General Debian • [Discussion] Where have you been unable to run Debian?
20 years a go, I had a my TV set up to record TV shows and play them on my TV. I wanted to run Debian on the other side of a duel boot, but no matter what, we couldn't get it to run on both monitors....
View ArticleHardware • MB MSI X870-P WIFI - problem with rtl8126
I'm facing a situation that I have no idea how to solve.Got my new MB and until now i cant get it to work properly. Sadly I only checked about the rtl8126 after getting it. There is a lot of sites...
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this ended on 2024 sooo at least this forum is not 2013 and its 2025 soon windows 12 will be out Statistics: Posted by i386 ibm T4x — 2025-01-15 22:03 — Replies 27 — Views 26048
View ArticleInstallation • I need help with the bios
In "new boot option policy" change "default".Statistics: Posted by @ttila — 2025-01-15 22:15 — Replies 4 — Views 70
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System and Network configuration • Debian 12 with BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless...
Hello friendsFor a laptop HP Pavilion g4-1387la was installed Debian 12 DesktopThe ethernet and wifi connections are possible.But when only the WIFI is used (no ethernet cable connected) exists the...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] newgrp creates a subshell!
As far as I know an unprivileged process cannot change its GID. You can see the logic at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ ... sys.c#L447 . You would need to have the CAP_SETGID capability which...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] enterprise backup solutions???
Backup programs have been reinvented a hundred times over. Exactly...so writing my own is the least preferred path.Statistics: Posted by kent_dorfman766 — 2025-01-15 23:18 — Replies 2 — Views 214
View ArticleHardware • Intel laptop wifi high power draw with newest kernel/iwlwifi
Thank you for the insights!Here is what lspci -vnn returns:Code: 00:14.3 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi [8086:51f0] (rev 01)Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Installation] Need help making USB bootable
I do realise that there are easier ways to do this, but I'm willing to learn GNU/Linux and wanted to proceed with the manual guide... being on the last step, I don't want to give up. It is unclear why...
View ArticleInstallation • Secure Boot - Installer works flawlessly, but a reboot into...
Hello,I have a machine with Secure Boot enabled which I cannot disable. I cannot even enter this machine's BIOS menu [1].This has severely impacted my choices of OSes that I can run in it, with Ubuntu...
View ArticleDocs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] Driver of Nvidia
We've wandered pretty far off-topic here, I think it's probably time to close this thread.Thanks to all -Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2025-01-16 19:38 — Replies 11 — Views 268
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] What is the best way to install Ghidra (sw...
What is the best way to install Ghidra a Software Reverse Engineering Framework on Debian? There is no official package of this software in the Debian repository.Originally I thought that the Ghidra...
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General Questions • [Software] glx gears error on iMac G5 nVidia NV34M...
Good Evening,Firstly apologies if this is posted in the wrong area however there are a few strands to the thread. I am running Sid installed from the PPC64 Debian port (https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64)...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Solved] BTRFS migration (from ext4) of root filesystem
Not fully sure if this is the right place to share some conclusions of a day of migration experiments, saving others some time. Happy to be redirected to a more appropriate place.I needed to migrate...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] I2C bus not finding any i2c device on debian live
@arzgi Unfortunately, i cant say the device. I modified the kernel config and and added CONFIG_...=y and recompiled the kernel, then i was able to load the module using modprobe. I have done this same...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Debian CLI advanced/difficult areas vs other...
Main thing I've noticed is that a fair number of what I consider standard system apps aren't installed by default (which ones depend, in part, on which installer you use).Not a big deal. You'll be...
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System and Network configuration • [Solved] QEMU/KVM network not starting
Hello,I will try to get feedback from the maintainers.Very good. Please post updates. It is only a work around and not solved. Let's hope the next update works.I'll be paying attention, but as stated...
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Docs, HowTos, Tips & Tricks • [HowTo] adjust filesystem space reserved...
Debian and other Linux distributions reserve 5% of a filesystem for the root account; this is so unprivileged users can't completely fill up a filesystem and break system operations such as event...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Very few programs opening - consistent error...
I tried to put the code above in code tags but it didn't work.Statistics: Posted by wizard10000 — 2025-01-17 21:56 — Replies 3 — Views 109
View ArticleDebian Development Discussion • [Discussion] What about making apt...
Endless OS, based on Debian, is an "immutable" distribution that does what this post is about. The transactional magic is done through OSTree, apt is just disabled, flatpak is used to install...
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