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Re: [gcmd-dev] Home made .deb of 1.10.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:33:36 +0000 |
Thanks Uwe,
I will digest all this mess I have written and create a simple howto. It is
actually quite simple now that I have figured out the steps. I do need to
experiment a little with having the old repos connected. I agree with tromoto.
It is probably best to comment out the entries for the 18.04 repos unless
something comes up and needs them enabled. Building a new verson of gnome
commander perhaps. At the moment I am working through some bizarre hardware
issues.
A year or so back the built in sound card in my Dell Precision workstation
died. It was out of warranty but I had purchased it with a Visa credit card.
The Visa extended warranty paid me for a replacement system board. Since
everything else worked fine I did not really want a refurb system board so I
purchased a USB sound dongle for about $15 US and spent the other money on
something else. The USB gizmo worked great except that sometimes when I enabled
it on a virtual machine (Vmware) and then returned it to the host - the host
had no sound and I had to reboot. That is a bit of an engineering task as I
have to suspend 2 or 3 virtual machines and then at boot enter the pass phrase
for the main partition then after logon unlock and mount another encrypted
partition and finally unlock a Veracrypt container of archive data. I try to
keep reboots to once a month - when I perform a cold backup of the OS. So...
I purchased an actual PCIe sound card on evilbay for $12 US. When I was
installing it I discovered another hardware anomaly. When I first purchased the
computer 3+ years ago I found that my Brother MFC 240c multi-function box would
print from the workstation but it was not detected by the xsane scanning
program. In fact it would not detect on any computer with a USB 3.0 controller
- even if hooked to a USB 2.0 port (except for my Dell T130 server.) I worked
with a fellow in New Zealand via linuxquestions.org for about 3 weeks and
finally came to the conclusion that it was a hardware incompatibility. My
workaround was to install a "high speed!" USB 2.0 controller ($4.75 US on
evilbay of course :-) and use that for the MFC. Scanned like a dream. Well...
When I had the computer on its side to install the sound card I observed that
there were no cables connected to the USB 2.0 card. I must have plugged all USB
cables into the built in USB 3.0 ports when I had the system torn down so I
could blow the dust out of the heat sinks. This was some months ago and I have
been scanning just fine. Somehow the system now detects the MFC scanner on USB
3.0. I pulled the USB 2.0 card as it was no longer needed.
Now I have sound which the host and a VM can share without switching back and
forth which is great. However, when I did the speaker test to check the
functioning I found that the Front Right speaker test sound comes out the left
speaker and vice versa. I don't think this matters as the speakers are only a
sound bar under the monitor.
I will get on the howto for Gnome Commander ASAP. I may try building it on
CentOS as well. However, as Red Hat has dropped a bomb on CentOS, I am not sure
I will be using it for the long term. Certainly not after version 7 which dies
in 2024.
Ken
I don't have a Swiss bank account but I do have a Swiss email address :-)
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Saturday, January 9, 2021 6:30 PM, Uwe Scholz <u.scholz83@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> quite a lot of things you have written down here. ^_^ I don't know at the
> moment what to extract to create a simple howto for other Mate users.
>
> If you would like you could create a step by step document and we can provide
> it on the gcmd homepage, like you did before.
>
> FYI, I have created a quick howto about contributing to the Gcmd homepage
> here: https://gcmd.github.io/dev.html#homepage
>
> It is basically up to everyone to add content to the homepage, if you like. I
> am open to anything.
>
> Best
> Uwe
>
> PS: Regarding the GnomeVFS errors... I think you can ignore them as long as
> you can work with the programm itself and see/edit files. Connections to
> other file systems (WebDAV, Samba, Ftp) might be buggy.
>
> Am Fri, 08 Jan 2021 19:06:59 +0000 schrieb kht-lists via gcmd-devel:
>
> > It gets better and better...
> > [...]
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