Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble

["K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>]

Well it's hardly a netbook.
It has 4 USB ports, an HDMI port, two audio jacks, an Ethernet port, an SD
slot, and an IR port.
I've changed a couple HDs on it already.
It's a 64 bit desktop, they are designed to be mounted to the back of a
monitor, if one wishes to do that.
It will be a nice addition to my Ham shack.
I want to get windows 10 on a VM in Ubuntu on it, because not all the Ham
radio is accessible in Linux.
I tried the windows 10 VM on it once, and the windows 10 just crawled along,
and some research I did lead me to know that I have to install some special
utilities in Ubuntu and KVM in order to make the windows play well in KVM.
But I haven't gotten that far with it yet.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; 
<debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble


If the computer is a netbook, you're better off replacing the computer and
trashing the existing computer after data recovery operations.  Netbooks
rely mostly on software and have limited parts inside and where I
volunteered for 8 years at Smartco we routinely sent them to the junk yard
since it wasn't worth harvesting any parts from them to build referbished
computers.


-- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:

> Yeah, I don't know how easy it would be to change the motherboard, the
> computer is small, about the size of a double sandwich.
> I put in my own RAM and HD, that part is easy, but I don't know if it is a
> simple process on one of these to disconnect the peripheral plugs from the
> motherboard.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 1:34 AM
> Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
>
>
> If you can get local to that machine and not use ssh to connect you may
> want to check the internal sound chip and if it has failed, you may need a
> new motherboard.  The hard drives here can't  verify downloaded files any
> longer so it's likely this computer also needs a new motherboard.
>
>
> -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
> order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
>
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
>
> > It was working, and decided to stop talking.
> > I also tried your idea about the power maybe not being enough, and tried 
> > a
> > bigger PS.
> > This Intel NUC will use anything from 9 to 19 volts for power.
> > I was using an old Braille & Speak 12 volt PS, and I replaced it with a
> > laptop PS.
> > Glenn
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 11:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
> >
> >
> > I'm glad you had an external sound card to use and I'm glad I offered 
> > you
> > that suggestion.
> > If you're not using the latest version of Ubuntu frimware is likely to 
> > be
> > old on that version and may not include firmware for your internal sound
> > chip.  If you're using the latest version of ubuntu and this computer
> > talked in the past with the internal sound chip, then you have a real
> > mystery on your hands.  Unless you had electrical damage inside that
> > computer and that internal sound chip got fried.
> >
> >
> > -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and amo. Please use in that
> > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Mar 2023, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jude,
> > > Here's an update.
> > > After stumbling around with alsamixer, it finally booted into the GUI
> > > and
> > > Orca talks.
> > > This is, however, through the USB external card.
> > > So on the desktop, I looked at system preferences, hardware, and 
> > > sound,
> > > it
> > > only showed the USB soundcard, as a choice of devices.
> > > So although alsamixer sees it in the CLI, the GUI does not even see 
> > > it.
> > > So until I find a way to have the desktop see the internal sound chip,
> > > I'm
> > > stuck with the external soundcard.
> > > Glenn
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> > > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> > > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 10:23 PM
> > > Subject: Re: OT, Ubuntu Sound Trouble
> > >
> > >
> > > Have you tried orca --replace lately?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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