Well it's hardly a netbook. It has 4 USB ports, an HDMI port, two audio jacks, an Ethernet port, an SD slot, and an IR port. I've changed a couple HDs on it already. It's a 64 bit desktop, they are designed to be mounted to the back of a monitor, if one wishes to do that. It will be a nice addition to my Ham shack. I want to get windows 10 on a VM in Ubuntu on it, because not all the Ham radio is accessible in Linux. I tried the windows 10 VM on it once, and the windows 10 just crawled along, and some research I did lead me to know that I have to install some special utilities in Ubuntu and KVM in order to make the windows play well in KVM. But I haven't gotten that far with it yet.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:28 AM Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble If the computer is a netbook, you're better off replacing the computer and trashing the existing computer after data recovery operations. Netbooks rely mostly on software and have limited parts inside and where I volunteered for 8 years at Smartco we routinely sent them to the junk yard since it wasn't worth harvesting any parts from them to build referbished computers. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Yeah, I don't know how easy it would be to change the motherboard, the > computer is small, about the size of a double sandwich. > I put in my own RAM and HD, that part is easy, but I don't know if it is a > simple process on one of these to disconnect the peripheral plugs from the > motherboard. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 1:34 AM > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > If you can get local to that machine and not use ssh to connect you may > want to check the internal sound chip and if it has failed, you may need a > new motherboard. The hard drives here can't verify downloaded files any > longer so it's likely this computer also needs a new motherboard. > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > > It was working, and decided to stop talking. > > I also tried your idea about the power maybe not being enough, and tried > > a > > bigger PS. > > This Intel NUC will use anything from 9 to 19 volts for power. > > I was using an old Braille & Speak 12 volt PS, and I replaced it with a > > laptop PS. > > Glenn > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 11:28 PM > > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > > > > I'm glad you had an external sound card to use and I'm glad I offered > > you > > that suggestion. > > If you're not using the latest version of Ubuntu frimware is likely to > > be > > old on that version and may not include firmware for your internal sound > > chip. If you're using the latest version of ubuntu and this computer > > talked in the past with the internal sound chip, then you have a real > > mystery on your hands. Unless you had electrical damage inside that > > computer and that internal sound chip got fried. > > > > > > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in > > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that > > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > > > > Hi Jude, > > > Here's an update. > > > After stumbling around with alsamixer, it finally booted into the GUI > > > and > > > Orca talks. > > > This is, however, through the USB external card. > > > So on the desktop, I looked at system preferences, hardware, and > > > sound, > > > it > > > only showed the USB soundcard, as a choice of devices. > > > So although alsamixer sees it in the CLI, the GUI does not even see > > > it. > > > So until I find a way to have the desktop see the internal sound chip, > > > I'm > > > stuck with the external soundcard. > > > Glenn > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > > > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:23 PM > > > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble > > > > > > > > > Have you tried orca --replace lately? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
