Get rid of the pipewire-media-session stuff and let wireplumber install.

Thanks for chiming in. Yes, I've made too many mistakes, some of them quite clumsy. But I'm grateful to everyone who's participated in this thread. And my personal conclusion is that I need to learn a lot. Little by little, I'm doing it. I've read a lot this past week. I appreciate everyone's patience with me.

Well, the first thing I did was make sure I chose the correct package, just as you warned me. So I selected epsonscan2-bundle-6.7.84.0.x86_64.deb.tar.gz instead of epsonscan2-bundle-6.7.87.0.x86_64.deb.tar.gz. This was crucial.

So I ran the command `tar zxf epsonscan2-bundle-6.7.84.0.x86_64.deb.tar.gz` and the terminal output was:

`tar (child): epsonscan2-bundle-6.7.84.0.x86_64.deb.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory`
`tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now`
`tar: Child returned status 2`
`tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now`

I continued. I ran the command `cd epsonscan2-bundle-6.7.84.0.x86_64.deb/`, and I was finally able to navigate to the correct package. So I was finally able to run the command `./install.sh` on the correct package. I did it, and the correct package was successfully installed!

`` I opened Xsane and it opened! And I was able to scan!

So I'm going to mark this thread as "SOLVED".

I'm very grateful to all the participants and everyone who read this thread. The most important takeaway is the importance of reading, reading, and reading to learn, and of helping those who need it, as you all have been to me. Thank you for your patience and help.

I apologize and send a hug to everyone.

I have contacted Tomplay, despite not expecting much of a response. I will post when I get a reply.

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As I thought., not much of a response from Tomplay tech. Only info is - unsupported, but works with Ubuntu and Linux Mint, and the app works in wine. I was hoping for some technical details that I and other Linux users could use to get whatever distro we want to work, but no.

VB on KVM is still VB and nothing else. It uses VB guest additions, not virtio and Co, etc.

Categorically false, in my case. ALSA insisted on outputting audio over the headphone jack when my primary use was over HDMI. Even switching card defaults was not enough because the card has several outputs and (bizarrely) ALSA recognizes the output I want as number 7. And even then, it needs a volume adjustment which ALSA doesn't do by default for what it thinks is a "SPDIF" output, necessitating a softvol control to be added. And on top of all of that I want to use the headphone jack sometimes.

Stuff like this is why I made AlsaTune (formerly mxeq), all configurable instantly in one GUI.

Unfortunately doesn't work in DE's with built-in mixers, been pondering that issue for a while now, there may be a way around it.

since long wanted to test this software but never came quite to it

now had opportunity to try on workstation, but it seems there is a difficulty in "build deps"

https://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing … _on_Debian

error is with version 36 when compiling build-debs

./build-debs.sh fixes/36 

maybe you can tell how to overcome the error,

thanks.

Also today noticed that abt a month ago i made a modified. iso which kind of works with my desktop.
Could turn off slim and xorg.
Could also install and start wdm.

Tried that works_with_desktop_machine.iso again, this time with laptop. Found out that even though i can log out with xfce's menu and log back in, i can't do the same with xlock. When i'm locked out, i stay locked out.  Maybe xlock doesn't accept the passwd or something completely different.

is that it will result in SDDM being abandoned

It already was I read somewhere in a posting that it had been years since a commit was made to it, just like the Xorg people and their effort kill that off with the bitrot. At this point in time anyone who seriously believes they are not going systemd only is a GD fool. And get in contact with me I have bridge for sale in Brooklyn going dirt cheap only one owner...

Latest release has come a long way from when I started this. It is at a point that I'm happy with and it seems to be working good. Now I've got the features I wanted on top of jack (bluetooth and connecting apps that don't support jack, except steam it doesn't work with steam). And all without having to use a terminal. Thanks again greenjeans for sharing your code.

All the chat bot code is there for all to see, use and improve if anyone is interested. You can download the code or latest release here https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-bridge/ or here https://github.com/rations/jack-bridge/releases

There are some UNTESTED versions for openrc on Arch and Debian and also runit for Void in the github branches. They are a few commits behind the master branch. I'll get the chat bots to update them to the latest release soon.

I bought superior drummer years ago and it's just a personal preference for me. My version is outdated these days but I have no need to upgrade.

That's great they made a native version it is a lot more user friendly then hydogen if you are just using an electric drum kit to play.

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As far as I can tell, all other audio works:

$ speaker-test --channels=2
 
speaker-test 1.2.14
 
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 12 to 96000
Period size range from 6 to 48000
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 12000
was set buffer_size = 48000
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right
Time per period = 5.001396
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right

YouTube works, as does the LXMusic player...

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I should probably emphasize here, as I have done throughout this thread, that I am referring to output here. Midi over Web input will be of interest later, with sites such as flowkey.com, but at this point, I am only concerned about getting midi over web to work with tomplay.com output. The concept is the same as with 8notes.com, but more advanced in my opinion, should someone be familiar with 8notes.