I see it's not nightly, or Beta but, whenever a dot release is released I get a new version to download.

I'm running FF 103.0.1 from mozilla ... https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

The Tears of Strangers, Stan Grant.

if you have a connection to the internet you may try Sheildsup  (press "Proceed") "All Service Ports" https://www.grc.com/shieldsup

it will "Determine the status of your system's first 1056 ports".

Quick and easy.

Wrong iso, Gives up way too easy. Wrong attitude, Should try again.

just chimaera-backports...

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ chimaera-backports main non-free contrib

Beowulf

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ beowulf-backports main non-free contrib

I remember when odd-numbered kernel versions were unstable.

Love it!

I also found easytag had some database lookup and (re)generate actions happening,

but once it's user-settings are configured it doesent hunt around so much.

I still like easytag.

Correction!

I think removing the module, as I specified before may have been causing kernel lockups.

I saw one error that mentioned the snd-hda-intel module, which is dependant on (or to) snd_hda_codec_hdmi.

I'm using HoaS's asound configuration for ~.asoundrc, No lockups.

Hi, if the onboard sound chip is not used by anyother OS, I disable onboard audio in the bios... Advanced/Onboard Devices Conf... HD Audio Controller.

That may simplify things a bit.

I also had hdmi sound from my video card... The way I stopped this from being activated was to rmmod the module in /etc/rc.local

On my system the module in question is "snd_hda_codec_hdmi"

you may find yours by

lsmod | grep hdmi

you should see one there with (ati and) hdmi in the name. Mine is an nVidia graphics card.

/etc/rc.local

rmmod -f snd_hda_codec_hdmi

Now, this may not be the most elegant way, but it works on my system (snd_hda_codec_hdmi has dependants like intel).

btw, I also use a USB sound box. Edirole UA-25EX

I hope this helps. regards Glenn

I used to use Lotus as well, way back... in the 90's

Thanks for the heads-up. I've been using OpenOffice so long now that I may not want to change.

But it's good to know when I'm spruking the benefits of GNU/Linux. :-)

If you search these pages you may also find more info on getting nftables to run.

There's plenty there.

Thank you for your attention, Ralph.

The time zone is set in kde/plasma settings.

I have reinstalled ntp, and last night an update was available for ntpdate. I upgraded that and it removed ntp and ntpsec.

The time sticks in the linux system, but the bios time is out.

I'm not sure what to do about it.

I may have removed or turned something off when I shouldn't have.

I have plenty of free time this weekend, so I may (do a clean) reinstall the latest chimarea (? spelling)

and that should correct any hacks I've committed.

The fans are my greatest concern $$$, the time is just a pain for internet pages and logs, etc.

Thank you regards Glenn

ps, "tzdata is already the newest version (2021a-1+deb11u3)."