Any good Debian books highly recommended
Hello As the Subject says Any good Debian books highly recommended or Linux for that matter. I found one the other day Debian 12, it only had a one star review and the buyer wishes he could get his money back *From Eric.* *Sent from Raspberry Pi 5 * *Now we have wasted all our money on Widescreen TV and can not afford a holiday, a lot of news clips are shown in narrow vision from cell phones, it looks like the TV news producers have lost their marbl* *es. * *Pedestrian "Cross Now" button is NOT wired to a pedestrian counter, it works on traffic flow, in fact it can change between school holidays and school days, * *Sometimes the button does not work, because people like wearing it out. *
Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC
Dear all, Apologies but work interfered before I could get back to the EEE PC. Thank you all for the responses. Very helpful. On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 18:35, Hans wrote: > Also, very nice, you can create a multiboot sd card, and stuck it into > the netbook, so you can boot from it several usefull livesystems (I am > using XBOOT for this, but it is also working with YUMI or some others. On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 18:36, Hans wrote: > Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2024, 17:48:39 CET schrieb Eric S Fraga: > Me again: > > Second answer: You can easily install debian 32-bit from an USB-stick· > it is working just any other computer. This is great. Definitely the routes (USB and/or SD) forward for me. Thank you. Mind you, the bios indicates only removable storage is recognised at boot time so probably the SD card but I'll try USB as well. On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 17:36, Tom Furie wrote: > I'm currently running bookworm on an Atom based EeeBook (x205ta), it > has 2G RAM, and 30G storage. The only hurdle I've found is getting > internal sound to work (chtrt5645), though HDMI output is fine, I'm > sure I simply haven't found the right combination of switches to > flip. Having said that, I'm no expert on Linux audio. This is much more powerful than my EEE PC, both in memory and disk (see below). By almost an order of magnitude probably! On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 16:13, Charles Curley wrote: > > It might help if you gave us a bit more information. Indeed. Sorry. The model is the original EEE PC, the 2G Surf. ASUSTeK 700. 0.5 GB memory, 2 GB disk. Anyway, I will try one of the very small Linux distributions. My eventual aim is to install a recent version of Emacs that might be able to run in 512 MB (but probably not) as I want a portable orgmode system. Thank you all again, eric -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: what keyboard do you use?
I have two: a Kinesis Advantage 2 and a Corsair gaming mechanical keyboard, both USB connected. I use the latter almost exclusively and love it: the feel of the mechanical keys, the sound of those keys, and the keyboard lighting. I seldom use the Kinesis: just could not get used to it. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC
On Friday, 5 Jan 2024 at 19:42, Hans wrote: > All are running 1,666 GHz (except the very ealy ones, EEEPC 901, which is > running 1GHz. Mine is one of the early ones, in fact probably the first version released. Thank you for your other longer post: very helpful. I will find a suitable SD card in the mess that is my office and will try live booting different versions. I am not bothered about DE -- simple WM will do. I just want to run Emacs with org mode as a portable writing and agenda system. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-06-19) on Debian 12.0
Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC
Hello, anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of Debian on an Asus EEE PC? This is a small notebook sized laptop with Celeron cpu and little space & memory. I've just found one in one of my boxes and thought I'd see if I can make use of it. It's currently running with a 2.x kernel! I have found some bits and bobs on the Interweb but I thought I'd ask here in case somebody in this group/list has direct experience. Thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: system not updating
It looks like the package is already at the latest version? -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-06-19) on Debian 12.0
Question about CNC
Hi, Does your company need machining details? As a company with many years of experience on the market, we are able to provide competitive terms of cooperation, timely execution of orders, as well as details and components with high geometric accuracy and strength properties. I can also offer welding, cutting and assembly based on the assembly of machine components and the prefabrication of electrical switchboards. Let me know if you are interested in a short conversation regarding the order. Best regards Eric Risch
Re: Image handling in mutt
On Monday, 11 Dec 2023 at 07:32, Pocket wrote: > No it is microsoft non sense I'm not an MS fanboi but please stop blaming MS for something they did not invent! -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Urgent Latexhelp needed
On Sunday, 10 Dec 2023 at 18:22, y...@vienna.at wrote:
> There is nothing like \mho 0r /mho or {\mho} anywhere in the text
That may be but it was in the snippet of the error message you posted.
Maybe post more context (e.g. line in your actual LaTeX where error
occurs) and/or ask on a LaTeX list/group?
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Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Urgent Latexhelp needed
Untested but shouldn't the \mho be within braces, {\mho}?
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Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Image handling in mutt
On Friday, 8 Dec 2023 at 17:06, Pocket wrote: > In Unix and Linux there isn't a file extension, that is a microsoft > invention. Predates MS by years. Systems like RSTS/E on PDP-11s, just to name one. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Recommended simple PDF viewer to replace Evince
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. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Work environment
To expand a little further on this: I also have a desktop with two large monitors and an excellent mechanical keyboard. Could not imagine doing real work on a laptop 100% of the time. A point not mentioned: I do have a large heavy duty 17" laptop I use for a number of specific tasks, primarily for showcasing a system to industry. The interesting issue is that the fan noise is much more annoying on the laptop, when asked to do significant computational work, than on the desktop. Not that the fan is necessarily louder but that its sound is different and, probably most importantly, is closer to me than the desktop which is hidden under the back of my desk. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2
Re: Password managers
On Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 at 12:46, Todd Zullinger wrote: > You may like pass[1]. It's a bash script which uses gpg, so > it's somewhat familiar to what you've written in a sense. +1 *and* it has an Emacs interface which is very easy to use. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-06-19) on Debian 12.0
changing default pulse audio output destination
Hello all, On one of systems, I have three different possible output destinations for sound: USB headset, system speaker, HDMI speaker. By default, pulse audio (or whatever the tool is these days on Debian 12) sends output to the headset, not what I want. So I change the destination but, whenever my screensave blanks the screen, when I reawaken it the destination goes to the headset again. I assume this is because the HDMI port goes to sleep or disappears? Is there any easy way to tell pulseaudio/pipewire/? to automatically route to the HDMI when the screen awakes and the HDMI is available again? Thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.1
Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?
On Tuesday, 3 Oct 2023 at 08:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Yes, calibre is very good, and I've at last managed to get it to > acknowledge the kindle scribe, but only by deleting most of the mtp > programs that I'd been installing to try and get the scribe and my > computer communicating with each [...] > QMessageBox, QLabel, > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyQt4' > Device 0 (VID=1949 and PID=9981) is UNKNOWN in libmtp v1.1.20. > Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp > development team It looks like there's still some mtp stuff potentially causing problems? How did you install calibre? From the website directly or via apt? Depending on the version of Debian you are using, the calibre from apt may be more than good enough. The version on Debian 12 (Buster? Bullseye? I cannot remember) is quite recent. Alternatively, you could post on the mobilread.com forum devoted to all things calibre: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166 It's a very helpful community, I have found. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-06-19) on Debian 12.0
Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?
On Sunday, 1 Oct 2023 at 15:25, Joe wrote: > Calibre converts/creates ebooks and is generally a useful accessory for > a Kindle or other hardware reader. No, I'm not on commission. +1 for calibre! I use it for managing my Kobo devices. Works very well. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-07-11) on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work
On Thursday, 20 Apr 2023 at 14:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > In my case, an empty xorg.conf doesn't work with my 3-monitor setup. > The issue is that the Nvidia driver (contrary to nouveau?) doesn't > work with 3 monitors, so one of them cannot be used, but when the > X server is restarted (e.g. when I log out), the Nvidia driver is > confused about which monitor to use. Interesting. I've had a look at my Xorg.log file and I'm using the nvidia driver and it is finding all three monitors. My graphics card is :65:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P1000] (rev a1) -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-04-18) on Debian 11.5
Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work
On Wednesday, 19 Apr 2023 at 23:34, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Any idea why the second monitor is sort of there but not quite? Below is >> a copy of the xorg.conf generated by the Nvidia setup utility. > > I have no experience with multi-monitor setups on nVidia, but the last > time I used a non-empty `xorg.conf` was many years ago, so I suggest > you try to just remove the config file generated by `nvidia-settings`. I second this. I have three monitors on my system, with two graphics cards, and have no xorg.conf file. One of the graphics cards is an nvidia (cannot remember which model, however). xrandr finds all monitors successfully. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-04-18) on Debian 11.6
Re: Debian release criteria.
On Tuesday, 3 Jan 2023 at 13:36, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > A few years ago a USB camera worked with Cheese, a bridge interface > worked as documented and Firefox was fairly stable. > > Now Cheese cashes immediately upon startup. > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562765 According to that bug report, the problem is on sid. This is not surprising? If you want stability, stick to stable releases? cheese works perfectly for me and has done so for a very long time. I cannot comment on qemu. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-01-02) on Debian 11.5
Re: request a replacement for Thunderbird + Enigmail
On Tuesday, 3 Jan 2023 at 21:27, Michel Verdier wrote: > I use Gnus (on emacs). I fetch mails with pop3s from different providers, > send mails to corresponding smtp servers based on sending address (could > be different criteria). I use nnml backend which store 1 mail per file, > so no big database, best perf, easy backup and no mail losses. Gnus use > standard gpg for encryption. I use swish for indexing and searching mails. Pretty much the same for me except for notmuch instead of swish for indexing/searching. Works very well in all respects including gpg. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-01-02) on Debian 11.5
Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu
I'm in a similar position for a Dell workstation at work. I decided to keep it as it came, with ubuntu 20.04. Some annoying niggles/differences compared with Debian which I use on all of my other systems but as this system acts as a server mostly, they are not particularly worrying. It's annoying that it has just the one big partition and I belatedly realised I should have repartitioned to have a separate root and home before copying over all of my (home) files. Easily fixed in due course. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2022-12-02) on Debian 11.5
Re: Gnus/procmail doesn't read new mails
Just in case, what happens if you expand "~" in the path to PROCMAIL? -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-10) on Debian 11.4
Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages
emacs? -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-01) on Debian 11.4
AWS Debian AMIs
Hello Debian, I have a problem on AWS, where I have about 20 servers that I cannot access because I cannot re-subscribe to the AMI. The issue is the AMI - I can not re-subscribe to the marketplace image. AMI:ami-00424db9a7a4b343b PROBLEM: In order to use this AWS Marketplace product you need to accept terms and subscribe. To do so please visit https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp?sku=55q52qvgjfpdj2fpfy9mb1lo4 Amazon Account ID: 412380406902 I need to be subscribed, can you please help? Who runs the Amazon / AWS / Relationship?? Sincerely, Eric Stone erictst...@gmail.com
Re: Screenshot with Gnome
On 2022-07-26 13:40, Richmond wrote: I am trying to take a screenshot of a selected area. The Wiki here: https://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots says I can use "take screenshot" from the menu. On my menu I have "screenshot" but it doesn't work (although I think it used to) it just displays a tiny box which I cannot make larger. Assuming the command line is: gnome-screenshot -a -d 20 I tried this but the mouse pointer immediately changes to a cross and I cannot change tasks, so all I can do is photo the terminal window. I think something is broken. Maybe there is another utility? I prefer ksnip (QT-based) for such things, very good. Have a lot of options and settings. https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip For "moving" screenhots/demos there is also peek which is fairly ok as well. :) https://github.com/phw/peek /eric
Re: digikam import fails
On Friday, 17 Jun 2022 at 21:51, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I can chose that in my camera's menu (memory, MTP, auto, something else > I forgot). I chose memory and "download" the stuff with rsync. Works a > charm. I can choose the USB connection properties/protocol on my day to day camera (aka phone) but not on my actual camera that is not a phone. So it's "eject card; plug into computer; ..." for me. For the phone, I don't bother about cables and instead use scp to transfer photos from it to my computer over the network (running sshd on the phone)... but that's another story. > Oh, I have no DE, so I mount the cam explicitly. I don't like things > auto-mounting. But I'm weird :) I guess I'm weird as well then... ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-06-17) on Debian 11.3
Re: digikam import fails
On Thursday, 16 Jun 2022 at 21:27, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > I must be missing something here... > > When I plug in my camera to a US port, it shows up on the desktop, at > which point I can mount it. Then I can access it and copy/move stuff > to wherever, using mc or whatever utility you like. Why is some > special program needed for this? Unfortunately because many cameras do not implement USB file store access, only MTP (media transfer protocol?). If they provide file store access, life is simple. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-06-12) on Debian 11.3
Re: which X11 app can show wifi info
On Friday, 10 Jun 2022 at 06:33, a wrote: > nm-applet seems to be part of gnome I guess it does; I never checked as it runs fine with stumpwm but I probably have gnome dependencies installed. Sorry for the noise. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-06-07) on Debian 11.3
Re: which X11 app can show wifi info
On Friday, 10 Jun 2022 at 08:05, lou wrote: > i want a small app that show wifi info, including connected network > name (wpa-ssid) nm-applet works for me. It doesn't show the network explicitly unless you hover the mouse over the little icon so I don't know if this would suit your needs. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-06-07) on Debian 11.3
Re: Why does this take so much time?
On Friday, 22 Apr 2022 at 19:37, Charles Curley wrote: > I was in a position to help, so I did. I have not so far heard back > from Steve whether he has found a solution. Just to add a data point, probably mostly for the benefit of the OP: I use Signal and have the same source in my list for apt and have no problems at all. I've noticed no delay for that server. Just tried updating right now and the response was immediate. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.3 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.3
Re: linux kernel and nvidia - never ending story
On Tuesday, 8 Mar 2022 at 22:47, Richmond wrote: > Now that I have it working I fear to change it. And this is exactly my modus operandum. Once I get a system to a stable productive working state, I leave it alone (except for security issues). -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: Google smtp and pop
On Sunday, 6 Mar 2022 at 15:41, Brian wrote: > I came across Disroot (disroot.org) the other day. Looks interesting > and worth considering. I've been using disroot for some time now for personal email (work is Exchange unfortunately with 2FA which I access by using davmail). Disroot works very well for me and comes with nextcloud as well which is useful. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: Google smtp and pop
On Friday, 4 Mar 2022 at 10:59, Marc Auslander wrote: > So what suggestions does anyone have for dealing with OAUTH2 access to > gmail? I'm using davmail [http://davmail.sourceforge.net/] for this with Outlook exchange servers as the one I have to use has also moved to oauth2 access only. I switched sometime last year (not exactly a great time to make it difficult to connect, in the middle of a pandemic, working from home... :-() and it has been working perfectly ever since. It means changing your email server setting to be localhost in whatever tool you use to read emails (I use gnus in Emacs) and davmail sends on requests to the actual server. Instructions, at least for Outlook, on the website. Not sure about gmail, mind you. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?
On Friday, 4 Mar 2022 at 05:56, Peter Ehlert wrote: > xfce: 774 MIB ram used .. 4 GIB / space used > mate: 719 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used > mate*: 722 MIB ram used .. 6 GIB / space used stumpwm: 86 MB, 1.3 GB ;-) -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop
On Saturday, 15 Jan 2022 at 17:17, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > I wouldn't use a Dell or HP I don't have a choice due to tendering processes where I work. In any case, I recently acquired a new Dell laptop (Latitude 7320) and it both works very well with Debian and is actually a very nice laptop, especially the matt screen (which doesn't have touch, a plus in my mind). Just my 2¢. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: Debian installation doesn't see my network
On Saturday, 8 Jan 2022 at 20:07, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you can bear it: reinstall, using the unofficial image, including > non-free firmware. I had to do this for a recently purchased Dell laptop with Intel NIC on-board. Worked just fine this way but wouldn't install without the non-free firmware as it couldn't find the network. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts
On Wednesday, 5 Jan 2022 at 11:26, Charles Curley wrote: > Or, if you want to stick with your investment in Thunderbird, use > dovecot to set up a local imap server. dovecot is also quite useful for letting those MUAs that do not support oauth2 access services which require it. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Solved! Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
Success! I copied the default.pa file into my local .config and uncommented the line: load-module module-alsa-sink Initially, I tried adding device= options to this line (as the manual suggests) but I could not get the right incantation. Without it, PA found the device just fine as a possible sink although, funnily enough, it does not appear in the configuration tab of pavucontrol... I did leave the udev module, as Didier suggested. I did have to use alsamixer to adjust the volume (to the maximum, letting PA then have control up to that maximum). Thank you all for the help in solving this mystery. I remain wondering why it stopped working last year... but it's good to have some mystery left. ;-) eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
On Friday, 31 Dec 2021 at 11:21, didier gaumet wrote: > It seems to me that Alsa recognizes 3 audio cards (Intel, webcam, > Nvidia) while Pulseaudio recognizes 2 audio cards only (webcam, Nvidia) Yes, that's my impression as well. > but starts enumerating sinks at Sink#12 Is this important/relevant? I know nothing about how PA enumerates sinks or sources. > I would then say that for whatever reason Pulseaudio does not register > your Intel audio card by udev detection and it could be useful to > declare it manually to Pulseaudio by creating > ~/.config/pulse/default.pa rather than editing /etc/pulse/default.pa . Okay, I will give this a try. Thank you. Should I leave the udev auto-detection in there as well? -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 20:59, didier gaumet wrote: > *perhaps* a extensive Pulseaudio report would give a clue > Please run pa-info as a user (not as root) and paste the result here. Hi Didier, Please find the output from pa-info attached. Also attached is the output from alsa-info, just in case. > Hypothetical explanations to the problem could be: > > - packages half-installed, half-configured or obsolete/local, As this is an old system, it's gone through quite a few Debian releases etc. so there are indeed half-configured packages lying around. I'll spend some time cleaning these up but none seems relevant to the problem at first glance. The dpkg audit highlighted nothing and neither did the firmware diagnostic. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.2 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2 upload=true&script=true&cardinfo= !! !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.65 !! !!Script ran on: Thu Dec 30 23:27:57 UTC 2021 !!Linux Distribution !!-- Debian GNU/Linux 11 \n \l PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"; !!DMI Information !!--- Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Precision T3610 Product Version: 01 Firmware Version: A08 System SKU:Precision T3610 Board Vendor: Dell Inc. Board Name:09M8Y8 !!ACPI Device Status Information !!--- /sys/bus/acpi/devices/ACPI0004:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/INT3F0D:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:01/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:02/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:03/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:04/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:05/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:06/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/LNXCPU:07/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0103:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0501:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0A03:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0A08:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C01:01/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C02:00/status 15 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0C:00/status 11 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:00/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:01/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:02/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:03/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:04/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:05/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:06/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C0F:07/status 9 /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C14:00/status 15 !!Kernel Information !!-- Kernel release:5.10.0-10-amd64 Operating System: GNU/Linux Architecture: x86_64 Processor: unknown SMP Enabled: Yes !!ALSA Version !! Driver version: k5.10.0-10-amd64 Library version:1.2.4 Utilities version: 1.2.4 !!Loaded ALSA modules !!--- snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio snd_hda_intel !!Sound Servers on this system !! Pulseaudio: Installed - Yes (/usr/bin/pulseaudio) Running - Yes !!Soundcards recognised by ALSA !!- 0 [PCH]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH HDA Intel PCH at 0xfb22 irq 45 1 [webcam ]: USB-Audio - Full HD webcam Sunplus IT Co Full HD webcam at usb-:05:00.0-3.3, high speed 2 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia HDA NVidia at 0xfb08 irq 44 !!PCI Soundcards installed in the system !!-- 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1d20] (rev 06) Subsystem: Dell C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller [1028:05d2] 02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [10de:0e1b] (rev a1) Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [10de:094b] !!Modprobe options (Sound related) !! snd_pcsp: index=-2 snd_usb_audio: index=-2 snd_atiixp_modem: index=-2 snd_intel8x0m: index=-2 snd_via82xx_modem: index=-2 !!Loaded sound module options !!--- !!Module: snd_hda_intel align_buffer_size : -1 bdl_pos_adj : -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1 beep_mode : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y dmic_detect : Y enable : Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y,Y e
Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 14:14, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > By the way, you can try PipeWire as well. Thank you for the heads up on this. It's too early in the Debian release cycle for me to switch to testing from the current stable release (I often do end up switching, after a few months typically) and so have made a note of this to try then. The link you gave is very helpful. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 13:16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Try to run (as root) > > # alsactl init > > and restart the computer. Thank you. Tried this. No difference unfortunately. As an aside, is it necessary to restart the computer? My system is typically up 24/7 so I hate rebooting. I did do it this time but just wondering. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
On Thursday, 30 Dec 2021 at 10:23, didier gaumet wrote: > Sorry to insist, but do you mean that the configuration tab only > *lists* HDMI even if you click on the HDMI profile? > Or that this tab only *shows* the (HDMI) by-default profile if you do > not click on it, so not *listing* anything? Hello Didier, No problem in insisting. Part of my problem is not knowing how to frame my question and give the right background information so any prompting is welcome! Please see image attached, showing what I see in the configuration tab of pavucontrol. I cannot capture the image of the popup menu that appears when I click on the Digital Stereo (HDMI 2) Output profile but all it lists are Digital (Stereo or Surround) HDMI outputs, all but one not available. On other systems, there are other entries in the configuration tab which is what I would expect here as well. My fundamental question is why does the on-board sound card not appear for this system? All of my sound configurations are defaults, IIRC. >>From what I understand, but I am not sure I understand correctly, > Pulseaudio won't use devices already used by Alsa. So, for example, if > you have a media software setup that declares to use alsa instead of > Pulseaudio, while you use that software, Pulseaudio cannot access the > devices used by Alsa (not sure of that). I do not (consciously) have any software set up to use alsa. I have only mentioned alsa for two reasons: on previous threads in this newsgroup, alsamixer is mentioned as a means of diagnosing sound issues and because alsamixer does show all the devices/channels. Having said this, all the audio/vidoe software I use (emms in Emacs via vlc, Firefox, Skype, Teams, Zoom, ...) go through pulseaudio and appear in the pavucontrol Playback tab when in use. > If your (media softwares and Alsa) setup does not prevent the use of > Pulseaudio, I would imagine that you simply have to switch the profile > in the configuration tab (between "HDMI" and something roughly called > "Stereo Analog Duplex" or something like that) Yes, this is what I have had in the past but the alternatives disappeared some time ago now (sometime halfway through 2020, I think). I've resisted trying to sort this out while I have had to depend on sound working, at least to some degree, while I had online meeting and teaching requirements. Now I have a short break from these so I am trying to solve the problem, but it's not a mission critical problem! > As a side note, in a terminal you will obtain a full blown report on > Pulseaudio with the pa-info or pactl list something commands (cf > respective manpages) Yes, these exist and I can generate full reports. I just do not know what to look for. Any pointers would be welcome and I would be happy to send the output of these to this group. My pulseaudio settings are as they come "out of the box" including, for instance, the use of module-udev-detect instead of explicitly using any of the alsa modules. > Another way of doing things would be to split (simultaneous playing) > the audio output between your monitor speakers (Nvidia, HDMI) and your > headphones (Intel analogic card, mini-jack). The Pulseaudio doc gives > some hints there: Thank you for the link. I will read that FAQ in case I can find something to help. I am not sure combining outputs is what I want but maybe that's what I need to do. I'll play around. Thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
On Wednesday, 29 Dec 2021 at 20:39, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > When PulseAudio Volume Control (pavucontrol) is started can you see > audio devices on "Configuration" tab? Hi Georgi, no, that's the problem. The configuration tab only shows the HDMI audio device. > In PulseAudio Volume Control application (Playback tab) you can see all > audio streams and applications being played and in case of multiple > sound devices you can set each sound stream to which sound device to be > played. Yes, understood; unfortunately only the single output is available, either here or in the configuration tab. The list of modules itemised via pavucontrol includes alsa so I am not sure why I cannot see the devices that alsa knows about. It's a mystery (to me, at least). thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
pulseaudio only finds one sink but alsa shows all
Dear all, I'm on Debian 11.2, pretty much up to date. I have a mystery with sound that I cannot resolve. I have according to lspci the following audio devices: 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1d20] (rev 06) 02:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [10de:0e1b] (rev a1) Pulseaudio only finds the second of these (speakers in an attached HDMI monitor) which is fine for much of my use. However, it means that I cannot use headphones plugged in to the box. Alsa lists all the devices: $ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3220 Analog [ALC3220 Analog] card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] card 2: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] but pulseaudio only shows the HDMI interface. Any hints on getting pulseaudio to find the Intel device would be welcome. Thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.2
Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?
On Tuesday, 14 Dec 2021 at 09:14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If at all possible, that system would benefit greatly from moving the > system to an SSD. I do have one system with an SSD and these drives do have an incredible positive performance impact. With respect to the system I have been referring in this thread, I'm sure replacing the drives with an SSD would help the system but this would cost money and, more to the point, this system is scheduled to be replaced in the near future by a much newer (albeit not new: 4-5 years old) system. If it were a big issue for me, then the cost could be worth it, of course, but it's not really. I only posted earlier in the thread as a data point on what things can slow desktop environments down. Thank you for your suggestions! -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1
Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?
On Friday, 10 Dec 2021 at 12:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I've seen some hints on the web that slow storage can also have an > impact, something to do with periodic flushing of some sqlite database > to persistent storage. This is indeed a very likely explanation. The disk drives on this system are definitely on the slow side. I could upgrade but killing firefox periodically is an easier (and cheaper 😉) solution for me! 🙂 -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1
Re: Firefox ESR EOL
On Thursday, 9 Dec 2021 at 20:44, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Too many comments there are just Debian-bashing with no real understanding. Indeed, and with absolutely no appreciation for the effort put in by all of you Debian folk. Especially in having "stable" *mean* stable! Thank you all. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5.1 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.0
Re: Non-working CPU cores showing up
On Tuesday, 30 Nov 2021 at 02:30, Paul M. Foster wrote: > But there are outputs for each of eight cores, numbered 0 through 7. You will find that these entries are allocated to 4 cores (look at core id for each entry). This is due to hyper-threading which essentially provides two virtual processors for each core. -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1
Re: [semi-OT] create playlist for android
On Friday, 12 Nov 2021 at 14:56, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks and sorry for this semi-OT > > Normally I use this command line to create a playlist for my android > phone (more specific I use jetaudio app) > > ls -1 > playlist_name.mp3 I do something similar. I don't use jetaudio (rocketplayer instead) but I name my playlists with an .m3u extension. Maybe try that? -- Eric S Fraga with org 9.5 in Emacs 29.0.50 on Debian 11.1
Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?
On Monday, 1 Nov 2021 at 14:53, piorunz wrote: > Glad I could help you move to (hopefully) right direction. Thank you for all the suggestions. My solution is straightforward: I open Firefox when I need it (usually these days only for banking, using eww in Emacs for most everything else web related... ;-)) and then close it immediately. No performance issues then! -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?
On Monday, 1 Nov 2021 at 10:38, piorunz wrote: > Sorry if you felt offended. Not offended! :-) > No single application should slow down entire system with 32GB of RAM, 2 Agreed, it shouldn't. But my experience is that it does. Why? I don't know. Your comment about the GPU driver is helpful as I probably don't have the optimum graphics card settings (I do very little graphical work: mostly text in Emacs all day long...). I have an nvidia graphics card and my experience with nvidia has never been positive, to be fair. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?
On Sunday, 31 Oct 2021 at 09:17, piorunz wrote: > Nah. Problem is your computer, not Firefox. Rather dismissive? Everything else on this "slow" computer (yes, it's old but has 4 dual-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz processors and 32 GB RAM) works just fine otherwise. Drive and memory all test fine. Only Firefox causes me problems if I let it run for a long time. My system is up 24/7. YMMV, of course, and that's great for you. But don't dismiss other people's experiences so out of hand please. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: LXQT desktop environment hangs?
My experience is that Firefox, if you open too many tabs and especially some of the very javascript heavy ones, gets bogged down quite severely and requires restarting. It can slow the whole system down in my experience. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: [OT, deeply] Guix
On Monday, 25 Oct 2021 at 20:43, riveravaldez wrote: > I stumble upon this article about (supposedly) Guix's > characteristics/advantages: The author loses me at the point where the article discusses programming languages and cites, amongst others, Octave and LaTeX as re-inventing the wheel and being /too-limiting/, implying that LISP is the only way to go (and I like LISP). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: openssh server remote access
On Friday, 22 Oct 2021 at 09:46, David Wright wrote: > I'm guessing it was a BT Home Hub. EE *before* bought by BT but maybe same supplier even then. > One might suspect that 100 lies at the lower boundary of its DHCP > range, leaving 99 static addresses free. But no guess at a product. I cannot remember any longer which one supplied this one. Might have been Tiscali? And, yes, leaving 99 static addresses free might be a reason. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: openssh server remote access
On Friday, 22 Oct 2021 at 13:40, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Typically modems and home routers use the .1 address for themselves. Interesting. My last 2 routers have had *.254 (!) and *.100 as their address. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.1
Re: Then it happened to me...
On Sunday, 10 Oct 2021 at 16:53, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I was using online fora on the U of Illinois' Plato system in 1977. Blast from that past that! I remember playing with the air flight simulator with people connected across the continent. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.0
Re: Then it happened to me...
On Sunday, 10 Oct 2021 at 06:37, Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE wrote: > Usenet anybody? Just one newsreader to rule them all, killfile etc ... +1 I hate all those different fora. End up not engaging; too much friction, too little time. Same applies to re-invented technologies such as slack etc. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.0
Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
On Saturday, 2 Oct 2021 at 15:39, Brian wrote: > BTW, I do not think gv accepts an output piped to it. Well, it does on my Debian system. YMMV, of course. I did try the command before posting. ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.0
Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
On Saturday, 2 Oct 2021 at 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > This appears to produce a Postscript stream. Yes; I was basing my post on the specified need for "dead wood" output. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.60 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.0
Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen
man pages are written in troff/nroff (which can be compiled using groff) using the man style. You can do the following, for instance: gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/chmod.1.gz | groff -man | lp (or replace "lp" with "gv -" to see on screen). Replace chmod with specific command and note that there is a different folder for each section of the Unix manual, man1 being for commands, man2 for system libraries, ... troff is how us old-timers used to write before LaTeX took over. I did my PhD in troff many moon ago on BSD Unix and then SunOS. Testament to the quality of the software: I can still generate a PDF of my thesis now after more than 30 years since I wrote it. Try that in Word... ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.5 on Debian 11.0
Re: Interesting News.
Thank you for posting this. Interesting article. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.6 on Debian 11.0
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 08:24, Jonathan Siegle wrote: > This is working for me on Debian Buster: > http://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/compfac/faq/davmail.html Thank you for this. I have spent the past 2 days on this and have finally got davmail working for me. Some issues with versions of firefox (and Thunderbird as this was my test vehicle) but got there eventually. Now have gnus reading email via davmail although hanging after downloading the emails. I've posted on the gnus mailing list about this aspect. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.6 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 21:09, deloptes wrote: > The admin says "F**k off" :D Yep, that's pretty much what's happened (so far... I'm pushing). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.6 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: Putting small web site online
On 2021-05-12 08:31, john doe wrote: Debians, I need to have a small web site online but I don't have a commercial link nor a server at home that can be publickly available. I'm planning to test/build the web site locally then have it published where it is publickly available. I'm thinking of using Gitlab to host my web site do you have a better solution when you can't host your web site yourself? Any feedback is appriciated. If its a static website and you are skilled enough to consider something like gitlab, have a look at netlify ( https://www.netlify.com/ ). Netlify can publish your page from your git-repository and run the build of the site in their pipeline and finally publish it statically. There are of course others as netlify, but thats the one i have most experience with. Good luck! Eric
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Monday, 3 May 2021 at 11:23, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Get a computer monitor instead. In ten years most (if not all) > traditional TV stations will likely have switched to streaming via the > internet anyway ;) When I went to order a 60" monitor for a meeting room at work, I found that the equivalent TV (same screen/hardware as the monitor but with a tuner) was half the price. We bought the TV. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 16:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Judging by your mail address, you are in academia. This is doubly sad. My experience is that academic institutions are no different than any other organization in these regards. For better or for worse. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 15:16, Erwan David wrote: > You can define "application password" in O365 for this case (at least > I can at work, may depends on the settings of your tenant) Yes, thank you. Somebody else has also pointed out this option. I will be looking into it as it seems like it will work. Or I will switch to davmail. Solutions do seem to exist! -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:27:07PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> 2. txt message to your phone (so need not be "smart") > > You know those can be (and have been) hi-jacked, don't you? Yeah. :-( What really gets me is the hypocrisy of the whole situation. I've been pushing to have people use public key encryption but they insist on sending emails with confidential information in plain text. Oh, "MFA will make everything secure"... > I'm not very much into conspiracy theories, but here, I'm convinced that > the "big players" want to downright kill mail because there's no way > for them to monetise it. Everybody needs to be in those walled gardens: Facebook, et al. :-( sigh. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:03, Darac Marjal wrote: > Ask your administrator to enable "Per Application Passwords" - Thank you. I've looked at this and it looks feasible (if they enable this which is unfortunately not very likely but still worth asking). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'm sure there are people within that department who would outlaw all > non-Windows desktops, if they could, because they don't control > them. I've been fighting this for 25+ years at my institution, using Linux throughout. They've given up but the challenges continue: you must use Outlook, Word, ... And now we have to use SharePoint and Teams and all these tools don't even talk to each other properly even though they come from the same vendor. What a joke. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
On Thursday, 29 Apr 2021 at 14:21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That means you've to carry a funny dongle with you all the time? > Or is the "second factor" that oh-so-secure "smart" phone? Three choices for second factor: 1. use MS's own app for authentication. Yeah, right. 2. txt message to your phone (so need not be "smart") 3. a phone call to your phone (could be landline or mobile) I've gone with 2 as that works most effectively wherever I may be (e.g. out of country, once things return to normal, assuming they do...). And to think that email was once a simple yet effective tool. It's been hijacked. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?
Dystopian is right. Our organization, using O365, has moved to "multi-factor authentication" without consultation and I can no longer use gnus, for instance. Absolutely horrible. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.5 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
On Sunday, 11 Apr 2021 at 12:05, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > As suggested elsewhere: Testing is currently frozen, relatively few changes > happening. If this is a computer you rely on absolutely, you might want to > make sure that all the entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list point to bullseye > at the moment. Thank you. Excellent suggestion! -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:08, David Wright wrote: > My reaction upon reading this is that perhaps you should change your > priorities slightly. Yes, I understand where you are coming from. I do follow security advisories and upgrade specific packages. I do periodically upgrade all packages, just not with high frequency (e.g. maybe every 4-5 months). > The fact that the system "works" is a high bar for upgrading, and > takes no account of whether the system has vulnrabilities ripe > for exploit. But my computer is necessary for my work so I don't want to jeopardise it when it is doing the job. Yes, I could use Debian stable and probably should but over the (many) years, I found that I ended up needing to start using the backports repository too much. Testing with careful tracking works for me (fingers crossed). > OTOH the bank's website may well be checking your version number > against the latest available from mozilla (87 AIUI), without > regard for any patching done by Debian. Yes, very likely. > FWIW all the sites that I normally visit are working with > 78.9.0esr-1~deb10u1, the current version. (Note that writing > "version 78.9" doesn't tell us which version you're running—I see > a different one in bullseye: 78.9.0esr-1.) Yes, sorry, I was being lazy. It is indeed 78.9.0esr-1. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 10:05, David Christensen wrote: > When I want to upgrade, re-install, or install packages, I start with > 'apt-get update'. Yes, did that. > I would have done 'apt-get upgrade ...' instead of 'apt install > ...'. I then reboot. Not sure if you are saying to upgrade all packages or to use 'upgrade firefox-esr'? If the former, I did not want to do that. Although I use Debian testing, I treat it with respect and only upgrade when I really need something that has changed (or for security reasons). > If I want to re-install a package for whatever reason, I do 'apt-get > remove ...' or 'apt-get purge ...'. If I'm suspicious, I > reboot. Then I do 'apt-get install ...' and reboot. Yes, I guess I could be extreme and try this if everything else fails. Thank you. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:18, David Wright wrote: > "my system (mostly Debian testing)" For clarity, it's testing but has a couple of packages from elsewhere (MS Teams, Zoom) due to the fun times we are in... For some reason, my computer seems to think I am running bullseye/sid (contents of /etc/debian-version) although I do try to avoid Debian unstable so not sure where the /sid bit comes from. cheers, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 14:21, Linux-Fan wrote: > Did you try to completely stop all of the previous version's processes? Yes, I had quit firefox and also added 'pkill firefox-esr' for good measure. I will try upgrading firefox-esr again and make triply sure everything is gone before starting it. thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox
Hello all, I don't frequently upgrade if my system (mostly Debian testing) is working but my bank told me that my browser was out of date and I needed to upgrade. So, I did 'apt update' and 'apt install firefox-esr' to upgrade from version 78.6 to version 78.9. Start up the new version and not a single site I tried worked. Just blank pages. Reverted to 78.6 and it works just fine (although the bank is not happy with me...). I've checked the Debian bugs list but did not see anything relevant (although there are so many bug reports that it's easy to miss one...). I don't have time to do much more investigating at the moment but thought I'd post this just in case anybody else has had the same behaviour. I'll hopefully investigate more in a few days. Thank you, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: Debian and Android
On Saturday, 16 Jan 2021 at 19:25, riveravaldez wrote: > I have issues with USB connection between Debian and Android, it > seems to work but in a buggy way... I gave up on MTP/PTP a while back as I could never get it to work consistently with various Android devices. > Usually I use `sshfs`. As do I along with AndFTP. If both desktop and phone are on the same LAN, I recommend kdeconnect-cli (kdeconnect apt package and kdeconnect app on phone). Allows me to send photos to the desktop easily as well as share other bits and bobs (e.g. website found while reading twitter on the phone). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3
On Wednesday, 9 Dec 2020 at 14:10, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Zoom has the same limitation on Linux but at least zoom allows the > other participants to zoom (no pun intended) into the view presented > by the application. Update: it does seem that zoom allows sharing individual windows. Worked for me this morning with 100 participants. I do have a paid-for zoom account (via my work place). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3
On Wednesday, 9 Dec 2020 at 17:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In case it helps someone, zooming by the viewer in Teams should work on > mobile devices (tested on company iPad), no ideea about the desktop or > web app. Good to know. I tried with somebody using a Windows 10 laptop and there did not appear to be any zooming capability in the Teams viewer unfortunately. Zoom (the application) worked a little better in this regard in that it allows zooming in but not panning (or at least it wasn't apparent that panning was possible). Basically, Linux versions of these apps are not as good which, these days, is rather surprising (to me) as platform independent software should be much easier to write than it used to be. In the case of Teams, of course, there is a disincentive for MS to support Linux properly... -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3
On Wednesday, 9 Dec 2020 at 07:57, Carl Fink wrote: > They say that "window" sharing is not available. "Screen" sharing is. > That is, you can't share a specific application, but you can share your > entire screen. Exactly. And very frustrating it is when your choice of screens is a wide 38" or a 27" in portrait mode... Why they cannot support window sharing is beyond me. Zoom has the same limitation on Linux but at least zoom allows the other participants to zoom (no pun intended) into the view presented by the application. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: running microsoft team on debian 10.3
I use it (have to for work) on Debian testing. Works generally okay. The main problem is that it does not play well with the window manager or desktop environment. For instance, it re-invents the wheel when it comes to notifications which causes some annoyance as notifications steal the focus. And don't get me started with the chat feature... Best is to turn off most notifications. I also did have to turn off gpu acceleration in teams as it consistently crashed my video but that was potentially an issue with the nouveau driver. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: Replacement Email Client
On Tuesday, 27 Oct 2020 at 22:22, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > In my experience such mails are usually forwarded jokes etc, and > another problem is that they often contain forwards of forwards > of forwards (etc) with nested sets of attachments (as a succession This has finally led me to find a positive outcome of social media (Facebook etc.): I no longer get these emails! :-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: Replacement Email Client
On Sunday, 25 Oct 2020 at 10:36, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 07:19:28 +0200 > Teemu Likonen wrote: >> GNU Emacs mail clients "Gnus" and "Notmuch Emacs" automatically render >> HTML mail nicely as plain text. User can can also open HTML and other >> MIME parts in external viewer like web browser. >> > > I can already view the text of HTML emails with Claws-Mail. But I need > to view the entire email: images, graphics, etc. and be able to interact > with all the links, etc. and not just view them. Want to get away from > having to login to the mail account with a browser to do so. So, EMACS > won't work for me. The emacs gnus HTML support is not just for viewing: you can interact as well. I do receive HTML emails, unfortunately, and can process most if not all of them within Emacs. But I've never received one with an embedded form to submit (I wouldn't respond to such in any case). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?
On Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 at 06:15, Richard Owlett wrote: > Does that sound at all like I saw anything in favor of SQL ? ! No but you said: > IIRC, dBase was simpler. so I suggested a simple FOSS database system. Like I said, no worries. I obviously misunderstood what you were looking for. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. > > I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized a I am confused. You also mentioned databases and specifically SQL for querying databases. No worries. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?
You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...
On Thursday, 16 Jul 2020 at 13:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Eric S Fraga wrote: >> echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | sed -e 's/\\|/\n/g' > > But how to get the lines into the array ? See the "\n" (newline) in the replacement pattern? -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: delimiters with more than one character? ...
Try sed: echo " 34 + 45 \| abc \| 1 2 3 \| c\|123abc " | sed -e 's/\\|/\n/g' HTH, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: what calculator do you use?
On Monday, 13 Jul 2020 at 19:29, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > My first calculator still works too. It looks much like this, but yellowed > with minor stains: > http://www.stefanv.com/calculators/aristo970/index.html :-) I remember using such a calculator for Physics in high school! Then TI brought out their SR-50 calculator and the rest is history... And then I found HP (HP-25 first followed by a whole sequence until the HP-41). Now Emacs Calc. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: what calculator do you use?
On Monday, 13 Jul 2020 at 14:48, Florent Rougon wrote: > If you liked doing calculations as in the HP 48, try the orpie program > in a terminal (Debian package of the same name)... or the x48 emulator > on Linux (GUI, very impressive). Thanks for the suggestions. I hate using the mouse so I'll skip the GUI emulator... but orpie looks very interesting and could be quite useful on my wee Gemini PDA in case I don't want to run Emacs. I should say that, if I really want a proper calculator experience, I'll pull out my HP-41C which is, incredibly, more than 40 years old and still working! It's the last calculator I bought. Thanks again, eric -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: what calculator do you use?
On Monday, 13 Jul 2020 at 07:22, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Maxima sound interesting (maybe because it reminds sounds a little bit like > mathmatica (sp?), so I may dig deeper into that and try it out. Yes, maxima and mathematica are similar in that they are both symbolic mathematics systems. I use maxima all the time for solving systems of algebraic equations and for calculus in teaching engineers. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: what calculator do you use?
Emacs Calc if using the computer, HP-48x simulator on my phone otherwise. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Lost sound upgrading to kernel 5.7.0-1-amd64 on Debian testing
Just a heads up: yesterday, I decided to upgrade all of my packages. I know: what a silly thing to do when having the computer working is critical for work. Anyway... My system is mostly Debian testing (with a couple of bits from sid). In upgrading, I lost sound completely. I spent a few hours trying to sort this out, playing with pulseaudio, alsamixer, ... Eventually, I rebooted with the older kernel (version 5.6.0-1-amd64) which sorted (some) things out. I have sound again although only through my HDMI display, not through the headphones, but that's enough for now. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Re: Help: External monitor on modern Acer Nitro 5 laptop
On Monday, 25 May 2020 at 18:54, Sander Marechal wrote: > Hello all, I am going totally mad trying to get my new laptop working > properly under Debian. On my desktop, which has two providers (aka graphics cards), after asking for help on the 'net, I added this line to my .xsession to get all my cards & monitors recognized: xrandr --setprovideroutputsource 1 0 (and don't ask me to explain what this means; it's a magical incantation that just worked for me). I don't know how/where you would this in gnome, mind you. I don't use desktop environments. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.6 on Debian bullseye/sid
Debian cloud image default login details
Good day folks, Can any one assist or direct me with the login details for: debian-10-genericcloud-amd64-20200511-260.qcow2 I have booted but can't login. Tried admin, root & Debian with and without password. Kind regards
