No image from analog cameras with TW6816 video capture card.

2024-06-03 Thread A. F. Cano
I hope this is the proper forum to post this. The more relevant lists of years ago are no longer active: https://www.linuxtv.org/lists.php I'm trying to get these Lorex SR AIS color cameras, that are supposedly capable of 1024 x 768 max and 728 x 488 NTSC, to work with a bluecherry TW-

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-17 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Greg Wooledge () wrote: > It's not just you. The use of three "b" names in a row (buster, > bullseye, bookworm) was in my opinion a poor decision. I've taken > to calling the releases by their numbers (10, 11, 12) instead of > their codenames to avoid confus

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-17 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Well... it seems my brain can't distinguish Bookworm from Bullseye. Virtualbox is now installed from Fasttrack repository and is working fine. Sorry for the inconveniences

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-15 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Xiyue Deng () wrote: > See the version of virtualbox-qt has `fto11' instead of `fto12', while > looking at the repo I can find the build for fto12[1]. What's also > weird is that for all fasttrack supported releases I can only see > version 7.0.12 but no 7.0.6. Anyway, can you paste your sources

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-15 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Xiyue Deng wrote: > > If you followed the fasttrack instruction on the website[1] literally, > you may be adding bullseye-fasttrack instead of bookworm-fasttrack where > the latter is what you wanted. > > [1] https://fasttrack.debian.net/ > > -- > Xiyue Deng > Of course I did it for Bookworm. Th

Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-14 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello! This evening I tried to install virtualbox into a fresh Bookworm install. I followed the steps in Virtualbox's Debian Wiki entry. After set up fasttrack repository successfully and issue a apt install virtualbox command I get: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Problem using pmount

2023-08-10 Thread Sridhar M A
Currently am using debian testing. So far, I was using pmount to mount my usb drive without any issues (am also a member of the plugdev group). Since a couple of days, pmount started failing. Before I explain further, the same drive can be mounted via thunar. This is the error I am seeing

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

2023-01-07 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
If I remember correctly, all Windows EXE have an string saying: This program cannot be run in DOS mode. It is displayed when loaded under MS-DOS, so it should be easy to identify an EXE for DOS from an EXE for Windows. To run it, dosbox should work. Greetings

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
I remember some e-mail programs automatically add an extra space in front of a From in the message body if any line starts with From. Probably Thunderbird is one of them. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > &

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-10 Thread a
Sorry, David Wright, i receive your mail late because mail provider blocks or deletes your mail without informing me i use ifup/ifdown to manage wifi connection i prefer small app for X Window i might  be unable to receive your future mail reply to list so that i might use list archives to re

Re: which X11 app can show wifi info

2022-06-10 Thread a
On 6/10/22 5:49 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: 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

why some wifi connection method is better than other

2022-04-02 Thread a
to setup wifi, i edit /etc/network/interfaces in bullseye and run ifup/ifdown to take effect iface wlx12345 inet dhcp     wpa-ssid netgear     wpa-key-mgmt NONE it works if wifi signals is good if wifi signals is 2 on scale of 3 shown by cell phone, it can't connect but gnome in opens

Re: intel-media-va-driver segmentation fault in unstable

2022-03-23 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Karthik () wrote: > > Same here I took a look at the syslog and found something: Mar 23 13:21:51 kernel: [ 347.474189] vlc[2625]: segfault at 30200 ip 7f75b88659ae sp 7f75 b8d23b00 error 4 in libigdgmm.so.12.1.0[7f75b87fc000+78000] Mar 23 13:21:51 kernel: [ 347.474197] Code:

intel-media-va-driver segmentation fault in unstable

2022-03-23 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello! Since the lass update last night in Sid / Unstable, I'm getting segmentation faults from some programs, like VLC: vlc video.mkv VLC media player 3.0.17.3 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [55c0d2e29460] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc w

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-05 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello! Opened a bug report against Wine, because I was not sure about what package was the culprit. #1006725 It was reasigned to libz-mingw-w64 and a few moments ago I downloaded the updated package from the repository. Everything works fine now. Thanks to everyone who made this possible.

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-03 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Thank you! I filled a bug report. Let's see what happens now.

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-03 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> > I'm pretty sure the problem is the Wine DLL files were built without > > the -static-libgcc flag > > > > Time to file a bug? > > > > I think it is I'm looking for the exact package that contains zlib1.dll but I can't find it. Libwine d

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-03 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
is not provided with these packages. I'm pretty sure the problem is the Wine DLL files were built without the -static-libgcc flag Time to file a bug?

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-02 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello! Finding and placing missing DLLs into the Windows directory of Wine is easy. I think the problem is the windows executables in wine have not been compiled with the -static-libgcc option of MinGW, so not including all these libgcc DDLs can be considered a bug itself. But compiling it

Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-02 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello After the recent update of Wine packages in Sid, some programs do not run because of a missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll. They all worked just fine with the previous version. ~$ wine SpaceEngine.exe 014c:err:module:import_dll Library libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home

Re: why copying big file fails?

2022-01-30 Thread a
Thank ghe2001, Andrew, Reco, Hans and Thomas! i try bullseye for amd64, as Andrew suggest, it succeeds in copying 4G mp4 video transfer speed is slow, i have to wait for half an hour after entering cp command and i can't check progress by running "ls -l" in other terminal ("ls -l" shows ne

Re: why copying big file fails?

2022-01-30 Thread a
Thank Andrew! i connect android phone with jmtpfs and use cp command to copy it i use bullseye for i386, intel core2 Q8200 2.33G why shall i use scp? it's to be used for copying between hosts

why copying big file fails?

2022-01-30 Thread a
i create video mp4 with android's screen-recorder, it's about 4G i connect it to debian with jmtpfs and copy it to ext4 hard disk with more than 10G  of free space it fails: cp: error reading 'DCIM/ScreenRecorder/Screenrecorder-2022-01-30-12-29-58-111.mp4': Invalid argument i run "ls -l",

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-27 Thread a
Sorry, last word in last mail is wrong, it should be inconvenience, not  incontinence

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-26 Thread a
Thank David! my mail provider blocks your reply without informing me, so i can't receive it on time, i get your reply by some other way it's amazing that you get my history of getting help here, actually i've just bought 2nd-hand pc, it's core2 Q8200, 2.33G, it's my fastest pc though others

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-26 Thread a
Thank Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside! it's only for curiosity. for most users, their performance have little difference

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-24 Thread a
Thank David and Polyna-Maude! it's surprising that "The x64 binary are also somewhat larger than the i386 binaries" i compare some packages of bullseye for both arch, they happen to be contrary though difference is small and IMO has little impact on performance firefox-esr for i386: size=

how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

2022-01-24 Thread a
i've installed debian 11 for both arch on same PC, amd64 seems faster is there some tool to demonstrate performance of PC? they say it's not possible to say which is faster without defining computing task is performance difference significant if computing task is web browsing (www.debian.org

Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread A KHANNA
Hi I have a query that I would appreciate if you can help out as I am new to Linux How to activate mouse hover click in above system?..it is not having options available in ubuntu. Many thanks Regards A Khanna

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-12 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:02:45AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and > > upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies, > > but I

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:07:41AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 18:37:02, A. F. Cano wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > > > > > Somethi

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all

gimpfu (python) module

2021-12-06 Thread A. Kapetanovic
her version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public Lice

After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-05 Thread A. F. Cano
nd removed some packages, but now it's at a steady state where there are no errors according to these commands. I've tried this operation (the same HD) on a system with 8 GB RAM (the original system), one with 16 GB and one with 32 GB. Same result. I've even tried: debsums -cs Find whic

apt automatically upgrading packages in unstable

2021-10-01 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
A few days ago I noticed my debian unstable started to update packages automatically. A quick inspection showed apt was updated, and also the configuration files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d, including a 20auto-upgrades file with all options enabled. Because auto update in sid is at least dangerous

gcc-10: options order important?

2021-09-03 Thread Piotr A. Dybczyński
ace which I used to do. Is this intentional ? Regards, Piotr A. Dybczyński -- /** dr Piotr A. Dybczyński homepage: https://www.dybczynski.pl/Piotr e-mail:

Re: Telegram Systray Icon

2021-09-02 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> Oh. You Are running UNSTABLE version of Debian. And just installed a > program outside of Debian, from third party website. You must know what > you are doing. I know what I'm doing, thank you. > Also you must then know how to report bugs like this, I > understand. Otherw

Re: Telegram Systray Icon

2021-09-02 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
I thought it was clear, but I was wrong. Telegram from website ( version 3.0.1 ), running in KDE under Unstable. Everything was ok until Bullseye came out and a tsunami of new packages arrived to Unstable. Since that moment the icon disappeared. Everything seems to work fine, except for that icon

Telegram Systray Icon

2021-09-02 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello! Since the new Debian release and after a ton of new packages arrived to Unstable I noticed the system tray icon for Telegram desktop does not appear... or at least it appear completely black. See attached image. Is it a Debian problem or a Telegram problem? Any ideas? Thank you

Re: Debian 11 doesn't suspend properly on Acer Aspire 5 A515-51G-52GM

2021-08-26 Thread Piotr A. Dybczyński
Hi, I have similar problem on Dell Inspiron 3580 Both after upgrade from Buster to Bullseye and after clean install on a seprate partition laptop does not wake up (in fact it sometimes does) but completely freezes, only power off can help. When I booted Bullseye with the previous kernel (4.19

Re: /bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Thanks Greg https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992385 It is xorg-common still using tempfile. So... if you need X your choices are downgrade debian-utils or wait until a new version of xorg-common is available. Greetings

/bin/tempfile missing in debianutils 5.0.1-1

2021-08-18 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello. After the new release a tsunami of new packages arrived to unstable. They all installed ok but after the upgrade the graphical interface didn't show up. A quick look in .xsession-errors showed tempfile command was missing. tempfile must be in debian-utils package but it isn

Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

2021-04-19 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> There are some wireless hdmi kits, you plug one in the computer, one in the > display, and it works like a cable, but without the actual cable. You should > be able to find them on Amazon and other stores. I've never tried them, > though. Sure, that would work! But it doe

Re: Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

2021-04-19 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
I'd like to use the TV as an extra display for my laptop. Basically, as if it were connected with an HDMI cable, but over the network. And use both displays, the same way one usually uses two displays. Unless there's a usage of x11vnc that I don't understand, there are two is

Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

2021-04-19 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
I have a smart TV which includes a browser. (An LG running WebOS, as it happens.) It can, of course, display video streams from a given URL. So I'm hoping someone has figured out a way to create a virtual display on a Debian computer which streams its contents out as a live video stream on

Re: how to record sound to mp3

2021-03-25 Thread Victor A. Stoichita
Le 25 Mar 2021, Nicolas George a écrit : I am quite sure (and certain in the case of FFmpeg) that none of them can record the sound being played. If it’s about playing a file and recording its audio to mp3, the following will work: ffmpeg -i your-file.avi your-file.mp3 Change your

Re: IP-CONFIG: no response | eth0 hardware address DHCP RARP

2021-02-07 Thread Jeremy A.
On 2021-02-07 9:40 p.m., Elias Pereira wrote: > hello, > > I have debian 10 in a xenserver 7.0 vm with static ip and keeps trying > dhcp. Already removed some packages that could be interfering, but must > still have something installed. > > the post messages > h

Re: What is the command to access the temp sensors in a rpi4?

2021-01-18 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Do not forget for sensors to work you must first run sensors-detect Greetings El lun, 18 ene 2021 a las 20:11, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI () escribió: > > On 18/01/2021 15:35, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 18 January 2021 12:15:00 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > >>>

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-30 Thread Thomas A. Anderson
When i enter mdadm --examine /dev/sdb I get: /dev/sdb:     MBR Magic: aa55 Partition[0] : 3907026944 sectors at         2048 (type 83) So I thought I was good. I then tried to reassemble: mdadm -A -R /dev/md0 /dev/sdb   I get: mdadm: cannot assembler mbr metadata on /dev/sdb So, I tried

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-29 Thread Thomas A. Anderson
Felix, for the quick reply. I actually know the difference -- just mental lapse, it was late, and I accidentlly said stripping, though I meant mirroring (raid1). I have been using it for years, and while not a bad "thing," in retrospect, not sure it actually meant my critieria (eh, who kn

mdadm usage

2020-12-28 Thread Thomas A. Anderson
Hello, I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file server i have been running. None of the drives have failed, and I have even setup subsequent drives in the same scenario. It is only now that I wonder if I am even using RAID1 properly? In other words, now

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-24 Thread A. Kapetanovic
David Christensen writes: Do you own the four books I previously recommended? I wrote their names on a postit, for the moment. I will begin by looking on Test::Most Thanks lot for these information. Have you considered hiring a tutor or consultant? I want absolutely do this script

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-22 Thread A. Kapetanovic
> Then the problem is the Perl script and/or how the Perl script interacts with > your database. But a function vanished from my file... Amer

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-22 Thread A. Kapetanovic
23 oct. 2020 04:27:38 David Christensen : > Who wrote algo- B1.pl?  Who designed the database?  Are they for a personal > project, for a business, or something else? I designed all and it is for a personal business

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-22 Thread A. Kapetanovic
One second please, I have discovered something else : the problem is the same on a external HDD USB drive. amel@laptopasus:/media/amel/c4e65f75-d3ed-46f3-950d-bf833b0b409c$ ./algo- B1.pl Undefined subroutine &main::lisblocage called at ./algo-B1.pl line 161. amel@laptopasus:/media/

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-22 Thread A. Kapetanovic
Alexander V. Makartsev writes: Could you tell us exact model of your laptop? ASUS VivoBook 15 X512JA What type of filesystem do you use? ext4 Is it possible dataloss was a consequence for unexpected laptop freeze or shutdown or power loss or failed sleep\hibernation? I never note such

Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-20 Thread A. Kapetanovic
Hi, I have a problem with my laptop, it looks like a SSD bug : some parts in a file vanishes (a function in a perl program). I have an asus laptop which uses intel RST technology (Rapid Storage Technology), and I wonder if the problem can come from that. Does someone have an unlucky

Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Richard Hector () wrote I used to be able to use my mouse to select/paste 'normally' (for X), > when using vim in a terminal. More recently (a few years?), it doesn't > seem to work. Yes, since a few years(?) you must use shift and the mouse for copy / paste in vim u

Re: cdimage.debian.org - no ISOs of old versions

2020-05-16 Thread Maxim A Piskunov
Cool, thanks! On Sat, 16 May 2020 at 09:30, Dan Ritter wrote: > Maxim A Piskunov wrote: > > Hello, Team! > > > > Anybody can clarify what happens with old ISO images? > > > > For example, here just no ISO files > > https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdi

cdimage.debian.org - no ISOs of old versions

2020-05-16 Thread Maxim A Piskunov
Hello, Team! Anybody can clarify what happens with old ISO images? For example, here just no ISO files https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/7.0.0/ia64/iso-cd/

Re: Trying to understand why WiFi gets disconnected in Debian Buster

2020-03-16 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
ago and after many experiments I discovered wireless-regdb is Debian was (is) terribly outdated, so I filled a bug ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=949553 ), and the bug was corrected some days later, at least on testing and unstable, because stable has still the outdated package

Re: Trying to understand why WiFi gets disconnected in Debian Buster

2020-03-10 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
didier gaumet wtote: > (sorry Miguel, again I clicked too quickly on > answer instead of answer to the group and > sent tu you a private e-mail) Don't worry. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check current versions in buster backports to see if I'll be bitten by the i915

Re: Trying to understand why WiFi gets disconnected in Debian Buster

2020-03-10 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > This snippet is suggesting that AP wanted to switch channel\bandwidth to > dual channel, but your wifi adapter couldn't comply with the change, hence > forced disconnect. But the adapter is a 802.11ac one, it should be able to comply with the chang

Trying to understand why WiFi gets disconnected in Debian Buster

2020-03-09 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
] AP a0:64:8f:xx:xx:xx changed bandwidth in a way we can't support - disconnect Mar 9 17:35:28 waterhole kernel: [18873.586020] failed to follow AP a0:64:8f:dc:b1:81 bandwidth change, disconnect and every time I get a wifi disconnect, which is very annoying and counterproductive. The

Re: Conectivity loss because gateway's arp entry is incomplete

2020-03-09 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> Try to add your gateway arp with static arp entry and check whether the > problem persists. It does not work because the desktop machine still is not able to answer gateway's arp requests. Well actually it answer the request but they do not get outside the machine.

Re: Recommendations wanted: usb to WiFi dongle

2020-03-04 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
My advice: Keep away from mt76 devices with Buster. I'm using Mediatek MT7612U and it does not work well

Re: Conectivity loss because gateway's arp entry is incomplete

2020-03-04 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> This is not necessarily true. I recently bought a (chinese) wifi > adapter (atheros chip) that was recognized as mediatek. The moment > I linked the correct drivers with the device it worked properly. Not my case. They all have the same usbID (0e8d:7612) and I physically opened them

Re: Conectivity loss because gateway's arp entry is incomplete

2020-03-03 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Nektarios Katakis wrote: > I would check the `dmesg` command output. If there are erros there then > they re coming from the kernel. I forgot to mention not a single message in syslog, kern.log, or any other log I could find. Nothing. Nada. Zero. > Have you made sure that the wifi i

Conectivity loss because gateway's arp entry is incomplete

2020-03-03 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hello! Diagnosing one of my several problems with WiFi in Debian I found a problem this time not related to the WiFi connection itself, but I don't know how to get the culprit... Anyone can point me in the right direction? Symptoms: From time to time I lost Internet connection for a peri

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-29 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
I have a friend who works as a system administrator that always says: Debian Stable --> Debian Server Debian Testing --> Debian Desktop Moderate Debian Unstable --> Debian Desktop Fast Being Moderate and Fast the speed at you will eat new bugs. As time goes by, I'm more and more

Re: Poll about DVD drive behavior

2020-02-19 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
DVD A DH16AASH, the tray has been open now for more than an hour. Hope this helps.

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-14 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Do you also use the skylake GPU firmware which should be located in > /lib/firmware/i915/ > (from package firmware-linux-nonfree, I think; file names beginning with > "skl_")? Of course. I even installed the missing files in current testing / unstable https://bugs.deb

Re: Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-13 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> > Have you monitored your CPU temperatures? Yes. Always under 40°C... 45°C max. Temperature is not the problem.

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-12 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Geoff Reidy wrote: > I've never had an Intel GPU but always had the impression they > were pretty solid, but my opinion is changing. As a user of Intel GPUs for the last 5 years I can tell you Intel GPUs and Linux are just a nightmare. A truly pain in the ass. > Note that kernel

Re: Hardware for Debian

2020-02-12 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
I have a MSI B150M PRO-VDH motherboard. Never had any problem booting Linux on it. It can even disable UEFI stuff. Good luck.

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-12 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Felix Miata wrote: > If you want a solution with absence of reverse-engineering or kernel > tainting, I suggest keeping after the devs and making sure to answer > any requests you might get there promptly in > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/673, and offer additional &

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> My advice: put an nvidia card in there. That's what I did, and have had no > problems since. Thank you for the advice. That's my plan if kernel 5.5 doesn't work well.

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
ble the kernels disapears as new kernels get into. How to install and keep an old kernel in a new instalation? Thanks

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> Are you sure this is not coming from a software you are using? For every problem I had / have with Intel GPU I can find other users on any distribution's bug tracker with exactly the very same errors in the kernel log, so I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one suffering from Int

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Interesting very interesting. > (On what GPU?) The same as yours: VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06) in a I5-6500 CPU. > For whatever it's worth, I do *not* see any problems like this. Not > even close. Intel integrated graphics of this g

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> Hi, Miguel > The computer I'm typing on is a Lenovo Z570. I7-2670 processor, 8 gigs > ram, 480 gig ssd. Snappy as hell. Running Debian Bullseye. I've made > it usable by: > Adding a 20-intel.config file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d > Adding the Ubuntu graphics PPA >

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> I have had perfectly reasonable experiences with: > > nvidia 8400 > nvidia 720 > nvidia 730 > nvidia 1030 > nvidia 1050 I made a quick search and some of these cards are under 50 euros, so I will try if I do not get a solution. Thank you for the advice!

Re: The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
G: ecode 9:1:0x, hang on rcs0 [ 135.116724] GPU hangs can indicate a bug anywhere in the entire gfx stack, including userspace. [ 135.116725] Please file a _new_ bug report on bugs.freedesktop.org against DRI -> DRM/Intel [ 135.116726] drm/i915 developers can then reassign to the right co

The nightmare of Intel Integrated GPUs under Linux in general and Debian in particular

2020-02-11 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Around the end of 2014 I moved to Debian as my primary operating system. In that year my computer was a Dual Core CPU with integrated GPU. It worked just fine with the previous operating system but as soon I started to use Debian every day I got system freezes that I quickly diagnose as GPU bugs

Re: Buster 10.2 kernel problems

2020-01-16 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
> Downgrades are not supported, did you re-install? Yes, full reinstall over a wiped hard disk. > Try the kernel from backports, currently 5.4. That was exactly the problem I had. Current kernels 5.4.x both on Testing and Sid produce constant GPU hangs on my Intel HD Graphics 530, The one

Buster 10.2 kernel problems

2020-01-14 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Today I downgraded my main computer to Buster 10.2 (current Stable) and found some problems. First: Syslog is constantly filled with messages like these: xhci_hcd :00:14.0: WARN Wrong bounce buffer write length: 630 != 318 xhci_hcd :00:14.0: WARN Wrong bounce buffer write length: 234 != 0

TP-LINK Archer T1U USB WiFi device only works on pure N networks

2019-11-24 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hi Playing with different 802.11ac usb devices I noticed the small 5 GHz only TP-Link Archer T1U (usbid 2357:0105) only works if you try to connect to a pure 5 GHz 802.11n network. In this case no problem at all. But if you try to connect to a 802.11ac/n network, it does not connect, falling in

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

2019-11-20 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
If WiFi N is fine for you I recommend the Cisco WUSB600N V2. It's a dual band USB stick based on the RaLink RT3572 chip and works like a charm with Debian. I used some of them in the past for several years with no issues. If you need 802.11ac I guess the support is not very good yet with D

WiFi: changed bandwidth in a way we can't support - disconnect

2019-11-18 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
annel, ignore wlx00e0bb330276: AP VHT information is invalid, disable VHT wlx00e0bb330276: AP a0:64:8f:dc:b1:81 changed bandwidth, new config is 5540 MHz, width 2 (5550/0 MHz) wlx00e0bb330276: AP a0:64:8f:dc:b1:81 changed bandwidth in a way we can't support - disconnect wlx00e0bb330276:

Re: New Linux User needs some guidance

2019-10-07 Thread A . Söldner
Am 07.10.2019 um 18:26 schrieb lwhona...@gmail.com: Greetings All, Briefly, I am a new Linux want-to-be.  I am totally blind, retired computer specialist with most of my work experience in the Windows world.  I do have a passing knowledge of Unix. I am attempting my first install of Debian

Re: Running a music player via cron

2019-09-26 Thread A . Söldner
To listen music under bash I always use cvlc from program vlc. Maybe a other possibility. Regards Am 25.09.2019 um 17:24 schrieb Jean-Philippe MENGUAL: Hello, Since some Sid update (about 2 weeks), something may have happent in te audio stack or the terminal because what worked no longer

Re: Re: Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-15 Thread Nicholas A Fleisher
>> Is this intended behavior, or is this a bug in the installer? If it's >> a bug, where is the right place to report it to? (I'm not sure which >> package(s) are involved) > > It is partman-efi[1]. Don't know if there is any particular reason why >

Re: Re: Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-14 Thread Nicholas A Fleisher
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-fstab-generator.html > > The passno field is treated like a simple boolean, and the ordering > information > is discarded. However, if the root file system is checked, it is checked > before > all the other

Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

2019-09-14 Thread Nicholas A Fleisher
I've just installed Buster using the installer's guided partitioning and noticed a possible error in the resulting /etc/fstab. Under guided partitioning, I chose the option to use the whole disk with LVM on LUKS. Apart from the LUKS partition and the LVs inside it, the installer

Re: Sid broke my wireless

2019-09-10 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
Hi! Kernels 5.2.x are a disaster for wifi. Several wifi modules doesn't work well or doesn't work at all. I'm experiencing myself too much frequent disconnects with USB wifi cards (Mediatek and Realtek). Then add USB 3.0 problems (Wrong bounce buffer write length warnings) and

Re: pdftk

2019-08-26 Thread Victor A. Stoichita
Le 26 Aug 2019, Siard a écrit : AFAIK that should be: $ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output result.pdf It also works without "cat". The OP seemed to be looking for the simplest possible form. Regards, Victor

Re: pdftk

2019-08-26 Thread Victor A. Stoichita
Le 26 Aug 2019, steef a écrit : hi folks! is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains with 'input-errors'. steef

Re: systemd not seeing my user units after reboot

2019-08-23 Thread Victor A. Stoichita
Le 23 Aug 2019, Sven Hartge a écrit : It was never not available in Sid. This normal for packages, they are normally only removed from Testing. Thanks for clarifying this. I guess that I was confused by the Debian wiki at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable The wiki says that Sid

Re: systemd not seeing my user units after reboot

2019-08-23 Thread Victor A. Stoichita
Le 23 Aug 2019, Sven Hartge a écrit : Victor A. Stoichita wrote: Could it be relevant that my home folder is encrypted with ecryptfs? How can I check whether it is now decrypted before or after systemd starts its user instance? ecryptfs is not included nor supported in Debian 10

systemd not seeing my user units after reboot

2019-08-22 Thread Victor A. Stoichita
Hi, I have some custom systemd units in ~/.config/systemd/user In Debian 9 I could start my ~/.config/systemd/user/foo.service after reboot and login simply with $ systemctl --user start foo.service Since I upgraded to Debian 10, I need to issue a prior $ systemctl --user daemon-reload If I

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