Re: [GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only? -- OFF TOPIC

2020-05-03 Thread Ken Heard via talk
On 19/03/20 11:26 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | From: Ken Heard via talk | Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:42:29 +0700 | ... Earlier this evening (Thursday) ... +0700 -- where the heck are you? Siberia? Indonesia? Vietnam? Thailand? Tuva? Yes we are in Thailand. My spouse and I

Re: [GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-05-03 Thread Ken Heard via talk
Hello, On 19/03/20 05:44 PM, Ken Heard wrote -- my original post on the subject: Hello, On 19/03/20 05:44 PM, Ken Heard wrote -- my original post on the subject: I think that this particular laptop has mono sound. I have been using it temporarily to stream content by HDMI to a LG HD moni

Re: [GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-03-19 Thread Ken Heard via talk
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. The laptop definitely is stereo. Earlier this evening (Thursday) I disconnected the fibre optic cable between the monitor and the amplifier. I then plugged in a pair of cheap earphones into the monitor and played some music. Only one ear received any sound

[GTALUG] Acer Aspire 3 A315-21 laptop has mono sound only?

2020-03-19 Thread Ken Heard via talk
I think that this particular laptop has mono sound. I have been using it temporarily to stream content by HDMI to a LG HD monitor and then by fibre optical cable to a NED D3020 V2 hybrid amplifier and finally to a pair of bass reflect speakers. Unfortunately sound comes out of only one speake

[GTALUG] Q4OS anyone?

2019-05-17 Thread Ken Heard via talk
Hi, I am thinking of using the Q4OS operating system instead of Debian because Q4OS is one of two distributions which includes the Trinity DE which I have been using for some time with Debian. I would appreciate comments from anyone here who uses or has some knowledge of this OS. Regards, Ke

Re: [GTALUG] Cannot open rescue disk

2018-07-07 Thread Ken Heard via talk
On 2018-07-07 23:34, William Park via talk wrote: I assume you tried different usb port. It could be USB ports on the motherboard are toast. I don't think that was the problem. The keyboard was able to function before from various USB posts. Ken --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org http

[GTALUG] Cannot open rescue disk

2018-07-07 Thread Ken Heard via talk
The computer has Debian Jessie installed in it. One day recently after starting it, the BIOS identified the hardware. It went as far as to display the line "Verifying DMI Pool Data ..." and then stopped. The rest of the monitor was filled up with series of 99s I then tried to

Re: [GTALUG] Linux Journal, RIP

2018-03-03 Thread Ken Heard via talk
On 2018-02-02 05:06, Russell via talk wrote: Snip. > For my personal pleasure in reading tho, I prefer paper. For one it's easier > on the eyes. > > Also I have several dog eared reference books I would never trade for their > digital versions. The simple fact is, that while flipping pages se

Re: [GTALUG] Netflix Recommendation - HCF

2018-01-15 Thread Ken Heard via talk
On 2018-01-06 06:03, R360 Design INC via talk wrote: > Wanted to recommend the AMC Series "Halt and Catch Fire" on Netflix. > For those who haven't heard of it, it is an American period drama that > depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer > revolution of the 1980s and later

[GTALUG] Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt partitions on boot

2016-12-08 Thread Ken Heard via talk
In my Wheezy box I have two encrypted hard drive partitions, /dev/mapper/md07_crypt for /home and /dev/mapper/md05_crypt for /mnt. (Mnt is no longer used. That partition was originally for /tmp; in a weak moment I persuaded myself that I needed to encrypt /tmp. I have since changed the mount po