usermod video,audio (was: Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970)

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/08/2024 06:15, George at Clug wrote: usermod -a -G video,audio [myusername] It should not be necessary. Udev and systemd-logind "uaccess" feature grants permissions to the current active user through ACLs.

Re: change video driver

2024-07-09 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-07 09:36, mick.crane wrote: On [cough] Trixie, just how do I change the video driver. I'm using driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on older kernel There must have been a reason, likely the available resolution. With kernel 6.9.7-amd64 have to "startx" and the

change video driver

2024-07-07 Thread mick.crane
On [cough] Trixie, just how do I change the video driver. I'm using driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-tesla-470 on older kernel There must have been a reason, likely the available resolution. With kernel 6.9.7-amd64 have to "startx" and then the available displays in Xfce are

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-05 Thread Van Snyder
On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work. Thanks to Hans for the detailed list, which I was not able to use successfully. I had probably either broken something first, or didn't follow the instructi

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Hans
This should not have been happened. Maybe you dis something in a wrong way? I treid myself and it did not deinstall kde. It is important, not to do any upgrade while the entry for sid is in sources.list. Just install both packages (as told in the wiki), then after this install remove the si

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
> next. I don't have a choice for my laptop, where the NVidia graphic > chip is soldered to the mother board, but for my desktop if Mint > doesn't work out, I'll give serious consideration to getting a > supported video card from *not* NVidia. > Linux Mint current versi

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Van Snyder
, saying "you have held broken packages." I've been told that Mint includes NVidia drivers, so I'll try that next. I don't have a choice for my laptop, where the NVidia graphic chip is soldered to the mother board, but for my desktop if Mint doesn't work out, I'

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-04 Thread Hans
Tried again, somehow there was no subject sent with my last mail. So, well, I believe I got a solution. However, not everyone might be happy with it, but maybe it will work. I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a backport kernel, but it might also work with other

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
At the time they were a big > step up. Now NVidia doesn't support them in Debian. What do you > recommend for them? Multiple monitors. No gaming but an occasional > video. And some features of the KDE Kinfocenter, especially the System > Monitor, either don't work at all, or jus

Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Hans
Hi van Snyder, I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, but maybe it will work. I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a backport kernel, but it might also work with other kernels, too. You also need to install the build environment, the eas

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Van Snyder
ve them to me when computers were decommissioned. At the time they were a big step up. Now NVidia doesn't support them in Debian. What do you recommend for them? Multiple monitors. No gaming but an occasional video. And some features of the KDE Kinfocenter, especially the System Monitor, either

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
dia software by following > the installation instructions provided with it, and often fails anyhow. IOW, > once NVidia driver installation is attempted, a clean Debian installation, > absent xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, is the typical path to nouveau success. > -- I'd almost go f

Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)

2024-07-02 Thread Felix Miata
Van Snyder composed on 2024-06-07 13:29 (UTC-0700): > Has anybody been able to install the NVidia 340.108 video driver in > Debian 12? > The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau." It should have said more. Some of what it should have included

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-10 Thread Van Snyder
Hans: Thanks for the note. It seems that nouveau is a bit more stable in Debian 12.5 than it had been in Debian 10.1. At least I hope it is. So far, it hasn't crashed. MfG, Van On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 10:11 +0200, Hans wrote: > No, the NV6800M needs 340xx driver, not 390xx as I prior posted. Howev

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In real life no one wants to care of it! Nvidia not, because this > costs money and the developers not, because this is Nvidia and > proprietrary (what is not quite correct, because the kernel-module, > which is the part, that can not be build, is open-source). Since you say it's "open source

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-10 Thread Hans
No, the NV6800M needs 340xx driver, not 390xx as I prior posted. However, I have a GF-119 in my Lenovo T520, where nvidia-detect says, it needs 340xx. But, although I got 340xx compiled for the kernel, it did not start. I then build 390xx, which worked like a charm. This happened on my notebook

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-09 Thread Van Snyder
On Mon, 2024-06-10 at 01:13 +0200, Toni Mas Soler wrote: > El Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:56:23 -0700Van Snyder < > van.sny...@sbcglobal.net> va escriure el següent: > > On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 22:47 +0200, Hans wrote: > > > Just a hint: Sometimes the nvidia-config module says, you > > > need340.xx, but this

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-09 Thread Toni Mas Soler
El Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:56:23 -0700 Van Snyder va escriure el següent: > On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 22:47 +0200, Hans wrote: > > Just a hint: Sometimes the nvidia-config module says, you need > > 340.xx, but this is not always true. My card (with th eolder > > kernel) was running 390.xx, although th es

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/06/2024 03:29, Van Snyder wrote: Has anybody been able to install the NVidia 340.108 video driver in Debian 12? I am not aware of current state of affairs. Several years ago it was possible to rebuild the .deb package (that uses DKMS) with additional patches to make the code compatible

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-06-07 at 22:47 +0200, Hans wrote: > Just a hint: Sometimes the nvidia-config module says, you need 340.xx, but > this is not always true. My card (with th eolder kernel) was running 390.xx, > although th esystem told me, I have to use 340.xx. 390.xx was running like a > charm, 340.x

Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-07 Thread Hans
to install the NVidia 340.108 video driver in > Debian 12? > > The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau." > > But I seem to have trouble with nouveau. When I was running Debian 10 > on a Dell Vostro 1700 laptop with NVidia GeForce 8400M graphic

NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

2024-06-07 Thread Van Snyder
Has anybody been able to install the NVidia 340.108 video driver in Debian 12? The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau." But I seem to have trouble with nouveau. When I was running Debian 10 on a Dell Vostro 1700 laptop with NVidia GeForce 8400M graphics,

Re: No image from analog cameras with TW6816 video capture card.

2024-06-04 Thread Dan Ritter
68 max and 728 x 488 NTSC, to work with a bluecherry > TW-220-8 board, identified by lshw as: > > Intersil Techwell TW6816 multimedia video controller Rev 10. > > The driver (tw68): > > The first suspicious thing is that the board is apparently not detected by the > kerne

No image from analog cameras with TW6816 video capture card.

2024-06-03 Thread A. F. Cano
220-8 board, identified by lshw as: Intersil Techwell TW6816 multimedia video controller Rev 10. The driver (tw68): The first suspicious thing is that the board is apparently not detected by the kernel, or not identified as matching what the tw58 driver supports. Before a manual modprobe -v tw68

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-09-13 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2023-09-13 08:54 (UTC-0600): > I have removed /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and the problem remains. > So in this case, where should I report the issue? Follow the instructions on https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting and be sure to include when the problem began. I'd probably sele

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-09-11 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-22 14:39 (UTC-0600): > Do you really mean "DDX", not "DIX"? < > I made the edit according to your instructions (i.e., "DDX") but I'm not > certain that your e-mail didn't contain a typo. My first thread post did have a bad one: sudo sed -i 'a/^B_

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-31 Thread D. R. Evans
But I am still seeing the original problem I reported. Could it be that your PC doesn't like LightDM? Try switching to TDM. All my TDM has never worked properly on this machine; TDM doesn't correctly figure out which video card to use (at least, it didn't last time I tried

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-23 Thread Felix Miata
entifier "DDX" # MatchDriver "amdgpu" # Driver "amdgpu" # MatchDriver "intel" # Driver "intel" # MatchDriver "modesetting" # Driver "modesetting" # MatchDriver "nouveau" Driver &

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-22 Thread D. R. Evans
ble state. systemctl restart OK; so that would be: systemctl restart lightdm Useful to know; thank you. I reinstalled xserver-xorg-video-nouveau from the console, and (fortunately) when I rebooted LDM came up as usual and I was able to log in as I normally do. Obviously, the original issue st

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-19 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-18 14:17 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. >> Remove >> package >> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau >> and reboot to see if it makes a difference. &g

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-18 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau and reboot to see if it makes a difference. I did this, and when I rebooted I was in the Linux console instead of Light DM

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread Felix Miata
mick.crane composed on 2023-05-18 04:43 (UTC+0100): > D. R. Evans wrote: ... > I found my display worked better after running > nvidia-detect/testing,now 525.105.17-1 amd64 [installed] >NVIDIA GPU detection utility > which told me which driver to install. Did you read the whole thread? OP has

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread mick.crane
On 2023-05-17 17:15, D. R. Evans wrote: Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Synaptic is telling me that this will also remove: xserver-xorg-video-all Is it OK

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 May 2023 10:15:28 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: Hello D., >Is it OK that that will also be removed? As Felix says, "Yes." Further to that, you may also remove, at your discretion, any video driver you do not use. In the interest of full disclosure; I've n

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-17 10:15 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. >> Remove >> package >> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau > Synaptic is telling me that this will also remov

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-17 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 13:25: Try using the (default) modesetting DIX display driver instead of Nouveau. Remove package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Synaptic is telling me that this will also remove: xserver-xorg-video-all Is it OK that that will also be removed? Doc

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 11:49 AM D. R. Evans wrote: > Following an update this morning to one of my bullseye systems, an > irritating > video problem has surfaced. The best way I can think of to describe the > problem is that if one has a line of black text on what is supposed to be

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 12:50 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 11:16: >> D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): >>> I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video >>> driver I am using, and what oth

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Felix Miata wrote on 5/15/23 11:16: D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video driver I am using, and what other drivers might be available to try? Not without knowing anything about your GPU: Y

Re: video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
D. R. Evans composed on 2023-05-15 09:49 (UTC-0600): > I'm wondering if someone can walk me through how to figure out what video > driver I am using, and what other drivers might be available to try? Not without knowing anything about your GPU: sudo sed -i 'a/^B_ALLOW_UPDATE/#

video issue following latest bullseye update

2023-05-15 Thread D. R. Evans
Following an update this morning to one of my bullseye systems, an irritating video problem has surfaced. The best way I can think of to describe the problem is that if one has a line of black text on what is supposed to be a white background, to the right of the text a clear, short tail of

Re: Bookworm: the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player?

2022-10-28 Thread local10
Oct 28, 2022, 09:34 by brchu...@netscape.net: > Looking at the list of upgraded packages and the reported symptom, it is > probably something in the qt5 > upgrade from 5.15.4 -> 5.15.6, perhaps qtwayland5 or the libqt5multimedia5* > packages. > > It would also probably be helpful to report what

Re: Bookworm: the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player?

2022-10-28 Thread local10
Oct 28, 2022, 04:42 by loca...@tutanota.com: > Hi, > > It looks like the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc > player for me. Was working fine before. The video seems to be playing (the > progress marker is moving) but instead of the video output onl

Bookworm: the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player?

2022-10-27 Thread local10
Hi, It looks like the latest Bookworm upgrade broke video playback in the vlc player for me. Was working fine before. The video seems to be playing (the progress marker is moving) but instead of the video output only a blank black rectangle is shown. The VLC video output is set to "X

Re: Monochrome video on Firefox 106.0

2022-10-25 Thread Robbi Nespu
Can you share the sample of the video? -- Regards Robbi Nespu PGP: D311 B5FF EEE6 0BE8 9C91 FA9E 0C81 FA30 3B3A 80BA OpenPGP_0x0C81FA303B3A80BA.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Monochrome video on Firefox 106.0

2022-10-23 Thread John Hasler
Running Firefox 106.0 on updated Sid. Video is monochrome but stills are full color. Video is sometimes black & white, sometimes red, sometimes green, sometimes blue, sometimes blotches of different colors. Video sometimes changes from one color to another. Color is ok in Chromium. Anyone

Re: Installer BoF video link - [WAS Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4]

2022-07-20 Thread Nicolas George
Andrew M.A. Cater (12022-07-20): > > > I think it is usual practice for this kind of video to become > > > available for viewing > > > on demand in the near future. > > > > > > My recollection of the discussion is that Gunnar's work is welcome

Installer BoF video link - [WAS Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4]

2022-07-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
ebian-installer-and-images-team-bof/ > > I think it is usual practice for this kind of video to become > > available for viewing > > on demand in the near future. > > > > My recollection of the discussion is that Gunnar's work is welcomed > > by the install

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 04:00:52PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:04:32 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:53:21PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > So, I share the question of the OP. Does anybody with a sound > > > knowledge on Debian has a profo

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:04:32 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:53:21PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > So, I share the question of the OP. Does anybody with a sound > > knowledge on Debian has a profound, up-to-date tutorial to > > recommend, or would know if the one linked i

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:53:21PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > So, I share the question of the OP. Does anybody with a sound knowledge on > Debian has a profound, up-to-date tutorial to recommend, or would know if > the one linked in the OP's question is indeed up-to-date and nicely Debian > compa

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Marco Möller
On 29.04.22 21:14, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Tom D. wrote: I really need the latest tutorial. Why? Unix system administration changes very slowly. Most of the core concepts haven't changed much since the early 1980s. I disagree with this statement. Unde

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
x any problems you're having *now*, or to add support/features that you are missing *now*. If you'd tell us what those issues are, we could advise. On a brand new Debian installation, especially on a laptop, the most common issues are firmware & drivers for wireless networking, v

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Tom D. wrote: > Respected Everyone, > > I have installed Debian 11 Bullseye on my Laptop and found the following > video tutorial. > > https://youtu.be/wsh64rjnRas > > Does this video tutorial coalign with Debian 11 Bullseye

Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

2022-04-29 Thread Tom D.
Respected Everyone, I have installed Debian 11 Bullseye on my Laptop and found the following video tutorial. https://youtu.be/wsh64rjnRas Does this video tutorial coalign with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration? I really need the latest tutorial. Thank you. Regards Adrian

Re: Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged

2022-04-26 Thread Johann Klammer
artefacts developed such as black borders on menu panels. Not > so much a problem. > > The big problem now is video playing has obvious tearing of the image. > > My video card is > > 09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] > Caicos PRO

Fixed Mate desktop spamming xorg logs - now video jagged

2022-04-21 Thread Jeremy Ardley
C and the spamming stopped. MATE menu>System>Preferences>Look and Feel>Windows>General tab>Enable software compositing window manager checkbox. However, some artefacts developed such as black borders on menu panels. Not so much a problem. The big problem now is video playing

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Noah Sombrero writes: > Specs say 32 mb external video memory, which says to me that it is > shared ram. But limited to 32 mb, so higher resolution should not > cause a problem? 1440*900*4 (assuming 32 bits per pixel) is less than 5 MB so no, shouldn't cause a problem. For sur

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
t;>>>DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) >>>>TV-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) >>>># cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-extensions.conf >>>>Section "Extensions" >>>>Option

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-06 15:45 (UTC-0400): > It must simply be something about not being able to manage 1440x900 > resolution. It might be worth trying an in between resolution, e.g. 1280x800, which like 1440x900, is a 16:10 mode, unlike 1024x768, which is 4:3. In troubleshooting mod

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
>The mozilla.org build of Firefox ESR52 and of SeaMonkey 2.49.5 run too: >>># free >>> totalusedfree shared buff/cache >>> available >>>Mem: 1542280 592224 136556 19900 813500 >>&g

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-06 11:37 (UTC-0400): >>On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 00:50:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>>On all old limited >>>resource systems like this I automatically ease up the load by disabling >>>compositing > How can I do that? >>># cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-extensions.conf

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
totalusedfree shared buff/cache >> available >>Mem: 1542280 592224 136556 19900 813500 >>719904 >>Swap: 1927442840 189904 So, I ran System monitor and got cpu readings of 30% on

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 05:40:01 +0200, David Wright wrote: >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 13:09:57 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a >> piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take >>

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-06 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 06:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18 (UTC-0400): > >> Everything is ok until I load a program of any size, pan, kmail, >> thunderbird, worker file manager. Worker immediately freezes up >> debian. This was not true at 1024x768. > >Us

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-05 22:18 (UTC-0400): > Everything is ok until I load a program of any size, pan, kmail, > thunderbird, worker file manager. Worker immediately freezes up > debian. This was not true at 1024x768. Using which DE or WM? Konsole, Worker & MC are all running fine he

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 13:09:57 (-0400), Noah Sombrero wrote: > > Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a > piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take > more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of > ram

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 02:50:01 +0200, Charles Curley wrote: >On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:09:57 -0400 >Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a >> piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take >>

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Wed, 06 Apr 2022 01:50:01 +0200, Brian wrote: >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 15:43:02 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20:01 +0200, Brian >> wrote: >> >> >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> > >> >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge >

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:09:57 -0400 Noah Sombrero wrote: > Finally, there is a caviat to all this. Laptops many times take a > piece of motherboard ram for video ram, and larger resolutions take > more video ram. That while debian appears to take another piece of > ram for itself

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 15:43:02 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20:01 +0200, Brian > wrote: > > >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge > >> wrote: > >> > > >> >I think Arch uses it, and they have

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 21:20:01 +0200, Brian wrote: >On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge >> wrote: >> > >> >I think Arch uses it, and they have an extremely good wiki. Sometimes, >> >searching Google for the answer to a

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:23:48 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge > wrote: > > > >I think Arch uses it, and they have an extremely good wiki. Sometimes, > >searching Google for the answer to a Debian question will turn up a > >link to the Arch wiki.

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 14:00:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:10:01 +0200, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way t

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > > > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xp

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not > > in .profile. > > To the best

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Noah Sombrero
t;EndSection > >It looks like it is making two attempts, both of which fail. Debian >has marked the file as read only, so I am pretty sure it is not being >ignored. > >My feeling is that something is missing. Suggestions? > >>-dsr- Here's something that did wo

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not > in .profile. To the best of my knowledge, Debian does not use ~/.xprofile when starting a standar

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:00:01 +0200, Dan Ritter wrote: >Felix Miata wrote: >> Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): >> >> xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 >> -HSync -VSync >> xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" >> xrand

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Dan Ritter
Felix Miata wrote: > Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): > > xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 > -HSync -VSync > xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" > xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" > > Upthread you indicated

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-05 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 22:59 (UTC-0400): xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 -HSync -VSync xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" Upthread you indicated

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
4 1080 1083 1093 >>>-HSync -VSync >>>xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" >>>xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" >>> >>>So that's the how. The what is best explained by this web page: >>>https://arachnoid.com/mode

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread The Wanderer
ould look like this: >> >>xrandr --newmode "2560x1080" 185.580 2560 2624 2688 2784 1080 1083 1093 >>-HSync -VSync >>xrandr --addmode HDMI1 "2560x1080" >>xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" >> >>So that's the how.

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Tixy
On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 15:32 -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter > wrote: > > > Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), > > > yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the > > > dis

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
;2560x1080" >xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode "2560x1080" > >So that's the how. The what is best explained by this web page: >https://arachnoid.com/modelines/ > >Which should be enough for you to work out the specific timings >needed to get this screen to work. I see, the output name is LVDS-1. That worked. Both problems solved. Thanks guys. I sure hope the next time I start debian, those video settings will be retained. >-dsr- -- Noah Sombrero

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter wrote: >Noah Sombrero wrote: >> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), >> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and it does except that the >> display is offset to the top and the right. I have not found any >> referenc

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 08:40 (UTC-0400): > >> Thanks. I did find suggestions like this online. But it appears that >> xorg.conf is no longer used, and is indeed missing from xorg.conf.d. >> So I can simply create a new file w

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 12:20 (UTC-0400): >>> 2) must use all_generic_ide. This is suggested as an option by the >>> debian installer in the Special Situations section. >>Was this determination made years ago, or only just now with Debian 11? Some >>installation options are only a

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 08:09 (UTC-0400): > >> 1024x768 is the highest resolution offered by debian on my laptop. It >> is true that I got better with installations of ms server 2003 and win >> 7. > >When was this discovery fir

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:50:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 08:09 (UTC-0400): > >> 1024x768 is the highest resolution offered by debian on my laptop. It >> is true that I got better with installations of ms server 2003 and win >> 7. > >When was this discovery fir

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Felix Miata
Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-04 08:09 (UTC-0400): > 1024x768 is the highest resolution offered by debian on my laptop. It > is true that I got better with installations of ms server 2003 and win > 7. When was this discovery first made, Debian 11, or some older release? If older release, whi

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 09:36:03AM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: [...] > >I suggest to try saving as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf, the > >following, [...] > Tried this, tried to save it. Response is that I do not have > permission to save a file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ You've to be ro

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:10:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >I found this: > > >If this matches your laptop, the native display resolution is 1440x900, which >should be what we are shooting to acquire by our

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:10:01 +0200, Noah Sombrero > wrote: > > >On Sun, 03 Apr 2022 14:20:01 +0200, Dan Ritter > >wrote: > > > >>Noah Sombrero wrote: > >>> I installed deb 11.3 on my old toshiba satellite laptop (p25 s509), > >>> yes p4, 1.25 gb ram. It should work, and

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:30:01 +0200, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: >> >> I tried to install it with apt-get. >> The response I got asked "Are you root"? No, as I have reported in >> another thread, I don't seem to be able to get a root

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-04 Thread Noah Sombrero
On Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:10:01 +0200, Felix Miata wrote: >I found this: > > >If this matches your laptop, the native display resolution is 1440x900, which >should be what we are shooting to acquire by our

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 09:31:54PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > I tried to install it with apt-get. > The response I got asked "Are you root"? No, as I have reported in > another thread, I don't seem to be able to get a root password. > -- > Noah Sombrero > Hi Noah, Did you install the lap

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
I found this: If this matches your laptop, the native display resolution is 1440x900, which should be what we are shooting to acquire by our efforts. If this is not a match, please provide your display

Re: toshiba video problem

2022-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Apr 2022 at 20:41:39 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Noah Sombrero composed on 2022-04-03 18:04 (UTC-0400): > > > Bash says pastebinit command not found. > # aptitude search pasteb > p pastebinit - command-line pastebin client > # aptitude search hwinfo > p hwinfo

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