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#326 Installation » (beowulf) no ALSA available? » 2020-03-03 21:20:01

kapqa
Replies: 14

Hello ,

on most of my notebook i tried to use alsa only because it did sound cleaner and louder on those that i used; sometimes it was quite a drastic improvement to rid the system of pulseaudio , sometimes a minor.

today i tried to install cmus and to get it working had to append

set output_plugin=pulse

to

~/.config/cmus/rc

now i would like to use alsa-only (more easy on xfce4 rather than on gnome)

but it seems that on devuan alsa it is not available or am i wrong here?

sudo apt-get install alsa
[sudo] password for rich: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package alsa is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'alsa' has no installation candidate

#327 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (lenovo t400/ ascii) no wifi recognized » 2020-02-12 10:24:37

well, in the meantime i downgraded to jessie devuan (where wifi worked ootb) and then upgraded from there to ascii; now the wifi is there.
don't know if previously i made an error or the wifi was just not there or just hidden.

(solution)
works for me.
thanks alot

#328 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (lenovo t400/ jessie - xfce4) no sleep when lid closed » 2020-02-12 10:21:38

well,,
i updated to devuan ascii, and there the energy settings function normally as they should!

Thanks alot!

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebia … 00/stretch

#329 Hardware & System Configuration » (lenovo t400/ jessie - xfce4) no sleep when lid closed » 2020-02-12 07:38:26

kapqa
Replies: 1

Hello ,

i have a vintage computer and have installed the following OS on it.

Devuan Jessie 64Bit with XFCE4.

I followed the routine and installed what is to install.

Noticed that upon closing the lid, the laptop does not go into sleep mode.

I changed the behaviour in the Energy Settings for XFCE4 from "lock display" to "sleepmode" to no avail.

#330 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (lenovo t400/ ascii) no wifi recognized » 2020-02-11 21:54:21

no, but it did check with wicd network manager, to no avail.

maybe i should have let the hardware switch on during installation, i don't know; maybe i made an error.

with jessie it functions.

#331 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (lenovo t400/ ascii) no wifi recognized » 2020-02-10 22:40:08

I reverted back to Devuan Jessie, and there the Wifi + Bluetooth are recognized and installed out of the box (with WIFI hardware-switch set ON).

Probably never saw so many connections WIFI available on my computer at once; a bit scary.

The problem now is with Bluetooth as i am trying to access my MacMiniServer via NAP (Network Access Point - PAN)

on Gnome this function is available and functions well, albeit slow with the Bluetooth 2.1 card (surfing with around 100kb/s)

to achieve this i am trying to install all available packages as i did on gnome, but it would complain

sudo apt-get install bluez*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'bluespike' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'compass-blueprint-plugin' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'jquery-jplayer-bluemonday' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluefish-unstable' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'python2.7-lightblue' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluedevil' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-dbg' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'ruby-bluefeather' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluefish-unstable-data' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'python-bluetooth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluetooth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-network' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluefish' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-firmware' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'blueproximity' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-test-scripts' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'python-bluez' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'blueman' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluetooth3' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-cups' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libgnome-bluetooth13' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libnet-bluetooth-perl' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluetooth3-dbg' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-utils' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-pan' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-alsa' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluefish-plugins' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluetooth3-dev' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluetooth-dev' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'python2.7-bluez' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'qtdeclarative5-qtbluetooth-plugin' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-obexd' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libpam-blue' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-gnome' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluefish-data' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluemindo' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluedevil2' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluemon' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-tools' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libqt5bluetooth5' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'pulseaudio-module-bluetooth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluedevil-dev' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libgnome-bluetooth-dev' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'gnome-bluetooth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libgnome-bluetooth8' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'kdebluetooth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-serial' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-dbg' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'qml-module-qtbluetooth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-audio' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'python-lightblue' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-hcidump' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluefish-dbg' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'bluez-input' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'ruby-bluecloth' for regex 'bluez*'
Note, selecting 'libbluetooth-dev' instead of 'libbluetooth3-dev'
Note, selecting 'python-bluez' instead of 'python-bluetooth'
Note, selecting 'python-bluez' instead of 'python2.7-bluez'
Note, selecting 'python-lightblue' instead of 'python2.7-lightblue'
blueman is already the newest version.
bluetooth is already the newest version.
bluetooth set to manually installed.
bluez is already the newest version.
libbluetooth3 is already the newest version.
libbluetooth3 set to manually installed.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-bluetooth : Depends: libpam-systemd but it is not installable
                   Recommends: gnome-control-center but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

any idea on how to overcome this=?

Thanks

#332 Hardware & System Configuration » (lenovo t400/ ascii) no wifi recognized » 2020-02-10 21:17:27

kapqa
Replies: 5

Hello ,

i installed today a fresh Devuan Ascii on a Vintage Lenovo T400 and installed the WiFi module with firmware-iwlwifi.

However, Wireless status LED is inactive after reboot and no connections are shown.
The Bluetooth Status LED is green however, but it seems that XFCE4 has no Bluetooth packages installed and although i installed all Bluez* packages, no Bluetooth Manager is shown in the Taskbar.

The card is a iNTEL WIFI LINK 5300 and clearly functions under Debian Wheezy.

#333 Re: Installation » Upgrade from Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie » 2020-02-09 21:09:37

I tried to do this today (have several computer running Debian Wheezy 64Bit or Powerpc) with a quite fresh installation on Gnome3 + plus some packages installed

The error when going directly from Wheezy to Devuan Jessie would be

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 : Breaks: gnome-bluetooth (< 3.8) but 3.4.2-1 is to be installed
 gnome-bluetooth : Depends: gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 (= 3.4.2-1) but 3.14.0-2 is to be installed
                   Depends: obexd-client but it is not going to be installed
 gnome-settings-daemon : Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-2 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                         Depends: libpackagekit-glib2-14 but it is not going to be installed
 gsettings-desktop-schemas : Breaks: gnome-settings-daemon (< 3.10.0) but 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3+deb7u3 is to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

So it seems more intelligent to update to Debian Jessie first, or to remove Gnome3 altogether and then upgrade directly to Devuan Jessie (and skipping Debian Jessie altogether)?

#337 Desktop and Multimedia » (Failed to open "/ on ".) failed to connect to network > solved » 2019-12-17 21:03:58

kapqa
Replies: 1

Hello ,

i found that on Devuan Ascii i could not connect to my local Macmini Server that has Samba activated.

When in Devuan Ascii i would click "Browse Network"

the error would be

Failed to open "/ on ".

Could solve this by installing all Gvfs packages available on Devuan

sudo apt-get install gvfs*

Afterwards when clicking the Network icon, the Windows Network and MacminiServer would show up.

#338 Desktop and Multimedia » (Ascii,XFCE4)Thunderbird 68.2.2 - column width seems fixed » 2019-12-03 16:13:10

kapqa
Replies: 0

Hello ,

i have a new installation of Devuan Ascii 64bit on my computer with XFCE4 as Desktop.

Noticed that on latest Thunderbird 68.2.2 it would not allow me to change the width of the columns in the mail section or in the feed reader section.
Whenever i hover over the separators, the icon would not change from an arrow to the icon meant for changing the width - it remains the same pointer arrow.

Any idea?

Thanks

#339 Desktop and Multimedia » (building handbrake) error with pkg-config » 2019-11-21 20:53:30

kapqa
Replies: 1

Hello ,

i try to build Handbrake from source on Devuan Ascii.

the following error occurs during ./config :

ERROR: minimum required pkg-config version is 0.29.1 and /usr/bin/pkg-config is 0.29

however

sudo apt install pkg-config
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
pkg-config is already the newest version (0.29-4+b1).

#340 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » amdgpu-pro + ascii on kernel 4.19 bpo ? » 2019-11-21 20:40:34

ToxicExMachina wrote:

Vulkan and VCE are available via libre driver: https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index1h2

You don't need AMDGPU-PRO for that.

Hello thank you very much for your help; how can i check if i have those Vulkan and VCE enabled and libre driver installed?

The system is a Ascii with LXDE+KDE (sort of Hybrid atm).

#341 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » amdgpu-pro + ascii on kernel 4.19 bpo ? » 2019-11-19 14:26:03

ToxicExMachina wrote:
kapqa wrote:

well, i just wanted to use AMD VCE for video encoding in HandBrake and it does require the AMDGPU-PRO driver.
i have seen that the opensource has good benchmark but some features seem only available with the amd drivers, hence my timid try to install them.

thanks rolfie, i tried also with bpo.6, it did not make a difference (for now). maybe i just it wrong.

According to official info it's based on ffmpeg: https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake/ … S.markdown

You don't need AMDGPU-PRO driver. You can try vdpau or vaapi with amdgpu driver.

I did use this guide here, and with Ubuntu 18.04 could get it to activate, however, it would also need some vulkan kit

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/tec … o-vce.html

according to AMD release notes for AMDGPU_Pro Driver (19.30)

To use the Vulkan driver in this stack, Vulkan SDK version v1.1.109.0 needs to be installed. The SDK can be downloaded from: https://vulkan.lunarg.com/sdk/home

#342 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » amdgpu-pro + ascii on kernel 4.19 bpo ? » 2019-11-18 14:26:57

well, i just wanted to use AMD VCE for video encoding in HandBrake and it does require the AMDGPU-PRO driver.
i have seen that the opensource has good benchmark but some features seem only available with the amd drivers, hence my timid try to install them.

thanks rolfie, i tried also with bpo.6, it did not make a difference (for now). maybe i just it wrong.

#343 Hardware & System Configuration » amdgpu-pro + ascii on kernel 4.19 bpo ? » 2019-11-16 16:55:00

kapqa
Replies: 8

Hello ,

i just tried this guide here for installing the amdgpu-pro driver on devuan ascii.

https://wiki.debian.org/AMDGPUDriverOnS … all&rev=36

but it would not succeed.

i did install the kernel 4.19.0.0.bpo.5-amd64 + the linux-headers.

could it be that the author used another backported kernel in stretch or where could the error lie?

Thank you.

#345 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (beowulf) toslink gets no sound - pulseaudio can't connect » 2019-10-15 10:27:39

the error message upon booting goes similar like this

warning: 'alsactl -E Home=/run/alsa/restore' failed with error message 'Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Realtek -Generic" ...

#346 Hardware & System Configuration » (beowulf) toslink gets no sound - pulseaudio can't connect » 2019-10-15 10:19:35

kapqa
Replies: 2

Hello ,

i updated my box to Beowulf and noticed the following behaviour:

Upon booting there is an error notice with alsa something and HD (soundcard) and when i login, i don't have sound.

My soundcard is an internal one (Realtek HD) on the Mainboard

Alsamixer shows:

0 HDA ATI HDMI (Graphics Card HDMI)
1 HD-Audio Generic (Realtek ALC1220).

When i go into Pavucontrol the error comes

Establishing connection to Pulseaudio. Please wait....

and nothing happens.

The Speakers are connected thru a Toslink Cable to the Digital Output on the Mainboard.

Yesterday,
When i disconnected the cable and reconnected, the connection got established and the sound came.
+

Today, not even that helps.

Any thoughts on how to solve this?

#347 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (Ascii, XFCE) Easy Samba Share to Raspberry, how? » 2019-10-13 09:22:12

oh , silly me, this was solved , i just had forgotten to click on "Network" in Thunar, and then the Librelec Samba Share would become visible.

#348 Re: Installation » Installing Devuan on a 2007(!) iMac » 2019-10-13 09:04:54

to install debian on my macmini 2006 i  used "refit" tool first, and then after installation of the linux distro via cd used the included partition tool to update the partition table.
afterwards some linux distro would sometimes not boot with refit, so i installed refind over it (and choosing no to remove refit partition tool ) and then upon reboot would boot linux grub from within refind.

debian SQUEEZE not STRETCH was the best option at that time, alongside with debian wheezy and lubuntu.
ubuntu cd for some strange reason very often didn't get picked up by the apple machine for some reason or did not allow to boot.

#349 Desktop and Multimedia » (Ascii, XFCE) Easy Samba Share to Raspberry, how? » 2019-10-13 08:59:51

kapqa
Replies: 1

Hello ,

i tried to update the Libreelec on my Raspberry Pi2 by putting a file into a folder on the SDcard connected to the Raspberry.
It is recommended to be done via Samba Share, as described here

https://libreelec.wiki/accessing_libree … __sambasmb

For using the SMB shares under Ubuntu, just open a file browser on your machine, double click at the address bar and enter the following:

smb://enter_ip_address_here/

I tried this with XFCE, but it would not allow me to do it.
Then browsed quickly, and somewhere it stated that there is needed an plugin for Thunar, probably Thunar-samba-shares or thunar-samba-plugin,

but it did not find such a plugin.

Is there a way to conveniently activate this samba share on XFCE without too much configuration?

On Windows it was pretty straightforward : just typing the adress in the Windows Explorer AdressBar, and the two (PC and Raspbi) get connected.

#350 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » (Ascii) second monitor not recognized / graphics card AMD RX560 » 2019-10-11 19:54:19

tried today the Ascii with KDE, and on top of it i did install TDE 14 (never tried Trinity Desktop before) and i was very pleasantly surprised.
Some things did not function though (printing for example) so i went back to Ascii XFCE, which has been most stable and rapid.

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