> On Mon July 2 2018 03:31:56 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Yes, I can hear system noises before I login. Login and they become muted
> > and firefox is silent, until I stop whatever FF is playing and issue the
> > alsoctl restore command, which reports a can't do that, system is busy,
> > but when I restart FF playing whatever, it then works till the next
> > reboot.
>
> System sounds before login may be happening without ALSA so at the
> moment I'm not sure whether ALSA is working before login.
>
> You could try speaker-test (ALSA white noise generator) to see if
> ALSA is working before login (or aplay if you have something playable).
>
> Let's check that ALSA is set to start automatically. Do you have
>
> ls -l /etc/*.d/S*alsa*
>
> You should have a link called something like /etc/rcS.d/S16alsa-utils
> to /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.
>
> --Mike
>
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You should also try turning up all the vols.
I have a audigy sound blaster. I can play amarok (front) with one vol, but
smplayer uses another (center). I spent 10 mins trying to figure out why
amarok played but smplayer didn't until I decided to play with the kmix
settings.
Also install all the alsa related controls. In case there's a mute in there.
Good luck,
Kate
i just installed kwether and, when nothing appeared on the kmenu, all of kde toys, which did appear -- but not kweather. nor will it start from the command prompt by typing either kweather or kweather-trinity. what am i doing wrong?
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greets, everybody . . .
it occurred to me that some of the immediae scaling issue might be resolved by installing the trinity remix of libreoffice. but, alas, it seems that neither the keyserver nor the repository can be found. has libreoffice-trinity been deprecated?
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This certainly is not Trinity related but as this list is full of experienced
people...
For some time (I *think* since I moved to Debian 9 but not sure) I get smeared
outputs of my trusty Laserjets. I have both a 4200 and a 4250 (I prefer to
buy second hand, Postscrypt, professional printers to first hand
consumer-grade stuff). Not always, tends to happen more when printing double
sided and less when the printer has been off a while.
I had thought this was old cartridges and I had to survive until I change
them, but today I had to print some older stuff that dwells on my old
hackintosh and... beautiful print! No problem at all.
So. Then it's Linux, not the printers.
I'll soon make a test install of the latest openSuSE and see if there is a
difference. Both MacOS and Linux using Cups, I'd have thought that standard,
Postrcrypt drivers would be the same.
Thierry
while continuine the seemingly unending search for a way to make the GPD Pocket work acceptably with TDE, i found a file, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90-scale, whic seems to address the sacling issue, at least for fonts, on a range of desktops. here are its contents:
gsettings set com.ubuntu.user-interface scale-factor "{'DSI-1': 14, 'DSI1': 14}"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1
gsettings set org.mate.font-rendering dpi 168.0
i wonder: is there a line for TDE that would work here to improve things? the scaling of the other desktops is just fine and orks well. alternatively, is there another window manager that might work with TDE and be more amenable to scaling?
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Last night we had one of our twice- or three-times-weekly electrical blackouts and, while the gadgets are all on uninterruptible power supplies I shut them down before the juice was gone from the backups. When this morning I rebooted the GPD Pocket, it went to the TDM login screen, where the spaces for entering username and password were small but the fonts for typing them in were huge. Nevertheless, I was able to log in and, instead of the pristine TDE desktop I'd enjoyed at shutdown, I had one where Kicker and so on were the size I had set, but again the fonts -- in the calendar, in names below icons, and in menus, were enormous.
My sense is that something upstream of TDM is doing this. The Ubuntu install defaults to Unity and lightdm. When I installed the two big TDE packages I set TDM as the default. But of course I'd had to run Unity in order to install TDE.
My first thought is to purge Unity and lightdm, but it might be that this won't solve the problem, and that someone here who is familiar with the macinations of X and such might have a sense of where there's a configuration file that is causing this to happen.
Anybody know?
Thanks.
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this one is maybe easier than setting display size . . .
i only keep one desktop, so the pager is superfluous. also, i don't like it. i've managed to be rid of it on my other machines, but looking through the tiny little entries in trinity control center, i can't find where to uncheck it.
anybody know?
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> Just got a Brother printer-scanner-copier-fax combo, model is MFC-495CW, so
if
> anybody has comments or recommendations from experience, I am all ears.
>
> Here is my model:
>
> https://support.brother.com/g/b/spec.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc495cw_all
>
> I don't have a lot of money to spend (much less to waste) on printer
> cartridges, for example. (A couple years ago I bought a 12-pack of HP
> cartridges for my old HP 825c, but before I could actually use them, the ink
> dried up! I don't want to go through that again.)
>
> I managed to download the drivers for Debian, the product manual, researched
> everything I could think of, but now it comes to spending my last few bucks
> (literally) on the second-most expensive substance* known in human history,
> so I hesitate before using my debit card.
>
> [* laser toner refills are more expensive than refills for inkjet]
>
> Brother, of course, "strongly recommends" not to use third-party, or
> refillable cartridges, etc., but I don't have a warranty, anyway, as I got
> this thing used.
>
> Has anybody else tried the third-party replacement cartridges or
refillables?
>
> I'll have more questions about set-up, I'm sure, once I get my cartridges.
> Everything seems to work fine, except for no ink.
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
My experience with brother is they are well supported under linux and
print/scan well. HOWEVER (insert shocking and dramatic music here), they go
through inkjet cartridges like mad.
A laser printer is always better because, whilst the cartridges are more
expensive, they last longer and print more. I have an HP 1320N printer. I
bought 2 ink cartridges 7 years ago. The first one lasted 5 years. The second
one is on it's 2nd year. I print at least every other day.
I also have a Brother mfc-j615w. Another network printer. It's great, HOWEVER
(insert even more shocking and dramatic music here) the new ink carts only
lasted a week. They sell them cheap in bulk but I would have to buy about
about $100 worth to last a few months.
I will never buy an inkjet (most inkjets I have were $1 purchased at yard
sales or were given to me). I would rather save up and get a laser jet.
Better overall investment.
I don't know if that helps but that is my experience.
(Kate hops off her soapbox, bows, turns and disappears into the mysterious
fog)
Greetings all;
I find that despite having gcode.xml installed at
/opt/trinity/share/apps/katepart/syntax/gcode.xml
neither kate nor kwrite can find it, as in offer it as a choice in the
menu's. geany doesn't have that either so I am used to looking at gcode
as plain text.
Whats next? The idea does sound helpfull if only to highlight the typu's
these ancient fingers can make.
OTOH, I find kate takes around 20 seconds of standing on the down arrow
key to get to the bottom of a 250 LOC .ngc file. Compared to geany,
thats un-acceptably slow. It also apparently can't save the users prefs,
so every new session has to be reconfigured to enable such as line
numbers. geany remembers all that from session to session. I guess you
know which one I'll use in day to day gcode composition.
--
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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