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Re: New Build Updates & Questions (Avengers Assemble Update - Solved & Concluded)
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

> On 11/23/20 3:41 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > > On Monday 23 November 2020, Edward via tde-users wrote: > >> On 11/23/20 11:40 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote: > >>> Ok update on the audio card question. > >>> > >>> Card chosen = SB Audigy RX - 100% natively supported. Please note this > >>> card has an optical io port that is ON by default when first > >>> installed. Turn it off to activate the 1/8 jacks. Otherwise there will > >>> be no signal out or in (no audio/mic/ or linein). > >>> > >>> The sound quality is as good as the card it replaced which is now in > >>> Gary's (brother from another mother) computer. He's having fun. Sadly, > >>> the RX, doesn't have a break out box like the Platinum does, so I have > >>> to make one. No biggy, 3 wires in a project box. > >>> > >>> According to the headaches I gave out freely at Creative Labs and a > >>> variety of other source. Any emu10kx chip is native on linux and, > >>> infact, has better support than mac and windows. Yeeeah for us. > >>> > >>> So.. solved, concluded, moving on (if anyone has any question please > >>> feel free to ask). > >> This is good to know. I had been looking at my Creative Sound Blaster > >> Live! 5.1 (legacy PCI) sound card, which I believe has a year in the > >> early 2000's shown on its printed circuit board and have been > >> contemplating installing it in the other desktop, just to see if it > >> still works and if the audio is better than what's provided from the > >> on-board (NVIDIA). > >> > >> ____________________________________________________ > > I have tons of those and they all work perfectly. In fact, this machine has > > one Live! 5.1 and it's working grand. > > > > Go for it. > > > > Kate > > I have not yet put the card in, but had a thought... The sound cards > from that era, have a jack where an audio cable connected it to the > CD/DVD drive. Where the card would override the on-board audio once > installed, would that audio cable still be necessary today, or would > today's motherboards know to route the audio from the CD/DVD through the > motherboard, directly to the sound card? I haven't actually looked at > the back of the DVD drive to see if it even has that connection on it. > That system is from 2009. > > ____________________________________________________ Hi Ed, The cable is no longer needed. It's handled by software. The only app I think might need it is kscd. I'll check and get back to you. Kate

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No online audio with Trinity Ubuntu 20.04 Image
by Edward 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

I wanted to try the Trinity Debian image on my other desktop. Although the system sounds work, if I installed (into RAM) Firefox and went to multimedia web sites (YouTube, audio test sites, etc), there is no audio. The 'lspci -v' command is showing two audio devices: 00:05.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 2a6c Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23 Memory at fe028000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel 02:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series] Subsystem: VISIONTEK Device aa68 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28 Memory at fdcfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel The Trinity PCLinuxOS image is installed on this desktop's hard drive and audio works everywhere. KMix lists three mixers, PulseAudio (the default), HDA NVidia and HDA ATI HDMI. The AMD entry is actually a PCI-E x16 video card, with VGA, HDMI and DVI inputs. It's connected to a monitor via HDMI, but the monitor does not have built-in speakers. The NVIDIA entry is the on-board audio. I tried restarting the audio system by checking then un-checking a box, but on the Debian image, this didn't correct the lack of audio. Is the Debian software possibly not recognizing the audio setup correctly, even though the system sounds work? Thanks in advance.

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[tde-users][suse] update alternatives for default desktop
by Felix Miata 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/default-displaymanager default-displaymanager /usr/lib/X11/displaymanagers/tdm 15 /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager Above sets the default display manager to TDM. What is the corresponding first command to install TDE (as a desktop selection)? I know how to make it work via symlink, but what is the update-alternatives command method??? The symlink method doesn't make TDE an available selection when update-alternatives --config is run. -- Evolution as taught in public schools, like religion, is based on faith, not on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

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Windows are forgetting my size preferences
by J Leslie Turriff 23 Nov '20

23 Nov '20

For some time now, whenever I open a PDF file with kpdf, its window appears only a few inches tall instead of the max height from when I have previously closed it. I have tried to use Advanced => Special Window Settings => Maximized vertically [force], but that doesn't work. Now the main kmail window is starting to do the same thing. What's causing this, and how can I fix it? Leslie

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atlantikdesigner-trinity ?
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Somehow tdeaddons-trinity pulls in atlantikdesigner-trinity, but IMO this should only be a dependency iod tde-games. Or is there a reason for this? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Avengers Assemble
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

Ok humans, AIs and others... I hope this email finds you and yours healthy and safe. I never everyone's input here. Ok, every 20 years (yes that's right), I rebuild my primary computer. It's now time. I have all the pieces collect save for 1. I need to replace my fully linux supported Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum PCIx with a PCIe card. I'm currently looking at this one, Creative SoundBlaster AE-7. However I can't find any definitive info stating it's linux supported. I'm using Kernel 4.19.124-pclos1 because of it's excellent stability. Until the human unit, designated as "Alistair Izzard" (who's judgment I've come to trust well) rolls out a new ISO, I'll stick with this kernel. Can anyone find any info on it or suggest a similar but fully supported card? All input is welcome. Thanks in advance. Begin processing... Cheers, Kate PS, I'm so going to binge watch the marvel movies now.

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Re: Windows shortened on opening
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

> For quite a while now, whenever I opened a PDF document the kpdf window > appeared only a few inches tall, not max height. I have tried using Advanced > => Window Settings => > ____________________________________________________ Yes, I've noticed kdf acting strangely. However, I close it, reopen and all is well. Here's a screenshot of what I get. Ok never mind, I can't get it do it now. 0_o Sorry, not helpful but I can say I've seen odd behavoir. Kate

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Windows shortened on opening
by J Leslie Turriff 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

For quite a while now, whenever I opened a PDF document the kpdf window appeared only a few inches tall, not max height. I have tried using Advanced => Window Settings =>

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Re: Startup sound not playing all the time
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:45:57 -0500 > Edward via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: > > > I've noticed when the systems boot up, the startup sound is not > > playing all of the time, but the sound at logoff plays all the time. > > > > Is there a setting that will perhaps fix this? I looked at TCC/Sound & > > Multimedia/Sound System, but wasn't sure if any of those settings > > would correct it. > > > > Also, after I installed the OS on my other system, in order for the > > system sounds to play at all, I had to go to the same selection, > > choose Hardware, change the Audio Device from Autodetect to ALSA, save > > it, then change it back to Autodetect. Should this setting > > specifically be on ALSA? > > > > Thank you in advance. > > Want to provide an update. I found a web page from what appears to be a > Linux marketing company, which had images of the default sound settings > from KDE 3 in Ubuntu 8.10. > > On the TCC/Sound & Multimedia/Sound System Configure screen, the only > differences vs the KDE 3/Ubuntu screenshots, were that Networked Sound > was not checked and the Auto-Suspend setting was on 60 seconds (vs the > 1 second default in PCLinuxOS TDE Mini). > > I changed the Skip Prevention Sound Buffer back to the 232 > milliseconds default and made the other changes. So far, at every boot > (warm or cold), the startup sound has played each time on my main > desktop. I am going to make the same changes on my other desktop, to > see how it goes on that, it has a somewhat slower CPU than what's in > the main system. > > To be continued... :) > > ____________________________________________________ Thanks Ed, I'm saving this email to add to me knowledge dbase later. Thank you for sharing. Kate

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Startup sound not playing all the time
by Edward 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

I've noticed when the systems boot up, the startup sound is not playing all of the time, but the sound at logoff plays all the time. Is there a setting that will perhaps fix this? I looked at TCC/Sound & Multimedia/Sound System, but wasn't sure if any of those settings would correct it. Also, after I installed the OS on my other system, in order for the system sounds to play at all, I had to go to the same selection, choose Hardware, change the Audio Device from Autodetect to ALSA, save it, then change it back to Autodetect. Should this setting specifically be on ALSA? Thank you in advance.

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