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Hi
I'm trying to get skype sound to work but apparently the monkeys at MS removed
alsa support and replaced it with pulse, which is rubbish. Even though I have
pulse enable (pclos - ali's remaster), it still doesn't show up. Is there a
fix to re-enable alsa or the like?
Kate
Hello,
I guess François Andriot would best answer this question.
I am experimenting with installing Linux on a Sony Vaio Tablet (Vaio Tap 11,
model SVT112113CXB ). This has proven *much* more difficult than on a
Microsoft Surface Pro 2:
- You can disable SecureBoot in the BIOS *but* it is still there! The first
consequence is that I can't install Debian!
- Other Linux version more or less did install (Ubuntu 16.10, Alexandre's
PCLOS, openSUSE) but I everytime has trouble.
In the end, the only install that (really) runs well is openSUSE Tumbleweed:
really snappy under Gnome 3, onscreen keyboard, it even tries to use the
accelerometer and rotates the screen (although in a somwhat eratic way)
Now, of course, there is no installation of TDE for Tumbleweed. Would the
instruction for 42.3 work?
Now, a Tablet is not where I need TDE most, but...
Regards,
Thierry
Greets, folks . . .
I once loved my iPad, but Apple has made me hate and despise it, with
constant unwanted terrible updates that remove functionality and have
reduced battery life from <12 hours to >3 hours. (IoS 11 sucks so badly
that it pulls the branches off nearby trees.) I have had it with the iPad.
But I have need of a tablet.
It's been awhile since I heard anything involving Linux being put on a
tablet; for a time I had a version of Linux running on an H-P Touchpad,
which has long since died. The X support was semi-decent -- I had either
OpenOffice.org or Libre Office running (very slowly) on it.
That was probably six years ago. I kind of hope that some sort of Linux/X
development has taken place, but haven't been able to learn much. Anybody
know if there has been?
And the important question: would it be possible to put TDE on it and if I
did, would it work?
Thanks!
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dep
The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar:
the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson,
available at www.MarjorieThompson.com
merry christmas, everybody!
did you see the piece in the register today (or maybe yesterday, or
saturday) about the new psion or psion-ish device that is a tiny postable
computer with keyboard, phone, and so on, that dual boots android *and
linux*? this may be the gadget we've been waiting for. the question, of
course, is whether it will run trinity. looking at the specs -- 4 gigs of
memory and 64 gigs of storage -- i see no reason why it wouldn't. the
video is 2160x1080, which ought to work. (it apparently ships with xfce.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/gemini_special/
i do wish it had a better pointing system -- it has a touchscreen, but i'd
prefer a pointing stick ala the good thinkpads or the toshiba librettos.
my sense is that this is the device many of us have been waiting for.
i'm not rolling in money by any means, but i'm very close to making the
leap to pre-order of the wifi-4G version. i'm weary of my little ipad and
my blackberry, though still functioning, is, well, a blackberry and
whatever rim calls itself nowadays doesn't do proper blackberrys anymore,
so this seems just right.
going crazy here imagining being on a story, shhoting the pictures, putting
the card in a SD adapter via usb, opening the GIMP and adjusting color and
saturation, and shipping the pictures to the paper, just like that.
a phone and tiny laptop device for grownups!
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dep
The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar:
the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson,
available at www.MarjorieThompson.com
So, doing a little research I find that the Planet Computing Gemini is
apparently shipped with Debian Stretch. Here's their first video demo from
a couple of months ago:
https://vimeo.com/239095559
It illustrates dual boot, a terminal session, Firefox running (very tiny, I
think -- they could have done themselves a favor by making it larger), and
LibreOffice running. All ran pretty quickly.
Especially pleasing to me is that the GIMP is shown running in this story:
https://liliputing.com/2017/11/crowdfunded-gemini-pda-mini-laptop-ship-date…
There is apparently also a Linux on Android feature which allows the
running of Linux applications from within an Android boot, with a common
clipboard and such. What isn't clear is the extent to which other
resources can be shared -- it's a pain with systems like Virtual Box,
though a lot can be shared even with that -- or, really, how the running
of Linux applications works. (There was a way to run Android applications
on the Blackberry Playbook, which was RIM's answer to calls for
applications, but it kind of sucked, like the Mirrors ports of Windows
applications to OS/2.)
Much to be learned, but promising so far. I see no reason why TDE won't
work perfectly on this little thing. It would need, I suppose, some
userspace tweaking of fonts and icon size and such, but I expect it to
work, and happy day when it does!
(If my posting about this is unwanted or off-topic, let me know and I'll
cease.)
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dep
The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar:
the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson,
available at www.MarjorieThompson.com
Hi,
I'm new to trinity and have nearly no glue of cmake. I want to build
tdelibs w/o cups. How can I achieve this? What is the correct option I
have to give to cmake to disable cups and/or other features?
Thanks
Kai
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I added a JOB_NUM = "- j3" entry to my tdebase.SlackBuild for my
core2duo cpu and the package was compiled without errors. It's
strange, because this setting was already set in my global
configuration file for the TDE assembly script...
Maybe the logs will help?
thanks for the answer! command from builg.log
cd /tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/build/tdm/backend && perl -w
/tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/tdebase/tdm/confproc.pl
/tmp/build/tmp-tdebase/tdebase/tdm/config.def config.ci
really creates this file. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, maybe
generated config.ci help to understand what's wrong?
