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What 'video' device is linux kernel using during initial boot? GRUB you can find it via 'videoinfo' command. Once UI is up, say GNOME, you can use 'xrandr -q' for example, which on Debian 12 is XWAYLAND0. But if you are trying to force the kernel via an explicit 'video' kernel parameter, you need to know how the kernel sees the video subsystem. For example, video=VGA-1:1920x1080@60, but it is not always VGA-1. How to find what driver the kernel is using to complete the 'video' kernel argument ...

On ARM64 Hardware, IndieDroid Nova SBC, Wayload based GDM3 Crash? If I enable Wayland, GDM3 runs then crashes, the error message is rather crypted, and the error is inconsistent, it happened several times, consistently. But for the last 10 or so reboots, it works.

How to resolve this or get assistance to solve this? GDM3 clearly hangs, when it happens, get black screen no cursor. I had to set WaylandEnable=false in daemon.conf, to recover. Is there some type of debugging or reporting method to ...

Once and for all DISABLE MAC RANDOMIZATION? The idea that a wired NIC should have a randomized MAC... Has to be one of the !!!!... So how do you explicitly disable ALL MAC RANDOMIZATION on wired NICs?

I have spent over 2 hours trying 5 or 6 methods, include macchanger... NOTHING IS WORKING with Debian 12. Using NetworkManger but I realize the randomization maybe coming from systemd? Or somewhere else? Have clients that use PCLAAs and MAC auditing... so RANDOMIZED MACS IS A HORRIBLE IDEA!

How ...

PXE Boot Integrating AMD/i686 Variants? If you follow the directions, for expanding netboot.tar.gz into the path for the tftp server, you destroy the pxelinux.cfg/default menu system, overwriting the first uncompressed tz with the second. So how to do you integrate both variants?

For example... Say you expand netboot.tar.gz from AMD64 variant...
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 13 22:35 debian-installer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Feb 4 23:43 ldlinux.c32 -> debian-installer/amd64/boot-screens ...

IWD vs. wpa_supplicant & dhcpcd? I have seen references via Google of various Linux distributions migrating to IWD. But I have not found any specific plans for Debian to do this? Is there any strategic plan about this? It seems confusing on what the plan is for Debian on this topic?

How to request that isc-dhcp-server package for Debian is changed/revised to support 'fixed' as a supported configuration value for rrset-order?

/etc/bind/named.conf.options:10: rrset-order: order 'fixed' was disabled at compilation time

I know it has to be set a compile time, and it is not the typical use case, but really, it should be included to support users that need this feature. It hurts no one to be included as an enabled setting, thus it will be there when needed, for those of us that ...

Have a Linux server with 3 NICs... enp0s11, enp0s12f0, and enp0s12f1. I cannot for the life of me, get the OS, or rather Network Manager to use the enp0s11 NIC. The enp0s11 NIC has link state, active link state connectivity. If I do old-school, dhcpcd or interfaces.d file, the NIC works, static or DHCP, etc. But not under Network Manager.

So, here we go... list connections...

# nmcli con
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE
ethernet-enp0s12f0 ed4c6c7e-a870-439c-9ece-d2cb7cb979d3 ethernet enp0s12f0
ethernet ...

One more update... I have noticed that Debian 11.6 i686, i.e. 32bit, seems to have a bug, usb-storage quirks are NOT being applied. Neither via kernel command line parameter nor via modprobe.d conf file. On reboot the quirks as configured are not applied. This does not appear to be the case on AMD64, i.e. 64 bit. On both systems, usb-storage qurks configured in grub on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line. And quirks defined in /etc/modprobe.d/USB-quirks.conf.

For example on AMD64...
# cat /etc/modprobe ...

Ok, I guess I am still surprised that no one has replied to this thread? Maybe no one else has older USB enclosures that suffer from this issue? So, this issue had me walking down two paths, one was to ensure that the UAS driver was never used. And, two, since the error involved sync of the cache, that suggested disable of the cache was applicable.

I even create a Hyper-V WSL (Windows Support for Linux) VM to prove the scope of the issue was the USB-Storage driver in native Linux. Testing the ...

Wow! No one? Well, just to prove that the issue is within the Linux driver stack, I built a Microsoft WSL Linux VM. This is 100% Debian, but in a Hyper-V based VM that has full visibility to the underlying Windows OS device/Hardware layer.

This is done by the following... No burning me at the stack for knowing how to do this in Windows. :) In PowerShell (under Windows)...

PS> GET-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive"

DeviceID Caption Partitions Size Model ...

Just to qualify that I believe, or know, the disk, enclosure, etc., are physically valid, I connected the enclosure with the same cables and disk, to Windows 11, USB 3.0 port on Windows 11 PC, and was able see, initialize, partition and format the disk as expected. Connecting the enclosure back to the Linux box, running Debian 11.6, I was able to mount the disk partition 1, it is seen as NTFS of course. I can read and write to the disk.

# mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 "/mnt/disk/ntfs/Century 01 ...

[Update] See past post in thread/topic for work-around, but not what I could call a true fix, thus marked this as half solved for now


I have a 4 bay USB 2.0 disk enclosure that has worked fine for years with Debian, but as of 11.6, something has changed or been broken. The unit works perfectly fine with Windows, even Windows 11. I have 3 of these enclosures, all are exhibiting the same issues, I have swapped drives, cables, enclosures, the problem is consistent.

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006 ...

Will the maintainers of debian installer PLESASE FOR ALL FRICKING LOGIC enable manual partitioning so it can remove any existing LVM configuration. This is driving myself and other nuts. FIX IT. It is absolutely stupid that if you select manual partitioning you cannot remove an existing LVM partition. The debian installer automatic installation can do it unattended... so why the hell can't an attended install not do it?

How to you create a wallpaper (background) image? What file format, what resolution, what color depth is acceptable say for Gnome desktop? I can't seem to find one example via Google on how to create a wall paper. Apparently just creating a SVG file or PNG file insufficient. I created both, and they will not render, I get just a black screen when I set either as a wallpaper in by desktop environment. I know start up screens, lock screens backgrounds have some size limits or such, right? But what ...

Anyone actually using the 'd-i preseed/late_command' option? I cannot seem to find any example that actually works with debian installer for stretch. Google has many examples but nothing works when I actually tested the examples. Really need to download a script and execute it via the preseed/late_command feature. All help appreciated.

Can't find any example of LIRC install on Debian stretch? Found tons for Jessie, but that clearly does not work, references to lircd init start are wrong for latest version lirc uses systemd.

That answer does not help. Need consistency in design and implementation. It is stuff like the login screen not set to the correct resolution as the desktop that 1) make Linux OS look cheap, and incomplete. 2) Many Linux user want fixed! So, get things right, so the Linux desktop environment looks like quality, polished, solution, no something that a 15 year old created in the basement.

I have tried to get xrandr to run from everywhere I can think of, and no joy at all. It is almost as if who ...

Yet one more GDM3 Set Resolution question? I am struggle with why this issue can be addressed in a structured and concrete manner. There are 100s of not 1000s of Google entries on this topic, and of the 10 to 20 odd methods I have tried, none work, or they just obviously can't work. So the question is, has anyone figured out how to get GDM3 (greeter) to honor the Xorg configuration, so screen resolution (i.e. size) is consistent between login and presentation of desktop.

Tried, Wayland disable ...

Yet another multiple boot scenario... setup...

hd0 (Windows and Linux)
hd1 (disk for data)
hd2 (ESXi USB thumb drive)

Windows 7 and Linux on disk 0, ESXi on disk 2. Basically working, but for one issue. When I try to hide partitions on disk 2 from Windows or Linux via Grub2. According to Grub2 documentation parttool should be able to do the following under...

parttool (hd2,2) hidden+

Thus partition 2 (grub2 enumerates from 1, not 0) on hd2 should be hidden. But if grub2 parttool when ...