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Hi all,

I have an issue where the input latency that i can record music at increases when I connect my USB mic. I already have one USB interface connected and the latency sits at 2.6ms but when I connect the second device it increases to 4.0ms.

Could someone help me with this please? As I understand, only the sample rate and buffer size should affect the latency. How can two different devices have different latencies with all other settings remaining unchanged?

system info

this is some of /etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf

here's the audio routing

this is what my Digital Audio Workstation (reaper) is saying while the RØDE is plugged in. with the RØDE unplugged it's indentical except the 4.0 becomes 2.6

The GT-1000 device gives me 2.6ms on the input and the output, the "Built-in Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)" also gives me 2.6 on the output (and 0.0ms on the input for some reason).
The "RØDE NT1 5th Gen Mono" (which I have connected via the USB cable not the XLR) gives me 4.0 ms.

thanks for reading this far and thanks in advance for any help/advice

EDIT: something else that just occured to me was that this mic is able to record at 32 bit. The WAVs that I get in reaper are only 24 so, if anyone knows how to change that (presumably it's a system thing, not a reaper thing) please do tell...

thanks

So I had Mint installed on an old laptop, I decided to install Debian 13, this laptop has had Debian on it a few years ago, so I installed XFCE from the net install iso, rebooted into XFCE after the install, I rebooted again (without making any changes) and it froze on boot, I had to do a hard power off, so I rebooted again, same problem, then I went into grub and booted from 6..73 kernel, and it booted into XFCE just fine, so I rebooted again using the 6..73 kernel, and this time it froze again, tried it again, same problem, I've never experienced this behavior before, I guess I'll have to try another distro

Edit: I don't know what the problem was, but it I installed opensuse leap and the problem is gone

Took all my notes and transcribed all of the known failure modes I could find into the debian version of this guide, but also expanded it to arch and fedora because I use those too. Hope it helps someone: https://github.com/crussella0129/linux-nivida-troubleshooting

I'm going to buy a laptop eventually for college and just wondering if Debian be fine or if there is anything I should be aware of? I'm mostly going to be in a web browser and all that, nothing crazy. This same laptop has an inbuilt DVD drive and not sure if optical drives are still supported? It's 2026 so most people aren't going to have disc drive so would I need to install anything to make it work?

I don't know too much about Debian, I only used it for very short time. I just know it's super stable and don't have to update very often at all.

I'm thinking of switch from Mint to Debian. I love switch but I'm don't really trust companies nowadays and since debian is community driven plus one of the OG's of linux. I can safely say it's here to stay.

However, I'm just a bit worried and on your advice what are some stuff I should learn before the switch? Thank you.

Edit: plus I dont like the Mint's constant update. I'm scated that it might not fit in my laptop anymore

Edit again: thank you guys for the help. I really appreciate it :)

So recently Bluetooth wasnt working for a lot of debian users, which made me wonder wether there are any updates on this situation.

An additional question, how could a stable release break something as important as this?

As a new debian user this isnt a very good first impression of a newer user, ill stick to debian tho.

So I have fonts for Tibetan, Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs or the Adlam alphabet of Guinea... It's quite hard to select any font when I can't get a clear usage of fonts because the usable ones are all hunderds of items apart from each other.

Do you think this is normal guys -_-

I have just set up a VPS server running Debian stable, with

• postfix + dovecot + postfixadmin + mariadb
• nginx
• wordpress

I also set up fail2ban.

Now, since the server has a modest quantity of CPU cycles and RAM available, I wonder which monitoring option wold be reasonable. It would be important that it is lightweight and not too hard to configure, but also configurable enough to be able to look into things like RAM usage per process, mail queue, and things like that. And of course, preference for packages available from the official Debian servers.

I understand that grafana isn't available, and seems somewhat complex to set up from scratch.

Zabbix seems perhaps a bit too complex/overkill.

Munin works, but it has a confusing interface and isn't much flexible.

Nagios is kind of heavyweight.

Is there some other relatively simple (but not too simple) solution for server monitoring?

Sorry if it sounds like a stupid question🥲. New here and migrating from windows 11. I am trying out Fedora currently but there are issues that I can't fix ( webcam, mouse doesn't work). I tried a live version of debian on my USB, and those issues disappeared and everything worked

Gemini suggests that Debian is suitable for a server. But I feel like it can be used as a main OS ? Few videos I watched, the installation doesn't seem over complicated and the desktop looks pretty much the same as fedora.

Am I wrong? Is there something I should know?

Anyone out there get Debian KDE working with tablet mode on a convertible?

Sorry, I'm a complete noob. I got a new lovano yoga 7i 2in1. I specifically needed the tablet function for work. I decided while I was switching laptops id finally make the move to Linux.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1sxa85y/dx12_games_do_not_launch_on_nvidia_gpu_595_open/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button.

So, I had issues with NVIDIA not properly working with modern DX11/12 games through DXVK/VKD3D. I then found out that the issues stems from my nvidia gpu not being recognized as CUDA device.

Eventually, the issue was fixed by removing `page_poison=1` from boot kernel parameters (you typically find it in `/etc/modprobe/*` or `/etc/default/grub`). Second issue was the `nvidia_uvm` (on debian, it's `nvidia-current-uvm`) not being loaded at boot (you can load it manually after boot, or add it to `/etc/initramfs-tools/modules` for debian or `/etc/mkinitcpio.conf` for arch).

I tested the fix on arch and debian. Both work great! This post is for those people who are striving to death to find fix for such issue (I am one of them)!

hello I would like to do a clean uninstallation of my debian to put one back because I have too much hacked on it how can I do it cleanly

Over the last decade I’ve been playing with dozens of servers from multiple providers. These are the steps I’ve been perfecting to get up to speed fast and feel right at home on a new machine. Wrote it down here mostly as a personal reference, but hopefully useful to someone else too.

Hi! I created a USB to install debian-13.5.0-amd64-netinst, but it failed during integrity check at Debian installer menu. Actions I have already done:

1. Tested USB drive with sudo badblocks -wsv /dev/sda, re-created partition and reformatted (no errors)
2. Tried another USB drive and USB ports (same result)
3. Re-downloaded debian-13.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso from the official site and checked sha512 (no errors)
4. Tried different ways to write iso on USB (dd command, bootqt, image writer)

What else can be done? If it shows an error in fimware-amd-graphics file can I still install OS on Intel system?

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Hello guys,

I installed a fresh Debian 13 with the latest iso and to my surprise /usr/sbin is not in the root users Path. So when I tried to shutdown using the root user, the command was not found. When I looked at the roots Path variable, I saw there is no /usr/sbin.

So why is it, that even the root user have no /usr/sbin in his path?