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The AMD driver complains about driver incompatibility. It wants XServer 1.10, which is an old version. Any way to install this version on Debian 9 and Debian 10 (preferred) and keep it from being...

Today, after days without using the keyboard on this phone, i opened Telegram in it to reply a message. When i touched the place to make the keyboard appear, instead of a keyboard, the voice thing...

Hi Env Debian 9.12 using LXDE i set lxde video resolution to 1024x768 and it works fine but when lightdm is started it show me the login panel in very high resolution ..with small fonts and small...

Hello, I am trying to compile the 5.4 kernel with the latest stable PREEMPT_RT patch (5.4.28-rt19) but for some reason can't select the *Fully Preemptible Kernel (RT) *option inside make...

Published at LXer: Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol designed for a secure connection between a client and a server. The two most popular SSH authentication mechanisms are...

So it hit me after the fact that my new laptop (Dell Latitude E6540) does not have any sort of line in jack (I am a musician, and occasionally would like to hook my guitar/bass into the computer to...

never mind sorry. Figured it out by reading the manual. Don't know how to delete posts. . thx

Hello Installting slackware64 current today, I found that fdisk partition type for Linux partition has changed its type and its label and the installation scripts does not figure out this, so It...

Can anyone help me to understand why this works? Code: --------- df -h | awk '/Mounted on/{ split($6,a," "); print a[1]}' Mounted --------- But this outputs nothing? Code:

Created a current64 DVD. Attempted to install, reached the end of "setup". However LILO menu never came up. When I looked in /boot, found no kernel at all. What is going on?

OS Slackware 12 Postfix version: postconf mail_version mail_version = 2.4.6 What may be causing the error: connection lost after DATE unknown when it works: April 20 07:23:50 mailserver...

Per the subject, can batch (-b) sftp be done using a password and not just a private key? I have a file-exchange client that wants to switch us from sftp using a private key to using a password. As...

I'm on March 24th's current iso and reinstalled i basically because X was a mess. I thought it was old copied-over config stuff. Bit XFCE4 still is a mess, except many of the parts are known good. ...

Hello everyone, I wrote a bash-completion script for slackrepo and wanted to make it available to whoever might be interested. You can find it on github...

Hi everybody, I replaced Ubuntu with Linux Mint Tricia. I wanted to make a try deciding which partition I will choose. Now I have: Partition: ID-1: / size: 31.83 GiB used: 5.04 GiB (15.8%) fs:...

I'd like a few different virtual machines to boot from a single shared base distribution, but write changes to their local disks. I'm wondering if anyone has attempted this and what technology...

I Have an IBM (dell Laptop) with windows 8 i am trying to get ubuntu 18 or whatever works best on the computer too, ive downloaded the ubuntu 18 and another file that is supposed to make it work and...

I just learnt that you can re-encrypt your LUKS2 partition with *cryptsetup reencrypt* and whats more is that you can *do it online while using the data*. I would like to know how that actually...

I'm tired and can't think right now... SARPi2 install I followed: https://sarpi.fatdog.eu/index.php?p=setupnic ...and when I tried to log in as root: Code: ---------

Hello, folks. Today i installed latest plasma without PAM from ktown (btw thanks Mr. Hameleers, appreciate everything you do for community). Process of installation was easy (i use slackpkg+). I'm...

Published at LXer: Mailtrain is a free, open-source and self-hosted newsletter application built from Node.js which supports MySQL/MariaDB database backends. In this tutorial, we will show you how...

Microsoft controls GitHub: GitHub, Inc. is a United States-based global company that provides hosting for software development version control using Git. It is a subsidiary of Microsoft, which...

Hello, I have a computer with 3 network interfaces: - eth_adsl : Ethernet interface linked with adsl box - eth_local : Ethernet interface linked with my local network - wlan_local : WIFI...

Published at LXer: You’d be glad to know that there are many open source Zoom alternatives for video conferencing. And in today’s article, we’re gonna introduce 3 great ones of them to you. Read...

Far Cry 2 Play On Linux has managed to write an installation script for Far Cry 2 in Linux, using wine. But there are some errors in the registry keys. Is there any one who can help please? Thanks

I've copied some DVDs to an hdd - VIDNAME/VIDEO_TS which contains the usual IFO, VOB and BUP files. dvdbackup is a great program, it can extract titles and chapters as you wish but it only reads...

I am not totally new to linux. I have been using Mint for six months. I have downloaded and installed various versions of linux but I have not found any one of them better than Mint. I decided to try...

I was interested in loading a usb with Antix and trying a live session. As a beginner I cannot find a simple way to do this. There is a section on the Antix website but it is a bit advanced and...

For the Background: At the last Security Scan I had a finding called "SMTP enumeration of user accounts". This is a well known thing, there are tons of hints and tips how to use it to figure out user...

This may seem obvious or silly to some. With the above set-up is it better to shutdown after each session or can I risk suspend? Obviously if I knock the flash drive or move the notebook suspend...

Hey LQ, it's been a while! I'd like your inputs on my current dilemma on zypper and repository setup. I have an RPM repository running on JFrog Artifactory. It's being used by CentOS and RHEL...

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Hello, I've started to learn bash and scripting in order to solve a bug in my installation and maybe offer help to gamers to install Windows games. At the moment, I'm trying to step through a Play...

*(Linux newbie here.)* I can use distro's that are good for newbies, but I really like to know *what's going on under the hood, how things work behind the GUI and stuffs.* Is Slackware the best...

Published at LXer: In a 2019 blog post I tinkered with two alternatives to BASH brace expansion. Alternatives might be needed because strings with spaces cause problems unless separately quoted,...

Hi I am new to this forum. I see very effective posts here. Smart Sensor Devices (https://smartsensordevices.com) is a Swedish company working globally with the latest IoT solutions. We are...

Published at LXer: Websites are an excellent resource for open source software projects. A website provides an ideal opportunity for users to learn more about your project. Project websites can...

I'm using Porteus distro (Slackware based) and I noticed that when I run any Desktop Environment as root the font gets a bit fatter compared to non-root user. Normal:...

I'm trying to start a VPN connection through the /etc/rc.d/rc.openvpn script on current. I'm doing: Code: --------- sh /etc/rc.d/rc.openvpn start vpn.config --------- (where vpn.config is a...

Hello, I would like to get some ideas of good ways of atomizing my "work flow environment" on Linux. Normally these are the steps I perform to arrange my "work flow environment": 1)Close all...

Published at LXer: Gradle is a free and open-source build tool primarily used for Java projects. It helps you to automate, build and deliver software efficiently. In this tutorial, we will show you...

Published at LXer: In this brief guide, we will discuss about a simple BASH function to rename files without typing full name twice in Linux operating systems. Read More......

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. I run my own mail server with Sendmail and as a client I use Evolution. The problem I'm having is When I'm composing an email if I click on View->From Override Field I can...

Not realizing it, I install two firefox brwoser, 68 version and the 75 version. I installed the 75 from flatpak, and 68 from the Debian packages. I'm running Debian 10 with KDE desktop. I search...

Published at LXer: Remote work is challenging but here are five tips to keep your workflow in good shape. Read More... (https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/administering-remote-systems)

I've been distro hopping for 2 months in my laptop dual booting my USB with Rufus 3.8 A week ago, a friend asked me how to install Ubuntu so I told him to download Rufus lastest version (3.9), and it...

Published at LXer: Using Python and some graphing libraries, you can project the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, and also display the total number of deaths for a country (this article...

(Please correct me if there is a better place to report a problem with these) First, thanks AlienBob for your work providing these packages for Slackware users - it is much appreciated. Second,...

Hello, From Centos7 I'm connecting to Windows 10, through SSH, to read and then save to a file (on Linux) all the content of a certain directory, meaning sub-directories and their files. I created...

Hi gang, I tried to e-mail the maintainer for Motion for Slackware 14.2, but it returns as 'undeliverable'. I somehow got the latest Motion (4.3.1) to build using the old Slackware package...