OS: Debian trixie (v13) Linux Kernel: 6.4.11-1 x86/64 problem: vainfo returns only VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc and all other decoding profiles are “not supported”. solution: use the amdgpu driver (and not the radeon driver) for AMD Southern Island (SI)-Chips: add radeon.si_support=0 … Continued
problem: if the name of the DEBIAN distribution has changed (e.g. testing-version changes from “bullseye” to “bookworm”), aptitude denies the update procedure. It requests a manual command to proceed. solution: execute the command apt-get update –allow-releaseinfo-change (it updates the file … Continued
situtation: debian’s X-Server requires a systemd-session to work. problem: If you haven’t installed systemd, you aren’t able to start the xserver, because the xserver can’t connect to an systemd session. (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided … Continued
you have to install the package xautomation apt-get install xautomation now you can customize or script your automation #move the mouse cursor relative x+1 and y+1 xte ‘mousermove 1 1’ #press and release the left shift button xte ‘key … Continued
Debian error message (/var/log/auth.log) pam_systemd(login:session): pam-systemd initializing Jun 28 02:53:26 debian login[3173]: pam_systemd(login:session): Asking logind to create session: uid=1000 pid=3173 service=login type=tty class=user desktop= seat= vtnr=0 tty=/dev/tty1 display= remote=no remote_user= remote_host= Jun 28 02:53:26 debian systemd: PAM no modules loaded … Continued
today there aren’t any specific ET-3600 linux drivers. However, you can use the ET-4550 driver for the ET-3600 printer and it work’s fine. download the linux ET-4550 driver Epson ESC/P-R Driver v1.6.3 from http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/ install the prerequisites: (lsb-Package) apt-get … Continued
prerequisite 1: a working Domain-Name-System for all devices (DNS and rDNS), because the kerberos tickets uses DNS-names instead of IP-adresses. Without a working DNS resolution a connection can’t be established. myServer.com → 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.1 → myServer.com #check DNS resolution dig … Continued
prerequisite: working Kerberos configuration #/etc/krb5.conf (minimal example) [libdefaults] default_realm = <MY-REALM> [realms] <MY-REALM> = { kdc = <IP-adress> admin_server = <IP-adress> } kerberized login: #/etc/pam.conf (without support for X Desktop Environment) login auth required pam_krb5.so login account required pam_krb5.so … Continued
problem: the update-process for aptitudes “reading package list” takes a very long time. reason: the $LANGUAGE-variable has a wrong value. solution: set a correct value in bash via export LANGUAGE=en and afterwards restart aptitude.
Error message: Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing ‘modprobe vboxdrv’ as root. … Continued