Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer? S.W.A.G.

2023-04-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
7My reason for suggesting changing debconf priority to low was that perhaps additional questions might have uncovered some strangeness in the installer. It was not intended to fix this bug but only as a means to further analyze the bug. Apparently those on this list failed to understand but

Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
d-i makes no distinction between nvme and usb. Maybe another problem is the chosen installation destination might not be passed to the code that does the grub install. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed

Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
You've never seen debian main menu in the installer. That's selection 19 on that main menu and selection 21 helps big time with debugging since you choose that to save log files and selection 3 under that will save logs to /var/log/installer directory. Two ways to get to main menu. First and

Re: "Bug" in Debian Installer?

2023-04-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
A s.w.a.g. here. Priority of questions asked was not set to low in the main menu. I routinely change that to low when doing a debian install and preserve logs for future reference. Default priority if memory serves is medium. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

Re: bookworm multimedia scripts silent in console but play in mate-terminal

2023-04-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Pipewire is now on this machine since this didn't work with pulseaudio either. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrot

bookworm multimedia scripts silent in console but play in mate-terminal

2023-04-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here's one script that works that way. Standard package install choices were done desktop environment, mate, and standard utilities. An install with only standard utilities and no desktop environment and no mate prevents this script from playing at all. Mpv is already installed on this machine

Re: Bookworm: dash shell globs don't recognise [^...] to negate a character class

2023-04-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Something else I've noticed with bash. Those work when run in mate-terminal but not in console for some strange reason. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 12 Apr

Re: Bookworm: dash shell globs don't recognise [^...] to negate a character class

2023-04-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I write bash scripts and I've done this for several debian versions I use: #!/usr/bin/env bash That has worked in the past. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Thu, 13 Apr 2023,

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Perl or python, which has the most supported sysadmin tools? -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, Michel Verdier wrote: > Le 2 avril 2023 Nicholas Geovanis a écrit : >

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
M.I.T. is giving python's compiler some long overdue love which should speed it up considerably. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, Emanuel Berg wrote: > coreyh

Re: [Bookworm] installer stops due to missing wifi firmware

2023-03-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
get debian improved. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, Ismael Farfán wrote: > El mié, 29 mar 2023 a la(s) 10:33, Jude DaShiell (jdash...@panix.com) > es

Re: [Bookworm] installer stops due to missing wifi firmware

2023-03-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Could it be Debian hasn't got your firmware in any of its installations? That points at very new firmware. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, Ismael Farfán wrote: > I

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
owdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 04:10:37PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I'm using espeak-ng and reading this message with the symbols in it only > > generated silence when trying to read the symbols. I'm using utf-8 here &g

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm using espeak-ng and reading this message with the symbols in it only generated silence when trying to read the symbols. I'm using utf-8 here and don't have any kind of font chosen or set so far as I know. On my end all of this is happening in the console environment. -- Jude "There are

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
You know, if all of those symbols were in some font set and had text labels attached to them that could speak when a screen reader was used a whole bunch of playing card applications would suddenly become accessible for screen reader users. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: cpan oddity

2023-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > f...@dnsbed.com wrote: > > On 2023-03-27 08:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I ran cpan and did quick configurati

cpan oddity

2023-03-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ran cpan and did quick configuration and chose sudo to elevate privileges when necessary. Unfortunately I don't have write access on /usr/local/bin so cpan is crippled. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Ansi gets used to make the eye candy then that ansi breaks screen reader accessibility with cli screen readers. No thank you! -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 24 Mar 2023,

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks for checking this for me, apparently I've got hardware problems. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, >

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
contact's successful verifications. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, davidson wrote: > On Fri, 17 Mar 2023 davidson wrote: > > On Fr

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > > verification file and am wonderi

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
e use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:36?AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > > verification file and am wonderi

bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these failures. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: apparently bookworm tasksel is deprecated or broken

2023-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
47:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > root@taf:~# tasksel > > Software selection > > -- > > > > You can choose to install one or more of the following predefined > > collections of software. > > > > 1. Debian desktop environment

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried installing task-lxqt-desktop using apt and that didn't go well at all. Since I use a screen reader I ended up installing bullseye mate with the installation disc then upgrading to bookworm. That worked. So far as I can tell, a11y work was not done on lxqt to bring up orca if speakup got

apparently bookworm tasksel is deprecated or broken

2023-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
root@taf:~# tasksel Software selection -- You can choose to install one or more of the following predefined collections of software. 1. Debian desktop environment 3. ... Xfce 5. ... KDE Plasma 7. ... MATE 9. ... LXQt 11. SSH server 2. ... GNOME

Re: real debian or true debian?

2023-03-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Likely debuan came up for consideration in this context. That if it is the case can be handled easily. Rather than real or true original would better fit in this case since debuan is a fork of debian. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-01-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
boxes specializes in that. chafa may help those that get your ascii boxes put those characters into the printable set. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 31 Jan 2023,

Re: partition appears to be mounted, but not according to umount or lsblk

2023-01-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
I wonder if blkid might be a bit more informative. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:03:14PM +,

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
pass phrase length and complexity. At least 16 characters; Starts and ends with a letter, has two symbols, two numbers two upper-case two lower-case. Nothing found in dictionaries in pass phrase no keyboard walking, no recognizeable keyboard patterns may work for a few seconds. Jude "There

Re: Passwords

2023-01-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
futureproofing could include encrypting passwords then logging those on paper in encrypted form. Just remember where you keep that log and remember your encryption for recovery if you forget your password again. Us totally blind people not only have braille as an encryption technique but other

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

2023-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I remember correctly, dos and windows .com and .exe programs all have control-z as their first character. The file command may also help. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: How can I check (and run) if an *.exe is a DOS or a Windows program?

2023-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Inspect the files with strings and pipe the output to less. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: [OT] The DIY D-Day A movement taking on the likes of Apple is winning a major battle for consumers.

2023-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Independent repairs especially on Apple products are likely to end up being more expensive than using Apple repair since repair of iphones is a dangerous occupation even for Apple employees who are trained to do those repairs. Give it a little time and I expect in Apple's case in particular this

Re: no sound after installing pulseaudio

2022-12-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm living on the command line most of the time. If sound doesn't work over here for me since I need to use a screen reader, the computer becomes a paperweight. I'm glad that fix worked for you and I should have told you to do that command as root. If that command ever fails, alsa got locked up

Re: no sound after installing pulseaudio

2022-12-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Alternatively, amixer set Master 100% unmute Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 09:12:28AM +0800

Re: no sound after installing pulseaudio

2022-12-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's necessary to unmute resources in pulseaudio and I don't know how to do that. No problem with alsa but pulseaudio given naming conventions for me was opaque. You may have good luck with pipewire but be prepared to install wireplumber if necessary. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in

Re: Starting Debian

2022-11-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
dban is a good eraser if you refer to cleaning disks entirely of their content. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) .

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Good to let users of gpg know credentials have no web of trust so verification of credentials will remain limited until further public and official notice. Public and official notice ought to include an announcement email to all debian email lists in the event these credentials are ever added to

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
On debian, have you got a gpg2 executable? If so, that executable may be more current and if so possibly work better. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Mon, 14 Nov 2022,

Re: sid - no sound on speakers

2022-11-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
An audio screen reader user would have noticed this problem as soon as it happened. If others are on sid, and haven't got to the same upgrade level, running speaker-test after each upgrade may narrow down the likely culprits. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: sid - no sound on speakers

2022-11-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 13 Nov 2022, David wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 13:42, Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > > > > > > David

Re: Boxed Distributions

2022-11-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 1 Nov 2022, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 02:24:25AM -0400, Joe Roberts II wrote: > > Dear Debian Friends, >

Re: MUD

2022-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know if it's still around, but there was a waffle bbs system that could run on unix a while ago. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 15 Oct 2022, Roy J.

realtek on debian bluetooth

2022-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have an rtl8188gu bluetooth adapter and would like to know if debian can run this one and if so, what does it need to run? hcidump and btscanner both fail to find it so maybe I'm missing a needed package or two. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot,

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote: > September 28, 2022 at 12:22 PM, "Jude DaShiell" wrote: > > > > > > > It may be necessary to disable SENSIBLE-BROWSER. echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER > >

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may be necessary to disable SENSIBLE-BROWSER. echo $SENSIBLE-BROWSER to see if it's loaded. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote: >

Re: how do i configure lynx browser as default browser for html

2022-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
A line like: export BROWSER=lynx in /etc/profile may help. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 28 Sep 2022, jindam, vani wrote: > hello debian-users, > > good morning

Re: shellworld.net (for visually impaired users), (was: Re: question for seasoned links users?)

2022-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 18 Sep 2022, jr wrote: > hi, > > (sorry, late to the party :-)) > > I don't think 'script' has been mentioned yet, a neat way

Re: question for seasoned links users?

2022-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 18 Sep 2022, Curt wrote: > On 2022-09-17, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:19:51 -0400 (EDT) > > Karen Lewellen

Re: question for seasoned links users?

2022-09-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
at, 17 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 11:12:03AM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Jude, > > On Sat, 17 Sep 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > It's possible to run: > > > screen links http://site.com > > > on a single line t

Re: question for seasoned links users?

2022-09-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Screen can be used more effectively than a photo I think. If the hardcopy is successful search for a file called hardcopy.n where n is a number and it should be a larger size than 0. wc -c hardcopy.1 if hardcopy.1 exists would give the number of characters in that file and if that number is

Re: question for seasoned links users?

2022-09-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's possible to run: screen links http://site.com on a single line then control+a-h to get the screen shot. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 17 Sep 2022, Karen

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

2022-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 14 Sep 2022, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Stefan wrote: > In article you > write: > >> the interest of the user. These "volunteers"

Re: Firefox 104 on Sid unusable because it blanks open tabs after a few minutes

2022-09-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Usually when I run a web browser, I open only one tab at a time. I don't multitask so maybe running with a single tab open at one time will allow increased mental focus enabling use of the browser until this problem can get fixed. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

Re: USB WiFi Adapter

2022-08-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Atheros is what thinkpenguin.com uses to avoid proprietary blobs. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Tue, 23 Aug 2022, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > All, > > Can anyone

Re: determining hotkeys for a program, without a manual?

2022-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
that or maybe the waybackmachine. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, John Covici wrote: > How about -h or --help, do either of those give you anything?

Re: Mail Transfer Agent

2022-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
hinting that perhaps new clients, > depending on circumstances, may not enjoy comparative service. > Karen > > > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > I have had a telnet account with panix.com I think for 8 years and service > > has been excellent. We

Re: Mail Transfer Agent

2022-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have had a telnet account with panix.com I think for 8 years and service has been excellent. Webmail is also available for those that want it. Telnet accounts here cost $100 per year. I chose telnet since I do better with cli than gui. Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
; The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] > username > > For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob > > On 8/17/22 10:21, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and > > maybe t

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
the user that's doing this would need to be added to the audio group and maybe the pulseaudio group if that group exists. The groupadd command can do that for the user but groupadd has to be used by root to get that done. Before doing any of that, a user can find what groups they're already in by

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-08-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
13:25, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 28 Jul 2022 at 14:29:32 (+0100), tony van der Hoff wrote: > > > On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > Thanks for your help. Sadly, I'm not getting very far with this. I > > > guess I'm not understanding your in

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I'm not getting very far with this. I guess I'm > not understanding your instructions too well: > > On 27/07/2022 16:07, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Have the running linux system on the machine. Run lsblk to locate the > > name of the boot partition. > > I'll call the d

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
a recap and this ought to be better. lsblk >orig # plug ssd in. lsblk >new comm -1 -3 -f orig new On Thu, 28 Jul 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 03:06:47PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I googled: "mount solid state drive" Linux, and I got very few hits > > (like

Re: How do you mount a solid state drive? ...

2022-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
An easy way to locate an ssd is to have it unplugged from the system and run lsblk and save that to a file then plug the ssd in and run lsblk again saving its output to another file. The line in the second file that's missing from the first file is the ssd. On Wed, 27 Jul 2022, Dan Ritter

Re: Help: disk swap

2022-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have the running linux system on the machine. Run lsblk to locate the name of the boot partition. Once you have the name run blkid and copy the uuid for use in the end of /etc/fstab and put in the path to the boot device, the disk format ext4, defaults,nofail 1 2 on an fstab entry. Next, run

Re: bash: which: command not found? + (E: Unable to locate package which? ...)

2022-07-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
If using bash, likely the type command will work. On Fri, 8 Jul 2022, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Actually, I just noticed I couldn't run "cat" as regular user but I > could as root how could that form a "multiversing" be -technically- > happening (other than having forces actively messing with

Re: recommend music player?

2022-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
mpv On Wed, 16 Mar 2022, Devin Prater wrote: > VLC. > Devin Prater > r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com > > > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 12:55 PM kaye n wrote: > > > Hello Friends! > > > > I am currently using Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) > > > > Can anyone recommend a good music player with an

Re: Pulseaudio goes into an uninterruptible sleep upon start

2022-03-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
peakers-jack-detected-but-no-audio-comes-out/33380/4 > > I still don't completely understand why things are related, but > this solves the problem - and everything still works properly > after USB dongle is connected. > > > On 3/7/22 21:51, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Three things t

Re: Pulseaudio goes into an uninterruptible sleep upon start

2022-03-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Three things to do: 1) pulseaudio --cleanup-shm reboot and see if you get any better results. 2) if 1 fails in the user directory rm -fr ~/.config/pulseaudio then reboot and check for better results. 3) if 2 fails, remove pulseaudio from the machine and think about installing and running pipewire

Re: Need to manually start pulseaudio on reboot

2022-02-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
/01/2022 00:14, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Have you run pulseaudio --cleanup-shm yet? > > I tried, didn't worked. Should I check some config file I forgot I modified in > the remote past maybe? > > thanks, > Nicola > > > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, nmanca wrote: >

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
When you stop pulseaudio, you did a good thing. since pulseaudio was started again, you're probably going to have to mess around in pactl to get this fixed if that will even be possible. On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > >> Thanks Andrei. I followed the

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
rm /var/lock/asound.state.lock On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > alsactl init I think will find everything. > > > > Then there is something else that is not letting "alsactl init" to > function properly; lock file

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
alsactl init I think will find everything. On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > alsactl --init > > may help. > > However alsa makes .lock files in /var/lock/alsa and you may find it > > helpful to delete the lock file first the

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
alsactl --init may help. However alsa makes .lock files in /var/lock/alsa and you may find it helpful to delete the lock file first then once card is set run alsactl store. Those lock files sometimes prevent alsa from doing a proper detection and change. On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, Pankaj Jangid

Re: Need to manually start pulseaudio on reboot

2022-01-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you run pulseaudio --cleanup-shm yet? On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, nmanca wrote: > Dear list, > > Since upgrading to bookworm I have to manually start pulseaudio at every login > by executing: > > systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service > > I use KDE plasma desktop. > how can I diagnose/solve

Re: book recommendation regarding ipv6

2022-01-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's a six-volume set called the Illustrated Guide to TCPIP and covers all manner of material. On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 1/16/22 23:16, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi! > > > > This might not be the right forum but I have already duckduck:ed it and > > I don't

Re: Just curious if there's anybody out there still using LXDE?

2022-01-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Last time I read and that was some time ago, Linus Torvalds had moved his machines to lxde. No idea if he's moved on since then though. On Sun, 16 Jan 2022, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 11:33 -0600, c. marlow wrote: > > UPDATE! > > > > I got telegram to show up in the Start menu and

Re: Default sound level always zero for externally plugged usb sound system

2022-01-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Needing sound as much as I do and having used usb sound systems, I'll add one more suggested precaution to this info. Sometimes alsa makes .lock files in /var/lock and these will block alsactl from working. So check for those and delete as necessary then run alsactl store and alsa will make

Re: Bullseye Installer Fails to find soundcard

2022-01-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
If the first possible port is hdmi it could be debian is getting hung up on that port and thinks it's your default port. This is not a new problem. Maybe a -nohdmi boot parameter could be added to instruct the installer to bypass all of those hdmi ports if that's the problem you're having. If

Re: couldn't build pipe-viewer with debian

2022-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
DaShiell wrote: > I forgot to install the -dev package. I'll try this again and see if it > goes through. > > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 07:38:25PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > pipe-viewer youtube-viewer and straw-v

Re: couldn't build pipe-viewer with debian

2022-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I forgot to install the -dev package. I'll try this again and see if it goes through. On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 07:38:25PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > pipe-viewer youtube-viewer and straw-viewer cannot be built with debian. > &

couldn't build pipe-viewer with debian

2022-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
pipe-viewer youtube-viewer and straw-viewer cannot be built with debian. The reasons for that are each of those packages require Term::ReadLine::Gnu and Term::ReadLine::Gnu cannot be built withreadline 2.0. That's an ancient version of readline. I tried with readline 2.01 and my x86_64 equipment

Re: cpan

2022-01-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks, I had no idea that would work! On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > Pipe the output of the cpan command to less? > > | less > > On 3/1/22 1:14 pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > when displaying results from a cpan search, is it possible to limit the > >

cpan

2022-01-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
when displaying results from a cpan search, is it possible to limit the number of displayed results to the screen size then page to the next or previous set of results? Something like what less does with long files that are larger than your screen.

Re: brltty=huge distraction for folks that don't need it.

2022-01-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
You can configure brltty to choose none as the voice and silence that. Perhaps it's time for debian to have an accessibility task that can be deselected by those that don't need accessibility yet. All accessibility programs that annoy the temporarily able could be put into that task and have it

yabasic is strange

2021-12-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
A program I wrote for blassic on another system works with bwbasic on debian. However with yabasic, the input statement throws an error and the syntax is correct for yabasic too. One possibility may be the file suffix since it's now .bas and may need to be changed to yab. The file I wrote the

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have firmware-realtek installed for wireless devices and that's all debian offers. On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, deloptes wrote: > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > I find its home page somehow confusing > > https://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ > > But the web says that it is supposed to work

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
hcitool and rfkill list showed nothing, according to them the device isn't there yet. I might be able to get this going with usb_modeswitch but need a product identifier and another item to do that. On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, deloptes wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Dec 16 17:10:08 t

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
firmware-realtek has been installed a while ago. I'm probably going to have to run usb-modeswitch against the device. On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, deloptes wrote: > > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > No Linux firmware ca

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, deloptes wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > No Linux firmware came on the disk only windows files.  To that extent I > > checked.  On debian does a way exist to check devices for missing > > firmware? > > > > in the log file journalct

re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Havbing removed the device I ran dmesg| wc -l. Inserting the device I ran dmesg| wc -l again and got a difference of 11 lines. So dmesg >dmesg.log and tail -11 dmesg.log got me this information. [10200.545324] usb 3-1: Product: DISK [10200.545329] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Realtek [10200.545637]

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
No Linux firmware came on the disk only windows files. To that extent I checked. On debian does a way exist to check devices for missing firmware? On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, deloptes wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > So in reality this may actually not be a card > >

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2021-12-16 20:01 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> bnep 20480 0 > >> bluetooth 483328 1 bnep > >> ecdh_generic 16384 1 blue

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > bnep 20480 0 > > bluetooth 483328 1 bnep > > ecdh_generic 16384 1 bluetooth > > ecc40960 1 ecdh_generic > > > > That's releva

realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
bnep 20480 0 bluetooth 483328 1 bnep ecdh_generic 16384 1 bluetooth ecc40960 1 ecdh_generic That's relevant output from lsmod. If I run inxi -E that returns no bluetooth data available. This is supposed to be linux-compatible.

Re: all of a sudden I have no sound

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
a system that installs it automatically for sanity purposes. On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 16 Dec 2021 at 09:13:11 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > it would be nice if pulseaudio say in pavucontrol would get a find my > > >

Re: all of a sudden I have no sound

2021-12-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
it would be nice if pulseaudio say in pavucontrol would get a find my speakers button which would try what it thinks is a speaker andput a message on the screen asking if the user heard some music. If the answer is no, move onto the next speaker. On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: >

Re: telegram-desktop backports request

2021-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
telegram-cli was also outdated and may remain so if no longer supported. On Sat, 4 Dec 2021, Ralf Neubauer wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > I can second that, everything is fine now! Thank you for the quick reaction! > > Just to have it documented somewhere, in one of the out-of-date versions > I had

Re: Don't try this at home kids

2021-11-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
sudo doesn't ask me for my password and I didn't even touch /etc/sudoers to do it. A file placed in /etc/sudoers.d with permissions of 0440 having any name you choose and contents like: user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL in it with user being the account name will do it. On Tue, 30 Nov 2021, Jeremy

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