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When dealing with FTDI USB-to-UART devices, you might need to address them by their serial number. Here's how you find that number: 1) Attach the device to your PC Best to connect one at a time. Otherwise, how would you know which serial belongs to which adapter? 2) Approach A: Using "dmesg&quo...

[PROBLEM] Trying to set up an FTDI based (FT232RL) USB-to-UART adapter with a TSOP 4838 as infrared remote control receiver with LIRC. (Xubuntu 16.04, LIRC v0.9) The 4838 is talking to me, receiving IR signals, and LIRC's "mode2" shows reasonable output. But after I use irrecord, the seri...

If you get the following error message when trying to connect mode2 to the USB/FTDI device (by serial number): mode2: unable to open FTDI device ( device not found ) This means the serial number is wrong. Check for typos or copy/paste errors. btw: The serial number is case sensitive. If you get the ...

Playing around with a TSOP1738 directly connected to an FTDI USB adapter (FT232RL). When I hit buttons on the remote, I see the RXD led flash, but "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" shows nothing. Thanks to a post on stackexchange , here's a command that will give you at least "something" when y...

[PROBLEM] Trying to setup an infrared remote receiver with LIRC, using an FTDI (FT232RL) USB adapter. Initial test throws a weird error message: mode2 --driver ftdi --device /dev/ttyUSB0 mode2: Initializing FTDI: /dev/ttyUSB0 mode2: device configuration option must contain an '=': '/dev/ttyUSB0' Hm...

[PROBLEM] On Xubuntu 16.04.1, I've updated from Thunderbird 57 (or so) to 60.2.1. In about 15 years of heavy Thunderbird usage, I've never had a problem with an update. Except for now: My calendar (Lightning) was gone/disabled - because it's incompatible with Thunderbird >60. And the addons didn't ...

[PROBLEM] After loading the lirc_rpi kernel module, the next step is to check if IR-remote signals can be "seen": $ mode2 -d /dev/lirc0 Yet, connecting the power of the TSOP1738 to 3.3V returned nothing, but this: Using driver devinput on device /dev/lirc0 Trying device: /dev/lirc0 Using ...

WARNING: Haven't managed to use the TSOP1738 on RPi's GPIO pins, due to noise-interference. Maybe some resistor/capacitor as filter might help. This thread might contain hints in the right direction: "IR Receiver - gives out data only while disconnecting/connecting it to ground" ? [PROBLEM...

I've frozen my kdenlive version to a stable build a long time ago, so I didn't notice...

Thanks for the update!

[PROBLEM] Disclaimer: The T500 works flawlessly on Bionic Beaver (18.04) :D Including Full-HD playback in the browser. Out of the box. 8) I must embarrassingly admit that I just spent 20 minutes debugging the wifi interface not showing up in NetworkManager on Xubuntu 18.04. I got weird error messag...

Seems doable, but will have some reading about custom NVRAM: Some Bluetooth controller (for example, BCM4354 and BCM4356) are integrated to WiFi chipset (this can be BCM43XX 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter or just simple generic Broadcom PCIE Wireless). These devices requires two kinds of firmware...

Sorry if I got your hopes up high by the subject... Haven't solved it yet. But I'm taking notes here, hopefully succeeding in getting bluetooth to work on a Lenovo S21e notebook with Broadcom BCM43412 chipset (wifi+bluetooth). Status on Xubuntu 18.04 (live USB): Blueman applet behaves as if bluetoot...

Haven't tried it myself yet, but I find this one very interesting:
WARNING: Do NOT use this command! Unless you want to intentionally play with fire. Source:
https://www.howtogeek.com/125157/8-dead ... -on-linux/

When you right-click an ISO image file, to select "Open With > Open With Other Application", choose the option "Disk Image Mounter": xfce-disk_image_mounter.png Now, the mounted ISO will just appear like any other external storage media (e.g. usb stick) in the "Devices"...

UPDATE: This is obsolete! There's a way better way to do it, which seems to exist out-of-the-box in Xubuntu 16.04. See details in replied thread below. Here's a slightly adapted/improved version of this answer on AskUbuntu. about how to mount disk images (ISO) from the GUI file explorer Thunar in X...