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#26 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Devuan 6 installation on VMware Workstation stuck » 2025-11-04 11:05:55
you could try Vmware Workstation 25h2 if it makes any difference?
had however no luck with Kubuntu 25.10; it would install but then after login, just black screen.
#27 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] (Devuan 6) USB local printer no longer function » 2025-11-04 10:51:30
- kapqa
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Hello ,
found that the printing did no longer function over USB cable after updating to Devuan 6.0 Excalibur.
If someone incurs the same problem, the package missing it
"libcupsimage2-dev"
after installing , the Ecotank Printer would again print over USB locally.
Maybe it got uninstalled in the Upgrade process or at some other point;
Thanks.
#28 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » excalibur/KDE non-root X11 session is broken » 2025-11-03 19:34:56
i am using Excalibur KDE X11 on my laptop; let me know if it can be of help; it seems to function fine, no major drawback after upgrade noticed so far.
(don't know what non-root X11 session should mean, but login function just fine).
#29 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-03 14:15:41
alright, gonna check whats going on, maybe gonna use another program than itunes to make the CD Backup in the future;
(i like .aiff since it is like WAV and allows for metadata)
big thanks, bye.
for f in *.aif; do sox "$f" "${f%.aif}.wav"; done
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-01 The Four Seasons, Rv269 (Pt. 1) Spring.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-02 The Four Seasons, Rv269 (Pt. 2) Spring.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-03 The Four Seasons, Rv269 (Pt. 3) Spring.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-04 The Four Seasons, Rv315 (Pt. 1) Summer.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-05 The Four Seasons, Rv315 (Pt. 2) Summer.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-06 The Four Seasons, Rv315 (Pt. 3) Summer.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-07 The Four Seasons, Rv293 (Pt. 1) Autumn.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-08 The Four Seasons, Rv293 (Pt. 2) Autumn.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-09 The Four Seasons, Rv293 (Pt. 3) Autumn.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-10 The Four Seasons, Rv297 (Pt. 1) Winter.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-11 The Four Seasons, Rv297 (Pt. 2) Winter.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-12 The Four Seasons, Rv297 (Pt. 3) Winter.wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-13 Concerto For 2 Trumpets & Strings, Rv537 (Pt. 1).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-14 Concerto For 2 Trumpets & Strings, Rv537 (Pt. 2).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-15 Concerto For 2 Trumpets & Strings, Rv537 (Pt. 3).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-16 Concerto For Mandolin & Strings, Rv425 (Pt. 1).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-17 Concerto For Mandolin & Strings, Rv425 (Pt. 2).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-18 Concerto For Mandolin & Strings, Rv425 (Pt. 3).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-19 Concerto For Flute & Strings, Rv428 (Pt. 1).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-20 Concerto For Flute & Strings, Rv428 (Pt. 2).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-21 Concerto For Flute & Strings, Rv428 (Pt. 3).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-22 Concerto For Violin & Strings, Rv453 (Pt. 1).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-23 Concerto For Violin & Strings, Rv453 (Pt. 2).wav': Read-only file system
sox FAIL formats: can't open output file `1-24 Concerto For Violin & Strings, Rv453 (Pt. 3).wav': Read-only file systemediainfo 1-01\ The\ Four\ Seasons\,\ Rv269\ \(Pt.\ 1\)\ Spring.aif
General
Complete name : 1-01 The Four Seasons, Rv269 (Pt. 1) Spring.aif
Format : AIFF
Format/Info : Apple/SGI
File size : 36.8 MiB
Duration : 3 min 38 s
Overall bit rate mode : Constant
Overall bit rate : 1 411 kb/s
Album : Venetian Splender
Part/Position : 1
Part/Total : 62
Track name : The Four Seasons, Rv269 (Pt. 1) Spring
Track name/Position : 1
Track name/Total : 24
Performer : Antonio Vivaldi
Composer : Antonio Vivaldi
Genre : Classical
Recorded date : 2004
iTunPGAP : 0
iTunes_CDDB_1 : 4611AA18+339339+24+150+16562+27328+47520+71604+80905+94587+118757+131250+147776+163458+173840+189095+200828+204540+218387+232751+242412+253047+269720+285051+298613+311306+322732
iTunes_CDDB_TrackNumber : 1
Audio
Format : PCM
Format settings : Big
Duration : 3 min 38 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 411.2 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 36.8 MiB (100%)#30 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-03 14:05:13
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".
#31 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-03 13:48:44
just followed your routine anyway, since this is quite complciated procedure, above my linux-skills.
#32 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-03 13:42:57
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
#33 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-03 13:24:40
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
#34 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-03 10:12:11
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?
#35 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Cannot upgrade chimaera to daedalus - wacom-dependency failure » 2025-11-03 08:47:16
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
#36 Re: Freedom Hacks » [HowTo] audacious_4.5-devel-1_amd64.deb (meson+samu and muon+samu) » 2025-11-02 20:55:39
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?)
AbortedCould you please include support for .aiff since have backup of CD library mostly in this format;?
Thank you very much.
#37 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] nfs trouble on Chimaera » 2025-11-01 14:51:24
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.
#38 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » "Partial ACPI Installation" on MacBook5,2 » 2025-10-31 11:59:25
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
#39 Re: Off-topic » amdV3 - amdV4 etc? » 2025-10-30 18:05:17
sorry, wrong foruM : please move to "offtopic".
#40 Off-topic » amdV3 - amdV4 etc? » 2025-10-30 18:00:37
- kapqa
- Replies: 3
this found today in the news,
don't know what it actually means, but if its Ubuntu, gotta be important?
#41 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Flash drive weirdness » 2025-10-28 13:30:41
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
#42 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Debian User Forum » 2025-10-28 12:54:54
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.
#43 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » A tale of two laptops » 2025-10-28 11:46:30
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.
#44 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » A tale of two laptops » 2025-10-26 20:23:18
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.
#45 Re: Off-topic » yt-dlp to depend on deno or another supported JavaScript runtime » 2025-10-26 11:08:02
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.
#46 Other Issues » changing invalid email » 2025-10-24 12:22:54
- kapqa
- Replies: 1
hello ,
would like to change email in preferences / user settings;
however , old is invalid,
since it prevents me from updating to newer one.
thanks.
#47 Re: Off-topic » Caveat emptor -> Kingston DataTraveler Exodia M USB 3.2 » 2025-10-23 09:18:09
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)
#48 Re: Off-topic » Caveat emptor -> Kingston DataTraveler Exodia M USB 3.2 » 2025-10-22 18:51:35
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".
#49 Re: Off-topic » Caveat emptor -> Kingston DataTraveler Exodia M USB 3.2 » 2025-10-22 16:45:58
if zou are keen on making a purchase, you can consult also here
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.
#50 Re: Freedom Hacks » How to disable pulse-rust backend in Firefox » 2025-10-20 20:03:31
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.
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