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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 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 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...

In January installed from the 'DI-alpha1 _Trixie_ - Official Alpha amd64 NETINST with firmware 20241230' image and sound worked for some time, but...

I can't see anything when use Screen Capture on OBS (pipewire)

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Sorry for long description!
Had to do:

boot: rescue
grub-install '(sda1)'

in attempt to restore GRUB of successfully installed...

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...

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I know the limitations of Xorg. I have one DP monitor (1440p 180Hz) that I normally use and a 4K 60Hz TV that I only plug into my computer via...

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

I wanted to install the Cinnamon Sounds, so I installed the mint-artwork package from the Mint Repository in addition to these dependencies:...

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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...

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....

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'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...

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I am using LMDE, and since I could not solve my problem on Mint's forum , I thought I would try it here.

The problem that I have is that 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...

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...

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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 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 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...

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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,...

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...

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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...