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No systemd here either. Gentoo on my main desktop, Devuan on pretty much everything else. Been that way for several years, and I see no reason for it to change. Openrc is nice, sysv is familiar, both are less over-engineered and more sane than systemd. Probably give runit a spin one day, when I can ...

And ACPI Error: No handler for Region Again, probably a BIOS bug, or an ACPI feature the kernel doesn't know what to do with. Vendors (particularly laptop vendors) don't bother to test their hardware or BIOS implementations with Linux. There are a few command line parameters you micht play with to ...

The message is self explanatory: This is a BIOS bug, fixable only by the BIOS vendor.

su -1 comes up as an invalid command enter usermod -ag sudo and my username but then taken to help screen list of su commands Enter (or copy-paste) CLI commands exactly as posted, including capitalisation. usermod -ag is not the same as usermod -aG If you have command output or errors to report, do...

DebianFox wrote: ↑2024-08-10 05:04Is there any alternative to lsmod that can be used to determine which modules have been loaded by the Kernel?

lsmod gets information from procfs, i.e one can get much the same with: Similarly, modinfo gets most of its information from /sys/module/[name]/

Is there anything else with a good GUI? AFAIK, no. clamav is the only widely used FOSS AV and works just fine from the CLI, interest in a GUI frontend is and always has been minimal because it is intended for integration with a mail server. In any case it needs a GUI Were there sufficient agreement...

the system needs to be easy to use for random people who never saw free software before Personally I'd consider an ancient core duo laptop from Horrible Products a pretty miserable way to introduce people to free software, and doubly so if it runs GNOME. That said, the very limited information I ca...

What it is the ''Tctl'' measurement? Derived value for cooling system / clock modulation control, usually a delta between Tdie and Tjunction or Tcase max. How exactly it is calculated depends on the CPU model in question. IOW, from the driver docs I linked above: Tctl is the processor temperature c...

Diesel330 wrote: ↑2024-08-02 10:37 which of all the fields is the CPU measurement?

k10temp / Tdie is the temperature reported by the CPU internal sensor.
It appears you either don't have or don't have a driver loaded for any motherboard hardware monitoring chip, sensors-detect may suggest additional modules to load.

do some testing yourself. I have. As have I, and with a real instrument (a vintage but well calibrated ERO Memocal 81 to be exact) rather than just comparing onboard sensors. No Motherboard "CPU" sensor I have seen (going back at least as far as Pentium IV systems, which got hot enough to...

If socket temperature is higher than the hottest core, then your BIOS is broken, the sensor it's using is even more inaccurate than usual (or should have an offset that board manufacturer didn't contribute to lm-sensors, or is actually core temp but they didn't tell you), or you're seeing thermal in...

Generally speaking CoreTemp is redundant bunk and not really actionable. You should figure out if there is a motherboard mounted sensor in/under the physical socket. There usually is, and this is the actual hot spot and the limiting factor. Hogwash. The values reported by the coretemp module (at le...

I don't know if it applies yo your situation, but I recently had (post kernel upgrade) issues with the synaptics touchpad/trackpoint on my old X230, where it reverted to reporting as a single generic "mouse" (passthrough) device rather than 2 separate inputs, with similar results (i.e. no ...

How would I use the dd from /dev/zero? At the CLI, from just about any GNU/Linux live or install media. You should be able to get a CLI either by exiting the installer without rebooting, or by switching to another TTY with alt-[f1-f6]. Then (as root) something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[di...

I would try (in gparted) going to Device -> Create Partition Table which should clear the drive completely, do this for all disks you want to have emptied. Creating a new partition table does exactly what it sounds like - it doesn't wipe the disk, it just overwrites the partition table with an empt...

'mailx' on Debian is a virtual package, provided by bsd-mailx, s-nail, or mailutils. By default bsd-mailx is installed, which does not suport SMTP/POP/IMAP by itself (i.e. only supports local mailboxes & sendmail).

What distro can be run on a system without the CMOV instruction like the one you're using? Slackware, of course :P expecting a modern OS to cater to that niche for a normal use is a little much. Perhaps, but that's not the point here. The arch is called "i386", so one would expect it to r...

Why not just call it "i686" if it can't run on an actual 80386 Probably because changing the name of the architecture target is a PITA from an organisational/tooling POV. Personally I find the recent change to -march=i686 rather annoying, as there are still machines around that would be q...

Debian supports many architectures, I am not sure if it is the last distro supporting i386, but many distros have already abandoned that. This is also "false adversising", because "i386" WRT Debian actually means i 6 86 with CMOV. Debian hasn't supported actual 386 CPUs for quit...

alienspy wrote: ↑2024-07-13 19:06 You say higher refresh rate leads to eye strain..?

No, I was referring to luminosity, contrast, and backlight flicker. My phrasing probably wasn't ideal.