Posts by Altoid

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

golinux wrote:

There is no Devuan Stretch.

Damn ...
How utterly embarrassing. 8^|

I stand corrected: I'm running Devuan ASCII.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

GlennW wrote:

I also use Palemoon and have playback problems ...
... audio sounds pitch-shifted down a couple of octaves...

Shifted down because of the speed, to the extent of not being understandable?
That's what I'm seeing.

Good (not really), I'm glad there's someone else affected by this.

Now to hunt for the reason. 8^7

I'm on Devuan Stretch ...

groucho@devuan:~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 4.9.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.246-2 (2020-12-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
groucho@devuan:~$

... and Xfce 4.12.

Edit:
Could you please try the links I posted in previously and report back with the results?
Also, do you experience the same problem with YouTube video feeds?

Edit 2:
I can confirm it does not ocurr while streaming YouTube video feeds.

See this page: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/202 … eth-meyers

All the YouTube feeds can be seen/heard correctly.
Unfortunately, one of my favourites (Trevor Noah) which is a Twitter feed, cannot.

So it may be a Twitter/Palemoon thing. (?)

Thanks a lot for your input.

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

Ron wrote:

... go to Tools > Preferences > Content, and at the bottom uncheck "Enable MSE for MP4 video."

MSE is enabled for both MP4 video and WebM video.

Still no cigar ...

It's not just sound, it seems to be the playback speed.

I don't think it is Devuan related because Firefox does not have this problem.
Could it be because I'm running the portable version of Palemoon instead of an appimage? (can't find one)

Thanks for your input.

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

golinux wrote:

... it played fine in my older PM once I enabled video (which I usually have blocked).

It happens here ...

https://yesmovies.ag/movie/news-of-the- … ching.html

... but not here:

https://azm.to/movie/news-of-the-world (server 1)

I have to check, but IIRC it does not happen with YouTube video feeds.

TIA

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Ron wrote:

... a link to a problem video please?

Sure ...

This is one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/to … video.html

Ron wrote:

Do you have any extensions that tweak video playback?

Not that I am aware of.

TIA

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

I use Pale Moon 29.0.0 (64-bit) 'portable' on my Devuan install:

groucho@devuan:~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 4.9.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.246-2 (2020-12-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
groucho@devuan:~$

I run it directly from a folder in /home as it is not in the repository.

As of late (month or so) I have been having what seems to be a speed playback problem when watching (some) on-line videos, a problem which does not occur if I watch the same videofeed on Firefox 64 (64-bit) and I'd much rather not use Firefox.

I run Firefox from an appimage.

Could someone please point me to a suitable solution?

Thanks in advance,

A.

Altoid · Off-topic

Hello:

Just a heads up so we're all on our toes:

This morning's article in The Register:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/03/kobalos_malware/

ESET page on the matter:

ESET wrote:

We reverse engineered this small, yet complex, malware that is portable to many operating systems including Linux, BSD, Solaris, and possibly AIX and Windows.

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2021/02/ … structure/

Best,

A.

Altoid · Off-topic

Hello:

Just a shot note to wish one and all here at Dev1 a great [fill in your option here] and a Happy New Year [to those who change year these days].
Especially to the packagers and adminns taking care of Devuan and the forum.

Hopefully, 2021 will be better.

Could not be worse than 2020 ...

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

boycottsystemd wrote:

Do you have please explanation for it ?

Hmm ...
Let's see.
Ah yes, found one you may like:

HoaS, golinux, our boss r.r and I are all members of a secret systemd cabal infiltrated here at Dev1 and, having nothing better to do, decided to gang up on you.
Nothing personal, just for business.
ie: fun and spite.

Altoid wrote:

Lighten up ...
There's a deadly pandemic raging outside.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Helllo:

MiyoLinux wrote:

Not sure what the problem could be.
... depends according to the "Debian-based" instructions ...

Yes.
And added libtgtk3-perl just in case. 8^)

MiyoLinux wrote:

Did you mistakenly create it as root instead?

I don't think so ...
But given the results, I've been thinking it that I may have.

Altoid wrote:

What am I missing?

MiyoLinux wrote:

elogind commands...
Shutdown = loginctl poweroff
Reboot = loginctl reboot

Thanks for the heads up.
I'll have a look and see how I do with those.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

... must be mistaken ...

Quite so. 8^/
Was without my coffee ...

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Not sure, sorry. I would investigate ...

I'll have a look and see.
Snooker is a priority. 8^D

Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

You should show us exactly what you are adding ...

Right ...
It is the same stanza I used with the previous OB setup.

## This uses the 'oblogout' menu
{item => ['lxterminal sudo -e shutdown -r now', 'Reboot', 'applications-system']},

and

## This uses the 'oblogout' menu
{item => ['lxterminal sudo -e shutdown -h now', 'Shutdown', 'applications-system']},

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

This works ...
{item => ['sudo shutdown -r now', 'Reboot']},
... doesn't have an icon ...

Indeed ...
Works as intended.
I used one of the other available icons.

BTW: only those icons are available? ie: the ones with the UUID type names?

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

... prefer to use obsession to exit the openbox session.

I'm used to ctrl+alt+backspace, fast enough.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Check the installation instructions ...
... link to my Debian packages ...
... decide to use my packages ...

Done.
I was having a hard time with the other install.
Took a while to week everything out.
But finally managed to get it done.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

... try to remove the perl modules ...
# cpanm uninstall Linux::DesktopFiles Data::Dump File::DesktopEntry

It only worked with

# cpanm --uninstall Linux::DesktopFiles Data::Dump File::DesktopEntry

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

HTH

Yes ...
Much easier/straightforward to install.

But I think it may have a problem (?).
It would not pick up xfe, starting Firefox instead.
Again, after a while I managed to get a hold on editing schema.pl and fixed it.

Now I have a problem with a couple of Openbox entries I use frequently.
In my previous non-configurator menu, I had entries for reboot and shutdown.

execute --> lxterminal sudo -e shutdown -r now and execute --> lxterminal sudo -e shutdown -r now.

These still work perfectly well from the command line ie: sudo -e shutdown -r/h now but using the stanza in schema.pl won't work.

What am I missing?

---

dice wrote:

sort of off topic ...

Nah !

dice wrote:

Doesn't have all the functionality of obmenu-generator ...

Let me see if I can get my head around this one first. 8^7
Thanks for the heads up.
---

Thanks in advance,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

GlennW wrote:

... permissions for the location "/home/groucho/.config/obmenu-generator"?

Hmmm ...
The wrong ones.

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ ls -l /home/groucho/.config/obmenu-generator
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4986 Dec  5 21:30 schema.pl
groucho@eee-dev3:~$ ls -l /home/groucho/.config

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ ls -l /home/groucho/.config
total 328
--- snip ---
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root      4096 Dec  5 21:30 obmenu-generator
--- snip ---
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

GlennW wrote:

... installer has left the permission to write as root or admin only.

It seems so.
I did follow the instructions, specifically where it said not to use root.
Evidently I did something wrong.

GlennW wrote:

... make the location available to write by the user ...

chown -hR groucho:groucho /home/groucho/.config/obmenu-generator

and

chmod -R 755 /home/groucho/.config/obmenu-generator

That was it.

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ obmenu-generator -p -i
:: A dynamic menu has been successfully generated!
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

GlennW wrote:

I hope this helps.

It did. 8^D
Thanks a lot for your input.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

Continuing with my 1000HE Beowulf install ...
Trying to set up Openbox to my liking.

I read about it so off I went to https://miyolinux.weebly.com/obmenu-generator.html and followed the instructions for setting up the obmenu-generator.

But I cannot get it to work.
I get these errors:

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ obmenu-generator -p -i
mkdir /home/groucho/.config/obmenu-generator/icons: Permission denied at /usr/bin/obmenu-generator line 208.
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

}

if ($with_icons and not -d $icons_dir) {
    remove_database($cache_db);
    require File::Path;
    File::Path::make_path($icons_dir)   <-------------------------------- line 208 (according to jed)
      or warn "$0: can't create icon path `$icons_dir': $!\n";
}

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ obmenu-generator -s -c
Can't open file '/home/groucho/.config/obmenu-generator/config.pl' for write: Permission denied at /usr/bin/obmenu-generator line 265.
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

sub dump_configuration {
    require Data::Dump;
    open my $config_fh, '>', $config_file        <--------------------- line 265 (according to jed)
      or die "Can't open file '${config_file}' for write: $!";
    my $dumped_config = q{our $CONFIG = } . Data::Dump::dump(\%CONFIG) . "\n";
    $dumped_config =~ s/\Q$home_dir\E/\$ENV{HOME}/g if ($home_dir eq $ENV{HOME});
    print $config_fh $config_documentation, $dumped_config;
    close $config_fh;
}

No idea as how to deal with this.
Anyone used it?

Thanks in advance,

A.

Altoid · Hardware & System Configuration

Hello:

Altoid wrote:

Maybe the DHs at Intel disabled it?

Came across this, just after I posted.
See http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/ich7-m.460478/

... the southbridge chipset on this mobo is part of the ICH7-M family and does not support SATA II while its desktop counterpart does.

So, no SATA II for the mobile version.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Hardware & System Configuration

Hello:

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I have not found a valid definitive answer on-line.

I put a spare HDD in my 1000HE to try Beowulf i386.

The drive (Seagate ST9160310AS) has a SATA 3Gb/s.
http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/datashe … 5400_5.pdf

hdparm confirms it:

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -i speed
[sudo] password for groucho: 
	   *	Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
	   *	Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)   <---
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

The 1000HE's SATA controller is this one:

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ lspci | grep -i sata
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

I have not seen it in the Asus spec sheet but it is reported that the ICH7-M in the 1000HE is SATA II capable.

But looking at my dmesg output, I see that the SATA link is only 1.5Gbs.

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i sata | grep 'link up'
[ 5.362162] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

Is this some sort of configuration problem or is it just that the 1000HE is not Sata II?
Maybe the DHs at Intel disabled it?
Would not be at all surprised.

I was planning to get a SSD but if this is locked at 1.5Gbs, I don't think it would make sense.

Thanks in advance,

A.

Altoid · Installation

Hello:

I've been writing/re-writing a few *.iso files to SD Cards for working on my Beowulf+1000HE test installation and using my main box to do so.

My /etc/fstab was supposed to have all drives with their corresponding file system+UUID pairing.

But it turns out that I had forgotten to do add a UUID to a SAS HDD that I later stated using to keep stuff in.
And (as was bound to happen) screwed it up.

Fortunately testdisk and gparted did their job and after a couple of hours things were back to normal. 8^7

1st. question:
If every drive is assigned a file system ie: /dev/sdX and linked to a UUID, am I safe from this happening again?
ie: will file system labels remain unmovable and anything plugged in will use other ie: unused file system labels?

2nd. question:
I have a couple of 500Gb 2.5" SATA drives that get very little or no use these days.
I could mount them inside my box and use them to back up the contents of the different drives I keep stuff in just to be safe, not for fast access.

What method would you suggest to get that done?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Installation

Hello:

GlennW wrote:

if you use the meta (package) you'll need the version specific (package) too.

fsmithred wrote:

You can uninstall the non-pae kernel after you reboot into the new one.

Right ...

Done.
Now NX protection is active.

Thank you both for your input. 8^D

Best,

A.

Altoid · Installation

Hello:

Thanks for the fast reply. 8^)

fsmithred wrote:

Install linux-image-686-pae if you want the metapackage ...
Or else you could install linux-image-<version>-686-pae ...

I was fiddling with the install and ended up installing both.
Seems the metapackage is the best/most convenient option.

Should I uninstall the version specific package?
It's taking up space.

TIA,

A.

Altoid · Installation

Hello:

Today I put a spare HDD on my 1000HE to try and see how devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_i386 does there, hardware limitations and all.

Downloaded the netinstall *.iso here: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/installer-iso/

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ uname -a
Linux eee-dev3 4.19.0-12-686 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.152-1 (2020-10-18) i686 GNU/Linux
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

A line in dmesg caught my attention:

[    0.000000] Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection cannot be enabled: non-PAE kernel!

But the Intel Atom N280 inside is PAE able.

groucho@eee-dev3:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep pae
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr *pae* mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts cpuid aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dtherm
groucho@eee-dev3:~$

It seems I may have installed the wrong kernel?
Can this get fixed without reinstalling?

TIA,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello:

boycottsystemd wrote:

... no mention about using search engine before posting a question ...

Hmm ...
There is no mention of it because it is basic common sense to do so before posting a question here and in every other forum on the net.
The same way it is basic common sense to then do a search on the site/forum to see if anyone else has come across that problem before you did.
And maybe found (or not) a solution which may have worked for them but not for you.

............................................................................................................................................................................................
Whatever data you find before posting and then share with the forum when you post constitutes relevant information.
............................................................................................................................................................................................

No need to take it as a criticism, HoaS always gives genuinely good advice.

Lighten up ...
There's a deadly pandemic raging outside.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · ARM Builds

Hello:

steve_v wrote:

... puzzled why anyone would want to run Devuan on Apple hardware.
... buy a better designed machine for a better price ...

Quite so.
+1
What is it about not being able to do whatever you want to do with your (obviously) overpriced, (usually) irrepairable and (mostly) non-upgradeable hardware?
Why it is alluring to so many people?

I wonder if it would be the same if the Apple logo disappeared from their portable's lid and as a consequence, from 90% of movies that feature a laptop in a scene.

A.

Altoid · Installation

Hello:

swarfendor437 wrote:

Will Devuan 3.0 run ok on hardware of following specs ...

It's really very easy to find out.

Downoad the desktop-live *.iso, dd it to a USB drive (do read the README.desktop-live.txt first, that's what it is there for) and boot the notebook from that.

If any problems arise, check dmesg to see what's going on and post here.

Cheers,

A.

Altoid · Desktop and Multimedia

Hello HoaS:

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

... not saving my preferred setting would irritate me immensely.

Indeed ...
It does irritate me.
Immensely.

But you grasped that already. 8^*
I digress ...

Preferred settings are usually set in a way that they can be recognised as such and are usually referred to as Default settings.
In Thunar: Edit -> Preferences -> File Manager Preferences -> Display -> Default View

The Default View being the one that is there always, no matter what.
ie: the preferred setting

When I click on Name, Size, Type, Date Modified, Permissions or Owner, I am overriding the default setting.

Whoever had this idea at Thunar HQ is (with all due respect) a dick.

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Create an executable wrapper script at /usr/local/bin/thunar to reset the property every time the file manager is launched:
#!/bin/sh
xfconf-query --channel thunar --property /last-sort-column --set THUNAR_COLUMN_NAME
/usr/bin/thunar "$@"

Thank you very much for taking the time to write this up for me.
And for improving my foul mood this morning. 8^7

Edit:
While further researching on your lead, I found that property under the thunar Channel using the Settings Editor and saw that it had a check box in the Locked column.

While this would imply that this setting could be locked (?) ie: Thunar would behave as if using the wrapper you wrote up and still be able to sort in a different manner if I wanted to, I am unable to check that box.

Is there a way to lock the setting?

Edit_2:
I don't think this is possible.
The Value for this Property is changed on-the-fly as I use the different sorting options in Thunar.

I expect that locking it would not let me use any other sorting option and that what I need would require a Property called something like default-sort-column with a THUNAR_COLUMN_NAME Value.

Cheers,

A.

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