Re: Need help setting up a home LAN
On Lu, 02 mai 11, 00:29:24, Paul E Condon wrote: > A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die > such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I > remembered about how the old router was set up was insufficient to get > me back up and running with the new router and the old LAN > configuration. I think my problem has to do with DHCP. I didn't use > DHCP in the old set up. Instead I had statically defined IP addresses > in /etc/hosts. I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never > understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other > under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP > assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is > that what needs to be done? What I'm looking for is the ordinary and > accepted way to make an ssh connection from one of my boxes to another > one of my boxes where DHCP is happening. I prefere setting up "static" DHCP, if at all possible[1]. If you are lucky the router can also do local DNS and you are done. [1] I lost that feature on the last firmware upgrade on my VDSL modem > Also I used rsync to keep backups of files on two different boxes, and > approx to maintain a local Debian repository. The way I have done this > in the past is dependent on local search. I don't understand what you mean here. Anyway, for a SOHO lan here are a few ideas 1. assign static IPs (either via the DHCP server or each host's config) + robust + if set up via the router it's not difficult to maintain - accessing by IP is not "nice" and editing each host's /etc/hosts file is a pain 2. local DNS server. If you're lucky the consumer router can do that, then it doesn't matter if hosts are on DHCP or not. If your router runs Debian or some Linux dnsmasq is excelent for this purpose and easy to setup. + convenient - setup is router dependent 3. mDNS. No, don't throw holly water, it really works... I think :p Just install libnss-mdns on all hosts (which will also pull avahi-daemon). If you didn't change /etc/nsswitch.conf this will automatically allow you to access the host via host-name.local, irrespective of DHCP or static IP + very convenient and easy to setup, no fiddling with config files + independent of any central config (useful if you have a flaky router) - still needs some way of assigning IPs, unless your router supports zeroconf and you also install avahi-autoipd - depends on hidden-magic type software Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
No ethX or lo on interface after reboot on Squeeze as VMWare guest.
Hello kind people, I have really weird problem. I have Squeeze system running as guest on ESX 4.1. Debian system is in cluster (by means of VMotion) and HA. somehow VMotion transferred my squeze system from one host to another (Inside cluster). After restart, Debian has no lo or eth0 interfaces, but from VMWare i see that network adapter is attached to my guest debian, once I run ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and ifconfig eth0 xx.xx.xx.xx everything goes to normal again. My interfaces file looks ok, and there is nothing suspicious in logs (or maybe i couldnt find)... Any help, or tips will be greatly appreciated. Regards -- Roman
Re: specific kernel configuration for graphic card driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2011 02:52 PM, lina wrote: > fglrx-driver depends on xserver-xorg (>= 1:7.6+1) > fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-8 > xorg-video-abi-8 does not appear to be available Is this from aptitude? Don't install the binary package, just the *source* (apt-get source). Then modify the dependencies, to create a package that will build and run on Squeeze. We're betting on the possibility that these are not really *required* dependencies and that an older version of the xserver will do as well. Also have you thought about upgrading to Wheezy? It's a well documented process, but there pros (newer software) and cons (instability, bugs - but not too many). It is also possible to upgrade just the xserver. There are two steps. a) Add wheezy to /etc/apt/sources.list b) Add as many packages from wheezy as are required to /etc/apt/preferences and forbid the rest (in the same file). See: $ man apt_preferences > Thanks and best regards, > > lina - -- Regards, Panayiotis Karabassis -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNvlRdAAoJEN7RcJcJCZJiv7cIAJYiZ+JPlw2jde9Wa3Df7hVc fPM/9cqySLuuypXBEYNbqhiUq+Lragu/uHbXLSaWmKhLyQ4XJ6Y7LGGmM7Hcs/PT 5VvzNnsgluw2rIZguoEB05cXQMpogjyvpZ6XsrtSkzzqUMl1WRgAcCLNTSObHkzb bvV7NSNbRb49WYr1dmBwUNhLUTcxhOzVDRVm6Yh89GazTbJoyJi7YQaD64JE32PE 3NCXbAhIZaNh8jvlewaUQaoRaO6EcLL/MsvgXdvcZExtZYnvYK9XBHjWySa4ZLND 1yOjUAAnXH3ss8u5/elwSbbIYxp9U7JmyKf57DX/YONCwHc905S/duYfmff+M80= =vUNX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbe5461.5020...@gmail.com
Business proposal from hong kong
Hello How are you ? Am from Hong Kong, am a Chinese , I have a Mutual business proposal am proposing to you, that I will want you to handle from your country, I will like to seek your consent first. I have a serious business project proposal for you to manage and handle for me in your country. This project involves a huge specific amount I can't mention here for security reasons. It involve a transaction from my bank in Hong Kong. Am a chinese man, and we are bound by laws here. If you feel you can have this handled, please let me know, so that I send you an attached comprehensive details of this transaction. you should send me response to my email: Sincerely, Lan Lee Cheng -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1qgbni-0001vg...@host.hongng.com
Need help setting up a home LAN
A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I remembered about how the old router was set up was insufficient to get me back up and running with the new router and the old LAN configuration. I think my problem has to do with DHCP. I didn't use DHCP in the old set up. Instead I had statically defined IP addresses in /etc/hosts. I can see good reasons for DHCP, but I have never understood how I could get my four Debian hosts to talk to each other under DHCP. I see some things that can be configured to have DHCP assign fixed IPs to certain devices based on their MAC address, but is that what needs to be done? What I'm looking for is the ordinary and accepted way to make an ssh connection from one of my boxes to another one of my boxes where DHCP is happening. Also I used rsync to keep backups of files on two different boxes, and approx to maintain a local Debian repository. The way I have done this in the past is dependent on local search. Suggestions? Useful reading material? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110502062924.ga15...@big.lan.gnu
Re: specific kernel configuration for graphic card driver
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On 05/01/2011 01:07 PM, lina wrote:
> # aptitude install devscripts
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> dctrl-tools{a} devscripts dput{a} equivs{a} libapt-pkg-perl{a}
> libauthen-sasl-perl{a} libclass-accessor-perl{a}
> libclass-inspector-perl{a} libcommon-sense-perl{a}
> libconvert-binhex-perl{a} libcrypt-ssleay-perl{a}
> libdevel-symdump-perl{a} libfcgi-perl{a} libhtml-template-perl{a}
> libio-pty-perl{a} libio-string-perl{a} libio-stringy-perl{a}
> libipc-run-perl{a} libjson-perl{a} libjson-xs-perl{a}
> libmime-tools-perl{a} libossp-uuid-perl{a} libossp-uuid16{a}
> libparse-debcontrol-perl{a} libparse-debianchangelog-perl{a}
> libpod-coverage-perl{a} libsoap-lite-perl{a} libsub-name-perl{a}
> libtask-weaken-perl{a} libterm-size-perl{a} libtest-pod-perl{a}
> libtie-ixhash-perl{a} libxml-namespacesupport-perl{a}
> libxml-sax-expat-perl{a} libxml-sax-perl{a} libxml-simple-perl{a}
> libyaml-syck-perl{a} lintian{a} lzma{a} strace{a} wdiff{a}
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> libaa1-dev{u} libartsc0-dev{u} libasound2-dev{u} libaudio-dev{u}
> libaudiofile-dev{u} libavahi-client-dev{u} libavahi-common-dev{u}
> libcaca-dev{u} libdbus-1-dev{u} libdirectfb-dev{u} libdirectfb-extra{u}
> libesd0-dev{u} libglib2.0-dev{u} libjpeg62-dev{u} libldap2-dev{u}
> libodbcinstq1c2{u} libopal-doc{u} libopal3.6.8{u} libpt-dev{u}
> libpt2.6.7{u} libpulse-browse0{u} libpulse-dev{u} libsasl2-dev{u}
> libsdl1.2-dev{u} libspeex-dev{u} libspeexdsp-dev{u} libspeexdsp1{u}
> libsrtp0{u} libsrtp0-dev{u} libsvga1-dev{u} libsysfs-dev{u}
> unixodbc-dev{u}
> 0 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 32 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 3,746 kB of archives. After unpacking 124 MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Probably you have been using apt-get?
Try:
$ sudo apt-get devscripts
- --
Regards,
Panayiotis Karabassis
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librpm-4.4.so cannot be found
Hi, everyone My debian version is Squeeze. When I was to install the Hangeul Viewer Program, I found a error message as follows : root@debian:/home/frog/Download/temp# ./haansoft-office7-installer ./haansoft-office7-installer: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I installed librpm package but the result was same. How can I solve this problem? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbe4d11.7090...@gmail.com
Re: wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY
On Du, 01 mai 11, 19:10:36, eigenroot wrote: > > Right now I get around this problem by reloading "b43" driver once it > happens. But I have no idea whether it was due to the driver itself, or > Network Manager. Anything interesting in /var/log/syslog ? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New to Linux
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 04/21/11 09:21, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> --- On Sat, 4/16/11, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >>> On Vi, 15 apr 11, 22:26:54, Patrick >>> Bartek wrote: So, I stand by my initial statement that Debian is not >>> >>> suitable for the Linux firsttimer. I would never recommend it >>> >>> to a noobie. With Debian, you need to know, at least somewhat, what >>> >>> you're doing. >>> >>> For mere users (no administration) Debian stable is >>> wonderful IMVHO. >>> >>> It should also work if someone knowledgeable does the >>> initial install >>> and major upgrades and let the user do only security >>> updates >>> (update-manager or even completely automated). >> >> I wasn't referring to Linux users, those knowledgeable, either a little > >> or a lot, in Linux. My statement was about those who know nothing >> >> about Linux, not just nothing about Debian, almost all of whom are >> Windows users, who unfortunately expect Linux to work like Windows, > > I came from Win 3.1 directly to Debian (Bo, I believe) back when dpkg was > the package manager. No Apt, no Aptitude, nothing GUI, just a command line > and no automatic dependency resolution. It told you what was needed, but it > wasn't going to get it for you. > > I survived, and I am still here. > sense we are getting back to the old stuff, i figured i'd mention - slackware 13.37 was released last week. it doesn't get more elite than that (though it won't be too many years before 'leet' is considered proper). maybe i should celebrate their new version by installing it oh the other hand, maybe i'll just wait another 20 years until debian gets to version 13 and decides to do something like that (yes, according to wikipedia, debian was first released in '93 ~1 month after slackware). ps - this was all ~5 years before google and in the days when it would have taken me a few months to download an iso (if i would have had the hdd for it) pps - we survived but some of us lost a bit of sanity working in the (almost) internet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=+6WQPVe-=iq2_c=2h4shpea_...@mail.gmail.com
Re: fullscreen video with mencoder
On 05/01/2011 12:44 PM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:33:20AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: What is the resolution of the video? What is the resolution of the display? Before you answer these questions we can only guess what you want. theresolutionofthevideoisnormally 720x480(source. it is a VOB file) the target display is my TV which is 1920x1080 capable and 16/9 capable. i will list some of the things i did ... mencoder Stage.Beauty.VOB -o Stage.Beauty.avi -sid 0 -oac \ mp3lame -lameopts br=192:cbr:vol=6 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts \ pass=1 -vf crop=720:432:0:72,harddup -ofps 25 -aspect 16:9 when i did the above i got some thing which could be made to fill screen on my TV without getting egg heads. Why don't you accept the lateral black bars? -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbe327e.8090...@cox.net
Re: Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:36:09PM +, Camale�n wrote: ..snip > > I wonder what happened with the old good habit of adding the OS menu > entries manually like we used to do with GRUB Legacy... I hope that's > still possible in GRUB2 :-) It's possible but it borders on witchcraft. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID: 8D549279 "If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer" signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: New to Linux
On 04/21/11 09:21, Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Sat, 4/16/11, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Vi, 15 apr 11, 22:26:54, Patrick Bartek wrote: So, I stand by my initial statement that Debian is not suitable for the Linux firsttimer. I would never recommend it to a noobie. With Debian, you need to know, at least somewhat, what you're doing. For mere users (no administration) Debian stable is wonderful IMVHO. It should also work if someone knowledgeable does the initial install and major upgrades and let the user do only security updates (update-manager or even completely automated). I wasn't referring to Linux users, those knowledgeable, either a little > or a lot, in Linux. My statement was about those who know nothing about Linux, not just nothing about Debian, almost all of whom are Windows users, who unfortunately expect Linux to work like Windows, I came from Win 3.1 directly to Debian (Bo, I believe) back when dpkg was the package manager. No Apt, no Aptitude, nothing GUI, just a command line and no automatic dependency resolution. It told you what was needed, but it wasn't going to get it for you. I survived, and I am still here. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbe1ce7.9040...@gmail.com
Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd
On 2011/5/1 21:41, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2011 12:05:47 +0800, H Xu wrote: On 05/01/2011 08:24 AM, H Xu wrote: BTW, I was able to send mails from my domain to others, not still not able to send a message from my domain to my domain. I'm sorry, there is nothing wrong with the mail transportation from one host to another. I find out that postfix never uses "virtual" to do delivery but always uses "local". I've already set virtual_mailbox_domains in my main.cf. But still it's not working. Here is the main.cf: (...) We need to see the Postfix error log or are you still getting the same message? Also, how are you sending the e-mail from Gmail, using Gmail's smtp server or using your Postfix as gateway? It is vital to know what is your current mail layout, that is, "how" are you using Postix. Hello, I've found the reason now. virtual_mailbox_domains' value is also in mydestination, so that's why postfix always uses local but not virtual. It's working now. Thanks for your help. Regards, H Xu 2011/5/2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbe0d1e.4080...@gmail.com
Re: Roundcube broken after Squeeze upgrade
On 5/1/2011 9:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Regarding the Suhosin module, it should be disabled by default unless you are not using Apache web server. Review "/usr/share/doc/roundcube-core/ News.Debian.gz" file. Camaleón, thank you. This is what I needed to know. I indeed do not use Apache, but Lighttpd. ; Transparent Encryption Options ;suhosin.session.encrypt = on <-- default suhosin.session.encrypt = off <-- after reading the above The problem is now resolved. However, this is very strange because everything worked fine under Lenny w/ RC 0.3.1 from backports. Note the RC version didn't change with Squeeze. Also, I checked the date stamps on all the relevant config files, and none of those were overwritten by the Squeeze upgrade. I don't know where to verify it, but I'm guessing that PHP5 in Lenny didn't have Suhosin compiled in and enabled by default, but Squeeze does. If this is the case, the Squeeze upgrade should have thrown up a warning about this issue. Allowing a server application to simply be totally broken after an upgrade, and leaving it to the SA to figure out what broke, with zero errors in any logs to point him/her in the right direction, is not acceptable IMO. Thanks again Camaleón. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbdf15d.7050...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY
It was already "off", but problems existed. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > 2011/5/2 eigenroot > >> Hi all, >> >> I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition which was based on Debian Testing on >> my laptop. One problem I found was that my wireless connection was >> frequently dropped off after idling. And it was not predictable: sometimes I >> left it overnight and the wireless was still good, but sometimes I just left >> for 10min and it was off. I used Network Manager (v0.8.3.999), by which the >> wireless couldn't be reconnected successfully once it got dropped . Command >> "lspci -vnn | grep 14e4" gave result: >> >> 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g >> LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) >> >> And I used the package "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer" in Debian's >> repository to install the wireless driver. Before that I used Fedora 14 on >> the same laptop but it didn't have such problem (the wireless driver was >> installed from rpmfusion repositories). >> >> Right now I get around this problem by reloading "b43" driver once it >> happens. But I have no idea whether it was due to the driver itself, or >> Network Manager. >> >> Could anyone please help? Thanks very much. >> >> > try this: > > check the output of iwconfig for your wireless interface have "Power > Management:off" > if not > # iwconfig eth1 power off > > *if your wireless interface = eth1 > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://debmal.my >
Re: wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY
2011/5/2 eigenroot > Hi all, > > I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition which was based on Debian Testing on > my laptop. One problem I found was that my wireless connection was > frequently dropped off after idling. And it was not predictable: sometimes I > left it overnight and the wireless was still good, but sometimes I just left > for 10min and it was off. I used Network Manager (v0.8.3.999), by which the > wireless couldn't be reconnected successfully once it got dropped . Command > "lspci -vnn | grep 14e4" gave result: > > 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g > LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) > > And I used the package "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer" in Debian's > repository to install the wireless driver. Before that I used Fedora 14 on > the same laptop but it didn't have such problem (the wireless driver was > installed from rpmfusion repositories). > > Right now I get around this problem by reloading "b43" driver once it > happens. But I have no idea whether it was due to the driver itself, or > Network Manager. > > Could anyone please help? Thanks very much. > > try this: check the output of iwconfig for your wireless interface have "Power Management:off" if not # iwconfig eth1 power off *if your wireless interface = eth1 -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my
wireless connection problem of BCM 4312 LP-PHY
Hi all, I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition which was based on Debian Testing on my laptop. One problem I found was that my wireless connection was frequently dropped off after idling. And it was not predictable: sometimes I left it overnight and the wireless was still good, but sometimes I just left for 10min and it was off. I used Network Manager (v0.8.3.999), by which the wireless couldn't be reconnected successfully once it got dropped . Command "lspci -vnn | grep 14e4" gave result: 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) And I used the package "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer" in Debian's repository to install the wireless driver. Before that I used Fedora 14 on the same laptop but it didn't have such problem (the wireless driver was installed from rpmfusion repositories). Right now I get around this problem by reloading "b43" driver once it happens. But I have no idea whether it was due to the driver itself, or Network Manager. Could anyone please help? Thanks very much.
Re: which -dbg to install
Hi again, Thanks for the response. Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com on 2011-05-01 17:46 +): > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:12:04 +0200, Arno Schuring wrote: > > > since updating both gstreamer and alsa this afternoon, I'm having > > regular segfaults in quodlibet. However, since ql has not been > > updated I have no idea against which package I should file a bug. > > [..] > > warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. > > [Reading symbols..] > > Core was generated by `python /usr/bin/quodlibet --start-playing'. >^^^ > > Have you tried to launch the app with no options or just crashes in > the same manner? :-? In fact, the app would not crash while playing but at the end of the song (and not even on all songs). After fruitlessly digging around for awhile, I was able to reproduce this with totem and rhythmbox as well. Even then, it took me about four hours to find the offending package (liborc). Long story short, this has been resolved. I have not opened a bug because a newer version (from incoming.debian.org) already had a fix. For those interested, I wrote down my experiences here: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gstreamer-maintainers/2011-April/008293.html Regards, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110502000404.18ff7...@neminis.loos.site
Re: Canonical place to configure power management
* Camaleón : > I think powertop is just giving you some hints on what you can tweak to > save your battery. You can ignore them or apply them, that's up to you. Thanks for the info but you missed my point. I am aware of the meanings of powetops recommendations. I want to know if any package in Debian provides an easy way to set settings like that. I thought pm-utils allows that. kw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501215339.gb19...@dummy.home.lan
Re: xorg problem--dual-head, Debian vs. Ubuntu
Hi there! I was with the same machine and problem. t60, with an external monitor - 1366x768. So, I've copied this xorg.conf (that debian squeeze omits) and changed the values to my configuration, enlarging the virtual area. then restarted X, and when I hitted "preferences" > "monitors", and everything worked well... =) thanks! fernão -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20110501t224905-...@post.gmane.org
Re: Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?
Op Sun, 1 May 2011 22:36:09 +0200 Camaleón wrote:
> I wonder what happened with the old good habit of adding the OS menu
> entries manually like we used to do with GRUB Legacy... I hope that's
> still possible in GRUB2 :-)
Yes it is. Make /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober non-executable and manually
add your entries in a file named 09_custom or 11_custom, depending on
the position you want it to have in the Grub2 menu.
The first two lines should always be as in the example below, then add
your entry from line 4 on.
#! /bin/sh -e
exec tail -n +4 $0
menuentry "Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic (on /dev/sdb2)" {
set root=(hd1,2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=/dev/sdb2 vga=788 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
}
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Re: file systems
On 5/1/2011 7:57 AM, Chen Wei wrote: 2) performs well on a lots of small files, maildir and extrace linux kernel source for example. This was XFS Achilles heal until the introduction of Dave Chinner's delayed logging patch in 2.6.35. Prior to this XFS was absolutely horrible with metadata intensive workloads including the two you name above. Such metadata workload performance is now on par with EXT3/4 and Reiser. delaylog is a mount option up to 2.6.38 and is the default in 2.6.39. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbdc98a.3030...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: file systems
On 5/1/2011 3:35 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 01 mai 11, 02:34:59, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip various super-stuff running xfs] I understand that xfs is great for super-computers[1] and stuff, but how is that relevant to a desktop computer with something like this? The background info I provided relating to supers was in response to Shawn calling my statement of 'quality FS' an 'opinion'. If XFS isn't a quality FS people wouldn't have been using it on $100 million supercomputers for over 13 years. And in that 13 years it has seen vast improvements. $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 9.2G 7.3G 1.5G 84% / tmpfs1006M 4.0K 1006M 1% /lib/init/rw udev 1004M 548K 1004M 1% /dev tmpfs1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs1006M 164K 1006M 1% /tmp /dev/sda7 9.2G 2.7G 6.1G 31% /media/stable /dev/sda2 19G 9.9G 7.6G 57% /home /dev/sda8 104G 79G 26G 76% /home/amp/big (actually one of those partitions is on xfs, but that's not my point) The only real downside to using XFS as a primary desktop filesystem is tool familiarity and knowledge. For the casual desktop user XFS may not be all that suitable due to this, but any power user will be more than happy with it. As with anything computer related, one needs to read and learn about it before taking the plunge. Users who simply select all the defaults during OS installation need not apply. Regarding desktop suitability, all SGI MIPS graphics workstations from 1994 onward, including the popular O2 and Octane, used XFS. The CG effects in almost every movie between ~1995 and 2002 were created on SGI workstations all using XFS. ILM used SGI workstations with XFS from 1994/95 until switching to commodity AMD Opteron systems around 2003/04. I don't know what FS they currently use on their workstations today. Given the size of the data sets I'd bet they still use XFS locally, though I don't know if they use CXFS on their SAN or another cluster filesystem. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbdc583.8090...@hardwarefreak.com
Re: Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?
On Sun, 01 May 2011 23:22:04 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 mai 11, 14:05:16, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> And how can this become permanent. however, the next time Debian >> kernel updates, it will disappear again. How to make it permanent? > > If you have os-prober installed (it's recommended by grub-common, it > should be installed unless you declined or disabled recommends) a simple > 'update-grub' should do the trick and would also work for future kernel > updates. > > If this doesn't work I'm sure the os-prober developer would like to know > it, so please file a bug. I wonder what happened with the old good habit of adding the OS menu entries manually like we used to do with GRUB Legacy... I hope that's still possible in GRUB2 :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.20.36...@gmail.com
Re: Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?
On Du, 01 mai 11, 14:05:16, Paul Johnson wrote: > > And how can this become permanent. however, the next time Debian > kernel updates, it will disappear again. How to make it permanent? If you have os-prober installed (it's recommended by grub-common, it should be installed unless you declined or disabled recommends) a simple 'update-grub' should do the trick and would also work for future kernel updates. If this doesn't work I'm sure the os-prober developer would like to know it, so please file a bug. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Lost Ubuntu partitions from grub.cfg. How to most easily recover?
When new Ubuntu was released with the Unity desktop, it was so awful
that I decided to join you in the Debian experience. So far, so good.
I installed Squeeze from the DVD, then decided I needed some newer
apps and learned about "testing" and "unstable" and most things are
going well.
When I did the Debian install, it noticed I had a Windows partition
and an Ubuntu partition with two kernels. Grub was set and I could
launch any of those OS. However, after the Debian update to the
testing edition of the kernel, the grub.cfg no longer had my Ubuntu
partitions. It still has the Windows partition. Don't make fun of my
Windows. I only keep it for TurboTax :).
I don't really want to boot the Ubuntu partition, but I'd like to know
how to get it back.
My Ubuntu was installed in the old-style way, with a boot partition
(/dev/sda3), a root partition (/dev/sda7), and separate partitions for
/opt, /usr/local/ and /var. I've tried to manually put in an entry in
grub.cfg, but I'm not as good at grub2 as I wish.
Here's grub.cfg for the Debian partition, which starts nicely
I can mount the Ubuntu partitions in Debian and see what grub.cfg was
in there. I *believe* that if I just copy the following into the
Debian grub.cfg, then I would be able to start Ubuntu.
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.38-8-generic' --class ubuntu --class
gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set gfxpayload=$linux_gfx_mode
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(/dev/sda,msdos3)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
2eb8cda6-366c-4ef7-b7da-8ff292ca7e61
linux /vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic
root=UUID=18c56003-c1d4-4fa1-8753-a20bf3034b7e ro quiet splash
vt.handoff=7
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic
}
Right?
I'm not in danger of Breaking any parts that do work now, am i?
And how can this become permanent. however, the next time Debian
kernel updates, it will disappear again. How to make it permanent?
grub.cfg says:
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
But in /etc/default/grub, there's nothing about the other OS in grub.cfg.
Ideas?
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Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze
On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:58:01 -0700, Roger Morgan wrote:
>> From: Camaleón
>
>> It looks something related to authentication.
>>
>> Is there anything interesting at samba logs? I know samba logs are
>> pretty hard to understand :-) but maybe there is something in there
>> that give you any clue.
>>
> Here are the logs for the relevant time.
(...)
Sadly those are pretty generic errors and don't tell much about the cause
of the failure. Try by increasing samba log level¹ ("log level = 3"),
restart samba daemons, run smbclient again and review again the logs.
P.S. 1 - Don't forget to restore to the previous samba log level or your
disk will be quickly flooded :-)
P.S. 2 - Before sending the logs, review the content to avoid sending
sensible data (replace/delete anything you don't want to be viewed by
everyone).
¹http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#LOGLEVEL
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Re: Radeon X1550 64-bit
2011/4/30 Joe > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:42:15 +0200 > Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have serious problem with my ATI RV505 CE [Radeon X1550 64-bit], DE > > freezes randomly and I can't understand the reason. > > Have a look at the driver version. Version 1:6.14.1-1 of > xserver-xorg-video-radeon on 64 bit sid is broken. Mine does more than > freeze randomly, certain programs scramble the display instantly. I'm > using the previous 1:6.13.2-2 without problems. > > Presumably my problem is one of these: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=xserver-xorg-video-radeon;dist=unstable > > -- > Joe > > I can log from another pc when the amd64 freeze, I am on debian testing and now I have downgraded to xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 1:6.13.1 from squeeze. The problem seems to be solved... Regards -raffaele **
Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze
> From: Camaleón > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Sun, May 1, 2011 5:15:50 PM > Subject: Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:51:51 -0700, Roger Morgan wrote: > > > Samba is running but I can't connect to it, and when I do the following > > test (from the Samba server): > > smbclient -L servername > > > > the response (after entering correct password) is: > > cut here--- > > Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding session setup failed: Call > > timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds > > ---end of response-- > > (...) > > It looks something related to authentication. > > Is there anything interesting at samba logs? I know samba logs are pretty > hard to understand :-) but maybe there is something in there that give > you any clue. > Here are the logs for the relevant time. First log.nmbd : ---cut here--- [2011/04/30 18:13:03, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:857(main) nmbd version 3.5.6 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010 [2011/04/30 18:13:03.057129, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:696(open_sockets) [2011/04/30 18:13:13, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:857(main) nmbd version 3.5.6 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010 [2011/04/30 18:13:44.242349, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:395(become_local_master_stage2) * Samba name server LYRA is now a local master browser for workgroup GALAXY on subnet 192.168.1.3 * [2011/04/30 22:55:38.467321, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:71(terminate) Got SIGTERM: going down... [2011/05/01 06:50:24, 0] nmbd/nmbd.c:857(main) nmbd version 3.5.6 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010 --end of log.nmbd extract --- Then log.smbd: cut here--start of log.smbd extract--- [2011/04/30 06:23:08, 0] smbd/server.c:1123(main) smbd version 3.5.6 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010 [2011/04/30 07:53:45.799147, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 08:25:45.948255, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 11:05:46.656557, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 11:37:46.807467, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 13:13:47.238251, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 14:17:47.532892, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 14:49:47.677722, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 15:21:47.821676, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 18:01:50.789490, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/04/30 18:13:03, 0] smbd/server.c:1123(main) smbd version 3.5.6 started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2010 [2011/04/30 20:41:49.436355, 0] lib/util_sock.c:1441(get_peer_addr_internal) getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected [2011/05/01 06:50:24, 0] smbd/server.c:1123(main) smbd version 3.5.6 started. ---end of log.smbd extract--- I don't understand the getpeername error message. Roger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/861007.84510...@web65502.mail.ac4.yahoo.com
Re: which -dbg to install
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:12:04 +0200, Arno Schuring wrote: > since updating both gstreamer and alsa this afternoon, I'm having > regular segfaults in quodlibet. However, since ql has not been updated I > have no idea against which package I should file a bug. > > So, I set out to catch a core dump, and I'm trying to make sense of the > backtrace but apparently I'm still missing some -dbg files. Here is what > I have so far: (...) > warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error. [Reading > symbols..] > Core was generated by `python /usr/bin/quodlibet --start-playing'. ^^^ Have you tried to launch the app with no options or just crashes in the same manner? :-? > As you can see, the segfault occurs in a thread without symbols. Will it > make a difference if I install each and every -dbg package indicated by > gdb (that's about a zillion-and-one packages), or am I facing a > corrupted stack? I agree that installing "-dbg" packages for gstreamer and gst-python can be an insane task -unless you have a testing machine where you can do and undo at your wish- :-). I don't know the package but maybe it is possible to recompile "quodlibet" with the symbols on it... just a wild-guess. > I've now reverted to alsa-base from Squeeze, but that shows the same > problem. Is there another way that I can get more info from a core dump, > or should I just stick to downgrading/upgrading packages until I've > found the cause? Why not just opening a bug report on BTS against "quodlibet" and wait until someone tells you the next step? Should devels/packagers need the symbols then also tell you the exact required extra packages to get them. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.17.46...@gmail.com
Re: fullscreen video with mencoder
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:33:20AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > What is the resolution of the video? > What is the resolution of the display? > > Before you answer these questions we can only guess what you want. theresolutionofthevideoisnormally 720x480(source. it is a VOB file) the target display is my TV which is 1920x1080 capable and 16/9 capable. i will list some of the things i did ... mencoder Stage.Beauty.VOB -o Stage.Beauty.avi -sid 0 -oac \ mp3lame -lameopts br=192:cbr:vol=6 -ovc xvid -xvidencopts \ pass=1 -vf crop=720:432:0:72,harddup -ofps 25 -aspect 16:9 when i did the above i got some thing which could be made to fill screen on my TV without getting egg heads. actually until now there are two cropping values that has helped me is.. 704:448:8:18 and 720:432:0:72 . But did not calculate it myself,i just discovered it while applying recommended crops using "mplayer -vf cropdetect" So when i apply those two cropping values to some videos , i get my result. But what iam asking is that , will i get video to fill my screen in my wide screen TV for all my rip's without black bands and egg heads.So i need a general technique that works for all rather than trying with the two dicovered crop values -- software engineer. department of computer science rajagiri school of engineering and technology. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501174419.ga2...@debian.jeff
buon giorno
salve,ho apena instalato il programa Debian,il mio problema e chenon posso instalare la mia webcam-microsoft vx500,modelul 1357,.se po instalare questa webcam su Debian?,questa e la mia domanda,o qualle sono le web cam compatibile per debian,vi ringrazio anticipamente
Cannot output to external monitor
I'm having trouble getting anything to output from my X40 ThinkPad to an external VGA monitor. Under X, `xrandr -q` outputs the following regardless of whether or not the external monitor is plugged in: % xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1024x7680.0* 800x60061.0 Pressing Fn+F7 and typing `xrandr --output VGA --auto` has no effect...the external monitor remains totally blank. The only way I can get anything to display externally is to plug the external monitor in, then boot up. In this case the laptop screen remains blank and the external monitor displays everything -- and fuzzily, as it's outputting 1024x768 to a 1280x1024 display. And no combination of alternating Fn+F7 key-presses and variations of xrandr commands can get the laptop screen to not be blank. I had to switch "Boot Display Device" in the BIOS from "ThinkPad LCD" to "Analog (VGA)" or "Both" for this to work. I would've thought "Both" would send output to both the external and internal displays -- and I thought I had some recollection of that happening -- but my trials this morning show the Laptop screen remaining blank. In any case, having to re-boot the machine with the external monitor plugged in doesn't seem like a reasonable solution. Thanks for any help, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501173517.ga7...@s70206.gridserver.com
Re: file systems
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > On 05/01/2011 04:34 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> That 'opinion' is based, in part, on the following facts, many of >> which are in my previous posts to this list. If you would like, to >> avoid expressing 'opinion' in the future, I could simply paste the >> following huge ass text into every email dealing with XFS, instead of >> using short hand subjective phrases such as 'XFS is the overall best >> Linux FS'. The following, and additional evidence freely available, >> demonstrates this 'opinion' to be fact. >> >> All four US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) labs: >> LANL, LLNL, Oak Ridge, and Sandia, as well as NASA Ames and the US Air >> Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, have all used, or still >> use, XFS and/or CXFS on large scale storage, dozens of petabytes of >> XFS disk total. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority > this isn't an ipse dixit, eduardo. stan is not arguing xfs should be used because NNSA uses it. he is simply demonstrating that there are reputable organizations who use xfs. this fact provides evidence in support of the accolades bestowed on the fs. it doesn't make the fs 'right' and neither is the argument presented that it is 'right'. >> NASA Ames has been using XFS for 16+ years, and still do, on the >> 10,240 processor (originally) Columbia super and the archival >> servers. They're currently running an 800TB CXFS filesystem on SAN >> storage, and local XFS filesystems on 215TB, 175TB, and 65TB direct >> fiber attached storage. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition > neither is this an argumentum ad antiquitatem. again all that is being shown is that xfs has a long history of use again with a reputable organization. again, it is merely supporting evidence and it is not being argued that because the organization has used this for x years, it should necessary continuous to do so because of this fact. -- in friendship, prad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87tydemjn6@psinom.home
Re: [SOLVED] Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?
On May 1, 2011 9:58 AM, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: > > All the same, they should know better than to break part of the internet. > > That's sorta uncalled for. > > Someone has to pay for the domain and hosting and bandwidth for the redirect > server. Are you volunteering to do that? It would be most welcome, I am > sure. > It should cost $7 to $10 per year to keep the domain. So, the closest I can find is 'donate services and hardware' here: http://www.debian.org/donationsso someone has a month until the domain expires or two (?) until it goes back into the pool for anyone to buy to tell me how to make sure that's maintained. Oh, and I don't really think there's any maintaining servers sense (the majority of?) that data is on debian.org/backports IIRC. I think this was more of a political issue than a money / time / anything else issue.
Re: file systems
In <4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Independent Linux filesystem tests performed by an IBM engineer to track >BTRFS performance during development. XFS trounces the others in most >tests: These results are interesting and useful, but I think "trounces" is a poor description for what XFS does. Not using barriers undermines data consistency guarantees, I think it is best to ignore the 2.6.35-rc5-autokern1-ext3-*-ext3, 2.6.35-rc5-autokern1-ext4-*- ext4-nobarrier, and 2.6.35-rc5-autokern1-xfs-*-xfx-nobarrier entries. So that btrfs doesn't remain the only filesystem with 2 entries, I'll also ignore the 2.6.35-rc5-autokern1-btrfs-*-btrfs-nocow entry, as it is non- default. >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_La >rge_file_creates_num_threads=1.html On the graphs, XFS is, respectively: 2nd, 4th, 2nd, 4th >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_La >rge_file_creates_num_threads=16.html 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 1st >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_La >rge_file_creates_num_threads=128.html 1st, 1st, 1st, 1st >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_La >rge_file_random_writes._num_threads=1.html 1st, 4th, 1st, 4th >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_La >rge_file_random_writes._num_threads=16.html 2nd, 1st, 2nd, 2nd >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_La >rge_file_random_writes._num_threads=128.html 2nd, 4th, 2nd, 2nd >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Ma >il_server_simulation._num_threads=1.html 5th, 1st, 5th, 1st, 3rd >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Ma >il_server_simulation._num_threads=16.html 5th, 1st, 5th, 5th, 1st >http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Ma >il_server_simulation._num_threads=128.html 4th, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 2nd I wouldn't say that is a "trouncing", since it doesn't even win in many categories. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: mythnetvision on Squeeze -- anybody got it working?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:42:21 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I've installed mythnetvision from debian-multimedia, but can't seem to > subscribe to any sites. Can anybody confirm for me that it does work? > And were there any special tricks required? What error/behaviour are you getting? Never used that app before but seems to have some requirements: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythNetvision#Requirements Also, give an eye to the Troubleshooting section, just in case: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythNetvision#Troubleshooting Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.15.30...@gmail.com
Re: Problem with Samba on Squeeze
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:51:51 -0700, Roger Morgan wrote: > Samba is running but I can't connect to it, and when I do the following > test (from the Samba server): > smbclient -L servername > > the response (after entering correct password) is: > cut here--- > Receiving SMB: Server stopped responding session setup failed: Call > timed out: server did not respond after 2 milliseconds > ---end of response-- (...) It looks something related to authentication. Is there anything interesting at samba logs? I know samba logs are pretty hard to understand :-) but maybe there is something in there that give you any clue. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.15.15...@gmail.com
Re: Roundcube broken after Squeeze upgrade
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:23:19 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Roundcube keeps redirecting to the login page immediately after a > successful login. (...) > I performed "aptitude remove --purge roundcube" and reinstalled to no > avail. Other RC users have run into this problem but only apparently > with 0.4.x and 0.5.x. None of the possible fixes they mentioned have > worked for me. One such suggestion was to disable the Suhosin module. > Suhosin is compiled into the PHP5 shipped in Squeeze so it can't be > disabled. If indeed Suhosin is the cause of the problem, then Roundcube > should be broken for all Debian 6 users. Regarding the Suhosin module, it should be disabled by default unless you are not using Apache web server. Review "/usr/share/doc/roundcube-core/ News.Debian.gz" file. > Anyone else seen this problem? Anyone have any ideas? My webmail is > totally down until I can resolve this. Another hint provided by Debian docs in "README.Debian" file, talks about the proper configuration of the webserver "Alias" directives, so that's something you can also check. Sorry, no more ideas because I'm not using Roundcube :-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.14.51...@gmail.com
Re: Canonical place to configure power management
On Sun, 01 May 2011 15:36:40 +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > I use powertop to enable power management for various devices on my > laptop. I wonder where I can store these configuration options > permanently. I looked into pm-utils and guess I can use this package but > there seems to be no documentation how one should use pm-utils. > > Some examples of the options in question like displayed in powertop: > >>> Bad Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0 >Bad Enable SATA link power management for /dev/sda Bad > NMI watchdog should be turned off Bad VM writeback >timeout >Bad Enable Audio codec power management Bad >Autosuspend for USB device BCM2045B (Broadcom Corp) > > How do you enable these settings? Do you store them permanently? I think powertop is just giving you some hints on what you can tweak to save your battery. You can ignore them or apply them, that's up to you. Additional info on their meaning: http://www.lesswatts.org/tips/ Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.14.02...@gmail.com
Re: [SOLVED] Re: Anyone know now long backports.org will be down?
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: > All the same, they should know better than to break part of the internet. > That's sorta uncalled for. Someone has to pay for the domain and hosting and bandwidth for the redirect server. Are you volunteering to do that? It would be most welcome, I am sure. The move was announced widely, including in backports.org itself and the mailing lists you were strongly urged to subscribe to in the backports.org terms of service and usage directions. It is now down, so any remaining users will be forced to ask about it, and will get pointed to the right place. Eventually (and I hope it will take a long time to happen) the domain will expire, some squatter will get hold of that domain, and do whatever evil things they might care to. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501135750.ge19...@khazad-dum.debian.net
Re: Dovecot Problems on Sid
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:36:35 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Saturday 26 Nisan 5771 22:59:04 David Baron wrote: >> > I would start with the usual tests: >> > >> > http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation >> >> Process is not running. There is no log entry after those listener >> errors (995 and 993) for the unstable install. The downgraded testing >> install has no entries at all. > > Problem is in all that inetd testing loop. Bypassing that, I actually > get to the do_start. Listening to [::], I can start the daemon but > cannot USE IT. Connection still refused. Listening to * (normal ivp4), I > that "new" failure to listen to 993. Something else is already using it > (995 would be the pop3 server). > > Since I never had these problem before, what is going on now? Run all of the avobe tests (the ones suggested at Dovecot's wiki) and put here the results. It's still unclear where the problem is. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.13.45...@gmail.com
Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd
On Sun, 01 May 2011 12:05:47 +0800, H Xu wrote: > On 05/01/2011 08:24 AM, H Xu wrote: >> BTW, I was able to send mails from my domain to others, not still not >> able to send a message from my domain to my domain. > > I'm sorry, there is nothing wrong with the mail transportation from one > host to another. I find out that postfix never uses "virtual" to do > delivery but always uses "local". I've already set > virtual_mailbox_domains in my main.cf. But still it's not working. > > > Here is the main.cf: (...) We need to see the Postfix error log or are you still getting the same message? Also, how are you sending the e-mail from Gmail, using Gmail's smtp server or using your Postfix as gateway? It is vital to know what is your current mail layout, that is, "how" are you using Postix. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.05.01.13.41...@gmail.com
Canonical place to configure power management
Hi, I use powertop to enable power management for various devices on my laptop. I wonder where I can store these configuration options permanently. I looked into pm-utils and guess I can use this package but there seems to be no documentation how one should use pm-utils. Some examples of the options in question like displayed in powertop: >> Bad Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0 Bad Enable SATA link power management for /dev/sda Bad NMI watchdog should be turned off Bad VM writeback timeout Bad Enable Audio codec power management Bad Autosuspend for USB device BCM2045B (Broadcom Corp) How do you enable these settings? Do you store them permanently? kw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501133640.gb10...@dummy.home.lan
Re: file systems
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:35:17AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 mai 11, 02:34:59, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I understand that xfs is great for super-computers[1] and stuff, but how > is that relevant to a desktop computer with something like this? > > $ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda6 9.2G 7.3G 1.5G 84% / > tmpfs1006M 4.0K 1006M 1% /lib/init/rw > udev 1004M 548K 1004M 1% /dev > tmpfs1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm > tmpfs1006M 164K 1006M 1% /tmp > /dev/sda7 9.2G 2.7G 6.1G 31% /media/stable > /dev/sda2 19G 9.9G 7.6G 57% /home > /dev/sda8 104G 79G 26G 76% /home/amp/big > > (actually one of those partitions is on xfs, but that's not my point) > > [1] my definition of super-computer is something that I can't afford :) > That includes stuff like RAID, considering I'm struggling to find the > space for regular backups AND for all the junk. > My 7 years old laptop could be classified as the opposite of super computer:). As an average home user, I don't benchmark filesystems, my experience is purly subjective. Still, I would appreciate a filesystem that can: 1) journaling. the long ext2 fsck is too painful. 2) performs well on a lots of small files, maildir and extrace linux kernel source for example. 3) performs well on large files, to me, large means several G, since XFS appears define large in astronomical number, it should be happy with my files. 4) online defragment. there are files under thunderbird and firefox profile directory keep been modified. I expect better web browsing responsiveness if those files been defrag regularly. I am using ext4 now, works fine so far, it will be great if ext4 have online defragment, though, I shall put xfs on the list when need install an OS or get a new hard disk next time. -- Chen Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501125754.GC16834@Tungsten.DarkStar
Re: file systems
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition Both wrong. Wrong context. Please read them again carefully. > Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. Are you writing from experience? Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America (NDY) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktimvjuxg2oxzziekqh0dgczwrbv...@mail.gmail.com
Re: file systems
On 05/01/2011 04:34 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > That 'opinion' is based, in part, on the following facts, many of > which are in my previous posts to this list. If you would like, to > avoid expressing 'opinion' in the future, I could simply paste the > following huge ass text into every email dealing with XFS, instead of > using short hand subjective phrases such as 'XFS is the overall best > Linux FS'. The following, and additional evidence freely available, > demonstrates this 'opinion' to be fact. > > All four US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) labs: > LANL, LLNL, Oak Ridge, and Sandia, as well as NASA Ames and the US Air > Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, have all used, or still > use, XFS and/or CXFS on large scale storage, dozens of petabytes of > XFS disk total. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority > NASA Ames has been using XFS for 16+ years, and still do, on the > 10,240 processor (originally) Columbia super and the archival > servers. They're currently running an 800TB CXFS filesystem on SAN > storage, and local XFS filesystems on 215TB, 175TB, and 65TB direct > fiber attached storage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition -- Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Monogamy is the same. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dbd54cd.40...@kalinowski.com.br
Re: mua and mail service provider statistics
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:22:06AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Thanks for doing this. u are welcome :) > > The trouble with GMail is that it is suboptimal when it comes to a > couple of things when compared to Mutt, _for me_: > > - It's threading is linear, which is difficult to follow for long and > complex evolving threads. > - I prefer console goodness over a web based approach. > - GMail encourages top posting. > > But I see the merit in using GMail; it's simple, easy and powerful to > use. Just that it's not for me. > > Kumar > -- once upon a time hotmail was so hot and yahoo mail was so cool... -- Chen Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501115559.GB16834@Tungsten.DarkStar
Re: specific kernel configuration for graphic card driver
fglrx-driver depends on xserver-xorg (>= 1:7.6+1) fglrx-driver depends on xorg-video-abi-8 xorg-video-abi-8 does not appear to be available for the wheezy version fglrx, it's also had the dependency problems. Thanks and best regards, lina -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=jkoyzy75mqykgzk_cb-tgp3d...@mail.gmail.com
Re: file systems
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: > >> Why USB? > > since our volume is pretty small we only require around 10G. > > the idea is to keep bkps on usb drives, so that if one fails, it's just > > a simple plug-in to get things going again. we were thinking that we > > avoid any possibility of hd failure/replacement this way and likely > > reduce power requirements too. > > > > i've read that usb3 has faster write access than hd (though usb2 > > apparently didn't). read access though is apparently just as good with > > usb2. > > > > we haven't evaluated the idea fully yet though and are just > > contemplating the possibility as a sort of poorman's solid state drives. > > I'd steer clear of USB disk storage for a server environment. I've seen > too many reports of USB links resetting spuriously for no apparent > reason. If you have your root filesystem and swap on such a device and > this happens, you're in trouble. > Indeed, running apps need access an external USB disk can be quite troublesome, especially when the app is expected to running non-stop for a long time. I learned the lesson when try to serve NFS over home network, with the shared NFS directory on an external USB hard disk. After running for several hours, sometimes several days if lucky, that USB disk becomes unresponsive. Thanks to journaling ext3 filesystem, no data was lost. couldn't figure out why the USB disk malfunction, since it runs flawlessly if only use for brief peroid of time. -- Chen Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110501114454.GA16834@Tungsten.DarkStar
Re: specific kernel configuration for graphic card driver
# aptitude install devscripts
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dctrl-tools{a} devscripts dput{a} equivs{a} libapt-pkg-perl{a}
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libdevel-symdump-perl{a} libfcgi-perl{a} libhtml-template-perl{a}
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libipc-run-perl{a} libjson-perl{a} libjson-xs-perl{a}
libmime-tools-perl{a} libossp-uuid-perl{a} libossp-uuid16{a}
libparse-debcontrol-perl{a} libparse-debianchangelog-perl{a}
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libtie-ixhash-perl{a} libxml-namespacesupport-perl{a}
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On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote:
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> On 05/01/2011 09:22 AM, lina wrote:
>> Thanks for providing me the links and information.
>
> You are welcome!
>
>> Part 1:
>>
>> last time I tried that one (install from squeeze one), it popped some
>> errors like:
>>
>>
>> $ more /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log
>>
>> Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.831.2/source ->
>> /usr/src/fglrx-8.831.2
>>
>> DKMS: add Completed.
>>
>> Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
>>
>> Building module:
>> cleaning build area
>> cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.831.2/build; sh make.sh --nohints
>> --uname_r=2.6.38-mbp8
>> 2-nhg --norootcheck.(bad exit status: 1)
>> 0
>> 0
>> [Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.831.2 with DKMS
>> [Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.831.2 from DKMS
>>
>> --
>> Deleting module version: 8.831.2
>> completely from the DKMS tree.
>> --
>> Done.
>
> We could research this further. But it's probably not worth it, because,
> if your card is new, it will require a recent driver, which is not
> available in Squeeze.
>
>> Part 2:
>>
>> Later my collage told me to build the sid one. I downloaded, but met
>> the dependency problems.
>>
>> the org-video-abi-8
>>
>> which needed update the xserver-xorg-core. But I met the conflict of
>> updating the xserver-xorg-core sepearately, it would remove lots of
>> other packages. so I just gave up.
>>
>> Part 3:
>>
>> Is it possible to update xserver-xorg-core from stable one to unstable
>> one? without something I worry that I can't handle.
>
> Have you tried the driver in Wheezy (testing)? It may have more relaxed
> dependencies and still be up to date. But it probably won't.
>
> So let's do this. Try to compile the fglrx package from sid on squeeze.
>
> $ apt-get source ${fglrx-package-name}
> $ cd ${fglrx-package-name}
>
> Now edit debian/control and remove build and non-build dependencies as
> necessary. Remove or relax the version strings, so it will build and run
> on squeeze.
>
> Now you will need the devscripts package and the build-dependencies of
> the fglrx package. Install these manually or try (may not work):
>
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep ${fglrx-package-name}
> $ sudo aptitude install devscripts
>
> Now run debuild from the sources' dir. You may want to run dch to update
> the revision. You may also need to install some other packages: apt-file
> is your friend. There will be errors towards the end, regarding missing
> gpg keys, but ignore these.
>
> A package will be built outside the sources' dir and you can go from there.
>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>>
>> lina
>
> You are welcome, but it may be worth waiting for someone more
> knowledgeable than I to reply.
>
> - --
> Best Regards,
> Panayiotis Karabassis
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Re: file systems
On Du, 01 mai 11, 02:34:59, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip various super-stuff running xfs] I understand that xfs is great for super-computers[1] and stuff, but how is that relevant to a desktop computer with something like this? $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 9.2G 7.3G 1.5G 84% / tmpfs1006M 4.0K 1006M 1% /lib/init/rw udev 1004M 548K 1004M 1% /dev tmpfs1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs1006M 164K 1006M 1% /tmp /dev/sda7 9.2G 2.7G 6.1G 31% /media/stable /dev/sda2 19G 9.9G 7.6G 57% /home /dev/sda8 104G 79G 26G 76% /home/amp/big (actually one of those partitions is on xfs, but that's not my point) [1] my definition of super-computer is something that I can't afford :) That includes stuff like RAID, considering I'm struggling to find the space for regular backups AND for all the junk. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: file systems
On 4/30/2011 11:48 PM, shawn wilson wrote: i'm interested in not seeing unsubstantiated opinion on a technical mailing list. That 'opinion' is based, in part, on the following facts, many of which are in my previous posts to this list. If you would like, to avoid expressing 'opinion' in the future, I could simply paste the following huge ass text into every email dealing with XFS, instead of using short hand subjective phrases such as 'XFS is the overall best Linux FS'. The following, and additional evidence freely available, demonstrates this 'opinion' to be fact. All four US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) labs: LANL, LLNL, Oak Ridge, and Sandia, as well as NASA Ames and the US Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, have all used, or still use, XFS and/or CXFS on large scale storage, dozens of petabytes of XFS disk total. NASA Ames has been using XFS for 16+ years, and still do, on the 10,240 processor (originally) Columbia super and the archival servers. They're currently running an 800TB CXFS filesystem on SAN storage, and local XFS filesystems on 215TB, 175TB, and 65TB direct fiber attached storage. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Systems/columbia.html http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Resources/Systems/archive_storage.html Professor Steven Hawking's research group has used 4 generations of SGI supercomputers spanning 14 years running cosmology simulations to support Dr. Hawking's theories, each machine, as with all SGI supers, running XFS: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/cosmos/hardware/ Linux Kernel Archives said: "A bit more than a year ago (as of October 2008) kernel.org, in an ever increasing need to squeeze more performance out of its machines, made the leap of migrating the primary mirror machines (mirrors.kernel.org) to XFS. We site a number of reasons including fscking 5.5T of disk is long and painful, we were hitting various cache issues, and we were seeking better performance out of our file system." "After initial tests looked positive we made the jump, and have been quite happy with the results. With an instant increase in performance and throughput, as well as the worst xfs_check we've ever seen taking 10 minutes, we were quite happy. Subsequently we've moved all primary mirroring file-systems to XFS, including www.kernel.org , and mirrors.kernel.org. With an average constant movement of about 400mbps around the world, and with peaks into the 3.1gbps range serving thousands of users simultaneously it's been a file system that has taken the brunt we can throw at it and held up spectacularly." The kernel code running on your system Shawn was originally served from an XFS filesystem. The Debian kernel team gets their upstream tarball from kernel.org as everyone does, served up by XFS. If this fact doesn't carry weight for a Linux user I don't know what would... Very Interesting XFS research paper from a few years ago authored by two of the principal XFS developers: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.114.1918&rep=rep1&type=pdf Independent Linux filesystem tests performed by an IBM engineer to track BTRFS performance during development. XFS trounces the others in most tests: http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_creates_num_threads=1.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_creates_num_threads=16.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_creates_num_threads=128.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_reads._num_threads=1.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_reads._num_threads=16.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_reads._num_threads=128.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_writes._num_threads=1.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_writes._num_threads=16.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_writes._num_threads=128.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_writes_odirect._num_threads=1.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_writes_odirect._num_threads=16.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_random_writes_odirect._num_threads=128.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_sequential_reads._num_threads=1.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_Large_file_sequential_reads._num_threads=16.html http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/
Re: specific kernel configuration for graphic card driver
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On 05/01/2011 09:22 AM, lina wrote:
> Thanks for providing me the links and information.
You are welcome!
> Part 1:
>
> last time I tried that one (install from squeeze one), it popped some
> errors like:
>
>
> $ more /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log
>
> Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.831.2/source ->
> /usr/src/fglrx-8.831.2
>
> DKMS: add Completed.
>
> Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...
>
> Building module:
> cleaning build area
> cd /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/8.831.2/build; sh make.sh --nohints
> --uname_r=2.6.38-mbp8
> 2-nhg --norootcheck.(bad exit status: 1)
> 0
> 0
> [Error] Kernel Module : Failed to build fglrx-8.831.2 with DKMS
> [Error] Kernel Module : Removing fglrx-8.831.2 from DKMS
>
> --
> Deleting module version: 8.831.2
> completely from the DKMS tree.
> --
> Done.
We could research this further. But it's probably not worth it, because,
if your card is new, it will require a recent driver, which is not
available in Squeeze.
> Part 2:
>
> Later my collage told me to build the sid one. I downloaded, but met
> the dependency problems.
>
> the org-video-abi-8
>
> which needed update the xserver-xorg-core. But I met the conflict of
> updating the xserver-xorg-core sepearately, it would remove lots of
> other packages. so I just gave up.
>
> Part 3:
>
> Is it possible to update xserver-xorg-core from stable one to unstable
> one? without something I worry that I can't handle.
Have you tried the driver in Wheezy (testing)? It may have more relaxed
dependencies and still be up to date. But it probably won't.
So let's do this. Try to compile the fglrx package from sid on squeeze.
$ apt-get source ${fglrx-package-name}
$ cd ${fglrx-package-name}
Now edit debian/control and remove build and non-build dependencies as
necessary. Remove or relax the version strings, so it will build and run
on squeeze.
Now you will need the devscripts package and the build-dependencies of
the fglrx package. Install these manually or try (may not work):
$ sudo apt-get build-dep ${fglrx-package-name}
$ sudo aptitude install devscripts
Now run debuild from the sources' dir. You may want to run dch to update
the revision. You may also need to install some other packages: apt-file
is your friend. There will be errors towards the end, regarding missing
gpg keys, but ignore these.
A package will be built outside the sources' dir and you can go from there.
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> lina
You are welcome, but it may be worth waiting for someone more
knowledgeable than I to reply.
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