Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread mick.crane
On 2022-08-18 08:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? In the 70s friends went to this house wher

Re: Cheat but no cheatsheets

2022-08-18 Thread tomas
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 04:42:15PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: > I installed cheat was describe as a quick way to check a command's options > instead of referring  to its man page. I guess you might get more help if you described what "cheat" is and where you got it from. There seems to be no [1]

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Thu 18 Aug 2022 at 06:58:20 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > $ type soxy > > soxy is a function > > soxy () > > { > > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage:${FUNCNAME[0]} > > path-to/sound-file-of-any-type [trim 20 2] > >

Re: headless server with console on USB port

2022-08-18 Thread David Christensen
On 8/18/22 04:21, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hi, is it possible to run a console on a USB port of a headless server? The system is a Dell T20 machine https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/dell-poweredge-t20.1031138/ (the page is in German, but I am not aware of an English version with a sim

Cheat but no cheatsheets

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas George
I installed cheat was describe as a quick way to check a command's options instead of referring  to its man page. A great convenience but cheat list responds no cheatsheet found for list instead listing available cheatsheets Is there a file of cheatsheets to download?

digital stereo (HDMI) output configuration in pavucontrol won't stay off

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas George
In pavucontrol configuration I can set digital stereo (HDMI) output to off but it won't stay off. Is there some way to configure the program so this is off permanently? Or alternately to make the analog stereo output from my sound card the default configuration?

Re: headless server with console on USB port

2022-08-18 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Hi, is it possible to run a console on a USB port of a headless server? The system is a Dell T20 machine https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/dell-poweredge-t20.1031138/ (the page is in German, but I am not aware of an English version with a

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote; > DD mode, as Rufus itself told me to use that mode in case of problems about > booting. We have to thank its author Pete Batard for bringing so many installation ISOs onto their USB sticks. > Indeed the Toshiba laptop is in legacy mode while the Asus one is in Efi >

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote: My reply is at the bottom.  Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too quiet when running Linux.  I managed t

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 19/8/22 03:04, David Griffith wrote: On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote: My reply is at the bottom.  Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing problem

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread David Griffith
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 19/8/22 01:32, David Griffith wrote: My reply is at the bottom.  Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being to

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-18 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Thomas Schmitt ha scritto il 18/08/22 alle 20:02 Did you use Rufus' "DD" mode or did you let it do its usual thing of unpacking the ISO into a partition of the USB stick ? DD mode, as Rufus itself told me to use that mode in case of problems about booting. Maybe the GRUB software on /dev/sd

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > So i tried putting the image in the key using Rufus on windows and it works! Did you use Rufus' "DD" mode or did you let it do its usual thing of unpacking the ISO into a partition of the USB stick ? (The latter is not advised by Debian Installation developers.) >

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Aug 18 2022 at 09:39:23 AM, wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: >> On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA256 >> > >> > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? >> >> In the 70s friends wen

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread David Griffith
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too quiet when running Linux.  I managed to fix this with something in /etc/asound

Re: headless server with console on USB port

2022-08-18 Thread Reco
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 06:28:56PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Ah, I see, getting USB up early might be a problem. > > Would a native serial interface on a PCI card be a better solution? Same problem, different interface. You need UART that's soldered on the motherboard. Sadly, there's no subst

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-18 Thread Massimo Maiurana
Thomas Schmitt ha scritto il 17/08/22 alle 20:53:> I really wonder what on your system can confuse GRUB, so that it does not get to the file /boot/grub/grub.cfg of the ISO which contains the menu items which i see with qemu. Well, looks like it's not only that system, which for the record is an

Re: No middle-click on GNOME app title bar in KDE

2022-08-18 Thread Curt
On 2022-07-26, Francois Gouget wrote: > > So I have configured KDE to send a window to the background when I > middle click in its title bar [1]. But when I do on the 'title bar' of a > GNOME application (e.g. Gedit) nothing happens. [2] > gtk3-nocsd? gtk3-nocsd LD_PRELOADs a small library to

Re: headless server with console on USB port

2022-08-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-08-18 at 16:48 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: [...] > I am wondering if ready-made usb-to-usb solutions exist, which contain the > conversion to serial and back to usb internally I just googled 'usb null modem cable' and got this: https://ftdichip.com/products/usb-nmc-2-5m/ which is ava

Re: headless server with console on USB port

2022-08-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 04:48:34PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I am wondering if ready-made usb-to-usb solutions exist, which contain the > conversion to serial and back to usb internally I cannot call it "ready-made", but there's something similar - [1] which may solve your pr

Re: headless server with console on USB port

2022-08-18 Thread Dan Ritter
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > is it possible to run a console on a USB port of a headless server? Yes and no. The T20 doesn't seem to have iDRAC (IPMI) support, so BIOS/UEFI is not available through a serial console. The first time you have an opportunity for a serial console is in GRUB; then again yo

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-18 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 18/8/22 7:48 pm, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, at 12:38, Jeremy Ardley wrote: As an aside, a Windows host for a client sucks big time. Windows will automatically restart periodically no matter what you do to prevent it. How often does that happen? I only ask because it doesn't

Re: Windows on VMware on Deb 11: safely usable?

2022-08-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022, at 12:38, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > As an aside, a Windows host for a client sucks big time. Windows will > automatically restart periodically no matter what you do to prevent it. How often does that happen? I only ask because it doesn't for my pretty much always-on W8.1 lapt

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:58:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > $ type soxy > soxy is a function > soxy () > { > [ -z "$1" ] && printf '%s\n' "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} > path-to/sound-file-of-any-type [trim 20 2] > runs sox to play the file with any arguments given. > The examp

Re: List-Archive URLs and slashes in Message Ids

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul Wise wrote: > This issue has been present for a long time unfortunately. > There is a workaround, you can use a URL query parameter instead: > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/?m=YvogMm/B0cM/a...@einval.com This works indeed. I guess the proposal was already made to augment the URL

Re: Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread Bret Busby
On 18/8/22 16:15, David Griffith wrote: There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too quiet when running Linux.  I managed to fix this with something in /etc/asound.conf and an extra mate-volume-control applet added to the panel.  With this extra volume control, I

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Siard
On Wed, 17 Aug 2022 20:00 +, ghe2001 wrote: > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their > infinite wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have removed Audacity from > the upcoming release, Bookworm. I heard som

Raising volume past 100%

2022-08-18 Thread David Griffith
There is the continuing problem of built-in speakers on laptops being too quiet when running Linux. I managed to fix this with something in /etc/asound.conf and an extra mate-volume-control applet added to the panel. With this extra volume control, I was able to turn the audio far past 100

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread Curt
On 2022-08-17, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > In the 70s friends went to this house where there was a 14 year old > Indian mystic. > You were all suppo

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:47:40PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: > On 2022-08-17 21:00, ghe2001 wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > In the 70s friends went to this house where there was a 14 year old Indian

Re: question about sound

2022-08-18 Thread tomas
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:00:17PM +, ghe2001 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Anybody have anything to say about editing sound files? > > I started to answer the poster's question and found that, in their infinite > wisdom, the Debian designers seem to have rem