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Re: Squeeze can't log in. Don't know package.

[Celejar]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:58:49 -0400
Ryan Larrowe  wrote:

> I would like to report a bug in Debian squeeze.   After a fresg install 
> I cannot log in to my system.  I did use shadow passwords on my 
> install.  If you need more information you can contact me at 
> rlarr...@gmail.com.

You should definitely use reportbug and file with the BTS, not here.
You should provide more information.  If you can't login after a fresh
installation, I'd recommend filing against the installer (package
installation-reports).

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Re: Opportunistic apt sources?

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 17:20, Richard Hartmann wrote:

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was any such thing as an opportunistic apt
source.

By opportunistic, I mean that I want to be able to define repositories
that have no Packages.gz of their own and might or might not be
available at any given time.
If I try to install foo, I would love to have a way to try a few other
sources before falling back to the proper servers configured.

I.e. when I am at home, my laptop would access my main desktop
box which is usually up to date.
If I am at work, my laptop would use the company's debproxy.
If I am somewhere else, I would use a proper mirror.

Obviously, there would need to be some sort of mechanism to
discard packages which can not be verified to guard against MITM.


Does anything like the above exist?


I'd use symlinks, where sources.list points to either 
sources.list.home, sources.list.work or sources.list.internet, and a 
short script to flip between them.


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Opportunistic apt sources?

[Richard Hartmann]

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was any such thing as an opportunistic apt
source.

By opportunistic, I mean that I want to be able to define repositories
that have no Packages.gz of their own and might or might not be
available at any given time.
If I try to install foo, I would love to have a way to try a few other
sources before falling back to the proper servers configured.

I.e. when I am at home, my laptop would access my main desktop
box which is usually up to date.
If I am at work, my laptop would use the company's debproxy.
If I am somewhere else, I would use a proper mirror.

Obviously, there would need to be some sort of mechanism to
discard packages which can not be verified to guard against MITM.


Does anything like the above exist?


Thanks,
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Re: recent mobo recommendation

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 15:10, Clive McBarton wrote:


Ron Johnson wrote:

ATX means you'll get lots of built-in features.  I like my Gigabyte
GA-MA780G-UD3H mobo with AM2+/AM2 socket.

8GM RAM, 6 SATA, 1 (or 2, I forget) rear eSATA, lots of USB, a front and
rear Firewire and decent on-board audio.  On-board ATI video with
separate video RAM, but I installed a fanless NVIDIA card because the
driver situation is *simple*, and it's fast.


That's good to hear, and it makes me curious. Does the "simple" refer to
the open-source or the closed-source NVIDIA driver?


Yes.  There's only two (although there are multiple versions of the 
binary driver).


ATI has r128, radeon, radeonhd, fglrx and catalyst.


   And is it general
consensus that NVIDIA is easier to deal with than ATI?


I think so...


After all, you
installed a card after you already had on-board graphics.

Also, I vagely recall having heard that a 64bit-OS might be trickier to
deal with when it comes to graphics drivers.


Maybe with ATI cards, but not Nvidia.  Both the nv and nvidia 
drivers come in 32 and 64 bit versions.



 Is that true? Here I see 8
Gig of RAM, hence presumably a 64bit system.


The beauty of modern 64-bit archs is that you can have a 32-bit 
distro with a 64-bit kernel.


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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Brad Rogers]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:15:53 -0500
Ron Johnson  wrote:

Hello Ron,

> Plz show us a link to a USB adapter that plugs into a PC's serial port.

I've never even looked for one.  I'm just going what by Dotan wrote.  By
the sounds of it, he's not seen the set up yet, anyhow.  It could well
be that his neighbour has got a USB-RS232 adapter plugged in the wrong
way round.  Of course, at this point, I'm just guessing.

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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 14:40, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:20:49 -0300
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI  wrote:

Hello Eduardo,

I see nothing about serial there. Just a plain smart card reader that 
connects directly via USB.


True, but Dotan's neighbour has an RS232 to USB adaptor that the reader
is connected to.



Plz show us a link to a USB adapter that plugs into a PC's serial port.

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Re: recent mobo recommendation

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> ATX means you'll get lots of built-in features.  I like my Gigabyte
> GA-MA780G-UD3H mobo with AM2+/AM2 socket.
> 
> 8GM RAM, 6 SATA, 1 (or 2, I forget) rear eSATA, lots of USB, a front and
> rear Firewire and decent on-board audio.  On-board ATI video with
> separate video RAM, but I installed a fanless NVIDIA card because the
> driver situation is *simple*, and it's fast.

That's good to hear, and it makes me curious. Does the "simple" refer to
the open-source or the closed-source NVIDIA driver? And is it general
consensus that NVIDIA is easier to deal with than ATI? After all, you
installed a card after you already had on-board graphics.

Also, I vagely recall having heard that a 64bit-OS might be trickier to
deal with when it comes to graphics drivers. Is that true? Here I see 8
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Re: lighttpd doesn't listen port 80 in a lenny chroot environment

[Onur Aslan]

After disabled ipv6 it's working fine.

Thanks.


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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Brad Rogers]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:20:49 -0300
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI  wrote:

Hello Eduardo,

> I see nothing about serial there. Just a plain smart card reader that 
> connects directly via USB.

True, but Dotan's neighbour has an RS232 to USB adaptor that the reader
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Re: horrible mc colorscheme

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

godo wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from 
2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.


And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
No kidding!

How do I get back to what I had?
Anybody?



So what happened is that starting with 4.7.0 mc supports skins.

There are 5 skins shipped with mc:

darkfar - black background
default - the old default: blue background
double-lines - like default but with double lines. Couldn't get that 
to work

featured - like double-lines
gotar - black backround

I found 2 skins googling:

elite_commander - unreadable with black backround
bluemoon - black background.

I found no skins anywhere with my choice for years: white background.

So it's back to the old blue default because it takes days of diddling 
to make up a skin.


Hugo



Hi,
I was just download and open elite_commander skin.
I think if in:
[core]
_default_=gray;

change to white
[core]
_default_=white;
it should be white background.
I don't have mc so I can't try, but it seems easy to modified.


Hi Goran,

I just posted a followup with my complaint on the mc user list:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2010-April/msg00024.html

It's not that simple as I mention there: when you change that default 
option all the directory entries turn bright white and in mcedit the 
entries turn black on white with a blue background which looks ridiculous.


The problem is that they changed a major function without fallback and 
without a spectrum of options.


Too bad but it's waiting until skins get developed or pinning mc to 
prevent 4.7.0.1 from installing.


Hugo

















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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Jochen Schulz]

Dotan Cohen:
>>>
>>> A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
>>> machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
>>> adaptor
>> 
>> Huh???
> 
> He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
> http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12
> 
> Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. I am going over there to
> help him tomorrow, so to come prepared I started googling today.
> Although the USB-serial adaptors seem to be popular, I find nothing
> about how to mount devices attached to them. I am assuming that, being
> a card reader, I will be able to mount the media (card).

It might just be me, but when I head "USB-serial adaptor" I think of
something like a PL2303 which can be used to attach devices with a
serial connector to a PC that lacks a serial port. It would be news to
me if these adaptors worked the other way round, too.

But if it actually works, you should be able to talk to the device using
the regular /dev/ttyS0.

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Re: horrible mc colorscheme

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hi,

I just made the mistake of my life and upgraded mc from 
2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 to 3:4.7.0.1-1.


And the new color scheme is enough to cause instant blindness :-(
No kidding!

How do I get back to what I had?
Anybody?



So what happened is that starting with 4.7.0 mc supports skins.

There are 5 skins shipped with mc:

darkfar - black background
default - the old default: blue background
double-lines - like default but with double lines. Couldn't get that to 
work

featured - like double-lines
gotar - black backround

I found 2 skins googling:

elite_commander - unreadable with black backround
bluemoon - black background.

I found no skins anywhere with my choice for years: white background.

So it's back to the old blue default because it takes days of diddling 
to make up a skin.




I've complained about it on the mc userlist:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2010-April/msg00024.html

Hugo


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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:08:16 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

> He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
> http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12
> 
> Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. 

Because the device may expect a USB host controller instead a RS-232 :-?

> I am going over there to help
> him tomorrow, so to come prepared I started googling today. Although the
> USB-serial adaptors seem to be popular, I find nothing about how to
> mount devices attached to them. 

What seems to be more popular are RS-232 devices (modems, printers...) 
connected/attached to a computer USB host port, but not the opposite.

> I am assuming that, being a card reader,
> I will be able to mount the media (card).

Mmm, have you tested it? :-?

Insert a smartcard and check the output of "dmesg" and "mount" commands. 
They will tell.

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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 14:20, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

On 04/18/2010 04:08 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12

Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. I am going over there to
help him tomorrow, so to come prepared I started googling today.
Although the USB-serial adaptors seem to be popular, I find nothing
about how to mount devices attached to them. I am assuming that, being
a card reader, I will be able to mount the media (card).
   


I see nothing about serial there. Just a plain smart card reader that 
connects directly via USB.


It did mention "virtualCOM port".

What is unusual is that the page explicitly talks about Linux support 
and seems to have instructions on using it under Linux.




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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

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On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 07:40:48PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> It's a 2.6 kernel, so Etch.
> 
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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On 04/18/2010 04:08 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:

He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12

Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. I am going over there to
help him tomorrow, so to come prepared I started googling today.
Although the USB-serial adaptors seem to be popular, I find nothing
about how to mount devices attached to them. I am assuming that, being
a card reader, I will be able to mount the media (card).
   


I see nothing about serial there. Just a plain smart card reader that 
connects directly via USB.


What is unusual is that the page explicitly talks about Linux support 
and seems to have instructions on using it under Linux.




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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 14:08, Dotan Cohen wrote:

A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
adaptor

Huh???



He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12

Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. I am going over there to
help him tomorrow, so to come prepared I started googling today.
Although the USB-serial adaptors seem to be popular, I find nothing
about how to mount devices attached to them. I am assuming that, being
a card reader, I will be able to mount the media (card).



So, is does this SC reader (a) serial-over-USB or (b) USB-over-serial?

(a) is common, (b) is what you described, but I've never heard of 
(b).  Are you sure you wrote what you really mean?


Anyway, did you or he check dmesg?

This is the important quote, I think: "Infinity USB Smart is based 
on the HID standard, no custom drivers are needed".


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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Dotan Cohen]

>> A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
>> machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
>> adaptor
>
> Huh???
>

He's got a few of these connected via serial adaptors:
http://www.infinityusb.com/default.asp?show=productsdetail&ProductID=12

Why aren't they on real USB, I don't know. I am going over there to
help him tomorrow, so to come prepared I started googling today.
Although the USB-serial adaptors seem to be popular, I find nothing
about how to mount devices attached to them. I am assuming that, being
a card reader, I will be able to mount the media (card).


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Re: lighttpd doesn't listen port 80 in a lenny chroot environment

[Volkan YAZICI]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Onur Aslan  writes:
> I installed Debian lenny with debootstrap to a dir to use with chroot.
>
> I am using Debian squeeze.
>
> I mounted /dev /sys and proc in my chroot environment. After installed
> lighttpd, it doesn't listening port 80. It's only listen tcp6 80. I am
> using default lighttpd configuration.
>
> My mount commands for chroot:
>
>   mount -o bind /dev /mychrootdir/dev/ 
>   mount -o bind /sys /mychrootdir/sys/ 
>   mount -t proc none /mychrootdir/proc/
>
> I am starting fam and portmap before lighttpd. apache2 working fine but
> lighttpd doesn't listen tcp 80 and I don't get any error.
>
> Do you have any idea?

Did you try with below configurations:

  server.use-ipv6 = "disable"
  server.port = 80


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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 11:20, Dotan Cohen wrote:

A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
adaptor 


Huh???


would be found in the filesystem. He went through /dev, with
special attention on the tty* entries, but did not find it. What is
the right way to find the device so that he could mount it?



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Re: How to play 3gp audio files?

[Ron Johnson]

On 2010-04-18 11:41, John Magolske wrote:
[snip]


Now the 3gp audio files play fine. They do seem to take up a bit more
CPU than mp3 or flac, but maybe that's just inherent to how they are
compressed.



Or the quality of the ffmpeg decompressor.

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Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

[David Baron]

On Sunday 18 April 2010 15:58:19 Aioanei Rares wrote:
> On 04/18/2010 03:32 PM, David Baron wrote:
> >> Neither "normal" reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts
> >> right now.
> >> 
> >> Is there something wrong there?
> >> Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access?
> >> 
> >> Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts.
> > 
> > If I attempt to access a bug report in a browser by :
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577796, for example,
> > this will also fail. The bug is there. I filed it.
> > 
> > So what could be preventing me from accessing BTS?
> 
> Works here as well.

Could there be some internal URL that a firewall or internet site filter might 
be balking at that could then disable the search results?


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lighttpd doesn't listen port 80 in a lenny chroot environment

[Onur Aslan]

Hi.

I installed Debian lenny with debootstrap to a dir to use with chroot.

I am using Debian squeeze.

I mounted /dev /sys and proc in my chroot environment. After installed
lighttpd, it doesn't listening port 80. It's only listen tcp6 80. I am
using default lighttpd configuration.

My mount commands for chroot:

  mount -o bind /dev /mychrootdir/dev/ 
  mount -o bind /sys /mychrootdir/sys/ 
  mount -t proc none /mychrootdir/proc/

I am starting fam and portmap before lighttpd. apache2 working fine but
lighttpd doesn't listen tcp 80 and I don't get any error.

Do you have any idea?


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Re: How to play 3gp audio files?

[John Magolske]

* Camaleón  [100417 11:46]:
> 2/ Dunno if you already installed the mpeg/ffmpeg versions from
> "debian-multimedia" repo, as Ron already pointed out. That could be
> another thing you can test.

Yes! Installing the debian-multimedia versions of ffmpeg and mplayer
did the trick. I didn't fully grok what Ron wrote (thanks!), but now
I see how to `apt-cache policy ffmpeg` & `apt-cache policy mplayer`
to find out what the debian-multimedia versions are and install them:

aptitude install ffmpeg=5:0.5.1+svn20100411-0.0
aptitude install mplayer=1:1.0.rc2svn20100407-0.0

Now the 3gp audio files play fine. They do seem to take up a bit more
CPU than mp3 or flac, but maybe that's just inherent to how they are
compressed.

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Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Dotan Cohen]

It's a 2.6 kernel, so Etch.

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USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

[Dotan Cohen]

A neighbor with an old Debian (probably etch but could be sarge)
machine needs to know where a USB smart card reader attached via RS232
adaptor would be found in the filesystem. He went through /dev, with
special attention on the tty* entries, but did not find it. What is
the right way to find the device so that he could mount it?

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Squeeze can't log in. Don't know package.

[Ryan Larrowe]

I would like to report a bug in Debian squeeze.   After a fresg install 
I cannot log in to my system.  I did use shadow passwords on my 
install.  If you need more information you can contact me at 
rlarr...@gmail.com.


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Re: Light automatically and randomly reduces some secs. after it has been set to its maximum level

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:33:32 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> As stated in the title, the light on my Asus EEE 1000HE automatically
> and randomly reduces some seconds after I have set it to its maximum
> level. Why? That must be for some energy reason, but I would like to
> deactivate this feature, or at least to modify the timer between the
> action I do, and the using of the default value.

Open GConf editor and navigate to "/apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/
idle_brightness". You can tweak many things from there.

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Light automatically and randomly reduces some secs. after it has been set to its maximum level

[Merciadri Luca]

Hi,

As stated in the title, the light on my Asus EEE 1000HE automatically
and randomly reduces some seconds after I have set it to its maximum
level. Why? That must be for some energy reason, but I would like to
deactivate this feature, or at least to modify the timer between the
action I do, and the using of the default value.

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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:28:38 -0400, Long Wind wrote:

> To Camaleón
> 
> I had run sensors-detect and loaded some modules. 

And the output of that command was...?

> If I hadn't, the
> sensors command wouldn't even say CPU fan speed is 0.

Yes, but that means there is something wrong with your current setup and 
if we cannot take a look into the output of what "sensors-detect" was 
telling you we cannot make further suggestions.

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Re: How to remove oowriter delay on opening document?

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:25:38 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> I have oowriter from testing repo installed w/ all the necessary
> dependencies. Now at opening of the first document it hangs for about 40
> seconds - all other documents it opens quickly - the same is for oocalc.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to remove this delays?

As Ron already said, review your system specs. 

OOo needs a lot of ram the first time it opens, and keeps consuming a 
good quantity of your system resources as long as is loaded.

In OOo 2.4 there is a "quick launch" option that preloads OOo at startup, 
not sure if that is available on newer releases.

Another thing you can try is launching OOo with an empty profile folder 
(just rename the current one) to start it from scratch and check if the 
delay still continues.

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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Long Wind]

To Camaleón

I had run sensors-detect and loaded some modules.
If I hadn't, the sensors command wouldn't even say CPU fan speed is 0.


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Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

[Aioanei Rares]

On 04/18/2010 03:32 PM, David Baron wrote:

Neither "normal" reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts
right now.

Is there something wrong there?
Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access?

Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts.
 

If I attempt to access a bug report in a browser by :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577796, for example,
this will also fail. The bug is there. I filed it.

So what could be preventing me from accessing BTS?


   

Works here as well.


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Re: Cannot Connect to Debian BTS

[David Baron]

> Neither "normal" reportbug or the reportbug-ng can connect to debian bts
> right now.
> 
> Is there something wrong there?
> Some recent Sid upgrade zapped access?
> 
> Cannot really keep system up-to-date without access to debian bts.

If I attempt to access a bug report in a browser by :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577796, for example,
this will also fail. The bug is there. I filed it.

So what could be preventing me from accessing BTS?


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Re: how to activate canbery

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:48:02 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:

> hi,
> I want to hear  the login sound when I log in debian, it is done with
> ubuntu, I tried to do the same, it failed with the error
> 
> 
> b...@belaptop:~$ canberra-gtk-play -f
> /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/desktop-login.ogg Failed to play sound:
> Sound disabled
> 
> the sound is enabled since i can play music ,  and play the same
> file with kaffeine for example.
> 
> please how to enabled it

Do you have "system sounds" enabled?

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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:24:08 -0400, Long Wind wrote:

> Thank Aioanei and Camaleón!
> 
> Even bios in my Slot 1 machine which use P3 or C1 can show fan speed or
> cpu temp The bad thing about HP is their bios doesn't show CPU and fan
> info though asus bios show!


Do not panic. Some modern motherboards also "hide" temperatures (mine 
does) :-/


> I read doc from lm-sensor
> They say their reading isn't reliable (they ask me to compare their
> reading with those in bios)
> 
> I have run "sensors" command
> the fan reading is 0
> it doesn't show cpu temp


Please, calm down and read what people is telling you :-)

You have first to setup lm-sensors by running "sensors-detect". That will 
provide you more information about the detected sensors of your board.

Can you please become root (or use "sudo"), run "sensors-detect" and 
upload to pastebin¹ (or any other online service) the output of that 
command?

¹ http://pastebin.com/

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Re: Timezones for Kontact seriously broken in Lenny

[Camaleón]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:58:19 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:

> Hello, all.  We have some clients eager to migrate from
> Exchange/Outlook/Windows to Debian Lenny.  Zimbra is working well on the
> back end but is lacking as an Outlook replacement - great web interface
> but still lacking some essential features.  Evolution does not support
> Address Books from Zimbra so that leaves us with Kontact.  Kontact is
> great except it seems seriously broken in several regards specifically
> Korganizer.  The KDE response is to upgrade to KDE4.  


The fact is that upstream KDE developers have stopped the development of 
kde 3.5.x branch, so no more improvements are added to the existing 
programs. I think only critical bugs are still watched and fixed.


> Since we are on
> Lenny, we are on KDE 3.5 and we'd like to keep it that way until KDE4
> matures a bit more.  How are Lenny users handling the crippling bugs? 


I was a KDE 3.5.x user for long time (2003-2010) but switched to GNOME as 
soon as the first KDE 4.0 came to scene (it was not intended for end-
users but *we had* to deal with it and the result was many people 
searched another alternatives, me included).

But now, KDE SC 4.4 has nothing to do with that times. Last time I tested 
I found it stable enough for daily use. So the advice of updating to KDE 
4 (if you still want to use KDE) is now valid.


> I did not see anything in backports.  Here's what we are seeing:
> 
> Timezones: Any appointments synchronized with Korganizer from Zimbra are
> interpreted as UTC.  Thus, all appointments are offset by our offset
> from UTC.  This is the bug which is rendering it unusable and is
> apparently well known.  I can't believe this is broken in a production
> system.
> 
> Malformed URIs: Calendar requests via IMAP are requesting
> myserver.mycompany.com:993Calender instead of
> myserver.mycompany.com:993/Calender.  We can work around this by using
> webdav instead.
> 
> This is crippling us on a potentially huge Lenny deployment.  Any know
> fixes? Thanks - John


Dunno how to manage this in Debian :-? but there is a dedicated list¹ 
that may provide you more accurate help about this.

¹ http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/

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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Long Wind]

Thank Aioanei and Camaleón!

Even bios in my Slot 1 machine which use P3 or C1 can show fan speed or cpu temp
The bad thing about HP is their bios doesn't show CPU and fan info
though asus bios show!
I read doc from lm-sensor
They say their reading isn't reliable
(they ask me to compare their reading with those in bios)

I have run "sensors" command
the fan reading is 0
it doesn't show cpu temp


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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Camaleón]

On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:33:38 -0400, Long Wind wrote:

> The sensors command shows 0 rpm all the time! Thank Eduard anyway!

Read "carefully" what Eduard said :-)

You have to run "sensors-detect" as root that will ask you some questions 
and provide more info about the suitable modules you need to load for 
your board (Intel 845 chipset, an old one, which probably uses ISA bus 
rather than SMBus).

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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Aioanei Rares]

Of course, if the hardware isn't capable of detecting temperature (eg 
hardware sensors), you're pretty much out of luck.



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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Long Wind]

The sensors command shows 0 rpm all the time!
Thank Eduard anyway!


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Re: which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Eduard Bloch]

#include 
* Long Wind [Sun, Apr 18 2010, 01:24:09AM]:
> I have etch and HP VL420
> It runs P4 1.6G
> but BIOS can't show CPU temperature and fan speed
> so I download a bios from motherboard maker ASUS
> but can't update bios
> then I install lm-sensor in etch
> but reading data seems incorrect
> Can you help???

If the kernel is fresh enough and ships with all required modules then
you need to run sensors-detect as root. It should detect suitable
drivers and load the modules. It would also ask you to add the list to
/etc/modules which you should confirm unless you want to run the
detection again after reboot.

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which package can show CPU temperature and fan speed

[Long Wind]

I have etch and HP VL420
It runs P4 1.6G
but BIOS can't show CPU temperature and fan speed
so I download a bios from motherboard maker ASUS
but can't update bios
then I install lm-sensor in etch
but reading data seems incorrect
Can you help???


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Bug#578235: not all beeps getting through

[jidanni]

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Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.10
Severity: minor
File: /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc.conf

DI> I seem to have the following in /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc.conf:
DI> options snd_hda_intel power_save=5 model=eeepc-901

Ah! Indeed there must be a bug. For a loop like
# while sleep 1; do beep; done
one will miss the power_save'th beep. The default thus makes one miss
every 5th beep. Set it to 1 and get no beeps at all.
Test with echo 1 >> /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save .
0 gives all ones' beeps. Ah, finally I'm sure to get mail Notification from 
Norbelwitz!

Changelog says
  * Enable audio power saving, defaulting to a 5-second delay before
powering down. (snd_hda_intel power_save in /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc)

Now I understand you whippersnappers all have beeping turned off in
alsamixer or whatever, lest it disrupt your Easy Listening Music, and
thus will never encounter this bug, however this beep mangling is
definitely a bug, at least on my EEEPC 702 8G. Please reassign this bug
to the correct package.



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