Changing The PSI Definition

2024-01-25 Thread Thomas George
The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. Tried editing .bashrd , /ext/fprofile and /ext/bash.bashrc but no changes to the PSI definition had any effect Searched for PSI and found /usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64/include/config/PSI

SOLVED Re: No Release file for Security Update SOLVED

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
  The following sources.list which I copied from wiki.debian.org/SourcesList works perfectly for me deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb

Re: No Release file for Security Update SOLVED

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
-firmware contrib non-free Tom George Thomas George wrote: My system is Bookworm installed from the first DVD which was downloaded with the checksums and successfully checked. I commented out the dvd and added to sources.list lines for bookworm, bookworm-updates and bookworm-security. Ran apt

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
On 1/17/24 22:54, Todd Zullinger wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free non-free-firmware Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. https

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
On 1/17/24 20:52, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free non-free-firmware Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. https://lists.debian.org/debian

update of bookworm-security failed Formerly Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
On 1/17/24 20:40, Thomas George wrote: On 1/17/24 19:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:31:52AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main non-free-firmware This one

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas George
On 1/17/24 19:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:31:52AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main non-free-firmware This one, before you commented it out, only

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas George
On 1/17/24 16:13, Tom Furie wrote: Thomas George writes: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-security  main non-free non-free-firmware Err:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release   404  Not Found [IP: 151.101. I entered you suggested line as http

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas George
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease Ign:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security InRelease Hit:4 https://linux.brostrend.com stable InRelease Err:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release   404  Not Found [IP: 151.101. On 1/16/24 11:30, Thomas George

No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-16 Thread Thomas George
My system is Bookworm installed from the first DVD which was downloaded with the checksums and successfully checked. I commented out the dvd and added to sources.list lines for bookworm, bookworm-updates and bookworm-security. Ran apt-get update The result was  bookworm InRelease,

Re: Problem with sound disappearing

2024-01-15 Thread Thomas George
On 1/15/24 11:36, Carl Fink wrote: On 1/15/24 02:58, David Christensen wrote: On 1/14/24 16:03, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I am using a Lenovo computer with 8G of memory and 1 TB hard drive, AMD > Ryzen 3 2200g w/radion vega graphices x4, Graphics Gallium 0.4 llvmpipe, > it is running 64

bookworm No printer, No sound

2024-01-07 Thread Thomas George
nmap finds printer ,printer ip lan address. with lan address printer's state can be read and test page printed Cups can install printer with a long ipp address, not wifi. Only the lpinfo command works, the others are deprectiated, not working so it  is not possible to set an lp destination.

Re: Everything But Sound with Bookworm

2023-12-28 Thread Thomas George
OK no more new posts. Maybe someday the problem will solve itself On 12/27/23 15:59, Valerio Vanni wrote: Il 27/12/2023 21:47, Thomas George ha scritto: gnome setup sound output device: speakers - builtin audio pulseaudio output device port: speakers (plugged in) It seems you are opening

Everything But Sound with Bookworm

2023-12-27 Thread Thomas George
gnome setup sound output device: speakers - builtin audio pulseaudio output device port: speakers (plugged in) Both of the above show an audio signal when the command mpv Smoke\ Gets\ In\ Your\ Eyes.mp3 is entered but playback ends after 10 seconds. The mpv text output ends with AO:

Re: No alsa, no alsactl in bookworm distribution?

2023-12-27 Thread Thomas George
Correction: Output was  to headphone. There is a signal for plugged in speaker. Still no sound from speaker. On 12/27/23 09:56, Thomas George wrote: No sound. alsamixer shows card HDA Intel PCH but no driver list.  pulseaudio volume control output shows no signal. What am I missing?

No alsa, no alsactl in bookworm distribution?

2023-12-27 Thread Thomas George
No sound. alsamixer shows card HDA Intel PCH but no driver list.  pulseaudio volume control output shows no signal. What am I missing?

No Sound With Bookworm

2023-12-26 Thread Thomas George
Pulseaudio Volume control shows a strong signal audio output but nothing reaches the speakers. This must be a well known problem but I can't find the answer. Please help Tom George

Re: PATH question

2023-11-12 Thread Thomas George
oogle chrome successfully installed. Tom On 11/12/23 09:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 09:35:33AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: I don't like to clutter up my download file. Since I normally use dpkg -i debfile.deb this would add a directory in the download file. Whe

Re: PATH question

2023-11-12 Thread Thomas George
I don't like to clutter up my download file. Since I normally use dpkg -i debfile.deb this would add a directory in the download file. Tom George On 11/11/23 23:31, Timothy Butterworth wrote: On November 11, 2023, at 11:16 PM, David wrote: >On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 18:42, Thomas Geo

Re: PATH question

2023-11-12 Thread Thomas George
As root I edited bashrc as found in root's home directory On 11/11/23 23:23, Timothy Butterworth wrote: On November 11, 2023, at 8:51 PM, Thomas George wrote: >I downloaded the google-chrome deb file to /opt/ >used dpkg to install the program. Use sudoapt install ./filename.deb y

Re: PATH question

2023-11-12 Thread Thomas George
Alternately dpkg -i debfile.deb works. Tom George On 11/11/23 19:28, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-11-11 at 19:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 10:17:09PM +, David wrote: Looking for an authoritative source of information to show you, I found only this:

Re: PATH question

2023-11-11 Thread Thomas George
Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 01:03:45PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: In a newly installed bookworm I edited PATH to /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin What, exactly, did you edit? in order to install google-chrome. Now that makes no sense... unless you ran

PATH question

2023-11-11 Thread Thomas George
In a newly installed bookworm I edited PATH to /usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin in order to install google-chrome.  This worked but the installed PATH had  two other entries, something about games? I failed to save and did not take note of all the installed PATH

Re: sound cards locked, No Host

2023-11-06 Thread Thomas George
good point but no success. used top to find blender and kill. no improvement On 11/6/23 10:53, Marco M. wrote: Am 06.11.2023 um 10:26:53 Uhr schrieb Thomas George: alsactl says sound cards locked. There is a lock directory in var/lib/alsa/asound-state mpv song.ogg fails with message No Host

sound cards locked, No Host

2023-11-06 Thread Thomas George
Just upgraded to Bookworm no sound. alsactl says sound cards locked. There is a lock directory in var/lib/alsa/asound-state mpv song.ogg fails with message No Host There may be solutions in the debian-user archives. I am slowly reading these in search of a solution. Any help? Tom George

Re: Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread Thomas George
you, I'll know better next time On 6/23/23 19:17, DdB wrote: Am 24.06.2023 um 00:09 schrieb Thomas George: I tried md5sum SHA512SUMS.txt debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso The outputs do not match Seriously? i would have tried sha512sum -c ShA512SUMS.txt in the folder, where the iso can be found. gl

Fwd: Problem verifying iso file

2023-06-23 Thread Thomas George
be concerned with the failed verification and if so what should I do about it. Tom Forwarded Message Subject:Problem verifying iso file Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:45:45 -0400 From: Thomas George To: Tom What am i doing wrong? I downloaded SHA512SUMS.txt

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
Should have included ♠ ♡ ♢ ♣ The unicodes are 2660, 2661, 2662 and 2663 On 3/27/23 12:04, Thomas George wrote: I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster programs. I can insert them in the text I type

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
2:04:53 -0400 > Thomas George wrote: > > > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and > > club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster > > programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering >

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
reader users. -- 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 Mon, 27 Mar 2023, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400 > Thom

Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Thomas George
I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if this text in a Thunderbird email to a friend he receives only the unicode. I

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-16 Thread Thomas George
I am giving up and will proceed with the netinst. Thanks everyone for the many helpful comments and recommendations. I stripped the spaces from the fingerprint and equated it RSA key. They matched. So every thing is correct until the last step Dragonette:/home/tom/Downloads/debian# gpg2

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-15 Thread Thomas George
   using RSA DF9B9C49EAA9298432589D76DA87E80D6294BE9B ...gpg: BAD signature from "Debian CD signing key "  [unknown] On 11/15/22 02:59, Henning Follmann wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 05:17:25PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: I am still trying to do a fully verified

gpg says no user ID

2022-11-14 Thread Thomas George
I am still trying to do a fully verified installation of debian-11.5.0. gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS responded with DF98...BE9B gpg --recv-keys DF98...BE9B responded key DF98...BE9B: new key but contains no user ID - skipped. Another source suggested gpg --key-server

Re: No Public Key

2022-11-13 Thread Thomas George
Still strugglng. command suggested returns new key but no user id - skipped On 11/13/22 15:08, Darac Marjal wrote: On 13/11/2022 19:14, Thomas George wrote: I want to do a new verified instillation of a debian iso. I have the iso and SHA512SUMS.sign.txt and SHHA512SUMS.txt and have tried

Re: No Public Key

2022-11-13 Thread Thomas George
Still struggling command 3 below responds invalid option --key-server On 11/13/22 15:46, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: Hello, 13.11.2022 22:14 tarihinde Thomas George yazdı: I want to do a new verified instillation of a debian iso. I have the iso and SHA512SUMS.sign.txt and SHHA512SUMS.txt and have

No Public Key

2022-11-13 Thread Thomas George
I want to do a new verified instillation of a debian iso. I have the iso and SHA512SUMS.sign.txt and SHHA512SUMS.txt and have tried gpg --verify SHA512SUMS.sign.txt SHA512SUMS.txt with the result No Public Key I thought to skip this step and tried gpg --verify SHA515SUMS.sign.txt

Cheat but no cheatsheets

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas George
I installed cheat was describe as a quick way to check a command's options instead of referring  to its man page. A great convenience but cheat list responds no cheatsheet found for list instead listing available cheatsheets Is there a file of cheatsheets to download?

digital stereo (HDMI) output configuration in pavucontrol won't stay off

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas George
In pavucontrol configuration I can set digital stereo (HDMI) output to off but it won't stay off. Is there some way to configure the program so this is off permanently? Or alternately to make the analog stereo output from my sound card the default configuration?

pavucontrol configuration trouble

2022-07-16 Thread Thomas George
 I set the GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller profile to off but it continually reverts to High Definition HDMI Output which overrides analog output to my external speakers. Today I found it impossible to turn this off. The off option is there put when I try to scroll down to it the

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR Problem

2022-07-05 Thread Thomas George
After starting gnuplot the first plot works followed by the message "XDG-RUNTIME_DIR not set, switching to /tmp/runtime_root. After the plot command no longer works. The man page for xdg-user-dirs-update lists possible setting for xdg but RUNTIME is not included. Even if it could reset

Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread Thomas George
Thanks, this fixed my problem and as Greg recommended I have reset mkdir ownership and options On 11/5/21 7:35 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 6/11/21 7:17 am, Thomas George wrote: when installing debian I entered eight digits as the root password. The instillation completed successfully. Later

unkown root password and mkdir problem.

2021-11-05 Thread Thomas George
when installing debian I entered eight digits as the root password. The instillation completed successfully. Later I tried to become root but the eight digits didn't work and many permutations also didn't work. I have used sudo successfully with many commands including mkdir but sudo tar

zoom client for bullseye

2021-08-22 Thread Thomas George
The zoom client downloaded from the zoom web page seems to have been written for Debian 8 Installing it in bullseye fails, dependency problems

password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

2021-08-14 Thread Thomas George
The installation from a usb stick went smoothly. Everything works sudo commands work so I will rarely need to log on as root. Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. What to do?

Bluetooth connection problem

2021-04-30 Thread Thomas George
Failure to pair and connect android cellphone and Debian pc. The cellphone scans and finds the pc but cannot maintain the connection. bt-device -l responds added devices moto g(7) play (04:D3:95:43:1D:43) hciconfig -a responds hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB BD Address F8:AC:65:85:BF:91 and

Re: Special Key Assignment?

2020-11-04 Thread Thomas George
me strange keys on the Logitech keyboard that I never have had occasion to use. My need is not urgent, just curiosity. On 11/2/20 8:25 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:42:11PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: I want to assign a unicode character to an unused key on my keyboard. F

Re: Special Key Assignment? Success

2020-10-31 Thread Thomas George
I had not tried putting the expression in quotes. When I did it worked. Of course keycodes may differ for different systems and different keyboards. With mine xmodmap -pk showed 71 as keycode for F5. On 10/31/20 4:23 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-10-31 at 15:42, Thomas George wrote: I

Special Key Assignment?

2020-10-31 Thread Thomas George
I want to assign a unicode character to an unused key on my keyboard. For example F6 currently is assigned ~, name of my home directory. I would like to change it to ♠. I have  tried xmodmap -e keycode 71 = U2660 and several other variations without success

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup. New keyboard no response

2020-10-12 Thread Thomas George
at 50%. After several switches between open pages the keyboard recovered so I could write this. All this on Ubuntu Studio. Again an intermittent problem. Keyboard just stopped working again and recovered after several minutes. Has anyone else experienced this? On 10/6/20 2:27 PM, Thomas George

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup

2020-10-06 Thread Thomas George
The problem is extremely intermittent. I use the mouse many times a day with no problem. Then unexpectedly the click does not work. On 10/6/20 3:58 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 02:27:10PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: Mouse clicks don't work though mouse moves the pointer

Partial Mouse Lockup

2020-10-06 Thread Thomas George
Mouse clicks don't work though mouse moves the pointer. This happens infrequently, once in a day or two. I am using two pc's, a raspberrypi and a Ubuntu Studio each with its own Logitech usb keyboard and have experienced  this problem on both systems. I have tried to recover with various

No Sound

2020-04-14 Thread Thomas George
systemctl status sound-card1.device     sound-card1.device - /sound/card1         Loaded: Loaded         Active: inactive (dead) System is Buster Debian 4.19.98-1 Upon reboot to Strectch Debian 4.9.38-2 sound works fine. Where should I look to correct the problem in Buster?

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2020-02-21 Thread Thomas George
Wait for a new update? It happened before. In the meantime I am forwarding the emails to thunderbird on a raspberrypi desktop. On that thunderbird the links can be opened. On 2/19/20 6:06 PM, Boas Kirui wrote: what do I do now,should I re-enable the virtual syscall?

Viewer for html files

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas George
Obviously I can view html files with any of the browsers. It is not always convenient. If I save an interesting web page by right clicking on save as the result is a often a very long file name containing spaces. I save these html files in various directories according to subject. if I

Re: WiFi connection failure with octopi

2019-11-30 Thread Thomas George
OK, if wifi connectivity is in the Raspbian kernel I'll ask for their help. On 11/30/19 2:29 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 02:16:30PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: I think this is basically a Debian problem. Octopi-buster-lite is a program to control 3D printers

Re: WiFi connection failure with octopi

2019-11-30 Thread Thomas George
not rewrite them. The solution to my problem must lie in properly setting up Debian's wireless programs. On 11/30/19 1:19 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Thomas George (2019-11-30 18:53:50) There are two years of posts of this problem to the Octopi users group. I have read many and tried

WiFi connection failure with octopi

2019-11-30 Thread Thomas George
There are two years of posts of this problem to the Octopi users group. I have read many and tried various solutions without success. The solution should be easy. With the headless octopi-buster-lite-0.17.0 as the operating system installed in raspberrypi 3 B+ I find: iwlist wlan0 scan finds

Re: Stretch to Buster results in strange problems

2019-09-20 Thread Thomas George
highlighted. I clicked mouse, logged in and am back to the lxde desktop. Sound still ok. Many files are back but the newest work done while I was still using the gnome desktop are missing. I'll recover and am good to go! On 9/20/19 2:58 PM, Thomas George wrote: No sound after upgrade to Buster

Stretch to Buster results in strange problems

2019-09-20 Thread Thomas George
No sound after upgrade to Buster Switched from lxde to gnome to use gnome/sound speaker test - Still no sound Rebooted to old stretch on another hard drive - had sound, output changed to line out. Rebooted to Buster. No sound and trapped in gnome. selection of desktops shows at sign in but

Trapped in Gnome

2019-09-11 Thread Thomas George
At login after booting up there is a symbol like a gear below the password entry line. I moved the mouse and clicked on this symbol. Several options appeared and I decided to try Classic Gnome. This worked but the next time I booted up the mouse was frozen. The symbol to change desktops is

Buster Problem - No Sound

2019-09-11 Thread Thomas George
After upgrading from Stretch to Buster no sound Rebooted to Stretch, sound works fine The difference: Choice of outputs in Stretch includes lineout- built in audio. This option is missing in Buster How can I correct this?

No Sound after upgrade from Stretch to Buster

2019-09-09 Thread Thomas George
Checked archives, installed pavucontrol but this did not help. Any suggestions?

Re: Dead computer after system shutdown. - Resolved for Now

2018-05-06 Thread Thomas George
I remember changing the cmos battery some years ago. Maybe time to do it again. No storms preceding, during and after the described failure. Ups shuts down system after 30 seconds if there is a power failure. On 05/06/2018 05:02 PM, songbird wrote: Thomas George wrote: ... Box is between

Re: Dead computer after system shutdown. - Resolved for Now

2018-05-06 Thread Thomas George
supply.. My records show I assembled this box from components in 2008. Should I be worried? Expected lifetimes of cpu, mb, power supply? On 05/06/2018 12:14 PM, Thomas George wrote: Selected shutdown from the window manager and the operating system turned off the computer as usual. Tried

Dead computer after system shutdown.

2018-05-06 Thread Thomas George
Selected shutdown from the window manager and the operating system turned off the computer as usual. Tried to restart the computer from the switch on the desktop box but it was totally dead. Where to look for the failure? CPU, motherboard, power supply or mechanical switch? I never thought

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-02 Thread Thomas George
OK and thanks. I will do that On 03/02/2018 05:16 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-02, Thomas George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: I think this should work. For the present I have moved on to other tasks. The printer has a usb connection to the pc so I can print as needed. Others on the lan

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-03-01 Thread Thomas George
manually the PC's network-address to 192.168.1.x, connect to the printer and change its IP to 192.168.2.x. Then, of course, you will loose the connection, but the printer will be in the desired network. Don't forget to change IP-configuration of your PC, and connect to the router. Bernd Thomas George

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-28 Thread Thomas George
On 02/28/2018 07:34 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Curt wrote: On 2018-02-28, Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: Thomas George wrote: The printer has no physical control panel. I can only change the settings if I can reach it through its IP address. Many printers will print a &quo

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
On 02/27/2018 08:04 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2018 16:21:59 Thomas George wrote: I tried dnsmasq --dhcp-host=00:15:99:86:11:1F,CLP,192.168.2.13 and the response was "failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already in use." Tried several other

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
On 02/27/2018 01:24 PM, john doe wrote: On 2/27/2018 7:07 PM, Thomas George wrote: The Samsung CLP-320 printer's static ip 192.168.1.139 was set about 10 years ago to work on a lan using 192.168.1.x addresses. Last week the lan's router failed and was replaced with a Netgear r6700 router

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
ts Network Configuration Report and got the same response. Perhaps I don't understand or am using the wrong dnsmasq option? On 02/27/2018 01:29 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:07:17PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: apt-cache search dhcpd finds udhcpd. My pc's system

printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Thomas George
The Samsung CLP-320 printer's static ip 192.168.1.139 was set about 10 years ago to work on a lan using 192.168.1.x addresses. Last week the lan's router failed and was replaced with a Netgear r6700 router using 192.168.2.x addresses. The printer is now inaccessible from the lan. Cups

Ethernet Connection Dropped Again

2018-02-14 Thread Thomas George
Starting last month the PC Ethernet connection is sometimes not made atbootup or is occasionally lost. When this happens the only way I havefound to re-establish the connection is to turn the TP-Link AC1750 router off and on again. The system is Debian Stretch. The connection was just

Ethernet connection dropped

2018-01-30 Thread Thomas George
Starting last week the PC Ethernet connection is sometimes not made at bootup or is occasionally lost. When this happens the only way I have found to re-establish the connection is to turn the router off and on again. The system is Debian Stretch. I run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade

Any Sound Card Recommendations?

2017-11-21 Thread Thomas George
I bought an Asus Xonar DSX expecting it to work with my Debian Stretch system, there was a recommendation on the Internet from someone using Mint who said it worked right out of the box. Mine didn't. I would like a really good sound card for my system and don't want to make the same mistake

Re: No Sound - Puzzle - Losing Ground

2017-11-17 Thread Thomas George
Ok, my mistake, I thought MM meant click on M to mute That corrected but now no sound even from the onboard soundcard. Everything looks like it should work. Pulseaudio volume control/Output Devices shows three devices: HDMI, the DSX sound care with port headphones and the Built-in Audio

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-17 Thread Thomas George
me to /etc/libao.conf. which contains two lines: default_driver=alsa quiet Is there another setting other than quiet? But this can't be the problem. ogg123 file.ogg plays file when the line out cable is connected to the onboard sound card. On 11/17/2017 02:03 AM, deloptes wrote: Thomas

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas George
wish alsa had a signal strength monitor. Maybe I should reinstall pulseaudio. On 11/16/2017 11:44 AM, Jeroen Mathon wrote: It is called, pavucontrol On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, 17:43 Thomas George, <li...@tomgeorge.info <mailto:li...@tomgeorge.info>> wrote: I would

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-16 Thread Thomas George
not by alsamixer.  Remember pulseaudio when installed manages alsa and not the other way around. On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Thomas George wrote: Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:21:07 From: Thomas George <li...@tomgeorge.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: No Sound - Puzzle Resent-Dat

Re: No Sound - Puzzle

2017-11-15 Thread Thomas George
mutes all output channels. Return to desktop pulse audio volume control, monitor continues to show strong active playback levels even though alsamixer thinks all output channels muted! The music goes down and around and comes out nowhere! On 11/15/2017 03:35 PM, Thomas George wrote: I just

No Sound

2017-11-15 Thread Thomas George
I just installed an Asus Xonar DSX pcie card. Alsamixer recognizes it and PulseAudio Volume Control show a strong signal level during playback but no sound from the speakers. The system works with the onboard Nvidia sound, no problems. I assume the problem is a missing linux driver for the

Re: Editing Problem with bash script and sed RESOLVED

2017-11-14 Thread Thomas George
were an education explaining why it did not work as expected. On 11/14/2017 11:07 AM, Thomas George wrote: The problem is editing long file names to shorten them. An example group of file names is attached. The bash script copied from BashScripting is attached. This script works perfectly

Editing Problem with bash script and sed

2017-11-14 Thread Thomas George
The problem is editing long file names to shorten them. An example group of file names is attached. The bash script copied from BashScripting is attached. This script works perfectly with simple deletions, for example TrimLine.sh "College" "" will remove College from each line in File.txt.

Can't find ip addresses of devices on LAN

2017-09-01 Thread Thomas George
I have tried ping 192.168.1.225 followed by arp -a and I have tried netstat -r Neither report ip addresses of attached devices. I know there are two devices besides this pc and I know the address of one of these devices. I can ping it and it responds. How to find the address of the second

Where to install Flash Player?

2017-08-03 Thread Thomas George
I downloaded flash-player-ppapi_26.0.0.137-1_amd64.deb into /opt and used dpkg -i to install it. Is this the best way to do it? dpkg -s flash-player-ppapi responds ok installed but dpkg -p flash-player-ppapi doesn't recognize it.

Flash Player Problem

2017-08-03 Thread Thomas George
An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox plugin shockwave flash is installed. My system is debian stretch using the LXDE desktop. I have also installed gnash, gnash-common, and browser-plugin-gnash in an attempt to

Re: VLC Plays Video But No Sound

2017-07-28 Thread Thomas George
On 07/28/2017 09:34 AM, Wilko Fokken wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 03:29:09PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: VLC audio message: vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile not supported: 7 I have also tried playing the video with mpv which gives a different error message: [lavf] Edit lists

VLC Plays Video But No Sound

2017-07-26 Thread Thomas George
VLC audio message: vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile not supported: 7 I have also tried playing the video with mpv which gives a different error message: [lavf] Edit lists are not correctly supported (FFmpeg issue) My system is Stretch. ogg123 plays ogg files with not problem

Re: pavucontrol fails to start

2017-06-26 Thread Thomas George
On 06/26/2017 05:01 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/26/2017 02:29 PM, Thomas George wrote: The command pavucontrol returns an error message: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-3.0.so-1: cannot open object file: No such file or directory. Where can I find this missing file? I

pavucontrol fails to start

2017-06-26 Thread Thomas George
The command pavucontrol returns an error message: error while loading shared libraries: libgtkmm-3.0.so-1: cannot open object file: No such file or directory. Where can I find this missing file? I checked apt-get install libgtkmm-3.0-1 The response was latest version installed. I tried

Printer Setup Problem

2017-06-12 Thread Thomas George
Two computers, an old pc with Debian Stretch and a new Raspberry Pi with the raspbian jessie operating system. The old pc prints to a lan printer with no problem. The lpstat -t shows the identical set up on the Raspberry Pi but a command lp test.txt results in no printer output although the