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Just learned, that it can be necessary in 'sid' to add besides 'main, contrib and non-free' now 'non-free-firmware' in the sources.list.

Any...

Hello
After successful installation of debian (one of the latest releases) and successful ethernet connection, i tried to connect wirelessly to my...

I've had Quad9 private DNS configured on my Android phone - for several months
and it seems to work fine.
Yesterday i installed Netguard firewall and...

For some time I have trouble using emacs in my normal user account. Running emacs as root is no problem, but when I'm in my user account, upon...

I need to test my system's memory and have installed memtest86+. However, I can't find any documentation on basic usage. Specifically, I need to...

I'm using wayland so it is not a real problem for me. But if I start X11 i3/icewm/KDE with X11 I do not get any cursor. (It is not only not shown. I...

Unable to change a default browser:
loc@debian:~$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop
loc@debian:~$
loc@debian:~$ xdg-settings...

OpenJDK 11.0.17 was released on 10/18. This is the quarterly critical patch update. When can we see it included in Debian bullseye?

Thanks.

Hello,

I am saving PDF files on a Samba share that I mount from /etc/fstab with lines like the following:

//192.168.2.2/share /mnt/share cifs...

I upgrade to the new kernel (5.10.0-21 amd64) on Sunday(Jan. 22, 2023) and have encountered an issue when trying to terminate Kodi (19). Normally I...

i have no idea when it happened.
i actually recently fixed it .

anyway, i've checked this article and, when i run egrep -i 'synap|alps|etps|elan'...

I have a Raspberry Pi model B running Raspberry Pi OS (formerly known as Raspbian, sort of) Bullseye.
I use the sysfs interface to operate a...

Hello everyone, this is the first time i need to ask a question at a forum since i switched to debian a lots of years ago, i have being googling a...

Hi
My OS is Debian11 Gnome3 Wayland.
I am used to press the Menu key for the context-menu

Unfortunately, my keyboard lacks a Menu key.
How can I map...

EDIT - Usually I/O Errors on HDDs/SSDs are signs of the drive failing, but I have the case where it doesn't seem to be hardware related at all, (at...

Hello All,

I have a laptop running Debian Testing. Upon hibernation the computer does not shut off and instead the screen turns blank with the...

Apparently I'm not the only one to notice it, based on my web search. There is a noticable slowdown of vnc client response in debian 11 compared to...

Hello,

Hoping this is the right topic...

I got a new Asus prime z790m-plus d4 MoBo (i5-13500 CPU). Trying install (latest 11.6 Live USB).
I ran...

I try to make bluetooth work but I haven't managed to. The machine state is as follows:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 11
KDE Plasma Version:...

Crossposted from r/Debian because I think it's important to pay attention to what your package manager wants to do. I told y'all I was gonna sound...

This is a duplicate of this:
I want to use OpenCL on the Radeon RX 7900 XT.

But I get errors like this:
=== CL_PROGRAM_BUILD_LOG ===
fatal error:...

Hello,

My laptop has a new-ish wireless card, an RTL8852BE. Firmware for this card was merged into upstream linux-firmware in October and is...

aidecheck.service calls aide.wrapper, but aide.wrapper is not included in aide-common as documented and I can't find a fix documented anywhere. Any...

So, I have my disks set up.
sda: 1 EFI, 2 RAID 0 for ROOT, 3 LVM for HOME & SWAP
sdb: 1 RAID 0 for ROOT, 2 LVM for HOME & SWAP

But I keep getting:...

I can't recall when this started but every so often my screen doesn't come up when I wake it from suspend. The screen pops up for a second then goes...

im not a veteran of the linux and im brand-new with debian.
i've had a couple of issue in the past with some apps/software and, sometimes, the fault...

I have been running Debian testing for about a year (having been a stable user for some time previously) and have never had significant issues beyond...

HOWTO: SDLTRS - TRS-80 Model 1, 3, & 4 Emulator - Debian 11 - 64 Bit

#1 Post by lkraemer » 2023-01-28 10:00
HOWTO: SDLTRS - TRS-80 Model 1, 3, & 4...

Hi

Should my OpenWrt router look like this?

Seems like a lot of connections when only my phone, wife's phone and TV are on the network..

Hi, this will be my first post here on the forums. I have used the forums many times to acquire information, but with this one I can not seem to find...

Hello Folks.

I played lot of hours to compile mesa and I got success for my native AMD64 CPU.
I tried also cross compilation and I am almost done,...

Greetings all,

Using Debian 11 fully updated as of today.

OS Type 64-bit
GNOME Version 3.38.5
Windowing System Wayland

When I right click on a...

Audio card driver problems Debian 11 (Creative Sound Blaster Recon3Di).

I have a motherboard with a Creative Sound Blaster R3Di sound card, it is...

I have just installed Debian 11 on an Alix3d3 machine, which uses an AMD Geode LX800 (
ALSA seems to be working properly - alsamixer & aplay do the...

I am having an issue with a network interface that I can not get up. The weird thing about it is there is a link light on the switch but not on the...

Hello,

My laptop is on Debian 11 since September 2021.

And from time to time, the sound stop.
I need to use pulseaudio -k to get it back

I saw...

I installed Debian with Cinnamon only and I can't get the desktop icons to show, even though they're enabled. Apparently the default file manager is...

Hello,
I have a freshly installed Debian on my Server and now i ran into some issues.

- The Server ist attached to a Network Switch, which is...

A little background:
For years I've been creating customized images of Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS for use in a production environment, but now I'm...

Hello All,

And thanks for reading this, even if you do not plan to respond.

I am in the process of building a Network Access Storage (NAS) for my...

I have 4 servers running Debian or Debian equivalents:

2 x Edge servers : Raspberry Pi 4b RAM 2GB SSD 120GB
1 x Services server : Intel NUC7CJYHN...

I received a reply to a post I made in the SID/Testing forum, but did not receive an e-mail from the site indicating there was a reply and the same...