Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Joel Roth
Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:56:31 -1000 Joel Roth sent: > > > For now, you do have have a working audio system sitting > > atop your Intel soundcard(s). > > Yes thank you. > > I have purged pulseaudio again. Never having used it found Alsa was > always fine till recently when alsa di

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:56:31 -1000 Joel Roth sent: > For now, you do have have a working audio system sitting > atop your Intel soundcard(s). Yes thank you. I have purged pulseaudio again. Never having used it found Alsa was always fine till recently when alsa didn't do it for me when using VLC.

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 01:27:31PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:11:24 -1000 Joel Roth sent: > > > Robert Latest wrote: > > > With aplay -D hw:0,0 it still works. > > > > You're 99% to the destination. > > > > IIRC, directly addressing the sound device > > as hw:0,0 takes the

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:47:01PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen < > > > There are two basic kinds of "backups": > > > > > > 1. File system -- e.g. a copy of the files and directories on an

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. > > I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. > > These were taken while the system was running, but quie

Ric Moore

2015-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings, back on the old 10.04.4 LTS LUCID drive. Ric, installing that mesa library for firefox made firefox work better, & no squawking about the missing file. But, it pulled in 19 other packages either for additional deps, or whatever, then finished up on a rescan, wanting to update about

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:11:24 -1000 Joel Roth sent: > Robert Latest wrote: > > With aplay -D hw:0,0 it still works. > > You're 99% to the destination. > > IIRC, directly addressing the sound device > as hw:0,0 takes the whole device, will not > allow software mixing of audio streams from > othe

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Joel Roth
Robert Latest wrote: > With aplay -D hw:0,0 it still works. You're 99% to the destination. IIRC, directly addressing the sound device as hw:0,0 takes the whole device, will not allow software mixing of audio streams from other applications. It may be worth trying the aplay -D default testfile.

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-01-16 20:56 +0100, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 16, 2015 12:07:14 PM Liam O'Toole did opine > And Gene did reply: >> On 2015-01-16, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings; >> > >> > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? >> > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so?

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/16/2015 12:32 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:03 PM, David Christensen mailto:dpchr...@holgerdanske.com>> wrote: On 01/15/2015 08:47 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I was hoping for some details on why this won't work on system drives, or conditio

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/16/2015 03:51 PM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 16.01.2015 19:24, Robert Latest a écrit : On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: > First questions: > > Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? I don't know. I seem to have both on m

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/16/2015 02:56 PM, Robert Latest wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: First questions: Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? Did you try alsamixer? Often it is possible, to choose different hardware in the GUI. Did you try other

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday, January 16, 2015 12:07:14 PM Liam O'Toole did opine And Gene did reply: > On 2015-01-16, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? > > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? > > > > Or alternatively, how to install to iceweasal, t

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.01.2015 19:24, Robert Latest a écrit : On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: > First questions: > > Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? I don't know. I seem to have both on my system. I don't know what the difference is, or if one is ru

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/16/2015 04:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: The symptoms are not the same as yours. aplay doesn't play sound when I select the PCM device on the command line. But, with audacity, if I explicitly select ALSA as output and device hw:1,0, sound comes out. So, I may have another problem that prevents

Fwd: Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
I hit the wrong send to: button. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: Can't get sound to work Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:29:50 -0500 From: Ric Moore To: Robert Latest On 01/16/2015 01:24 PM, Robert Latest wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: I happen to l

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/16/2015 03:41 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: BTW, I have pulseaudio installed in case it matters. Frederic Once you start with the edits, pulse most likely will not work since you defeated it's purpose to define things after alsa is doing it's job. I remember the bad old days when you ha

Sleep but no resume

2015-01-16 Thread edjabr
Running stable 64bit with the 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 kernel. This macbook will go to sleep but will not resume, requiring a hard reboot. When s2ram is run, the acivity light blinks- a sign that the machine is really asleep. However, when I hit a key, the light goes out and no resume. I booted in

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Robert Latest
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: > > First questions: > > > > Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? > > > > Did you try alsamixer? > > > > Often it is possible, to choose different hardware in the GUI. Did > > you try other ones, too? > > > >

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Mike McGinn
On Friday, January 16, 2015 14:23:21 Doug wrote: > On 01/16/2015 01:24 PM, Robert Latest wrote: When I had a new install I found that the mixer levels were all at zero. Found it after an hour of troubleshooting. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Be happy that brainfarts don't smell. No electr

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Doug
On 01/16/2015 01:24 PM, Robert Latest wrote: pulse, he might have a better experience, IMHO. I'll try that (have to install first). If it works, can I then purge all ALSA-related stuff from my system? Or could I also remove all pulse-related stuff and keep ALSA? I happen to love using pulse,

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:35:00PM +0100, mrr wrote: > On 14/01/2015 06:00, Bob Proulx wrote: > >Trying to hide in an unusual username is obscurity not security. You > >may have heard the term that obscurity is not security. > > Well obscurity may help, think about the man who loose his car key s

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Robert Latest
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:43:23 -0500 Ric Moore wrote: > On 01/15/2015 03:54 PM, Hans wrote: > > First questions: > > > > Are you running pulseaudio or alsa? I don't know. I seem to have both on my system. I don't know what the difference is, or if one is running on top of the other, or if they are

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-01-16, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? > > Or alternatively, how to install to iceweasal, the missing pluggins that > make it work with the real world? Fresh Wheezy install here. > > Thank

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-16 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-16, Joel Rees wrote: > > The argument, SSH keys versus passwords is kind of missing the point, > unless the argument itself helps people listening in think a bit more > carefully about their security. > The success of the offline cracking of seemingly "good" hashed passcodes got me to

Re: upgrade kernel

2015-01-16 Thread Marc Auslander
Pol Hallen writes: > Hi folks! > > a security updates of kernel is available (from apt-get upgrade), so: > must I reboot my pc (after upgrade) to avoid security problems? Is > there another way? > > thanks for help! > > Pol > > I always reboot after a kernel related upgrade on the grounds that if

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:47:01PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen < > > There are two basic kinds of "backups": > > > > 1. File system -- e.g. a copy of the files and directories on an mounted > > and operating drive. > > > > 2. Raw binary image

firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-16 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? Or alternatively, how to install to iceweasal, the missing pluggins that make it work with the real world? Fresh Wheezy install here. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four box

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:19:52PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use > proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it, > but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure. I wonder if > anyone here can

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 16 January 2015 14:38:09, Joel Rees wrote : > > I can remember "TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves" and associate it with an > > account. > > > > Before signing up I do > > > > echo TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves | sha1sum | base64 | cut -c -30 > > > > The output is what I give to a site a

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Brian wrote: > [...] > We are still on off-line cracking? How does this sound? Hmm. I guess I should respond to your questions about IP spoofing and using strategy rather than pure brute force after all. > Memorable passwords are good. Long, complex passwords are

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. > I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. > These were taken while the system was running, but quiet. I did it this > way because I cannot get the system to bo

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Thom Miller
On 01/16/2015 01:28 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:32:24PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> I care because I like to have a lot of free space in my partitions, but I >> hate to use backup time and space on the holes. > > Hi Kevin, > > If you copy the whole partition, byte-for-

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 16 January 2015 10:33:23, Lisi Reisz wrote : > On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > But sound started to work fine after I edited $HOME/.asoundrc like this: > > > > pcm.!default { > > type plug > > slave { > > pcm "hw:1,0" > > } > > } > > ctl.!default

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:19:52PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use >proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer.  I thought I had it, >but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure.  I wonder if >anyo

Latest update was bad news for me!

2015-01-16 Thread Bruce Ward
I've got an ASRock motherboard with AMD AM3 CPU and "Giga PHY RTL8211CL" ethernet, running Wheezy. Had no joy getting the network port running (forcedeth module would kill the whole system as soon as tried to use or even unload it!), so I used an old (faithful) DEC Tulip card (de2104x module). And

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > On Thursday 15 January 2015 21:28:30, Robert Latest wrote : > > Hi all, > > > > this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over > > the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't > > hear any

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Gerald
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use > proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it, > but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure. I wonder if > anyone here can point out the

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 15 January 2015 21:28:30, Robert Latest wrote : > Hi all, > > this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over > the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't > hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the > conf

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:32:24PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I care because I like to have a lot of free space in my partitions, but I > hate to use backup time and space on the holes. Hi Kevin, If you copy the whole partition, byte-for-byte, as with the 'dd' command, you copy everything, in

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-01-15 21:40, Daniel Haude wrote: Hi all, this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the configuration file doesn't help.