03 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/3/2024 11:25 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 03/05/2024 13:27, Paul Scott wrote: In the mean time, an install seemed to be working but gave an failure error which said it would be in the log and visible on virtual terminal 4, I didn't know how to get to a virtual in the installer.  Va

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-02 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/1/2024 10:44 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Paul Scott (12024-05-01): I read that I should try a more complete image which I am downloading (jigdo) now. Waste of time. The drivers are either in the kernel image or in individual packages, you can install them on top of what you have. I

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-02 Thread Paul Scott
I'll consider that strongly, Thank you, Paul

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-01 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/1/2024 10:57 AM, Sirius wrote: In days of yore (Wed, 01 May 2024), Paul Scott thus quoth: Hello, I have many installs over many years (only a few per year).. I tried a Testing net install pn my new Acer Aspire 315 and it didn't find an Ethernet driver.  (wireless?). I read t

Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-01 Thread Paul Scott
e any thoughts or suggestions, Paul

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-10 Thread Paul Leiber
if this is approach is correct, especially if balance is necessary anymore (it usually doesn't find anything to do anyway), so please take these periods with caution. My main message is that such operations can be automated using the linked scripts. Best regards, Paul [1] https://packages.debi

Re: variables in bash

2024-03-28 Thread Paul M Foster
riable "mypath". You can surround "/home/user1/Tools" with quotes if you like, but it is not strictly necessary. > > and $mypath Here you are actually *using* the variable "mypath". Here is another example: NAME="paulf" echo "My name is $NAME."

Re: debian-niggers and debian-lgbt projects.

2024-03-21 Thread Paul M Foster
to start a SIG for black/LGBT Debianistas, I'd politely request you do so without resorting to inflammatory language. I imagine the term "debian-blacks" would serve just as well without aggravating an already strongly divided world. In fact, I suspect the less we pay attention

Re: Committing git working tree with other git repos

2024-03-13 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 07:29:39PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 3/13/24 16:04, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > > > I have a /home/paulf/stow directory with contains subdirectories for each > > of the packages whose dotfiles I want to manage, like: > >

Committing git working tree with other git repos

2024-03-13 Thread Paul M Foster
dd ./alacritty This adds an *empty* alacritty subdirectory to the git repo, which isn't useful. I need a way to bring all these subdirectories and their contents under a git repo so I can send it to gitlab. Any suggestions? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company

Re: how to wiki

2024-03-05 Thread Paul M Foster
which could restrict your access. I'm in the southeastern U.S. and am easily able to access that URL with no problems. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: Debian/Xen on ARM: How to identify source of an unhandled SMC call during boot?

2024-02-17 Thread Paul Leiber
Am 31.01.2024 um 23:12 schrieb Tixy: On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 21:59 +0100, hw wrote: On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 08:02 +0100, Paul Leiber wrote: Am 25.01.2024 um 22:28 schrieb Paul Leiber: [...] Some people on xen-devel pointed out to me two unhandled SMC calls in the boot logs which could be the root

Thunderbird inbox malfunction

2024-02-14 Thread Paul D Schmitt
After an upgrade of Debian 11 yesterday, Thunderbird 115.7.0 now has an inbox issue where the listings move making it difficult to save or delete them!  I had this exact issue with Debian based Antix 22 after a recent upgrade.  That problem was resolved by a subsequent upgrade from Thunderbird.

Re: Debian/Xen on ARM: How to identify source of an unhandled SMC call during boot?

2024-01-31 Thread Paul Leiber
Am 31.01.2024 um 19:07 schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater: On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 08:02:47AM +0100, Paul Leiber wrote: Am 25.01.2024 um 22:28 schrieb Paul Leiber: Paul [1] https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2023-10/msg00796.html [2] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0098

Re: Debian/Xen on ARM: How to identify source of an unhandled SMC call during boot?

2024-01-30 Thread Paul Leiber
Am 25.01.2024 um 22:28 schrieb Paul Leiber: Dear Debian user list members, I am trying to run network related stuff (Samba, Zabbix) on a Raspberry Pi 4B in a virtualized environment using Debian Bookworm and Xen. I am running into reproducible complete system crashes/reboots due to a Xen

Debian/Xen on ARM: How to identify source of an unhandled SMC call during boot?

2024-01-25 Thread Paul Leiber
m what I understand, this is related to commands coming from userspace, so I am not sure that strace helps during the boot process. I'd appreciate it if somebody more knowledgeable would point me in the right direction. If more information is needed, I can provide it. Thanks, Paul [1] h

Trouble with OpenSMTPD

2024-01-07 Thread Paul M Foster
not start via "systemctl start opensmtpd". According to "sudo smtpd -n", the configuration file passes, but it just won't start. (For what it's worth, I've used this config back in 2021 running Debian and it worked.) I'm happy to supply whatever data needed

Re: URLs in Mutt

2024-01-01 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 10:51:25PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: > > Apparently, something was wrapping lines to > > about 75 characters, and putting an equals sign at the end of every line > > which had been

URLs in Mutt

2023-12-31 Thread Paul M Foster
this does is add a From if an email isn't properly formatted. So my first question is, what is wrapping the lines on my incoming emails, and how do I fix it? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

Re: Image handling in mutt

2023-12-08 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 11:04:54AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 08 Dec 2023 at 11:56:12 (-0500), Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > I'm on Debian bookworm, using neomutt for email. Where there is an image to > > view, viewing it in neomutt calls up one of the ImageMagi

Image handling in mutt

2023-12-08 Thread Paul M Foster
othing in the neomutt config pointing to the imagemagick program, then where the heck is it getting that as the program to use to display images? Second, how do I fix this so that mutt uses feh to display images? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://qu

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-06 Thread Paul Scott
fit my paper. TIA, Paul

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Paul M Foster
G images. I've used Xpdf from Arch, and it's an entirely different program. My understanding was that the Arch version depended on poppler. I can only imagine that the version in Debian is different because there is a licensing issue with the poppler code. Just a guess. -- Paul M. Fost

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-05 Thread Paul Scott
On 12/5/23 6:23 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: I use zathura which is also quite light but I'm not sure if you can print from it. I tend to print directly using lp although very infrequently in any case. I do a lot of printing from zathura but have had trouble setting up print preview.. Paul

Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince

2023-12-04 Thread Paul M Foster
h documented CLI use with CUPS printers. > > Thanks for any recommendations. > > Best regards, > > -Tom > I use xpdf, which is extremely simple and will allow printing. Don't think it has a CLI interface. However, I would imagine that simply feeding a PDF to the pri

Re: Fetching local mail

2023-11-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 09:29:02AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > After using claws-mail for a number of years, I'm testing the idea of going > > back to mutt and fetchmail. One problem I've encountered is how to get > > local mail in /var/

Fetching local mail

2023-11-18 Thread Paul M Foster
like any other smarthost, but I'd rather not add another daemon. Does anyone know a way to have mutt and/or fetchmail grab mail from /var/mail/paulf to /home/paulf/Mail/in? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects

Re: All the unicorns are dead on Linux (was: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?)

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Duncan
on good old System V and BSD 4.3) have mkfile and mkdir - so surely that means that everything (stored on a bit of rotating rust) is *not* a file :-) Cheers! -- *Paul Duncan* Lead Marine Technician, RV Falkor(too) SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE mobile +1 650 387 4151 VOIP +1 954 672 4943 www.schmidt

Sierra EM7455

2023-10-31 Thread Paul Saris
ing KDE as desktop. Are there any fixes around? Or are the only options currently to downgrade to bullseye or switch to another version of Linux? I would hate that as I am a 20+ years user of Debian but this is a "show stopper". Paul

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

2023-09-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
1) scan to USB drive or (2) use my Windows box. Since I'm unhooking my KVM switch setup to make my wife happy (she's a neat freak and I'm not), I'll have to manually unplug KVM cables  from the Debian box to hook up them up to the Windows box, so laziness and the desire for

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-07 Thread Paul van der Vlis
u could let log iptables, in this way you can see if the packets reach the machine. With regards, Paul -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen https://vandervlis.nl

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

2023-08-27 Thread Paul van der Vlis
--connect qemu:///system --show-domain-console "win11" It seems to be faster when you use another driver for your virtual disk. There are many manuals for setting it up. It's not really difficult. With regards, Paul -- Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen https://vandervlis.nl

Re: Debian versions

2023-08-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 13:50 -0600, Alan Serrano Peña wrote: > Is there a commercial version of Debian? > Any version with technical support? The Debian project provides the Debian operating system for free and provides technical support for free by volunteers. In addition, there are a number of

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-10 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/10/23 5:06 AM, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 12:31:21 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/9/23 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) Does lp -o "letter" scale the document? This is an option unknown to CUPS. It will be ignored

Re: understanding the print dialog

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 12:49 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 11:15:10 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Can I somehow configure the print dialog to use Zathura for print preview for PDFs? To which print dialog are you referring? The native Zathura one (if any; I have no idea, so I ask), the naive one

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 12:00 PM, Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: (snip) Does lp -o "letter" scale the document? This is an option unknown to CUPS. It will be ignored. I found that in man lp Paul

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 12:16 PM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Brian wrote: On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/9/23 4:40 AM, Brian wrote: [...] The file displayed by zathura is not the file that is sent to the printing system. The latter can be viewed by using Print

understanding the print dialog

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
dialog converts PDFs to Cairo Graphics? Several years ago print preview in Zathura worked quite well. Thank you, Paul

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/9/23 4:40 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 08 Jul 2023 at 22:28:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/8/23 3:58 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:35:43 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to set what program does print preview for

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-08 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/8/23 3:58 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:35:43 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to set what program does print preview for Zathura?  I would Zathura would be a possibility. charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show

configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-08 Thread Paul Scott
Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to set what program does print preview for Zathura?  I would Zathura would be a possibility. My problem is discovering whether a PDF will fit well enough on an 8"x11" sheet of paper. TIA, Paul

Re: Issue with Xen PCI passthrough ("swiotlb buffer is full") after Debian Dom0 kernel update to 5.10.178-3 and later

2023-06-29 Thread Paul Leiber
Am 29.06.2023 um 01:45 schrieb Andy Smith: On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:40:52PM +0200, Paul Leiber wrote: In the meantime, I have upgraded Dom0 to Debian Bookworm with linux-image-amd64 6.1.27-1 and Xen 4.17. The issue persists, seemingly unchanged. In DomU dmesg, there are several "sw

Issue with Xen PCI passthrough ("swiotlb buffer is full") after Debian Dom0 kernel update to 5.10.178-3 and later

2023-06-28 Thread Paul Leiber
at my knowledge about IOMMU/swiotlb is very limited. I am happy to provide more information if required. Thanks, Paul Description: Initially, I was running Xen with a Debian Bullseye Dom0 (standard packages, Xen 4.14) on an APU 4D4 system (https://pcengines.ch/apu4d4.htm). CPU i

[Debian 12 Issue] Black Screen after starting X11. Cant log in into Graphical Environments. Either DEs or WMs. AMD Radeon GPU problems

2023-06-17 Thread Paul Gerdes
Hi i have a problem with Debian 12 after Installation. Every time i try to log in to the Desktop Environment or WM my Screen goes black. The PC completely freezes and i cant switch to another TTY. I reinstalled Debian 12 a few times via netinstall. Tried different Desktop Environments and WMs. The

Re: power glitch has killed X solved

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
On 6/15/23 10:24 AM, Paul Scott wrote: On 6/15/23 09:57, Paul Scott wrote: It has been years since I needed to know some basic system stuff.  I have been running Debian sid for over 20 years. There was apparently a power glitch in the last 8 hours.  My desktop is fine.  My laptop which

bookworm netboot.tar.gz (AMD64) using 5.11 kernel not 6.1 kernel causing issues

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Canham
/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/linux Is it me doing something silly or should I file a bug about this and if how? Paul Canham

Re: power glitch has killed X

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
On 6/15/23 09:57, Paul Scott wrote: It has been years since I needed to know some basic system stuff.  I have been running Debian sid for over 20 years. There was apparently a power glitch in the last 8 hours.  My desktop is fine.  My laptop which was charging only boots (grub) to the

power glitch has killed X

2023-06-15 Thread Paul Scott
reinstalling grub and the kernel. I can get to a recovery mode for any of several kernels I have installed. I need to take this laptop to Japan tomorrow. TIA for any help, Paul

Bug with audio muting - which package?

2023-06-04 Thread Paul Martz
bug against. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Paul Martz PaulMartz.com

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Paul Leiber
Am 02.06.2023 um 09:28 schrieb Victor Sudakov: Miles Fidelman wrote: On Thu, Jun 1, 2023, 9:58 PM Victor Sudakov mailto:v...@sibptus.ru>> wrote: Dear Colleagues, There is a hypervisor called bhyve for FreeBSD. It's completely headless, no graphics, runs as a daemon and provide

Re: a two cent suggestion

2022-12-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2022-11-26 at 19:42 +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Any (or a specific group of) users could be able to install any > package of the first class by their own without asking a sysadmin (or > explicitly acquiring privilege of) user. The general idea of a safe way to allow users to manage sys

PSA: anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
Hi folks, If you run Debian testing/unstable and ever installed anacron 2.3-33 on a systemd based system, then anacron will no longer be enabled and the daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs will not be run until it is. Since not all cron jobs have migrated to systemd timers, Debian testing/unstable sys

Re: signing up to fourms

2022-10-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:54 PM Bruce H. wrote: > Why do you have to make it so hard to sign up to the user forums? > Auto gen passwords do not work, and the requirements are excessive! > Was previously unaware Debian had a web forum. Why bother when we have mailing lists that have none of the

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 09:46 Bret Busby wrote: > My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating system, > with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, you need > to run Ubuntu Linux. > Have you looked at the Debian wiki? Because the Nvidia pages do correctly sh

Re: Getting PHP to work with Apache on other directories

2022-09-14 Thread Paul Scott
/public_html. I have an index.html and a script to test PHP functionality in both locations. The phpinfo.php script consists of I was just there. Comment out the last 5 lines of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/phpX.conf where X is your version of PHP HTH, Paul

Re: List-Archive URLs and slashes in Message Ids

2022-08-17 Thread Paul Wise
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > something's wrong with the msgid-search URLs for Message-Ids with "/". This issue has been present for a long time unfortunately. > Does anybody have an idea how to follow the List-Archive hint without > entering the Message-Id part manually into lists.debian.org/msgid-se

Re: Dell UltraSharp WB7022 4K UHD HDR USB Webcam

2022-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
David asks: > Anybody got this camera working on Debian. I don't have this camera, but according to the Linux Hardware website, it supports the generic USB video camera protocol, so should work fine. There is one probe on the site that says the camera works fine too and that the submitter of the

Re: VMD in Debian?

2022-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
Boyan Penkov asked: > Is https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/vmd maintained? > Is there a recommended way to get [vmd] installed in Debian? Looks like that hasn't been touched since 2013. It seems that vmd cannot be included in Debian due to license reasons. Probably you could build a Debian p

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-13 Thread Paul Wise
Roman asked: > Can I install Debian operating systems for money for my clients? Yes. You can also get Debian to advertise your services. Register here if you are selling Debian CD/DVD/USB media: https://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ Register here if you are selling devices with Debian preinstalle

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-31 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/31/22 07:42, David wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 23:28, Paul Scott wrote: On 7/31/22 04:50, Curt wrote: On 2022-07-31, wrote: I would be just as happy to have ddclient working. I only have dyn_updater because ddclient didn't seem to be working. Hi, I haven't used an

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-31 Thread Paul Scott
dyn_updater because ddclient didn't seem to be working. Thanks, Paul

Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
On 7/30/22 11:00 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 05:55:23PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Can someone please help me diagnose why dynupdater is not seeming to update my ip address so I cna access my local computer from somewhere else. ps ax |grep dyn    5237 ?    Sl   170

dynupdater not seeming to do anything

2022-07-30 Thread Paul Scott
grep dyn TIA. Paul

Re: booting from install usb

2022-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/9/22 14:19, Felix Miata wrote: Paul Scott composed on 2022-05-09 12:25 (UTC-0700): I let my laptop update its UEFI BIOS which of course zapped GRUB. Not in the way you think... /dev.sda2 which is "ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)" This should be the key, suggesting strongly that

booting from install usb

2022-05-09 Thread Paul Scott
ee are my Linux partitions. TIA for any help (I have been searching the web for quite a while without success beyond the above), Paul

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 1:20 PM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Thing that should not work but almost always works for me: Mark the > nvidia > > GL packages for reinstall and let aptitude do its thing, restart

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 5:41 PM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'd recommend using pvkrun instead of primusrun if available. > > Gives me the same error messages :( > > > This looks like you're som

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 6:11 AM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Dell XPS 15 with a dedicated NVIDIA GPU and I have a working > bumblebee setup. It works with all kinds of games, except for steam ones. > I'm trying to run Proton games with primusrun but it somehow doesn't work. > Here

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