yep its good to see mint going this way, have always had a soft spot for mint as it was one of the first distros i installed over windblows.

head on a stick nailed it.

I did a test with rsync and this is how i went about it, although i would probably stick with the bash command from head on a stick.

first created a dummy directory for testing.

~$ tree audio/
audio/
└── cds
    ├── 1
    │   └── 1.mp3
    ├── 2
    │   └── 2.mp3
    ├── 3
    │   └── 3.mp3
    └── 4

5 directories, 3 files

then created my playlist.m3u

find /home/dice/audio/cds/ -type f -iname "*.mp3" > playlist.m3u

the contents of playlist.m3u

/home/dice/audio/cds/2/2.mp3
/home/dice/audio/cds/3/3.mp3
/home/dice/audio/cds/1/1.mp3

then added a random directory number 5 not on the playlist.

~$ tree audio/
audio/
└── cds
    ├── 1
    │   └── 1.mp3
    ├── 2
    │   └── 2.mp3
    ├── 3
    │   └── 3.mp3
    ├── 4
    └── 5
        └── 5.mp3

6 directories, 4 files

created test directory for the rsync.

/home/dice/test-usb-dir

now the rsync command.

rsync -a --include-from=/home/dice/playlist.m3u --delete --delete-excluded --prune-empty-dirs /home/dice/audio test-usb-dir/

edit: this command is better

rsync -av --relative $(cat ~/playlist.m3u) test-usb-dir/

result

~$ tree test-usb-dir/
test-usb-dir/
└── home
    └── dice
        └── audio
            └── cds
                ├── 1
                │   └── 1.mp3
                ├── 2
                │   └── 2.mp3
                └── 3
                    └── 3.mp3

7 directories, 3 files

this seems to work for me and I will test this with some actual audio files in music directory soon.

In that case id just clone the directories /srv/Audio/CDs using rsync ?

and then copy over the .m3u file to the usb, wouldnt that work?

so what is the base directory, is it /srv/Audio/ for all 500 .wavs files and directories? Looks like you need to recurse into the many artists and album directories. Maybe tree the /srv/Audio/ directory to see what you have there?

tree /srv/Audio/

This has had quite a update, source files are there now. Looks like the creator is moving on to voidlinux for the next release.

https://github.com/dessington/xevuan

I just tried the xevuan version 1.0 and it is quite good.

First check rfkill ( tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices )

# apt install rfkill

then let us know the output of using sudo or root account

# rfkill list 

sorry i didnt read your post correctly.

You can manually connect using ifup wlan0 ?

so maybe reset the network interfaces file like so.

# wpa_passphrase ESSID WPAKEY > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

then edit /etc/network/interfaces file to look like so.

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
         wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

nevermind.....

That is quite an old laptop from 2005, see this link...

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/461197

Post 5 says....

Im assuming IEC958 Playback should showup in alsamixer in the terminal ?

Maybe try installing alsa-oss package ??

https://wiki.debian.org/SoundConfiguration

Head on a stick will probably have a better analysis than me though.

I could be completely off the mark here as i dont know much about this, but cant hurt to try simple commands.

Interesting to note some info on

https://alsa.opensrc.org/Realtek_ALC650 aka, 'traditional' Intel Audio Codec 1997 (AC'97) standard. Which is listed in your output.

Im assuming you are on stable/beowulf devuan installation.

Have you read the release notes, it may help with the pulseaudio issue. As for alsa, maybe the master needs to be unmuted. Do you have any physical knobs or sliders on the machine ?

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf … _notes.txt

Are you in the audio group?

Pulseaudio
 - If you install a desktop environment from the installer iso, you will
   automatically get the debian-pulseaudio-config-override package,
   which will ensure that pulseaudio is running. If you're running a
   window manager, you may need to install the override package to get
   sound. Alternatively, you may use the old method, described below.
   
 - If you have no sound, make sure the following line in
   /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf is commented as
   shown here:

   #autospawn=no

haha, good one.

I was more or less thinking of the quote:

"A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts"

Beer tends to bring out one's "inner truth" as it were..

agree with you fully yeti, once "they" start stripping away the origins of how the web was created they will replace it with crapware.

https://man.openbsd.org/ftp FTW.

When i set my openbsd system up i purposely used ftp to get most of the parts i needed outside of openbsd that i wanted including suckless tools wherever i could, then it was git clone which i believe uses curl ftp. Of course i was able to get links and info using well "links".

https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/ftp

http://links.twibright.com/

Those modules are only going to be found if you have that version of the kernel installed and not properly uninstalled though i believe?

~$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/*
linux-image-4.19.0-14-amd64: /lib/modules/4.19.0-14-amd64
linux-image-4.19.0-16-amd64: /lib/modules/4.19.0-16-amd64
linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64: /lib/modules/4.19.0-6-amd64

For instance i still have linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64 on my system, once i purge that kernel the modules are also purged.

I use ..

# apt purge linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64

~$ dpkg -S /lib/modules/*
linux-image-4.19.0-14-amd64: /lib/modules/4.19.0-14-amd64
linux-image-4.19.0-16-amd64: /lib/modules/4.19.0-16-amd64