t are
appreciated as this is not a show stopper but in the category of
kind of odd and not supposed to be happening.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
sion of today's daily.0
directory. df -h looks good in that disk usage appears to be the
equivalent of one full backup even with 3 intervals of backup now
so I am curious as to why the inode numbers for hard links to the
same file are different.
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
ubsequent two backups so it definitely is
working.
Martin McCormick
I am replying to two messages at once.
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Is it this:
>
> https://www.microchip.com/SWLibraryWeb/product.aspx?product=Memory%20Disk%20Drive%20File%20System
>
>
I just realized that I goofed when I wrote the name of
the application that combines multiple dri
constructive ideas are much appreciated.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
is proof that
the user ID and password still work with smtp.suddenlink.net,
just not in exim4 yet.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
By using /etc/modules to load
the sound module for the built-in card, it is always card 0.
Use that feature carefully since modules you don't
actually need just waste resources.
That should get you started with an afternoon of
head-scratching/banging as these things can be fru
x27;t have to boil the ocean to make it
work again.
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
ces such as a usb apple modem that shows activity in syslog
when you plug it in to a usb port but due to a lack of a driver,
it does absolutely nothing under Linux but get slightly warm to
the touch. Plug it in to a Mac and you're in to the dialup
business.
Martin McCormick
asier to make a
mess of things.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
y, it now works again and I am simply sending it through
exim4 in the normal manner.
Thank you to everybody who helped.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
Cindy-Sue Causey writes:
> Hi, Martin.. I found these descriptions on the Debian Wiki
> SystemGroups page [0]:
>
> tty: TTY devices are owned by this group. This is used by write and
> wall to enable them to write to other people's TTYs, but it is not
> intended to be used directly.
>
> dialout:
en
the two files and how do people in the Eastern Time Zone
automatically learn of the two time shifts each year?
Martin McCormick
Thanks.
Martin McCormick
On most days or nights, this runs perfectly and then there is the following:
From:root@wb5agz (Cron Daemon)
Subject: Cron /usr/local/etc/daily_backup
/bin/rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/rsnapshot/halfday.1/wb5agz/home/usr/lib/grub
/i386-pc': Transport endpoint is not connected
/bin/rm: canno
Greg Wooledge writes:
> My immediate thought is to stop throwing away the output of these
> commands, so that if one of them is failing or giving warnings, you can
> actually see what's wrong.
>
> At least get rid of the 2>&1 on all 3 lines, so you get the stderr output.
> Or log the stdout and s
pt to
setup Card 0.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
Michael Lange writes:
> Hi,
> I never had any trouble at all with the OSS compatibility modules.
> Not sure where this statement comes from, if it is an old source, maybe
> they meant the old, true OSS modules (which have been removed from the
> linux kernel quite some time ago, though), where thi
Michael Lange writes:
> Adding snd-cs4236 to /etc/modules doesn't help?
Ha!! I totally forgot to look at that file. It's creation date is
in May of 2009 when I upgraded the system to whatever the version
of Linux was at that time. I am not sure it was even squeeze but
I had simply re-installed Li
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 07:55:54AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > I had a thread going on this list with the subject of
> > "Plug and Pray; my Life with Linux Sound." Thanks to several good
> > answers, I am on the righ
from the time I experimentally
switched the alsa-base.conf entries so I might learn something
from reading that.
I amnot sure what resources are exhausted but there are
now more trails to follow. Thank you.
Martin McCormick
There are two Plug&Play sound cards on this system and
ISAP&P sees them. If I insert a PCI sound card and power up, the
CS4236 gets IRQ 5 and the SoundBlaster gets zilch. Reading
available documentation, it looks like this is because older ISA
cards may not be able to report enough back to
deloptes writes:
> I recall setting those in bios years ago, but I think its doable in the
> kernel as well (driver? maybe)
>
> However you should read at least the manual to your card [3].
>
>
> IT looks to me both CS4236B and S16 reister to the 8bit ISA while the
> other
> with IRQ9 must be
broadcast
audio is muddy and Mr. Nyquist is laughing as he spins in his
grave.
Martin McCormick
Basically, are there any good new USB sound cards these
days that record and play stereo under Linux?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Martin McCormick
deloptes writes:
> I suggest you check here
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
> and try the alsa mailing list.
>
> I would stay to the PCI cards if possible because with USB you will have
> lesser speed and quality, but it is up to you.
> Consider CPU and hard drive speed a
Joe writes:
> For recording, good signal to noise ratio is important, and the four or
> five internal cards I've used over the years have all been very poor in
> this respect, maybe in the low 40s in dB.
>
> USB devices I've tried have had much less noise, particularly if the
> audio ground side
deloptes writes:
> I suggest you check here
> http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main
> and try the alsa mailing list.
I did try that link and I see that, as I suspected, there
are tons of USB sound cards. My thanks also to Jude DaShiell and kon
Alstadheimkfor
replies. I h
=?UTF-8?Q?Joel_Wir=C4=81mu_Pauling?= writes:
> Rather than going with a Consumer card. Head to a Audio/Music store. What
> you are looking for is a USB - Audio interface; they generally have much
> better Signal to Noise ration, hardware mixers and Ballanced XLR outputs
> and Inputs. Something lik
deloptes writes:
> This is a different topic - there is the remote control group -
> http://www.lirc.org
>
> I've even dared to fix few things in the kernel driver to make a remote
> work
> properly - but it was ages ago.
>
> I than mapped manually the keys to action in different apps.
>
> reg
rlhar...@oplink.net writes:
> Lexicon Alpha (powered by USB) and Lexicon Omega (external supply) are
> excellent broadcast-quality USB audio interfaces which "just work" with
> Linux.
>
> Another excellent device is the Shure X2U, which is particularly adapted
> to portable use (USB powered; fits
exactly the same messages when running dmesg.
Is there any utility I can run to see if they are alive
and useful?
I ran across these accidentally when I was looking for
something else and now it has my curiosity peaked; something new
to play with. Thanks.
Martin McCormick
Reco writes:
> No, it does not. These messages mean that assorted bluetooth modules
> are loaded.
>
>
> > Another old Dell optiplex running wheezy also produces
> > exactly the same messages when running dmesg.
> >
> > Is there any utility I can run to see if they are alive
> > and u
David Wright writes:
> ... because wheezy's hciconfig is in /usr/sbin.
I probably should have used locate or which and it would
have reported the path. In this case, /usr/sbin is one of the
paths in my $pATH and there is no bluetooth interface as running
hciconfig with the correct path si
After upgrading a Mac to sierra which is their newest
version of macosx, I discovered that I could no longer ssh
without a password in either direction from the Mac to a debian
system or vice versa. I first thought the system key had changed
but it hadn't.
The short story is that t
ctive ideas.
Martin McCormick
> 1) While losetup 'cooks' you a block device from the file, it does not
> expose underlying partitions. What you need is:
>
> sudo kpartx -a /home/pgmaudio/2016-11-25-raspbian-jessie-lite.img
> Look for devices created in /dev/mapper, don't forget to run afterward:
>
> sudo kpartx -d /home/pgma
I probably haven't messed with floppy disks in a few
years but one used to be able to format from a bare floppy
without much trouble.
Thanks for any constructive suggestions.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
Mirko Parthey writes:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not
> > run because it sees no pre-existing format information.
> >
> > What am I forgetting or what has cha
ise for a drive that doesn't get much usage these days.
After trying to read track 76 many times, the verification
aborted with a message stating that this track was bad.
Anyway, this has been an interesting journey down memory
lane. Stuff just works a lot better these days than it u
Brian writes:
> Does the machine you are booting use GRUB as the boot manager?
Surprisingly enough, yes. I wasn't sure but it certainly does.
Here's an explanation with a hope for a workable
solution.
I don't know how common this is but the BIOS' of two Dell
Optiplexes plus the
he size of a thumb blow up on me once
and I could still find pieces of plastic and foil 6 months later.
Thanks for the link to the article.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
I have an old Dell Enspiron 2600 which still works but it only
has 256 MB of RAM. I am of the understanding that the 128-MB
memory card under the little door on the bottom can be replaced
with a 512 MB card and that pretty much does it. There is another
128 MB block under the keyboard but I think f
bers and all the numbers on the memory
module. It sounds like it is worth checking out how much of an
upgrade is practical with this system.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
have dealt with in that there is probably a
trick that makes all the difference between making things worse
and fixing it. Those screws do have to come out.
Martin McCormick
ting when one is
trying to really fix it so that it stays fixed.
Martin McCormick
Doug writes:
> As you watch the youtube, please note that he DID NOT USE ANY ARCTIC
> SILVER
> when he installed the CPU!
>
> I doubt that he'll have much life with that laptop!
>
> --doug
Jimmy Johnson writes:
> Here's a 2650 replacement, maybe it will help. https://www.youtube.com/
> watch?v
I expect this will run debian jessie with enough memory
for reasonable projects. The memory modules should be here in a
few days and then it's time to make it happen.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
y the source command is as if you did
type on the keyboard from the prompt.
Any ideas for matching that name?
Thank you.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
First, thank you to both responders. Next, I really
goofed. I forgot that gunzip normally removes the .gz file when
it runs so what I had in place of the .gz file was
InstallingGRFromSource#Using-the-build-gnuradio-script
without the extension. I didn't even miss it when I did rm -i *
so
I use rsnapshot. I have 4 128 GB thumb drives that are
combined in to 1 large drive with the idea of backing up the
system I do most tinkering on on a daily basis for a year and
then I swap out the drives with other drives so that the year
just completed gets stored and the new drives start
xplanations. I even did a which sox on both
systems and there is only one on each.
Martin McCormick
h systems only report
/usr/bin/sox.
Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes regarding rsnapshot:
> Its behavior is correct. The performance is poor, relative to,
> say, zfs snapshots and sends. rsnapshot needs to do a lot more
> work.
I like rsnapshot. I retired two years ago, but that's how
we backed up all our unix boxes and one didn't have to
David Wright writes:
> Install libsox-fmt-mp3 perhaps. (There are others, and an "all" option.)
>
> Cheers,
Thank you! I went for the gold and did the following:
sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-all
The following extra packages will be installed:
libid3tag0 libsox-fmt-ao libsox-fmt-mp3 libsox
7 more channels. What
does one see when it works?
Thank you.
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> If I'm reading this correctly, you've stated that the connection must
> use MPPE (because of the 'require-mppe-128' command in
> /etc/ppp/peers/ufreevpn), but the remote end has replied that MPPE is
> not available. Because of this, pppd terminated the connection.
>
> I would suggest confirming
quot;work" it created
looks like I had gotten that part right.
Many thanks.
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#x27;s backup strategy
as similar to something called plan9.
All constructive suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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Dan Ritter writes
> That sounds very much like rsnapshot.
Thanks very much. I think this is actually a better solution
since it is based on rsync and can use ssh to backup other
systems.
Martin
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For those in the UK, We in North America could
occasionally receive BBC1 from transmitters across the British
Aisles when Solar activity was high. The Band-1 transmissions
were roughly between 41 and 45 MHZ. Audio was AM or amplitude
modulation as well as was the video which was 405-lines a
me stamp read 0 and the locale
rules for America/Chicago interprets that as December 31 of 1969
at 18:00. I was 18, then. The Unix operating system was an infant
at Bell Labs and it would be another ten years before I even kind
of knew how computers worked.
Martin McCormick
In-reply-to: <20150818082444.6a59c...@ron.cerrocora.org>
> Download the latest release of Raspbian from
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ then dd it onto your 32GB sd card,
> and boot the Pi; one of the first thing it will offer you in the setup is
> to resize the partition, so as to use
ursor ends up in the right place.
On a scale of 1-10, this problem is maybe a 3, not a show
stopper but a bit annoying and usually indicates there are other
things that may not work right.
Martin McCormick
Darac Marjal wrote:
> What terminal are you using? Are you using an actual vt100 terminal, a
> vt(NNN) terminal (e.g. a vt200 or vt400 or similar), the linux virtual
> console, a terminal emulator (such as xterm, gnome-terminal etc)?
>
> Ideally, TERM should be set to the name of the actual termi
Jose Martinez writes:
> On Sat, 2015-09-05 at 02:42 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> Thank you for your response, Ric. I hadn't tried alsamixer. In fact,
> I've never pulled the alsa mixer up since install, I'm using PulseAudio,
> and so have used the PulseAudio controls. In any event, I'm not sure
> w
quot;#transcode{avcodec=ts}:std{access=file,mux=mux_mp4,dst=testfile.mp4}"
~/streamwork/ktul.ts
ktul.ts is a stream I recorded from a cable channel we receive.
vlc plays the .ts file.
Martin McCormick
jdd writes:
> I tried to answer from my android phone, but I don't see my message,
> forgive me if this is a duplicate (I'm now at home)
>
>
> the best mp4 converter is handbrake and it have GUI and CLI
First, thanks to all who responded. I did receive a reply
from jdd . It was addresse
lace
on the card causing a contention issue since PNP sees it but
nothing else seems to run right.
Thanks for any constructive ideas.
Martin McCormick
No, I haven't fixed it, but I think I know a systematic
description of the problem.
What has gone wrong when dmesg shows all the sound cards
one has installed on the system in Plug&Play, there are kernel
modules for them all, but we come up short in alsa as one or more
of the cards does no
deloptes writes:
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
>
> ## ALSA portion
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
Thank you. While researching what these lines do, I ran
across what is most likely the true nature of this problem although
I
Some of what we are explaining has to do with how one
sets up their /etc/fstab configuration but usb drives generate a
predictable set of messages in /var/log/syslog. The particular
details change based upon what has already been installed in
one's file system, but if things are working rig
pulled back
in?
The idea is to get all the ALSA modules for the sound
cards showing up in Plug&Play but lose all the OSS modules.
By the way, having both OSS and ALSA modules cause lots of
weirdness that makes no sense at all.
Thank you.
Martin McCormick
The system with the problem is running Debian GNU/Linux 8
and I am trying to run a program I wrote that works as it should
in Debian GNU/Linux 7.
The program sends audio to /dev/dsp or /dev/dsp# if the
card is other than card 0 and it works correctly.
On the Debian 8 syste
ugh now to
describe it.
Martin McCormick
t the buffer values to silence when starting up.
It all works now.
Martin McCormick
ow I realize that it was the problem I
have been mentioning in this post.
Any ideas as to why all files play through Card 1
but some .wav files refuse to play through Card 0? It's usually
all or nothing.
Thank you for all relevant suggestions.
Martin McCormick
installed which is
why I am asking before wasting all this disk space just to turn
cron on. If you don't need kodi, could you just create that path
and file with that one variable to act as a place-holder and
enable cron?
Thanks for all constructive ideas.
Martin McCormick
r words, that sound tells you that it may work 5
more minutes or 5 more years but the clock is ticking or whining
in this case.
I have opened up some of those old drives after tossing
them and you can actually feel the bearings stick slightly
several times for each rotation of the disk. It's amazing they
last as long as they do.
Martin McCormick
w
the Pi is not setup too differently.
Anyway, thanks for helping me think on this.
Martin McCormick
h kermit or even a C program I wrote.
If anybody has gotten the perl Device::SerialPort to
work, I am interested to know what I am doing or not doing.
Thank you for any constructive ideas.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ
was strange and if I should have opened
the device, this may explain all the weirdness. One of the
examples I saw did have a close statement on the device. I bet I
just missed the need to open a file handle.
Thanks. I'll post a message if that worked.
Martin McCormick
); }
# simple echo with no control character processing
If one writes an infinite loop such as while (1) {
if (my $c = $port->input)
{
print ("$c\n");
}
}
all data being received by the device are echoed so you know it
is good so far. That in itself saves a lot of trouble-shooting time.
Thanks for helping me think a bit.
Martin McCormick
ecovering a
little bit of the silence that was there before the next sound.
It seems to also have no effect.
Thanks for any good ideas. It is almost good but not
quite.
Martin McCormick
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tries to come in as ttyS0. That internal modem
is probably the reason why /dev/ttyS0 acts as it does. One can
not send from it, but one can receive.
Is there a way to fake out the system to make it assign
/dev/ttyS1 to the PCMCIA port? That would probably make it work.
Thanks fo
00bc06sc04i00"
ATTRS{enable}=="1"
ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0"
ATTRS{msi_bus}=="1"
looking at parent device '/devices/pci:00':
KERNELS=="pci:00"
SUBSYSTEMS==""
DRIVERS==""
The weirdn
SB dongles and forget about
the PCMCIA option.
Well, at least I learned a bit about udev.
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cts to a Debian host as an
example, it automatically knows to add the dsa host key.
This is no show stopper by any means, but why is this
happening? Thanks.
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drive device designations as they will be different than
what I used in this example and you could really mess up your
day if you don't be careful.
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drive device designations as they will be different than
what I used in this example and you could really mess up your
day if you don't be careful.
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Very sorry for the duplicate posting. It looked like the first
attempt bounced so I re-sent it and both worked.
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Gary Dale writes:
> Personally, I'd just dd the entire old disk to the new one. Then use
> gparted (from a live distro) to resize your partitions.
Actually, that is probably the best solution. I did that on a
previous disk several months ago and it worked fine
> However, since you have already do
I've never seen this type of error which has suddenly popped up.
When I run aptitude update, it starts out normal enough
and then blows up. Here is the full output.
Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Tran
My thanks to Tony Baldwin and
Andrei POPESCU.
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to go to the next task or at least report why it is stuck?
This is why we make backups. I'm glad of that but it
will take a lot of time to get things back to normal again.
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Claudius Hubig writes:
> Your error description is a bit obscure, so I?ll have to ask for more
So far, I do not see any error yet. I will do the tests you
suggested and report back. It does act just like it is waiting
for more input. I have type y, yes and ok and do see the echo
back. I will post
Claudius Hubig writes:
> Your error description is a bit obscure, so I?ll have to ask for more
> information:
I am sorry about that. Right now, it looks very much like it is
just waiting for input.
> Currently running jobs:
> - What is the output of ps auxw?
There are the usual low-number
rs and this is
the first time I have had an upgrade stall out like that.
Many thanks and, if it is truly a goner, I'm glad I have
backups.:-)
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ue is checked, which then means that simply killing it
> should continue the upgrade.
A thousand thanks. The system is at my house and I am at work so
I won't get to play any more with it until later today but this
has been a good training exercise.
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I tried a Control-C which had no effect at all but
hitting Escape suddenly brought things back from the dead and I
was able to complete the safe-upgrade. The system has been
rebooted once and came right up so it is working once again.
Again thanks for the help.
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