7 Mar
2015
7 Mar
'15
6:27 a.m.
Hello,
While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
GUI or installer program.
I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
functioning wifi and sound)
-R
7 Mar
7 Mar
10:07 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Trying to reinstall
On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
Hello,
While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
GUI or installer program.
I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
functioning wifi and sound)
My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi with Exe.
Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
Lisi
12:45 p.m.
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I don't understand. It's clear that Exe doesn't have drivers for many
sound cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
cards? Thanks
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters
wrote:
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Hello,
While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
GUI or installer program.
I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
functioning wifi and sound)
My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi with
Exe.
Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
Lisi
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On Saturday 07 March 2015, elcaseti . wrote:
I don't understand. It's clear that Exe
doesn't have drivers for many
sound cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
cards? Thanks
Here in Mint I e.g. have the package
linux-firmware-nonfree
and other nonfree packages. There is a good chance they include drives for your
hardware.
They for sure are free as in beer but nonfree according speech (you don't have
to pay) and to use them you have to include the correct repositories, e.g.:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
in case of Debian.
Gerhard
1:49 p.m.
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On Saturday 07 March 2015 13:06:12 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
On Saturday 07 March 2015, elcaseti . wrote:
> I don't understand. It's clear that Exe doesn't have drivers for many
> sound cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
> with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
> cards? Thanks
Yes. Most. Though probably not the newest. And you may indeed have to edit
your repositories as Gerhard suggests and install linux-firmware-nonfree.
But I didn't have to do so. To my surprise.
I always edit my repositories automatically anyway to include contrib and
non-free.
HTH
Lisi
Here in Mint I e.g. have the package
linux-firmware-nonfree
and other nonfree packages. There is a good chance they include drives for
your hardware.
They for sure are free as in beer but nonfree according speech (you don't
have to pay) and to use them you have to include the correct repositories,
e.g.:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
in case of Debian.
2:48 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Trying to reinstall
It was my case.
2015-03-07 13:45 GMT+01:00 elcaseti . <elcaseti(a)gmail.com>om>:
I don't understand. It's clear that Exe
doesn't have drivers for many sound
cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie with TDE
installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi cards?
Thanks
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
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https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en Hello,
While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
GUI or installer program.
I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
functioning wifi and sound)
My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi with
Exe.
Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
Lisi
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Thanks, everybody. Good to know. Mint KDE is my main distro, & I use TDE
on my really old computers.
I've had better luck with things Just Working when I install a distro with
TDE already included. When I add TDE later, I've had a lot of problems.
However, I like Mint so much, I'm going to try installing Mint XFCE, then
adding TDE. Wish me luck!
Thanks, again.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Nicolas Dobigeon <dobigeon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It was my case.
2015-03-07 13:45 GMT+01:00 elcaseti . <elcaseti(a)gmail.com>om>:
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I don't understand. It's clear that Exe
doesn't have drivers for many
sound
cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that
regular Debian Jessie with
TDE
installed later will provide drivers for most
sound cards & wifi cards?
Thanks
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
> > Hello,
> > While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
> > TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
> > the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
> > setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
> > GUI or installer program.
> > I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
> > around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
> > use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
> > functioning wifi and sound)
>
> My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi
with
Exe.
Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
Lisi
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10:17 p.m.
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On Saturday 07 March 2015 21:56:41 elcaseti . wrote:
Thanks, everybody. Good to know. Mint KDE is my main
distro, & I use TDE
on my really old computers.
I've had better luck with things Just Working when I install a distro with
TDE already included. When I add TDE later, I've had a lot of problems.
However, I like Mint so much, I'm going to try installing Mint XFCE, then
adding TDE. Wish me luck!
That works well. If you once like Mint!!! Well, I did it after Mint and
MATE. But I don't suppose that it is very different.
Lisi
Thanks, again.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Nicolas Dobigeon <dobigeon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> It was my case.
>
> 2015-03-07 13:45 GMT+01:00 elcaseti . <elcaseti(a)gmail.com>om>:
> > I don't understand. It's clear that Exe doesn't have drivers for
many
>
> sound
>
> > cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
> > with
>
> TDE
>
> > installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi cards?
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> >> On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
> >> > TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
> >> > the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the
partition
> >> > setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to
the
> >> > GUI or installer program.
> >> > I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I
can mess
> >> > around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something
I
> >> > can use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
> >> > functioning wifi and sound)
> >>
> >> My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi
>
> with
>
> >> Exe.
> >> Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
> >>
> >> Lisi
> >>
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12:09 a.m.
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In theory, it should be similar. MATE is too bloated & slow on these old
computers I'm using. If Mint still had an LXDE edition, I'd add TDE to
that. Since that no longer exists, I'll add TDE to Mint XFCE. A Mint TDE
live DVD would be better, but creating & maintaining that is beyond my
skill level. Thanks everybody for your advice.
Cheers
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 07 March 2015 21:56:41 elcaseti . wrote:
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Thanks, everybody. Good to know. Mint KDE is my
main distro, & I use
TDE
on my really old computers.
I've had better luck with things Just Working when I install a distro
with
TDE already included. When I add TDE later,
I've had a lot of problems.
However, I like Mint so much, I'm going to try installing Mint XFCE, then
adding TDE. Wish me luck!
That works well. If you once like Mint!!! Well, I did it after Mint and
MATE. But I don't suppose that it is very different.
Lisi
Thanks, again.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Nicolas Dobigeon <dobigeon(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> It was my case.
>
> 2015-03-07 13:45 GMT+01:00 elcaseti . <elcaseti(a)gmail.com>om>:
> > I don't understand. It's clear that Exe doesn't have drivers for
many
>
> sound
>
> > cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
> > with
>
> TDE
>
> > installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
cards?
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com>
>
> wrote:
> >> On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber
my
> >> > TDE 14 setup. Want to
reinstall from live CD (on USB stick).
Tried
> >> > the Ubuntu one; the installer
didn't let me complete the partition
> >> > setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to
the
> >> > GUI or installer program.
> >> > I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I
can
mess
> >> > around with Debian/Exe again.
But really, isn't there something I
> >> > can use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
> >> > functioning wifi and sound)
> >>
> >> My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi
>
> with
>
> >> Exe.
> >> Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
> >>
> >> Lisi
> >>
> >>
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New subject: [trinity-users] Trying to reinstall
On Saturday 07 March 2015 03:45:29 am elcaseti . wrote:
I don't understand. It's clear that Exe
doesn't have drivers for many
sound cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie
with TDE installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi
cards? Thanks
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 07 March 2015 06:27:13 Robert Peters wrote:
> > Hello,
> > While trying yet again to get audio working I managed to clobber my
> > TDE 14 setup. Want to reinstall from live CD (on USB stick). Tried
> > the Ubuntu one; the installer didn't let me complete the partition
> > setup. Tried the most recent Ubuntu nightly; can't even get to the
> > GUI or installer program.
> > I don't care much for what I've seen of PCLinuxOS. Maybe I can mess
> > around with Debian/Exe again. But really, isn't there something I can
> > use and recommend to others that just works???? (i.e., with
> > functioning wifi and sound)
>
> My Jessie with TDE14 Just Worked. But you won't get sound and wi-fi with
> Exe.
> Exe is all free (as in beer). Install Jessie, then TDE.
>
> Lisi
This image has non-free firmware, helps with unsupported , by Debian,
hardware. Install just the base + standard..put TDE on top.
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
and some gasp ! reading :-) :
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en
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2:42 a.m.
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On 7 March 2015 at 22:45, elcaseti . <elcaseti(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't understand. It's clear that Exe
doesn't have drivers for many sound
cards & wifi cards. But, are you saying that regular Debian Jessie with TDE
installed later will provide drivers for most sound cards & wifi cards?
ThanksLubuntu
My laptop has both Exe and Lubuntu distros. I don't care for the
Lubuntu desktop and couldn't switch it over to TDE. Hence the
emphasis on Exe.
In Exe I copied and installed modules from Lubuntu. Got wifi and ALSA
audio but then tried installing Pulseaudio in order to use Skype.
That clobbered audio completely, leading eventually to my original
post.
I will try Lisi's above advice - install a straight Jessie Debian,
then add TDE from the repositories.
-R
10 Mar
10 Mar
11:14 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Trying to reinstall
On 8 March 2015 at 12:42, Robert Peters <robertpeters9(a)gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
I will try Lisi's above advice - install a
straight Jessie Debian,
then add TDE from the repositories.
Thanks for all the replies. Looks like my system works well now.
Before this had trouble with other live CDs: Jessie Debian installed
okay but seemed unable to get a wifi connection.
tde-ubuntu-14.04-desktop-latest-amd64 and lubuntu-14.10-desktop-amd64
were unable to complete the installation.
Finally had success with linuxmint-17.1-mate-64bit, added the Trinity
repos and installed my favorite TDE apps. Later will try to setup the
display manager.
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