2 Aug
2018
2 Aug
'18
4:13 a.m.
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 19:25:14 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 21:43:26 William Morder
wrote:
Not cheap, but rather thrifty; that used to be a compliment, not an insult.
But now if we don't buy more than we need, we are not good consumers.
If we have a contest for cheap and/or thrifty, I would bet that I am cheaper
than you. But I'm not cheap about everything. I have been known to spend
exorbiant sums on things I really want, but then I don't want much.
Bill
On Wednesday 01 August 2018 17:47:39 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Right Bill, in fact the jessie flavored raspian on an r-pi3b is probably
the most stable install on the premises in spite of a pinned ancient
kernel. But its also realtime built. The r-pi is running lcnc and moving
an 11x36 Sheldon lathe quite nicely. Barring power outages which exposed
an order of detection of the two SSD's plugged into it (I need to
convert fstab to use Label= to remove the detection order so it didn't
reboot, hung at trying to mount what should have been /dev/sdb2
as /dev/sda3. Hung the boot and I finally remembered where I had written
the root pw, got into that and commented those 2 lines back out of
fstab, rebooted, moved cables from usb-2 jack tio usb-2 jack and
rebooted till dmesg showed them in the proper order, and everythings
cool again. Not having a ups on that one shows config errors when the
lights go out unexpectedly. :)
Pi's don't need much of a ups, 100 watts is a sublime overkill. I should
get a little one for it, but if I fix the mounts, its fine. And thats
about $100 cheaper. Call me cheap, I'll probably answer. ;-)
Thanks Bill. On Wednesday 01 August 2018 13:49:32 Michael
wrote:
I've also had some problems getting into Debian Stretch (or Devuan
Ascii), but Jessie runs pretty well for me (although I still use a
couple of Wheezy packages). But if you've tried Stretch, then I assume
you've also tried Jessie, right?
Bill On Wednesday 01 August 2018 10:44:07 am Pisini,
John wrote:
> Not a fix but give MPV a try it seems a little nicer to me than
> mplayer especially if you are on an older distro like Jessie.
Second that.
I use both mplayer and mpv under SMPlayer. Open 'Preferences' to
switch the 'Multimedia engine.'
Overkill but I copy/pasted the 3 aptitude show's below.
Do note SMPlayer phones home for self update info, which you can
disable by following:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1188099&s=73e8a8809da60f
5e49 641129388c7658
and modifying the '/usr/bin/ni' script to:
michael@local [~]# cat /usr/bin/no-internet
#!/bin/bash
COMMAND="$1"
shift
for arg; do
COMMAND="$COMMAND \"$arg\""
done
sg no-internet "$COMMAND"
Then changing the SMPlayer menu entry to:
no-internet smplayer %U
* I changed 'ni' to 'no-internet' so I'd know what it was later,
everything else came from the Internet...
Best,
Michael
This is all on a 32 bit wheezy install. As this is the main machine
for my local network, its always the last to get updated. This
install is somewhat debian, but its been filtered thru what it takes
to at least run the simulation of linuxcnc.
I am so far, not terribly impressed with debian stretch, 99% of what
I can do from a wheezy box to another wheezy box in flat out
rejected by stretch, even an ssh login is problematic and despite
using a -Y argument for the login, nothing that needs X is allowed
to run, so if I want to write gcode from a comfortable chair, I am
stuck with nano for an editor. Frankly thats BS thats so poor it
can't even grow weeds.
But I always install to a new drive, so I can move things I need to
the new drive with mc. But with an invalid wife, (COPD, and broken
bones from falling, so as the chief and only cook and potty/bottle
washer here I don't often find the time to do a new release install
and make it all work again. I've already done one stretch install
and just getting networking usable is a cast iron bitch, nothing
will take a gateway assignment until you get a wad of Kentucky Twist
adjusted just right, and if you spit it out, the network goes away
again. And I don't chew, haven't even had a cigarette in my face in
29+ years.
All this is of coarse not your fault, just jeering from the
bleachers.
Summary
310 pkgs upgraded
5 new installed since smplaer wasn't
All this will of course need a reboot, but I've 25 day uptime, so it
about due anyway.
Thanks Michael.
I didn't catch the mpv, so I'll see if thats available for wheezy 32
bit. Then reboot.