Posts by igorzwx

igorzwx · Freedom Hacks

Freedom implies the freedom of choice.
What kind of freedom is it, if you have only one sound system installed in your Devuan?

Although the so-called "upstream" tends to restrict the freedom of Linux users, it is not very difficult to compile OSSv4 for Devuan.
Patches can be found in the Arch Linux AUR package oss-git
_https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/oss-git
_https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Open_Sound_System

If you have two sound cards (e.g. Intel HDA and USB sound card), you can use OSS4 and ALSA simultaneously.
The difference between OSS4 and ALSA is that OSS4 permits the so-called "exclusive mode":

man ossplay | grep virtual -A1
       -R     Disable redirection to virtual mixer engines and sample rate/format conversions. Should not be used un‐
              less absolutely necessary.

The OSS4 plugin for Audacious has an option "Enable exclusive mode to prevent virtual mixing". It is intended for playing high resolution audio files "as they are", without resampling and sound distortions produced by the software mixer (vmix).

Notice, however, that Petrov's fftrate is much better than OSS4 resamplers, so that, OSS4 can be dedicated for playing audio files in "exclusive mode", and ALSA for ordinary desktop usage (playing movies in youtube, video conferencing, etc.)

In a word, Intel HDA codecs support many audio formats:

ossinfo -v9 | grep "HD Audio play front" -A13
HD Audio play front               /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0  (device index 0)
    Legacy device /dev/dsp0
    Caps: TRIGGER MMAP 
    Modes: OUTPUT 
      Out engine  1: 0/HD Audio play front
                     Available for use 
    Input formats (0x00001010):
      AFMT_S16_LE	- 16 bit signed little endian
      AFMT_S32_LE	- 32 bit signed little endian
    Output formats (0x00001010):
      AFMT_S16_LE	- 16 bit signed little endian
      AFMT_S32_LE	- 32 bit signed little endian
    Device handle: PCIa0021458-0000:00:1b.0-au01
    Related mixer dev: 0
    Sample rate source: 0
    Preferred channel configuration: Not indicated
    Supported number of channels (min - max): 2 - 8
    Native sample rates (min - max): 44100 - 192000 (44100,48000,96000,192000)

To enable the OSS4 plugin, you have to rebuild the package "audacious-plugins".
If you are going to compile something, it makes sense to install some tools:

sudo apt install build-essential devscripts command-not-found

mkdir audacious-plugins-rebuild

cd audacious-plugins-rebuild

Download the source code and install build dependencies:

apt-get source audacious-plugins

sudo apt-get build-dep audacious-plugins

ls -1
audacious-plugins-4.2
audacious-plugins_4.2-1.debian.tar.xz
audacious-plugins_4.2-1.dsc
audacious-plugins_4.2.orig.tar.bz2

cd audacious-plugins-4.2

To enable the OSS4 plugin, you have to edit "debian/rules"

cat ./debian/rules | grep oss4 -B2
override_dh_auto_configure:
	dh_auto_configure -- $(additional_confflags) \
		--disable-rpath --enable-gtk --enable-oss4

You can also edit "changelog":

cat ./debian/changelog | grep 4.2-2 
audacious-plugins (4.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium

Now you can rebuild audacious-plugins:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

cd ..

ls -1 | grep .deb
audacious-plugins_4.2-1.debian.tar.xz
audacious-plugins_4.2-2_amd64.deb
audacious-plugins-data_4.2-2_all.deb
audacious-plugins-dbgsym_4.2-2_amd64.deb

Now you can reinstall Audacious:

sudo apt purge audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data
sudo dpkg -i audacious-plugins_4.2-2_amd64.deb audacious-plugins-data_4.2-2_all.deb
sudo apt install audacious

To prevent upgrade, you can pin them all:

sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences

cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: audacious
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: audacious-plugins
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

Package: audacious-plugins-data
Pin: release *
Pin-Priority: -1

apt-cache policy audacious-plugins-data
audacious-plugins-data:
  Installed: 4.2-2
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
 *** 4.2-2 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.2-1 -1
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages

apt-cache policy audacious-plugins
audacious-plugins:
  Installed: 4.2-2
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
 *** 4.2-2 -1
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.2-1+b1 -1
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages

apt-cache policy audacious
audacious:
  Installed: 4.2-1
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
 *** 4.2-1 -1
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

NOTE: If you want to rebuild a Debian package, which is not available in Devuan repositories
(e.g. _https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wxmaxima/24.02.1-1build2 ),
you can use these commands:

dpkg-source -x *.dsc

sudo mk-build-deps -i  # it should be executed inside the source directory

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

igorzwx · Off-topic

Cardinal de Richelieu asks the head of the Sécurité extérieure, during a military parade, "Sir, who are those guys in the plain suits in the parade?" "Oh," the Sécurité extérieure head answers, "they are economists, Your Eminence." And when Cardinal de Richelieu raises his eyebrows, he hastens to explain, " Just wait until we let them loose in the UK."

NOTE: The joke was found in Shumerian chronicles. Instead of economists, you can substitute any other scientists, depending on the context.

igorzwx · Off-topic

Sorry for this. I was trying to understand what you mean by "vortex that binds and enslaves" and my processors got overheated.
But what then is your guiding principle for moderating jokes?

igorzwx · Off-topic

Are you going to say that imagination should be abolished to prevent suffering?

igorzwx · Off-topic

golinux wrote:

Machines don't think

I seems that your imagination is restricted by your beliefs.
Indeed, "knowledge is justified true belief" (Plato).
Are you a slave of your knowledge?

igorzwx · Off-topic

golinux wrote:

All human perception and the fruit obtained therefrom is bananas!

You seem to be a computer scientist. Try to imagine AI which is thinking how it got its thoughts.

igorzwx · Off-topic

Yes, it seems obvious. Next step is to think how you got your thoughts.
In a word, pedagogy is also the art of deception (according to Alan Watts).

igorzwx · Off-topic

Yes, I may help you to "fool yourself", as Feynman put it.

Perhaps, you are missing the point. The victims of science are not able to see the obvious simply because they are intellectual slaves.

Science is a great art, and the great scientists tend to use the same simple trick to fool naive people.
First, they let you swallow a wrong assumption, then they derive a true theory from the wrong assumption.
The best example is, perhaps, "Cargo Cult Science" of Richard Feynman _https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
If you cannot find the wrong assumption underlying Feynman's theory of scientific method, you may try to study the true Bible of Knowledge, that is, "Mambu" of Kenelm Burridge _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenelm_Burridge

If you read the Gospel of Cargo cult movement, you may notice that Cargo cultists tent to use the method of trial and error not because this method was discovered in the United States of America, but because it was invented in the Stone Age.

igorzwx · Off-topic

I may not agree. Science is the art of deception. Have you noticed that nobody can explain what Knowledge is?
That is why there is a project of "Deschooling Society" _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society
What is obvious is that Knowledge restricts our freedom, especially the Knowledge of Physics. Because of gravity, you cannot fly like a bird.

igorzwx · Off-topic

I also thought that is a joke, or at least a great philosophical discovery

igorzwx · Off-topic

I may agree, ignorance does make people free.

igorzwx · Off-topic

Knowledge you could hardly make people happy, and ignorance makes freedom possible. When slaves do not know that freedom exists, they may feel free. For example, the slaves of PulseAudio might be perfectly happy with PipeWire.

igorzwx · Freedom Hacks

$ /etc/init.d/alsa-utils
Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa-utils {start [CARD]|stop [CARD]|restart [CARD]|reset [CARD]}

igorzwx · Off-topic

- I want to go to Paris again.
- Have you already been to Paris?
- Not yet. But I already wanted.

igorzwx · Off-topic

Teacher: How much is two times two?
Student: Are we buying or selling?

igorzwx · Freedom Hacks

Binaural recording is a method of recording sound that uses two microphones, arranged with the intent to create a 3D stereo sound sensation for the listener of actually being in the room with the performers or instruments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_recording

Dr. Chesky's Ultimate Headphone Demonstration Disc [Binaural]
_https://youtu.be/qB41sm1QCKI

EXAMPLE:

Dreams of New Orleans
Wycliffe Gordon
Chesky Records, Binaural+
192kHz · 24bit
_https://www.discogs.com/release/7294719-Wycliffe-Gordon-Dreams-Of-New-Orleans
_https://www.hdtracks.com/#/album/5bffd45cc6e102670ab3fe9f

Minimal HW requirements:

1. Computer with Intel HDA codec on motherboard.
NOTE: Very old computers (e.g. of 2006) may not have Intel codecs which support 32bit 192kHz.

2. A cheap analog headset (e.g. Sennheiser PC 3 Chat), or headphones.
NOTE: USB and wireless headsets are not suitable for the purpose.

Software: ALSA, fftrate ALSA plugin, Audacious.

Audacious → Settings → Audio → ALSA Output 32bit

To prevent resampling, configure fftrate for 32bit 192kHz (although, of course, 99.99% of Linux users may hear the difference, if resampling was made by Petrov's fftrate)

===============
|  Main menu  |
---------------

    Curr. | Used | Play (def) | Rec (def) | Available cards
----------|------|------------|-----------|-----------------------------------
0 - >>>>> |  *   |  *     *   |  *    *   | HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH

U - Toggle used flag
P - Set this device as default player
R - Set this device as default recorder

O - Output device: PCH,0
I - Input device : PCH,0

F - Format: 192000 Hz, 2 ch, 'S32_LE'
C - Converter: fftrate

There is a belief that Petrov's fftrate may cure deafness, but it may not help PulseAudio users.

igorzwx · Off-topic

Many things are incomprehensible to us not because our comprehension is weak, but because those things are not within the frames of our comprehension.
Kozma Prutkov. Fruits of Reflection (1853-1854).

igorzwx · Off-topic

Professor: My students seem to be extremely stupid. They cannot understand FFT. I made many attempts to explain it in different ways. I have already understood it myself, and they still do not understand anything.

igorzwx · Off-topic

If you see a "buffalo" sign on an elephant's cage, do not trust your eyes (Kozma Prutkov).

igorzwx · Desktop and Multimedia

aluma wrote:

Maybe someone can see what's wrong with the repository address?
It would be possible to install Skype without unnecessary hassle.

Don't panic

$ sudo apt update
Err:14 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
  504  Gateway Time-out [IP: 2a02:26f0:3400:2b7::1263 443]

igorzwx · Desktop and Multimedia

The magic commands "sudo apt -f install" or "sudo apt install -f" are usually very helpful, but not always.

$ dpkg-deb --info skype*
 new Debian package, version 2.0.
 size 122062452 bytes: control archive=4798 bytes.
    1241 bytes,    16 lines      control              
   12032 bytes,   129 lines      md5sums              
     522 bytes,    23 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
 Package: skypeforlinux
 Version: 8.109.0.209
 Architecture: amd64
 Maintainer: Skype Technologies S.A. <info@skype.net>
 Installed-Size: 312110
 Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libatk-bridge2.0-0 (>= 2.5.3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.38), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgbm1 (>= 17.1.0~rc2), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10), libnspr4 (>= 2:4.9-2~), libnss3 (>= 2:3.22), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.18), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6, libxfixes3, libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0), libxrandr2, gnome-keyring, apt-transport-https, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.11.0), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.6.18), libstdc++6 (>= 4.8.1), libatomic1
 Section: non-free/net
 Priority: extra
 Homepage: https://www.skype.com
 Description: Skype keeps the world talking, for free.
  Skype keeps you together. Call, message and share with others.
   * It's free to download and join.
   * Call, instant message and send photos and documents to anyone else on Skype.
   * Easily text message anywhere in the world.
   * Get your friends together on a group call.
  And that's just the start...

igorzwx · Desktop and Multimedia

jeudi wrote:

I don't know if I want to try some computing BSDM stuffs for the moment

I do not know whether ALSA was created by sadomasochists or not, but PulseAudio, PipeWire, and systemd certainly were.

igorzwx · Freedom Hacks

It is not difficult to remove PulseAudio and PipeWire.
The problem is how to configure a software mixer for ALSA.

Such mixer might be needed, if one wants to use ALSA just like MacOS users are using the sound system on MacBooks: for video conferencing with Discord or similar app, or playing HiRes audio files without distortions produced by crappy resamplers. This implies that the desired software mixer should have a high quality real-time codec (resampler and format converter).

These problems can be solved through the help of the fftrate plugin
https://github.com/PetrovSE/fftrate

Debian packages:

libasound2-plugin-fftrate_1.6.3_amd64.deb
alsa-config-utils_1.6.3_amd64.deb
pcm-utils_1.6.3_amd64.deb

They provide:

libasound_module_rate_fftrate.so — ALSA plugin (FFT resampler/converter)
arateconf  —  utility to generate ~/.asoundrc  
pcm_conv  —  standalone FFT resampler/converter

How to compile fftrate plugin

Install "build-essential", etc.

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install build-essential git debhelper
sudo apt install libasound2-dev libasound2-plugins swh-plugins

Install gcc-10 and g++-10 from Devuan's oldstable repositories.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep oldstable
# oldstable repositories
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged oldstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged oldstable main contrib non-free

Enable the oldstable repositories and update

sudo apt update

$ apt search g* | grep "gcc-10/\|g++-10/"
g++-10/oldstable,now 10.2.1-6 amd64 
gcc-10/oldstable,now 10.2.1-6 amd64

sudo apt install gcc-10 g++-10

$ whereis gcc-10 g++-10
gcc-10: /usr/bin/gcc-10 
g++-10: /usr/bin/g++-10

To compile the code you should configure "make" to use gcc-10 and g++-10, instead of the default gcc-12 and g++-12.
To build the deb packages, you have to specify "compatibility level 13" in debian/compat

$ man debhelper-compat-upgrade-checklist | grep "recommended mode"
          v13 This is the recommended mode of operation.

Compilation

mkdir petrov-fftrate
cd petrov-fftrate
git clone https://github.com/PetrovSE/fftrate.git

Now you have to edit two files inside the package "fftrate":

./fftrate/src/lib/makedef.mk
./fftrate/packets/debian/compat

Enable gcc-10 and g++-10:

$ cat ./fftrate/src/lib/makedef.mk | grep gcc -A1
CC      = gcc-10
CPP     = g++-10

Change compat to "13":

$ cat ./fftrate/packets/debian/compat
13

Now you can compile:

cd  ./fftrate/packets

$ ls -1
Makefile
debian
etc
mk_dpkg

Compilte the code:

make

Make debian packages:

./mk_dpkg

$ ls ../ | grep .deb
alsa-config-utils_1.6.3_amd64.deb
libasound2-plugin-fftrate_1.6.3_amd64.deb
pcm-utils_1.6.3_amd64.deb

How to install fftrate

Install dependencies (if they are not already installed):

sudo apt install libasound2 libasound2-plugins swh-plugins

Install fftrate:

sudo dpkg -i libasound2-plugin-fftrate_1.6.3_amd64.deb alsa-config-utils_1.6.3_amd64.deb pcm-utils_1.6.3_amd64.deb

Open /etc/fftrate.conf with a text editor:

sudo nano /etc/fftrate.conf

Enable fft resampler:

$ cat /etc/fftrate.conf | grep "Transform type" -A3
# Transform type
# Available: dct, fft (default: dct)
#transform = dct
transform = fft

Run arateconf (interactive mode) to generate ~/.asoundrc

arateconf

Press 0 to select the first sound card.
Press 1 to select the second sound card.
Press F to change format

For Intel HDA codec on motherboard, try 32bit 192000Hz
For USB headsets, try 16bit 48Hz

Run TEST (press T).
If all tests have been passed successfully, save the setting (press S) and exit (ESC).

EXAMPLE: Intel HDA

===============
|  Main menu  |
---------------

    Curr. | Used | Play (def) | Rec (def) | Available cards
----------|------|------------|-----------|-----------------------------------
0 - >>>>> |  *   |  *     *   |  *    *   | HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
1 -       |  *   |  *         |  *        | USB-Audio - iMic USB audio system

U - Toggle used flag
P - Set this device as default player
R - Set this device as default recorder

O - Output device: PCH,0
I - Input device : PCH,0

F - Format: 192000 Hz, 2 ch, 'S32_LE'
C - Converter: fftrate

A - Show all plugins [ ]
M - Plug-ins:
 [X] Convert,  [ ] Expand, [X] Asym
 [ ] Play Vol, [X] Dmix
 [ ] Rec. Vol, [X] Dsnoop
 [ ] Phonon,   [ ] Normalizator

T - Test
S - Save to '/home/devuan/.asoundrc'
X - Delete '/home/devuan/.asoundrc'

ESC - Exit

EXAMPLE: iMic USB

===============
|  Main menu  |
---------------

    Curr. | Used | Play (def) | Rec (def) | Available cards
----------|------|------------|-----------|-----------------------------------
0 -       |  *   |  *     *   |  *    *   | HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
1 - >>>>> |  *   |  *         |  *        | USB-Audio - iMic USB audio system

U - Toggle used flag
P - Set this device as default player
R - Set this device as default recorder

O - Output device: system,0
I - Input device : system,0

F - Format: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 'S16_LE'
C - Converter: fftrate

A - Show all plugins [ ]
M - Plug-ins:
 [X] Convert,  [ ] Expand, [X] Asym
 [ ] Play Vol, [X] Dmix
 [ ] Rec. Vol, [X] Dsnoop
 [ ] Phonon,   [ ] Normalizator

T - Test
S - Save to '/home/devuan/.asoundrc'
X - Delete '/home/devuan/.asoundrc'

ESC - Exit

TEST

> t
Testing H/W compatibility ...

Device: PCH
Output:
 Open device "hw:PCH,0" ... Ok.
 Set rate 192000 Hz ... Ok.
 Set channels 2 ... Ok.
 Set format 'S32_LE' ... Ok.
 Set buffer size 30720 -> 30720
 Set period size 7680 -> 7680
Input:
 Open device "hw:PCH,0" ... Ok.
 Set rate 192000 Hz ... Ok.
 Set format 'S32_LE' ... Ok.
 Set buffer size 30720 -> 30720
 Set period size 7680 -> 7680

Device: system
Output:
 Open device "hw:system,0" ... Ok.
 Set rate 48000 Hz ... Ok.
 Set channels 2 ... Ok.
 Set format 'S16_LE' ... Ok.
 Set buffer size 7680 -> 7680
 Set period size 1920 -> 1920
Input:
 Open device "hw:system,0" ... Ok.
 Set rate 48000 Hz ... Ok.
 Set format 'S16_LE' ... Ok.
 Set buffer size 7680 -> 7680
 Set period size 1920 -> 1920

Press any key ...

S - Save to '/home/devuan/.asoundrc'

> s
Saving config file...
Test: 'default' ... Ok.
Test: 'default' ... Ok.
Ok.

Testing playback/recording

$ aplay *.wav
Playing WAVE 'audio_test_48kHz_16bit.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
Input:  48000 Hz, 2 ch, 's16_le' (0x2): dummy = 0, period = 1920
Output: 192000 Hz, 2 ch, 's32_le' (0xa): dummy = 0, period = 7680
Rates:  48000 --> 192000 (J: 0.00%, T: FFT, W: Vorbis)
Ok.

$ arecord -V stereo -f S16_LE -r 48000 -c 2 1-fft-exp_rec_alsa.wav
Recording WAVE '1-fft-exp_rec_alsa.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
Input:  192000 Hz, 2 ch, 's32_le' (0xa): dummy = 0, period = 7680
Output: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 's16_le' (0x2): dummy = 0, period = 1920
Rates:  192000 --> 48000 (J: 0.00%, T: FFT, W: Vorbis)
Ok.

$ aplay 1-fft-exp_rec_alsa.wav
Playing WAVE '1-fft-exp_rec_alsa.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Stereo
Input:  48000 Hz, 2 ch, 's16_le' (0x2): dummy = 0, period = 1920
Output: 192000 Hz, 2 ch, 's32_le' (0xa): dummy = 0, period = 7680
Rates:  48000 --> 192000 (J: 0.00%, T: FFT, W: Vorbis)
Ok.

Now you can install apulse and run discord

apulse discord

You may also need ALSA mixer

alsamixer

man alsamixer

igorzwx · Desktop and Multimedia

jeudi wrote:

sound works on Firefox on Ratpoison but not with Discord.

Firefox can play sound with ALSA without PulseAudio or apulse.
Discord needs PulseAudio or apulse to work with ALSA.

This may mean that ALSA works on your Ratpoison, but PulseAudio seems to fail.

A solution might be: "apulse discord" and .asoundrc (for mic to work with Discord and Firefox).

If you do not have "arateconf" to generate .asoundrc, you may try to create it manually, although, of course, it might be an exercise in masochism. One may presume that it might be much easier to compile arateconf and fftrate

In any case, you may try something like this:

ALSA konfigurieren

pcm.snd_card {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 0
}

ctl.snd_card {
    type hw
    card 0
    device 0
}

# Das dmix-Plugin wird definiert.
pcm.dmixer {
    type dmix           # pcm.NAME: der Name jedes Gerätes kann angepasst werden
    ipc_key 1024
    ipc_perm 0666       # Andere Benutzer können ebenfalls dmix gleichzeitig nutzen
    slave.pcm "snd_card"
    slave {
        channels 2
    }
}

ctl.dmixer {
    type hw
    card 0
}

# Das dsnoop-Plugin, welches es erlaubt, mehrere Programme gleichzeitig aufnehmen zu lassen.
pcm.dsnooper {
    type dsnoop
    ipc_key 2048
    ipc_perm 0666
    slave.pcm "snd_card"
    slave
    {
        channels 2
    }
}

# Dies definiert unser Fullduplex-Plugin als Standard für alle ALSA-Programme.
pcm.duplex {
    type asym
    playback.pcm "dmixer"	#natürlich muss dann auch das passende Gegenstück angepasst werden
    capture.pcm "dsnooper"
}

pcm.!default {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "duplex"  
}

arateconf was created in 2009
asoundconf was depricated in 2009 (or 2008)
But a fork of it is still available in Arch Linux AUR repository

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/asoundconf
Package Details: asoundconf 1:1.2-8
Package Base: asoundconf
Description: utility to read and change the user's ALSA library configuration
Upstream URL: https://bitbucket.org/stativ/asoundconf
Licenses: GPL
First Submitted: 2022-04-01 16:35 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-02-27 15:52 (UTC)

https://bitbucket.org/stativ/asoundconf/src/master/
asoundconf
This is asoundconf-gtk, the GTK+ applet to allow you to select your default sound card. It is licenced under the GPLv2, which you can find in COPYING, and is (C) 2006 Toby Smithe. The projects which code has been taken from are also subject to copyright, and this is further detailed in the source file. It is Python, so you can execute it from source, which is found in asoundconf-gtk/asoundconf-gtk, but you can install it as well, using setup.py. This places the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications as well, which on a GNOME system should place an icon in System->Preferences.

One may wonder why it is not available in Devuan repositories.
Gnome2 was also depricated in 2009, but a fork of it is available in Devuan repositories (it is now Mate desktop).

igorzwx · Desktop and Multimedia

jeudi wrote:

I installed Discord from flatpak repo, I'm not going to add a ppa to my installation.

Which "ppa"? It is a proprietary spyware.

Try to run Discord through apulse

sudo apt install apulse

apulse discord --no-sandbox

apulse discord

Playback may work, but mic is not likely to work, if you do not have a special .asoundrc
I have already tested this on a sort of Fedora with Discord (flatpak) and pipewire installed.

To understand the problem with Ratpoison one may need output of those Linux command (see my previous post).

In a word, Ubuntu Universe Repository is a standard Ubuntu repository which is usually enabled by default (on Ubunty, of course).
All dependencies are available in Devuan repositories:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install gcc git gconf2 libasound2 libnotify4 libnspr4

apt show gcc git gconf2 libasound2 libnotify4 libnspr4

They are in Daedalus main repository:

$ apt show gcc git gconf2 libasound2 libnotify4 libnspr4 | grep /main
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages
APT-Sources: http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main amd64 Packages

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main non-free-firmware non-free contrib

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main non-free-firmware non-free contrib

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main non-free-firmware non-free contrib

discord-0.0.54.deb is available for download on Discord website https://discord.com/download

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