Re: how is debian filling /dev/
On Ma, 15 ian 13, 08:31:02, Maroš Žilka wrote: > HI, > > I was reading The Linux System Administrator's Guide > [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html] and there is stated that > device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable > instalation /dev/MAKEDEV is just symbolic link to /bin/true and i also > find out that there is package makedev which provides that but it is > not installed, so my question is what is default mechanism for debian > to fill /dev/ and more specifically how are /dev/loop* files created. udev Kind 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: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers
On Lu, 14 ian 13, 22:16:33, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > I think I may have spoken too soon and stuck my foot in my mouth. The > site that claimed Tor wasn't as secure as people thought said that the > message traveling from the sender to the first Tor server was in clear. > The same when the message traveling from the last Tor server to it's > final destination. I think the same problem exists with chained > remailers. Anyone want to correct me? As far as I know (but didn't investigate too much) one should run an own Tor server. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
how is debian filling /dev/
HI, I was reading The Linux System Administrator's Guide [http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html] and there is stated that device files are creatied by /dev/MAKEDEV but in my debian stable instalation /dev/MAKEDEV is just symbolic link to /bin/true and i also find out that there is package makedev which provides that but it is not installed, so my question is what is default mechanism for debian to fill /dev/ and more specifically how are /dev/loop* files created. Thank you :) -- 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/CAGQ+rPGY-OuO5pXcprPYr+wCkwZ=30wpthtmezx4y5ysnup...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:59:10PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:36:15 -0700 > Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:02:16PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > > wrote: > > > > ..snip.. > > > > > >I would like to add directions describing how best to post > > > >anonymously > > > >for end users. I would like US govt regulators to be able to > > > >comment > > > >about the problems and corruption they encounter at their jobs > > > >without > > > >fear of retaliation, but I am not sure how best to set-up a site > > > >which > > > >could provide this service. The hope would be to coordinate a > > > >bright > > > >light on the current regulatory problems to help speed up the > > > >process > > > >of regulatory reform through safe public discourse. > > > > > > > >Have any other site already successfully achieved this result? > > > > > > > >Help and feedback are appreciated. > > > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > > > >Engsafety > > > > > > I think Tor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)) > > > and freenet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet) are some > > > interesting starting points. > > > > Chaining remailers would work for this. More secure than Tor. > > Why is it more secure? I think I may have spoken too soon and stuck my foot in my mouth. The site that claimed Tor wasn't as secure as people thought said that the message traveling from the sender to the first Tor server was in clear. The same when the message traveling from the last Tor server to it's final destination. I think the same problem exists with chained remailers. Anyone want to correct me? -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting free lunch, check the price of the beer. Key ID: 8D549279 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: disk labels mismatch
On 01/14/13 07:18, pavicic wrote: I've added a new disk in a hurry and now I have several mismatches. Would anyone care to help me to sort them out. I'd suggest that you gather usage information for your various partitions/ directories, back up everything, wipe the disks, and start over. I typically put boot and root on one drive (system drive), and put data on another drive (or multiple drives assembled into one using LVM). The faster the system drive, the better. An SSD system drive is best. HTH, David -- 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/50f4d076.2030...@holgerdanske.com
Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:18:41 -0500 Engineering Safety Organization wrote: ... > I looked at the Tor project already and oddly the web site topic came > up in my local gym. The consensus on the Tor project is that it seems > to be a US govt sponsored project to lure and track potential > terrorists on the web. The project looks really suspicious, and there No idea who makes up this consensus, but this is paranoia. Tor is generally considered *the* standard for anonymous, encrypted internet communications, in every serious discussion of the topic that I have encountered. What, exactly about the project "looks really suspicious" to you? > was wide doubt in just our gym about its intentions. I would not feel > comfortable recommending it for http://www.engsafety.org, which is > critical of the failure of US regulators. > > I think there must be a better approach to anonymity. I am sure our > site is not the first to need this type of setup. > > Thanks again for the input. > > Engsafety. Celejar -- 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/20130114190153.23646a80.cele...@gmail.com
Re: Best recommendations for posting anonymously?? Looking for pointers
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:36:15 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:02:16PM +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > ..snip.. > > > >I would like to add directions describing how best to post > > >anonymously > > >for end users. I would like US govt regulators to be able to > > >comment > > >about the problems and corruption they encounter at their jobs > > >without > > >fear of retaliation, but I am not sure how best to set-up a site > > >which > > >could provide this service. The hope would be to coordinate a > > >bright > > >light on the current regulatory problems to help speed up the > > >process > > >of regulatory reform through safe public discourse. > > > > > >Have any other site already successfully achieved this result? > > > > > >Help and feedback are appreciated. > > > > > >Thanks, > > > > > >Engsafety > > > > I think Tor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)) > > and freenet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet) are some > > interesting starting points. > > Chaining remailers would work for this. More secure than Tor. Why is it more secure? > Bob Holtzman Celejar -- 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/20130114185910.96f99825.cele...@gmail.com
Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev
On 01/14/2013 07:23 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:22:27PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 14 ian 13, 22:15:07, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:20:33AM -0500, brian wrote: brian@brian:~$ apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1: Installed: 1.2.0-3 Candidate: 1.2.0-3 Version table: *** 1.2.0-3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status So, this one is already installed, but it has not come from a known repository. It's in sid: $ rmadison libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1 | 1.2.0-3 | sid | ... Thanks. So Brian has had sid in his sources.list, now some problems are crawling out from under the rug because of it. Hopefully, there aren't too many. :) After giving it some thought, and looking in /etc , I now remember that it was suggested to me that I try using the unstable repositories because of a problem with building FPC and Lazarus from the svn versions. When it didn't work, I switched back to testing last April (I just checked the datestamps on the files). Has the update really not made its way into testing in nine months? Anyway, I'll try your other suggestion. Thanks for the assistance. Brian. -- 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/50f49334.6000...@meadows.pair.com
Re (2): File descriptor 9 and VLC.
From: Darac Marjal Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:36:47 + > Simply, it is the ninth file handle that vlc has open. ... > > If you look at vlc's other opened files, you will probably see that they > are a combination of the stdio channels, control pipes (maybe) and > libraries. Thanks for explaining. Now I still need to determine whether the wav file is open for reading and writing or only for reading. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- 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/171057902.55253.47933@heaviside.invalid
Re: Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!
On 14/01/13 13:00, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I might share my experience regarding the FGLRX drivers, as > they are still widely used, possibly also by many on this list. > > [...] > > So, my advise to any Debian user would be: If you want a happy life - > get rid of the proprietary fglrx drivers. > > Thanks, > > Johannes Hi. How is power management working on your graphics card with the Radeon free software drivers? In my case, on an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200, the GPU gets very hot and the cooling fan works all the time making a lot of noise. And I'm not the only one, see [1]. So I'm forced to use fglrx, and it's working great for me (hibernate and suspend works without any issue). 1. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50327 Regards, -- Adrian Fita -- 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/50f47006.6070...@gmail.com
Re: Debian Wiki
On Lu, 14 ian 13, 17:08:30, Dick Thomas wrote: > > I've had bad experiences on the Gentoo wiki with people flaming and > deleting pages > so i wanted to make sure what was acceptable as the Debian wiki is a > little sparse when comapared to others If in doubt you could ask on debian-www, but with a bit more informations. E.g. you could put something on your personal wiki page and ask if it would be acceptable. Kind 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: Debian Wiki
On 14 January 2013 15:47, green wrote: > Dick Thomas wrote at 2013-01-13 23:19 -0600: >> are there any limits on what can be added to the wiki? >> I'm asking as there are so many things on the arch wiki I've "fixed" >> to work on debian >> that I feel I should post somewhere > > That would be great; I suppose that if (1) it is Debian related (like you > said, "fixed to work on Debian") and (2) you can find a place for it on the > wiki, then post it! I've had bad experiences on the Gentoo wiki with people flaming and deleting pages so i wanted to make sure what was acceptable as the Debian wiki is a little sparse when comapared to others -- About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk G+: www.google.com/profiles/xpd259 -- 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/CAGe0=n2smncilf3vf9c0r-qqtyvtkodccqfmwgmr-khzemb...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Operation System installation
Em Seg, 2013-01-14 às 10:08 +, ignacio nanoartista escreveu: > > Hello..I´d downloaded the Debian operation System and I cant install > it. I download the CD image for AMD64...and when im tryin to install > from CD gives and error from reading CD > > Thank you. > Dear Ignacio, From www.troubleshooters.com/linux/#coasterless.htm_TestingCD) To check the integrity of CD I used the application isoinfo: isoinfo -d -i /dev/cdrom and extracted the information lines: Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 76872 To generate an iso image of the cd with the command "dd" dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=2048 count=76872 > CD_debian.iso And finally compared the md5sum of the iso file md5sum CD_debian.iso with the md5sum of the list http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/amd64/iso-cd/MD5SUMS (considering you are installing Squeeze amd64) Greetings, Markos -- 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/1358174905.3762.24.ca...@malgas.petrobras.biz
Re: Debian Wiki
Dick Thomas wrote at 2013-01-13 23:19 -0600: > are there any limits on what can be added to the wiki? > I'm asking as there are so many things on the arch wiki I've "fixed" > to work on debian > that I feel I should post somewhere That would be great; I suppose that if (1) it is Debian related (like you said, "fixed to work on Debian") and (2) you can find a place for it on the wiki, then post it! signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Debian Wiki
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Lu, 14 ian 13, 05:19:15, Dick Thomas wrote:
Hello,
are there any limits on what can be added to the wiki?
I'm asking as there are so many things on the arch wiki I've "fixed"
to work on debian
that I feel I should post somewhere
I'm guessing it should be related to Debian.
Kind regards,
Andrei
I'll flip the OP's question around. Is there a more
appropriate place than http://wiki.debian.org/ certain types
of information of long term interest?
As a personal example, I'm collating information I've
received from this list (and others) that would be useful to
"Linux newbies" and/or those wishing for a small install on
a isolated system without networking. I visualize something
similar some pages on the Tcl/Tk Wiki such as
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1961 {a random page accessed for the
first time this morning}. Key features to note are its
brevity and contributions span a decade and several authors.
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disk labels mismatch
Hi! I've added a new disk in a hurry and now I have several mismatches. Would anyone care to help me to sort them out. Below I'm giving fstab, fdisk -l, df -la (apparently "/" (root) is duplicated ??, etc.). I also enclose relevant sections from /var/log/system and grub. Each section starts with *** The system works without apparent problems but I do not have a clear correspondence between disks sda, sdb. sdc and directories / , /run/, etc. I would like to establish correspondence (and, e.g., have only sda, sdb, and sdc in fstab, and have only one "/") so as to be able to optimally use the space on the disks and avoid possible duplication of system files. For instance, does the appearance of two "/" mean that systems files are written on both sda and sdb? If so, how can sort that out. *** fstab: proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 / was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=2b4e1ed6-4b09-4c42-a958-9493cffa7f58 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation UUID=a3cb2cbb-d6db-46e1-a0e7-73f264d255a1 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation UUID=25c7fb6d-47a4-4594-9cfd-20e9680f5e0b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdc3 /windoze vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdc4 /mutant ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 *** fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000b1cf4 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 2048 78125055 39061504 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 78125056 203124735 62499840 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 203124736 234440703 15657984 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdc: 240.1 GB, 240057409536 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 29185 cylinders, total 468862128 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc4c22279 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdc2 206848 247676927 123735040 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sdc3 247676928 36000 56161536+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sdc4 36001 468862127 54431063+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x49382feb Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 78125055 39061504 83 Linux /dev/sda2 78125056 203192319 62533632 83 Linux /dev/sda3 203192320 234440703 15624192 82 Linux swap / Solaris *** df -la Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 38445384 7493556 28998756 21% / sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys proc 0 0 0 - /proc udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts tmpfs 1645524 896 1644628 1% /run /dev/sda1 38445384 7493556 28998756 21% / tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 6415880 0 6415880 0% /run/shm fusectl 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/fuse/connections /dev/sda2 61550604 4113240 54310684 8% /home /dev/sdc4 53575504 32089000 18764952 64% /mutant rpc_pipefs 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs *** /var/log/system Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.602349] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA OCZ-AGILITY3 2.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.605979] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA KINGSTON SH100S3 320A PQ: 0ANSI: 5 Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.606285] scsi 1:0:1:0: Direct-Access ATA ADATA SSD S599 2 3.4. PQ: 0 ANSI: Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.421387] ata2.00: ATA-8: KINGSTON SH100S3120G, 320ABBF0, max UDMA/133 Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.421392] ata2.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16:LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [2.421400] ata2.01: ATA-8: ADATA SSD S599 256GB, 3.4.6, max UDMA/133 Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.421403] ata2.01: 468862128 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.428910] ata1.00: ATA-9: OCZ-AGILITY3, 2.06, max UDMA/133 Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.428912] ata1.00: 234441648 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.608483] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 234441648 512-byte logical blocks: (120 GB/111 GiB) Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.608486] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte logical blocks: (120 GB/111 GiB) Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.608489] sd 1:0:1:0: [sdc] 468862128 512-byte logical blocks: (240 GB/223 GiB) Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.608544] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jan 14 14:44:46 BlenderMonster kernel: [ 2.608546] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Jan 14 14:44:46 Blend
Re: Ukrainian translation of the page
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:32:00 +0100, Agnessa Petrova wrote: Hi! My name is Agnessa Petrova. I would like to translate your article at http://www.debian.org/intro/about for my blog. So i'm asking for you to give me permission to translate it as well as link back to my future translation, so we can generate some interest to that translation and your work. I would not use it in any commercial way. Thank you anyway! On the bottom of the link you posted is another link to http://www.debian.org/license -> http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ . If there should be the need to ask, I don't know, but I don't think so, you need to ask the copyright holder. This is a mailing list for users, perhaps the copyright holder doesn't follow this mailing list. "Copyright © 1997-2012 SPI and others; See license terms Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc." Hth, Ralf -- FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64 -- 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/op.wqwmnfueuwjkcr@freebsd
Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:22:27PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 14 ian 13, 22:15:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:20:33AM -0500, brian wrote: > > > > > > brian@brian:~$ apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 > > > libgtkglext1: > > > Installed: 1.2.0-3 > > > Candidate: 1.2.0-3 > > > Version table: > > > *** 1.2.0-3 0 > > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > > So, this one is already installed, but it has not come from a known > > repository. > > It's in sid: > > $ rmadison libgtkglext1 > libgtkglext1 | 1.2.0-3 | sid | ... Thanks. So Brian has had sid in his sources.list, now some problems are crawling out from under the rug because of it. Hopefully, there aren't too many. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20130114122343.GA10857@tal
Re: Operation System installation
Le 14.01.2013 11:08, ignacio nanoartista a écrit : Hello..I´d downloaded the Debian operation System and I cant install it. I download the CD image for AMD64...and when im tryin to install from CD gives and error from reading CD Thank you. As others, I can not help without informations. However, I can guess 2-3 things you should check: iso checksum, correct writing on CD, and your computer's architecture (aka: amd64, x86, sparc, whatever). -- 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/f2fe398ec01a1491fd6285fc81e0d...@neutralite.org
Re: Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:27:25PM CET, Ralf Mardorf said: > I can confirm that on Linux 3D support by modern versions of X FLOSS > drivers is very good, especially for ATI cards the proprietary driver > isn't maintained for not really old cards on Linux. > > Even nouveau for NVIDI graphics today is ok in most of the cases. > > I suspect that for gamers proprietary drivers are still important, I > don't know. > For hard real-time audio users it's always good to compare current > proprietary and FLOSS drivers, just to ensure that the driver has the > less negative impact as possible to hard real-time audio abilities. > Usually FLOSS drivers should be a good choice for hard real-time audio > too, but I wouldn't put my shirt on that. Support for new cards may also require proprietary drivers. Eg. for my Lenovo T530, nouveau from wheezy or sid does not work. I was told I had to wait for 3.6 kernel and a recompiled Xorg. So I use nvidia proprietary until I can switch to nouveau (which works better when you've got a laptop with an optional external screen) -- 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/20130114121350.ga11...@rail.eu.org
Re: printer-driver-foo2zjs and udev
Ok, I will try removing the printer and adding it again. Thanks for the advice :-) On 14/01/13 03:31, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Steven Rosenberg > wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:03 PM, José Luis Segura Lucas >> wrote: >>> Hi all. >>> >>> On Debian Testing I'm unable to make working an HP Laserjet 1018 after a >>> big upgrade, after a lot of time without accessing the system. >>> >>> After a lot of tries, I just figured that, if I turn off the udev >>> service when I power on the printer, then I can use the script >>> "hplj1018" to upload the proprietary firmware to it and then, make it >>> working, but in the usual scenario, with all the services started and so >>> on, I'm unable. >>> >>> After a little debug onto the hplj1018 script, I see that, when udev is >>> started, the command "usb_printerid" doesn't return the expected output >>> to the script, and it can't upload the firmware. >>> >>> In addition, I saw that printer-driver-foo2zjs package contains some >>> udev rules. It's likely if the hplj1018 script will be run when the >>> printer is detected at power up, but it doesn't work (or it doesn't work >>> on the expected way). >>> >>> Has anyone experienced the same problem? >>> >>> In addition, I'm testing all that stuff from a remote location, so I >>> don't have access to the printer to power it off and on, so the testing >>> is difficult. Do you know some way to "simulate" the connection and >>> disconnection of the USB device related to the printer? It will be nice >>> to do it without calling by phone. >>> >>> Thaks in advance >>> >> >> >> I'm using a HP LaserJet 1020, which I think is pretty similar, and I'm >> not doing anything special in Wheezy. It just works. > > > Now that I think about it, I did have to "reinstall" the printer after > I upgraded from Squeeze to Wheezy, but once I did that, the printer > worked normally and still does. > > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Make your life happier - uninstall FGLRX drivers!
Hi, I thought I might share my experience regarding the FGLRX drivers, as they are still widely used, possibly also by many on this list. I own a Thinkpad W500 with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 graphics card. When I installed Debian Squeeze on it, I didn't seriously consider not installing the proprietary FGLRX drivers as they were by that time the only drivers providing hardware acceleration. Over the last year I noticed that my laptop would behave strangely in a variety of situations, most notably waking up from Hibernate and Resume would sometimes take unbelievably long, i.e. up to ten minutes or even more. I never managed to identify the culprit. I saw that there was high CPU usage, but I couldn't identify what was causing it. Sometimes, the X process seemed to be the cause. But, hey, I didn't really think that this might have something to do with the drivers. Now, over the last few weeks, things got worse: Occasionally, up to two-three times a day my laptop would suddenly freeze so that I had to hard reset it. (tried to reach it via SSH, but that didn't work either). I never found any entries hinting towards a possible cause in /var/log/syslog, so, no kernel panic or anything to that effect, the system simple froze. Now, when I installed wheezy on a USB disk I noticed that 3D graphics work nicely now without FGLRX, so I installed X from squeeze-backports and removed the FGLRX driverse and since then I am a happy person again: Not only have the freezes gone away, but also the mysterious delays in resuming from hibernate and suspend are gone. My laptop works completely flawlessly, including 3D graphics, and all just because I purged the proprietary drivers. So, my advise to any Debian user would be: If you want a happy life - get rid of the proprietary fglrx drivers. Thanks, Johannes -- 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/kd0ofr$uoq$1...@ger.gmane.org
Re: Operation System installation
On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 10:08 +, ignacio nanoartista wrote: > > Hello..I´d downloaded the Debian operation System and I cant install > it. I download the CD image for AMD64...and when im tryin to install > from CD gives and error from reading CD > > Thank you. Is there a more detailed error message? If so, please quote the output! If not, when exactly reading does fail? Regards, Ralf -- A note, if you don't know how to send plain text only it's ok, but on mailing lists it's common practice and especially wanted on this list, not to write HTML mails, so please, if possible for you, reply in plain text only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1358160326.2458.29.camel@q
Re: Operation System installation
On Lu, 14 ian 13, 10:08:17, ignacio nanoartista wrote: > > Hello..I´d downloaded the Debian operation System and I cant install > it. I download the CD image for AMD64...and when im tryin to install > from CD gives and error from reading CD You should probably go through this FAQ: http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ specifically the questions about verifying the image and writing it to CD. If you still have problems please provide the exact error message and at which stage it appears. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: File descriptor 9 and VLC.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 09:34:25AM -0800, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > While vlc is producing sound from M1357873276.WAV this > is observed. > > peter@dalton:~$ lsof /home/peter/*.WAV > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFFNODE NAME > vlc 10888 peter9u REG8,620470 3612711 > /home/peter/M1357873276.WAV > > man lsof explains, > "The mode character is followed by one of these lock charac- > ters, describing the type of lock applied to the file: > ... > u for a read and write lock of any length;" > > A write lock would prevent another process from writing to > the file while vlc is working. > > Can anyone tell me the meaning of file descriptor 9? Simply, it is the ninth file handle that vlc has open. When a process starts, it is provided with three channels of I/O: stdin (0), stdout (1) and stderr (2). At any point it may open more channels (usually to/from files) and these would start at 3. It may be that the process opens a file (say a configuration file on fd 3), then closes it and opens a different one; in this case the file descriptor can be re-used. I am not sure of this, but I suspect the allocated file-descriptor number is the highest number already opened plus one. If you look at vlc's other opened files, you will probably see that they are a combination of the stdio channels, control pipes (maybe) and libraries. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Operation System installation
Hello..I´d downloaded the Debian operation System and I cant install it. I download the CD image for AMD64...and when im tryin to install from CD gives and error from reading CD Thank you.
Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev
On Lu, 14 ian 13, 22:15:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:20:33AM -0500, brian wrote: > > > > brian@brian:~$ apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 > > libgtkglext1: > > Installed: 1.2.0-3 > > Candidate: 1.2.0-3 > > Version table: > > *** 1.2.0-3 0 > > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > So, this one is already installed, but it has not come from a known > repository. It's in sid: $ rmadison libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1 | 1.2.0-1.1 | squeeze | amd64, armel, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc libgtkglext1 | 1.2.0-2 | wheezy | amd64, armel, armhf, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc libgtkglext1 | 1.2.0-3 | sid | amd64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, s390x, sparc Kind 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: Debian Wiki
On Lu, 14 ian 13, 05:19:15, Dick Thomas wrote: > Hello, > > are there any limits on what can be added to the wiki? > I'm asking as there are so many things on the arch wiki I've "fixed" > to work on debian > that I feel I should post somewhere I'm guessing it should be related to Debian. Kind 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: when new versions will be available at wheezy ?
On Du, 13 ian 13, 21:47:54, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-01-12 14:31 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Anything higher than 100 and one might pull packages from experimental > > without intending to. > > No. Since the default priority is 500, values up to 499 are usually > safe. In fact, any value between 100 and 499 leads to the same result if > no other priorities are changed. I stand corrected. Kind 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: version mismatch between library and the -dev
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:20:33AM -0500, brian wrote: > On 01/14/2013 01:13 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:23:05AM -0500, brian wrote: > >> > >>The following packages have unmet dependencies: > >>libgtkglext1-dev : Depends: libgtkglext1 (= 1.2.0-2) but 1.2.0-3 is > >>to be installed > >>E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > ^ > >What packages have you got on hold? > > > > None that I'm aware of. That message disappears if I try to install > anything else after I run an apt-get -f install Umm, OK. > >>Can anybody tell me how I can get compatible versions of these two files? > > > >Have you a 3rd party repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list file? > > > >I've got this: > >root@tal:~# apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 > >libgtkglext1: > > Installed: (none) > > Candidate: 1.2.0-2 > > Version table: > > 1.2.0-2 0 > > 990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > > > > > > I have three third party repositories - one for Lazarus, one for > VirtualBox, and the unofficial Debian multimedia repository. > > > (spaces removed from the following cut-and-paste to eliminate linewraps) > > > brian@brian:~$ apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 > libgtkglext1: > Installed: 1.2.0-3 > Candidate: 1.2.0-3 > Version table: > *** 1.2.0-3 0 > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status So, this one is already installed, but it has not come from a known repository. > 1.2.0-2 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages So this is the one you want. I'd purge the current libgtkglext1 (1.2.0-3): root@tal:~# dpkg --purge libgtkglext1 Then I'd: root@tal:~# apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 again just to make sure the candidate version is 1.2.0-2 Then if so: root@tal:~# apt-get install libgtkglext1 else, I'd want to see your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file. Let us know how it goes. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- 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/20130114091507.GA8828@tal
Re: version mismatch between library and the -dev
On 01/14/2013 01:13 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:23:05AM -0500, brian wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgtkglext1-dev : Depends: libgtkglext1 (= 1.2.0-2) but 1.2.0-3 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ^ What packages have you got on hold? None that I'm aware of. That message disappears if I try to install anything else after I run an apt-get -f install Can anybody tell me how I can get compatible versions of these two files? Have you a 3rd party repository in your /etc/apt/sources.list file? I've got this: root@tal:~# apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.2.0-2 Version table: 1.2.0-2 0 990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages I have three third party repositories - one for Lazarus, one for VirtualBox, and the unofficial Debian multimedia repository. (spaces removed from the following cut-and-paste to eliminate linewraps) brian@brian:~$ apt-cache policy libgtkglext1 libgtkglext1: Installed: 1.2.0-3 Candidate: 1.2.0-3 Version table: *** 1.2.0-3 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.2.0-2 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages Brian. -- 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/50f3bfd1.6010...@meadows.pair.com
