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Firefox in Buster needs libavcodec58 for certain streaming content.

Thanks,
after installing libavcodec-extra58_4.1.4-1~deb10u1_amd64.deb plus some dependencies, streaming from ABC i-View now works.

Excellent.

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I have installed wlanmaker in tahr 6.0.5 and I get the error in the attached screenshot.

Did you get wlanmaker from the repo with apt-get?

Edit See below:

The version of wlanmaker in Fred's Stretch repo is out of date and uses old libs.

Run: apt remove wlanmaker.

Then get the new version here.

I have stopped supporting the Stretch Starter Kit. You would be better off using the 64bit Buster Starter Kit.

have installed wlanmaker in tahr 6.0.5

I have no idea. This isn't Tahrpup.

BT4Stretch Bluetooth client updated here.

Touchpad updated here with support for xbacklight.

This is an HP ThinClient t610. It has an AMD GT56N chipset and 4GB RAM. The AMD is rated below a Core2Duo but is fast enough to render fullscreen Youtube video at 720p. The t610 has excellent passive cooling.

Ebay often has good deals on these units because they are sold without a hard drive or Windows. This one has a 1GB DOM and a socket for a SATA laptop drive. I set up the DOM as a "boot" partition and installed the Buster Starter Kit on the HDD three ways: regular Porteus boot, Live-boot with a "persistence" file and Porteus boot with the k5.2.0 backports kernel.

Video output is DVI-to-VGA or DP-to-HDMI. There is no line-out audio port on the back panel but you can connect the headphone plug to your speaker system. Or use HDMI to carry the audio. Sound-Card-Selector can easily switch between the two audio sources.

The motherboard has a mini-PCIe slot that can take a WiFi adapter, but you would need to supply the antenna.

Bluetooth audio works fine with a cheap Broadcom USB adapter.

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This is a Thinkpad 11E. It has a Celeron N2920 CPU, 4GB RAM, a 120GB spinning hard drive and UEFI. The commercial refurbishers did their usual thing - revert the hard drive from GPT to MBR, set the EUFI firmware to Legacy Mode and reinstall Windows. But they also locked down the firmware so you can't change anything. Luckily, you can still boot from USB with a Grub4Dos flash drive.

It now dual-boots Win10 and the Buster Starter Kit. It has Legacy GRUB Stage1 on the MBR and Stage2 in the Linux partition that was split off from Windows.

Everything works - battery, WiFi, HDMI, SD card slot, Bluetooth audio.

This is "Wintel Pro mini-computer". It is a 4x4x1 inch sealed unit with the problematic Intel Atom X5-Z8350 chipset, 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC drive and UEFI. It has enough I/O ports to be somewhat practical.

Booting off a UEFI flash drive and disabling Secure Boot is routine.

Video output is over HDMI. HDMI audio is on the ALSA device "hdmi:0,2", but it cannot be set properly as the system default. This is a problem for media players like web browsers that only send audio over the default ALSA device. Luckily, the builders added a separate internal sound card to drive the headphone port - audio output works fine by connecting it to a speaker system.

[Edit] This problem was resolved by using the ALSA equalizer as the default audio device with "plughw:0,2" as the slave.

The unit has two regular USB and a micro-USB port. The latter will accept an OTG cable. The micro-SD slot works.

The Broadcom WiFi uses the in-kernel brcmfmac driver and needs additional firmware files. They are not in the usual firmware repos but were located with some googling.

The internal Bluetooth system pairs/connects OK, but audio output is badly garbled. (There are dmesg errors about BT timing.) The latest version of bt4stretch lets you select an alternate BT controller, so BT audio works with a cheap Broadcom USB adapter.

I did several installs of the 64bit Buster Starter Kit to the eMMC drive:
- Porteus boot with the alternate initrd1.xz
- Live-boot with a persistence file
- Live-boot with a persistence partition on a micro-SD card (slow)
- Live-boot with the k5.2.0 backport kernel

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PeasyPort updated here.

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The Samba4 Basic Server package has been updated for Buster64 here.

How to install Mike Walsh's Opera browser

Mike Walsh has built an excellent "portable" Opera package http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 80#1046380. The following procedure converts it into a conventional install with a desktop shortcut. The additional dependencies for Stretch/Buster are also downloaded.

Note: Do Step 4 BEFORE Step 5.

1. Download and unpack "Opera-portable.tar.gz"
2. This creates the folder "Opera-portable"
3. Open this folder and locate the "opera" folder
4. Copy the "opera" folder into your filesystem at /opt
5. Install the opera-desktop_1.0_amd64.deb attached below
6. Look in the Internet/Network menu for Opera

This Opera can play its audio through Bluetooth, but it doesn't sync quite as well as Firefox.

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Sound Card Selector updated here.

Unzipper v1.5-2 posted here with support for the .tar.zst archive format.

How to run Mike Walsh's Opera browser as guest

1. Create the guest user with the regular procedure.
2. Download and extract the attached script. It is NOT a fake .gz file!
3. Copy the script to the folder /opt/opera
4. Go to /usr/share/applications and open the Opera desktop file in a text editor.
5. Change the Exec line to:

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FWIW.

Just downloaded:

602669cd30f8b195a43b2609e00b7d8b DebLive_Stretch-4.19.0-6-amd64.iso

confirmed checksum.

extracted "live" folder from iso and copied to top of sda4 (hd0,3) of Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop with ethernet connection.

Added GRUB menu item:

title DebianDog live-boot-3x (sda4)
root=(hd0,3)
kernel /live/vmlinuz1 boot=live config swapon quickreboot noeject showmounts union=aufs
initrd /live/initrd.img
boot

Booted successfully.

Tried to configure my wireless (add password), but got message wlan0 not active.

So tried Synaptic:
- reload (using ethernet cable connection)
- search for "b43". not installed.
- installed firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter
- exit synaptic

Still couldn't configure wlan0

Ran AptToSfs and created a squashfs file containing firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter. Placed that squashfs into "base" subfolder of "live" folder.

Re-booted.

Still can't configure wlan0.

Note: wlan0 on this machine, Dell Inspiron 1525, works with debdog Jessie and debdog32 stretch when b43 is installed.

So I know the wireless card hardware is not the problem.

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