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Yesterday I upgraded all apt packages. Since then when I click on a GNOME app like calculator, settings or terminal in the dock to start it, it takes...

I have a set of Logitech z533 speakers. Whenever I plug them in, I only get sound coming out of the left speaker. And yes, I already checked the...

I have found the advanced install feature, that allows me to configure the network in /etc/network/interfaces
but once I reboot, it is still doing...

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I'm running Debian on OpenMediaVault and I've encountered an error with Samba. I can copy a file to my NAS but it fails halfwaythrough...

If I'm not mistaken, this is not a problem on Legacy + MBR disks (it might be?), but when using UEFI + GPT...
Scenario: Windows already installed on...

I was trying to install drivers for a usb wifi extender and when I went to sudo apt upgrade I get the error message
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg...

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I have a c program to show the linux error codes
#include
#include
#include

extern int errno;

int main(void){

char *err_str;

for(int i...

My Debian 12 Plasma desktop monitor goes blank with a No Signal message right after the GRUB screen. However, I can still access the system via SSH...

Hello. I recently installed Debian Mate in an old laptop I've been using for looong time ago, with windows 7. I refused to use newer iterations of...

Hi! I have an Acer laptop with an integrated Intel GPU and a dedicated Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU. I use debian 12 with gnome and wayland. As per...

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I installed Debian 12 on a Dell Inc. Inspiron N5010 laptop with Intel® Core™ i3 M 370 × 4 processor, 3GB memory, AMD CEDAR graphics. While I...

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I am relatively new to linux. I have spent hours looking at various distros and had settled on Debian. Great! However I have tried and tried,...

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Got rid off LVM partitions from both of my HDD and SDD recently. Which can be seen in my older posts.
Used 'Calamares' from...

I am on stable $ uname -r
6.1.0-31-amd64 Is there a way to show DDR5 memory temperature by, says, lm-sensors command?

Web searches seem pointing to...

Hello. I'd like to test Debian on older 32bit PC
And I'd like to increase security by using Opensnitch firewall but I realised that Opensnitch has no...

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I am exploring the possibilities of grep-dctrl.
My current experiment is to try and show the description of a package that is not...

I read from this wiki
systemd has its own logging system called the journal; therefore, running a syslog daemon is no longer required
I checked in...

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I use Linux Mint 22.1 as my daily driver on my XPS 13 9340 (2024) and here the wecam (and everything else) works out of the box using the...

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I am using Debian 12 with nvidia 1070 ti with gnome(x11)
Current setup 1080p@75hz monitor and 4k@120hz lg c3 tv.

So far i was able to use 120hz...

I have an old Pavilion G6 that I want to restore. Its working well except for one thing, the screen lid hinges cannot be screwed anymore to the...

I recently decided to switch from Stable (Bookworm) to Testing (Trixie/Sid). Everything is working great *except* when I plug in an HDMI cord I no...

Ever seen anything like this?

Only upon reboot, all my autostarted xterm windows print a series of garbage lines before the bash prompt, and the...

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I realized that with LXQT on debian 11 there is no graphical application for managing Bluetooth devices.
I think the integrated card is...

Hello. So my webcam is not working.

I've tried the following software:
* cheese (the simplest.)
* vlc (lots of settings available.)
* guvcview (I'm...

Raspberry Pi OS (bookworm).

I want to try spectacle but apt doesn't know where is it at. (Note link.)

How do I install it ?

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In Synaptic the section of repos are empty, and there is nothing in /etc/apt/sources.list either;

-- but the system updates without...

Hi, I have installed debian 12 since about a month and I've had a lot of crashing, it occurs at random times without obvious inciting incident, it...

I built up a computer with a new DVD-RW drivre, I tried to listen to audio CD or rip audio CD as MP3. Unfortunately, even when error checking is set...

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I have a problem with one of my external usb disks. I have two different 8TB Seagate disks (ext4) on my homeserver (debian 12) and I...

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Just built a new AM5 system. Put Debian 12 xfce on.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G with radeon 740m integrated
Asrock X600-STX deskmini
32gb ddr5

Looks...

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I installed Debian 12 a couple months ago on my Lenovo laptop with an Intel Core i5-7200U. I haven't done much other than some web browsing...

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I got this low end laptop (open box) for about $68.00 from Micro Center this morning. It came with Windows 10 and worked pretty good. I did a...

We are facing issues while installing Debian 11 on a Dell PowerEdge R720 server equipped with 11 x 1.2TB disks. We have tried multiple approaches,...

Hello, any one can tell why there's a huge difference on RAM usage on gnome system monitor showing much more than on htop?

Please delete if this is inappropriate for discussion. I cannot locate an answer to this long going issue.

Any camera I input into Debian 12 OS and...

I am preparing to upgrade from Debian 10 to Debian 12. My first thought was that I should do a complete install from scratch. But I came across an...

Have Vbox 7.0.24 r167081 under Bookworm here and have amongst others a Debian testing as guest. But it is quite old and heavily used ....

So just...

I have a laptop with two AMD GPUs (integrated+dedicated). I noticed that HDMI doesn't work at all when I plug it in until I run the xrandr command....

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I setup a raid following the instructions here:

I rebooted the machine and now i am stuck in a boot loop. I get an error saying it...

My machine is:
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version:...

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I have Dell 5130 Pro. It has Dell 1538 wireless card. I recently installed Debian 12.8 on it. I managed to find Wi-fi driver for it (ath6k)....

Hi, I still have problems opening synaptic from the menu so I go to start session and PolicyKit is unchecked again; and there is a little red cross...

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I need to buy a new (inexpensive) laptop and this one

caught my eye. It gives me enough ram for what I need and enough disk space to even...

Dear Debian Community,

I was just wondering why 1080p playback works on specific browsers that come with the distribution (trixie=testing)

firefox,...

I did a complete reinstall. The backup was successful: all folders +bookmark files. After installing, I ran into many problems. I needed dolphin file...

I was very curious about whether my first time installing debian would be a success, but unfortunately it wasn't.
#1: As I learned in one of my...

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System : Debian Testing Trixie
cifs-utils installed

It's been sometimes, probably weeks now, I'm fighting with mount in my fstab in order to...

I have a Dell laptop with a eSATA Dell K01B enclosure. Inside the enclosure is a bluray drive from Matshita (Panasonic).

Everything works flawlessly...

I used fvwm as window manager, no other desktop environment installed on my PC.
But when I start Evince or other applications (shimo/wechat/terminus...