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Re: Debian 10 doing WEIRD THINGS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 12:40 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Kanito 73 wrote: > > > Hello > > I've been using Debian 10 for almost a year on my old computer (bought it > > on december 2019), but it is doing wei

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 12/29/20 10:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Michael Stone composed on 2020-12-29 22:37 (UTC-0500): On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 21:42:11 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Boards with 2 M.2 NVME and 6 SATA aren't at all uncommon, but finding one with those and dual eSATA and Firewire and USB-C and Triple Ch

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

Michael Stone composed on 2020-12-29 22:37 (UTC-0500): > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 21:42:11 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>Boards with 2 M.2 NVME and 6 SATA aren't at all uncommon, but finding one with >>those and dual eSATA and Firewire and USB-C and Triple Channel and PS/2 and >>S/PDIF >>and dual P

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 09:42:11PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: Michael Stone composed on 2020-12-29 17:30 (UTC-0500): On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 04:52:48PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: Matching that level of versatility with *modern* ports on a modern motherboard, especially without access to a har

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

Michael Stone composed on 2020-12-29 13:17 (UTC-0500): > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:34:49PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >>I agree. I can't imagine how it could not. Still, after 8 years, I'd open the >>PS >>up for cleaning if nothing else, unless it's been operating in a clean room >>all >>those

Re: mdadm usage

basti wrote: > On a file server in a production environment I would prefer raid 6. > Making statements so cavalierly is a bad idea. There are excellent reasons for preferring RAID 1, 10, 6, 60, and various ZFSisms, according to expected requirements. -dsr-

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

Michael Stone composed on 2020-12-29 17:30 (UTC-0500): > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 04:52:48PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >>Matching that level of versatility with *modern* ports on a modern >>motherboard, especially without access to a hardware-review site of the >>caliber I was drawing on at the t

Re: mdadm usage

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:53:59AM +0100, deloptes wrote: you can start one of the drives that was member of raid1 array on any computer, just as Reco said by assembling the mdraid on that computer. Just be very careful about ever putting both halves of the array on the same computer again, as

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:49 PM Brendon Higgins wrote: > > After some more searching I figured out what the difference was: the > "Loopback Mixing" setting in alsamixer. It's apparently disabled by > default, but for some reason mine had migrated to enabled. Enabling it > seems to dictate that

Re: mdadm usage

Thomas A. Anderson wrote: > Once I can get anything off one of these two drives, I will then switch > my current setup to 1 drive (8TB), with an attached 8TB drive that will > be be backup --weekly, or whatever. you can start one of the drives that was member of raid1 array on any computer, just

Re: ALSA bug? Laptop headphone output depending on speaker channel setting

On Saturday, December 26, 2020 3:48:15 A.M. EST Jan Girke wrote: > Remove the hdd/ssd from the laptop and use a spare to downgrade until > you find the version it worked and then compare the two states. I did more-or-less this, but instead using Debian live-CD images on a USB stick, and after som

Re: Debian 10 doing WEIRD THINGS

Kanito 73 wrote: > Hello > > I've been using Debian 10 for almost a year on my old computer (bought it on > december 2019), but it is doing weird things when using CHROME principally > when I am in Facebook (but not only)... DOES IT DO THE SAME THINGS WHEN YOU USE FIREFOX? The random capital

Debian 10 doing WEIRD THINGS

Hello I've been using Debian 10 for almost a year on my old computer (bought it on december 2019), but it is doing weird things when using CHROME principally when I am in Facebook (but not only)... Since a few weeks ago, it is very common to receive Facebook alerts when changing from one page

Re: graphical session in LXC automatically started at boot and reachable via VNC/RDP/X2GO

Yvan Masson writes: Hi list, I need to run a graphical software called Noethys that also listens on some TCP port. It: 1. needs to be reachable from the network during work hours 2. needs to be accessible remotely a few times per day, mainly by a Windows workstation on the LAN [...] I

Re: mdadm usage

Thomas A. Anderson writes: Thanks Reco, yeah that RAID6 looks pretty robust. I will read more about it in the future. When I type cat /proc/mdstat, I get: Personalities: unused devices: Is that all there is? Because to me this means: RAID kernel driver loaded but no arrays running whats

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 04:52:48PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: Matching that level of versatility with *modern* ports on a modern motherboard, especially without access to a hardware-review site of the caliber I was drawing on at the time, is going to be difficult. Not really: fast USB & nvme ar

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 16:48, Anssi Saari wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Unless someone else in the household happens to have Win10 install >> media sitting around, which given that the number of tech-savvy >> people in the household who run Windows is a grand total of 1 is >> not terribly likely.

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 16:46, Felix Miata wrote: > The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-29 13:13 (UTC-0500): > >> https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813131665 > > The chipset on that board was released in 2008: > > > >

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer writes: > Unless someone else in the household happens to have Win10 install media > sitting around, which given that the number of tech-savvy people in the > household who run Windows is a grand total of 1 is not terribly likely. Microsoft does make their installation media freely

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-29 13:13 (UTC-0500): > https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813131665 The chipset on that board was released in 2008: That's a hard to beat board for its day, every port one coul

Re: graphical session in LXC automatically started at boot and reachable via VNC/RDP/X2GO

On 12/29/20 10:56 PM, Yvan Masson wrote: > Hi list, > > I need to run a graphical software called Noethys that also listens on > some TCP port. It: > 1. needs to be reachable from the network during work hours > 2. needs to be accessible remotely a few times per day, mainly by a > Windows workstat

graphical session in LXC automatically started at boot and reachable via VNC/RDP/X2GO

Hi list, I need to run a graphical software called Noethys that also listens on some TCP port. It: 1. needs to be reachable from the network during work hours 2. needs to be accessible remotely a few times per day, mainly by a Windows workstation on the LAN I will run this software on a serv

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 15:34, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 12/29/20 10:09 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2020-12-29 at 14:53, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: >> >> Last I was aware, AMD and Intel alike have Good Enough driver >> support on Linux via fully-open code, and I want to encourage that >> rather

Re: mdadm usage

Thanks Reco, yeah that RAID6 looks pretty robust. I will read more about it in the future. When I type cat /proc/mdstat, I get: Personalities: unused devices: Thanks Deloptes,  the Borg backup looks very promising and I think it might actually best fit my needs. I will check it out! Thanks Fe

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 12/29/20 10:09 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-29 at 14:53, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: > > Last I was aware, AMD and Intel alike have Good Enough driver support on > Linux via fully-open code, and I want to encourage that rather than > NVIDIA's closed approach. > Be careful with AMD/ATI v

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:26:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-12-29 at 14:20, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: You have an old system with first gen i7 which predates widespread UEFI adoption by at least 1 generation, your motherboard specs at https://origin-www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOT

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 14:53, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: > I have no official sources on this, but if you'd do an internet > search for "new gpu legacy bios" you'd see a lot of people having the > same issue, asking for guidance on buying a new GPU for an old PC, or > wondering why they weren't better wa

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

I have no official sources on this, but if you'd do an internet search for "new gpu legacy bios" you'd see a lot of people having the same issue, asking for guidance on buying a new GPU for an old PC, or wondering why they weren't better warned about such an incompatibility. I personally also h

Re: mdadm usage

On 29.12.2020 20:32, mick crane wrote: On 2020-12-29 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: <..> The default metadata format (v1.2) for mdadm is at the beginning of the device. If you've put a filesystem directly on the md device then the presence of the metadata will prevent it being recognised as a simple f

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 14:20, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: > You have an old system with first gen i7 which predates widespread > UEFI adoption by at least 1 generation, your motherboard specs at > https://origin-www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/specifications/ > do not mention UEFI, only regular B

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

You have an old system with first gen i7 which predates widespread UEFI adoption by at least 1 generation, your motherboard specs at https://origin-www.asus.com/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_X58/specifications/ do not mention UEFI, only regular BIOS, so your system has no UEFI support. Newer AMD GPUs

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:34:49PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: I agree. I can't imagine how it could not. Still, after 8 years, I'd open the PS up for cleaning if nothing else, unless it's been operating in a clean room all those years. FWIW, I wouldn't do that and consider it to be a bit nuts. :

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 13:05, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 29 dec 20, 06:52:12, The Wanderer wrote: > >> That would indicate that this will have been using the ISOLINUX >> boot path, because as previously noted, this motherboard has a >> BIOS; if my memory is correct it predates UEFI entirely, > > A

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On Ma, 29 dec 20, 06:52:12, The Wanderer wrote: > > That would indicate that this will have been using the ISOLINUX boot > path, because as previously noted, this motherboard has a BIOS; if my > memory is correct it predates UEFI entirely, According to Wikipedia in 2011 major vendors launched sev

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-29 12:18 (UTC-0500): > ...I'd be less concerned about booting to removable media with > *all* of the drives disconnected, and that might achieve the same end. I agree. I can't imagine how it could not. Still, after 8 years, I'd open the PS up for cleaning if nothi

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 12:08, Felix Miata wrote: > The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-29 07:57 (UTC-0500): > >> Romualdas Taluntis wrote: > >>> -try booting with your 5700 in a secondary PCI-E slot and your >>> old GPU in the main slot, check if Debian detects both video >>> cards, force certain applica

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-29 07:57 (UTC-0500): > Romualdas Taluntis wrote: >> -try booting with your 5700 in a secondary PCI-E slot and your old >> GPU in the main slot, check if Debian detects both video cards, force >> certain applications to use new video card and use it like this if >>

Re: mdadm usage

On 2020-12-29 13:10, Andy Smith wrote: <..> The default metadata format (v1.2) for mdadm is at the beginning of the device. If you've put a filesystem directly on the md device then the presence of the metadata will prevent it being recognised as a simple filesystem. What you can do is force mdad

Re: mdadm usage

Hello, On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 07:58:50AM +0100, Thomas A. Anderson wrote: > I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file > server i have been running. As others have noted, RAID-1 is not striping but mirroring. I'll assume you have used RAID-1. Showing us the content of

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 07:27, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: > If your motherboard is legacy BIOS only (non-UEFI) then that's almost > certainly the problem and messing with GRUB won't help. There are a > couple of easy ways to go about it: > > -Return your card, Not on my list; I'd sooner build a new sy

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

If your motherboard is legacy BIOS only (non-UEFI) then that's almost certainly the problem and messing with GRUB won't help. There are a couple of easy ways to go about it: -Return your card, -Upgrade your whole system; and a couple of not very easy and not guaranteed to work: -try booting

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-28 at 20:38, Linux-Fan wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> On 2020-12-28 at 16:59, Felix Miata wrote: >> > 7-RMA the 5700. >> >> I'd be extremely hesitant to do that unless I know it's the problem. >> Also, although I just unboxed this within the past week, I ordered it >> more than a

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 05:11, Anssi Saari wrote: > The Wanderer writes: >>> 7-RMA the 5700. >> >> I'd be extremely hesitant to do that unless I know it's the >> problem. Also, although I just unboxed this within the past week, I >> ordered it more than a month ago; it's entirely possible they might >

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-29 at 06:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > The Wanderer wrote: >> > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/) [ISOLINUX or GRUB ?] > > Anssi Saari wrote: >> I can't tell without booting that, there are both grub and isolinux >> directories on that image (debian-live-10.7.0-amd64-standard.iso

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

Hi, The Wanderer wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/) [ISOLINUX or GRUB ?] Anssi Saari wrote: > I can't tell without booting that, there are both grub and isolinux > directories on that image (debian-live-10.7.0-amd64-standard.iso that > is.) The ISOLINUX equipment is for legacy BIOS or E

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer writes: > I'm fairly sure the live environment I used (the amd64 image from > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/) does likewise. I do have some other > bootable media (of extremely primitive nature, graphics-wise) which I > know for a fact uses ISOLINUX or similar, and I could try one o

Re: mdadm usage

On a file server in a production environment I would prefer raid 6. Am 29.12.20 um 08:45 schrieb Felix Miata: > Thomas A. Anderson composed on 2020-12-29 07:58 (UTC+0100): > >> I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file >> server i have been running. > > RAID 1 is two

Re: mdadm usage

Reco wrote: > >> Maybe I just need two drives, and just do a cron job to rysnc to backup >> once a week or something. > > RAID is not a substitute for a backup. Backup is not a substitute for > mirroring. One does not exclude another, so use both. I find borg backup worth looking in, especially