Re: Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

[Robert Braddock]

> You can try with another programs to view the TV, like Videolan, Me-TV
> or even Kaffeine :-?

I don't know how to make anything else talk to the Xvideo overlay
device.  The only mentions I've found were things NOT using it, or only
using a /dev/video0 type device.  Kaffeine, vlc, and me-tv don't seem to
have an obvious way to access anything other than the /dev/video0 system.

Xawtv (which is teeny and can't resize), kdetv (which can't show the
actual video) and avview (which doesn't even run anymore) are the only
things I've seen that will use the Xvideo overlay instead of requiring a
/dev/video0 device.  That's why, if getting /dev/video0 for a Radeon8500
were feasible, I'd like to leave this whole weird overlay device thing
behind, like everyone else seems to have...

> > Can I get a /dev/video0 for a Radeon 8500's input?  Xorg obviously
> > isn't going to bother to keep it working, and it would be really
> > nice to be able to use a better program than xawtv.
> Maybe you card does not allow that... what tv tuner chipset has?

Actually I'm trying to get the basic a/v-in to work (mainly the svideo
and rca audio inputs), not the tuner.  I've kind of given up on the
tuner...  It looks like the card includes such things as : FI123xx
(FI1236W) Tuner, TDA9885 Alignment-free IF-PLL, MSP34xx (MSP3445G,
MSP3430), and Rage Theatre revision 0003, if any of that helps.

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Re: Avoiding inconsistencies when using reprepro update

[Simon Hollenbach]

Another thought - Followup on my own last message in thread: Does the same 
happen when trying to get your local repo from a late snapshot? 
Snapshot.debian.org someone just mentioned it. These are not changing and I 
would suggest u can ignore the warnings you get with them. Afterwards u could 
update your repo to date...

Re: Avoiding inconsistencies when using reprepro update

[Simon Hollenbach]

> What actual risks are there and how can I avoid them (other than running
> 24/7 :)).
Hi Malte,
I think this warning means that reprepro knows about the volatiliy of the 
archives and can't continue a file that has changed due to version upgrade. 
Considering that it would be hard to copy a changing archive at once, and the 
more time goes by, the more probable the downloaded parts are deprecated and 
the progress is lost.

But I'm quite sure someone will (further) clarify that, maybe my guess already 
points you in the right direction.

Grüße aus Sachsen
Simon

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[briand]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:10:03 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom  wrote:


> >>> I'll be darned... 'acpitool -s' *works from a VT* (not from X).
> >>> Except I get this from alsa when KUSC is playing with mplayer:
> >>>
> > 
> > works from X for me.  I was *shocked* when I tried it the first time
> > and it worked.
> 
> How do you invoke it from X? 'sudo acpitool -s' in xterm or konsole?
> 

yes, exactly that.

Brian


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Re: o/t ipod

[Pablo]

Sorry if I am too late.
I once tried to connect a friend´s ipod to rhythmbox on Debian Lenny.

The behavior was really buggy. I managed to download only some of the 
songs to the computer.
And after unmounting, the ipod was showing as empty. Even though when 
remounted to the computer, rhythmbox was showing all music library.


I didn´t manage to restore the ipod to its original state but then I was 
told that with some windows software, the ipod recovered, showing the 
music library, and without any data loss.


I would be careful...

On 29/12/2010 9:00 a.m., shawn wilson wrote:

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, shawn wilson  wrote:

On Dec 26, 2010 7:57 AM, "Ted Wager"  wrote:

My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can
transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my
machines but can get access to a Winbox at a neighbours...



IIRC, there is no real good answer for linux. I think rythmbox has some
capabilities (that can be enabled or configured). You could also jailbreak
it and just scp stuff over (though you might need to hack around with plist
xml files). Itunes on windows is an option (though I'm not sure how to
handle account security or drm issues here). Also, if you go that route,
you're not really going to be able to keep your music synced up. If your
computer can handle it, you might research into running itunes inside of a
windows virtual box session.


fyi, i was wrong - there is a 'real good answer for linux'. i just had
a friend with an iphone plug into a straight ubuntu 10.10 computer
with rythmbox and it asked if i wanted to open it with rythmbox and we
uploaded a song. i think the device had to rebuild the song library
after because it took a minute to load up the player, but nothing was
lost and it was really only a minute or so for 15 gigs of music.

Re: USB Wireless Adapter

[Doug]

On 01/06/2011 06:06 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote:

Hello,

I have two D-Link DWL-G122 (rev B1 and C1) sticks. Technically, they work, but
their transmission quality is not very high and they need a high wireless
signal quality (maybe I cannot enable their full TX power).

Is there an USB Wireless Adapter out there which has good open source drives
and Debian support and in addition is sensitive enough to work even with lower
quality wireless networks (I would be happy if it could compete with my Nokia
N900 cellphone).

Many thanks,
Rainer


You may be expecting too much of this (discontinued) device:  your cellphone
can transmit and receive for miles; this 802.11 device can only be 
expected to

work for 30 feet or so.  Anything over that is gravy.

What is a "lower quality wireless network" and why are you trying to use 
one?

Can it not be upgraded?  Shouldn't it be?

--doug

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Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[John Hasler]

Peter Koellner writes:
> Also: You can set the physical write protect switch in the diskette
> corner to prevent accidental writes. You know, the hole in the corner
> should not be covered, in case you don't recall...

No, no.  You put a piece of tape over the notch to write-protect the
side.

Oh.  You mean those wierd little Apple disks.  Never mind.
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Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

[Robert Latest]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Camaleón  wrote:

> Run "xev" and type the combo of one of the characters you are not
> getting, like "[" to see what you get instead.

Interesting: In xev, I seem to get exactly what I want -- see below
xev's dump of my first pressing AltGr, then a bunch of keys I would
like to have, then releasing AltGr.

What now? I'm stumped.
robert

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 452787, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x0, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453093, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 94 (keysym 0x7c, bar), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453169, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 94 (keysym 0x7c, bar), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7c) "|"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453441, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 19 (keysym 0x7d, braceright), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7d) "}"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7d) "}"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453535, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 19 (keysym 0x7d, braceright), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7d) "}"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453736, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 18 (keysym 0x5d, bracketright), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5d) "]"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5d) "]"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453839, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 18 (keysym 0x5d, bracketright), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5d) "]"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 453995, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 17 (keysym 0x5b, bracketleft), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5b) "["
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5b) "["
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 454103, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 17 (keysym 0x5b, bracketleft), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (5b) "["
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyPress event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 454260, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 16 (keysym 0x7b, braceleft), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7b) "{"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7b) "{"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 454417, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 16 (keysym 0x7b, braceleft), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (7b) "{"
XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 27, synthetic NO, window 0xe1,
root 0x66, subw 0x0, time 454719, (321,450), root:(322,466),
state 0x88, keycode 113 (keysym 0xfe03, ISO_Level3_Shift), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False


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Re: Limited or no video playback with mkv containing H.264

[teddieeb]

Maybe the MKVs are corrupt ? does mplayer fare any better ?
I got an AMD with a Geforce 7000 with nividia drivers and stock Xorg
conf with whatever settings the nvidia-config sets at the time of
installation and MKvs with h264 plays just fine on both VLC and mplayer.
Both players using whatever the default video out they come with.

Mihira

---

Sorry about the delay, I haven't been feeling well today...

Anyway if I attempt to open one of the files with Mplayer I get error, Internal 
GStreamer error, that's all it says.

I did however copy a couple of the problem files to my Dell Inspiron laptop 
which is running Backtrack 4 R2  and they play just fine on it.

Thanks for you time;
TeddyB


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Re: Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[Peter Koellner]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:


!!WARNING WARNING!!  I made a mistake in the above.  That should have
been:
  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k


Right oh.  I probably won't have the diskettes until next
week and will mount -o ro and will be careful about if and of.

[And if the OpenVPN tunnel is working will be able to put
the in-reply-to line in a reply.]

Thanks for the several good ideas,   ... Peter E.


Also: You can set the physical write protect switch in the diskette
corner to prevent accidental writes. You know, the hole in the corner
should not be covered, in case you don't recall...

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Re: google's ads

[John Hasler]

Hugo writes:
> I did not know about privoxy. But ye gads the config...

The default configuration in the Debian package works fine for me.
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Re(2): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[PETER EASTHOPE]

Bob,

> !!WARNING WARNING!!  I made a mistake in the above.  That should have 
> been:
>   dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k

Right oh.  I probably won't have the diskettes until next 
week and will mount -o ro and will be careful about if and of.

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the in-reply-to line in a reply.]

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Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

[Doug]

On 01/06/2011 11:01 AM, Lisi wrote:

On Friday 10 December 2010 18:57:51 Camaleón wrote:

"Camaleón" is just a nickname -a Spanish word meaning "chameleon" in
English- I chose when I installed my first linux system, SuSE Linux 8.2,
7 years ago (openSUSE mascot is a gecko). I was so used to it (to the
nickname) that I kept.

Thanks for the explanation, Chamaleón.  I have wondered.  But given that my
granddaughter's friends include someone called Sunshine and someone else
called Piper, and I can think of people called Chelsea and Brooklyn, I didn't
like to comment/query!  I like that explanation.  I have a green plush Gecko
sitting here in front of me.  Guess which distro I started on???

Lisi


I used to use SuSE also, and for a long time I thought that mascot was 
some kind

of dinosaur, chosen for ferocity!  I suppose a gecko is not very ferocious--
tenacious, maybe.  (Think GEICO!)

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Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[Sjoerd Hiemstra]

I wrote:
> Another option is to install hfsutils and use xhfs to exchange data
> with the hfs-formatted floppy.

s/hfsutils/hfsutils-tcltk/


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Re: SOLVED: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

[Bob Proulx]

Doug wrote:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
> >Martin Lorenz:
> > > Thanks to all, who helped
> > >
> > > it definitely was a rootkit.  came in by this exim bug:
> >
> > Just out of curiosity: do you know when the attacker succeeded? The DSA
> > was published Dec 10th. Did you have a (theoretical) chance to install
> > the patch beofre the attack?
>
> I wish you would elaborate.  What is a DSA, and what is the patch to which
> you refer? (DSA: Denial of Service Attack?)

DSA is Debian Security Advisories.  Each one is numbered for later
reference.  You can read about them here.

  http://www.debian.org/security/

I recommend subscribing to the debian-security-announce mailing list.
Then you will get notice of each advisory as it is posted.  It is a
low volume list for announcements only.

> I assume the patch is something that repels rootkit attacks. Is the
> patch applicable to all Linux distros?  Is it likely to appear in
> the repo? Would my distro most likely include it in the usual
> upgrades I do every few days?

If you haven't already done so you should also make sure that you have
the security repository included in your APT sources.list file.

  deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

Replace "lenny" in the above with the name of your current release.

The exim4 advisory is this one:

  http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2131

I install all security upgrades as quickly as possible on all of my
machines.

Bob


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Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[Sjoerd Hiemstra]

Peter Easthope:
> A friend has data on a diskette written in MacOS around 1995.
> According to this page hfs and hfs+ are supported.  
>   http://wiki.debian.org/FileSystem
> 
> How reliable is this capability?

AFAICS, the only thing you need to do is 'modprobe hfs'.
Or add the line 'hfs' (without the quotes) in /etc/modules to make it
permanent.

Provided that /etc/fstab contains the line
/dev/fd0   /media/floppy   auto   rw,user,noauto   0  0
all that's needed is 'mount /media/floppy'.

Another option is to install hfsutils and use xhfs to exchange data
with the hfs-formatted floppy. This provides some conversion options,
notably between Mac text files with  line endings and Unix text
files with  line endings. No modules or mounting needed.


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Re: SOLVED: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

[Doug]

On 01/06/2011 09:48 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:

Martin Lorenz:

Thanks to all, who helped

it definitely was a rootkit.
came in by this exim bug:

Just out of curiosity: do you know when the attacker succeeded? The DSA
was published Dec 10th. Did you have a (theoretical) chance to install
the patch beofre the attack?

J.

I wish you would elaborate.  What is a DSA, and what is the patch to which
you refer? (DSA: Denial of Service Attack?) I assume the patch is something
that repels rootkit attacks. Is the patch applicable to all Linux 
distros?  Is it

likely to appear in the repo? Would my distro most likely include it in the
usual upgrades I do every few days?

--doug

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Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[Bob Proulx]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hint 2: Make a bit copy of the disk to a file and then mount the
> file.  Again, this should completely avoid any write to the floppy and
> therefore be safe working with the data.
> 
>   dd of=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k

!!WARNING WARNING!!  I made a mistake in the above.  That should have been:

  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k

Make sure that it is 'if' for input-file and not 'of' for output-file.
Make sure the input file is from the floppy and not the output file or
you will write all over your data.

Fortunately when I tested that just now it seems to not actually write
anything if you interrupt it with a control-c but still not good.

>   ...remove the floppy from the drive...put in safe place...
> 
>   mount -o loop,ro $PWD/fd.image.raw /mnt

Bob


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Re: Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[Bob Proulx]

PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
> How reliable is this capability?
> 
> Should I try to identify the filesystem as hfs vs. hfs+ before 
> trying to mount it?  

I have no information.

> Will "mount -t hfs" damage hfs+ and conversely?
> Thanks for any tips,  ... Peter E.

Hint 1: Add "-o ro" to the options list to mount it read-only.  Then
there shouldn't be any danger of modifying the disk.

  mount -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt

Hint 2: Make a bit copy of the disk to a file and then mount the
file.  Again, this should completely avoid any write to the floppy and
therefore be safe working with the data.

  dd of=/dev/fd0 of=fd.image.raw bs=8k

  ...remove the floppy from the drive...put in safe place...

  mount -o loop,ro $PWD/fd.image.raw /mnt

I am not sure what the optimal blocksize would be for the dd command
for reading the old floppy.

Bob


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Re: Re: Re: Re: Weird icon colors in squeeze (ppc). Which package should i file a bug report for?

[Andrew Engelbrecht]

Ok, so I got hardware rendering to work and the weird colors to go away
on my ppc machine with a radeon card.

I installed firmware-linux and rebooted, after getting the tip when I
posted another bug-report to:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608513

-Drew


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Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

[PETER EASTHOPE]

Folk,

A friend has data on a diskette written in MacOS around 1995.
According to this page hfs and hfs+ are supported.  
  http://wiki.debian.org/FileSystem

How reliable is this capability?

Should I try to identify the filesystem as hfs vs. hfs+ before 
trying to mount it?  

Will "mount -t hfs" damage hfs+ and conversely?

Thanks for any tips,  ... Peter E.

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Re: care and feeding (no longer resembles: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?)

[Freeman]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:01:03AM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Lisi wrote:
> >On Wednesday 05 January 2011 15:15:43 Camaleón wrote:
> >>What would you think if a person tells you that he thought his car was
> >>going to be fed "automatically"? Hey, he didn't know there were oil
> >>stations that provide such facilities and he also thought that being year
> >>2011 the cars do not need fuel (nor any other power source) to be started
> >They know that the computer needs electricity and that the car needs petrol.
> >I doubt that most people know more than that.
> Well, I would hope they also know that their car needs (at least in the US):
> - scheduled maintenance
> - an annual inspection
> - a registration sticker
> - insurance
> As well as:
> - at some point, they took a driving test, and some of the
> rules-of-the-road stuck
> - they need to renew their license
> - drive somewhere in the vicinity of the speed limit
> - stop for red lights and stop signs
> - don't drive under the influence
> - don't sit in a closed garage with the motor running
> - how to change a tire (or at least, how to call AAA)
> 
> The analogy to cars is a good one.  It seems reasonable to expect a
> computer user to acquire a set of skills akin to what one needs to
> drive and maintain a car.  It's probably not reasonable to require a
> computer user to acquire skills akin to obtaining a pilot's license.
> 

Actually, I think some of those listed car analogy givens aren't so widely
remembered.

Nevertheless, cars may be easier to understand for the completely
inexperienced layperson.  Push the one peddle, go forward, push the other, 
stop. 
Turn the wheel left, .  .  .

Yet it remains difficult to get it through to some drivers' that they could
kill somebody.  I still have some faith that the majority of idiot drivers
don't consciously want to kill, or at least don't want the legal
ramifications.

Saving data, regardless of importance, seems to pale by comparison. :)

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Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:45:38 +, Lisi wrote:

> On Wednesday 08 December 2010 19:04:36 Camaleón wrote:

>> > Lenny uses grub 1.  I think that it is called grub-legacy in Squeeze,
>> > but am not sure.
>>
>> Hum... are you sure? :-?
>>
>> IIRC, last time I installed lenny the default option was set to Grub2,
>> I had to manually change it to get "Grub legacy" instead. It was a 64
>> bits and an "expert" install.
> 
> According to aptitude show, the default in Lenny is GRUB version
> 0.97-47lenny2, simply called GRUB.  If you want GRUB 2 you have to ask
> for grub-pc.  :

(...)

How can "aptitute show" tell you what is the default grub to be installed 
in lenny? :-P

I also have Grub legacy installed in Lenny (and also in Squeeze) but IIRC 
(I'm speaking from memory, it was a year ago when I installed Lenny), it 
was _my_ decision. I dunno for the auto-installer because I chose the 
"expert" install and I remember that the bootloader screen asked two main 
questions, a) what grub to install ("grub 1" or "grub 2") and b) where to 
put the bootloader (mbr, first sector of partition).

I can be wrong because time passes very quickly and my memory abilities 
decreases at the same speed O:-)

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Re: google's ads

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

John Hasler wrote:

Simon writes:

Assuming you are using firefox/iceweasel/chrome you can use adblock
plus with EasyList filters...


Or you can use Privoxy with any browser at all.  


Good idea. I did not know about privoxy. But ye gads the config...

Hugo


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Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

bri...@aracnet.com wrote:

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:08:27 -0600
Hugo Vanwoerkom  wrote:


Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

bri...@aracnet.com wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 08:44:22 -0600
Javier Vasquez  wrote:


On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:18 PM,   wrote:

...
Someone posted (to this list) a simple command line for
sleeping the system.

...

acpitool -S  =>  suspend to disk (hibernate)  =>  Puts machine
into S4. acpitool -s  =>  suspend to ram (sleep) =>
Puts machine into S3.

man acpitool


it is, appropriately, in the acpitool package.



But do either of the commands work?



I'll be darned... 'acpitool -s' *works from a VT* (not from X).
Except I get this from alsa when KUSC is playing with mplayer:



works from X for me.  I was *shocked* when I tried it the first time
and it worked.


How do you invoke it from X? 'sudo acpitool -s' in xterm or konsole?

Hugo




As you noted, it's very fast, which is why I don't think that there is
any swapping or state-saving going on.  I think it just puts things
into a low power state.  My guess is that the RAM is running normally,
the CPU is halted, etc...




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Re: [OT] Mail list issue.

[Lisi]

On Friday 10 December 2010 18:57:51 Camaleón wrote:
> "Camaleón" is just a nickname -a Spanish word meaning "chameleon" in
> English- I chose when I installed my first linux system, SuSE Linux 8.2,
> 7 years ago (openSUSE mascot is a gecko). I was so used to it (to the
> nickname) that I kept.

Thanks for the explanation, Chamaleón.  I have wondered.  But given that my 
granddaughter's friends include someone called Sunshine and someone else 
called Piper, and I can think of people called Chelsea and Brooklyn, I didn't 
like to comment/query!  I like that explanation.  I have a green plush Gecko 
sitting here in front of me.  Guess which distro I started on??? 

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Re: help getting grub to see Windows 7 on second drive

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 08 December 2010 19:04:36 Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:58:02 +, Lisi wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 December 2010 15:47:19 Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> >> sudo update-grub should do the trick. With grub2 the configuration file
> >> (grub.cfg) should not be edited by hand; it's updated every time
> >> update-grub is run.
> >
> > Lenny uses grub 1.  I think that it is called grub-legacy in Squeeze,
> > but am not sure.
>
> Hum... are you sure? :-?
>
> IIRC, last time I installed lenny the default option was set to Grub2, I
> had to manually change it to get "Grub legacy" instead. It was a 64 bits
> and an "expert" install.

According to aptitude show, the default in Lenny is GRUB version 
0.97-47lenny2, simply called GRUB.  If you want GRUB 2 you have to ask for 
grub-pc.  :


l...@tux:~$ aptitude show grub
Package: grub
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 0.97-47lenny2
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Grub Maintainers 
Uncompressed Size: 872k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3), grub-common
Suggests: grub-legacy-doc, multiboot-doc, mdadm
Provided by: grub-efi, grub-ieee1275, grub-linuxbios, grub-pc
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy version)
 GRUB is a GPLed bootloader intended to unify bootloading across x86 operating 
systems.  In
 addition to loading the Linux kernel, it implements the Multiboot standard, 
which allows for
 flexible loading of multiple boot images (needed for modular kernels such as 
the GNU Hurd).

 Please note that GRUB Legacy is in maintainance mode and new features are 
only accepted in
 GRUB 2 (grub-pc package).

l...@tux:~$


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Re: SOLVED: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

[Jochen Schulz]

Martin Lorenz:
> 
> Thanks to all, who helped
> 
> it definitely was a rootkit.
> came in by this exim bug:

Just out of curiosity: do you know when the attacker succeeded? The DSA
was published Dec 10th. Did you have a (theoretical) chance to install
the patch beofre the attack?

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Re: How to change the font size and type in kchmviewer?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 04:13, Thomas Yao  wrote:
> Hi all, I have Debian Squeeze(amd64) installed on my PC.
> I'm using KDE and I found that the kchmviewer can't change its font
> size and type to read the chm file.
>
> So, how to change the font size and type in kchmviewer? Thank you and
> wish you a happy new year :)
>

It's addressed here:
http://www.kchmviewer.net/faq.html

Q: Font size increasing button does not increase the font size, just
changes the font to bold once.
A: Make sure you use resizeable (true type) fonts. The described
behavior is expected when bitmap fonts are used, as their size could
not be changed. Check your system configuration.

Though, I'm pretty sure that I am using a true type font and my font
size does not increase either. I wrote to the dev about this, but he
didn't answer.

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Re: recursively find duplicate filenames

[Jari Fredriksson]

On 5.1.2011 13:15, S Mathias wrote:
> find duplicate filenames in a folder
> find | perl -ne 's!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e; print if 1 == $seen{$_}++'
> 
> find duplicate filenames in a folder recursively
> ? how? 
> 

$ sudo aptitude install fdupes

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Re: A command line tool to serch the contents of an uninstalled deb

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:40:25 +0200, Regid Ichira wrote:

> Is there a command line tool that can search the contents of a deb that
> is not installed and was not downloaded?  If so, how does it do that?
> Does it basically download Contents.gz and search in it?

You can also query Debian website for any package:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

For example:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/apt-file/filelist

Or even search what package contains a binary by using the dropdown menu 
"package contents" option:

http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=apt-file

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Re: Got recursion not available from...

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:11:50 -0500, vr wrote:

> I'm using a Lenny system to host Postfix and Windows 2003 for name
> resolution. More frequently than I probably should, I will see NOQUEUE
> in /var/log/mail.log related to DNS lookups. 

Those Postfix logs should be very useful. Can you post them?

> I've not yet narrowed it down to forward lookups, reverse lookups or
> both.
> 
> I originally suspected the Windows box but I can reproduce these
> failures on other systems from the nslookup command line tool and
> without using Windows 2003 for name resolution. 

(...)

Wait... what kind of tests did you run and what are the results?

"Recursion" is a DNS server capability so you have to check your DNS 
servers and while making any test against them, ensure you are always 
quering the same DNS server.

Tools like "dig @ip_of_name_server_to_use" (in linux) and "nslookup -
debug hostname domain" (in windows) can help a lot. Both tools, by 
default, will request recursion to the server so if that option is not 
available, you'll get a warning.

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Re: How to change the font size and type in kchmviewer?

[Camaleón]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:13:25 +0800, Thomas Yao wrote:

> Hi all, I have Debian Squeeze(amd64) installed on my PC. I'm using KDE
> and I found that the kchmviewer can't change its font size and type to
> read the chm file.
> 
> So, how to change the font size and type in kchmviewer? Thank you and
> wish you a happy new year :)

I dunno for "kchmviewer" but "xchm" should be able to change both, font 
face and size.

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Re: squeeze audio cd and automount

[Camaleón]

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:25:35 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote:

> On 5 January 2011 21:21, Camaleón wrote:
> 
>> > sound-juicer -d /dev/sr0
>> >
>> > but it tells me I have no permission.  I tried again with sudo and it
>> > works.  When I press play, it plays but gives the message:
>> >
>> > Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
>> > Cannot connect to server socket
>> > jack server is not running or cannot be started
>>
>> Uh? That is different from my error :-?
>>
>> Why should sound-juicer need jack server at all?
>>
>>
> it might need it to find the device.  If so, that might also explain why
> no client is starting automatically when we insert a cd.

I doubt it because jack server is not even installed on my squeeze and 
should not be required by sound-juicer at all (I mean it should no be 
needed the daemon itself, not the libraries).

>> > With totem I still can not get sound and get the message about not
>> > being able to start jack.
>>
>> Me neither, probably due to this other bug:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574680
>>
>> Try to run totem from command line "totem cdda://dev/sr0" and totem
>> will complain about it cannot handle cdda uri.
>>
>>
> I tried "totem cdda://dev/sr0" and I get a bizarre message:
> 
> The playback of this movie requires a Audio CD source plugin which is
> not installed.
> 
> there are no obvious Audio CD plugins to add in.  This smells bug to me.

Yep... if you need to rip an audio CD or simply listening cd-a in your 
system, I would try with another applications, like videolan (player) or 
cdparaonia (ripper).

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Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

[Lisi]

On Wednesday 05 January 2011 16:50:45 Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> Zeroth rule of support - never trust your user's to tell you the
> entire story (corollary - people lie about what happened)
>
> First rule of support - before deleting *anything* make a
> backup copy yourself

Yes - but if it is no longer possible one can't, especially when the client 
puts obstacles in the way.

Many clients think that computers are magic and that the supporting person has 
a magic wand.

The client who wouldn't back up because she didn't want to spend any money, 
found herself faced with a dead motherboard.  She expected me to have a new 
computer up and running with all her data on it within a few hours.  (Note 
that diagnosis was also to be included in the short timespan, as was 
procurement.)  It actually took me many hours to recover the data, which I 
did successfully.  Far from being grateful, she made my life a misery for 
taking too long.

Had it been her hard drive that was dead, she might well have lost the data.

Lisi


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Avoiding inconsistencies when using reprepro update

[Malte Forkel]

Hello,

I would like to use reprepro to build a local repository based on the
Debian squeeze archive. The initial download will take some time and
will be interrupted irregularly because my machine is not up 24/7.

Before, when I was using simple mirroring software, that was not a
problem. The mirroring software would simply continue interrupted
downlads. But reprepro warns me of possible database inconsistencies
when I interrupt an update started manually.

What actual risks are there and how can I avoid them (other than running
24/7 :)).

Thanks,
Malte


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Re: firewall package for laptop wi-fi client

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI]

On Qua, 05 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote:

By "physical access to the network" you mean the internet, right?
Because that's what's past my AP... AFAIK it's just a bit more difficult
to intercept the traffic, that's all.


I'm talking about LAN traffic, not internet traffic. Intercepting  
traffic sent by the guy in the next table in the café.


Also, I wouldn't consider sniffing internet traffic "just a bit more  
difficult". Certainly can be done under the right circunstances and  
with the right tools, but it's not trivial.


If the wireless network is open, however, i just need a laptop with a  
supported wireless car, be in range of the network, and fire up kismet  
or a similar tool, and all traffic going thru the air can be read. I  
believe this is completely passive, so no one can detect that traffic  
is being read, unlike sniffing internet traffic - somehow you must  
reroute the traffic to your machine, which leaves traces. Since the  
wireless traffic is not encrypted, anything not protected by SSL or  
similar can be immediately read.


If the wireless is encrypted, however, all I would get is encrypted  
data. WEP can always be broken with enough traffic; for WAP there are  
some attacks but I believe they are not yet as general and easy. It's  
certainly not 100% secure (nothing really is), and less secure than  
connecting via a cabled connection (which requires physical access to  
the LAN, instead of just being within range, and some technique such  
as ARP spoofing to be able to receive packages not meant for you), but  
certainly better than an open network.



Whenever I'm connected to an open AP I just consider my laptop connected
directly[1] to the internet, with all inherent risks.

[1] even though most APs have at least NAT


Again, I was referring to sniffing by other people in the same AP,  
before it reaches the internet.




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Re: How to change the font size and type in kchmviewer?

[godo]

On 01/06/2011 03:13 AM, Thomas Yao wrote:

Hi all, I have Debian Squeeze(amd64) installed on my PC.
I'm using KDE and I found that the kchmviewer can't change its font
size and type to read the chm file.

So, how to change the font size and type in kchmviewer? Thank you and
wish you a happy new year :)


Hi,
can you do it with View->Increase font size?

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