Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Wed 17 Aug 2022 at 20:00:17 (+), ghe2001 wrote: > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite > wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from the upcoming > release, Bookworm. >

Re: loging into virtual machine

2022-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/22 06:59, Haines Brown wrote: I've installed virutalBox Please run the following commands as root post the complete console session -- prompts, commands entered, output obtained: # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a # dpkg-query -l | grep virtualbox and downloaded a FreeBSD ISO

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread step...@gmail.com
On 8/17/22 19:35, Stefan Monnier wrote: Tom Browder [2022-08-17 05:53:05] wrote: I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with reasonable response (no games, just Office 360, IO Drive, H Block, and such). I haven't kept up with the VM world but a

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? In the 70s friends went to this house where there was a 14 year old Indian mystic. You were all supposed to wait downstairs until you were called to

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 1:37 PM Bob McGowan wrote: > The command to add a user to a group is: useradd -G > groupname[,groupname...] username > > For example: useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob > > Useradd creates a new user account. Usermod modifies an existing account. sudo usermod -a -G audio

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from the upcoming release, Bookworm. Bad idea, IMHO.

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:10:37PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > I'm just requesting some comprehensible, simple to understand, overview of > how the sound softwares are working. Too many layers and possibilities to give a comprehensive listing. Let's pick ONE. Plain ALSA, without Pulseaudio or

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-17 18:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G groupname[,groupname...] username For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob Debian also allows "adduser username groupname". I sort

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > This is the downloaded image: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/firmware-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso Works for my Debian 11 qemu/KVM with OVMF EFI "firmware". I get to the text/graphics menu with

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:27:25AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > The command to add a user to a group is:  useradd -G > groupname[,groupname...] username > > For example:  useradd -G audio,pulsaudio bob Debian also allows "adduser username groupname".

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks, I almost always get useradd and groupadd mixed up when I need to use them. 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, 17 Aug 2022, Bob McGowan wrote: > The command to

Re: question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread Bob McGowan
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 the pulseaudio group if that group exists.

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: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:32 AM hdv@gmail wrote: > > On 2022-08-17 17:06, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:34 hdv@gmail > > wrote: > > > > On 2022-08-17 12:53, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > … > > > > > I would love to run Windows on a VM on

Re: Hoe belangrijk is een nieuwe kernel

2022-08-17 Thread Cecil Westerhof
Diederik de Haas writes: > On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 16:49:15 CEST Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> Ik heb gisteren mijn systeem gereboot. Met een upgrade is er net een >> nieuwe kernel geïnstalleerd. Van 5.10.0-16-amd64 naar 5.10.0-17-amd64. >> >> Ik ga er vanuit dat ik niet meteen mijn systeem hoef

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Thomas Schmitt ha scritto il 17/08/22 alle 17:18 Whenever an ISO has to be investigated or tested, a tangible download URL can be of great help ... (cough) ... :)) Of course you're right, sorry :) This is the downloaded image:

Re: can't unpack an .zx

2022-08-17 Thread Klaus Singvogel
gene heskett wrote: > > gene@coyote:~/PublicB/rock64-next-try$ xz -d --arm --keep > Armbian_22.05.4_Rock64_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop.img.xz > xz: Armbian_22.05.4_Rock64_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop.img: > Permission denied > The "Permission denied" arises when creating the file,

Re: can't unpack an .zx

2022-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 11:40:58AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/PublicB/rock64-next-try$ xz -d --arm --keep > Armbian_22.05.4_Rock64_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop.img.xz > xz: Armbian_22.05.4_Rock64_jammy_current_5.15.48_xfce_desktop.img: > Permission denied Look at which file

can't unpack an .zx

2022-08-17 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; One of my Dell's, running buster has blown its video. It my 3d printer slicer running cura. I have a couple older rock64 v2's w/4gigs of ram that I last ran armbian stretch on, but wound up using an rpi4b instead. One of the rock64's ought to run octoprint to drive my farm.

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/17/2022 10:34 AM, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2022-08-17 12:53, Tom Browder wrote: > > Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual > > hosting because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a > > Deb laptop. > > > > I would love to run Windows on a VM on

List-Archive URLs and slashes in Message Ids

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, something's wrong with the msgid-search URLs for Message-Ids with "/". In Andrew M.A. Cater's mail to this list Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:30:10 + Message-ID: i read and credulenltly forwarded to Massimo Maiurana: List-Archive:

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > Sorry, forgot to mention that my iso was not the netinst one, i.e. the CD > image, but rather was the DVD image. Whenever an ISO has to be investigated or tested, a tangible download URL can be of great help ... (cough) ... :)) I confess that it also helps to test

question about sound

2022-08-17 Thread mick.crane
hello, Please take into account I don't know what I'm doing generally and know nothing about audio. Several years ago somebody asked me to edit a radio broadcast to separate out a few seconds. It took a couple of minutes to install Audacity, figure out the GUI thing and save the bits of audio.

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Thomas Schmitt ha scritto il 17/08/22 alle 16:15: Hi I now tried in quemu https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-testing-amd64-netinst.iso which i downloaded ~8 hours after your post. Sorry, forgot to mention that

Re: loging into virtual machine

2022-08-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Haines Brown wrote: > I've installed virutalBox and downloaded a FreeBSD ISO file. I > created virtual machine for the FreeBSD. When I start it it boots to a > login prompt. > > My impression is that since the Virtual Machine boots an ISO it > has not been configured with a user account and

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-08-17 12:53, Tom Browder wrote: Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 8/17/2022 6:53 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting > because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. > > I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable > enough to use with

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > thanks for your answer. You got one more without Cc:maiur...@gmail.com : https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/YvogMm/B0cM/a...@einval.com (This one did not doubt your subject line as much as i did.) > What i took is not a live iso but instead it's the

loging into virtual machine

2022-08-17 Thread Haines Brown
I've installed virutalBox and downloaded a FreeBSD ISO file. I created virtual machine for the FreeBSD. When I start it it boots to a login prompt. My impression is that since the Virtual Machine boots an ISO it has not been configured with a user account and password. How then can I log in

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Thomas Schmitt ha scritto il 16/08/22 alle 09:50: Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: I've downloaded the latest iso with testing weekly build, I understand that there are no weekly builds of Debian Live based on Debian Testing. (I remember people asking for Debian 12 Live ISOs and being told that

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 6:53 AM Tom Browder wrote: > Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting > because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. > > I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be > reliable enough

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 06:01 Marco wrote: > Am 17. Aug 2022, um 05:53:05 Uhr schrieb Tom Browder: > > > I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be > > reliable enough to use with reasonable response (no games, just > > Office 360, IO Drive, H Block, and such). I haven't

Re: Hoe belangrijk is een nieuwe kernel

2022-08-17 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 16:49:15 CEST Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Ik heb gisteren mijn systeem gereboot. Met een upgrade is er net een > nieuwe kernel geïnstalleerd. Van 5.10.0-16-amd64 naar 5.10.0-17-amd64. > > Ik ga er vanuit dat ik niet meteen mijn systeem hoef te rebooten. (Als > het nu 5.11

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-08-17 12:53, Tom Browder wrote: Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Jeremy Ardley
I have Windows client on Debian and Windows Hosts using Virtualbox. I don't think there is much difference to VMWare for simple client hosting. When the client is fully 'settled in' performance is perfectly adequate. Where it runs into problems is saving state and restoring. That is pretty

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Marco
Am 17. Aug 2022, um 05:53:05 Uhr schrieb Tom Browder: > I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be > reliable enough to use with reasonable response (no games, just > Office 360, IO Drive, H Block, and such). I haven't kept up with > the VM world but a quick search shows

Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-17 Thread Tom Browder
Unfortunately, I have to have a Windows host. I have given up dual hosting because of the pain, so I am using a dedicated Win 10 box and a Deb laptop. I would love to run Windows on a VM on Debian iff I can have it be reliable enough to use with reasonable response (no games, just Office 360, IO

Re: How to install debian-goodies in CLI environment?

2022-08-17 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 16/08/2022 à 18:37, Tim Woodall a écrit : On Tue, 16 Aug 2022, G?khan Bag wrote: I found that the installation of the package debian-goodies always prompts the popularity contest configuration, and that way, I can't install debian-goodies in a script. I also tried: echo "" | apt install