amdgpu gpus support on debian 9

[aprekates]

How can i find what video cards are supported by package

xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu (1.2.0-1)  in Debian Stretch?

(i'm interested in RX470,RX570)

The debian info is the same for all versions:


https://packages.debian.org/stretch/xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu

'This package provides the 'amdgpu' driver for the AMD Radeon cards. The 
following chip families should be supported: Bonaire, Hawaii, Kaveri, 
Kabini Mullins, Iceland, Tonga, Carrizo, Fiji, Stoney.'


Alexandros

Re: Does anyone know where chkconfig went?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 10 May 2019 11:28:41 am Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> This was an rcx.d thing that adjusted what ran in what run-level.
>
> I need to shut off all the nut stuff. Because this rt kernal didn't
> bring usbhid-ups to the party, needed to talk to my ups, my logs are
> being spammed by non-connection msgs. Several a minute. Maybe its been
> renamed between wheezy and stretch?  IDK.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Update, trying to install a homemade amanda system had some how changed 
all the ownerships and perms to the /etc/nut directory, to 
amandabackup:nut. Fixing that got rid of most of the launching errors. 
Then I ran an lsusb and didn't see it. Moving the cable to a different 
usb socket on the breakouts fixed that. Restarted all the nut related 
stuff and now a upsc myups works but spits out this advisory at the top 
of the report, that I'm hoping maybe someone has a clue about:
root@coyote:init.d$ upsc myups
Init SSL without certificate database
battery.charge: 100 yadda yadda from the ups.

Anybody have a clue about the init warning??

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page 

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

[An Liu]

Hi, experts

I want to summary the cases I tested here to this topic, FYI.
Brian mentioned the installation could be finished in case 1 , but i'm
still with no luck.
| Index | Case   | Result
  |
| 1 | GRUB + netinst iso | Can start debian installer but can't
  |
|   | + loopback boot| continue due to no driver for CDROM,
  |
|   || and i can't find a way to tell/
mount the  |
|   || iso
   |
|   ||
   |
| 2 | GRUB + /hd-media/initrd.gz | Can finish install process with
the auto
 |
|   | + netinst iso  | detected iso on USB/hd
  |
|   ||
   |
| 3 | GRUB + livecd iso  | Could boot into live debian with
  |
|   | + loopback boot| boot=live
fromiso=/dev/sdX/path/to/the/iso |
|   || I can't figure out how to boot
manually within |
|   || busy box, in this case one could
finish|
|   || install process in LiveOS
   |
|   ||
   |
| 4 | GRUB + livecd iso  | almost same as case 1 , can't go
through   |
|   | + loopback boot to d-i |
   |

Here is another wierd one for you

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

Stretch install from a LCNC respin with a preempt-rt kernel. amd64.

Since I can't get your (amanda-usrs list version) to install, and it 
locks out using synatic until I find another root shell and "dpkg -r 
amanda-server"

But it left me with the /etc/nut subdir being owned by amandabackup:nut, 
disabling nut so I can't talk to my ups. 

The only way that could have been fouled is trying to install 
amandabackup-server.  I can probably fix it, but this is rapidly getting 
to the point of to hell with it.

But I need a backup running, so I just installed the repos version 3.3.9, 
and am in the process of making it work with my helper scripts.

But they've changed the usrname to "backup" so obviously I've at least a 
megabyte of ownerships to change. Change just to be changing things is 
NOT PROGRESS! 

So as root I go to /
and
chown -R backup:disk /amandatapes
then as amanda:
brought to you by Amanda 3.3.9)
amanda@coyote:~/amanda$ /usr/sbin/amcheck Daily
Amanda Tape Server Host Check
-
Holding disk /usr/dumps: 1533084 MB disk space available, using 1532584 
MB
slot ?: Can't make directory '/amandatapes/Dailys/drive0': Permission 
denied
ERROR: Can't make directory '/amandatapes/Dailys/drive0': Permission 
denied
NOTE: conf info dir /usr/local/var/amanda/Daily/curinfo does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run.
NOTE: index dir /usr/local/var/amanda/Daily/index does not exist
NOTE: it will be created on the next run.
Server check took 0.265 seconds

Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check

WARNING: coyote: selfcheck request failed: Connection refused
Client check: 5 hosts checked in 10.011 seconds.  1 problem found.

(brought to you by Amanda 3.3.9)

What is this "drive0" BS?  Its not in any of _my_ configs. But it is in 
Daily/chg-disk and thats a new content file to me. And the 3.3.9 install 
seems to have overwritten mine from 3.3.7p1  And no man page. Screw it, 
I've beat my head on the wall since about 8 this morning. The original 
3.5.1 from zmanda's svn ran just fine for the last 2ish years.



Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page 

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 23:35, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Dunno how much sense can be found here, as dosfslabel doesn't do it, but
> this gives the appearance of doing it for me:

Thanks.

> (Never had a winderz box in 30 years in IT, or the 11 years since.)

Me either but I have cameras etc. that insist on vfat...

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.3 on Debian buster/sid

Re: Old problem for hardware compatibility: Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 Camera

[Miguel A . Díaz D .]

Exactly. Currently I use Debian 9. I have not found a single way to put
work my camera since Debian 7.

El dom., 12 may. 2019 a las 11:48, Cindy Sue Causey (<
butterflyby...@gmail.com>) escribió:

> On 5/12/19, Georgi Naplatanov  wrote:
> > On 5/12/19 2:13 AM, Miguel A. Díaz D. wrote:
> >> Dear Debian team,
> >>
> >> I would like to know if it is possible put to work the camera of an
> >> old Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 laptop. I have seen this issue in old posts
> >> for Ubuntu but a real solution is not reached. There is no way to solve
> >> this? I have read that driver was only available for Microsoft Windows
> >> Vista OS.
> >
> > Did you try this
> >
> > https://ubuntuforums.org.
>
>
> The impression I got from the original post was that the Linux user
> was looking for a *Debian* alternative solution... not being
> redirected back to "ubuntu"... particularly since the request for
> insight was posted here on the... *Debian*-User listserv. :)
>
> Cindy :)
> --
> Cindy-Sue Causey
> Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
>
> * runs with.. a fresh, very Happy USER-FRIENDLY Debian debootstrap *
>
>

Re: No sound

[David Wright]

On Sun 12 May 2019 at 13:08:33 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote:

> Inxi is telling that the sound card, Device-1, is Intel 82801I HD Audio, and 
> the driver: snd_hda_intel.

This raises the question of what device 0 is, and whether the sound
is being routed there.

As a non-DE non-pulse user, I would run alsamixer, press F6 and
select the device 1. Then work my way along the bars, raising
levels with the arrows and unmuting with the M key.

As some applications have their own volume controls that may or
may not work, speaker-test is a useful command for a source.

Cheers,
David.

Re: Old problem for hardware compatibility: Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 Camera

[Cindy Sue Causey]

On 5/12/19, Georgi Naplatanov  wrote:
> On 5/12/19 2:13 AM, Miguel A. Díaz D. wrote:
>> Dear Debian team,
>>
>> I would like to know if it is possible put to work the camera of an
>> old Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 laptop. I have seen this issue in old posts
>> for Ubuntu but a real solution is not reached. There is no way to solve
>> this? I have read that driver was only available for Microsoft Windows
>> Vista OS.
>
> Did you try this
>
> https://ubuntuforums.org.


The impression I got from the original post was that the Linux user
was looking for a *Debian* alternative solution... not being
redirected back to "ubuntu"... particularly since the request for
insight was posted here on the... *Debian*-User listserv. :)

Cindy :)
-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with.. a fresh, very Happy USER-FRIENDLY Debian debootstrap *

Re: No sound

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Hans (2019-05-12 17:12:13)
> Got in the same problem half a year ago. Some program was blocking the 
> sounddevice.
> 
> I remeber, there was a command. which shows, which application is just 
> accessing the sound device (dev/snd). Maybe someone knows the command 
> and can help here. I forgot the exact syntax.
> 
> In my case it was the application "timidity", which I just 
> deinstalled. Got no problems after it.

Perhaps this:

  lsof /dev/snd


 - Jonas

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Re: No sound

[Hans]

Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2019, 13:59:50 CEST schrieb arne:
Got in the same problem half a year ago. Some program was blocking the 
sounddevice. 

I remeber, there was a command. which shows, which application is just 
accessing the sound device (dev/snd). Maybe someone knows the command and can 
help here. I forgot the exact syntax.

In my case it was the application "timidity", which I just deinstalled. Got no 
problems after it.

Hope this helps.

Best regards

Hans



> On Sun, 12 May 2019 13:08:33 +0200 (CEST)
> 
> "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote:
> > I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a
> > *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form,
> > but nothing from the loudspeaker.
> 
> Could you run
> 
> alsa-info
> 
> and choose:
> 
> Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org?
> 
> and post the result from:
> 
> Your ALSA information is located at:
> http://alsa-project.org/db/?f
> 
> on this list?



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Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

[Erik Christiansen]

On 12.05.19 13:45, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems?  Most of the
> >> devices I mount using pmount are sd cards (cameras etc.).
> >
> > Pmount is just a wrapper around the standard mount program, and that
> > will try to guess the fs type if not specified in the invocation - as
> > above. That manages ext2 and ext3 without assistance, but ... Ah, yes,
> > with a vfat stick it gives:
> 
> Sorry, I should have been more explicit.  I use pmount all the
> time.  Works fine.  What I was looking for was an equivalent of e2label
> for vfat, if that even makes any sense.

Dunno how much sense can be found here, as dosfslabel doesn't do it, but
this gives the appearance of doing it for me:

$ blkid | awk --field-separator '"' '/sdb1/ { print $2 }'
4DAB-09E3

from blkid's line:

/dev/sdb1: UUID="4DAB-09E3" TYPE="vfat"

As it replicates the automounter's behaviour, and that uses the label
for ext[23] sticks, I'm happy to take that UUID as the label, since I
have nothing else to go on. (Never had a winderz box in 30 years in IT,
or the 11 years since.)

Erik

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote:

[...]

> mounts vfat OK, but the "label" argument, now third, is ignored despite
> being compliant with the manpage. So it falls back to mounting on
> /media/sdb1 in a most wilful manner:

And I probably should have read your post more carefully before
replying.  Even if there is an equivalent to e2label for vfat, it
wouldn't be of much use from what you say here.

No worries!

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.3 on Debian buster/sid

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems?  Most of the
>> devices I mount using pmount are sd cards (cameras etc.).
>
> Pmount is just a wrapper around the standard mount program, and that
> will try to guess the fs type if not specified in the invocation - as
> above. That manages ext2 and ext3 without assistance, but ... Ah, yes,
> with a vfat stick it gives:

Sorry, I should have been more explicit.  I use pmount all the
time.  Works fine.  What I was looking for was an equivalent of e2label
for vfat, if that even makes any sense.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.3 on Debian buster/sid

Re: No sound

[arne]

On Sun, 12 May 2019 13:08:33 +0200 (CEST)
"70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote:

> I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a 
> *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form,
> but nothing from the loudspeaker.
>   

Could you run 

alsa-info 

and choose:

Automatically upload ALSA information to www.alsa-project.org?

and post the result from:

Your ALSA information is located at:
http://alsa-project.org/db/?f

on this list?

No sound

[70147pers...@telia.com]

I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a 
*.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but 
nothing from the loudspeaker.
  
Likely, this is a very basic error, but I have not found the solution yet.
  
In an effort to fix the error I upgraded my Debian Stretch into Debian 
Testing (ver. 10), but this did not solve the issue. I am running Mate 
on a laptop, HP Pavilion dv4-1199eo, which in excess of this issue is 
working very fine, despite its age.
  
Another try was according to an article 
"https://alsa.opensrc.org/Jack_and_Loopback_device_as_Alsa-to-Jack_bridge";,
 and by means of the program mate-volume-control I can see it has been
 installed correctly. I find the real card, HDA Intel, as well as the 
imaginary Loopback unit with the later as the default one, all according
 to the settings in /home/xxx/.asoundrc. But this measure did not get my
 sound back neither.
  
Inxi is telling that the sound card, Device-1, is Intel 82801I HD Audio, and 
the driver: snd_hda_intel.
  
Another indication that something fundamental is lacking is that the 
computer has a touch switch, so I can switch on or off the loudspeaker. 
The state is indicated with a red light (off) or a blue one (on), but 
now this light is not shining at all.
  
Finally, I made a test run into MS Windows to check, and from there I 
got sound as expected, so we can assume the hardware, the card and the 
loudspeaker, is functioning correctly. Also the button light was working as 
expected.
  
Hope someone has a hint of what is lacking.
  
Kaj
  

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

[Brian]

On Sat 11 May 2019 at 16:21:41 -0400, An Liu wrote:

> > Try booting the mini.iso with GRUB's loopback. You might have a pleasant
> > surprise!
> >
> Yes, boot with GRUB's loopback, I can start debian-installer, impressive!

I used the i-386 stretch mini.iso successfully.

> But it still failed at detect media step. As we can't mount loop devices in 
> busy
> box,  if we could extract the contents in this ISO to some place we
> could read (
> e.g  USB with fat format),  can we continue this installer ?

That's a different issue. The kernel, initrd and the udebs in the
archive have to match what is in the ISO. Something somewhere needs
updating.

-- 
Brian.

Re: Old problem for hardware compatibility: Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 Camera

[Georgi Naplatanov]

On 5/12/19 2:13 AM, Miguel A. Díaz D. wrote:
> Dear Debian team,
> 
> I would like to know if it is possible put to work the camera of an
> old Thinkpad Lenovo SL400 laptop. I have seen this issue in old posts
> for Ubuntu but a real solution is not reached. There is no way to solve
> this? I have read that driver was only available for Microsoft Windows
> Vista OS.

Did you try this

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1056511

Kind regards
Georgi

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

[Erik Christiansen]

On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Saturday,  4 May 2019 at 16:43, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> >  To provide that convenient automation, I use:
> >
> >  $ which lmount
> >  lmount is a function
> >  lmount () 
> >  { 
> >  pmount $1 `e2label $1`
> >  }
> 
> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems?  Most of the
> devices I mount using pmount are sd cards (cameras etc.).

Pmount is just a wrapper around the standard mount program, and that
will try to guess the fs type if not specified in the invocation - as
above. That manages ext2 and ext3 without assistance, but ... Ah, yes,
with a vfat stick it gives:

$ lmount /dev/sdb1
e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

And "tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1" says the same. Quite what the automounter
does to overcome that, I haven't yet figured out. A quick rewrite of
the tiny wrapper wrapper does improve matters somewhat:

lmount () { # Mount a USB stick at 
/media/read_stick_label
   if [ mp=`e2label $1` ] ; then# if e2label can grok the label.
  pmount $1 $mp
   else # When that fails, TRY TO
  pmount -t vfat $1 vfat# use fs type as mountpoint, for now.
   fi
}

mounts vfat OK, but the "label" argument, now third, is ignored despite
being compliant with the manpage. So it falls back to mounting on
/media/sdb1 in a most wilful manner:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,quiet,utf8,errors=remount-ro)

Either I'm not holding my mouth right, or that looks like a bug.

> Thanks.

We're not home yet.

Erik

Re: intermittent or not? "Could not resolve 'deb.debian.org'"

[deloptes]

john doe wrote:

> How do you know/insure that they are identical and is one of the card
> working properly?
> If no, focus on one card first then clone it! :)
> 
> 
> Look in '/etc/resolf.conf'.

and given that resolv.conf could be static or dynamic, I would look here.