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Re: MIDI problem--no sound

by Ben T. Fender

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:39:27 -0500 Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote: > On 1/14/21 10:26 PM, Ben T. Fender wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:39:19 -0500 > > Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote: > > > >> Tnx for your interest. This is certainly not a straight-forward setup! > > Sorry, it looks like I replied to your email instead > > of the list (often do that with lists) > > > > It isn't THAT unusual I think, have you been able > > to launch qjackctl, THEN qsynth, THEN Rosegarden > > and either load a midi file into rosegarden OR > > compose a few notes and hear them when you play > > them? Maybe starting with less would be a first > > step before adding the keyboard to it all. I can > > walk you through my little routine (without the > > keyboard part) to see what comes loose :) > Might as well try it, but the keyboard is what I really want. > Altho I'm pretty rusty, I used to gig out on piano on > weekends, and I can get some good sounds on a B3, > so I'd like to find out what the midi can do. > --doug I see bengan is leading you in another direction, maybe you wanna start with that if all you want to do is play your keyboard. When I played on mine and wanted nothing else I just plugged it into my sound card. To get a music-session going here's what I do. NB. I have never once seen a day when things work the same way under Leap and/or Tumbleweed, for example the Audacity GUI for the last year or so has been unusable under tumbleweed. I'm doing this on my g73 laptop under Leap-15.2 1 Start Audacity (2.2.2) to familiarize yourself with it and to test if sound works 'at all'. Observe it has a dropdown list on the left just below the mic icon. This should show 'alsa' as the selected option. Import some audio into audacity (an mp3 or video with sound file) and see if you can hear the output. Don't go past this until you hear music. 2 Start qjackctl (0.4.3).. default settings 'should' work. Open the 'connections' window, see what lurks there, notice that Audacity is not there, it never will be. 3 Revisit Audacity and observe that you need to RESTART it because it's still showing ALSA as the only option on the badly ie. un-'labeled' dropdown list. Once restarted Audacity will also show JACK as an option, select it. Reload the audio file again and test if sound still works, this time using Jack. 4 Shutdown Audacity and qjackctl, just remember that if you need Audacity under jack you have to start it AFTER qjackctl (this applies to just about everything). 5 Start VLC (3.0.11.1) to familiarize yourself with it and to test if sound works 'at all'. Import some audio into audacity (an mp3 or video with sound file) and see if you can hear the output. Don't go past this until you hear music. This is the equivalent of #1 above because you have to count your fingers each time after shaking hands with something. 6 Start qjackctl (0.4.3).. default settings 'should' work. Open the 'connections' window, see what lurks there, notice that VLC in not there and never will be. 7 Revisit VLC and observe that you need to (a) set VLC in tools-prefs-audio-output, (b) save setings and (c) restart it. Once restarted reload the audio file again and test if sound still works, this time using Jack. 8 Shutdown VLC, just remember that if you need it under jack you have to have JACK in saved prefs as a prerquisite. This time leave qjackctl running with the 'connections' window left open. HUD: you now have some feel for how jack controlled via the gui qjackctl works or does not work. 9 Start qsynth (0.5.0) the gui front end for fluidsynth. Observe it appears in the qjackctl 'connections' window. NB. Rosegarden could work without jack but will NOT work without a synth (it does NOT have an internal synth) and fluidsynth controlled by the qsynth gui will NOT produce sound without a loaded soundfont. Visit setup-soundfonts to see that a usable soundfont is loaded. If not, work this until one is loadad. HUD: I work with ZynADdSubFX a lot so that's always installed. 10 Start Rosegarden (well here we go again, even if music by some miracle works in suse it's *garanteed not to work for long*). My RG is segfaulting, I don't know how many times I've been through this, for now I'm just gonna press on faking it. Observe that RG has also been recognised and connected in the qjackctl 'connections' window (as usual, it will not be there if you start RG before qjackctl). Also you need to set up studio-managemididevices to match ports to devices. 11 Import some little midi fie into RG, set that track to a midi instrument or to a ZynnAddSubFX voice (the zynn dssi used internally in RG). Try to play the track, are you hearing anything? Don't go past this until you are hearing it. 12 plug in you keyboard, if I remember correctly it should show up in the runing qjackctl connections window. RG should then also make it usable as a source OR as a target. As a source you can play the keyboard and record a midi track in RG (write the shet music) but I'll stop here because I haven't donethat for a long time now. As an exercise you can start qjackctl (0.6.3) under tumblewed, open its now relabelled 'graph' window and then start/stop qsyth and rosegarden a few times observing the automation in the qjackctl window. Don't use Audacity in TW however, the gui is unusable. HTH For music there's an AV-Linux distro, I tried it once but don't know its current status.

3 years, 11 months

[opensuse-support] Re: ConvertAll

by Malcolm

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:04:02 -0400 Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote: > On 8/30/20 9:36 PM, Malcolm wrote: > > On Sun 30 Aug 2020 09:10:57 PM CDT, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > >> I downloaded the file convertall-0.7.5.tar.gz and untarred it, > >> producing a directory entry in Downloads > >> > >> drwxr-xr-x 7 doug 1000 4096 Jul 4 2018 ConvertAll then: > >> > >> /snip/ > >> > >> This is a useful program. What am I doing wrong? (It seems to be in > >> some repo somewhere ready to use, and I think I had it back in > >> 2019, but I don't know how to get it now, and I don't know why the > >> zypper install command doesn't work here.) > > Hi > > It's a python3 application... > > > > https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Extra/convertall > > I'm afraid that line doesn't help me. I don't know what to do from > that web-site.I downloaded the file, but I don't know where it is--it > doesn't show up in my Downloads directory, and locate and whereis > can't find it either, and I'm not familiar with YaST 1-Click Install, > which the system does not recognize, even if I put it all in lower > case. Thanx for the input--please give me a bit more of it! > > --doug Hi Since you haven't advised which openSUSE release your running, you can (as others indicated add the repo) or browse to the download directory for the release your on and just zypper in direct, for example for Leap 15.2 it would be; <zypper in https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/no…> Assuming you don't need the *-lang file you should be good to go... -- Cheers Malcolm °¿° SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) Tumbleweed 20200826 | GNOME Shell 3.36.5 | 5.8.2-1-default Intel DQ77MK MB | Xeon E3-1245 V2 X8 @ 3.40 GHz | Intel/Nvidia up 10:18, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.20, 0.27 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 years, 3 months

Re: printer paper size

by Patrick Shanahan

* Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> [02-03-21 14:39]: > > > On 2/2/21 11:51 AM, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > You need to use root credentials to make changes using localhost:631 unless you add your user to the right groups. > > > > Ken Schneider > You haven't been reading the mail. I can open CUPS, I can (maybe) modify the > printer characteristics, but > when I try to do so, CUPS asks for a user name and password. I put in the > only username I ever use--doug-- > and the only password I use on the computer, which I use to boot up and to > activate an admin function with su - > CUPS says forbidden. If the computer thinks I have a different user name, > how do I find out? And I'm pretty sure > it won't tell me the password it's expecting, but I'm damned if I'm going to > change that, since I need it all the time. > --doug > > > > > On Feb 2, 2021, at 5:57 AM, Axel Braun <docb(a)opensuse.org> wrote: > > > > > > Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021, 11:52:47 CET schrieb Carlos E. R.: > > > > > On 02/02/2021 08.27, Axel Braun wrote: > > > > > Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021, 01:59:36 CET schrieb Doug McGarrett: > > > > > > OK, if that's the case, how do I find out what the epson wants to see > > > > > > for a definition? > > > > > > It certainly did not want to see any of the definitions I tried. > > > > > Maybe I issed something, but if you fire up the CUPS menu (localhost:631) > > > > > , > > > > > select the printer -> maintenance -> change default values, there are > > > > > drop- > > > > > down menus for each value.... > > > > You missed that he gets not authorized. > > > Thank you Carlos - root does either not work? > > > when cups asks for user name, use "root" and the password you use when you use "su -". -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode

3 years, 10 months

Re: help with rename

by DennisG

On 2/5/21 6:12 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > On 2/5/21 1:58 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> * Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> [02-05-21 13:50]: >>> >>> On 2/5/21 3:34 AM, Bengt Gördén wrote: >>>> On 2021-02-05 07:26, Doug McGarrett wrote: >>>>> Someone who has used Linux for years may expect >>>>> to have that combination. >>>> There is also "Discover". From the info: >>>> >>>> Discover is a graphical software manager for the KDE Plasma >>>> desktop It >>>> helps users to find software they might want easily and quickly. >>>> >>>> By allowing to navigate a software library by search, categories, >>>> top lists along with detailed application information including >>>> screenshots and reviews, users can more quickly find applications >>>> that suit their needs. >>>> >>>> >>>> It's probably already installed on your system. If not: >>>> >>>> zypper install discover >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> OK, you're right. Discover does list a batch of apps. Except that >>> the files >>> listed are not in any rational order, >>> I suppose one could say that it takes the place of synaptics. Maybe. >>> >>> But while I'm at it, some other useful commands have been eliminated >>> for no >>> apparent reason-- >>> one that comes to mind right away is whereis and I had thought of >>> another >>> but now it slips what's left of my mind! Oh, well. . . . >> whereis is still there but perhaps you neglected to install it. it is >> provided by util-linux-2.36.1-1.1.x86_64 > Please tell me how to install that. Thanx--doug >> Just use YaST Software (please!) to Search for 'util-linux'. You don't need to know the version beforehand. Comes right up. --dg

3 years, 10 months

Re: [opensuse-support] Cannot complete registration with openSUSEforums

by Knurpht-openSUSE

Op zaterdag 13 juni 2020 21:03:58 CEST schreef Doug McGarrett: > On 6/13/20 6:20 AM, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote: > > Op zaterdag 13 juni 2020 06:42:29 CEST schreef Doug McGarrett: > >> On 6/6/19 1:03 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >>> On 06/06/2019 18.38, JigsTheorem wrote: > >>>> Hi all > >>>> > >>>> I have a problem with Leap 15.1 and went to sign up with openSUSE > >>>> forums. > >>>> I > >>>> received a validation email, which contained neatly ordered garbage but > >>>> no > >>>> validation code. The sender of this email is the webmaster from > >>>> microfocus, > >>>> but an email to that address just bounces. I have since discovered that > >>>> openSUSE and microfocus are no longer associated. > >>>> > >>>> So, given that the validation process is broken, how do I get signed up > >>>> to the forums? > >>> > >>> Can you register to Bugzilla, or our wiki? It is the same login for all. > >> > >> OT: I was subscribed to (I think) this list, or some general questions > >> list, > >> but I forget the email address, and I can't look it up on the computer > >> since > >> the computer crashed badly and the disk cannot be accessed at the moment > >> --the machine will not boot into a system. I will have to reinstall TW on > >> some computer, and I need to get some questions answered before I do. > >> Thanx for your assistance! > >> --doug (dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net) > > > > Don't reuse an old thread. If you have a question, I don't see one in your > > post. > > The question: is this the general question/answer list, at > opensuse-support(a)opensuse.org? > I don't remember a long email address like that. I know Knurpht was on > that list that I was using. > So if this is not that list, what is the email address of the list I > should be using? > Thanx--doug IIRC you were on opensuse(a)opensuse.org, but you can check at lists.opensuse.org -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 years, 6 months

Re: [opensuse-support] Re: adding missing apps via YAST or zypper, etc.

by Doug McGarrett

On 7/4/20 7:11 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> [07-04-20 17:45]: > [...] >> I mentioned in a reply to Patrick (a few notes further on in the list) >> that an app that is mentioned in the system, aspell, might fulfill the >> requirement, if I could figure out how to install and use it. > No, you replied private mail. Noone else saw your reply. > >> OTOH, I have used Artha for years without any sign of a problem, and I >> would certainly be happy to go back to it. > w/o regard to it's possible security problems! Yes. > >> How do I get to the Education repo? > you need to do a little looking for answers yourself so you maybe retain > some knowledge as you have been advised even today about: > zypper addrepo > >> This system of alternate (or extra?) repos has baffled me for the entire >> year I have been a Suser. > But you have been an openSUSE user for much longer than a year, many > years. I have mail in this list from "Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:06:12 > -0400" That was then. Shortly after that I installed PCLinuxOS and remained with it until about 2019, since in about 2016 0r 2017 their upgrade consisted of a revised and castrated edition. I could not "upgrade" to that trainwreck, and after some time with the earlier version, I looked to some other options, and decided on OpenSUSE TW in 2019. So for all practical purposes, I am a newbie on OpenSUSE. >> Once I know how to get to these extra repos, what is the means of >> finding what may be available within them? (Frinstance, I'm told that >> Master PDF Editor is hiding in one of them, and I'd like to get it and >> use it. It has features that Okular does not.) (Found it. Apparently it's presently aimed at Leap, but it seems to work on TW. If not, I can always zap it.) >> and you have been advised by several individuals on this particular thread >> how to accomplish this. Not that I'm aware of, but I am learning. /snip/ I would say that the latest version of the s/w is more difficult to maneuver around than the last. If the old computer hadn't died, I'd still be using the (updated) edition of 2019. I managed to get both printers and the scanner working in the 2019 version; not yet working in the 2020 edition. (The packaged lists of printers for both HP and Epson are even older than I can remember! And HP expects me to have Windows, MAC, or UNIX--Linux is not even on the horizon in their present "guidance.") --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 years, 5 months

Re: [opensuse-support] Re: ConvertAll

by Doug McGarrett

On 8/31/20 8:31 AM, Malcolm wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 00:04:02 -0400 > Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote: > >> On 8/30/20 9:36 PM, Malcolm wrote: >>> On Sun 30 Aug 2020 09:10:57 PM CDT, Doug McGarrett wrote: >>> >>>> I downloaded the file convertall-0.7.5.tar.gz and untarred it, >>>> producing a directory entry in Downloads >>>> >>>> drwxr-xr-x 7 doug 1000 4096 Jul 4 2018 ConvertAll then: >>>> >>>> /snip/ >>>> >>>> This is a useful program. What am I doing wrong? (It seems to be in >>>> some repo somewhere ready to use, and I think I had it back in >>>> 2019, but I don't know how to get it now, and I don't know why the >>>> zypper install command doesn't work here.) >>> Hi >>> It's a python3 application... >>> >>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/KDE:Extra/convertall >> I'm afraid that line doesn't help me. I don't know what to do from >> that web-site.I downloaded the file, but I don't know where it is--it >> doesn't show up in my Downloads directory, and locate and whereis >> can't find it either, and I'm not familiar with YaST 1-Click Install, >> which the system does not recognize, even if I put it all in lower >> case. Thanx for the input--please give me a bit more of it! >> >> --doug > Hi > Since you haven't advised which openSUSE release your running, you can > (as others indicated add the repo) or browse to the download > directory for the release your on and just zypper in direct, for > example for Leap 15.2 it would be; > > <zypper in https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/no…> > > Assuming you don't need the *-lang file you should be good to go... The release is Tumbleweed 0826-2020. So the line you suggested is probably not what I need. I have asked in another post how to install all 4 standard repos from TW. Thanx for your interest--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 years, 3 months

Re: printer paper size

by Doug McGarrett

On 2/3/21 2:42 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> [02-03-21 14:39]: >> >> On 2/2/21 11:51 AM, Kenneth Schneider wrote: >>> You need to use root credentials to make changes using localhost:631 unless you add your user to the right groups. >>> >>> Ken Schneider >> You haven't been reading the mail. I can open CUPS, I can (maybe) modify the >> printer characteristics, but >> when I try to do so, CUPS asks for a user name and password. I put in the >> only username I ever use--doug-- >> and the only password I use on the computer, which I use to boot up and to >> activate an admin function with su - >> CUPS says forbidden. If the computer thinks I have a different user name, >> how do I find out? And I'm pretty sure >> it won't tell me the password it's expecting, but I'm damned if I'm going to >> change that, since I need it all the time. >> --doug >>>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 5:57 AM, Axel Braun <docb(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021, 11:52:47 CET schrieb Carlos E. R.: >>>>>> On 02/02/2021 08.27, Axel Braun wrote: >>>>>> Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021, 01:59:36 CET schrieb Doug McGarrett: >>>>>>> OK, if that's the case, how do I find out what the epson wants to see >>>>>>> for a definition? >>>>>>> It certainly did not want to see any of the definitions I tried. >>>>>> Maybe I issed something, but if you fire up the CUPS menu (localhost:631) >>>>>> , >>>>>> select the printer -> maintenance -> change default values, there are >>>>>> drop- >>>>>> down menus for each value.... >>>>> You missed that he gets not authorized. >>>> Thank you Carlos - root does either not work? >>>> > when cups asks for user name, use "root" and the password you use when you > use "su -". > > Thanx, Pat. It finally came back to me. --doug

3 years, 10 months

Re: printer paper size

by Kenneth Schneider

I will repeat this until you understand it. YOU MUST USE THE USER NAME “ROOT” NOT YOUR USERNAME AND USE “ROOT’S” PASSWORD. Until you do this you will NEVER be able admin a *nix system. Certain operations on a Unix/Linux system require the credentials of almighty “root”. Accept this fact of life. Ken Schneider > On Feb 3, 2021, at 2:38 PM, Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote: > > > >> On 2/2/21 11:51 AM, Kenneth Schneider wrote: >> You need to use root credentials to make changes using localhost:631 unless you add your user to the right groups. >> >> Ken Schneider > You haven't been reading the mail. I can open CUPS, I can (maybe) modify the printer characteristics, but > when I try to do so, CUPS asks for a user name and password. I put in the only username I ever use--doug-- > and the only password I use on the computer, which I use to boot up and to activate an admin function with su - > CUPS says forbidden. If the computer thinks I have a different user name, how do I find out? And I'm pretty sure > it won't tell me the password it's expecting, but I'm damned if I'm going to change that, since I need it all the time. > --doug >> >>>> On Feb 2, 2021, at 5:57 AM, Axel Braun <docb(a)opensuse.org> wrote: >>> >>> Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021, 11:52:47 CET schrieb Carlos E. R.: >>>>> On 02/02/2021 08.27, Axel Braun wrote: >>>>> Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2021, 01:59:36 CET schrieb Doug McGarrett: >>>>>> OK, if that's the case, how do I find out what the epson wants to see >>>>>> for a definition? >>>>>> It certainly did not want to see any of the definitions I tried. >>>>> Maybe I issed something, but if you fire up the CUPS menu (localhost:631) >>>>> , >>>>> select the printer -> maintenance -> change default values, there are >>>>> drop- >>>>> down menus for each value.... >>>> You missed that he gets not authorized. >>> Thank you Carlos - root does either not work? >>> > >

3 years, 10 months

Re: [opensuse-support] cpu temperature

by Kenneth Schneider

Ken Schneider > On Sep 7, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett(a)optonline.net> wrote: > > > >> On 9/7/20 9:12 AM, Daniel Morris wrote: >> Hi Carlos, >> >> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: >>>> The file: >>>> >>>> /etc/systemd/journald.conf >>>> >>>> needs to have this set/not commented out (as root) >>>> >>>> Storage=persistent >>>> >>>> then restart the journal service (without the leading hash) >>>> >>>> #systemctl restart systemd-journald >>> I think you only need to create the persistent directory. Just creating >>> "/var/log/journal/" should do it - I don't know if restarting is needed. >>> >>> I know that this does work on Leap. >>> >>> Doug, please do: >>> >>> ls /var/log/journal/ >>> >>> If you get: >>> >>> ls: cannot access '/var/log/journal/': No such file or directory >>> >>> then do: >>> >>> mkdir /var/log/journal/ >>> >>> as root, obviously. >> I think you also need the right ownership and permissions in /var/log >> and doing the above is going to depend on the umask of root, too. You're >> aiming for: >> >> drwxr-sr-x 1 root systemd-journal 64 Jan 18 2019 journal >> >> so that becomes: >> >> #mkdir /var/log/journal >> #chgrp systemd-journal /var/log/journal >> #chmod 755 /var/log/journal; chmod g+s /var/log/journal > > drwxr-sr-x 3 root systemd-journal 4096 Aug 28 05:05 . > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Sep 7 14:04 .. > drwxr-sr-x 2 root systemd-journal 4096 Sep 5 19:12 f5b8154985b1452e9f0ec7020a049032 > linux1:/var/log/journal # > > Here's the sequence of events, including my typos, etc: > linux1:/home/doug # mkdir /var/log/journal > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/log/journal’: File exists > linux1:/home/doug # chgrp systemd-journal /var/log/journal > linux1:/home/doug # chmod 755 /var/log/journal; chmod g+s /var/log/journal chmod 2755 /var/log/journal Will also work. Ken > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner(a)opensuse.org

4 years, 3 months

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