“No application currently records sound.”

2020-03-07 Thread fuf
I installed: Audacity, Jack mixer Metetbridge QjackCtl. Synaptic also offers: gnome-sound-recorder: “A simple and modern voice recorder for GNOME”, but I stopped. I see that this exceeds a reasonable need, and I want to get advice on which package to keep. --fuf-

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-07 Thread Emanuel Berg
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The solution is *not* to downgrade: It is > a security-related change. OK, but here they say: Debian Buster (10) just came into Soft Freeze stage, after Full freeze it will be too late and this newly introduced bug will not be fixed for Debian Buster ...

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 07, 2020, Curt wrote: > [...] > Maybe the bug reporter had both fuse and fuse3 installed simultaneously, > at which point he purged one or the other. Both packages provide an > /etc/fuse.conf file. Ah, two packages sharing the same config file is the bit that escaped me. Thanks for pointin

Re: downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Emanuel Berg (2020-03-07 23:07:16) > It seems convert doesn't work on Debian Buster, I get an error for > this command > > convert -composite $bg $fg -gravity center comp.png > > namely this message: "convert-im6.q16: no images defined `comp.png' > @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageComman

Replace SD-card on armhf-Wandboard

2020-03-07 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, I have here an armhf variant called wandboard (www.wandboard.org), installed with Debian 9, the boot device is an internal MicroSD-Card, and if I understood correctly, that is the only possible way to boot. I now have the problem that reading or writing from/to the card give I/O errors,

downgrade ghostscript to get convert etc working

2020-03-07 Thread Emanuel Berg
It seems convert doesn't work on Debian Buster, I get an error for this command convert -composite $bg $fg -gravity center comp.png namely this message: "convert-im6.q16: no images defined `comp.png' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258." I heard the solution is downgrade ghostscript b

introducing myself, I am new to the Debian lists

2020-03-07 Thread Marco Möller
Hello! I am Marco, new to the Debian lists, and thought to quickly introduce myself before joining conversations or asking questions. I have several years of experience as a desktop user, always using Debian or once for some year a very close derivative of it called Sparky Linux. After having u

Re: Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 03:30:40PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: >that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about >solving such situation without removing anything from my system because >applying 'apt --reinstall install force3' did not restore the removed >conf

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-07 Thread rhkramer
Note: deloptes response to my unintentional off list message This is correct, but eeprom is expensive, so to save cost you let your device use the PCs memory and resources. So when you start the device and load the driver. The driver requests the firmware to be loaded from the PC - this gives t

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-07 Thread rhkramer
Note: I unintenionally sent this to deloptes (only) off list. He has already responded, I'll copy his response to the list in a minute. From the peanut gallery (at least with respect to this thread -- in other words, at least a little "off thread" (but not quite off topic, imho): I'm puzzled a

Re: “No application currently records sound.”

2020-03-07 Thread Michael Howard
On 07/03/2020 20:52, fuf wrote: Hello! I feel guilty asking this question, but I want to save time. Problem: I installed Debian-Xfce by default a long time ago, I use speakers and headphones - everything is fine. But now I need a microphone. “PulseAudio Volume Control”, leading the entire sound

“No application currently records sound.”

2020-03-07 Thread fuf
Hello! I feel guilty asking this question, but I want to save time. Problem: I installed Debian-Xfce by default a long time ago, I use speakers and headphones - everything is fine. But now I need a microphone. “PulseAudio Volume Control”, leading the entire sound, feels that the microphone is conne

Re: Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Patrice Duroux
> Deleting a configuration file is considered to be a choice of the > administrator and will be preserved. Not always! ;-) Moreover if this remove have been done by a maintainer script without paying too much attention about any «brother» packages. Note that this was consider as a bug also by t

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 07 mar 20, 11:09:26, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing the same situation as reported in the issue here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953223 > > So having no more /etc/fuse.conf on my system, what is the best to get it > back? > Why doing 'apt --reinstall i

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread didier gaumet
Le 07/03/2020 à 15:30, Patrice Duroux a écrit : > > Sorry it was not my intention that the discussion should slide in a > different direction than > that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about > solving such situation without removing anything from my system because > appl

Re: Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Patrice Duroux
Sorry it was not my intention that the discussion should slide in a different direction than that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about solving such situation without removing anything from my system because applying 'apt --reinstall install force3' did not restore the rem

Re: Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 12:04:54PM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > > Yes exactly you can consider different «problems» there: > > 1. How to correctly package different source packages that have to share > conffiles? So even purging one of them should leave the conffiles for the > other > installe

Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F)

2020-03-07 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, March 07, 2020 09:00:40 AM Curt wrote: > https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/support/software/software-tax-filing/whi > le-filing-software-return/photo-capture/ > > To use photo capture in H&R Block Software products: > > 1. Take a pic of your W-2 with your phone. ... > I'm not s

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-07 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 07/03/2020 13:50, deloptes wrote: > Well, I build my own kernels and they all have the firmware > directory included. Why not compare all relevant parts instead > complaining?!I regenerate two initrd images at the same machine and system > using *update-initramfs -u -k all* . So I think the sa

Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F)

2020-03-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-03-06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Background: I'm trying to do taxes for a few of my friends using H&R Block's > free online software (they qualify, as all their income is due to wages). > The > online software has the ability to automatically read (i.e., OCR) W2s from a > picture.

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Curt
On 2020-03-07, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> I was under the (perhaps wrong?) impression that "remove" leaves the >> conffiles alone and "purge" removes them. > > Your understanding is correct, at least according to the manual: > >remove >remove is identical to install except that pa

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-07 Thread deloptes
Mikhail Morfikov wrote: > No, this does nothing, still only the Debian kernel's initrd has the > firmware dir included. It's really weird that this is different for > stock and not stock kernel... Well, I build my own kernels and they all have the firmware directory included. Why not compare all

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Dan Purgert
On Mar 07, 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:09:26AM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am facing the same situation as reported in the issue here: >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953223 > > I must admit I don't quite understand the bug repor

Re: why is my local user (/dev/sda5) drive not being displayed by df?

2020-03-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 07/03/2020 08:44, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ sudo blkid > /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID="HA3h3P-GUUe-brth-12Jb-VYcF-sE7h-l7Ep7Q" > TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/mapper/lbrtchx--vg-root: > UUID="d2f3c65d-063b-441e-878e-e283e9ab39a2" TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sda1: UUID="22e7b834-11f9-4f29-84d2-8757aa9f721d"

Re: why is my local user (/dev/sda5) drive not being displayed by df?

2020-03-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 12:44:35PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ sudo blkid > /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID="HA3h3P-GUUe-brth-12Jb-VYcF-sE7h-l7Ep7Q" > TYPE="LVM2_member" > /dev/mapper/lbrtchx--vg-root: UUID="d2f3c65d-063b-441e-878e-e283e9ab39a2" > TYPE="ext4" > /dev/sda1: UUID="2

why is my local user (/dev/sda5) drive not being displayed by df?

2020-03-07 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ sudo blkid /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID="HA3h3P-GUUe-brth-12Jb-VYcF-sE7h-l7Ep7Q" TYPE="LVM2_member" /dev/mapper/lbrtchx--vg-root: UUID="d2f3c65d-063b-441e-878e-e283e9ab39a2" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda1: UUID="22e7b834-11f9-4f29-84d2-8757aa9f721d" TYPE="ext2" PARTUUID="c67530bc-01" /dev/sda5: UUID="2792

Re: Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Patrice Duroux
Yes exactly you can consider different «problems» there: 1. How to correctly package different source packages that have to share conffiles? So even purging one of them should leave the conffiles for the other installed ones. Laurent is suggesting to not do any explicit 'rm' of any conffiles in

Re: normalize audio in mp4s

2020-03-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting David Wright (2020-03-07 04:56:05) > On Fri 06 Mar 2020 at 20:33:48 (+0100), Emanuel Berg wrote: > > how can I normalize the audio in mp4 video files? both WRT not > > having to lower the volume when there's a firefight and raise it > > when they start talking again, _and_ WRT playing sever

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 07 March 2020 05:37:37 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:09:26AM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am facing the same situation as reported in the issue here: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953223 > > I must admit I don't quite und

Re: question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 11:09:26AM +0100, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing the same situation as reported in the issue here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953223 I must admit I don't quite understand the bug report itself: isn't "purge" supposed to remove the conf

question related to #953223

2020-03-07 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, I am facing the same situation as reported in the issue here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953223 So having no more /etc/fuse.conf on my system, what is the best to get it back? Why doing 'apt --reinstall install fuse3' do not restore this file? Neither notify anything ab

Re: Conectivity loss because gateway's arp entry is incomplete

2020-03-07 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2020. 03. 04. 0:34 keltezéssel, Miguel A. Vallejo írta: > Hello! > > Diagnosing one of my several problems with WiFi in Debian I found a > problem this time not related to the WiFi connection itself, but I > don't know how to get the culprit... Anyone can point me in the right > direction? > > Symp

Re: now gmail rant

2020-03-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 06 mar 20, 08:26:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51467536 > > > > > > I think that's the German *BND* Federal Intelligence Service (at least > > > according to the BBC). > > > I've heard from some intelligent services - they do not use any electronic >

Re: Is there a way to load/unload a firmware manually?

2020-03-07 Thread Mikhail Morfikov
On 07/03/2020 00:28, deloptes wrote: > try with the stock kernel > modprobe -v iwlwifi > > or whatever the module name is and update initrd. > Check the results > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img- No, this does nothing, still only the Debian kernel's initrd has the firmware

Re: Simple software for a scanner with ability to crop (CanoScan LIDE 700F)

2020-03-07 Thread Joe
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 18:30:31 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, March 06, 2020 02:55:56 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:46:07PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:35:32PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > You might have been searching for th