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#226 Other Issues » [SOLVED] Bookworm's "which" pogram » 2023-02-08 22:59:27

delgado
Replies: 13

New in the upcoming debian release https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBookworm

* The which program has been deprecated, and writes a warning to standard error (but still works, so long as stderr is not being captured along with stdout).

For f*** sake why? Completely unnecessary.
Will this make it to daedalus?

Probably a reminder to pin a current version before the release date to avoid stupid error messages.
gnu-which, which.debianutils ... are there more?

#227 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] nvidia Error during boot » 2023-02-04 20:45:08

The (1st) error message does nothing on my system, the module is clearly loaded.

$ lsmod | grep nvi

No idea about the following 3 lines. What exactly is the problem?

How was the nouveau kernel driver working on your system? Do you really need the proprietary nvidia driver? Uninstall nvidia can be a solution.

#228 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Fixing broken Brother DCP-L3510CDW Printer Installation (howto) » 2023-02-04 20:00:31

alexkemp wrote:

HP printed it perfectly & the damned Brother will not!

Of course I do not know the print outs, just want to remind on technical limits.
A current inc-jet printer can produce photo alike results. A laser printer is good for something with sharp edges like text or lines, gradients are ... difficult / not looking good. The colours itself are non-natural and loud.

At my work is a Brother network laser printer. No installation at all - appeared in cups (no idea how, it's a shame) and is simply working.
A bit colour tweaking might be nice.

#229 Re: Devuan » Devuan LXQt Themes » 2023-02-01 12:50:57

Looks great, thanks.
Would the theme function with my LXDE too?
golinux in https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=40747#p40747 made me think this might be possible.

#230 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dying machine? » 2023-02-01 12:38:10

steve_v wrote:

As for isolating a hardware fault, the obvious answer would be to try to reproduce the problem in as minimal a configuration as you can. Remove expansion cards and extraneous peripherals, swap or replace PSU, memory modules, that kind of thing.

I would like to add:
A bad contact may/can be cured by pulling the connectors off and on again.
Unpluging and plug in again any reacheable cable (and card) may fix the problem. If you don't know exactly what you are doing, just be careful with electrostatic charges, don't use too much force on connectors; it's a bit like Lego, use your brain, unplug main power of course; everything should be straight and fitting, otherwise it is incorect.
(I still think the parrot is probably dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo , but) It's worth a try, if you feel comfortable doing so.

#231 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dying machine? » 2023-01-31 23:19:36

Assuming it Is it the same machine from the "Block device detection" thread  https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5508: The answer is probably yes.

Randomly changing block device names are not good, there should be a reason. One possible is defective hardware (I remember a dying machine, which started printing "updating dmi data pool ... success" on almost every boot)

#232 Re: Freedom Hacks » Tinfoil Tuxery - Packages_of_interest » 2023-01-29 10:42:21

fsmithred wrote:
apt rdepends zeitgeist

will show packages that depend on zeitgeist. I don't know an easy way to get Recommends or Suggests.

The list is quite enlarged when using addional wildcards (incl Suggests, Reverse Depends, etc). Just typed it, becasue the original list was to small.

apt rdepends *zeitgeist*

Edit: Typo (hm .. no spell checker when using this computer. There might be more)

#233 Re: Devuan » what's going on with aufs? » 2023-01-27 21:09:42

Knoppix is still using aufs. knoppix.de
A debian based live-usb (cd/dvd) system without systemd. Works great and saved my ass more than once. Update cycle is about one iso per year.

At least there should be a current debian package (knoppix repo for non-std-debian stuff). I have no idea how good or bad the aufs package is.

#234 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » How do i switch between Nvida and Intel display drivers? » 2023-01-13 23:26:52

Sadly, no simple solution.

The current problem might be: The 3D-acceleration points to the wrong library after switching the SSD - didn't had that in mind at the first answer, sorry.
I'm not exactly sure about the command, there might be other recommended tools or command lines. A symbolic link must be updated to match the graphic card.
sudo update-alternatives --config glx

#236 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] How to set keyboard layout in a remote X session? » 2023-01-06 12:14:08

Update:
The original post was not very precise: xrdp is the problem.
And I found a somewhat dirty hack to fix the keyboard layout.

The loaded keymap is:

sudo cat /var/log/xrdp.log | grep km-000 | tail -1
[20230106-12:31:06] [INFO ] Loading keymap file /etc/xrdp/km-00000409.ini

Which is "us". "de" is "km-00000407.ini".
Backup and copy:

sudo gzip /etc/xrdp/km-00000409.ini
sudo cp /etc/xrdp/km-00000407.ini /etc/xrdp/km-00000409.ini

After logging in, it is still a "us" keymap, but switching to "de" now works

setxkbmap de

Would prefer a cleaner solution, but at least it works by now.

Edit: Will mark it as solved. And look for another remote X session solution.

#237 Re: Installation » Installing from USB thumb drive » 2022-12-11 14:44:26

Devarch wrote:

Download unofficial non-free image of Debian and convert it installed to Devuan.

Can't confirm that. The modprobe -i nvidia-current error in /var/log/dmesg is present in both cases, migration with installed nvidia drivers and devuan installation.

But, does it do something at all?
lsmod says nvidia modules are loaded, I' just ignoring it.

#238 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2022-12-09 22:41:53

Hopefully it is not to late!
Billy Talent for the rescue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNrj4reWIgY

#239 Re: Installation » pan2, missing 'locale'? » 2022-12-07 15:42:24

Hi,
did you try to rebuild the locales?

sudo locale-gen

It builds entries listed in /etc/locale.gen

#240 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » I am tired from Ceres glitches » 2022-12-04 10:34:54

I'm happily running daedalus, repo is

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free

The output of neofetch regarding OS, Kernel and Shell is equal.

Not exactly sure about the OS name "daedalus/ceres".
Packages are tested in ceres, before integrated in daedalus.

(edit: typo)

#241 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » I am tired from Ceres glitches » 2022-12-03 22:20:46

Worst case is a new installation ... . Anyway.

Probably you want to migrate to daedalus?
It is closer to ceres.

#242 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » I am tired from Ceres glitches » 2022-12-03 21:15:39

Hi,
changing the release is always the same.

edit /etc/apt/sources.list - replace ceres with chimaera

apt update
apt upgrade
apt dist-upgrade 

To downgrade or make apt install older packages over newer:

cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release n=chimaera
Pin-Priority: 1001

I messed the file up here https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5208
apt -s whatever does a dry run.

#243 Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] How to set keyboard layout in a remote X session? » 2022-11-23 11:56:07

delgado
Replies: 3

Hi,

when I'm at home, having a wire guard vpn connection to the company, via remote-desktop to xrdp (virtual session, not screen mirror): The keyboard layout switches to 'en_US'.

The reason is unknown, this does not happen when the connection comes form a local machine. Anyway.

I used to have a German keyboard, anything else is English / en_GB.
To switch back to the layout:

$ setxkbmap -layout "de" -nodeadkeys   # same with or without 'nodeadkeys'

This works not 100%. The [Altgr] key stays dead, which means none of {[]}\| .

What am I missing? Or
How to get the [Altgr] key working?

Thanks and regards.

#244 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Can you suggest some tips and tricks for speed up Devuan? » 2022-11-13 12:49:19

Hi,

I disabled the spectre CPU-patches.
This is not recommend for e.g. cloud servers running potentially evil virtual machines. My computer is just a desktop.
The arguments are from https://make-linux-fast-again.com

# /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off tsx=on tsx_async_abort=off mitigations=off"
$ sudo update-grub

#245 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » How disable apparmor? » 2022-10-31 09:19:43

What about

apt remove apparmor

Guarantied to work with every init system.

#246 Re: Installation » How many keyrings? » 2022-09-25 13:05:06

Hi,
the gvfs-* packages are useful for the mounting features in pcmanfm, e.g. disk partitions, usb drives when connecting, MTP devices / androd cell phones. Not strictly needed, but quite handy. Taste is different of course.

#247 Re: Other Issues » Flatpak and ALSA » 2022-09-25 11:49:54

The Librewolf Appimage has working sound using ALSA (the build from the apt repo does not, for whatever reason).
Maybe an option ... .
EDIT: Typo

#248 Re: Installation » Revised migration page on www » 2022-09-20 19:20:10

What worked for me was a slight modification of the order:
apt install sysvinit-core
reboot
Then following the manual instructions.

The basic idea was to change pid 1 to init before doing something else.
That was after reading https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5147 post#6, and rrq's migration script and jaromil's ansible.
EDIT: Or if you want to follow the original procedure successfully, then consult farmatito's script for additional measures.

#250 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] apt pinning 1001 / automatic package version downgrade » 2022-09-04 14:42:26

This Issue came out other than I initially thought.

Dear admin,
suggestion is to move the whole thread from "Freedom Hacks" to "Installation" or "Other Issues". On occation.
Thanks.

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