Testing And Unstable • Kernel 6.10 having trouble with NVIDIA driver 535
Hello all, I am using a HP pavillion gaming laptop with AMZ 5 chip and an nvidia rtx 3050 graphics card. I had been using It for the past 2 years and had always turned off the dedicated graphics card...
View ArticleGraphical Environments & Desktops • SDDM is blank. Can still log in to KDE.
Fresh install of Debian 12.6 on a Dell Inspiron 7359.It boots to a blank screen, but the display is on. No cursor. I can SSH in fine.Ctrl-alt-F<anything> still shows blank screen, but Xorg.0.log...
View ArticleHardware • Lenovo Thinkpad X270: ethernet shows up in dmesg but won't connect
I installed Debian buster on a Lenovo Thinkpad X270 with the non-free additions. Wireless network works fine, but Ethernet doesn't get an IPv4 address. I see the PCI device:Code: # lspci | grep -i...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Faults listed at start
I have an HP ProBook 455 G9 with AMD Ryzen 5 5625U with Radeon Graphics and AMD ATI 04:00.0 Barcelo GPU.I installed Deb 12.6 on a clean install then had to install kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64, to get the...
View ArticleHardware • Syslog-error message
Dear teamWe have a linux cluster - Debian 7 (Wheezy). In ths syslog file for the past dew days, following error message keeps on coming :Code: /usr/sbin/irqbalance: Load average increasing,...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • [Installation]
Hi,my first contact/installation with Debian on shuttle NC01U7 has failed. Debian OS - Bookwurm iso img --> debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.isoMenü: Graphic installation say --> warnings GTK could...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • Can't start JACK
Hello, I have Debian 12 running on a laptop and I have installed QjackCtl, but when I run it, it complains that it isn't able to start the JACK server.Can anyone tell me what's wrong?Thanks!This is...
View ArticleHardware • ALSA sound configuration changes after suspend
Hi,After every suspend my sound configuration changes. To be specific, when I wake up from suspend my left speaker is at 50% and my right speaker is at 4%. But when I reboot my system, I get the sound...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] How to remap a proprietary key?
About a week ago, I acquired an Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58. I was tossing trash into my apt building's dumpster, when I noticed the edge of a laptop peeking out underneath a bag. So I took it in,...
View ArticleHardware • Suddenly window manager won't load, driver errors
Hi all, have been a Linux user close to 20 years now, a Debian user for 16 of those I'd say, and I'm currently a Linux SysAdmin for a department at the University for about 8 years now, so I know a...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [Software] Debian comes with duplicate Perl exes in...
CuriousI built Perl for installation into /usr/local and noticed that there are two Perls, one in /bin and one in /usr/bin, which seems like an awfully silly waste of disk space.(The implied question...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • Strange wine issue - the only thing that I can't get to...
This is an incredibly niche problem so I don't have much hope but I'm out of ideas so posting here.I have an Asus M11AD desktop with 16G RAM and an Intel Core i5-4440S CPU. The video card is NVIDIA...
View ArticleInstallation • Debian installed but won't load properly
Been trying to load any linux onto my machine for a couple weeks now because I have new machine and can't risk lockout from win11 nonsense.New machine with asrock b650E PG WIFI riptide mb, 1tb m2 ssd...
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General Questions • 7z compressed and encrypted files, how secure they are?
I use Debian 11 Cinnamon and I compress and encrypt files with the pre installed programs using ''right click>compress'' from the list I select ''7z'', I expand ''other options'' and I enter a...
View ArticleGeneral Questions • [Software] Screenshot Storage Directory
What is the default Screenshot directory? There has been a large data breech of US Citziens private information. It is suggested to everyone affected, to put a credit freeze on their private...
View ArticleInstallation • Portable install on external SSD with (or without) UEFI -...
Hello,please be kind, getting back to Linux after a while, and it's not smooth sailing at all - really disappointed so far.My target: installing Debian 12 on an external SSD so that can be used on any...
View ArticleBeginners Questions • [O/S] Laptop won't restart Debian 12 KDE 5.xx
It never did this before, I suspect it had something to do with the nvidia driver install or psensors because it was working before, I can't remember everything I change or when the issue first...
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Hardware • The wifi connection disconnects randomly
Hi, I'm new to using Debian. I have a:RCA 2-in-1 tablet model W101SA23T1 Intel Atom x5-Z8350 processor 2 GB of RAM 30 GB of storage Windows 10 32-bits from the factory.PROBLEM: The Wi-Fi connection...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Capture controls in Alsamixer locked to zero
I have an IBM ThinkPad 600X on which I have installed Debian based antiX 23.1. Initially, the system could not find any driver for the audio device.Code: Audio: Device-1: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30...
View ArticleTesting And Unstable • unable to use Wifi
Hi,I have an Asus Vivobook X1704V, and Wifi don't work. I can see this is "normal" here https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=a08f766647.But, it seems to have a drivers rtw89...
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