Randy Demerchant composed on 2019-08-10 22:53 (UTC):
> I have a dell laptop 1720
If https://www.cnet.com/products/dell-inspiron-1720/specs/ is what you have, 12
years old, don't be surprised if you encounter obstacles. Its GM965 chipset has
a
mixed support reputation going back to when it was b
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 11:39:56, Mark Allums wrote:
>
> On 8/10/2019 11:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote:
> > > Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my
> > > with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
> > > I g
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:53:29 + (UTC)
Randy Demerchant wrote:
> I have a dell laptop 1720 and desktop acer ax 1935. I like to know
> can I install and use Debian on eithers of these two system with out
> ant problems Can you let me know thank you Randy
The short answer? Probably. How well
Hi,
I added the following lines into /etc/security/limits.conf:
* - nofile 65535
root - nofile 65535
But it still not take effect for the normal user.
Any hints?
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On 11/8/19 8:53 am, Randy Demerchant wrote:
I have a dell laptop 1720 and desktop acer ax 1935.
I like to know can I install and use Debian on eithers of these two
system with out ant problems
Can you let me know thank you Randy
Dawned on me that the non-free iso may be better. Look at
On 11/8/19 8:53 am, Randy Demerchant wrote:
I have a dell laptop 1720 and desktop acer ax 1935.
I like to know can I install and use Debian on eithers of these two
system with out ant problems
Can you let me know thank you Randy
Suggest you try a live version - runs from a DVD or USB s
The only way to know for sure is to boot into a live OS and see what works
and what doesn't. Or install it and see. From my experience I'd say Linux
supports everything except maybe stuff that uses TPM and some advanced/high
end GPU functionality.
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 20:09 David Christensen
wro
On 8/10/19 3:53 PM, Randy Demerchant wrote:
I have a dell laptop 1720 and desktop acer ax 1935. I like to know can I
install and use Debian on eithers of these two system with out ant problems Can
you let me know thank you Randy
I have rarely been able to find a reliable answer to the quest
On 8/10/19 3:55 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit :
On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would
result in half the capacity of the total (768G) and you could
withstand the loss of any one devic
You should check the debian documentation pages for hw support
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s01.en.html
If some of your hardware is not mentioned there is a serious posibility that it
wont be recognized from the OS.
The most common firmware missing are graphic cards and wireles
On 8/10/19 12:12 PM, Tixy wrote:
On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 11:28 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
On 8/10/19 7:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
In an older version of debian (7 or so) I had my system set so the
login screen would show my user name as the default.
That went away after some version upgrade or
I have a dell laptop 1720 and desktop acer ax 1935. I like to know can I
install and use Debian on eithers of these two system with out ant problems Can
you let me know thank you Randy
Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit :
On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would
result in half the capacity of the total (768G) and you could
withstand the loss of any one device.
RAID 10 requires 4 drives:
Not Linux
On 11/08/19 3:06 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 21:19:31 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote:
>> On 10/08/19 9:10 PM, deloptes wrote:
>>> Richard Hector wrote:
>>>
Sorry, this usage grates with me.
$amount cheaper that $price means subtract $amount from $price
>
Tixy, on 2019-08-10:
> On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 11:28 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> > On 8/10/19 7:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> > > In an older version of debian (7 or so) I had my system set so the
> > > login screen would show my user name as the default.
> > >
> > > That went away after some version
On 8/10/19 11:19 AM, ghe wrote:
Fixed. I did a few things differently, and it came up:
I verified the NOOBS file with sha256 (match).
I unzipped directly to the SD chip.
I moved the HDMI connector to the one toward the back.
Even though I saw nothing in any dox about it making any difference, I'
Pavel Vlček wrote:
> I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to
> install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or
> lvm? I found an issue with lvm, when I want to create lvm, it shows you
> can use $minsize and $maxsize, but all disks are 512, Gb.
ghe wrote:
> I know this isn't the best place to talk about Raspberry Pis, but there
> are people here who are familiar with them, and probably people who can
> point me to the correct place. And they do run Debian...
I don't have that modern RPI, but usually there are ready images to use. Did
yo
On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 11:28 -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> On 8/10/19 7:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> > In an older version of debian (7 or so) I had my system set so the
> > login screen would show my user name as the default.
> >
> > That went away after some version upgrade or reinstall and I've
On 8/10/19 7:52 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
In an older version of debian (7 or so) I had my system set so the
login screen would show my user name as the default.
That went away after some version upgrade or reinstall and I've
silently grumbled about it ever since (especially when I inadvertentl
Hi,
I am using Sid on my laptop (HP ZBook 15) and since first
linux-image-5.2.0-1 and then linux-image-5.2.0-2
the wifi is not stable and goes down after few seconds.
But what is more strange is that with linux-image-5.2.0-1 there is a log
trace of the trouble but not with linux-image-5.2.0-2.
He
On 8/10/19 4:03 AM, Pavel Vlček wrote:
Hi all,
because I was not registered when I sent this message here at the first
time, I am sending it again.
I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to
install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or
l
On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would
result in half the capacity of the total (768G) and you could
withstand the loss of any one device.
RAID 10 requires 4 drives:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid10#RAID_10_(RAID_1+0)
RAID 1
I know this isn't the best place to talk about Raspberry Pis, but there
are people here who are familiar with them, and probably people who can
point me to the correct place. And they do run Debian...
My 2G RPi4 arrived yesterday, and it doesn't boot, not all the way
anyway. The red power led goes
On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 09:25:22 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 08:56:01PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> > That's true of the timestamps that are part of the filesystem metadata,
> > but not true of any timestamps included in the file content itself - eg
> > as part of l
Jonas Hedman composed on 2019-08-10 16:57 (UTC+0200):
> Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely
> with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
> I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a
> little blurry and I got small black vertical lines o
Thank you, David, Judah Richardson, and Richard Hector, for your
suggestions; unfortunately, the appearance of the history.db files
remains a mystery.
> Do you have some kind of backup, sync, or versioning application
> running?
I have a daily cron job that runs rsync to copy my home directory to
On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 11:39 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 8/10/2019 11:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote:
> > > Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with
> > > my
> > > with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 09:01:27 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:14:08AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> > Why? The non expert lives somewhere relative to UTC, why should I use UTC.
> > AFAIK it is always UTC in the background adding or substracting the
> > timezone and perhap
On 8/10/2019 11:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote:
Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my
with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a
little blurr
Andrei POPESCU composed on 2019-08-10 19:16 (UTC+0300):
> What kind of cable are you using? If VGA switch to HDMI instead.
+3
> See if the monitor has an auto-adjust or similar function in the menu.
+1
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Dan Ritter composed on 2019-08-10 11:41 (UTC-0400):
> That card is old enough to work reliably with Nouveau, so most
> of it will be:
> apt install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
I suggest the opposite:
apt purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
It's probably already installed. It's old technolo
On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 17:35:25 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:12:22, Curt Howland wrote:
> >
> > Upon reboot, the ciphered drive login had no asterisks, and it was
> > 80x24 screen resolution. The boot sequence this time did not look like
> > RedHat with the green success in
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote:
> Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my
> with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
> I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a
> little blurry and I got small black vertical lines
Jonas Hedman wrote:
> Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely
> with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
> I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a
> little blurry and I got small black vertical lines on
> both sides.
That sounds like
On Fri 09 Aug 2019 at 14:53:32 (-0500), Greg Marks wrote:
> On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a
> subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a
> file history.db. There are 11 of these history.db files in various
> places in my home directory; cmp reveals
On 8/10/19 9:57 AM, Jonas Hedman wrote:
Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely
with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a
little blurry and I got small black vertical lines on
both sides.
It soun
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:00 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:52:48, Tom Browder wrote:
> >
> > I have tried searching for the solution but so far have found nothing.
Okay, good point. I'll try that route...
Thanks.
-Tom
Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely
with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and
I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a
little blurry and I got small black vertical lines on
both sides.
A friend of mine offered to give me a MSI GeForc
On Sat 10 Aug 2019 at 21:19:31 (+1200), Richard Hector wrote:
> On 10/08/19 9:10 PM, deloptes wrote:
> > Richard Hector wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Sorry, this usage grates with me.
> >>
> >> $amount cheaper that $price means subtract $amount from $price
> >>
> >> $x times $price means multiply $price b
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:52:48, Tom Browder wrote:
>
> I have tried searching for the solution but so far have found nothing.
The solution (if any) will probably depend a lot on the display manager
used.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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In an older version of debian (7 or so) I had my system set so the login
screen would show my user name as the default.
That went away after some version upgrade or reinstall and I've silently
grumbled about it ever since (especially when I inadvertently flash part of
my password as my muscle memo
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 09:12:22, Curt Howland wrote:
>
> Upon reboot, the ciphered drive login had no asterisks, and it was
> 80x24 screen resolution. The boot sequence this time did not look like
> RedHat with the green success indicators, in fact there were hardly
> any boot messages on tty1 at all.
On Sb, 10 aug 19, 07:50:02, John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
> > I'd just flat out restrict them to five years. Twenty is too long.
>
> Andrei writes:
> > That would work against inventors as instead of buying useful patents
> > companies would just wait 5 years and then use it without any charge.
>
> wrote:
> Just like the scanner in "Knight Rider", I see the picture.
Yes.
> What is the output of the following command?
>
> $ sudo systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait
Unfortunately, since I went above-and-beyond before saving the text, I
don't have the output, only that it didn't say
I wrote:
> I'd just flat out restrict them to five years. Twenty is too long.
Andrei writes:
> That would work against inventors as instead of buying useful patents
> companies would just wait 5 years and then use it without any charge.
Anyone can practice an expired patent without any charge.
Russel writes:
> As to file creation and access datestamps, what time is shown by, for
> example, the "ls -al" command if I select central time zone? Do I see
> Central times, or UTC? When examining file creation and access times,
> I simply wish all files always to be datestamped in UTC.
Make
Le 10/08/2019 à 13:03, Pavel Vlček a écrit :
I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to
install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system.
What do you mean by "one big system" ? One big filesystem ? Why ?
What to use, raid or lvm?
If you are concerned with perfo
Hi Pavel,
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 01:03:10PM +0200, Pavel Vlček wrote:
> I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to install
> Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or lvm?
Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would
result in
Hi,
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 01:03:10PM +0200, Pavel Vlček wrote:
> I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to install
> Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or lvm? I
Depends. Do you want to have 1.5 Gigs combined? (LVM)
[...]
> doing something
Hi all,
I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to
install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or
lvm? I found an issue with lvm, when I want to create lvm, it shows you
can use $minsize and $maxsize, but all disks are 512, Gb. I want to
star
Hi all,
because I was not registered when I sent this message here at the first
time, I am sending it again.
I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to
install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What to use, raid or
lvm? I found an issue with lvm, when I wa
On 10/08/19 9:25 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 08:56:01PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
>> That's true of the timestamps that are part of the filesystem metadata,
>> but not true of any timestamps included in the file content itself - eg
>> as part of log lines. I don't know
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 08:56:01PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
That's true of the timestamps that are part of the filesystem metadata,
but not true of any timestamps included in the file content itself - eg
as part of log lines. I don't know which Russell is concerned about.
In the non-expert
On 10/08/19 9:10 PM, deloptes wrote:
> Richard Hector wrote:
>
>>
>> Sorry, this usage grates with me.
>>
>> $amount cheaper that $price means subtract $amount from $price
>>
>> $x times $price means multiply $price by $x
>>
>> so "2 times cheaper (than $450)" is:
>>
>> $450 - (2 x $450) = -$450.
Russell L. Harris wrote:
> To each his own. I remember the explanation of an airline pilot as to
> the reason he kept his wristwatch set to GMT. Constantly crossing
> from one time zone to another, he said that the mental conversion
> quickly became automatic and painless, and was much less trou
Richard Hector wrote:
>
> Sorry, this usage grates with me.
>
> $amount cheaper that $price means subtract $amount from $price
>
> $x times $price means multiply $price by $x
>
> so "2 times cheaper (than $450)" is:
>
> $450 - (2 x $450) = -$450.
so what multiplied by 2 gives 450?
450
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:14:08AM +0200, deloptes wrote:
Why? The non expert lives somewhere relative to UTC, why should I use UTC.
AFAIK it is always UTC in the background adding or substracting the
timezone and perhaps summer time and other specifics. I do not want to
calculate each time on to
On 10/08/19 8:49 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 09 aug 19, 21:38:23, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>> Is there a work-around, so that files written during the
>> installation process have the correct datestamp?
>
> It seems to me like you are confusing the hardware clock (the internal
> clock of
On Vi, 09 aug 19, 21:38:23, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> The netinst cd image for Buster 10.0.0 does not offer a UTC option for
> English -> United States.
>
> This is a critical bug; every installer without exception should offer UTC.
>
> Is there a work-around, so that files written during the
>
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 10:52:39 +0300
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 08 aug 19, 19:05:03, John Hasler wrote:
> > deloptes writes:
> >
> > > Entirely eliminate [patents] - no, but restrict if no commercial
> > > use to 5y.
> >
> > I'd just flat out restrict them to five years. Twenty is too lo
On 2019-08-10, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>
> If you have some suggestions on what info to gather then let
> me know. Bear in mind that during the boot process my system
> is pretty much unresponsive for the hour or so until the
> window manager is up and everything has settled down.
>
An hour or so.
On Jo, 08 aug 19, 09:20:29, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> As far as I'm aware, there are significantly more projects out there to
> produce free motherboard firmware (BIOS / UEFI images) than there are to
> produce free firmware for any of those other things.
One has to start somewhere and the BIOS see
On 10/08/19 6:20 AM, Reco wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 01:16:49PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> When you say five times cheaper, I gather you're talking about the
>> prices for used units, in which case it's not really an
>> apples-to-apples comparison. At least when I checked, the new units on
>>
On Jo, 08 aug 19, 19:05:03, John Hasler wrote:
> deloptes writes:
>
> > Entirely eliminate [patents] - no, but restrict if no commercial use
> > to 5y.
>
> I'd just flat out restrict them to five years. Twenty is too long.
That would work against inventors as instead of buying useful patents
c
On 10/08/19 6:39 AM, Étienne Mollier wrote:
>> Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as
>> seen during shutdown when something won't politely die.
> Just like the scanner in "Knight Rider", I see the picture.
>
Except I believe that was a Pontiac, not a Plymouth.
Sorry
Russell L. Harris wrote:
> But I still think that even the non-expert should be allowed, if not
> strongly encouraged, to use UTC.
Why? The non expert lives somewhere relative to UTC, why should I use UTC.
AFAIK it is always UTC in the background adding or substracting the
timezone and perhaps su
On 10/08/19 7:53 AM, Greg Marks wrote:
> On a computer running Debian 10, in a number of directories a
> subdirectory "history" has mysteriously appeared containing a
> file history.db. There are 11 of these history.db files in various
> places in my home directory; cmp reveals that they are all i
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