Lightweight Audio-Only DLNA player

2017-10-17 Thread Robert Latest
Hello, there's plenty of DLNA capable media players around, but all of them (or at least, all that I could find) are gargantuan packages with tons of functionality and dependencies that I don't need or want. This is supposed to run audio-only on a small headless SBC with a USB connected DAC,

xlsclients doesn't list all clients

2017-10-07 Thread Robert Latest
Hello, how is it possible that xlsclients doesn't "see" all X clients? Here's my output from xlsclients: me@dotcom:~$ xlsclients -a dotcom xfce4-terminal dotcom xfce4-notifyd dotcom firefox-esr dotcom /usr/lib/firefox-esr/plugin-container dotcom claws-mail me@dotcom:~$ What's missing here

Re: How to upgrade / compile an ARM kernel?

2016-12-12 Thread Robert Latest
Thanks for the tip, I'll take my question next door.

How to upgrade / compile an ARM kernel?

2016-12-12 Thread Robert Latest
Hi all, I have this old hardkernel odroid-u2 chugging away as a slow but reliable mediaserver. It's a few years old and uses a Debian Wheezy I downloaded from Hardkernel's site. I now wanted to connect a two-bay USB/SATA adapter, but the odroid only sees one of the drives. Maybe it's something

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

2016-12-06 Thread Robert Latest
09:04 AM, Robert Latest wrote: >> Not in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, despite suggestions in >> every bit of documentation that I got my hands on. In fact, that file >> doesn't even exist on my jessie system. Nevertheless, when I >> configured the WiFi networ

Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

2016-12-06 Thread Robert Latest
Not in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, despite suggestions in every bit of documentation that I got my hands on. In fact, that file doesn't even exist on my jessie system. Nevertheless, when I configured the WiFi network using some GUI tool in the XFCE desktop, it worked. Even after a

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Robert Latest
Hi all, I solved my problem: Somehow I must have corrupted the metadata in my volume groups. Scanning through the directory /etc/lvm/archive on the NAS and my linux box, there were several historical configuration files for each of my disks. I found the files that represented the last working

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Robert Latest
inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:0 root@dotcom:~# vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg1 1 1 0 wz--n- 926.91g 926.90g vg1000 1 0 0 wz--n- 926.90g 926.90g On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Roland Müller &l

How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-24 Thread Robert Latest
Hey all, I got it to work ONCE, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to do it again. This is what I think I did the first time, but for the second time it just doesn't work. root@dotcom:~# mdadm --assemble --scan mdadm: /dev/md/2 has been started with 1 drive. mdadm: /dev/md/3 has been

Re: How to run a script before shutdown?

2016-11-14 Thread Robert Latest
or reboot. In practise this doesn't make any significant difference though. Regards, robert On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2016-11-13 20:34 +0100, Robert Latest wrote: > > > I want to automatically start a data backup script

How to run a script before shutdown?

2016-11-13 Thread Robert Latest
Hi all, I want to automatically start a data backup script (to USB or network drive) at each shutdown of my computer. I did some research into this and found that several people have the same problem as I do. But the threads I found petered out into discussions of several ways of doing this,

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-20 Thread Robert Latest
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:11:24 -1000 Joel Roth jo...@pobox.com wrote: Robert Latest wrote: With aplay -D hw:0,0 it still works. You're 99% to the destination. IIRC, directly addressing the sound device as hw:0,0 takes the whole device, will not allow software mixing of audio streams from

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Robert Latest
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: First questions: Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? I don't know. I seem to have both on my system. I don't know what the difference is, or if one is running on top of the other,

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Robert Latest
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: First questions: Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? Did you try alsamixer? Often it is possible, to choose different hardware in the GUI. Did you try other ones, too?

Can't get sound to work

2015-01-15 Thread Robert Latest
Hi all, this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the configuration file doesn't help. No other sound-outputting program works.

Aptitude / Debfoster incompatibility?

2013-05-03 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, I usually use aptitude to install and de-install packages. Recently I've discovered debfoster and tried to use it to weed out unneeded packages. I got rid of some 100 packages using debfoster, but the nest time I started up aptitude, it wanted to re-install all of them (and it did,

Re: How to make snd-aloop use index 0?

2013-01-08 Thread Robert Latest
Hello Andrej, On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Try removing all snd- modules and then manually inserting snd-aloop with option index=0. I tried that, and it works. So, technically, my problem is solved - but what I'm after is a solution that works

How to make snd-aloop use index 0?

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, I know what you're thinking. Why doesn't the guy just type the subject of this message into Google and use one of the soöutions provided. Well, I did just that. I don't even really have to choose between solutions because everybody suggests the same: Include the following lines in the

Re: How to address hosts in dual ethernet networks?

2012-10-13 Thread Robert Latest
Thanks, Henning, and everybody else for helping out on this. I think I know what I have to do now. Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: How to address hosts in dual ethernet networks?

2012-10-04 Thread Robert Latest
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Henning Follmann hfollm...@itcfollmann.com wrote: The network design at your place seems like a mess and the best advice I can give you is to clean that up BEFORE you do anything else. What's the mess? That the Intranet contains 192.168... addresses? Anyway, this

Re: How to address hosts in dual ethernet networks?

2012-10-04 Thread Robert Latest
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:35 PM, lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: What if you actually do make your host a bridge that bridges the two networks and let the Modbus devices get their addresses from the DHCP server? Can't. My local modbus subnet must not be visible from the outside. Actually there

Problem installing an init script with insserv

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, I'm trying to have the script (below) run automatically at each system shutdown. But it is never called, neither on startup nor on shutdown. I ran insserv on it and it worked without errors. It also seems to have the correct links installed: dh@dotcom:/etc$ find . -name '*dupba*'

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-06 Thread Robert Latest
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Run xev and type the combo of one of the characters you are not getting, like [ to see what you get instead. Interesting: In xev, I seem to get exactly what I want -- see below xev's dump of my first pressing AltGr, then a

X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-02 Thread Robert Latest
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: How does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf InputDevice section look like? Like this: Section InputDevice        Identifier      Generic Keyboard        Driver          kbd        Option          XkbRules      xorg        Option        

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-02 Thread Robert Latest
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Mine (under lenny) is this: Section InputDevice    Identifier  Generic Keyboard    Driver              kbd    Option              XkbRules      xorg    Option              XkbModel      pc105    Option              

X Keyboard layout trouble

2010-12-28 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, recently I re-activated my wife's 8-year-old laptop using debian stable. The installation went of course quickly and hitch-free as usual. However, what doesn't work correctly is the keyboard under X. More precisely, the symbols accessed using the Alt Gr key produce all sorts of

Re: Connection loss to mounted nfs volume

2010-08-15 Thread Robert Latest
Sorry guys for the incremental mess I made in this mailing list.Must be a bug in claws-mail's IMAP handling. robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Trouble mounting an NFS share

2010-06-30 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, I'm trying to mount an external NFS share on a Debian box. I must admit that the server is not a Debian system but a D-Link DNS-323 NAS running Linux. I think the problem is on the server side. (I've set up an NFS server on the localhost as well for testing, and it works fine.) What

How to run an X program as a different user?

2010-05-18 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, my question is already in the subject line. Also I think that I've got the basics figured out, it's just that I don't understand the details. Essentially I want user A to run a specific X app as user B. So I think I need to write a tiny shell script like this: #!/bin/sh xhost +B sudo

Console font turned cyan

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Latest
Hello folks, I don't know when it happened but it must have been during some aptitude upgrade run lately: My console font turned from white to cyan. At first I thought that the red VGA signal had a bad contact, but X came up in full color. Console apps can control the color to a certain extent,

What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, I've searched the Net up and down but had to realize in puzzlement that I seem to be the only one with this problem. After an upgrade from stable to testing I found that xpdf had gone. Sure enough, the page about the package xpdf at http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xpdf says: This

Re: How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-07 Thread Robert Latest
Hello Frank, Assuming you are running a Debian kernel, Correct, 2.26-2-686 out of the box                         Use vga=ask for menu. doesn't work. All I get is the list of standard VGA modes. When I type scan, the screen goes blang for about a minute but the system doesn't find any

How to activate VESA mode on boot-up?

2009-07-05 Thread Robert Latest
Hello folks, recently I accidentally hosed my old kernel image (it was something that ended on -k7). The only reason I'd kept it was because I couldn't get anything but the ugly boxy 80-by-something text mode console fonts to work with the 2.6.26-x-686 line of Debian prepackaged kernels. Anyway,

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Latest
Hello Kelly, As far as I know, any mode other than 80x25 is FB. There are two way to display a penguin, one is the kernel option for a boot logo (off by default in debian), the other is a boot splash program, such as splashy or usplash. Yeah, but I don't want the penguin anyway. What I want

How to turn sound on by default?

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Latest
Hello there, when I want to use sound on my computer, I always have to start the (GUI app) gnome-alsamixer and un-mute it. Even on the Gnome desktop it's not enough to click off the little red mute symbol next to the loudspeaker in the upper right corner, no, I also have to go explicitly through

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: This should get you up to speed re: the fb console:  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html I had already looked at that document up to the point where it says: Reboot the kernel, and as a simple test, try entering

How to selectively automount USB disks under GNOME?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
Hello, me and USB again. I normally use usbmount to automount USB disks. To download pictures from my digital camera's card, I've written a hook script which checks for certain things (the existence of a DCIM folder, specifically), and if these are found, automatically downoads all images from

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
Hello there, I'm completely stumped. I'm using the out-of-the-box lenny kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686. According to the config file, ehere seem to be many framebuffer options hard-compiled into the kernel (seel below). When I set the vga=ask kernel option, all I get is a handful of chunky

Re: How to change console font?

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Latest
Another curious thing: I tried to make some framebuffer devices in /dev (as described in the HOWTO), but they get deleted on reboot! Since when gets stuff deleted from /dev? Did my system go haywire somehow, or could this have to do with its being the testing branch? Thanks, robert -- To

How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Latest
Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted on boot. I could just knit some init script for this task, but before I do that I'd like to check if there is a canonical Debian way to achieve

How to change console font?

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Latest
Hello folks, since many kernels ago I've used VGA console fonts that have been more pleasant than the standard 80x25 screen (mode 775). However, since my recent upgrade to lenny, this often doesn't work any more. Sometimes I get the font I want, sometimes I get the 80x25 one, and sometimes I get