On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:19:41 -0700 "Kevin Williams" <[email protected]> dijo:
>John, what was your specific error that you got when using SSH to your >computer? What is the local SSH server not already running? Way too long go to remember. >Do I understand correctly that you got the silicondust App to see the >TV tuner on Mint and Ubuntu, but not on Debian? Yes. On Debian the utility wouldn't even launch, with the error message that it couldn't find the tuner. Then I discovered that I could ping the tuner from Debian (192.168.1.112), and from Debian I was even able to download new firmware and install it, with a command furnished by Silicondust. But the command had a place to put the tuner's ID number, and the command failed. When I replaced the ID number with the IP address the command worked and the new firmware is now installed. I worked on getting the utility to search for the IP address instead of the ID number, but couldn't find a way to do it. I even played with the utility's .desktop file, but without success. >You said you wanted to move away from snap and a bunch too, and you >didn’t like the artwork on Mint. Are you still looking to try more >distro’s? Maybe. Right now I want to get Debian 12 installed on the new drive. It's installed, but I can't get it to boot. Once I solve that problem I'll immediately see if I can get it to see the TV tuner. Everyone blames VirtualBox for the tuner not being seen, in spite of the fact that I found a thread on the Debian forums where over a dozen people had the same problem, and none of them succeeded. If Debian can see the tuner, then Debian will be my new OS. If not, then I am still distro shopping. >If you prefer to stick with apt-based distributions, what about MX >Linux? It’s based on Debian, but has many papercuts worked out, >possibly, including the one for the TV tuner. I have heard of MX Linux, and it's on my list of possibilities. >If you’re willing to try an Linux distribution not based on apt, I can >say that Fedora and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed have improved tremendously in >usability and reliability in the last five years. >If you’re not happy with Mint, and if MX Linux does not work with the >TV tuner either, would you consider trying those rpm-based distros? I ran Fedora for about two years, until I finally got tired of their forced six month upgrades. I understand why Red Hat has that requirement, and I respect their decision. But it's not for me. As for others, I once briefly tried OpenSUSE, but not a lot of others. I want a combination of cutting edge, good multimedia support, yet high stability, a tall order for any distro. I don't find those features as readily in RPM distros as in Debian. Plus, it takes quite a lot of different commands and ways of doing things.
