Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts

2020-06-19

How to access oldish Dell DRAC console? Install old Firefox and Java in Docker container

Sometimes I need to access DRAC console (i.e. "remote screen") of some older Dell system - in this case it is PowerEdge R610 and "About" says "Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6 - Enterprise, Version 1.98, © 2008-2011 Dell Inc.". I have tried bunch of browsers on my not super recent Fedora 30 and it failed. One solution I have found is to access the console with Firefox and IcedTea plugin from Fedora 27. VM feels too heavy for this usecase, so just allow connections to my X server:
# xhost local:root
start Fedora 27 container with some extra vars and mounts:
# docker run \
        --network host \
        -e DISPLAY=:0.0 \
        -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
        -v /root/.Xauthority:/root/.Xauthority:rw \
        -ti fedora:27 /bin/bash
and then in the container install all needed and run the browser:
# dnf -y install firefox xorg-x11-xauth icedtea-web
# firefox
Now I'm able to open the console, hooray!


2020-05-22

Breaking voice in Google Meet (Hangouts) with Firefox

Lot of ppl kept telling me how much distortions are there when I'm talking over Google Meet - not that everithing I say is gold, but sometimes I just want to get answer to my question :-) I'm using some (cheap) KOSS headset which connects via USB and integrates its own sound card.

After some digging this is what I did:

  1. Enabled Echo/Noise-Cancellation module on PulseAudio (PulseAudio is a sound system in Linux - it is a proxy for sound applications) and disabled automatic analog gain control: Enable Echo/Noise-Cancellation (AFAICT this means PulseAudion won't attempt to automatically increase volume of the mic when I'm quiet) - you might not need this step as to me it is hard to believe sound server would have this bad results (note that you run pulseaudio -k as normal user - that "$" - and I had to restart Firefox I have been using to play some sound to hear the difference)
  2. Then I have disabled automatic gain control and friends in Firefox: Disable WebRTC audio post processing
  3. Hearing what you are recording was very useful: Echo test (to stop it, just use $ pactl unload-module module-loopback)
Note I'm on fedora-release-30-6.noarch, firefox-76.0-2.fc30.x86_64 and pulseaudio-12.2-9.fc30.x86_64.