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#151 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Genuine question regarding devuan, » 2021-02-17 11:28:07
Most likely a matter of user rights and policies. Maybe related to elogind?
Are you on Beowulf? Which desktop, how do you start? How did you get there? Upgrade from ASCII, fresh install?
rolfie
I have a harem of eee pc and have done all manner of installation positions with them. Beowulf is demonstrating consistency of bug/feature across all, from full desktop install to slimmest netinst with minty-looking desktop.
Last year, on ascii, I went a bit far with autoremove and ended up with a system that had about 550 packages, a desktop, and no permissions to do anything 
#152 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » PulseAudio always resets to mute » 2021-02-17 05:19:39
MLEvD, I hope you have better luck. Are you sure you need pulseaudio? Maybe plain alsa would behave better.
I'm doing sychronised multi-room audio with asus eee pc as receiver boxes. Why not rpi? Because eee pc have screens and input attached, and are dust proof, have cases, are portable (own battery!). In addition to music. They also provide wifi, a digital picture frame/show, and anything else you might do with an 800x600 screen.
I read back at the start that one must use pulse or sndio for this avahi magic, alsa is a one horse town. Hopefully I am wrong?
Hack: I *could* just hack the scripts to enforce defaults and policies, but this is something clearly broken compared to the last version of devuan or the contemporary version of debian, so it's possibly an indication of some wider improvement opportunity in the development sphere. It's a very long time since I was a pro tester so forgive my antiquated language please!
#153 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong. » 2021-02-16 21:03:03
Wow, you're right, Audacious does do gapless rather well nowadays. It's like deadbeef with bloat. iirc it broke when I tried to feed it my music collection.
Does Audacious have a cli mode?
#154 Desktop and Multimedia » Why I have to have a desktop and hope I am wrong. » 2021-02-16 19:01:31
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Deadbeef is the only linux music player that does gapless playback properly.
Moc is lightning fast but still gappy. Is there something out there? Cli gapless playback and half-decent playlisting features?
#155 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Genuine question regarding devuan, » 2021-02-16 18:51:42
In LMDE, this is done by the 'debian-system-adjustments' package. Perhaps just borrow it?
I would like to be able to assign ctrl+alt+del to reboot, ctrl+alt+u to shut down immediately, and just be able to type it in a terminal without sudo.
#156 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Init question » 2021-02-16 18:21:57
My latest eee pc 4G install is 3.1 with runit. Am truly over the moon and the eee is very happy, I don't even care that it doesn't hibernate.
It idles at 19MB!
#157 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » PulseAudio always resets to mute » 2021-02-16 18:11:54
Thanks for that, good to know it's in 64 too, so the other 90% might care!
If it helps, I just removed mate-media and installed pavucontrol. The settings are lost here as well - change from duplex to output only, setting lost on reboot. Perversely happy that pavucontrol isn't the answer, as I don't particularly like it.
I tried mate-volume-control -d but couldn't really make head or tail of it on an 800x600 display.
It's not happening on ascii, or on debian, or anything else that I've got my hands on recently.
Happy to test all night. I built a small wooden stand, pop a frozen meal under it, the eee pc says cool and my supper slowly defrosts.
#158 Re: Devuan » The future of 32bit and Devuan? » 2021-02-16 13:09:34
I also have an Atom (64bit) based computer that has a 32bit bus, so needs a 32bit system, a bit annoying, but as it only has 1 or 2GB ram, it doesn't require a 64bit system.
x101 are great. I have one in the corner busy compressing my 4GB eee pc backup images. Going to try installing efi devuan on it. Actually, I have two :3
#159 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » PulseAudio always resets to mute » 2021-02-16 12:38:02
Free, in this sense, does not mean it does not cost anyone anything.
We all pay and reporting bugs is acceptable. Rudeness is not, for which I apologise, if that's how it was taken?
Boris Beizer would turn in his grave, notwithstanding his cat.
Tell me, which of your user settings are you happy to have lost, if sound preferences are not important to you?
Heaven forbid your evening goes wrong because your audio comes out of the tv speakers via the hdmi rather than out of the decent stereo via the headphone jack or other networked device.
Just tried it again then looked in .xsessionerrors and sadly there's nothing there to help me. Thank you and if you have any other suggestions I'm all ears?
In the meantime, can anyone here reproduce this bug? I'm all 32-bit here, can someone try on 64 please?
#160 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » PulseAudio always resets to mute » 2021-02-16 05:58:41
That did not work.
To reproduce:
Devuan 3.0 or 3.1 mate D.E.
Mate Media installed. Right click sound icon and choose 'Sound Preferences'
Change a setting for input or output device. I like to change input from 'duplex' to 'output only'
On reboot these user sound preference settings are lost.
This is unacceptable.
problem occurs under both sysv and runit
#161 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » PulseAudio always resets to mute » 2021-02-14 12:59:08
Hello my vems, my tvvo cents
Devuan ascii - audio fine
Devuan Beowulf - DATA LOSS
User settings are data, and data loss of any kind is unacceptable
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