Re: [Dorset] Screen drop out

2024-10-29 Thread CA Wills
station and had wondered if that was the issue. Have to say that I am not impressed with with this current version of Mint XFCE, found it a bit slow and clunky. Also my current install is a fresh install after the upgrade attempt from 21.3 tied its self in a knot Tim H On 28/10/2024 17:56

[Dorset] Screen drop out

2024-10-28 Thread CA Wills
Hi All Recently I _upgraded_ both Laptop & PC from Mint 21.3 to Mint 22 after several runs with a 'live' version; all appeared to be OK.  Laptop was first, not a problem.  Few days later did the PC, all checked out OK: but when my wife spent several hours writing to friends then playing Mahjo

Re: [Dorset] Interesting feature of LUG Mails

2024-10-22 Thread CA Wills
Just read through this subject comments. Not sure if this is any connection but our Church sends out auto reminders to people with a 'Service' coming up.  But anyone with a Gmail account do not get the email - it would appear it's a change taken place in the Gmail system.  Not sure if it's bee

Re: [Dorset] Printer output black not printing

2024-10-15 Thread CA Wills
ux and be Wireless or Ethernet connection to the router (network), under £110. Looking on the internet the HP printers all seem to come with auto supply inks, Epson with fax and not sure with Canon as previous Canon had connection problems (that was years ago!!) Any recommendations / suggestio

Re: [Dorset] Printer output black not printing

2024-10-14 Thread CA Wills
Hi Ralph Thanks for the reply.  That confirms what I had found but did not realise that they removed mauals so agree what you say. Did find other manuals and I have the original documents that came with the printer but as you say nothing refers to either of the 2 questions. Looks as if I'll

[Dorset] Printer output black not printing

2024-10-13 Thread CA Wills
Printer is a HP Photosmart 309g colour print, copy, scan; Ethernet connected to router. 1,   It's failing to print a decent black (faint grey colour), tried cleaning cartridge printheads, also new cartridge for both photo and 'normal' black but no change. 2,   Same printer: tried to find how

[Dorset] Last nights meeting (loss of Cinnamon)

2024-08-08 Thread CA Wills
Hi all Got a new USB stick and made a live version of Mint 22 Cinnamon which allowed me to get into the laptop.  Recovered the last copy of Timeshift which was the day before!  All now OK and sending this from LT. LT would not boot from the USB stick until I got into the UEFI boot up and cha

[Dorset] Last nights mtg

2024-08-07 Thread CA Wills
Hi all Sorry not to have stayed at the meeting but had no sound in or out again.  Even downloaded the Jitsi app but that made on difference. Wish I could remember what I did last time to get sound back. That's for later as :- Whilst trying to locate the problem I managed to corrupt my Mint 21

[Dorset] Last nights meeting

2024-06-05 Thread CA Wills
Sorry not to have taken part in last nights meeting and leaving without say anything. As you know I was having trouble with getting a microphone working on the laptop.  Initially no in/out audio but I managed to fix receiving sound but could not get audio output (mic).  Tried both the external

Re: [Dorset] Next Online Meeting - One Week Tonight

2024-03-26 Thread CA Wills
Sorry will not be available as on way to Germany then Switzerland to see family. Have a good meeting. Will not be available for the May meeting either! On 26/03/2024 10:24, Terry Coles wrote: Hi, The next online Meeting will be one week tonight; Tuesday, 2024-04-02 at 20:00 using Jitsi. Det

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

2024-02-27 Thread CA Wills
I tried at least 3 times before finally getting in and we spoke about the 'new' system. We closed early as we did not know that people had been waiting! As Hugh said it was not helpful that we did not know things had changed. In future I'll try to join the meeting later. On 27/02/2024 10:49, H

[Dorset] Fibre Installation, Routers, telephones

2023-12-30 Thread CA Wills
Hi All Hope you've all had good Christmas' and the New Year. Recently we had a visit of workers who were starting to install Fibre cables to replace the overhead coppers.  They said it was going to be Gigabit capable and it would be cheaper to install the new broadband connection at the same

Re: [Dorset] Church website problem - Firefox

2023-11-17 Thread CA Wills
_ for members. On 16/11/2023 20:10, Tim wrote: Are both Browser the same version, I know you said that they were both Linux Mint Tim H On 16/11/2023 18:13, CA Wills wrote: I have just disabled all the Extensions on the laptop, rebooted and nothing has changed: still as shown on screenshot.

Re: [Dorset] Church website problem - Firefox

2023-11-16 Thread CA Wills
I have just disabled all the Extensions on the laptop, rebooted and nothing has changed: still as shown on screenshot. The Theme is standard as supplied by system. On 16/11/2023 17:20, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive, I spot the red shield of uBlock Origin. It's worth checking that is config

Re: [Dorset] Church website problem - Firefox

2023-11-16 Thread CA Wills
Inserted screenshot.  Difference is that the programme button names are over writing the buttons.  Bottom left of screen shot shows the programme being used (Hubb) Have tried via Chromium and all shows OK (on laptop) so it's only this copy of Firefox. See answers below. Thanks On 16/11/2

[Dorset] Church website problem - Firefox

2023-11-15 Thread CA Wills
I have a problem which only shows on the laptop when logged into our Church Website Member section. First I thought it was the website programme as I'd only logged in on the laptop and the website had been updated with a 'Hub' system.  Last week I was on the desktop, that's when I noticed the

[Dorset] Last nights mtg

2023-11-08 Thread CA Wills
Hi All At last nights mtg I asked about my Brother Printer not waking up from it's 'deep sleep' mode. Today I checked it's location on the Wifi Router and it said in the GUI driver it was :- Description:Brother HL-L2350DW series Location: Brother HL-L2350DW Driver: Brother HL-L23

[Dorset] Email & List problems - Test

2023-06-22 Thread CA Wills
Thanks to Ralph (off list) I hope this email gets through AND I get a copy. This is a test so it would be nice if someone would do a simple reply to see if I 'see' it (the reply) so that I can then close the Support Ticket at Tsohost. -- -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-07-04 20:0

[Dorset] Brother printer info

2023-06-20 Thread CA Wills
Thanks to those who replied to my request for info. Unfortunately neither my email or your replies got through to me! For some reason my 'listing' has been removed and it was only by sending a question to Ralph that I found out it had got through. Sending this thanks for 2 reasons: 1. to thank y

[Dorset] Brother printer on Mint 21.1

2023-06-18 Thread CA Wills
Hi All I think the problems with the emails has finally been sorted, thanks for your help during the Jisi Meet.  Spoke too soon not able to send this as 'SMPT server not authenticated ', now awaiting TSOHOST to sort out again. So now I'm thinking of replacing the old HP B&W Laserjet 1022 with

Re: [Dorset] Problems with Email

2023-06-08 Thread CA Wills
Hi All on DLUG Meeting. Thanks to you it appears Hugh is correct and today Tsohost have corrected the MX server. At the moment my cinfo email is working but the others are not - yet.  Nead to check tomorrow that the changes to MX have filtered thro' the system. Replying to Peters email below w

[Dorset] Fwd: Connectors, wires etc

2023-03-19 Thread CA Wills
Re: [Dorset] Connectors, wires etc Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:04:34 + From: CA Wills To: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty I have a USB-Netlink connector, never used, if it's of use to anyone. Does not list Linux on the box but iMac OS8.6 above is mentioned. USB to USB connections. On 19/

[Dorset] Emails slow to send.

2023-02-10 Thread CA Wills
Hi All On my laptop for the past couple of months my emails have been 'slow to send'.  It seems to be before connection is made to the 'server'. After pressing the 'send' button that's when it's slow, approx 3-6 seconds: it used to go within 1 second. Can anyone give a terminal command to f

[Dorset] Problem Colour Printer

2023-01-05 Thread CA Wills
Happy New Year to All Sorry to miss the meeting but had family here for Christmas and Tuesday was last day. Have a problem with my HP Colour Inkjet 309a. Today printed 1 lot of 10 copies of letter with a colour picture, all OK.  Printed second lot of 10 and they started to print the picture i

Re: [Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8pm

2022-09-06 Thread CA Wills
Sorry, will not be with you tonight as we leave for CH at 5am driving to Tunnel for the crossing.  Will not be with you next month either so see you in November. Have a good meeting. On 06/09/2022 16:03, Terry Coles wrote: All, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. Simply

[Dorset] Problem with new laptop - more info

2022-07-05 Thread CA Wills
Sent a reply to Terry's comment including a screen shot JPG then thought it should have gone to the list so here's the text of that JPG:- 08:13:07 kernel: hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec 08:12:13 pulseaudio: Error opening PCM device hw:1: No such file or directory 08:12:12 lightd

[Dorset] Problems with new laptop

2022-07-04 Thread CA Wills
Thought for tomorrow nights meeting perhaps? Some minor problems with my new laptop during booting up mainly, plus I have no HDMI output and have no video acceleration. This is info on laptop: /CPU:/ // /Topology: Quad Core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 / // /type: MT MCP

Re: [Dorset] Test message (after adding SPF record)

2021-12-28 Thread CA Wills
Well it appears to now work as I've got a copy and so has Rafi!! Thanks to those who have tried helping over the last few months. Apparently there was not an SPF record which may have been the problem. What changed and when I have no idea!! On 28/12/2021 21:09, CA Wills wrote: Hi Ralph,

[Dorset] Test message (after adding SPF record)

2021-12-28 Thread CA Wills
Hi Ralph, Could you please check whether this e-mail is clear on the DLUG server? We have checked the SPF record (which seems to have caused some authentication problems) and that now appears to be correct. Rafi is here helping me. Hope this get through. Cheers, -- -- Next meeting: Online,

[Dorset] Sharing files & directories in Mint 19.2 & 20.1

2021-04-14 Thread CA Wills
Hi all Now have the new main PC (NUC B10) working, we are able to print to printers (Laser connected on PC by USB, Colour printer via the network (Router Ethernet) and all looks well from the PC. On the old PC we had Samba installed as that was very early on in my Linux days and Terry very kin

[Dorset] Setting up new PC.

2021-04-05 Thread CA Wills
Hi all Our old PC packed up a couple of weeks ago and I've got a new 'mini' PC with a 250Gb SSD plus an external 2TB disk for keeping all the data on.  It was bought without an operating system as I want to install Mint 20.1.  It's mainly used by my wife, not a keen computer person!!  But she

Re: [Dorset] Program to compare/overlay pictures

2021-03-31 Thread CA Wills
Hi Peter Cou[le of suggestions:- Have you tried Gimp?  Try to make the photo transparent (50%?) and layer it on top for the first one.  Not tried this myself but got something similar when playing one day with a couple of pics. Other alternative could be to put them in a slide show and run it

[Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread CA Wills
Hi All Further to my email earlier I've reset the router gateway and now have connection!  To my mind that means that the router must have had an upgrade remotely.  Why it should only affect my laptop I don't know. Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time again; o

[Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.

2021-03-11 Thread CA Wills
Hi all This is strange; as reported some while ago I had problems with my wireless connection to Router.  A complete reset of the router and Thuderbird cured the problem: for a while! I have noticed that the problem reoccurs at 2 weekly instances and is usually on first start Thursday mornin

Re: [Dorset] connecting a HP printer to my wi-fi network

2021-02-28 Thread CA Wills
These links made me wonder: my HP colour  printer has both Ethernet and wireless and is connected directly to the Router.  If the sending machine is also connected by wifi/ethernet _as well_, will I get a faster transfer of data when printing ?  Or will the fast connection take priority (GB Eth

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-22 Thread CA Wills
h McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: I haven't been following this, but have you checked for a firmware update for the router that might fix the issue? Hamish On 20/02/2021 12:56, CA Wills wrote: Started a new email on this subject due to delays in replying. We have been relaying our patio during th

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-20 Thread CA Wills
Started a new email on this subject due to delays in replying. We have been relaying our patio during the week between rain showers, so have not had a clear time slot to 'play'. Update today.  1200hrs. Removed all connections from the TT Super(?) Router and replaced using the very old previou

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-13 Thread CA Wills
as Ralphs 'peekwifi' confirms. On 12/02/2021 19:26, PeterMerchant wrote: On 11/02/2021 09:06, CA Wills wrote: Hi All My wireless connection to the router keeps dropping out even though it reports 64% signal.  Yesterday everything was OK all day but this morning no connection. Th

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-12 Thread CA Wills
Hi Ralph I've noticed that the wireless seems to be in a loop as it keeps trying connect then drops out.  Thinking back over the weeks, it was working OK last week but failed on Monday(?) at first switch on.  Before when this happened it was the same, worked a week then not. I'll have anothe

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-11 Thread CA Wills
Thanks Ralph - will try anything!  Still not connecting wireless after several hours being 'off'. Clive On 11/02/2021 10:12, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Clive, Terry wrote: it's still worth a reboot before you spend money. There's commands which can be used on the laptop to investigate too. I'

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-11 Thread CA Wills
d the card, check screws and terminals are tight, check for any loose items - nothing. On 11/02/2021 10:09, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2021 10:02:02 GMT CA Wills wrote: Not rebooted the router today but will try after this. It's not a connection problem outside from the r

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-11 Thread CA Wills
Hi Keith To answer your question 'no' the only Fluorescent or microwave is in the kitchen which is not in line of sight; it's off to one side by 6m+ and has 2 extra walls between them and the router.  Never had a problem before like that. Replying via Ethernet. On 11/02/2021 11:18, Keith Ed

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-11 Thread CA Wills
orking and has not been a problem (to note) and that's on all day. Saying that means it's a laptop fault? Clive On 11/02/2021 09:42, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:06:44 GMT CA Wills wrote: walls between. This problem has recently started (since mid Jan), it&

[Dorset] Wireless dropping out

2021-02-11 Thread CA Wills
Hi All My wireless connection to the router keeps dropping out even though it reports 64% signal.  Yesterday everything was OK all day but this morning no connection. The router is mounted on a high shelf in a room with 2 single brick walls between.  This problem has recently started (since