Re: [Trisquel-users] AMD freesync - a problem?
Thanks. Really don't need that high refresh rate, so I basically don't need AMD fresync. I reckon from your answer, that I can just use a monitor with AMD freesync as a 'normal' monitor, i.e. freesync won't work but the monitor as such will. Merci
[Trisquel-users] Re : How come some dvds can not be ripped?
Use "dvdbackup" utility. Simple as : dvdbackup --mirror This will extract the whole DVD to your hard drive. (VIDEO_TS folder) There shouldn't be any protection left. Import that folder in handbrake to encode it to x264 for example, or drag'n'drop the folder in VLC to play it
Re: [Trisquel-users] How come some dvds can not be ripped?
jb...@mykolab.com wrote: I am facing a couple of dvds that just won't rip. I can play it and vlc gladly tells the title, which can be de decoded by handbrake. It's possible the DVD has some form of copy prevention on it. I've seen very few DVDs with copy prevention: Star Trek Animated series collection DVD and "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices" DVD, which put me off purchasing either since I'm not into DRM. Here's something to try that may work: Try putting the DVD in, playing it with VLC, and then stopping playing the DVD, quitting VLC, and copying the DVD to an ISO image file with dd or a dd compatible program using the command line: $ dd if=/dev/dvd of=myDVDimage.iso Then eject the DVD and list chapters with lsdvd, extract chapters with mplayer (or a compatible workalike), extracting subtitles to text with ccextractor, and muxing together each chapter, textual subtitles, and whatever else you like into Matroska files with the mkvtoolnix programs. All of these programs are in Debian main (and mkvtoolnix programs also have their own repo which you can look up). I'm not sure why playing the DVD (even a little) is necessary, but it seems to help.
[Trisquel-users] Re : 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
It would actually be better if somebody else would answer you. I have not had Windows installed on the computers I administrate for many years. The last Windows I used (apart from a few hours on computers I do not administrate) was Windows XP. At that time, there was a CD to (re)install Windows. If I wanted to keep a pre-installed Windows, I would: backup the user files (you should frequently do that anyway) simply copying those files to another drive; make some space (as explained in my previous post); defrag the filesystem where space was made; boot the Trisquel Live system; shrink the filesystem in question with GParted (it is on the live system); launch the Trisquel installer; choose the installation type "Something else"; in the next step, define three partitions in the free space: one swap partition (as large as your RAM), one where to mount / (24 GB, ext4, for instance) and one where to mount (all the remaining space, XFS, for instance); end the installation. The risky step for your Windows system is shrinking the filesystem it is installed on. But I have never heard of any such problem. A power cut at that moment may be bad though...
[Trisquel-users] Re : Purism working on libre phone
From testing the CPU, GPU, Bootloader and all software will run free software, we are evaluating the WiFi and Bluetooth chips and firmware, this is an area we have to evaluate, finalize, and test. The mobile baseband will most likely use ROM loaded firmware, but a free software kernel driver. We intend to invest time and money toward freeing any non-free firmware. https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ I do not buy their "intentions" (last sentence), given the past experience. The Librem 5 would be the third best choice from a freedom perspective. After 1) not carrying a tracking device (my choice), 2) Replicant phones (those sold by Technoethical have Wifi support, but not Bluetooth, neither GPS although I am not certain the Librem 5 will have it without additional proprietary software). Like Replicant phones, the Librem 5 will have proprietary software running on the broadband chip, the master chip. That proprietary software that may include malware: the security and privacy promises (thathttps://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ repeats again and again) cannot be honestly made.
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
I should maybe mention that I'm no longer using the default CHIP OS but have flashed Debian Jessie with xfce via https://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#setup-ubuntu-for-flashing https://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#flash-chip-firmware Luckily the Ubuntu method works for Belenos so I did not need to use Chrome.
[Trisquel-users] Re : AMD freesync - a problem?
You really do not need Freesync: the display will work without it and, besides a couple of benchmarking tools, only a dozen of proprietary video games support it. The new AMDGPU DAL driver, which supports that variable refresh rate technology, is supposed to be free... except that the GPL source code in https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu comes along a firmware repository with a README that says: That repository contains all these firmware images which have been extracted from older drivers, as well various new firmware images which we were never permitted to include in a GPL'd work, but which we _have_ been permitted to redistribute under separate cover. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu/mbab_4.12/firmware/README.AddingFirmware
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
I'm almost done going through the non-debian-main packages that are installed by default. As expected, chip-mali-modules-4.4.13-ntc-mlc chip-mali-userspace rtl8723bs-bt rtl8723bs-bt-mp-driver-common rtl8723bs-bt-mp-driver-modules-4.4.13-ntc-mlc rtl8723bs-mp-driver-modules-4.4.13-ntc-mlc are definitely nonfree but their removal will not be a problem for me once I mange to build open-ath9k-htc-firmware. I haven't found license info on linux-image-4.4.13-ntc-mlc chip-mconfigs xserver-xorg-video-armsoc I'm pretty certain that I don't need chip-mconfigs, so if I can't find the license I'll just uninstall it. I'm not clear on exactly what xserver-xorg-video-armsoc does so I don't know if it's important. I do need to know whether linux-image-4.4.13-ntc-mlc is free or needs to be replaced.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
Sorry my friend but I read this: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/support-lisas-fundraiser-today#comment-117735 And I can't calm down after such bigotry. I am really angry at this toxic person.
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
OK, if you're looking at this, please don't worry about what I just posted- if the bootloader isn't proprietary, it should be possible to just uninstall the problem firmware and have a free device. I'll look into this as soon as I can, and (hopefully) that should lead to a much shorter process.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
woahh, let's calm down here, lower the aggression please.
Re: [Trisquel-users] free PDA running JMP
OK, the person who got Debian Stretch running on the Chip (Pablo Rath) has very kindly written me a list of the step involved in doing so. I've copied it below (it's on the arm-netbook mailing list as well), but has the caveat that boot needs to be from USB, not NAND, so if there's only one USB port exposed that may be an issue. I'd be curious to try myself- although that will require obtaining a PocketChip first. Hopefully it's of some help- if not, just ask. - Necessary steps to install on Chip like I did are at least: 1. You will need some command line basics. 2. You will need a USB TTL Serial cable (USB to serial converter cables) providing a connection between USB and serial UART interface to interact with Debian Installer. 3. You will need sunxi-tools (http://linux-sunxi.org/Sunxi-tools) 4. Compile mainline U-Boot (build target is "CHIP_defconfig") 5. Download hd-media tarball and CD iso (see https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_a_USB_stick) The wiki still points to testing, but current stable (stretch) works. 6. Prepare the USB-stick like described and leave a large space free (without a partition) 7. put Chip into fel-mode and connect it with another computer. Use a "special" version of U-Boot via fel (http://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot#Booting_U-Boot_over_USB) and boot Debian Installer on USB. 8. Install with Debian Installer 9. boot and see if this bug report is already fixed: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866521 if not you have to manually update initramfs
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
I saw that you are the stupid who get the Lisa's Fundraising thread locked. Let me tell you something you "genius" «Women had never done anything for math or science» Let's recall all those great minds that were men that you can think of, minds like Einstein, Newton, Tesla, etc. Whatever Guess what "genius" none of the minds you will mention are Mexican, you will barely mention any Asian, Latinamerican, or any other than Europeans/United States Citizens. So by your such great stupid logic only Europeans and Americans are the one who deserve recognition. Why the entire "male" population if only they have done something?? For your information byou are Mexican so you are as worth or even less than a Women. I mean there are more women with Science Nobel prizes than Mexicans. If you are gonna throw your stupid arguments out there at least make sure they favor you. Not screw you. But let me explain you that this is the reason exactly why this arguments are wrong. You can't really think that only Europeans/U.S. citizens had done genius things. Hence the problem is with who tells history and who they decide to favor. Not who really did awesome things. History was full with assholes like you who were too stupid and afraid of their own masculinity to accept a Woman or a LGBT defeated them. So they used stupidity and force to stop others. Not mind and facts. Because, clearly minds like you can't handle real facts. I hope one day you open history books and learn. Or at least you use arguments that don't put you as an stupid person. As your "women had never done anything useful for science" because Mexicans had even done less. Idiot.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
*Todd :) You're absolutely right, Heather. Unfortunately, the track record of the corporation isn't promising. Please, Purism, consider the modem isolation/management and processor freedom of your phone. The battle for libre, trustworthy portable telephony device has been long and hard, and to cut corners in order to release something cheaper and sooner would be a *huge* slap in the face to those projects which are trying to do it properly.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
Magic Banana, your reply confuses me, quote: 'https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/install-trisquel-windows-dual-boot-0 details the procedure to follow when you do not see the option "Install Trisquel Alongside Windows [version]".' -End Quote- That is the guide I am following. When the guide states "Defragment your hard drive"... and select "Shrink Volume". Is where I ran into the above stated problem(s). I defragged and attempted to shrink and it failed.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
My own thoughts are that I hateses astroturfers and anyone trying to cash in/rip off people who are interested in free software but not as well informed as they might be so I am very, very grateful to you for posting this "heads up" to the community. If tomlukeywood is still active on the replicant community, that is who I would recommend as a knowledgable phone mentor, but he may very well not be eighteen yet and have had to prioritize family over hacking for political/historical/sociological reasons. Your quote definitely illustrates the unfortunate fact that we have not seen the last of Librem. :( If Librem Tod(?) ever reads this, I would love to see him prove me wrong, but grumpy old ladies rarely are in the long run. So my final thought is "You kids get off my lawn!"
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
Thanks you. This is an useful (and the only) answer for my query.
Re: [Trisquel-users] 13Aug2017 buy Trisquel laptop
Thanks happy_gnu ! I wrote down what I saw as the BIOS in earlier comment but I guess you mean the UEFI in charge of the ASUS motherboard? The UEFI has a screencapture feature and I attached the bitmap image file.
[Trisquel-users] How come some dvds can not be ripped?
I am facing a couple of dvds that just won't rip. I can play it and vlc gladly tells the title, which can be de decoded by handbrake. Only to stop after a short while. Vlc as well gives up on ripping. The problem is probably related to the title changing every time the dvd is played. It seems that some how the dvd tricks the player to think is playing another track/title than is actually the case. I have searched but the closed I get is the 99-title problem.
Re: [Trisquel-users] TALOS II Secure Workstation, from Raptor Engineering
I think this is actually very exciting news. This is a high-power system in which the mainboard and CPU will run with a full stack of libre software and firmware, and the price is much more reasonable than that of the original TALOS. Granted, it's still above many consumers' price points, but there are understandable reasons for that. For one, as mentioned upthread, Raptor doesn't have the sales volume that other manufacturers do. For another, it doesn't seem like Raptor intends for it to be a consumer product in the first place. Descriptors like "enterprise" and "workstation" imply that it's meant for business, not personal use (and for that matter, IBM's not shooting for the consumer price point with their CPU, either--they strategically exited the consumer market in the mid-2000s).
[Trisquel-users] Purism working on libre phone
Not sure whether this has been posted about, sorry. [quote] Librem 5, the phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default. Running Free/Libre and Open Source software and a GNU+Linux Operating System designed to create an open development utopia, rather than the walled gardens from all other phone providers. The Librem 5 phone will be the world's first ever IP-native mobile handset, using end-to-end encrypted decentralized communication. [/quote] link: https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ Thoughts ?
Re: [Trisquel-users] I found a new libre distro you all might be interested in...
I agree with Happy Gnu. Your people skills far surpass my own, Calmstorm, and it is an education in itself to watch and learn from that. I agree with pretty much everything CalmStorm has said about systemd even though I lack the ability to express myself as well. I feel a great deal of sadness at the thought of leaving Trisquel and losing the community over systemd. We're doing a great job of staying respectful and sticking to issues instead of ad hominems. Can we please don't ever change?
Re: [Trisquel-users] I found a new libre distro you all might be interested in...
I'm using Alsa (no Pulse Audio) on my Devuan machines and it works, but it's a bit trickier than good old Belenos (Trisquel 7) which does use Pulse. Firefox current requires Pulse for sound to work on video streaming, but you can still see enough to know you've got the right video if you want to share the link and/or use youtube-dl and watch it when it gets there. I'm stuck in my latest attempt at a Parabola install and may need the spare hard drive for something else before I get unstuck. My understanding is that even a semi-successful Arch-based install is worth the effort for someone like me and my minor child (end users with not much hope for tuition money but a lot of curiosity, willingness to try different things, and the strong base of multiple helpful friends) just for the educational benefits, but it's an awful lot of work if we're just going to go back to Devuan or Free Slack and never actually use it. Hyperbola torrented much faster than I expected. It's probably a better choice than Parabola for us and I'd like to keep an eye on it and hear how other people are liking it. Thanks for seeding and I will continue to do so myself.
[Trisquel-users] AMD freesync - a problem?
I am about to buy an external monitor. Some have what is called AMD Freesync. I don't know what it is, and I probably don't need it. But if I bought a monitor with, would that cause me any problems with regard to freedom?
[Trisquel-users] Re : I found a new libre distro you all might be interested in...
systemd guys rewrote libdbus to simplify it. Independent benchmarkers found systemd's implementation to be 3.6 times faster (slide 21 in https://github.com/gregkh/presentation-kdbus/blob/master/stuff/EG-SI-IPC%20CommonAPI%20CPP.pptx?raw=true [PPTX]). Many programmers decided to depend on to systemd's implementation, sd-bus, because they like their programs to be simpler and faster. Call that a "bad excuse" if you want. I call that a "valid reason". And sd-bus is contained in libsystemd. It does not impose a specific init system. It imposes the Linux kernel though, whereas libdbus, GDBus or QtDBus are portable (one of them can be used in another version of the program). As for GNOME, you certainly refer to the dependence on logind. logind replaced ConsoleKit, which is no longer maintained because its developers have found logind better. With the second sentence on https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/ they warn, in bold letters, against the use of ConsoleKit: ConsoleKit is currently not actively maintained. The focus has shifted to the built-in seat/user/session management of Software/systemd called systemd-logind! Depending on logind rather than ConsoleKit is not a "bad excuse". ConsoleKits's development stopped more than four years ago: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/log/ Well, unless the programmer prefers to drop basic functionalities (see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-logind.service.html for a list) of her program rather than depending on a systemd module. Nowadays, elogind is an option too: Elogind is the systemd project's "logind", extracted out to be a standalone daemon. (...) All of the credit for elogind should go to the systemd developers. Elogind has been developed for use in GuixSD, the OS distribution of GNU Guix. See http://gnu.org/s/guix for more on Guix. GuixSD uses a specific init manager (DMD), for reasons that are not relevant here, but still aims to eventually be a full-featured distribution that can run GNOME and other desktop environments. However, to run GNOME these days means that you need to have support for the login1 D-Bus interface, which is currently only provided by systemd. That is the origin of this project: to take the excellent logind functionality from systemd and provide it as a standalone package. We like systemd. We realize that there are people out there that hate it. You're welcome to use elogind for whatever purpose you like -- as-is, or as a jumping-off point for other things -- but please don't use it as part of some anti-systemd vendetta. Systemd hackers are smart folks that are trying to solve interesting problems on the free desktop, and their large adoption is largely because they solve problems that users and developers of user-focused applications care about. We are appreciative of their logind effort and think that everyone deserves to run it if they like, even if they use a different PID 1. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elogind/elogind/master/README As for PulseAudio (I imagine that is what you mean by "audio-mixers"), it is the same: it used to depend on ConsoleKit. According to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PulseAudio#Without_udev.2Fsystemd it is possible to run PulseAudio without logind but "this breaks both auto-detection and hot-plugging -- needlessly making your life harder".
Re: [Trisquel-users] Stopping Trisquel 8 from Automatically Starting App Upon Connecting Device
Thanks SuperTramp. That did it. I appreciate the more detailed response.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Stopping Trisquel 8 from Automatically Starting App Upon Connecting Device
SuperTramp's answer worked for me. Thanks MagicBanana, for being always willing to help.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Please recommend a free-software Mercurial hosting service
I searched for Kallithea instances and found the following three which have registration enabled. I don't know who runs them (which shouldn't be too hard to find out), but they might fit the bill. http://asgard.lille.inria.fr/kallithea/ http://www.unipax.info/ https://k.copyleft.org/ - penGNUin
Re: [Trisquel-users] Where to upload videos?
I have personally not used the site but heard about it here and there... https://www.minds.com/ ...it appears to be AGPL licensed. https://github.com/Minds - penGNUin
