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#1276 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-04 01:04:08

With pulseaudio there's more fun, because it infuses itself onto the sound system by on the one hand adding a software module to replace the default alsa module at the low level, and it also adds a higher level replacement for the "default" audio path.

Forget about ~/.asoundrc since card 0 is the correct default card.

This means in particular that it adds an audio control level in between alsa and actual output.

So you may well need to install  pavucontrol-qt as well, as way of manipulating its controls. That GUI will then attempt to operate the alsa controls as well, with a good amount of potential for confusion.

With those control knobs, and those of qasmixer, you should hopefully be able to unmute whatever is muted and raise the volume on whatever is needed.

As an additional: if your pulseaudio sub system is not started you would start it with:

$ pulseaudio --start

Edit: spelling correction (thanks)

#1277 Re: Other Issues » ecryptfs-utils » 2020-05-04 00:48:01

I'm using gocryptfs rather; basically the same function I think, and installable.

#1278 Re: Installation » No Sound in Devuan-ascii » 2020-05-02 23:56:41

First, check with aplay -l which "hardware devices" there are (for sound).

Then check with aplay -L | grep -A2 default what the "default" is tied to.

Sometimes that is wrong since "alsa" on installation binds blindly its "default" to card 0. Then it might work by telling "alsa" to use another card, eg card 1. One method for that is to add a ~/.asoundrc file with three lines:

defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.timer.card 1

If you haven't done so, you might also want to install qasmixer for a bit of visual view and control of sound. It might be a help if it's a question of low volumes or muted controls.

#1279 Re: Installation » [Solved] Grub issues with Beowulf beta » 2020-04-30 22:38:29

Note that the smallest installer iso to use for offline installation is called "server" iso.

The "netinstall" iso is purely intended for an installation that downloads packages from the net. Its pool (on beta2) is only that of "debootstrap minbase".

#1280 Re: ARM Builds » Installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64 need testing » 2020-04-25 01:54:27

Don't cp or dd work?

I.e. just copy the iso file to the device /dev/mmcblk0 or /dev/sdc or whatever it comes up as (tail /var/log/sys usually tells that)

#1281 Re: Forum Feedback » Forum web certificate renewal » 2020-04-20 01:07:11

@Marjorie, no critcism intended.

Though, I'd like to point out that the forum was not down at any time during this. It really was your browser having some kind of built-in blockage prohibiting you against your will to access the site. The site was up and provided perfectly functional HTTPS access as well as plain HTTP access throughout.

You might also consider that there is no additional security for this site in having an SSL certificate that is less than 3 months old. Still, there's also no particular reason in having one that is older (especially with some 30000 or more python code lines there to help us automating its update)

#1282 Re: Forum Feedback » Forum web certificate renewal » 2020-04-19 03:36:21

Is that a QA or HR question?

The support team sends their Thanks for the intended heads-up (even though they managed to get their shit together on their own this time).

#1283 Re: Other Issues » What would cause wget to work and apt to get "Connection failed"? » 2020-04-18 00:01:12

That's right.

Use deb.devuan.org in your sources list. That name will resolve in DNS for each request to go to the one or the other of the repository mirrors. That domain name is associated with the whole range of mirror IP addresses in "random" order, and the DNS resolution system will pick the one looking "best" at the time (aka "first one").

The name auto.mirror.devuan.org resolves in DNS to the previous main repository, which nowadays may and might not be maintained.

Though you might, on occasion, temporarily use pkgmaster.devuan.org which resolves in DNS to the current main repository. The repository mirrors "rsyncs" their content from this. However, it has quite limited network bandwidh so having a lot of people going there will be detrimental for all. It's thus better community-wise to use the mirror domain deb.devuan.org even though this slightly increases the risk of random network failure.

#1284 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Hey siva! » 2020-04-14 04:48:02

Or maybe you could send me (or someone else) the email address you want to have in your profile, and I/them will make it happen.

#1285 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Hey siva! » 2020-04-14 04:22:10

can't say I know anything about this... maybe I sould?

#1286 Re: Installation » Beowulf Beta Issues » 2020-04-08 22:44:09

Good place for comprehensive reports. The ISO build team sends its "thanks!".

#1287 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-20 09:35:43

Beowulf beta "netinstall"  without network gives you nothing. Try using "server" or "desktop" rather.

#1288 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Running X11 as non-root user » 2020-03-18 22:43:31

I don't know much about this, but my first guess would be that X is actually started via the Xorg.wrap program, which has its configuration file at /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, and this has a line

allowed_users=console

that probably should be different.

My suggestion comes from the shallow investigation:

find /usr -perm /u=s

followed by some guess work, which made me look at man Xorg.wrap.

HTH

#1289 Re: Other Issues » Can't execute program. System doesn't recognize it's location. » 2020-03-11 03:30:39

More importantly you'll need to spell the argument the way it was given,
i.e. --print-architecture rather than --print-architexture

#1290 Re: Installation » [Solved at last] Issues with very new hardware » 2020-03-09 08:24:19

rolfie  wrote:

The PC now is stuck at "waiting for /dev to be fully populated", there is no more login window poppping up now.

That same thing happens for me with the (forthcoming) beowulf installation on qemu, but this recovers by using ctrl-alt-f2 for an alternate login. Maybe it's the same for you?

#1291 Re: Other Issues » Iptables standartd issue » 2020-03-01 22:00:31

Are you saying that iptables decrements the given option code by 1?

Or is it that you find it confusing that the --tcp-option parameter rejects code 0?

Rejecting option code 0 is of course consistent with the code table, since code 0 is an "end of options list" marker, and not an option code in itself.

#1292 Re: Other Issues » Hwclock issue » 2020-03-01 20:44:56

@Eaglet,
you might want to read man hwclock more carefullly, and then pay special attention to the documentation of the --show option, which clearly states, in so many words:

The time shown is always in local time, even  if  you  keep  your  Hardware  Clock  in  UTC.

The options --utc and --localtime are for you to tell about time basis of your clock. The program then presents the clock reading in ISO 8601 format local time with respect to that basis.

#1293 Re: Installation » Problem with *.iso file » 2020-02-20 20:15:01

When written to a flash, I assume you'd written it to /dev/sdf and not /dev/sdf1 (which is the first partition) and maybe the mdfsum from there matches the iso file?

head -c 4675600384 /dev/sdf | md5sum

#1295 Re: Installation » Beowulf and MySQL » 2019-12-31 02:38:56

For whatever reasons, mysql-* are not avaiable in beowulf. You might need to try version 5.7.26-1 from unstable. Note that mysql is not forked and that Devuan reflects Debian in these packages.

#1296 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Apt-get show one package per line? » 2019-12-17 04:41:22

Yes, it would be nice to have a built-in option. As is, one has to resort to manual output filtering, e.g. by adding

 | sed "/^  /{s/\\b /\n  /g}"

to the command. That merely "pretty-prints" and doesn't provide the version details.

#1297 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Passwordless root execution in scripts » 2019-12-13 12:02:00

The SUID bit makes the executable run as the owner of the executable.

#1298 Re: Devuan » Debian considering going systemd init only » 2019-12-08 10:38:49

hmm; don't you think the silent "non-" could be confusing for a casual visitor ?

#1299 Re: Installation » Refracta Snapshot VM mount points question. » 2019-12-06 20:55:38

That missing "/" before "dev/sr0", is that a typo in this post, or a typo in "fstab"?

#1300 Re: Off-topic » disable touchpad without disabling trackpoint [SOLVED] » 2019-11-19 20:35:13

I think synclient has an option to disable the "TouchPad" - see man synaptics. Though that might be co-joined with the nipple as well.

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