[Trisquel-users] Ripping Songs with Brasero
I'd like to rip some songs from a CD I own but I don't want to copy the whole CD, just a couple songs to have in my computer. Is it possible to do this with Brasero? Brasero gives me 2 options: To create a 1:1 copy of a CD or to burn it. Is there a way to select the songs you want to rip? I'm used to doing this with Windows Media Player but have no idea how to do it with Brasero.
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU Hurd/ advantages
As far as I know (I haven't given it a try) Hurd doesn't (still) support audio or USB.
[Trisquel-users] Trouble installing with full disk encryption
Hello, I'm new to Trisquel but not entirely new to GNU/Linux. I've been trying to install Trisquel on a T60p laptop using the text installer so I can set up LUKS for full disk encryption. If I use the guided setup option to use an encrypted disk, it fails. If I do a manual setup, if I try to use aes-xes-plain64, it also fails. If I instead choose one of the CBC or EBC options, everything proceeds as expected. Is this normal? I'm conjecturing aes-xes-plain64 may not be completely free, or perhaps relies on blobs in the kernel that are not present? (I know down the road I'll probably have issues with the ATI FireXL graphics in this machine, but I'm hoping things will work well enough without acceleration to be usable. I'd like to eventually more this machine to Coreboot.)
Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU Hurd/ advantages
I tried Debian GNU/Hurd in one computer I have and the GRUB didn't install. This was the only issue. In a virtual machine it works (KVM or VirtualBox) :-)
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ripping Songs with Brasero
I found Brasero... lacking. Perhaps try Sound-juicer or some other tool.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ripping Songs with Brasero
OK, I'll try that.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble installing with full disk encryption
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 04:12:27PM +0100, jjw3...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to Trisquel but not entirely new to GNU/Linux. I've been trying to install Trisquel on a T60p laptop using the text installer Talk about timing, I got a T60 last night - and Encrypted LVM failed for me as well from expert install! I restarted the process twice, same result both times = red screen with Failed on it :( The exact same process works fine on my Asus EEE machines (several different models), so I do believe this has something to do with the T60 specifically. I haven't searched online yet for a resolution/cause as of yet... I'm certainly now looking forwared to any other relies this post gets. I'll certainly let you know if I find anything. (I know down the road I'll probably have issues with the ATI FireXL graphics in this machine, but I'm hoping things will work well enough without acceleration to be usable. I'd like to eventually more this machine to Coreboot.) The ATI is going to be an issue! I have Intel in my T60. My reason for purchasing this machine is to eventually put Coreboot (libre version), on here as well - I haven't done this before, and am certainly a bit nervous about it, honestly. Will certainly start researching it soon however. Best of luck!
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble installing with full disk encryption
Well, I can tell you how to get around it and still encrypt the disk: 1) Select manual partitioning 2) Create a ~300MB partition, set it to ext4, set it's mount point to /boot. Make sure to set it bootable. 3) Create a partition about 1 to 1.5 the size of your physical ram to be used as an encrypted swap space (some people like to do this, some don't - up to you.) Set the type as space for encryption (not swap), set the passphrase type as random passphrase. Make sure to set the IV method to cbc-essiv:sha256 4) Create your data partition. set it also as physical space for encryption, but leave it set for a password/passphrase rather than random. Likewise, remember to change the IV method from xts-plain64 to cbc-essiv:sha256 5) Use the option to initialize encryption. 6) Use the Create encrypted volumes option. Select the two encrypted partitions you just set up. 7) Finish the encryption setup. It should ask you for only one passphrase (you enter it twice for verification) 8) When you get back, it should have already set the smaller encrypted partition to swap. Select the other one and set it to mount as your root partition. 9) Continue on your way. There are probably some implications to changing the IV method from xts-plain64 to cbc-essiv:sha256, so if that's important to you make sure to research them - I know Ubuntu used to default to cbc-essiv and now goes to xts-plain64, so I'm assuming it has enhanced security. At least this way you aren't completely without a full disk encryption option however. Also I typed that all up from the top of my head, so I'm sure I misnamed something - let me know if you need my help and I can run through it and tidy up my descriptions. As to why xts-plain64 causes a failure on the T60, I haven't worked out. It worked fine in a VirtualBox install I just did. Perhaps it's processor related? By the way, I have a couple of these - it should run well for you on the base T60 with Intel graphics, but you'll probably need a usb wifi adapter if you don't already have one. The t60p is a tragedy- it comes with an Atheros wifi card but the ATI graphics :( The other real bummer is the T60s with nVidia - the graphics work with nouveau but the quality of the video hardware was pretty spotty. At the computer recycler where I got my T60s they told me they pretty much junk the nVidia ones straight away since they cause them a lot of problems.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trouble installing with full disk encryption
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:30:28PM +0100, jjw3...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Also I typed that all up from the top of my head, so I'm sure I misnamed something - let me know if you need my help and I can run through it and tidy up my descriptions. THANKS so much. SNIP By the way, I have a couple of these - it should run well for you on the base T60 with Intel graphics, but you'll probably need a usb wifi adapter if you don't already have one. The t60p is a tragedy- it comes with an Atheros wifi card but the ATI graphics :( The other My T60 comes with Intel Wireless 3945ABG, which I assumed would work OOTB with Trisquel - you're right, it doesn't, relies on some non-free firmware crap :( SNIP Thanks again!
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=XX, with XX being an hexadecimal quantity, usually allows one to change the brightness by directly manipulating the hardware. I use that...
Re: [Trisquel-users] gluglug thinkpad x60 w/ coreboot mini review
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gluglug-thinkpad-x60-w-coreboot-mini-review#comment-49603
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ripping Songs with Brasero
I use abcde, available from Trisquel repositories; it is very good -- only, it has no GUI, but I prefer that way: just edit the config files, create alias if you want and voilà.
[Trisquel-users] Is TDE free software
Hi So I want to install trinity DE and it's only available as a ppa so is it a free software or not Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ripping Songs with Brasero
I can recommend bashburn. It also has no gui but some kind of pseudo gui (ncurses interface) and it worked like a charm everytime I used it and it also has the possibility to copy a cd to the hard disk and convert the wav files to mp3, ogg or flacs. It's very easy to use; only problem: you have to do (very simple) configuration steps after the first start which only take 5 minutes. So give it a try! Though I have to mention that I never used this feature.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is TDE free software
Trinity is a fork of KDE 3.5, so unless there were proprietary components in that version of KDE, there ought to not be any proprietary components in Trinity.
Re: [Trisquel-users] How does Trisquel Mini work?
service script_name start will execute system V init script script_name located in /etc/init.d. System V init scripts are executed on boot. A Login Manager requires this, otherwise you'd need to start it manually from the terminal which makes it much easier to just type xinit in order to start X11. You can disable a system V init script by typing sudo update-rc.d script_name disable. man update-rc.d man service
Re: [Trisquel-users] Ripping Songs with Brasero
The best CD ripper I know is Rubyripper, which is a secure ripper - it rips each file at least twice until it gets each block to ensure the file is not corrupt which makes it slower compared to other rippers. You can select which tracks to rip in the settings. It can be downloaded from this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/ruby-ripper The ppa maintainer recommends using morituri which is available in Trisquel 6's repositories.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Is TDE free software
They seem to have live CDs available. Other than the Debian based probably have the vanilla Linux kernel with non-free blobs and all. Besides that it's probably clean.
