Posts by kapqa

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

no, no pulse, but thanks for reminding, the pipewire has krept back in; was wondering if the sound suddenly became "tinnier" again;

now it is removed; however, the .aif issue seems a limitation of the program itself or how it handles file/folder structures?

now, no pulseaudio, no pipewire. but folder containing files with .aif structure when added give "no files found".

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

just followed your routine anyway, since this is quite complciated procedure, above my linux-skills.

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

both for devuan 6.0;

just added daedalus 5 to the sources.list, now it functions (it installed 3 packages).

Have however the same issue as with the pre-compiled version:

when i try to add "open folder" from a NFS share that is on the NAS, it would not find the ".aif" files?

maybe this is a limitation of the NFS share, since am just learning how to do it?

audacious
ERROR ../audacious-plugins/src/alsa/config.cc:238 [guess_element]: No suitable mixer element found.
Input:  44100 Hz, 2 ch, 's32_le' (0xa): dummy = 0, period = 1764
Output: 192000 Hz, 2 ch, 's32_le' (0xa): dummy = 0, period = 7680
Rates:  44100 --> 192000 (J: 0.00%, T: DCT, W: Vorbis)
Ok.

it looks like here

https://ibb.co/cK9vCpLF
https://ibb.co/fz9xbjLn
https://ibb.co/whzdP5Qz

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

for devuan 6.0 howver?

 sudo apt install libavformat
libavformat61        libavformat-dev      libavformat-extra    libavformat-extra61

sudo apt install libflac
libflac++11        libflac14          libflac++-dev      libflac-dev        libflac-doc        libflac-ocaml      libflac-ocaml-dev

thanks

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

thank you,

there is error with devuan 6.0?
(have upgraded just yesterday=)

sudo dpkg -i audacious-plugins_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package audacious-plugins.
(Reading database ... 279591 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack audacious-plugins_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking audacious-plugins (4.5-devel-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of audacious-plugins:
audacious-plugins depends on libavformat59 (>= 7:5.0); however:
Package libavformat59 is not installed.
audacious-plugins depends on libflac12 (>= 1.3.0); however:
Package libflac12 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package audacious-plugins (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
audacious-plugins

also, have not disabled "qt6" since it included in devuan excalibure?

kapqa · Installation

if am not mistaken , have done the same just some days ago, it went about just fine.

probably it is metapackages that are being uninstalled; in case you really got the desktop uninstalled , you shoulb be able re-install via "sudo tasksel" your desktop

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

Hello ,

have completed part1 (How to compile audacious with muon+samu) up until "Audacious Plugins";

no not fully complete therfore getting error:

ERROR ../audacious/src/libaudcore/plugin-init.cc:155 [start_required]: No output plugin found.
(Did you forget to install audacious-plugins?)
Aborted

Could you please include support for .aiff since have backup of CD library mostly in this format;?

Thank you very much.

kapqa · Hardware & System Configuration

is there already a good wiki on how to start with NFS on Devuan?

the "AI Overview" told me how to automount NFS on Devuan, but it came with systemctl commands through the road, so led my bit astray.

kapqa · Hardware & System Configuration

here are some additional info

that might be useful

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple
https://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro
https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook

kapqa · Off-topic

sorry, wrong foruM : please move to "offtopic".

kapqa · Off-topic

this found today in the news,

don't know what it actually means, but if its Ubuntu, gotta be important?

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introduc … 5-10/71312

kapqa · Hardware & System Configuration

you could try this rpgrogream

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/

it is bit tricky to funciton on linux

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/sd-mem … for-linux/

( manual)
https://www.sdcard.org/pdf/SD-Card-Form … -v1.04.pdf

kapqa · Other Issues

why they would start nameing it Debian Fish and Enimal Emporium is beyond me.

on Ubuntu they had "rehaul" and apparently at the mometn they conclude the threads that have recceived no more post after 29 dys or so.

kapqa · Desktop and Multimedia

my main laptop is a used A475 that got of ebay<
must admit that it function very well with linux, but i need to have windows on it, too, since linux it does not support the trackpad after the notebook looses full power< afterwards need to boot once into windows, to get the trackpad working again, and then can boot into linuxz.

its a small nuisance, when compared to the 16:9 screen, which is just not adequate.

have a newer intel laopop that is better in some ways, but still the prefer the more premium line/thinkpad with the older apu/pro that is really silent.

think there is much progress on laptops with linux, just if you would buy a newer one with the qualcomm chipsets or so you wouild probably have a harder time running linux successfully atm, but that may change soon.

here is a ubuntu/list of certified laptops, but dont know the value of it or how it translates to devuan.

https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops

kapqa · Desktop and Multimedia

sadly , my only 17 inch has gone away, it had 16:10 screen and was very readable due to LCD screen ,

could use for hours without necessarily getting fatigued/

but with LED screens its different.

even ryzen can cnot come to the rescue, yet.

devuan is great, but the powerbook was too, very good laptop, in many ways.

basically my first laptop got , although it has worst viewing angle, a near perfect screen beside, with a matte 4:3, 1600x1200.

those today are hard to come by<
we get oled and fancy, but those seem flicker like crazy.
not that i dislked the samsung oled phone used for some time, but reading for hours on a flicker screen , i dont know.

ccfl is much softer to the eyes. hopefully we can get better screen also for laptop< not that old laptop were perfect, far from, but there has been also some serious degreation, in many way.

kapqa · Off-topic

just tried this yesterday on a fresh installation of devuan 4.0

the old routine with pip would no longer function, since yt/dlp now expects python3.10 as minimum.

there is a backport found here https://community.home-assistant.io/t/h … e/528439/1

and it would function with the current version of yt/dlp that makes use of it<
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releas … -dlp_linux

see what the future brings, hopefully we can move on from yt/dlp soon.

kapqa · Other Issues

hello ,

would like to change email in preferences / user settings;

however , old is invalid,

since it prevents me from updating to newer one.

thanks.

kapqa · Off-topic

what find more disturbing tan the speed of USB drive
is reliability of USB copy and how it handled on Linux ,

it can happend that you copy say an ISO and it says after 1-2 seconds that the copy is done, when in fact it is still writing to the flash drive and long time,
and there is no easy way to track reliably what is going on and when the copy is effectively finished;

this may happen across distro and across GUI, but certainly one of the biggest shortcoming of Linux overall; it may even happen that if you do something else or more things at once that the copy gets interrupted (or say you run a "get upgrade" and the whole copy-process is disturbed without you even knowing it - because it said copy done)

kapqa · Off-topic

sony still has to invent a device with which it could disappoint me,
dont know were you get ur stuff from

but honestly, seagate drives are really good, maybe was just born in another era, cannot talk for HP (man those printers 970CXI are still fabulous, put pricey)

Kingston SSD are bit lame, but then we are not paying for them, i mean you can get SSD even bit way cheaper than HDD nowaaday, but would not have to tell you. but some of the fastest drives on the ssd-tester list should be kingston ones, so they can.
wish only they would still offer like samsung 840 850 since older macs like use them; please dont ask why i havent thrwn them to the garbage, yet.

would be nice if those flash disk could become faster, but last time i read, the wrote about super fast SDcard, like nvme speeds, so wonder what is holding the flash drives "back". but then most of my computer only have usb2.0, so guess not much of a deal to wait some hope for the "quantum leap".

kapqa · Off-topic

if zou are keen on making a purchase, you can consult also here

https://ssd-tester.com/

edit: local shops here have mostly kingston drives, so most of the time getting those. but there shurely must be faster drives around the block somewhere.

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

will check with the extensions , but the firefox is sufficiently fluid for me, not slow at atll;
yes, since few weeks use (mozilla acocount sync) so make it easy for them to track me.
but it should nopt slow that much.

also, the benchmark is bit unfair , between mint and ubuntu snap (ubuntu probably heavily tweaked).
the benchmark was from here , with nightly around result 20, with snap version is lot higher
https://browserbench.org/Speedometer3.1/

thanks for the help with linux,
will see what i can contribute;

have just yesterday or other day installed audacity on old powermac g5, it is nice program, but why would you want me to compile it? it is easy to install via pacakge manager?

best of wishes.

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

dear igor,

found the .debdir instruictions fuzzy, so just went a lazy way and copied the files over
like so

sudo cp -a usr/. /usr/

and for the firefox.desktop adapted a oneliner from antix-forum

cat /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop |sed "s/Exec=.*/Exec=apulse firefox %u/ig" > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop && sudo desktop-menu --write-out-globalcat /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop |sed "s/Exec=.*/Exec=apulse firefox %u/ig" > ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop && sudo desktop-menu --write-out-global

where adapted to nightly seemed to function just fine.

the browser function well so far;
however benchmark wants to tell me have lost 50% performance when compared to snap-version
but for better audio, am glad to take the performance-hit.

kapqa · ARM Builds

hei still wanna buy this
why would you call it crap#?

thought this an awesome one.

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

tried once more from clean mint installatin,

this time it should have performed

https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/xxtNB8B4Sr/

https://ibb.co/93kbbvLT

happy weekend!

kapqa · Freedom Hacks

Already on 'main'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
Clone complete.
If you need to run the tooling bootstrapping again, then consider running './mach bootstrap' instead.
Unless you are going to have more local copies of Firefox source code, this 'bootstrap.py' file is no longer needed and can be deleted. Clean up the bootstrap.py file? (Y/n)

Unless you are going to have more local copies of Firefox source code, this 'bootstrap.py' file is no longer needed and can be deleted. Clean up the bootstrap.py file? (Y/n)
Running `/usr/bin/python3 mach bootstrap`
Creating local state directory: /home/rich/.mozbuild/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2
Creating the 'mach' site at /home/rich/.mozbuild/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2/_virtualenvs/mach
Creating the 'common' site at /home/rich/.mozbuild/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2/_virtualenvs/common

Note on Artifact Mode:

Artifact builds download prebuilt C++ components rather than building
them locally. Artifact builds are faster!

Artifact builds are recommended for people working on Firefox or
Firefox for Android frontends, or the GeckoView Java API. They are unsuitable
for those working on C++ code. For more information see:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/build/artifact_builds.html.

Please choose the version of Firefox you want to build (see note above):
  1. Firefox for Desktop Artifact Mode [default]
  2. Firefox for Desktop
  3. GeckoView/Firefox for Android Artifact Mode
  4. GeckoView/Firefox for Android
  5. SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine
Your choice: 2

ould you like to run a few configuration steps to ensure Git is
optimally configured? (Yn):

Configuring git...
Set git config: "core.untrackedCache = true"
Unset git config: `core.fsmonitor`
Ensuring watchman is properly configured...
Copying /home/rich/firefox/firefox/.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.sample to /home/rich/firefox/firefox/.git/hooks/query-watchman
Set git config: "core.fsmonitor = /home/rich/firefox/firefox/.git/hooks/query-watchman"
Setting up artifact sccache.tar.zst
Downloading artifact to local cache: /home/rich/.mozbuild/toolchains/a5456653f6003945-sccache.tar.zst
Downloading... 0.0 %
Downloading... 100.0 %
untarring "/home/rich/.mozbuild/sccache.tar.zst"
Setting up artifact clang-tidy.tar.zst
Downloading artifact to local cache: /home/rich/.mozbuild/toolchains/6351d89729166013-clang-tidy.tar.zst
Downloading... 0.0 %
Downloading... 27.3 %
Downloading... 54.7 %
Downloading... 82.0 %
Downloading... 100.0 %
untarring "/home/rich/.mozbuild/clang-tools/clang-tidy.tar.zst"

Your system should be ready to build Firefox for Desktop!

nano .mozconfig

# file: .mozconfig (in sourcedir)
# For old computers -j2 or -j3
# If you need it, uncomment the following line
# mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j3
# Rename Firefox to "Firefox Nightly"
mk_add_options MOZ_APP_DISPLAYNAME="Firefox Nightly"
mk_add_options MOZ_SIMPLE_PACKAGE_NAME=firefox-nightly
ac_add_options --with-app-basename="Firefox Nightly"
ac_add_options --enable-project=browser
ac_add_options --with-app-name=firefox-nightly
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
# Enable ALSA instead of "pulse-rust"
ac_add_options --enable-audio-backends=alsa

export MOZBUILD_STATE_PATH=/home/rich/mumu

export LDFLAGS+=" -Wl,--no-keep-memory"

./mach build -v --priority normal

./mach build -v --priority normal
Creating global state directory from environment variable: /home/rich/mumu
Creating local state directory: /home/rich/mumu/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2
Creating the 'mach' site at /home/rich/mumu/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2/_virtualenvs/mach
Creating the 'build' site at /home/rich/mumu/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2/_virtualenvs/build
os.nice(0)
 0:00.18 W Clobber not needed.
 Config object not found by mach.
 0:00.27 Using Python 3.12.3 from /home/rich/mumu/srcdirs/firefox-9d461fa480b2/_virtualenvs/build/bin/python
 0:00.27 Adding configure options from /home/rich/firefox/firefox/.mozconfig
 0:00.27   --with-app-basename=Firefox Nightly
 0:00.27   --enable-project=browser
 0:00.27   --with-app-name=firefox-nightly
 0:00.27   --prefix=/usr
 0:00.27   --enable-audio-backends=alsa
 0:00.27 checking for vcs source checkout... git
 0:00.28 checking for a shell... /usr/bin/sh
 0:00.30 checking for host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
 0:00.30 checking for target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
 0:00.40 checking whether cross compiling... no
 0:00.43 checking if configuration file confvars.sh exists... /home/rich/firefox/firefox/browser/confvars.sh
 0:00.43 checking if configuration file configure.sh exists... /home/rich/firefox/firefox/browser/branding/unofficial/configure.sh
TIER: configure
 1:53.79 Installing bootstrapped toolchain in /home/rich/mumu/clang
TIER: configure

EDIT:
now it functions, somehow, thanks alot!
will need arateconf etc. but gonna still switch OS.
best of wishes.

22:00.09 W 189 compiler warnings present.
22:00.44 W Overall system resources - Wall time: 1320s; CPU: 62%; Read bytes: 12904594432; Write bytes: 30568136704; Read time: 37744; Write time: 1436320
22:00.44 W Swap in/out (MB): 0.65234375/0.77734375
22:00.45 W (suppressed 183 warnings in third-party code)
22:00.45 W (suppressed 2 warnings in accessible/atk)
22:00.45 W (suppressed 1 warnings in browser/components/shell)
22:00.45 W warning: obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dist/include/MicroGeckoProfiler.h:66:45 [-Wvisibility] declaration of 'struct UprofilerFuncPtrs' will not be visible outside of this function
22:00.45 W warning: obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dist/include/MicroGeckoProfiler.h:70:41 [-Wvisibility] declaration of 'struct UprofilerFuncPtrs' will not be visible outside of this function
22:00.45 W warning: obj-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/dist/include/mozilla/cxxalloc.h:53:34 [-Wunknown-warning-option] unknown warning group '-Walloc-size-larger-than=', ignored
22:00.45 /usr/bin/notify-send '--app-name=Mozilla Build System' 'Mozilla Build System' 'Build complete'
To view a profile of the build, run |mach resource-usage|.
22:00.47 We know it took a while, but your build finally finished successfully!
22:00.47 If you are building Firefox often, SCCache can save you a lot of time. You can learn more here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/configuring_build_options.html#sccache
To take your build for a test drive, run: |mach run|
For more information on what to do now, see https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/contributing_code.html

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