Re: [gcmd-dev] Home made .deb of 1.10.3 on Ubuntu 20.04

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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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