Re: [OT] Help with clonezilla-live: LUKS/LVM2 image backup without partclone.dd

2021-04-14 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I have never used Clonezilla nor LUKS "Many File systems are supported: (1) ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, f2fs and nilfs2 of GNU/Linux, (2) FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS of MS Windows, (3) HFS+ of Mac OS, (4) UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, (5)

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-14 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I think that this error message is not about MSI-the-manufacturer but that here MSI stands for Message Signaled Interrupt: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/PCI/msi-howto.html You could then try to boot with the pci=nomsi boot parameter to see if your PC boots properly. But the

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-04-01 Thread didier gaumet
Le 01/04/2021 à 10:02, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Mi, 31 mar 21, 22:54:59, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: [...] Is linux-signed-amd64 the source of linux-image-amd64? [...] I suppose there are some constraints here but it would be (apparently) easier if the names were matching ^^ Using different so

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

2021-03-27 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, The Debian installer in graphic mode seems to rely on a VESA/VGA driver rather than a driver dedicated to the hardware detected? on my laptop, I just booted an USB Debian 10 installer key and it was the vga16fb module that was loaded

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-26 Thread didier gaumet
Le 26/03/2021 à 12:33, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Please see https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI for more documentation on UEFI in Debian. In that document I tried to cover a lot of the issues raised in this thread. ... and you succeeded. Thank you for your good work, Steve :-)

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-24 Thread didier gaumet
Le 24/03/2021 à 03:12, Victor Sudakov a écrit : The relation between qemu and kvm confuses me. "apt install qemu-kvm" is trying to install a ton of X11 packages including Mesa drivers etc, I would not really want that. And "apt install kvm" does not find such a package. QEMU/KVM relationship:

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-23 Thread didier gaumet
Le 23/03/2021 à 10:54, Victor Sudakov a écrit : 1. Does qemu use hardware virtualization (VT-d, whatever is in the CPU)? Yes, I think that basically, KVM requires it (and that Qemu does not) 2. Can qemu present the NIC and drives to the guest paravirtualized? FreeBSD understands VirtIO Block

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-23 Thread didier gaumet
Le 23/03/2021 à 11:06, Victor Sudakov a écrit : My usecase would be, among other things, to access external media attached to the host from inside the guest, e.g. those partitioned and encrypted in FreeBSD-specific ways (geli encryption, gbde etc). this link, albeit a little old should be of i

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-03-23 Thread didier gaumet
Hello from what I understand: - in Bullseye, as indicated in its webpage on the Debian packages website, the linux-image-5.10.0-4-amd64 binary package is built from the linux-signed-amd64 source package - the purpose of Debian Backports is to provide to Stable users binary packages of sourc

Re: Running a FreeBSD guest

2021-03-23 Thread didier gaumet
Le 23/03/2021 à 03:20, Victor Sudakov a écrit : Dear Colleagues, What's the minimum software kit to run a couple of FreeBSD guests (serial console, no graphics needed) on a Debian 10 host? I don't need any fancy management GUI like that of VirtualBox, would just prefer some minimalistic hypervi

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-03-22 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, There is a linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 package but linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 has yet to be uploaded (linux-image-5.10.0-0.bpo.4-amd64-unsigned is there already)

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-21 Thread didier gaumet
Sorry, the link to the Fedora doc: https://blog.uncooperative.org/blog/2014/02/06/the-efi-system-partition/

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-21 Thread didier gaumet
the /EFI/BOOT subdirectory is a common standard: https://members.uefi.org/specs/esp_registry I have not retrieved the UEFI specification wich details its usage, but there is a Fedora doc that explains it a little the shim (SecureBoot) case. And I seem to recall that years ago, I needed to manu

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/03/2021 à 11:17, Morgan Read a écrit : [...] I was trying to boot from standard PureOS usb boot image. [...] 'The selected boot device failed. Press to Continue.' [...] Hint: the following page of the PureOS website seems to indicate that PureOS is not UEFI compliant https://track

Re: systemd 248 in bullseye?

2021-03-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello from what I understand, Bulleye's version of Systemd is now frozen to 247: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/02/msg2.html

Re: l'actu internationale du 5/3: Hong-Kong et Chine

2021-03-05 Thread didier gaumet
Please excuse my mistake, I have sent by error to the list a private message that was to be sent to a friend Again, my apologies.

l'actu internationale du 5/3: Hong-Kong et Chine

2021-03-05 Thread didier gaumet
HONG-KONG - Sur les 47 militants de Hong Kong incarcérés, 15 ont été libérés sous caution mais restent détenus dans l'attente d'un appel introduit par le ministère de la justice (traduc auto Google) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=fr&u=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-c

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le 25/02/2021 à 14:03, John Mok a écrit : [...] I think it is related to Xen HVM + OVMF. Anyone has an idea what went wrong ? Hello, did you use the "bios='ovmf'" option in the xl.cfg file of your Debian Xen guest? By default, even if OVMF is installed/present on your OS host, Xen uses Sea

Re: Unable to boot on Xen HVM + OVMF

2021-02-24 Thread didier gaumet
I have never used Xen but I use Qemu/KVM via virtmanager on a Debian 10 host. I have installed several UEFI (OVMF) booting guest OSes, including Debian with no particular problem. The problem of your Debian guest not booting could be caused by the Debian installer not being run in UEFI mode

Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-13 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I do not use and am not familiar with Sinology hardware and software and generally speaking, I am not knowledgeable in networking I would say that: - the owner:group names of a file on the PC you backup and the owner:group names of the backup files on the synology files

Re: how to set link/level in wifi configuration?

2021-02-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/02/2021 à 07:42, Long Wind a écrit : zhou@debian:~$ inxi -F System:   Host: debian Kernel: 4.9.0-8-686-pae i686 bits: 32 Desktop: twm   Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) [...]   Topology: Dual Core model: Pentium E6500 bits: 64 type: MCP [...]   Device-1: Ralink MT7601U Wireless

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-18 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/01/2021 à 21:15, Long Wind a écrit : wifi is ok with cell phone, it isn't with buster allow-hotplug wlx0022c0001a59 [...] is it a wireless card managed by the mt76 driver (perhaps am I mistaken but the name reminds me of it)? mt76 support having been introduced in Linux 4.19, it's fair

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/01/2021 à 21:37, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : [...] I didn't pay attention there is a needrestart-session! Can you tell me please how it could be useful to me if I have already needrestart? Indeed, needrestart already lists me the "User sessions running outdated binaries"... What's more to e

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, basically it seems to detect which service needs to be restarted after an upgrade I installed needrestart (and needrestart-session too) because it is suggested by unattended-upgrades (installed and running on my system, with apt-listbugs), so when something has been upgraded and needs

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/01/2021 à 10:30, deloptes a écrit : didier gaumet wrote: [...] https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-usb-connection-your-android-phone-default-file-transfer-mode-0234540/ sorry but this is site is crap [...] OK, my bad, sorry then let's enounce the steps on my Android

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
It is probably related to your Android settings and independant of your PC OS (Debian): https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-usb-connection-your-android-phone-default-file-transfer-mode-0234540/

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 16/01/2021 à 22:55, Stefan Monnier a écrit : [...] I often enable `non-free` because I need it for one package or another (GFDL docs for example), but I strongly dislike the fact that as soon as it's enabled, all its packages become "silently" installable. [...] On this particular point, per

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-04 Thread didier gaumet
A little bit out-of-subject because it also mentions proprietary software, but there is a very recent article precisely on this subject: https://www.fastcompany.com/90590201/how-to-use-flash-to-play-old-games-after-adobe-discontinues-it (and being not intersted in games, I did not know archive.

Re: Open Source Flash Alternatives

2021-01-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 1 janvier 2021 à 16:40:07 UTC+1, Kenneth Parker a écrit : > Since Adobe Flash is going the way of the Dodo Bird, I thought I'd check up > on Open Source Alternatives, since I have some Standalone .swf files (games, > etc). > > Two came up in my searches, Lightspark (which seems to be

Re: Unresolved mime type.............

2021-01-01 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, An unknown MIME type in a desktop environment does not prevent a file to be open by an application that can manage it but it prevents double-clicking the file because there is no known prefered application to open it. The MIME page of the Debian wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/MIME (if yo

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : [...] > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > but a different one: 960x540. Why? Is this to save space when recording? to set

Re: Webcam resolution in VLC (and elsewhere)

2020-12-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 30 décembre 2020 à 16:40:06 UTC+1, Celejar a écrit : [...] > 1) Why does VLC default to the lower resolution? Incidentally, I see > that Cheese also opens the camera by default at a lower resolution - > but a different one: 960x540. Why? Is this to save space when recording? I don't

Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why?

2020-12-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 11:30:06 UTC+1, Gregor Zattler a écrit : > thanks. The alternatives mechanism was OK all the time, atm it is: > $ update-alternatives --display pinentry > pinentry - auto mode > link best version is /usr/bin/pinentry-fltk > link currently points to /usr/bin/pinentry

Re: pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} stopped working pinentry-fltk works, why?

2020-12-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 00:30:05 UTC+1, Gregor Zattler a écrit : > Dear fellow debian users, since yesterday pinentry-{qt,gtk2,gnome3} > stopped working. When I want to decrypt some .gpg file, no dialog > appears and gpg-agent times out. Luckily pinentry-curses and > pinentry-fltk still do w

Re: Query regarding Debian 9.9 (stretch)

2020-12-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 11 décembre 2020 à 10:30:06 UTC+1, Pratiek N a écrit : > Hello Team, > > Greetings for the day! > > I need your help regarding a query about Debian 9.9 > > Please help me understand if Intel Wi-Fi Module AC9260 supports Debian 9.9 ? > > If it is supported then is the wifi driver par

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

2020-12-10 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 10 décembre 2020 à 10:50:06 UTC+1, PstrfZ a écrit : > On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all > debian-based. Is it possible to select which system to boot > while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system > by sending the command via SSH) Hell

Re: Proprietary drivers management

2020-12-08 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 8 décembre 2020 à 09:40:06 UTC+1, Victor Sudakov a écrit : [...] > Do you mean that if I install the metapackage: > `apt install nvidia-driver-390` > this should be sufficient? No GUI tweaking? Following the Ubuntu wiki instructions would probably be the best solution: https://help.ubu

Re: Help with install on old Mac

2020-12-05 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple (old or new) hardware There is the Debian Jessie installation manual for the powerpc architecture: https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/index.html.en the 3.6.1 section could explain why you have difficulties to boot from your hard disk

Re: [i915/drm error] Cannot control brightness

2020-11-27 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 27 novembre 2020 à 14:50:06 UTC+1, prog-a...@tutamail.com a écrit : [...] > Hello, the brightness doesn't work (cursor moves but not real brightness). [...] > i915 :00:02.0 : [drm] *ERROR* Failed to get the PMIC PWM chip > i915 :00:02.0 : [drm] *ERROR* [CRTC:51:pipe A] mismatch

Re: RTL8821CE does not load automatically at boot time

2020-11-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 24 novembre 2020 à 19:10:06 UTC+1, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : > Is there a reason for using an external driver? Kernel module for your NIC is > already provided by stable kernel image. You've probably just missing a > firmware. [1] > Have you tried to install "firmware-realtek" pa

Re: How to write in Chinese

2020-11-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 20 novembre 2020 à 05:10:06 UTC+1, Markos a écrit : > Please, > > I am studying Chinese and I need to install fonts to type ideograms in > Debian 9. > > I use Brazilian Portuguese, but I don't want to reconfigure my computer > to type only in Chinese. > > Using LibreOffice or wi

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 14:20:06 UTC+1, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] > cf https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Command_line/ there are the --volume-step and --gain options as well, more directly suitable

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le dimanche 15 novembre 2020 à 03:40:06 UTC+1, Juan R. de Silva a écrit : > I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each > time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio > volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. [...] Pe

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 10 novembre 2020 à 14:20:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit : [...] > // __ nach installation: ls -l "/lib/firmware/b43" [...] > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31176 Nov 7 17:59 ucode11.fw [...] > // __ journalctl | grep -i firmware > Nov 07 17:44:06 debian kernel: acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware

Re: Virt-install setting hostname as extra args not working

2020-11-06 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I would say that you are thus probably setting the hostname of the installer itself instead of the hostname of the final guest machine. Perhaps replacing hostname=try05 by d-i:hostname=try05 or d-i:netcfg/get_hostname=try05 would be better cf https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-05 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 5 novembre 2020 à 12:00:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit : > > "ip l" (for "ip link") lists the network links the kernel is aware of. > $ ip l > 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN > mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 >

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-11-04 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 3 novembre 2020 à 12:10:06 UTC+1, Albretch Mueller a écrit : > > sudo modprobe b43 > > Doesn't show to me anything. > > and > > > ip l > > displays a sequence of 0:0:0:0:0: ... chars which don't look like a > MAC address or any of such things > > > lbrtchx "modprobe b43" tries

Re: What's going on with snapd?

2020-10-27 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Did you follow these steps? https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-debian

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le dimanche 25 octobre 2020 à 19:00:08 UTC+1, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > Already have Dillo set up, but I need more than a viewer. I want a > client that handles HTML as well as plain text emails, so I don't have > to login into the mail account via a browser to interact with the email. I just

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-25 Thread didier gaumet
Le dimanche 25 octobre 2020 à 01:10:06 UTC+2, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > Hi! All, > > Looking for recommendations for a lightweight email client that will > handle HTML as well as plain text to replace Claws-Mail. Have been > using Claws-Mail for years and before it Sylpheed. Claws used to have

Re: Error making another file manager the preferred app

2020-10-25 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, reading http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/spacefm-manual-en.html#programfiles-usr-bin-spacefm-auth , Perhaps you should use the spacefm executable rather than the spacefm-auth one?

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 22 octobre 2020 à 16:00:06 UTC+2, Albretch Mueller a écrit : [...] > what should I do now? Follow the link Dan Ritter gave to you earlier: http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/#other_distros it indicates to install (dpkg -i or apt install) b43-fwcutter and then:

Re: Is there such a thing as a Debian blend for a MacBook Air 1,1 and/or Mac boxes in general? ...

2020-10-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 22 octobre 2020 à 12:30:06 UTC+2, Albretch Mueller a écrit : > > I suggest using firmware-b43-installer ... > > Once again, I am using dpkg and installing the deb packages locally > because I am trying to troubleshoot, make a wireless card work. > > Why would a package used to make a

Re: which package can convert barcode image to url?

2020-10-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le mercredi 21 octobre 2020 à 01:40:04 UTC+2, Charles Curley a écrit : [...] > I have used zbar-tools to decode bar codes [...] and for the GUI way: it seems qtqr should do the trick: https://screenshots.debian.net/package/qtqr

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-13 Thread didier gaumet
My bad , you 're right :-) Not only apt and apt-get play safe here but even aptitude does not react as I was thinking it would: the three of them refuse to install a package when they meet a forbidden dependency

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-10-13 Thread didier gaumet
Hello Stefan, I have no knowledge of this matter, but from what I understand from sse2-support package page (1), by forbidding its installation you will get rid of your error message without being rid of the error: that is précisely its purpose to warn you, by failing to install, that a pack

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

2020-08-18 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Apparently, it is also possible to either: - give a name to the filesystem (use e2label to do so, the filesystem being ext4) and mount the filesystem by using this name as a parameter of the mount command instead of /dev/sd* or an UUID - give a name to the underlyning partition (use par

Re: aptitude problem with control file (in stretch)

2020-08-05 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, perhaps options described here could help you: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s05s05.en.html

Re: Enlarging /boot

2020-08-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, If I understand correctly, it seems the minimum size (32MB, 100MB or 260MB) of the ESP depends on the sector logical and physical size of the disk: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions#diskpartitionrules http

Re: Debian 10.4

2020-07-31 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, perhaps the solutions detailed here will work in your case: https://askubuntu.com/questions/237051/undetected-logitech-mx-5500-keyboard-and-mouse

Re: Browsers crashing in Bullseye armhf

2020-07-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Hi, you may launch chromium whith the -g option from a terminal: once in the debugger, you "start" and wait for a crash in the browser while you navigate the web. I suppose, the debugger in the terminal should give you a trace of the crash.

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

2020-07-06 Thread didier . gaumet
OK, I have read a little bit :-) Now I understand better the difference between enforce (for production) and complain (for testing/setup) modes and that they are mutually exclusive. man aa-genprof seems to indicate that the complain mode is set only during the generation of the profile: when

Re: No "type=APPARMOR_ALLOWED/DENIED" logs

2020-07-06 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, Sorry, I am almost totally Apparmor ignorant but would both set enforce and complain modes for your profiles give you the result you expect?

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

2020-07-04 Thread didier . gaumet
Sorry for being so absent-minded: I answered here thinking I was answering on the same message on the french list. Apologies :-)

Re: Probleme Bullseye / hp spectre x360 15

2020-07-04 Thread didier . gaumet
Bonjour, d'abord quelques observations: - tu as posté le même message en français sur les lites debian.user et debian.user.french: tu dois poster sur debian.user.french en français mais si tu postes sur debian.user tu dois le faire en anglais - ces listes ne sont pas des supports techniques d'un

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Le 03/07/2020 à 11:43, Baabu JOY a écrit : > Hello Mr didier >Thanks for your valuable reply . i need depth > understanding how ur doing (apt search multimedia-animation/stable 0.7 ) > Im also expecting same output like this . can u please share information > regarding t

Re: Package management

2020-07-03 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello There are metapackages (groups of packages) in Debian. I am not aware a a global multimedia Debian metapackage There are some multimedia metapackages, though: $ apt search multimedia- [...] multimedia-ambisonics/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) m

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 17 juin 2020 01:40:05 UTC+2, Gary L. Roach a écrit : [...] > I now have to start communications with the Elmerfem people who have > religated their GUI Qt4 problems from a bug to an inhancement. I have > gotten warnings from several different sources that Debian is dropping > Qt4 be

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-17 Thread didier . gaumet
(Apologies if this link have been given before) You will find a thread there on a KDE forum detailing why running Dolphin as root is discouraged and how to bypass this measure: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=141836

Re: Installing Debian In Intel Optane System

2020-06-15 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello, disclaimer: I do not have Optane hardware, all the following is supposition you will probably be interested in reading some of the links mentioned here: https://nvdimm.wiki.kernel.org/start I would imagine that you could use the pmem memmap kernel parameter to launch the Debian install

Re: Excess security measures

2020-05-17 Thread didier gaumet
if you like risky business: 1) assuming you use sddm: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193261 (you probably also may auto-login as root which would be simpler) 2) https://askubuntu.com/questions/74345/how-do-i-bypass-ignore-the-gpg-signature-checks-of-apt

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
I do not know well the subject but RAM problems can be a nightmare and I suppose yours could be -for example- caused by a particular area of the RAM that does not systematically fail under workload (transiant fault) and thus is not detected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_tester

Re: Suggestion on hardware issue?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, perhaps try to install in text mode and lowmem: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s03.en.html perhaps you have a RAM problem in a particular area that is not reported by the RAM verifying tool you used. If the installation succeeds, it could mean you have to replace the RA

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-11 Thread didier gaumet
Le 11/05/2020 à 19:12, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : > Hi, > > 10 mai 2020 à 23:24 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: > >> I am not sure of it but perhaps this is linked to the absence of >> proposed-updates in your sources.list: >> https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates >> > Isn't proposed-updates

Re: Why do I have so many packages to upgrade with Debian 10.4?

2020-05-10 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I am not sure of it but perhaps this is linked to the absence of proposed-updates in your sources.list: https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates

Re: Slow performance due to llvmpipe being used despite Radeon kernel and X modules being loaded

2020-05-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/05/2020 à 19:28, Sven Joachim a écrit : > No, it is just listed because the llvmpipe driver was developed by > VMWare. You can see this for yourself, setting LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 > in the environment makes libgl use the llvmpipe driver: > > , > | LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 glxinfo | gre

Re: Slow performance due to llvmpipe being used despite Radeon kernel and X modules being loaded

2020-05-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 06/05/2020 à 22:15, EoflaOE ViceCity a écrit : > Hello. Sorry for the length of this problem, but I am trying to get the > X server to use my graphics card, AMD Radeon 9200 SE (RV280), instead of > my CPU to render things on the desktop. I actually have a newer > computer, but I use the older co

Re: Custom application icon do not appear in Gnome and LXQT

2020-05-04 Thread didier gaumet
my apologies to Yvan, I replied to him by e-mail (clicked too hastily) I am not knowledgeable at all about this subject but perhaps you will find some hints there? https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Howto_desktop_files/

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/04/2020 à 18:45, didier gaumet a écrit : > [...] to link is to copy:[...] sorry: to link is not to copy

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-19 Thread didier gaumet
Le 19/04/2020 à 16:34, Anil F Duggirala a écrit : > Thank you Richard. As far as I can see in this link, they simply > recommend making a link between my system fonts and the famous Fonts > folder in drive_c/windows. My OP was about not having to do that [...] Hello Anil, You did mention that yo

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-18 Thread didier gaumet
there is a Debian Wiki page about Wine: https://wiki.debian.org/Wine (I did not provide this link before because it is less specific about fonts)

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-17 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Fonts

Re: Issue with i915 PSR module option

2020-03-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/03/2020 à 19:22, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : [...] > 28 mars 2020 à 18:00 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: > >> and enable_psr must be set to 1, not 0 >> > I set it up to 0 because I have frequent err/3 on journalctl like the > following: > kernel: [drm:intel_pipe_update_end [i915]] *ERROR* Atomic

Re: Issue with i915 PSR module option

2020-03-28 Thread didier gaumet
and enable_psr must be set to 1, not 0

Re: Question regarding an ACPI BIOS Error (bug)

2020-03-28 Thread didier gaumet
fwupd is worth noting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fwupd and not only does it manage PC firmwares (UEFI) but peripheral cards firmwares too but it is far from widely adopted :-(

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

2020-03-10 Thread didier gaumet
mt76 driver support has been included in linux 4.19, precisely the version Buster supplies. I have myself a Netgear A6210 (mt76 driver) and I cannot connect to my AP with genuine kernel and firmware, but with the buster-backports kernel and firmware, the adapter works fine. (sorry Miguel, again I

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-08 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, I have not tried this and do not use imagemagick directly (it is installed as a dependance on my system): perhaps you can deinstall imagemagick and install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat instead? (Sorry, Emmanuel, my mistake, I dit click on "answer" and sent tp you a private mail)

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/03/2020 à 15:30, Patrice Duroux a écrit : > > Sorry it was not my intention that the discussion should slide in a > different direction than > that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about > solving such situation without removing anything from my system because > appl

Re: Recommendations wanted: usb to WiFi dongle

2020-03-04 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Charles wanting a Buster compatible adapter, I must add that I have been unable to connect to my AP with a "pure" Debian Buster (wireless client mode, no AP mode). I have had to enable backports and use backported kernel and firmware. The firmware-misc-nonfree package which contains mt76 fi

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-23 Thread didier . gaumet
Le dimanche 23 février 2020 00:40:05 UTC+1, Anastasios Lisgaras a écrit : [...] > I don't want to tire you out, but I would love to learn my operating > system thanks to this misfortune. If they were in my position a system > administrator or a software developer or a hacker about Debian > GNU/L

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-22 Thread didier . gaumet
Le samedi 22 février 2020 20:30:04 UTC+1, Anastasios Lisgaras a écrit : [...] > I think all is well, isn't it? > Because the last line worries me a little. > > [14666.667585] ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored Yes, all the needed firmwares seem to be present. Explanation of the

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-22 Thread didier . gaumet
Le samedi 22 février 2020 11:50:05 UTC+1, Anastasios Lisgaras a écrit : > On 2/19/20 8:14 PM, Anastasios Lisgaras wrote: [...] > > How do I see if my hardware needs > > a particular firmware to work properly? For the hardware already known to the kernel, the later will try to load a firmware whe

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-19 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mardi 18 février 2020 14:50:04 UTC+1, Nektarios Katakis a écrit : > Στις 2020-02-18 12:41, Anastasios Lisgaras έγραψε: [...] [...] > > Thank you for your answer. About "backports firmwares" what should I > > do? > > What do you have to recommend me? > > ( I didn't know that at all ) cf https:/

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) was broken after upgraded from stretch-backports.

2020-02-17 Thread didier . gaumet
> Στις 2020-02-17 13:17, Anastasios Lisgaras έγραψε: [...] > > 1. I created this file : /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list > > (https://pastebin.com/raw/YM11TDer) > > 2. I also created this file : > > /etc/apt/preferences.d/89_stretch-backports_default > > (https://pastebin.com/raw/F6

Re: Wifi USB dongle

2020-02-14 Thread didier . gaumet
The Netgear A6210 (mt76 driver) would do. Readily available in France at Darty.

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Le mercredi 12 février 2020 15:10:04 UTC+1, Felix Miata a écrit : [...] > If you present to it what it wants, it makes no partitioning changes. If you > don't, it will divide up what you do give it, as long as what you do give it > can meet its minimum requirement. [...] I am sure now that you are

Re: Having trouble installing Debian on brand new hard drive

2020-02-12 Thread didier . gaumet
Please use a correct quoting method: it is difficult to differenciate your discourse from others when when replying to you :-) Le mercredi 12 février 2020 09:00:05 UTC+1, kaye n a écrit : > Are UEFI updates necessary? What's the smallest allowable size I can make > for UEFI partition? Or is tha

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-01 Thread didier . gaumet
Hello David, - probably, you were not asked about grub during installation because you did not chose the expert installation mode - possibly, your problems originate, at least in part, from the fact that albeit creating a new ESP (EFI) partition on your USB key, the installer try to use also

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-30 Thread didier . gaumet
Le jeudi 30 janvier 2020 06:30:04 UTC+1, David Christensen a écrit : > On 2020-01-29 10:51, David Christensen wrote: > >     root@d-i:/# grub-install --target x86_64-efi-signed > >     grub-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi-signed/modinfo.sh > > doesn't exist. Please specify --target or -

Re: identity confusion

2020-01-24 Thread didier . gaumet
Does the --login option provide the same result? EXcerpt from the su man page: "For backward compatibility, su defaults to not change the current di‐ rectory and to only set the environment variables HOME and SHELL (plus USER and LOGNAME if the target user is not root). It

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