Re: Mozilla scrolling problem

[[KS]]

[KS] wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have noticed the following problem a few times but wasn't able to
> point out where it happened (still don't know why it happens). If you go
> to http://www.debian.org/devel/ there are two columns viz. Basic and
> Packaging. When the mouse wheel is scrolled, the page start scrolling up
> as expected. But when the "Basic" or "Packaging" goes beyond the top of
> the viewport and the mouse pointer being on either white columns under
> them scrolling stops! An amount of mouse wheel scroll does not work
> there. If I move my mouse over to any of the three blue background lines
> (sides, or center), scrolling is fine again.
> 
> Could someone shed some light on this as to why this happens? I have
> noticed the same behaviour in both Mozilla (1.7.10-1), Epiphany(1.6.4)
> and Firefox (1.0.6-2 based on 1.7.10). Looks like a gecko bug as the
> problem is in all three.
> 
> /KS
> 
> PS: I will test with latest Seamonkey nightly too.
> 
> 
:( The current browsers have too old a version of Gecko. The problem is
not there in Gecko/20050808 SeaMonkey/1.0a and even the mouse wheel
scrolls the drop down addresses for location bar.

/KS


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Mustek 2400CU Plus [gt68xx] problem

[Yuri Gorshkov]

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Hi!

I'm using Sarge 3.1r0a with sane 1.0.13-2 and sane-utils 1.0.16-1, the
Mustek 2400CU Plus scanner. Well, I downloaded the PS2Dfw.usb firmware
file as they say on their homepage, but managed to scan only the
[distorted] half of the page. Then, I tried PS2Dfw2.usb file (diff says
it's identical to what was shipped on the CD), and XSane just hangs for
a short while and gives me 'Invalid argument'! Argh!!! I remember
that problem existed in my previous installation, but I can't remember
how I managed to fix it. Any help?
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Mozilla scrolling problem

[[KS]]

Hello all,

I have noticed the following problem a few times but wasn't able to
point out where it happened (still don't know why it happens). If you go
to http://www.debian.org/devel/ there are two columns viz. Basic and
Packaging. When the mouse wheel is scrolled, the page start scrolling up
as expected. But when the "Basic" or "Packaging" goes beyond the top of
the viewport and the mouse pointer being on either white columns under
them scrolling stops! An amount of mouse wheel scroll does not work
there. If I move my mouse over to any of the three blue background lines
(sides, or center), scrolling is fine again.

Could someone shed some light on this as to why this happens? I have
noticed the same behaviour in both Mozilla (1.7.10-1), Epiphany(1.6.4)
and Firefox (1.0.6-2 based on 1.7.10). Looks like a gecko bug as the
problem is in all three.

/KS

PS: I will test with latest Seamonkey nightly too.


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Re: reading boot messages

[Yuri Gorshkov]

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Wu-Kung Sun wrote:
> Hello all,
> how can I read the boot messages?  I've had some big problems today
> which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly
> ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1.  Before I only had a ppp0.  I got
> some sort of ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast
> enough.  I can't see it switching to tty1 and dmesg doesn't reveal the
> information.  Any help?
1. Use dmesg
2. See /var/log/messages and /var/log/boot.log
3. If that doesn't work, just examine the remaining logs.

Oh, and seems that in Debian systems PPP messages go to
/var/log/ppp-connect-errors, be sure to examine these too.

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Re: Standarts for building debian packages

[[KS]]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am going to build a lot of debian packages and i wanted to know if
> there are some standarts/templates/utilities for building debian
> packages. Or i should write all in my scripts for each case ?
> 
> For example i need to perform the following tasks:
> 1) Build debian package from some source. It mean configure, compile,
> strict and package into *.deb.
> 2) Patch existing debian package.
> 3) Build development package containing only *.h files.
> 
> Any references are welcome.
> 
> 

Here are some references:
debian.org
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
http://www.debian.org/social_contract
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/

packaging and building introductory articles
http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/PackagingTutorial
http://women.alioth.debian.org/wiki/index.php/English/BuildingTutorial


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Re: Spinning down external USB HDD

[Yuri Gorshkov]

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[KS] wrote:

> I have an external USB HDD which I use only for backups. Although the
> disk spins down itself after about half an hour or more ( I checked for
> half an hour last time and it was still spinning). I had installed
> sdparm earlier but I couldn't spin it down using it. Is there any way
> using sdparm or an other utility to spin down the hard disk?
Try using hdparm then, it should work... Well, I'm not entirely sure
about power-management in USB storage devices, any feedback is welcome.

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Standarts for building debian packages

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

I am going to build a lot of debian packages and i wanted to know if
there are some standarts/templates/utilities for building debian
packages. Or i should write all in my scripts for each case ?

For example i need to perform the following tasks:
1) Build debian package from some source. It mean configure, compile,
strict and package into *.deb.
2) Patch existing debian package.
3) Build development package containing only *.h files.

Any references are welcome.


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RE: Can't install on ASUS MB -- need recommendation of MB that will work

[Žáček Kryštof]

Happened to me too (chipset Intel 82801EB/ER,  SATA disk, PATA CD/DVD burner).
I managed to make Debian install with linux26 by manually loading piix, 
ide-generic and ide-cd before the bloody ata-piix gets loaded by debian 
installer. Otherwise CDROM would not be detected at all - the SATA driver 
somehow blocks it.

After installation I upgraded to 2.6.12. System booted up but CD was not 
functioning. To make CD/DVD work  I had to rearrange drivers in the initrd as 
indicated in the link http://kerneltrap.org/node/3971

However, finally I was unable to turn DMA on the CD/DVD burner, so I gave up 
the BLOODY 2.6 thing and reinstalled with linux24 :-(((

Krystof 


> -Original Message-
> From: Eric Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:50 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Can't install on ASUS MB -- need recommendation of 
> MB that will work
> 
> I ordered and built what I thought was my next computer -- 
> dual-core Intel 820, asus P5WD2 -- I didn't expect I wouldn't 
> be able to install debian because of weird IDE/SATA 
> controller issues: http:// kerneltrap.org/node/5392. (I tried 
> disabling lots of drivers in expert install and changing bios 
> settings, but the netinst disc always fails to find the 
> CD-ROM -- probably the PATA disk drive I have too if it ever 
> got that far.)
> 
> I spend hours putting the thing together, I don't want to 
> spend all weekend trying to build a custom kernel for it. Can 
> anybody recommend a relatively inexpensive Intel 775 
> dual-core Intel 820 compatible MB I can buy instead?
> 
> The other components I have are PATA disk, 2x1GB DDR2-533 and 
> a CD-ROM.
> 
> Maybe I'll return the ASUS or more likely I'll just keep it 
> in hopes that one day I'll use it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
> 

Re: KDE or gnome: How to keep screen saver on - ie No shutdown of screen to black

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:05:53 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hubert Palme) wrote:

>  C> sudo xset -dpms  ?
> 
> How can I make this setting the default?
> 
> It is lost on logout and I'm still searching a central place (script?)
> where such settings are made when logging in on panels like kdm, xdm,
> ...
> 
> Thanks in advance, HP.

Does KDE use xscreensaver?  If so, go to the "Advanced" tab and turn off
Power Management.  Otherwise I don't know.

Cybe R. Wizard
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Re: reading boot messages

[Vi Arguelles]

Wu-Kung Sun wrote:


On 8/14/05, Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 


Type "dmesg" at the command line.

   



Well there are several boot messages that don't appear in dmesg.  Is
there a way to make dmesg exactly the same?  Also dmesh quickly fills
with what I guess are iptables messages (I'm using firestarted until I
can learn iptables correctly).  Anyway to stop this?

 


dmesg | less

that will pass the output of dmesg through less for your viewing comfort

cheers,
~vi


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Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

[Bob Proulx]

Court Thomas wrote:
> I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux.
> The computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system.  The BIOS identifies
> the system as a 64 bit system.

That is Intel's implementation of the amd64 architecture previously
known as x86-64.  This is also known as Intel EM64T.  Not to be
confused with ia64 which is a different architecture.  Intel has
recently started rebranding these as "64-bit Xeons".

> I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck.

Strange.  Should work fine.  I assume that is a 32-bit i686 system?

> My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting 
> the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot 
> from the disk.

That is one problem right there.  The ia64 is a completely different
architecture unrelated to amd64.  Your computer is speaking Klingon
and your boot disk is speaking Ferengi.  They don't mix.  You cannot
boot an ia64 disk on your machine.

Debian does not officially support the 64-bit amd64 architecture.  But
there is a thriving unofficial community.  I am typing this message on
an unofficial 64-bit Debian amd64 system.  See this howto for more
information.

  http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html

But even though the amd64 project is alive and well I recommend that
you stick to a 32-bit installation.  You don't seem to need the 64-bit
system.  Unless you have more than 4GB of ram or are developing for a
platform that does then you won't really be able to use the large
memory capabilities.  And quite frankly (please don't take offense)
because you are confused by the architectures I think I would
recommend that you keep it simple and stick to the mainstream
i386/i686 installation.  It will run fine on your machine and it is a
tried and true performer.

> When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk, the installation
> processing can't find the hard disks.

To solve this problem we will need more information.  What type of
disks are in the machine?  Serial ATA?  You are trying to use a
released sarge/stable installation disk?

When you boot Knoppix you should be able to determine what type of
interface is in the machine with 'lspci'.

At the Debian installer prompt you have a choice of either installing
the linux 2.4 kernel or the linux 2.6 kernel.  The default is the
linux 2.4 kernel.  Instead I highly recommend installing the linux 2.6
kernel.  I am guessing you have SATA drives and will need the newer
kernel.

> I know that the computer can boot from the CD drive because I can
> boot Knoppix 3.9.

Debian is using the same technology that Knoppix is using.  Namely the
'discover' package.  Presumably anything that Knoppix boots on the
Debian installer disk should also be able to detect.  (But of course
it is not perfect.)  However it makes me wonder if your Debian install
disk is really the latest version available.

> I've tried using debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on
> Debian) but when I debootstraping the i386 Debian 3.1, the system
> dies and when I try debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system
> fails trying to mount proc.

Try debootstrapping the i386 architecture.  (Or the amd64
architecture.)  The ia64 will not run on your amd64 machine.

> I'm not happy with the SUSE installation as I can only acheive a very low 
> screen resolution and the mouse pointer is invisible.  I've tried fixing it 
> but with no success.  I know that the Debian version would work better since 
> Knoppix provides better screen resolution and the mouse pointer is visible.  
> I would be happy to provide any details necessary to facilitate your 
> assistance.

Of course over here on the Debian lists we will all agree that you
have made a good choice to install on your computer.  But from a
practical standpoint SuSE's X11 installation should be fine too.  I
think making a distro choice based upon screen resolution is the wrong
criteria.  I think you are making the right choice but for the wrong
reasons and because of this won't be happy with Debian either.

Bob


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Re: reading boot messages

[Wu-Kung Sun]

On 8/14/05, Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Type "dmesg" at the command line.
> 

Well there are several boot messages that don't appear in dmesg.  Is
there a way to make dmesg exactly the same?  Also dmesh quickly fills
with what I guess are iptables messages (I'm using firestarted until I
can learn iptables correctly).  Anyway to stop this?

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Re: Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

[michael]

Quoting Court Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux.  The
computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system.  The BIOS identifies the system as a
64 bit system.  I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck.

My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting
the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot
from the disk.  When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk,  the
installation processing can't find the hard disks.  I know that the computer
can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9.  I've tried using
debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I
debootstraping  the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try
debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc.

The IA-64 shouldn't work on your system. That port is designed for the 
intel Itantium chip. If you want to take adavantage of your 64 bit box, 
try the AMD64 (x86_64) port of Debian.


Did you try the running the installer with a 2.6 kernel?

It would help if you described the type of hard disks you have.

Cheers,
Mike



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Re: gphoto2 - permissions

[Roy Pluschke]

On August 14, 2005 04:44, Joan Tur wrote:
> Es Diumenge Agost 14 2005 01:23, en Roy Pluschke va escriure:
> | problem:
> | "gphoto2 -P" (download all pictures) works as root
> | "gphoto2 -P" won't work as regular user -- gives following error
>
> The user has to belong to the right group... but I'm not sure if that group
> is camera and/or plugdev.
>
> Hope that helps  ;)

I have already included the user in the camera and plugdev groups but it makes 
no difference.  I did locate this comment on linuxdevcenter.com 

I've found that after some Linux upgrade, the
USB library used by gphoto2 was having security
problems and would only run as root. I never
found out why, but the next upgrade made the
problem go away. Any clues ?

perhaps my problem is related.

RJP


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RE: reading boot messages

[Ed Young]

Type "dmesg" at the command line. 

Cheers, Ed

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From: Wu-Kung Sun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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To: Debian-users
Subject: reading boot messages


Hello all,
how can I read the boot messages?  I've had some big problems today
which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly ifconfig
reports a ppp0 and ppp1.  Before I only had a ppp0.  I got some sort of
ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast enough.  I can't
see it switching to tty1 and dmesg doesn't reveal the information.  Any
help?
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madwifi, dwl-G510 and Debian 3.1

[Ed Young]

I'm trying to get a dlink DWL-G510 wifi board working with a Debian 3.1
system.
Currently I'm running a stock 2.4.27 kernel. 

So far the stock kernel doesn't seem to see the card and reports only
the 
onboard ETH0 ethernet. 

I set this system up using my onboard ethernet as ETH0 but I want to
settup 
the wireless dlink dwl-g510 card. (rev B) I have it working in the W2K
Pro side of a dual boot setup. 

My questions: 
1. Do I need to simply recompile the kernel with support for this card?
   (I couldn't find it in the Ethernet devices section of the config)
2. Do I need to recompile the kernel and then compile MadWifi against
the new kernel? If so, it seems that I also need to enable crypto API,
but I can't find it in the kernel config or in any debian package. 
3. What else must the kernel have configured to get this card to work?

When I try to compile madwifi I get: 
Checking if all requirements are met... FAILED
Please enable crypto API.
make: *** [configcheck] Error 1

I couldn't find the crypto API in any of the kernel settings or Debian
packages. 

Any suggestions are appreciated. 

Thanks, 

Ed


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reading boot messages

[Wu-Kung Sun]

Hello all,
how can I read the boot messages?  I've had some big problems today
which I'll use other emails for but now when I reboot, suddenly
ifconfig reports a ppp0 and ppp1.  Before I only had a ppp0.  I got
some sort of ppp error with instructions but I can't read it fast
enough.  I can't see it switching to tty1 and dmesg doesn't reveal the
information.  Any help?
-- 
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MySQL setup cloning?

[Carl Fink]

In a thread under this subject line, I got advice from Wayne Topa and
Maurits van Rees on how to use mysqldump to clone my setup from one Debian
server to another.

Today I finally got around to trying this.

It failed.  I got "ERROR 1064" when trying to import the dumped file into
MySQL on the other box.

Luckily I found the solution in a skilled (lucky) Google search, which I'll
post here in case someone finds this thread later and has the same problem:
add "--quote-names" to the mysqldump command.  Then it works like a charm,
minus the fact that the MySQL setup on box 1 (copied over to the other
server) broke mysqladmin on box 2.

Oh well, fixing things is what admins are for.
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If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
-Bruce Tognazzini


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Re: help

[NetSnake]

I'm sorry for sent rubbish message.
I guest i can get some auto reply help message when i send 'help.
hehe.


Greg Vickers wrote:

  I originally replied to the poster "OK", but here's a much better reply:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Greg

NetSnake wrote:
  
  
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Need Help Installing Debian on My Computer

[Court Thomas]

I have a new computer and am having a hard time installing linux.  The 
computer is a Dell XPS pentium 4 system.  The BIOS identifies the system as a 
64 bit system.  I've tried installing SUSE 9.3 but with little luck.

My computer is capable of booting from the CD drive, but when I try booting 
the system with the Debian ia64 disk, the system states that it can't boot 
from the disk.  When I try booting with the Debian i386 disk,  the 
installation processing can't find the hard disks.  I know that the computer 
can boot from the CD drive because I can boot Knoppix 3.9.  I've tried using 
debootstrap from Knoppix (since it's based on Debian) but when I 
debootstraping  the i386 Debian 3.1, the system dies and when I try 
debootstrapping the ia64 Debian 3.1, the system fails trying to mount proc.

I'm not happy with the SUSE installation as I can only acheive a very low 
screen resolution and the mouse pointer is invisible.  I've tried fixing it 
but with no success.  I know that the Debian version would work better since 
Knoppix provides better screen resolution and the mouse pointer is visible.  
I would be happy to provide any details necessary to facilitate your 
assistance.

Thanks,
Court Thomas


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Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[Kumar Appaiah]

On 8/14/05, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 8

This is a great setting! Thank you very much!

Kumar

Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-08-14 17:47:12 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre:
> > The fonts "fixed" and Bitstream Vera Monospace size 8 are OK for that,
> > but with BVM size 8, the accented characters look strange.
> 
> I don't agree but size 8 is way to small on my display anyway. There is
> always a tradeoff between screen usage and legibility and most of the
> time I prefer the latter.

In fact, I remember that the real size also depends on the DPI.
I have the following in my .Xresources file:

! 88 is the right value so that the 8pt monospace font in gnome-terminal
! has the same width as the 8pt-10pt bitmap fixed font. 96 is too much.
Xft.dpi:88

Why 8pt? Because this is the smallest font size I can select in
gnome-terminal for some fonts. If I use something more than 88,
I can't select fonts that are small enough to put two terminals
side by side on my PowerBook.

Perhaps I could get used to the ugly accented characters, but the
comma is even worse: it is just a small vertical bar.

> > With xterm, I can use the font "fixed", but selection in xterm is
> > buggy (e.g. when using screen). With gnome-terminal, I can't use
> > the font "fixed".
> 
> You can. Just 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' and answer 'Yes' to the
> last question (something about bitmap fonts).

No, it allows to select the font "fixed", but doesn't use the *real*
font "fixed". I think this is bug 264993.

> And as I already mentioned: if you like gnome-terminal

I don't like it very much, due to the font problems and because
it doesn't honour some of my xmodmap settings. There are other
problems when I want to use it with a shell: it uses the UTF-8
encoding in UTF-8 locales (not configurable) and it selects
TERM=xterm, so that "tput enacs" fails, though it supports the
ACS.

The main advantage over xterm is that it doesn't lose the primary
selection as soon as it is no longer visible. I searched for other
terminals in the past, but all of them were worse.

> (and are prepared to run a non-sarge system),

No problem for me.

> you are problably better off using xce4-terminal.

Where can I find it? "apt-file search xce4-terminal" doesn't return
anything.

> Startup time is significantly shorter on my machine and it offers
> all the features you are used to from gnome-terminal.

If it doesn't have the problems of gnome-terminal, and supports
different encodings (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 at least), and if
copy-paste doesn't suck, then this should be OK.

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CD file copying problem with kernel 2.6

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

I dual boot this computer to Debian 3.1 Sarge with kernel 2.6 and Windows 
2000. Some time ago I created some VCDs on the Windows 2000, using
Nero, on a Sony CDRW. Now I tried to copy the video file, named avseq01.dat,
from the VCD, and it fails every time.  I can copy the file easily to Windows 
2000, but with Debian Sarge it fails.   Does anybody have a solution for this 
problem. I don't think it's a CD hardware problem, because I can copy the
files from the CD using Windows 2000. This Debian Sarge, as I said, has
kernel 2.6, and it uses ide-cd, the latest. Also, I can copy relatively small
files from the VCD to linux, but as soon as I try the big ones, say 400 mb,
it fails. Maybe there is a timeout or a buffer setting somewhere that I could
tweak to get this to work. Anybody know?
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Re: control-b in konsole

[Ron Peterson]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:28:51AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:38:13AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> > There is a ctrl-b function in konsole that brings up a little dialog
> > "Add Bookmark - Konsole".  Where it comes from, I don't know.  How to
> > shut it off, I don't know either.  For an emacs bigot such as myself,
> > it's extremely annoying.
> > 
> > It's not always turned on.  There's something I'm doing, or a
> > configuration setting that gets activated somehow that turns it on.  I
> > can't find it to save my life.  I'm dying.  Please help.
> 
> I don't have this problem and can happily use CTRL-B in Konsole to
> move backwards.  But you could look in Configuration -> Speedkeys (I'm
> guessing the names as I have a Dutch language konsole) to see if Add
> Bookmark is there somewhere, linked with CTRL-B.  I don't see it
> listed on my system though, not even with an empty entry for the
> speedkey.

I think the equivalant on my system is Settings/Configure Shortcuts...
I've searched that dialog until my eyes hurt.  Nothing there.  :(

> I do see the following in ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals:
> AddBookmark=Ctrl+B
> 
> I'm not sure where you would normally change this, but you could
> probably just edit this with your favorite editor and either delete
> this line or change it to use a different key combo.  You may need to
> restart KDE or at least fire up Konsole again.

Thanks.

I don't have that line in my kdeglobals.  I recursively grep'd for
addbookmark (-i of course) in /etc/kde3 also, w/ no luck.

I added an AddBookmark entry in my kdeglobals, logged out and back into
kde again.  My newly defined shortcut doesn't seem to work.

I've been trying Kubuntu on my laptop.  This little gotcha is driving me
so nuts, by itself it may drive me to revert to good ol' vanilla debian,
which hasn't given me this problem on any system I'm running it on.

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Re: Kernel 2.6.8-2-686 panics

[Chris Phillips]

Hi Martin,


> I have installed kernel 2.6.8-2 686 on a newly
> installed sarge machine, P4 on 
> an Asus P5P800, on startup the kernel panics saying
> /dev/console not found, 
> however /dev/console exists, how can this situation
> be rectified.

Have you just upgraded from a 2.4.27 to 2.6 kernel? Do
you have SATA disks? The change of SATA drivers from
the ide to SCSI layer caused similar problems.

Cheers
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What is the driver for a framebuffer of a Hercules card? (was: Re: How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?)

[Hendrik Boom]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:02:44PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0200, wim wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote:
> > >
> > >>>I'm one of those poor wretches with a Hercules Prophet Kyro
> > >>>PCI video card on an aging 233 MHz Pentium. the one that isn't
> > >>>VESA, or even VGA, but EGA (remember those?). I found a report
> > >>>dated 2002 that someone got such a setup to work with
> > >>>the framebuffer driver fbdev (though of course no acceleration)
> > >>>and tried configuring my x server accordingly.
> > >>>All went well, until, when I ran startx, the message
> > >>>
> > >>>(EE) open /dev/fb0: No such device
...
...
...
> > >
> > >This machine could be a decent X-terminal (ceratinly better than the one
> > >I used at work fifteen years ago) if I could only get this frame buffer
> > >to work.
> > >
> > >-- hendrik
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Are you using udev?
> 
> I'm using whatever Debian sarge installed by default just three days ago.
> How do I find out whether I'm using udev?
> 
> > Did you loaded the correct module for your framebuffer?
> 
> Probably not, unless it was autodetected.  I suspect that's
> the problem.  But what *is* the correct module for the
> framebuffer for the Hercule Kyro Prophet series of video cards,
> anyway?
> 
> -- hendrik

Back from vacation, and once more wondering -- just what *is*
the correct module for the framebuffer for a Hercules
Kyro Prophet video card.

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Re: demon usb modem [WAS: suggestions of uncapped Broadband >512Kbp in UK]

[michael]

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 14:51 +0100, linux wrote:
> At 11:33 13/08/2005, you wrote:
> 
> >At 12:22 12/08/2005, you wrote:
> >
> >>On Friday 12 Aug 2005 12:03, TreeBoy wrote:
> >> > The instructions I followed were:
> >> >
> >> > http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/docs/sargehowto.html
> >> >
> >> > However, you do *not* need to do configure the kernel.
> >> >
> >> > You *do* need to "apt-get install speedtouch"!
> >> >
> >> > You do *NOT* need to install hotplug - 'cos it's already there.
> >> >
> >> > You *do* need to get the firmware!
> >> >
> >> > You do not need to install the hotplug script the "apt-get install
> >> > speedtouch" inserts that for you.
> >> >
> >> > You need to configure PPPoA and create your /etc//peers/ file. I 
> >> called
> >> > mine "demon" and it looks like this:
> >> >
> >> > debug
> >> > lcp-echo-interval 10
> >> > lcp-echo-failure 3
> >> > noipdefault
> >> > defaultroute
> >> > user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> >> > noauth
> >> > noaccomp
> >> > nopcomp
> >> > noccp
> >> > novj
> >> > holdoff 4
> >> > persist
> >> > maxfail 25
> >> > updetach
> >> > #usepeerdns
> >> > plugin pppoatm.so
> >> > 0.38
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Notice that I have commented out "usepeerdns" this is because of other
> >> > parts of my setup.
> >> >
> >> > Next, you *do* need to setup chap-secrets and pap-secrets with your
> >> > details.
> >> >
> >> > libatm1 should be installed as a dependency of speedtouch.
> >> >
> >> > That should be it - now just "Plug and Play"!
> >> >
> >> > Good luck.
> >> >
> >> > TreeBoy
> >>
> >>Some of this may not be necessary if you are running a >2.6.10 kernel.
> >>
> >>This explains:
> >>
> >>http://www.debianhelp.org/module-pnForum-viewtopic-topic-9551-start-0.html
> >
> >
> >I'm running 2.6.11 kernel so that implies just download the relevant file 
> >(speedtouch-firmware_0.3012k_all.deb). I then did a 'dpkg -i' on this (is 
> >that all I need to do?!??!), set up peers/demon based on above and amended 
> >pap_secrets to end:
> >
> >-- begin snippet --
> ># OUTBOUND connections
> >
> ># Here you should add your userid password to connect to your providers via
> ># PAP. The * means that the password is to be used for ANY host you connect
> ># to. Thus you do not have to worry about the foreign machine name. Just
> ># replace password with your password.
> ># If you have different providers with different passwords then you better
> ># remove the following line.
> >
> >(none)  *   password
> >
> >michael * [demon password]
> >-- end snippet --
> 
> 
> but maybe that should be my demon login not my localhost login? (neither 
> seem to work!)


okay, it should be my demon login. but althought it says
 ADSL line is up (...)
it then does several 
 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0...
ending with 
 No offers received

but once in to X I can do 'sudo pon speedtch' and am away... so it seems
am just missing something in the boot scripts

ta, M

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Re: help

[Greg Vickers]

I originally replied to the poster "OK", but here's a much better reply:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Greg

NetSnake wrote:
> help
> 

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Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

[Seeker5528]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:19:04 -0700
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Any ideas about how to fix?
> 
> laptop:/home/moseley# apt-get update
> Get:1 http://bumby unstable/main Packages [3755kB]
> [...]
> Fetched 5384kB in 1m14s (72.0kB/s)

> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure
-a' to correct the problem. 
> 
> laptop:/home/moseley# dpkg --configure -a
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
>  EOF after field name `'


Try the command line:

dpkg --clear-avail

: You could accomplish the same thing by deleting the available file,
but then you need to create a new one:

touch /var/lib/dpkg/available

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Spinning down external USB HDD

[[KS]]

Hi,

I have an external USB HDD which I use only for backups. Although the
disk spins down itself after about half an hour or more ( I checked for
half an hour last time and it was still spinning). I had installed
sdparm earlier but I couldn't spin it down using it. Is there any way
using sdparm or an other utility to spin down the hard disk?

Thanks,
/KS

PS: The system is an Unstable with kernel 2.6.12


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Loadlin under Config.sys -- AAAAGH!

[Avid LinuxHacker]

Man pages and user guides have turned me bug eyed these last three months.  
This is my first
attempt at perfroming a Linux installation and I am totaly lost.  Here is my 
situation;

My machine is an old 200 mHz "all in one" with two hard drives and an internal 
modem (56K vanilla
generic) and 128 meg of RAM.  The first hard drive is a tiny 16 meg drive with 
MSDOS running on it
and about 8-9 meg of empty space.  The second hard drive is a 12 gig drive that 
has been
partitioned into two section.  The first partition (5 gig) is primary and 
presently running Win
98.  The second partition (7 gig) is unused and unformated.  The machine has NO 
"A" drive, NO
CD-ROM drive and NO externally bootable devices period.

My approach to this has been to boot the minimalist linux kernal by way of 
Loadlin and initrd
under config.sys and then download all necessary parts to do a clean instal of 
Debian.  I am
having a real problem determining what files I really need to put on the mini 
HD to do this and
most of all what the config.sys file lines should read. At this point a few 
lines of config.sys
DOS code examples would be worth a thousand manpages.

Has anyone walked this path before me?  Could you help me break this deadlock 
please?



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Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

[Paul Johnson]

On Sunday 14 August 2005 08:25 am, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:45:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Then you should use MS Windows. :-/
>
> I do, for some things.  For other things, I use Linux, for still other
> things I use oBSD, and for yet more things, I use MacOS X.

But the point still stands, if you want free you use Ogg.  If you want wrong, 
go with MP3.


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Re: OT: wireless router modems

[Paul Johnson]

On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:35 am, linux wrote:
> Having been hit by not-so-obvious probs in my previous (non-wireless)
> router, I'm wondering if anybody here has had experience of any of the
> below and would care to comment, particularly about any ''bugs'' (eg
> automatic, non-programmable wirewalls):

Generally speaking, the best way to accomplish the same thing is a second 
ethernet NIC and a wireless to ethernet bridge (one port ethernet, two 
antennas, SNMP management to get it on the air, and that's *IT*), plug 
wireless bridge into extra ethernet, use the ipmasq package to give it 
internet.


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tzfile Modifications for the United States

[Martin McCormick]

Since the new energy bill was signed in to law, the existing
tzfile information for all those parts of the United States that use
DST needs to be tweaked so the automatic change will occur at the
correct times.  Will there be new tzfile sets we can download that
have been modified or do we need to generate our own?  The tzfile for
any given time zone is a binary file containing constants that drive
all the conversion routines for the timeofday functions.  It occurred
to me that now is as good a time as any to start patching since the
new data set won't hurt a thing to install and have running.


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OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group


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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Kevin Buhr]

Rishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> This is the output of the 'file' command which I guess indicates the
> type of audio file format.
>
> ---
> rec02.wav:  RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz
> ---
>
> When I run lame to convert it into MP3 it gives this error and proceeds.
>
> ---
> Warning: corrupt or unsupported WAVE format
> Assuming raw pcm input file
> ---

It appears that "lame" doesn't support the IMA ADPCM format.

Instead of first converting to OGG and then to MP3 (which will produce
a poor quality result), you can use SoX to convert the WAVE file to a
new WAVE format that "lame" supports:

$ file test.wav
test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz
$ sox test.wav -s test2.wav
$ file test2.wav
test2.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, 
mono 8000 Hz
$ lame test2.wav test.mp3
[ . . . ]
$ 

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Re: Planet Penguin Racer problems

[Alexander Schmehl]

Hi Laura and Laura's dad!

* Laura Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050812 00:18]:
> I (David Bruce) am Laura's dad.  We are having trouble with 
> PlanetPenguinRacer (the successor to TuxRacer).  Upon starting a course, 
> the view perspective switches to looking back at the penguin instead of 
> looking ahead from behind.  This makes it a little tricky to decide 
> where to steer, to say the least.  Laura's computer is running Sid with 
> kernel = 2.6.11, KDE = 3.3.2, kdelibs4_4%3a3.3.2-7_i386.deb, and 
> planetpenguin-racer_0.3.1-2_i386.deb.

Sounds like you hit bug #307434: http://bugs.debian.org/307434

It's a bug I neither I nor upstream could reproduce.  If you have any
hints that could help us to reproduce it, we would really appreciate any
help or information you could offer.

What hardware are you using?  Do you have any other system you could
test ppracer?


> I know that a lot of things are broken in Sid due to the C++ transition, 
> but if anyone knows of a reasonably simple fix to get PlanetPenguinRacer 
> operating sanely, I will have a much happier seven year old, and also 
> one who thinks more highly of "The Penguin System".

No, that shouldn't be the problem.


Yours sincerely,
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Re: customizing thunderbird

[[KS]]

belahcene wrote:
> Hi,
> I have an acount on mail server ( call it myMailserv),
> on my PC1 ( running linux Sarge) I created a count in thunderbird to
> send and READ my email. It is OK,
> Now from another machine PC2 , I created a local count to access to my
> email (Read and send) , the count is the same of course in the server (
> myMailserv) , but the previous emails ( received/sent  on  PC1 ) are not
> available on PC1 
> 
> I want to see in both PCs ( 1 and 2) all my email ( I use pop server)
> (I sent this mail to mozilla- list too)
> 
For a POP server, your client would download(by default) the email to
your PC1. When you connect to the server using PC2, the client will only
see the "new" emails after which came after you checked from PC1. You
could ask the client programs to "leave a copy" (there is an option
which you can check in account settings) of the mails on the server. But
you probably won't know if you read those emails from PC1 when you check
them from PC2.

A better way to go about doing what you require is to use IMAP rather
than POP. With IMAP you get a copy of your emails from the mail server
and the server knows which emails you have read and the sent folder will
be the same for both PC1 and PC2 with IMAP (unlike with POP where you
see only those emails in the sent folder which you sent from that machine).

I hope that helps.
/KS


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customizing thunderbird

[belahcene]

Hi,
I have an acount on mail server ( call it myMailserv),
on my PC1 ( running linux Sarge) I created a count in thunderbird to 
send and READ my email. It is OK,
Now from another machine PC2 , I created a local count to access to my 
email (Read and send) , the count is the same of course in the server ( 
myMailserv) , but the previous emails ( received/sent  on  PC1 ) are not 
available on PC1 


I want to see in both PCs ( 1 and 2) all my email ( I use pop server)
(I sent this mail to mozilla- list too)

thanks for help
best regards


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Re: DVD+R writing problems

[csj]

On 10. August 2005 at 10:50AM +1000,
Brendon Lloyd Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual
> Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but
> I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or
> so tries so far (many with different discs, all from the same
> manufacturer), only 4 have been successful.

You should try blanks from a different manufacturer then.

> When I try to burn a DVD+R the drive spins up, slows down,
> spins up again, slows down, and cycles like this, without
> burning any data, for about a minute before I get the error:
> 
> growisofs: 5.21
> 
> growisofs
> ---
> Executing 'builtin_dd if=/home/brendon/debarchives.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k 
> seek=0'
> /dev/hdc: "Current Write Speed" is 8.2x1385KBps.

[...]

Have you tried burning your DVD+Rs at the slowest available speed?


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Re: Problem configuring a local .deb repository -- SOLVED!

[Bob Proulx]

Harold Crouch wrote:
> Problem solved!

In the future you might consider using 'debarchiver' to build the
archive and 'dupload' (or 'dput') to put your custom debs into it.
This makes managing a personal depot very easy.

  apt-cache show debarchiver
  apt-cache show dupload

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Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[Jochen Schulz]

Vincent Lefevre:
> On 2005-08-14 15:18:43 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> 
> > The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my screen (14"
> > laptop, 1024x768).
> 
> Ditto here. Unfortunately, with size 9, two side-to-side xterm's don't
> fit on my screen (and 3 side-to-side xterm's don't fit on 1600x1200).

That's a pity, I agree. Nevertheless I decided some months ago that I'd
like to use TrueType fonts in all applications. The only program that I
regularly run with a bitmap font is root-tail.

> The fonts "fixed" and Bitstream Vera Monospace size 8 are OK for that,
> but with BVM size 8, the accented characters look strange.

I don't agree but size 8 is way to small on my display anyway. There is
always a tradeoff between screen usage and legibility and most of the
time I prefer the latter.

> With xterm, I can use the font "fixed", but selection in xterm is
> buggy (e.g. when using screen). With gnome-terminal, I can't use the
> font "fixed".

You can. Just 'dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig' and answer 'Yes' to the last
question (something about bitmap fonts). And as I already mentioned: if
you like gnome-terminal (and are prepared to run a non-sarge system),
you are problably better off using xce4-terminal. Startup time is
significantly shorter on my machine and it offers all the features you
are used to from gnome-terminal.

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Re: end of google cg1

[Marc Wilson]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 06:58:01AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> It appears that google cg1 is a thing of the past.
> Only beta out there now.

Yeah, groups.google.ca has gone away, which is the one I was using.  Too
bad, really.  Google Groups and GMail demonstrate even for the most
clueless that Google, for all its resources, doesn't have anyone with even
a vague idea about good UI design.

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Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

[Marc Wilson]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:45:21PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Then you should use MS Windows. :-/

I do, for some things.  For other things, I use Linux, for still other
things I use oBSD, and for yet more things, I use MacOS X.

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Re: dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available'

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On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 08:02:05PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> BM> Any ideas about how to fix?
> 
> What about /var/lib/dpkg/available-old? Is it corrupted also?

Yes.

dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 1:
 field name `ôh²Îñb ' must be followed by colon
dpkg: --compare-versions takes three arguments:   

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Re: Ndiswrapper

[James Burke]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:52:22 -0500
Teilhard Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I am a newbie in Debian with a tiny experience in Mandrake.
> 
> I have been trying to put my wireless adapter at work in Debian. Compilation 
> of the binary drivers was impossible, so I am trying to install ndiswrapper. 
> For that I need the kernel-source which matches my kernel and a symbolic link 
> "linux" in /usr/src pointing to the kernel-source also in /usr/src. I have 
> set up all this.
> 
> For compiling and installing Ndiswrapper I am following the instructions in 
> sourceforge.net:
> 
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/InstallDebian,
> 
> (should you like to have a peep). Problem is, I run into problems when I try 
> to compile the Ndiswrapper package. Doing: "fakeroot debian/rules 
> binary-modules" gives me the error: "Can't find kernel sources 
> in /usr/src/linux;". I do not know what to do now, I do not know if the 
> kernel-source lacks something, what I am doing is correct, or I am simply too 
> newbie.
> 
> I would appreciate is someone helps me install Ndiswrapper in my Debian 
> 3.1r0a-i386. Thanks.
> 
> Teilhard.
> 

If you've got internet access you can use apt-get to install ndiswrapper.

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Re: Kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x coexistence issues

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I would like to know what problems could occur from installing both 
kernels in sarge and how to deal with them. I can think of

1. alsa problems
2. cdrecord problems
3. mounting points problems (cdrom is expected in different places)
4. X problems (mouse expected in different places)
These last two from difference in /dev directory

Has anyone done this and would like to share?




Which is the reason that I install 2.4. and 2.6. in different 
partitions and just share what will not change.


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Re: OT: wireless router modems

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-08-14 14:35:30 +0100, linux wrote:
> WAG54G Wireless ADSL Router with 4 port switch
>   Manufacturers Code: WAG54G/UK
> 
>   
> Belkin
>  

We have this one here (except it's a FR version -- I don't know if
there's any difference). The previous one lasted 15 months (probably
a hardware problem in the switch -- Wifi was still working) and we
replaced it yesterday, still by a WAG54G (which now has an ON/OFF
button). We don't need to use advanced firewall. So, for a basic
use, it's OK. However, the wifi part is not perfect: the wifi
connection is bad or impossible in some rooms of the house (but
I don't know what there is in the walls, and I couldn't compare
with other wireless router modems).

At home, I have a Netopia Cayman 3347WEU. The wifi part seems to be
quite good: I can even reach my network from the bus stop (I'd say
a little more than 100m, with a few obstacles). But each time the
ADSL connection has to be restarted (in my case, every week, or less
often), I lose all my ssh connections. I didn't have that problem
with my previous router.

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Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-08-14 15:18:43 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> But I don't understand, why anyone on the world would want a
> proportional font in a terminal anyway. If you use "Bitstream Vera
> Monospace", you get a much better result.

I agree.

> The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my screen (14"
> laptop, 1024x768).

Ditto here. Unfortunately, with size 9, two side-to-side xterm's don't
fit on my screen (and 3 side-to-side xterm's don't fit on 1600x1200).
The fonts "fixed" and Bitstream Vera Monospace size 8 are OK for that,
but with BVM size 8, the accented characters look strange. With xterm,
I can use the font "fixed", but selection in xterm is buggy (e.g. when
using screen). With gnome-terminal, I can't use the font "fixed".

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OT: wireless router modems

[linux]

Having been hit by not-so-obvious probs in my previous (non-wireless) 
router, I'm wondering if anybody here has had experience of any of the 
below and would care to comment, particularly about any ''bugs'' (eg 
automatic, non-programmable wirewalls):



  Dlink 
DSL-G604T 54Mb Wireless ADSL Router/Modem + 4port Switch

  Manufacturers Code: DSL-G604T

  Linksys 
WAG354G Wireless ADSL2+ Router with 4 port switch

  Manufacturers Code: WAG354G/UK

  Linksys 
WAG54G Wireless ADSL Router with 4 port switch

  Manufacturers Code: WAG54G/UK

  Belkin 
54MB Wireless ADSL 4 prt router +ADSL modem (F5D7632uk4)

  Manufacturers Code: F5D7632uk4

  Dlink 
DSL-G604T 54Mb Wireless ADSL Router/Modem with DWL-G122 USB2 54Mb Wireless 
Adaptor

  Manufacturers Code: DSL904

  Netgear 
DG834G 54Mbps Wireless ADSL Router & Firewall

  Manufacturers Code: DG834GUK

  Netgear 
DG834GT 108Mbps Wireless ADSL Router & Firewall

  Manufacturers Code: DG834GTUK


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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-08-14 02:00:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Shame, you forgot to mention that ogg/vorbis files of the same
> source, and the same size as the .mp3 files would be, sound better
> in almost any a/b comparison.

I haven't checked myself, but according to

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg_Vorbis

"The noise floor approach gives Vorbis its characteristic analog noise
-like failure mode (when the bitrate is too low to encode the audio
without perceptible loss), which many people find more pleasing to the
ears than metallic warbling as in MP3."

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Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[Jochen Schulz]

Vincent Lefevre:
> On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote:
> >
> > > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12",
> 
> With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!!

It doesn't fit on my screen either. But I don't understand, why anyone
on the world would want a proportional font in a terminal anyway. If you
use "Bitstream Vera Monospace", you get a much better result.

> > > but in terminals, I seem to prefer fonts that aren't anti-aliased.
> 
> Me too, though the problem isn't the fact that they are anti-aliased,
> but they aren't designed for small sizes (it's more bitmap fonts vs
> outline fonts).

The Monospace font looks good with at least size 9 on my screen (14"
laptop, 1024x768). But I don't recommend using TrueType fonts with xterm
anyway. Instead, I am using xfce4-terminal (not in stable,
unfortunately) with Bitstream Vera Monospace size 10. The antialiasing
is done much better and you can disallow bold fonts to be printed (the
same as xterm's '+bdc' switch which doesn't work for TrueType fonts for
a reason unknown to me).

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Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-08-13 23:53:11 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Paul did not point out that it was better to use a tool that
> implements a patent-free algorithm. He merely made the usual "use
> Vorbis!" knee-jerk reaction.
> 
> Personally, I find "more widely supported" a compelling measure of
> "better".

Then you should use MS Windows. :-/

As for me, I neither use MS Windows, nor MP3 (when encoding audio files).
If some hardware doesn't support Ogg Vorbis, then I don't use it.

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Re: XTerm and Bitstream Vera

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-08-14 02:41:18 +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> On Saturday 13 August 2005 20.46, Tom wrote:
> > I once read something like "xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera Sans" -fs 12",

With that, a 80-column xterm doesn't fit on my screen!!!
(Perhaps because of some Unicode characters, that are very large...)

> > but in terminals, I seem to prefer fonts that aren't anti-aliased.

Me too, though the problem isn't the fact that they are anti-aliased,
but they aren't designed for small sizes (it's more bitmap fonts vs
outline fonts).

> xterm -fa "Bitstream Vera" -fs 8
> 
> ..gives slightly better result for me.

Much better result here, but the accented characters (e.g. è and ê)
are crap.

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Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

[Chris Boot]

tigergutt wrote:


søn, 14,.08.2005 kl. 10.31 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:
 


tigergutt wrote:

   


tor, 11,.08.2005 kl. 18.59 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:


 


Hi all,

I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives  
and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my  
motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the  
hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably  
well under _very_ light load, but anything like building a RAID array  
is a bit much and the whole controller seems to lock up.


I can't remember the exact kernel messages, and I've unplugged the  
drives for now, but they were exactly like those in the following posts:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg00958.html
http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-21928.html

All of these people seemed to be having trouble a good while ago, and  
other than the blacklist fix (which I have tried...) there seem to be  
no solutions to the problem at all. I can't seem to find any PCI  
controller cards not based on the SiI chipset (even the expensive  
ones) to replace my current card, either.


Needless to say the drives on my internal VIA controller work like a  
charm.


Has anyone run unto this problem?
  

   


Like this ?

http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=sata_sil+mod15+quirk+with
+Seagate&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta=


 

Nope, I ended up debugging the problem on LKML and Linux-IDE, where we 
figured out it was a faulty controller...
   



Glad you found an solution after all.

 


Any fixes?
  

   


Maybe.
I swapped the disk for an maxtor :)


 


In my case, that wouldn't have helped me at all. :-(
   



True.

Still makes me newer buy an seagate disk again.
 

Apparently the newer 7200.8 drives are much better and don't have any of 
the mod15 trouble. Mine work like a treat, and they're whisper-quiet, 
which is why I bought them.


Chris

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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:19, Rishi wrote:
>> Just an idea looking at the message you have got: Maybe lame does not
>> convert mono streams. Why not use sox to convert mono to stereo and
>> then lame to convert it to mp3. It would be better if you can make sox
>> directly convert to mp3.
>
>Hi Sridhar,
>
>You're a dude. Thanks
>
>I installed sox and converted it into ogg.
>
>Which is in itself an achivement. :-)
>
>As regards to getting an ogg converted into an mp3 do you know of any
>too to do it?
>
In re converting, it won't be very good, particularly at the low data 
rates you are discussing.  The reason is that each method throws away 
different parts of the data, and when you encode it first with one 
method, then convert to the other, you wind up with artifacts of both 
methods, and the result isn't anywhere near as listenable as either by 
themselves.

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Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

[tigergutt]

søn, 14,.08.2005 kl. 10.31 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:
> tigergutt wrote:
> 
> >tor, 11,.08.2005 kl. 18.59 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives  
> >>and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my  
> >>motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the  
> >>hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably  
> >>well under _very_ light load, but anything like building a RAID array  
> >>is a bit much and the whole controller seems to lock up.
> >>
> >>I can't remember the exact kernel messages, and I've unplugged the  
> >>drives for now, but they were exactly like those in the following posts:
> >>http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg00958.html
> >>http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-21928.html
> >>
> >>All of these people seemed to be having trouble a good while ago, and  
> >>other than the blacklist fix (which I have tried...) there seem to be  
> >>no solutions to the problem at all. I can't seem to find any PCI  
> >>controller cards not based on the SiI chipset (even the expensive  
> >>ones) to replace my current card, either.
> >>
> >>Needless to say the drives on my internal VIA controller work like a  
> >>charm.
> >>
> >>Has anyone run unto this problem?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Like this ?
> >
> >http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=sata_sil+mod15+quirk+with
> >+Seagate&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta=
> >  
> >
> Nope, I ended up debugging the problem on LKML and Linux-IDE, where we 
> figured out it was a faulty controller...

Glad you found an solution after all.

> >> Any fixes?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Maybe.
> >I swapped the disk for an maxtor :)
> >  
> >
> In my case, that wouldn't have helped me at all. :-(

True.

Still makes me newer buy an seagate disk again.

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Re: gphoto2 - permissions

[Joan Tur]

Es Diumenge Agost 14 2005 01:23, en Roy Pluschke va escriure:
| problem:
| "gphoto2 -P" (download all pictures) works as root
| "gphoto2 -P" won't work as regular user -- gives following error
The user has to belong to the right group... but I'm not sure if that group is 
camera and/or plugdev.

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2 Question about Mirroring Scripts /DVD image creation

[Christian Felgemacher]

Hello everyone,

I have to question regarding a local mirror I have set up to allow me and
 some friends to regularly update out systems without downloading everything
 again and again for every computer.

I'm currently using the "anonftpsync" script, which is available in the
mirroring section of the debian homepage.

Would you advise me to keep using that script or should I rather use
 something different.

My second question is if it is possible to create DVD images from a local
mirror with tools other than jigdo. Can anyone give me any advice on that ?

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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Daniel Baumann]

Rishi wrote:
> I'm trying to convert it into an mp3.

deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
restricted

apt-get install bladeenc
or
apt-get install lame
or
apt-get install gogo

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Kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x coexistence issues

[Antonio Rodriguez]

I would like to know what problems could occur from installing both 
kernels in sarge and how to deal with them. I can think of
1. alsa problems
2. cdrecord problems
3. mounting points problems (cdrom is expected in different places)
4. X problems (mouse expected in different places)
These last two from difference in /dev directory

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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Rishi]

> Just an idea looking at the message you have got: Maybe lame does not
> convert mono streams. Why not use sox to convert mono to stereo and then
> lame to convert it to mp3. It would be better if you can make sox
> directly convert to mp3.

Hi Sridhar,

You're a dude. Thanks

I installed sox and converted it into ogg.

Which is in itself an achivement. :-)

As regards to getting an ogg converted into an mp3 do you know of any
too to do it?

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Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

[Jochen Schulz]

Rishi:
> 
> Does anyone know of hardware ogg players (usb) that I can buy?

This question was answered just a couple of days ago. Search for
"Portable OGG Player". My recommendation: Iriver H120 (or H140, for 40GB
instead of 20).

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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Sridhar M.A.]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 12:38:40PM +0530, Rishi wrote:
   > 
   > This is the output of the 'file' command which I guess indicates the
   > type of audio file format.
   > 
   > ---
   > rec02.wav:  RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz
   > ---
   > 
   > When I run lame to convert it into MP3 it gives this error and proceeds.
   > 
Just an idea looking at the message you have got: Maybe lame does not
convert mono streams. Why not use sox to convert mono to stereo and then
lame to convert it to mp3. It would be better if you can make sox
directly convert to mp3.

If you are comfortable with gui, install lame libs and use audacity to
do the job. 

Regarding hiss, use filters in audacity to tone it down.

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Re: Colors is Firefox

[Paolo Pantaleo]

2005/8/13, Vi Arguelles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dave Ewart wrote:
> 
> >OK, I understand.  Given that you don't want to force *every* page to
> >follow your own choice, perhaps you should define your own basic CSS and
> >then use it for sites you deem 'poorly designed' by using the
> >WebDeveloper extension?
> >
> >https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60
> >
> >Dave.
> >
> >
> _Or _ you could use this little handy bookmarklet:
> 
> 
> javascript:(function(){var newSS, styles='* { background: white !
> important; color: black !important } :link, :link * { color: #EE
> !important } :visited, :visited * { color: #551A8B !important }';
> if(document.createStyleSheet) {
> document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22); } else {
> newSS=document.createElement('link'); newSS.rel='stylesheet';
> newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);
> document.getElementsByTagName(%22head%22)[0].appendChild(newSS); } })();
> 
> 
> Call it Zap Colors, add it to your bookmarks toolbar and use it whenever
> you'd like to change colors. There's a bunch of this bookmarklets here:
> http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html , in case this is not
> what you wanted.
> 
> No, i'm not affiliated with this site.
> 
> cheers!
> ~vi
> 

Great solutions :)
Thnx
PAolo

Re: mutt + thunderbird

[Dave Ewart]

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> Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | mess-mate wrote:
> | > Hi,
> | > is there any way to deal my imap mailbox between mutt and
> | > thunderbird ?
> | > Thunderbird doen't see the messages in my folders, also when
> | > subscribed to.
> | > The permissions seems ok.
> | > 
> | > Using fetchmail, courier-imap, postfix and mutt.
> | 
> | I think you need to give us more information about your configuration.
> | Correctly configured, *any* IMAP client should be able to see all your
> | messages and folders.
> | 
> | I've used Mutt, Thunderbird, KMail etc. all on the same IMAP source
> | without a problem.
> | 
> | The "Thunderbird doen't see the messages in my folders" error sounds
> | like it might be due to the mailbox reference being set differently in
> | Mutt to Thunderbird.
> | 
> | In Mutt, check the setting for
> | 
> | set folder="imaps://my.imap.host/Foldername"
> | 
> | and make sure that "Foldername" or "~/Foldername" appears in the IMAP
> | server directory (in Account preferences, Server Settings, Advanced).
> | 
> These settings are done. Folderbname=INBOX and there my olders they
> are as Debian, Courier, Mutt, etc...

I don't think that's the right way to use the 'set folder' option: it
should refer to a *folder*, not to your inbox! However ...

> Strange is that i see the messages in the Debian folder but NOT in
> the others.

That just sounds like a subscription problem.  Right-click on the Debian
folder which you can see and select "Subscribe" which should give you
the option to see the other folders.  Is 'Debian' in the same server
directory as your other folders?  If so, this should work.

Dave.
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Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

[Chris Boot]

tigergutt wrote:


tor, 11,.08.2005 kl. 18.59 +0100, skrev Chris Boot:
 


Hi all,

I just recently took the plunge and bought 4 250 GB Seagate drives  
and a 2 port Silicon Image 3112A controller card for the 2 drives my  
motherboard doesn't handle. No matter how hard I try, I can't get the  
hard drives to work: they are detected correctly and work reasonably  
well under _very_ light load, but anything like building a RAID array  
is a bit much and the whole controller seems to lock up.


I can't remember the exact kernel messages, and I've unplugged the  
drives for now, but they were exactly like those in the following posts:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ide@vger.kernel.org/msg00958.html
http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-21928.html

All of these people seemed to be having trouble a good while ago, and  
other than the blacklist fix (which I have tried...) there seem to be  
no solutions to the problem at all. I can't seem to find any PCI  
controller cards not based on the SiI chipset (even the expensive  
ones) to replace my current card, either.


Needless to say the drives on my internal VIA controller work like a  
charm.


Has anyone run unto this problem?
   



Like this ?

http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=sata_sil+mod15+quirk+with
+Seagate&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8k&meta=
 

Nope, I ended up debugging the problem on LKML and Linux-IDE, where we 
figured out it was a faulty controller...



Any fixes?
   



Maybe.
I swapped the disk for an maxtor :)
 


In my case, that wouldn't have helped me at all. :-(

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Re: mutt + thunderbird

[mess-mate]

Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| mess-mate wrote:
| > Hi,
| > is there any way to deal my imap mailbox between mutt and
| > thunderbird ?
| > Thunderbird doen't see the messages in my folders, also when
| > subscribed to.
| > The permissions seems ok.
| > 
| > Using fetchmail, courier-imap, postfix and mutt.
| 
| I think you need to give us more information about your configuration.
| Correctly configured, *any* IMAP client should be able to see all your
| messages and folders.
| 
| I've used Mutt, Thunderbird, KMail etc. all on the same IMAP source
| without a problem.
| 
| The "Thunderbird doen't see the messages in my folders" error sounds
| like it might be due to the mailbox reference being set differently in
| Mutt to Thunderbird.
| 
| In Mutt, check the setting for
| 
| set folder="imaps://my.imap.host/Foldername"
| 
| and make sure that "Foldername" or "~/Foldername" appears in the IMAP
| server directory (in Account preferences, Server Settings, Advanced).
| 
These settings are done. Folderbname=INBOX and there my olders they
are as Debian, Courier, Mutt, etc...
Strange is that i see the messages in the Debian folder but NOT in
the others.
I've verified the permissions on every folder and the mailbox
(~/Maildir) an they are ok.
The layout of my mailbox:
~/Maildir/INBOX
 .Debian
 /cur
 /new
 /tmp
etc..
I've no problem with mutt 'set folder="imap://127.0.0.1/INBOX'
mailboxes +.Debian
etc..


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Re: end of google cg1

[Tomi Häsä]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> It appears that google cg1 is a thing of the past.
> Only beta out there now.

Yes, that's the situation at the moment:

http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/gg1_sites.html


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Re: end of google cg1

[Tomi Häsä]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> It appears that google cg1 is a thing of the past.
> Only beta out there now.

Yes, that's the situtation at the moment:

http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/gg1_sites.html


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Bitstream Vera + XTerm

[Kumar Appaiah]

On a machine on which I had installed from ISOs generated from a Sarge
snapshot (23rd March, 2005), XTerm used the Bitstream Vera Mono font,
and it looked wonderful. The system used XFree86.

Now, on another machine, I have an up-to-date unstable system. While
all major apps (KDE+GNOME, Mozilla Firefox etc.) show the fonts pretty
well, I am unable to get the Bitstream fonts on my XTerm. Even on
Konsole, I see the right font in the preview, but when I select it,
the font in the konsole doesn't change.

What could be the problem?

Thanks.

Kumar

Re: debian 3..1 sarge

[Charlie]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:40:30 +0200
matt turned these thoughts into words and wrote:

|- dear friends
|- 
|- i hadnt luck install above mentioned distribution on my notebook. i had

|- succes by standard install but after reboot ing it hangs. it hangs by 
|- the kernel 2.6 too. it is anything in coherence to the search by system

|- for usb  ports. i had reject this option while i had performed the 
|- install of that but it hangs there too. it cant access the cd-dvd drive

|- and it is looking for the floppy first.
|- 
|- i had check second cd from another source but its the same. 
|- 
|- name & configuration of notebook
|- aver travelmate 2300
|- 512 ram
|- 40 gb hdd
|- tft display
|- 
|- ofcourse i will try it again but unfortunatelly im not a programer and 
|- therefor its not ease beside the problem logical way myself. in the
case 
|- it would be the install performed with success i will inform you too.
|- 
|- i had install this distro quicklu on my pc with in configuration amd - 
|- 512 ram - 64 mb videocard - 80 gb hdd. it works problemless there
|- 
|- best regards
|- 
|- michal kovac
|- 
|- 
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Don't know if this will help you Matt, being new to Debian myself.

Mine is an Acer 1355LC
And I had to use the use:- expert noapic vga=788

at the install boot prompt.

I also had to leave the drivers of the PCMCIA till the 
process, because trying to get it detected any earlier hard froze the install
process.

Maybe that will help.
Charlie



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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 02:00:14AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 14 August 2005 01:18, Paul Johnson wrote:
> >On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:08 pm, Rishi wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Is there any program on Debian that can convert a wave file into
> >> mp3?
> >
> >No, because of BMG Music's patent on MPEG Layer 3 encoders.  There are
> >unofficial packages for encoders (like lame) available from sources
> >that can be readily found at http://www.apt-get.org/ .  If you want a
> >100% Debian's-idea-of-free way of accomplishing the same thing, look
> >into the patent-unencumbered Ogg Vorbis format instead.
> 
> Shame, you forgot to mention that ogg/vorbis files of the same source, and 
> the same size as the .mp3 files would be, sound better in almost any a/b 
> comparison.
> 

I have to agree there as well.  I digitize my church's sermons and put
them online on our website.  I chose ogg/vorbis for two reasons:

- patents
- size

For obvious reasons I didn't want to go with wma/mp3/real/whatever.  But
the size issue was a real clincher as well.  I encode at mono/22.05 kHz
and most files that contain about 30 minutes of audio weigh in at about
8 MB.  I think I experimented with mp3 for a few of them and found that
typically they would be 25-50% bigger.  With the 8 MB for 30 minutes,
the size is small enough that someone can actually listen to it while
downloading over a 56k connection.  In the end, it is superior
technology.  It will be nice once more hardware starts supporting it.

-Roberto

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Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

[Rishi]

> There are
> unofficial packages for encoders (like lame) available from sources
> that can be readily found at http://www.apt-get.org/ .  


Hello again,

I got this site that contained the 'lame' package.

deb http://mail.linuxvar.it/~gianluca/athlon-xp testing main

This is the output of the 'file' command which I guess indicates the
type of audio file format.

---
rec02.wav:  RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, IMA ADPCM, mono 8000 Hz
---

When I run lame to convert it into MP3 it gives this error and proceeds.

---
Warning: corrupt or unsupported WAVE format
Assuming raw pcm input file
---

The converted mp3 file that is created has a hiss. :-(

Any ideas what I can do to get lame to recognize this audio file
format so that it can convert the wave file to mp3?

Thanks

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