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I have installed debian buster. I have a scratchy sound in the background of all sounds. This is prominent in the left ear. When i use the same videos in windows its working fine. This is my lspci...

I *badly *messed up my file and folder structure on my audio file hard disk, and only noticed it when all my backups already had the new , bad folder structure... In the start I had lets say lots...

hi, We have here kvm. The source host and the target host see the disk where VM resides,see the same nfs or cifs exported share. Is it safe to move a VM (with linux that has nfs or cifs ...

Thanks for visiting. I committed several mistakes outlined in the following: A failure in the kernel I compiled because I wanted the bfq scheduler instead of the mq-deadline one. So said attempt...

Published at LXer: The CrossTalk vulnerability allows attacker-controlled code executing on one CPU core to leak sensitive data from other software running on a different core. In this article, we...

Hello, I have a CentOS 8 server and I use a GUI program on it via an X windows session. A few nights ago I was just going to let things run so I SSH into the server from my Windows machine, start...

Published at LXer: This brief guide explains how to list the contents of a package in Linux. Read More... (https://www.ostechnix.com/how-to-list-the-contents-of-a-package-in-linux/)

I'm running Slackware -current with XFCE. Can anyone suggest a way to get XFCE's wall paper to be a JPG image downloaded from a URL (security cam)? I say dynamic because I would like it to...

Published at LXer: The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) drivers have been updated to version 3.20.6, a release that adds support for several new HP printers and some of the latest GNU/Linux...

I have pvdisplay installed on my Ubuntu 19.10 and it was working for a while. Today, I am looking at an error message: Code: --------- sudo pvdisplay Internal error: _cfg_def_make_path:...

Published at LXer: It’s very difficult to give instruction or administrate when students are seated in a computer lab. To overcome this problem and get attention from everyone, you need to use the...

I have a SNAFU on my Ubuntu 19.10. Code: --------- Last login: Wed Jun 17 08:32:01 2020 from 10.0.1.50 -bash: /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion: line 1779: syntax error near...

Hi guyss, I am a newbie in LinuX. When I first tried to download Linux, the installation for dual booting was successful but then I realised I downloaded the wrong version for the code I am going to...

Published at LXer: Elecrow is Kickstarter-ing a $140-and-up, 2nd gen “CrowPi2” STEAM education laptop and hacker kit for the Raspberry Pi with a 11.6-inch HD screen, 2MP camera, mic, speakers, and...

Example configuration: (CENTOS6 same version on master and slave) nis: MASTER NIS SERVER nis2: SLAVE NIS SERVER Master and Slave server are configured correctly (file hosts nsswitch and...

In manjaro 20.0.3, i setup my local mail server with exim and dovecot, every thing was ok, i always upgrade my manjaro with new versions of packages, since some day suddenly exim fail to deliver the...

Published at LXer: Looping forever on the command line or in a bash script is easy. Coming up with the reasons why you want to interrupt an infinite loop and how you want to do that requires a...

Published at LXer: Apache Hudi (Hadoop Upserts Deletes and Incrementals) is a data lake project that enables stream data processing on top of Apache Hadoop-compatible cloud storage systems,...

I have an HP notebook which is called dv6704nr & it has a nvidia 7150m graphics card. I tried several distros. Some of them Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Debian, Devuan, MX Linux, Linux Mint, Pop OS, OpenSuSe,...

Hi, I want to do console configuration in KVM to access my guest VMs directly from outside. My requirement is, I should be able to access console of my guest VM, from external Element. --- I...

I've been trying to extract records that have been assigned specific terms from a WordPress database. The terms are in the table wp_terms and the rest of the record is in wp_posts. However, I am...

I've recently upgraded my S9 to S10 note phone. Is there any way to get my Alarm & Ringtones from my old S9 to my new S10 note because in my opinion the current ones are far too silent. I updated...

Published at LXer: The modulo operation is an arithmetic operation that finds the remainder of the division of one number by another. The remainder is called the modulus of the operation. In...

I was messing around in the KDE settings when I noticed that my windows borders were changing, and I didn't change them. I went to change them back and noticed that all but 2 themes were gone. I...

Published at LXer: The KDE Project announced today the general availability of KDE Plasma 5.19.1 as the first point release to the latest KDE Plasma 5.19 desktop environment series. Read More......

working on legion y540 with ndivia card just installed mint but my brightness keys are not working, even though i installed brightness controller but i would be a lot grateful if u can help me fix my...

Published at LXer: As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source...

Published at LXer: The lightweight Linux distribution 4MLinux released the latest stable version 33 with new features and latest app updates. Read More......

Published at LXer: It[he]#039[/he]s been almost two years since I switched from Mac to Linux. I used Apple for about 15 years before my move and was a complete Linux newbie when I installed my...

Not able to install Guest Additions 6.1.8 on CentOS7.8 (x86_65) with kernel version 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64. This is VirtualBox 6.1 on a Windows 10 host. I'm using the following URLs to help...

Published at LXer: Are you worried about online privacy? Protect your privacy by turning your Raspberry Pi into a simple Tor proxy server for your home network. Read More......

Hi there, I got a Fuji Xerox CP116W USB/WiFi printer, I tried to setup in Mint Debian but failed, it does not recognize by the system although I installed the driver, I don't know what to put in...

Published at LXer: Language matters, yet replacing 'blacklist' with 'blocklist' creates problems when you're listing blocks. GitHub will scrub the term "master" from its services in response to...

Published at LXer: Linus Torvalds has kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.8, which he dubbed it as one of the "biggest release of all time". Read More......

Published at LXer: Ralph is a free, open-source, simple and powerful Asset Management, DCIM and CMDB system for data center and back office. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ralph...

I am new to Linux, and have recently installed Linux Mint Xfce 19.3 on an older laptop. A friend helped me build the Ethernet interface from scratch. Everything was done via the command line. We...

I need to retrieve the total number of bytes sent and received by a Python process/program. I prefer to do so within the Python program, but any working solution would be helpful. What I've tried:...

Published at LXer: Growing up in Silicon Valley, Nuritzi Sanchez saw the powerful impact software can make on the world. Yet, unlike many others who were also steeped in the tech industry, her...

Hello! Recently I found out that it should be OK for me hardware-wise to clone the hard disk which contains my servers in it. It's Ubuntu 16.04 (Desktop edition) The second part of my question (the...

Published at LXer: Java is the most widely used programming language. It can be used to create server and desktop applications and Java runs on almost all operating systems like Mac OS, Windows,...

Hi First post. Hope I'm in the right place. rt1800pci Have been using Mint for some years without any real problems. After a regular update some months ago the PC began dropping WiFi, often...

Is this like Thunderbird? You can't sort the accounts? In T'bird, you need an extension; how can I sort the account order here? Or do I have to add them in the reverse order? I've given up on...

Published at LXer: Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding...

Any attempt I make to install an application or update the system ends like this: ********* /home/vienswuer # *emerge --oneshot sys-apps/portage*...

Does "man 2 chmod" provide details on issuing a chmod function call and the "man chmod" describes details on the command line version of issuing a chmod command ? Thanks

Published at LXer: PDF Mix Tool is a simple, lightweight open-source PDF editing application that lets you extract pages from PDF, merge two PDFs, delete pages from PDF files among a few other...

This is one of my absolute worse pet peves with multi monitor setups and it seems no OS maker can get this right. Windows is just as terrible. Say you are in a program, and you click on something...

Hello.. I am actually new to linux. I installed Deepin OS on my iMac 2007, everything went perfect. I connected to the Wifi, it got connected, but its says 'connected but no internet access'. I m...

Published at LXer: The open-source, free and cross-platform FFmpeg 4.3 multimedia framework has been released as a major update bringing lots of new features and filters. Read More......

Obviously many Slackware users like the stability of the stable release. At the same time, several users face issues with recent hardware not supported by the stable kernel. I wonder if a solution...