Hi Folks

me again I have been trying for days to get the morse code program Aldo to run with no success. i have downloaded ./ configured make and make install it but still can't get it to run. i have added the libao file that it required as well. any ideas please totally lost myself. not surprisingly really with me 

Hi VastOne

Just an idea and I have no idea if it is possible to do it.

Once you have done the download and installation would it be possile to add Ceni to the begining of the extra install thing that you have to make sure that you have an internet connection as for some reason or other it never connected during install, worked of the live disk though.

One of the problems that I had and manage to cure after a lot of misshaps was to run Ceni from root terminal to get the internet connection, before running the extra insall thing, trying to run ceni from fluxbox all I kept getting was  " couldn't run child process " , and no idea why that was either.

Hope this makes sense 

Hi folks.

I tried to install glabels yesterday evening and again this morning ( just now ) and got an error


E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/live failed with return 1.
update-initramfs: failed for /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-4-amd64 with 1.
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
installed initramfs-tools package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:


How do I get out of this one please. Can I reinstall it. overwrite it, purge it or what?
asking first instead of totally screwing everything up.

Cheers

Hi Folks,

Me again. Had a load of trouble just recently. Windows screwed every up and I couldn't get anything to work but have now managed to VSIDO reinstalled again and back on line but am now left with a resolution problem. my screen doesn't support the insatall resolution so I need to change it but can' find the info on how to do it. help needed please as i have a box running around the screen at the moment.

More of a problem than I thought. I have two passwords that I used to log on one of which is set as root and when I use ctl alt f1 it won't accept either any ideas why

Hi all
Back again but this time with only autologin.
I have been reading all that I can find on autologin with lightdm and got nowhere. The only comment that I have found with auto login is to do with gdm3.
Can anyone tell me how to get it to work with the latest install as I can't find the info anywhere or do I have to switch to gdm3 and if so do I have to uninstall lightdm

Hi  Folks.

Well we finally managed to get the VSIDO installed and after  a lot of head scratching and resetting the cmos we can now select linux or windows. The problem now is i can't  remember how to get it to connect to the internt  or how to get linux to auto login and all my notes are unreadable  as i haven't got word as yet. Help is required please.  I have looked on site but been unable to locate anything that points me in the direction

First part solved now connected to internet. Never used Ceni before but managed to find the howto and am now back on line. now for part 2

Hi folks,
It's  me again.  I had major problems so i thought i would take the easy way out and do a completely  new install, so i downloaded the latest ISO burnt it to a disk and started. I got as far as creating a root and swap partition and thats as far as it goes. Keeps comming up with an error message which it says it has saved to

Https://pastebin.com/FGQFr4S1

That's all I can tell you. No idea how to go any further. I tried several times with the same result.

I'm writing this on my tablet as my PC doesn't want to play at all now   

Hi Folks

I would just like to start a big THANK YOU to all the VSIDO team

right I haven't been on for a long time so I hope I am in the right place for this

I have just upgraded to 4.19.0-1 and while doing the general upgrade I got this error message



exaim4.config.
config error line 833 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
option "hosts_try_dane
sub error /usr/bin/dpkg error (1)



it doesn't seem to have stopped anything working

cheers

Hi Folks

completely off topic this and i am hoping that someone can help me.

I have A Samsung Galaxy s4 mini G-i9195 that belonged to my daughter in law. she dropped it and shattered the screen which i have replaced with no problems. The problem starts with the fact that it is a boot loop, boots to Samsung logo and the starts to reboot again always at the same position, I have searched for and found various firmware that claims it will work OK and it probably will, only I cant find any firmware that contains the .pit file which apparently must match the firmware downloaded. is there anyone who can point me in the right direction or send me an email containing the  whole package. I am hoping that formatting the internal ROM will cure the problem.  It will certainly be very much appreciated.

In the meantime I shall keep searching 

hi fokks

tried running this

add-apt-repository


and all i get is this

add-apt-repository: command not found


what hive i got wrong this time.
Trying to get ppa:phablet-team/tool
to try and sort out a damaged samsung s4 mini phone. have tried on windows (yuk) but cant find a bin file.. think I have foud one using VSIDO though so thought i might give it a go on here

cheers

Hi All

Nothing major this time, at least I don't think so.

At boot up I get the following Message, and no idea what it is on about


element ACPI could not find / resolve the named package element


it repeats itself a whole bunch of times before carrying on
It does not seem to affect anthing but thought you might need to know

Hi folks

not been on for a long time as had no major problems until now
inxi seems to have a problem when it start up when running smxi I have tried to reinstall it without success.
Question
how do i force it to update reinstall itself
cheers
Gordon

Hi Folks

I'm back again with a problem.
Problem caused by that rhubarb program windows. Yep it crashed,  it was on windows 10 and for some reason or other it went down. It's own fix it would not work so I had to do a reinstall using windows 8.1 which of course screwed up grub. I have spent ages on Google reading how to recover it and have managed to get so far but now am lost. If not too much trouble I would appreciate some help.
Here is what I have managed to come up with using a live dvd running version 4.0.0.1 which is the latest one that I have.


root@vsido:/home/vsido# mount /dev/sdax /mnt
root@vsido:/home/vsido# grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdax
Installing for i386-pc platform.
grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and their use is discouraged..
grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
root@vsido:/home/vsido# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `overlay'.
root@vsido:/home/vsido# grub-update
bash: grub-update: command not found
root@vsido:/home/vsido# update-grub
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `overlay'.
root@vsido:/home/vsido#


I have no idea how to go any further. Help Please

Hi all,

I haven't bothered with this or worried about it but it is not working on my machine and I was wondering why. I am only asking now as  I have been trying to display my download and upload speed in conky  and have been struggling with it. I have managed to actually display them now although I am not convinced that that are correct as they differ from what is shown when I us a speed test over the Internet. I have tried several commands to try and find eth0 but they all say that I don't have it but never the less I am using a wired connection to a router. I am connected via Virgin if that makes a difference. Any ideas as to why it doesn't appear to work ?

Hi Folks

On booting up I keep getting the message ' kvm is disabled by BIOS ' .

My question is two fold really

1. Do I need it

2. If I enable it, not sure how yet, will it cause me any problems

Not sure if this is in the right place or not, please shift it if it is in the wrong place

Cheers
Gordon

Hi All

I am trying to install digikam but keep coming up against held broken packages. I have read loads of blogs, tried loads of suggestion, tried using synaptic package manager and the other one, can't remember what it's called,  all to no avail. can anyone tell me what to do please ? or is it that Digikam wont work or is not worth the hassle ?. anything else that has all the same gizmo's. don't like dark table couldn't understand it  .

Hi All

OOPS I have caused myself a major headache. I haven't been on for a while so I did what I always do without looking at things  first. Never Again though. I have done a dist-upgrade and now nothing work, well almost nothing, And I have no idea how to get out of it other  than doing an install from an older disk that I have. Is that the only way ?

Hi All.

I have just had a 50 Meg connection installed in the house, the only thing is it is very slow less than 1 Meg and I was wondering if there is something I am supposed to do in Linux. I have a dual boot with Windows 8 and I get about 16 Meg on that still slow but a lot better that Linux. Any ideas or help please ?

Hi Folks

Bought myself the above printer after I had found and download the drivers for the printer. The problem is that it is supposed to be WIFI only I can't get it to work.
The printer itself has found and logged onto my router with no trouble but I can't get it to print so I assume that I am missing a driver for the computer or do I have to do something else. I have been on the brother site to check for a wifi driver but there doesn't appear to be one. I have tried several other sites for info but with no luck so far. Any assistance out there please as I surely need it 

Hi All

Every time I install a new Program it comes up with the packages that it needs to work followed by a suggested bunch which I have no time to write down to try and install them. Is it possible for the programmers to add a a line that would allow you to select the suggestions before or after it has done the install thus allowing you to select them if you want to ? not that I have any idea what the additional packages would do to the program other the take up some drive space of course. Just wondering that's all