Check your other thread OP, this may be related to: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1123750

It's the same kernel that's giving you problems, just manifests differently maybe.

Can you narrow down when this started with respect to package upgrades (if any)?

If you haven't updated recently and the problems just started out of the blue, then I suspect that's old hardware giving up the ghost slowly.

I have a 2005 lappy, old Athlon chip and 1 gb of ram that i've nursed along for quite a few years, but it started doing something similar and then just got worse until one day it simply would not power up.

Right back atcha friends, thanks for a great year, i'm excited about what comes next in this new year!

Sorry to be the voice of moderation here, lol, but pretty much every science fiction story ever written has all kinds of calamity in it by design, people wouldn't read it or go to the movies if it was just mundane everyday life described.

People who design AI say it will be the best thing ever, and then on the other end of the scale there are people who say it will be the worst thing ever.

And here I am in the middle as always, having lived through dozens of these disruptive technology moments and listened to all this before, still saying the same thing which is nearly always correct:

It can be a good thing, or a bad thing, just depends on how people use it. But it won't be the end of the world.

Try optimism people, glass half-full.

Lol I know older folks that have still never used a computer a day in their life because they think it's the devil.

Steve, the milk of human kindness come to warm the place up again, happy New Year buddy!

I'll admit, hadn't thought of that angle, as I run spinning rust and not short-life-expectancy ssd's.

Horsefeathers. They're both solid-state, there won't be a noticeable difference. There won't even be much of a difference on a machine like mine with an HDD. If I wanted everything in ram i'd load a live-session.

It's not the only thing living in ram these days, ram usage overall is more than double what it was a few short years ago, and there's lots of people running old hardware with low ram that need the extra. Not everybody has 32-64 gigs of ram, some folks are on a budget, i'm running 4 gb myself and i'd like to keep it clear.

So it's good to know now that i'll have a choice in the matter, which was the whole point of the post.

People have a right to do these things, if nobody ever complained every system in the world would suck.

And lastly, for myself, I don't just complain, I do something about it pretty regularly.

Srsly, hope you had a good Christmas and all the best to you and family in the New Year!

Hey HardSun, no problem digressing at all, that is exactly the kind of post that is helpful, I know what apps do but I don't always know what people do, if that makes sense.

Your method is very similar to what I wanted, one simple place to go to for my notes. My manual and app info apps are similar to the way you save files, their databases are just carefully formatted long text files.

Yeah this one is more similar to leafpad, very basic, no formatting other than word wrap and a little extra spacing. No opening a file browser to save, everything gets saved in the same folder. Not even a close button, lol.

Ain't skeered.

Fear is the mind-killer, and in the words of a sort of cinematic AI character: "Anger is always more useful than despair".

They're just talking about what I mentioned, having your pathways correct in your command, if in doubt always fill in the full path in your command, and that way the terminal can be opened anywhere and the commands issued from there.

sudo apt-get install /home/mamaforestcritter/Downloads/vivaldi-stable_7.7.3851.66-1_amd64.deb

Something like the above, just replace the correct name for your user and whatever directory the .deb is in.

That in a nutshell, describes @rations' jack-bridge project, a much more complex and encompassing system that I think might do what you are asking. And there's some more nice frontend projects for the alsamixer, saw one that was really nice the other day, it was done in QT which I don't much like, but it was very nice and complete and did split volume controls into right-left channels whereas mine doesn't.

Think of those projects as thoroughbred racehorses that can do it all.

My project, is just a donkey, not too pretty, stubborn at times, but day-in and day-out it just gets the basic jobs done and does them fast as hell for a donkey.

At this point, most anything else I could do would be feature-creep and bloated code. Gonna keep this thing small and simple, there's already other folks working on more sophisticated stuff, i'm going to stick to my little niche and just try to make it the best it can be by little improvements to behavior and some expanded stuff as more testing is done to accommodate more types of soundcards and scenarios.

^^^Ahh the quirks of alsa and soundcards...it's tough on this end trying to figure them all out, but I feel good progress is being made, and it REALLY helps when folks like you test and give feedback, thanks again!

So I figured out the other bug, wrong command that was a holdover from earlier experiments, so my bad of course. Tickled though that I did figure it out just by looking at the code, didn't have to do any searches or doc-reading and my fix worked the first time with a bonus that I got to eliminate a now un-used function so the script is a little smaller, I think i'm getting better at C.

I'll get it packaged up as 3.1-2 and uploaded here in a bit.
EDIT: All done, it's up now.

@ilargi, yes I can think of at least one reason, and it's something I spent a good chunk of yesterday pondering, but I haven't seen it happen with EQ sliders.
Here's what's going on with the backend sliders for the mixer:
1. Some are fully adjustable from 0%-100% in increments of 1, but there are some that seem this way but aren't, more on that in a sec.
2. Some are pure toggle switches without sliders, we got those covered.
3. There's a third kind, one that has a slider on the backend like the other sliders, but is actually a stepped-channel, both mic boosts on my machine are this way, they are actually a sort of 4 position switch, 0% 33% 67% 100%, and the backend slider "snaps" to the nearest value when you are in the alsamixer TUI.

AlsaTune currently just treats those as a regular slider, but if I set it at 40% in AT, it will in reality fall to 33% on the backend. And when you close then re-open AT the value will now be correct at 33%
Thankfully I only have a couple of these, and on controls I don't ordinarily use.

But another fly-in-the-ointment, some sliders for volume can also be incremental with values other than 1, so they are stepped-channels, just a LOT of steps.

Last fun thing I get to deal with in this adventure of sound with ALSA, is that the backend controls (at least on my test machines) aren't linear even if they read 1 through 100 in the alsamixer TUI, so those numbers will always be off from the AT frontend as I tried to normalize the scale some.

I will go and test the EQ more, the whole thing needs a lot more testing really, it's experimental stuff and needs some people smarter than me to take a look.

Thanks ilargi!

Nice work, I was coming here to post just that but you covered it perfectly. It wasn't hard at all and browser works pretty good, it's built-in ad-blocking does a nice job.