Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
Linux-Fan composed on 2021-03-08 03:35 (UTC+0100): > Wrt. power I usually start from CPU + GPU I used an online calculator https://www.bequiet.com/en/psucalculator on this system with i3-7100T (TDP 35W) supports up

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 5:25 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 4:45 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:27 PM David Christensen < > dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > >>> The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2021-03-07 20:01 (UTC-0600): > On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 20:39:12 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> At retail level, modem-routers seem to be rather uncommon. OTOH, owning your >> own >> modem and router can produce an ISP savings that will pay for a modem and/or >> router in

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Linux-Fan
David Wright writes: On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 19:33:42 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > The Wanderer composed on 2021-03-07 19:16 (UTC-0500): > > On 2021-03-07 at 19:04, David Christensen wrote: [...] > > Isn't progress fun? > > Same kind as when Intel stopped providing PS/2 ports on its

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 20:39:12 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > At retail level, modem-routers seem to be rather uncommon. OTOH, owning your > own > modem and router can produce an ISP savings that will pay for a modem and/or > router in as little as 6-12 months by buying quality "refurbs". I have

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 19:33:42 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > The Wanderer composed on 2021-03-07 19:16 (UTC-0500): > > On 2021-03-07 at 19:04, David Christensen wrote: > > >> I can see how GPT labels would be useful for system drives, but I use > >> BIOS/MBR because it is the lowest common

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Hitt composed on 2021-03-07 16:33 (UTC-0800): > Felix Miata wrote: > So there seems to be some incompatibility between the old mac and > the router-modem. Both however are black boxes and i am constrained from > just wiping the mac and installing debian on it, to see if this is just a >

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread IL Ka
> > > Also ip a. Someday you may no longer have arp: > < > https://dougvitale.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/deprecated-linux-networking-commands-and-their-replacements/ > > > Yes, "$ ip neighbor" (or "ip n" for short) is the correct syntax on modern Linux. Thanks.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Hitt composed on 2021-03-07 17:01 (UTC-0800): > IL Ka wrote: >>> [Although, i guess i do not know the mac addr of the modem-router --- is >>> there a user-level move i can make on my debian box to see what the mac >>> addr of my modem-router is? >> $ ping [your_rounter_ip] >> $ arp -a >>

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 4:45 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:27 PM David Christensen wrote: On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically incompatible with one of my computers. That computer freezes or otherwise misbehaves when

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
The Wanderer composed on 2021-03-07 18:00 (UTC-0500): > On 2021-03-07 at 17:48, Felix Miata wrote: >> Don't settle for a motherboard that lacks any M.2 ports that support >> NVME 2280 form factor storage. Prefer more than one on any board >> bigger than ITX. I've see reports of <3 second cold

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:58 PM IL Ka wrote: > >> >> [Although, i guess i do not know the mac addr of the modem-router --- is >> there a user-level move i can make on my debian box to see what the mac >> addr of my modem-router is? >> > $ ping [your_rounter_ip] > $ arp -a > > you should see a

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread IL Ka
> > > > [Although, i guess i do not know the mac addr of the modem-router --- is > there a user-level move i can make on my debian box to see what the mac > addr of my modem-router is? > $ ping [your_rounter_ip] $ arp -a you should see a list of all your ethernet neighbours along with their ip

Debian : Apple iPhone X or 10

2021-03-07 Thread Didier HELFER
Hello How are you ? Softwares : parallel use : have the choice between IOS and Debian (image) : how to do it ? Secret Chat(tting) : Edward Snowden use irc.indymedia.org : How to do ? Encryption : what do you think of elliptical curves ? Thanks for all Yours faithfully Didier Helfer Bonjour

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:46 PM IL Ka wrote: > A random thought: > Check mac addresses, make sure they aren't the same. > Thanks for the thought. That is a reasonable sanity check. But as it happens, all the mac addrs on all these boxes are different --- i've accumulated a list of them due to

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread IL Ka
A random thought: Check mac addresses, make sure they aren't the same. On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 3:36 AM Dan Hitt wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:25 PM IL Ka wrote: > >> >>> The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically >>> incompatible with one of my computers.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:27 PM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM David Christensen wrote: > > > >> On 3/7/21 9:55 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: > >> > >>> I indeed use ethernet-over-usb currently, and > >>> it is fast enough for me. But if i

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:25 PM IL Ka wrote: > >> The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically >> incompatible with one of my computers. >> > hmm, I never heard about such things) > Is your electrical grounding configured correctly? > > In my country some old apartments

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
The Wanderer composed on 2021-03-07 19:16 (UTC-0500): > On 2021-03-07 at 19:04, David Christensen wrote: >> I can see how GPT labels would be useful for system drives, but I use >> BIOS/MBR because it is the lowest common denominator and I can move >> system drives between machines of varying

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 4:16 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Hitt composed on 2021-03-07 16:02 (UTC-0800): > > > The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically > > incompatible with one of my computers. That computer freezes or > otherwise > > misbehaves when one of its

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 4:16 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-03-07 at 19:04, David Christensen wrote: ... I use BIOS/MBR because it is the lowest common denominator and I can move system drives between machines of varying age. That'll probably stop working past a certain point, at least for some

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 4:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM David Christensen wrote: On 3/7/21 9:55 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: I indeed use ethernet-over-usb currently, and it is fast enough for me. But if i had a second port, it would be a little less cluttered, so i'd like to do it if

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread IL Ka
> > > The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically > incompatible with one of my computers. > hmm, I never heard about such things) Is your electrical grounding configured correctly? In my country some old apartments do not have third (ground) wire. I've seen a lot of

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-07 at 19:04, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 12:59 PM, deloptes wrote: >> IMO UEFI makes sense when you have notebook with secureboot and probably >> dual boot with windows. >> For the home server or PC with Linux only ... IMO it is a waste. > > I can see how GPT labels would be

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
Dan Hitt composed on 2021-03-07 16:02 (UTC-0800): > The reason for the two networks is that my modem-router is electrically > incompatible with one of my computers. That computer freezes or otherwise > misbehaves when one of its ethernet ports is on a network which also has > the modem-router.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 12:59 PM, deloptes wrote: David Christensen wrote: UEFI started coming into x86 motherboard firmware ~10 years ago, so a BIOS-only machine is going to be at least that old.  That is okay for a server, but I would want newer Intel integrated graphics for a desktop. This implies UEFI

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:01 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 3/7/21 9:55 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > > I indeed use ethernet-over-usb currently, and > > it is fast enough for me. But if i had a second port, it would be a > little > > less cluttered, so i'd like to do it if it is not too costly and

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 13:11:26 -0500 John Boxall wrote: Hello John, >Brad, I agree 100%..unfortunately, like my memory, I use selective >action.sometimes I create one and other times :-) Sadly, Me too. :-( -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is /

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-07 at 17:48, Felix Miata wrote: > Don't settle for a motherboard that lacks any M.2 ports that support > NVME 2280 form factor storage. Prefer more than one on any board > bigger than ITX. I've see reports of <3 second cold boot to > multi-user times using NVME. Best I've seen here is

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Felix Miata
songbird composed on 2021-03-07 13:06 (UTC-0500): > apparently Gigabyte has/had some strange ideas about UEFI. No such here. Gigabyte made the first motherboard I ever acquired with UEFI that I used with UEFI, so

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread deloptes
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If you _are_ using add in graphics, then you'll find that the latest cards > effectively tie into UEFI. You may possibly find that attempting to use > legacy/MBR may cause some problems. It would be good to have more reading on that. I had it on my todo list to move to

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-07 at 16:24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 04:06:07PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-03-07 at 15:59, deloptes wrote: >>> what has the graphic card to do with UEFI? >> >> If you're not using an add-in graphics card, but are relying on >> integrated

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 04:06:07PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-07 at 15:59, deloptes wrote: > > > David Christensen wrote: > > > >> UEFI started coming into x86 motherboard firmware ~10 years ago, so > >> a BIOS-only machine is going to be at least that old. That is okay > >> for a

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-03-07 at 15:59, deloptes wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > >> UEFI started coming into x86 motherboard firmware ~10 years ago, so >> a BIOS-only machine is going to be at least that old. That is okay >> for a server, but I would want newer Intel integrated graphics for >> a desktop.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > UEFI started coming into x86 motherboard firmware ~10 years ago, so a > BIOS-only machine is going to be at least that old.  That is okay for a > server, but I would want newer Intel integrated graphics for a desktop. > This implies UEFI firmware. what has the graphic

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 11:00 AM, ghe2001 wrote: All of my current boxes are pretty old, and they all have vanilla BIOSes.  I have a Dell laptop that came with a UEFI BIOS, and it was no fun at all getting it to run Debian -- it may still be misconfigured for all I know. If you want to start a new thread,

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 11:03 AM, Celejar wrote: There are, however, disadvantages as well (besides the fact that anything used involves some risk): these types of machines can have proprietary and non-standard aspects. E.g., I wasted a great deal of time (and some money) during deployment of my Z440 when I

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 00:48:04 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > On 3/6/21 9:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt wrote: > > > >> I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to > >> figure out what to do. ... > >> I'm sort of thinking about

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 9:55 AM, Dan Hitt wrote: I indeed use ethernet-over-usb currently, and it is fast enough for me. But if i had a second port, it would be a little less cluttered, so i'd like to do it if it is not too costly and doesn't interfere with other goals. :) Will the new computer connect

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Saturday, March 6, 2021 9:59 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to figure > out what to do. > > When i got my last hardware, one challenge was UEFI

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Another important consideration is memory -- non-ECC vs. ECC. Desktop >> stuff has the former, workstation and server stuff done right has the >> latter. STFW "memory error", "bit rot" and related. I prefer computers >> with ECC memory. > it's a really poor choice that that did not

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread John Boxall
On 2021-03-07 1:06 p.m., songbird wrote: apparently Gigabyte has/had some strange ideas about UEFI. sadly i didn't know this and couldn't shop other than through the phone line talking to someone so i had to rely upon them selecting a motherboard for me. don't really want to sent it back

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 13:07:54 -0500, John Boxall wrote: > On 2021-03-07 12:45 p.m., Brian wrote: > > On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 17:34:59 +, Brian wrote: > > > > John, > > > > I forgot to ask before - and forgot again! What device are you using? > > > > An Epson Perfection 2480 Photo. An

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread songbird
Kenneth Parker wrote: ... > I was dragged, "kicking and screaming" to UEFI booting. But, now that I'm > here, it's "sort of" grown on me. > > What helped me, a lot, is a package called Refind. It's available on > Debian, through normal Apt-Get, though it's good to, carefully read the >

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread songbird
David Christensen wrote: ... > Another important consideration is memory -- non-ECC vs. ECC. Desktop > stuff has the former, workstation and server stuff done right has the > latter. STFW "memory error", "bit rot" and related. I prefer computers > with ECC memory. it's a really poor

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread John Boxall
On 2021-03-07 12:47 p.m., Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:34:59 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, put it there because I tend to forget changes I make in /etc! In this You're using a computer; you don't /need/ to remember those changes. Use the computer to do it for you. IOW,

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread John Boxall
On 2021-03-07 12:45 p.m., Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 17:34:59 +, Brian wrote: John, I forgot to ask before - and forgot again! What device are you using? An Epson Perfection 2480 Photo. So, having read a little further, maybe I could have used the Epson offering for a driver.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 8:54 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Dan Hitt wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt wrote: > > > > > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to > > > figure out what to do. > > What are your needs, and what's your budget? > > Are you

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 5:11 AM IL Ka wrote: > >> When i got my last hardware, one challenge was UEFI booting, iirc. After >> dealing with it, i sort of lost track of what was happening in that arena. >> However, i don't want to get involved with that again. >> > > Motherboard firmware could be

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 17:34:59 + Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >put it there because I tend to forget changes I make in /etc! In this You're using a computer; you don't /need/ to remember those changes. Use the computer to do it for you. IOW, create a text file documenting those system additions

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 17:34:59 +, Brian wrote: John, I forgot to ask before - and forgot again! What device are you using? -- Brian.

Help with understanding touchpad acceleration on libinput/Wayland

2021-03-07 Thread Laura Smith
Hi. Day 2 of Debian for me! I'm a long time on-off Ubuntu/Raspberry Pi OS user though - but first time with a standard Debian install, and first time with Wayland. I'd love some pointers about how (if at all) I can change the acceleration of my touchpad. Truth is, I'm not sure what I want to

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Mar 2021 at 12:07:30 -0500, John Boxall wrote: > On 2021-03-05 12:04 p.m., Brian wrote: > > > > Thank you, too. In the light of your issue, the Troubleshooting section > > now has a link to the bug report. Hopefully, this will help users. > > > > Brian, in the reference to the bug

Re: Sharing a scanner from a Buster system

2021-03-07 Thread John Boxall
On 2021-03-05 12:04 p.m., Brian wrote: Thank you, too. In the light of your issue, the Troubleshooting section now has a link to the bug report. Hopefully, this will help users. Brian, in the reference to the bug report, were you referring to the file: /etc/udev/rules.d/65-libsane.rules

Re: Fwd: Impresión rebelde

2021-03-07 Thread Camaleón
El 2021-03-06 a las 09:30 +0100, Camaleón escribió: > El 2021-03-05 a las 13:55 -0300, Jorge A. Secreto escribió: > > > El vie, 5 de mar. de 2021 a la(s) 11:27, Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com) > > escribió: > > > > > > El 2021-03-05 a las 10:10 -0300, Jorge A. Secreto escribió: > > > > > > > El

Re: Debian 11. Conviene instalarlo antes que sea stable??

2021-03-07 Thread Camaleón
El 2021-03-07 a las 13:29 -0300, Marcelo Eduardo Giordano escribió: > Hola amigos. No doy mas, quiero instalar debian 11 en mi computadora. La > ansiedad es mas que yo :-) > Me gustaría saber de los genios de la lista dos opiniones > > 1) Si lo instalo ahora, cuando la versión 11 se convierta

Re: ISO de debian 11 KDE

2021-03-07 Thread Camaleón
El 2021-03-07 a las 13:27 -0300, Marcelo Eduardo Giordano escribió: > Quiero instalar debian 11 con escritorio kde y no lo puedo encontrar. > > Entré a https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst > > y ahi me baja la versión 10. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/ Saludos, --

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Dan Hitt wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt wrote: > > > I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to > > figure out what to do. What are your needs, and what's your budget? Are you comfortable plugging together components to build a machine, or do you

Re: ISO de debian 11 KDE

2021-03-07 Thread Fran Blanco
El soporte de instalación es el mismo para todos los escritorios. Solo has de seleccionarlo durante la instalación. Saludos On Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 17:27 Marcelo Eduardo Giordano < marcelogiord...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hola amigos. > > Quiero instalar debian 11 con escritorio kde y no lo puedo

Debian 11. Conviene instalarlo antes que sea stable??

2021-03-07 Thread Marcelo Eduardo Giordano
Hola amigos. No doy mas, quiero instalar debian 11 en mi computadora. La ansiedad es mas que yo Me gustaría saber de los genios de la lista dos opiniones 1) Si lo instalo ahora, cuando la versión 11 se convierta en stable, hay que reinstalar algo? o es transparente? 2) Que grado de

ISO de debian 11 KDE

2021-03-07 Thread Marcelo Eduardo Giordano
Hola amigos. Quiero instalar debian 11 con escritorio kde y no lo puedo encontrar. Entré a https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst y ahi me baja la versión 10.

Re: SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-07 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 7:03 AM Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:28:34AM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > > One potential gotcha. When you boot from an mdadm file system containing > > /boot/grub, grub will not write to the file system. In particular, it > will > > not update

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread IL Ka
> > > When i got my last hardware, one challenge was UEFI booting, iirc. After > dealing with it, i sort of lost track of what was happening in that arena. > However, i don't want to get involved with that again. > Motherboard firmware could be switched to the legacy BIOS/MBR mode, so you do not

Re: SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:28:34AM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > One potential gotcha. When you boot from an mdadm file system containing > /boot/grub, grub will not write to the file system. In particular, it will > not update grub/grubenv even if you have a save_env line in grub.cfg. So if >

Re: Debian sid, résolution Razer Kiyo

2021-03-07 Thread F. Dubois
Bon, je me réponds, car j'avance. Premièrement il semblerait que de nombreux programmes, dont cheese, ne peuvent pas gérer ces hautes résolutions. PAs de piste pour l'instant. Donc ils retombent systématiquement à une résolution moindre. Camorama le ferait (?), disparu des dépôts debian sid...

No icon in notification area for qt applications

2021-03-07 Thread Alexis Grigoriou
Greetings, Debian users I have Debian Buster fully updated. After fiddling with some themes, qt applications (vlc, qbittorrent and others I guess) stopped showing their icons in the xfce notification area. I tried removing and adding again the notification area thingie, but no luck.

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/07/2021 12:48 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: [snip] I was dragged, "kicking and screaming" to UEFI booting.  But, now that I'm here, it's "sort of" grown on me. What helped me, a lot, is a package called Refind.  It's available on Debian, through normal Apt-Get, though it's good to,

Re: debian gnome login fingerprint

2021-03-07 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 04:55:11PM +, Tiago Zaniquelli wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I am trying to setup my notebook with fingerprint login but I didn't have > success. There is a related thread over at debian-project. It starts here:

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/7/21 12:48 AM, David Christensen wrote: The Debian x86 installer detects if you have booted the computer in BIOS or UEFI mode, and works accordingly. "Debian amd64 installer" is more accurate. David

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-07 Thread David Christensen
On 3/6/21 9:02 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 8:59 PM Dan Hitt wrote: I think that i will need to get new desktop hardware, so i'm trying to figure out what to do. When i got my last hardware, one challenge was UEFI booting, iirc. After dealing with it, i sort of lost track of