Posts by Ron

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Thank you.

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Okay, I think I have a better understanding now. I assumed that "nox" meant only no Xfce.

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Camtaf wrote:

That should give you some info output....

Here's what it shows. Hope it's not too blurry.

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

I downloaded the "nox" version of Refracta and burned it to a DVD. But I have no idea how to get it to start running. After everything appears to load, I get what looks like a promp, but I don't know what to do at that point. I typed in "user" but that didn't do anything.

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Can you please provide sha256 sums for those of us who are a bit paranoid?

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

They're still available here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/miyoli … allpapers/

I'm going to download most / all of them.

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Thanks. Will give it a try soon.

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Sorry to hear this. Should I take "atm" to mean development may resume in the future?

Ron · Devuan Derivatives

Hi MiyoLinux, I was just wondering if you are still doing Miyo or not (I hope you are). I have noticed there is no Miyo based on Devuan 5, the last release was May of 2022 and that your last post here on the forums was from way back in February. Are you still around, and your project active?

Ron · Off-topic

Eating organic (if it really is organic) is great, if you can afford it. If everybody would just cut down on stuff made with white flour and white sugar that would go a long way. And for the sake of your body, stop consuming soda pop, even so-called "diet" pop.

Ron · DIY

alphalpha wrote:

dont get me wrong, i would prefer if everything would work with motif and xenocara, but i understand the drama

I presume you meant "I don't understand the drama"??

My answer would be because of less end-user customization allowed. (If I'm wrong on this point, someone correct me.)

Ron · Off-topic

greenjeans wrote:

And now Chromium also requires pulse as does the MATE desktop environment.....arrrgh....not sure apulse will fix all that.
VLC still wants it, but in fact only needs libpulse0,

I did not know this. What versions of Mate and VLC require it? There was an update just today for VLC and Chromium, which I installed before seeing this. So I went back to Synaptic and did a search for "pulse" and this is what I have installed:

gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
libpulse-mainloop-glib0
libpulse0

While I have apulse installed, "PulseAudio" itself is not.

Ron · Off-topic

WDstudios wrote:

I miss Flash. So many great videos. So many great games. Browsers and Adobe should re-enable it for those of us who are willing to take the risks.

There are browsers out there you can still use Flash on. Also, you would need to use the next-to-last version of Flash, as the last version is "self-destructing."

Ron · Off-topic

If it was bad eleven years ago then it's still bad today. Probably even worse.

Ron · Other Issues

alexkemp wrote:

Use "yt-dlp". Seems old (March) but is actually upto date & works fine.

Latest release was July 6.

Ron · Other Issues

If I were to run an AV on Linux, I'd just go back to Windows. It would defeat the whole purpose (one of them, at least).

Ron · Desktop and Multimedia

So I installed VLC but it still didn't work. I found this page, and ran the two commands below "Get libdvdcss." Now it works. Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction.

Ron · Desktop and Multimedia

As the subject line states, I can't figure out how to play DVDs. I am trying it using SMPlayer (I don't want to install another app if I can help it). The first thing I did was try every option under SMPlayer Preferences >> Drives >> Select your DVD device. None of them worked. Then I read on another forum to download libdvd-pkg, but that didn't help either. Is it impossible to play commercial DVDs on a Linux machine? I'm pretty sure I've done it before (maybe).

Ron · Hardware & System Configuration

Do you have hplip and cups from the repositories installed?

Since you're new to the forums, let me ask, how much experience do you have with Linux?

Ron · Off-topic

First let me say "thanks" to those who offered advice and solutions. With that said, I really should have held off a while before making this post. I decided, instead of dealing with this issue, to just simply buy a cheap refurbished second computer from Amazon so I can use that "other" OS for the two apps that for me have no equivalent in Linux.

Ron · Off-topic

Altoid wrote:

It does not get any more "layman's" than that ...
A.

Look above your post, I got it working.

But it looks like crap.

Ron · Off-topic

Well, I got it working, had to enable Vt in the bios. But it looks like crap. I don't know if it's because my machine is old (I think it's over 10 years old) or what.

Ron · Off-topic

I just installed VirtualBox. I never used it before (and don't really know what I'm doing) and I'm getting an error. The error is:

VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).
Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)
Component: ConsoleWrap
Interface: IConsole {6ac83d89-6ee7-4e33-8ae6-b257b2e81be8}

Can anybody tell me what this means in layman's English, and does anybody know what I need to do to fix this? If it matters, I'm trying to run Windows 7 as the guest.

Thanks.

Ron · Off-topic

I don't know much about this but maybe what you want works in the search engine Mojeek?

https://www.mojeek.com/

Ron · Hardware & System Configuration

A reboot seems to have fixed the volume button problem. Thanks again for the fix.

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