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#301 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan daedalus, superGfxCtl & asusCtl for asus tuf a16 laptop » 2024-11-09 07:50:41

@ofvergara, thank you for taking the time to report your final disposition.

also, for the convenience of future visitors to this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobara_Linux

@rolfie, indeed there is a failure of Ventoy as of at least the version we recently obtained.
(sha1 checksum 30bdd6023d81ea09ec5b19f5924ec92c56f96538  ventoy-1.0.99-linux.tar.gz)

more for future visitors: note, the above referenced "broken" version of Ventoy did work for a temporary installation of windows 11 as per our previous post in this thread. (but did not work for a variety of other operating systems)

as always, your mileage may vary, but good luck in any case.

#303 Re: Off-topic » A Libreoffice Writer ODT that Crashes the Devuan Desktop » 2024-11-05 15:15:33

this post(from within one of the earlier mentioned threads) describes a file taking 8 minutes to load initially.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1965711&#p1965711

#305 Re: Off-topic » A Libreoffice Writer ODT that Crashes the Devuan Desktop » 2024-11-05 07:25:31

did a DDG search for "libre office" calc maximum file size and looked at a few.

https://superuser.com/questions/1560674/the-maximum-number-of-columns-per-sheet-was-exceeded

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/libre-calc-exceeding-limit-4175533609/

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=341762

did an additional DDG search for "libre office" writer maximum file size

https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/is-there-a-maximum-number-of-pages-in-libre-office-writer-also-is-there-a-limit-in-the-number-of-rows-and-columns-when-inserting-a-table-in-lo-writer/8750

don't know how "writer" differs from "calc" in LibreOffice, not to mention all the other variables with version(s) number(s) as well as dependencies and such(can be a deep hole excavating to find the bug and/or limitations).

#306 Re: Packaging for Devuan » about debian, a warning » 2024-11-02 06:59:07

while the change may ultimately be organizationally beneficial, it is still part and parcel of the "conformed_uniformity" drive by the microsoft/systemd/eee cheerleaders whose endgame is to consolidate and consume all the poor misguided *nix/*bsd/*etc  stepchildren.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish. SystemD. Indeed.

embrace, extend, extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

systemd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4alc7dIP8M8

#308 Re: Installation » Is this Tailscale initscript good? » 2024-10-28 13:46:03

enjoyed this informative tailscale webpage(even if it is somewhat off-topic):

The Sisyphean Task Of DNS Client Config on Linux
https://tailscale.com/blog/sisyphean-dns-client-linux

#309 Re: Other Issues » Unusual kernel defconfigs » 2024-10-27 11:22:22

searched the forum for "compile kernel"(topic subject only) and this was the only direct hit:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4532

searching the same with "message text and topic subject" selected offers 4 pages of results.

#311 Re: Other Issues » Unusual kernel defconfigs » 2024-10-26 07:58:49

mostly for the convenience of future visitors to this thread:

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/quickly-build-trimmed-linux.html

also should probably quote it regarding size/space requirements:

If your system uses techniques like Secure Boot, prepare it to permit starting self-compiled Linux kernels; install compilers and everything else needed for building Linux; make sure to have 12 Gigabyte free space in your home directory.

#312 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-10-25 12:36:17

wwjd

https://www.jesusfilm.org/blog/jesus-washing-the-disciples-feet/

were we to meet, i'd wash thee feet.

perhaps pedicure and polish provided per mutual agreement

#313 Re: Off-topic » Several Russian Linux Kernel Maintainers Removed » 2024-10-25 09:28:49

it is sad though, that after thousands of years, and now with everyone potentially connected intimately via the world wide web,  the pogroms continue globally, unabated. shameful really. how long before this type of activity comes to bear upon the thousands of global open-source FOSS projects? Embrace, extend, and extinguish. SystemD. Indeed.

pogrom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom

embrace, extend, extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

systemd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

indeed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4alc7dIP8M8

#314 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » External USB hardrive problems with excaliber ? » 2024-10-24 09:10:54

what happens when you plug a thumbdrive into the same physical port you just tried with the external hard-drives? what does dmesg and/or lsusb tell you then?

#315 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Thunar freezes after NAS is shut down » 2024-10-24 09:06:23

did you keep notes on this

install manually a so-called minimal Devuan XFCE

so others might gain insight and knowledge so as to not repeat this?

#316 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan daedalus, superGfxCtl & asusCtl for asus tuf a16 laptop » 2024-10-22 20:54:51

you should be able to download windows 11 and use it for a few minutes where you need to "use windows" to adjust certain settings

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

also this article may provide some additional helpful information:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/how-to-upgrade-to-windows-11-whether-your-pc-is-supported-or-not/

we needed ventoy assistance to get our older equipment to function and their latest version has the necessary bypasses:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ventoy/

#317 Re: Packaging for Devuan » Repository not found. » 2024-10-22 20:37:49

just used curl -I to see if it was available...

#319 Re: Packaging for Devuan » Repository not found. » 2024-10-21 19:24:20

someone@somewhere:~$ curl -I https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/f/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_4.3.8-0+deb11u1_amd64.deb
HTTP/2 200 
server: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:22:46 GMT
content-type: application/octet-stream
content-length: 1602824
last-modified: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:32:21 GMT
etag: "671665f5-187508"
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
referrer-policy: strict-origin
accept-ranges: bytes

#320 Re: Packaging for Devuan » yt-dlp is very outdated » 2024-10-19 14:51:23

this looks interesting as well but haven't had a chance to experiment with it yet:

https://github.com/mhogomchungu/media-downloader

found that after stumbling across this webpost:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/qsw5pv/ytdlp_different_options_for_different_websites/

edited: cleaned up a url

#321 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Xorg: libseat1: failure to reclaim USB input devices » 2024-10-19 10:38:18

@ralph.ronnquist,

humble request. for my personal benefit/betterment could you(if possible) relate what specific logged data allowed/allows you to find the solution to this question(am assuming others might find it interesting as well). thanks either way!

#322 Re: Packaging for Devuan » yt-dlp is very outdated » 2024-10-18 19:32:39

yt-dlp works with many different websites and is updated as frequently as is necessary and as such it is best to use the stand-alone version.

The stand-alone version is labeled "Platform-independent zipimport binary. Needs Python (recommended for Linux/BSD)" get it here:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#release-files

they also recommend using their modified ffmpeg, ffplay, and ffprobe(all three are in "ffmpeg"):
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp?tab=readme-ov-file#strongly-recommended

and you can get the modified version of ffmpeg here:
https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds/releases

at the date/time of this post "ffmpeg-n7.1-latest-linux64-gpl-7.1.tar.xz" is the most current and the one we are using presently.

with the stand-alone version use python3 with yt-dlp so to check for available updates:

python3 yt-dlp -U

and to download a video

python3 yt-dlp video-url-goes-here

this is done in a terminal and is easiest if you are working in the directory where yt-dlp is located(to minimize length of command lines)
(just keep it in a directory/folder on your desktop and it will be close at hand for when you choose to utilize it)

make sure you don't have the debian/devuan version of yt-dlp installed as that would probably be/get confusing and the same can be said for ffmpeg/ffplay/ffprobe(which on our daedalus installation are all three located in /usr/bin/).

the yt-dlp github webpage is huge and has an incredible amount of information so you will probably want to scan the whole thing briefly but only focus on whatever your current task-at-hand is(and save the rest for your next adventure).

ps- i see there have been a few posts while i have been putting this together so there will probably be more than one method suggested.

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