how to backup and restore /var partition.
I want to reinstall Debian on a machine which is also running my local web server. I am planning on backing up /home, /var and /etc. When I want to restore these on the newly installed system, how exactly do I do the restore with /var? Do I just copy the earlier /var to the new one? During and right after installation, I am sure /var/log/syslog is being build up. What is the recommended way to restore /var in this situation? Regarding apache, I suppose I just copy the /var/log/apache to the new system before starting apache? Any further tips are much appreciated. Regards. -- 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/i1de9s$cm...@dough.gmane.org
Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format
Just saw your message by chance. I read this list only on gmane. Replying to ML now. On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Barclay dan...@fgm.com wrote: Doesn't the scanning software at least set the digitization time to the time at which you scanned the photos in? Yes, it does. But that is of no use to me since it doesn't reflect the time of the photo taken. -- 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/aanlktimwwuhhzhpupgovups12hwcfafv4mkj1bbbp...@mail.gmail.com
Re: what does easycam2 really do? and gspca vs uvcvideo
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, thveillon.debian thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: H.S. a écrit : Hello, I came across some websites related to webcam detection and working on Linux systems which describe a tool called easycam2. Here are the main ones: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EasyCam http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Easycam2 http://blognux.free.fr/ I do not understand the French and German web pages. Debian does not seem to have this package. Easycam2 appears to make detection and working of webcams a breeze. Apparently it detects what webcam is connected and installs the relevant driver. Is this correct? Anyone have experience with this? And anybody know what is relationship between gspca and uvcvideo modules? Finally, is easycam2 just a gui way of replacing module-assistant in these webcam cases? Thanks. Hi, I read the French blog from the main author, looks to me it's a script trying to detect which chipset the camera is using, and then installing the right driver. But for uvcvideo it's broken, since uvc shifted from svn to mercurial and the compilation method changed accordingly. uvcvideo is in the kernel starting with 2.6.26, gspca in 2.6.27 and above, and all are available through module-assistant, so the script is just to save the user the hassle of running a search with the usb ID, and installing the driver. From the author blog I could understand that several drivers aren't included in easycam, some are but installation process is broken, and the author doesn't have much time to look into this (he is preparing a challenging exam, French concours, we are very fond of those...). Finally it's intended for Ubuntu users, I didn't look into the code, the main author says it's written in python and Glade provides the GUI. So to answer your question, it seems to be more than a gui way to replace m-a, the webcam detection module seems to be the important point in easycam, on top of which is the collection of driver installation routines. Hope it helps. Yes, it is much more than I could understand from the main web pages. I knew the steps it asked you to follow, but did not know what was going on under the hood. A friends is asking me if he should try this out. I wanted to see how it worked in Debian first. I did not find the package in Debian so that naturally raised a flag. I actually wanted to see what it did so that I can help my friend undo whatever it does on his Ubuntu machine if it does not work out for him. Thanks for your comments.
Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst
This solved the problem: 1. Booted in to my Debian system. 2. Did # grub-install /dev/sda13 where /dev/sda13 is the other distro's partition(in my case it is Fedora Core 9) which has /boot . 3. Rebooted and selected Fedora's kernel and it worked okay. Regards On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:38 AM, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just installed Fedora Core 9 alongside Debian. During the installation I did not update grub and chose not to install grub since I wanted to retain my Debian grub configuration. I have done this before. I just change Debian's grub to put in the relevant stanzas for my FC kernel (was FC8 till today). Here is my relevant stanza now in my Debian's grub's menu.lst: title Fedora 9, kernel 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 root (hd0,12) kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 rhgb quiet vga=792 selinux=0 initrd/boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img savedefault FC9's / partition is /dev/sda13 and its home is /dev/sda14 (swap is /dev/sda12). Its /etc/fstab is: UUID=3cfc63bf-9e84-49a3-90ad-3fa623141200 / ext3defaults 1 1 UUID=4d049c49-6b8a-4cc6-9e42-87c1526094ad /home ext3 defaults1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfsdefaults0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults 0 0 UUID=f6df95d2-3f58-41f7-b906-a0f01c61f401 swap swap defaults 0 0 If I select FC9's kernel, it reports something about bad file descriptor and doesn't boot. The contents of /dev/sda13/boot are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86348 2008-05-01 06:34 config-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root4096 2008-10-12 20:01 efi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 2008-04-07 13:32 grub -rw--- 1 root root 2700907 2008-10-12 20:07 initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 892575 2008-05-01 06:34 System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2088288 2008-05-01 06:34 vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 BTW, this is the first time I seeing executable permissions in vmlinux. Any idea what I need to fix? This system worked with fc8. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to put another distro's stanza in menu.lst
Mumia W.. wrote: s. That allows me two advantages: I can use chain-loading for the secondary OS's, and each Linux OS has perfect boot stanzas in their respective /boot/grub/menu.lst files. Good idea. I recommend installing Grub under FC9, but install it to the superblock of /dev/sda13--NOT the MBR. You should then have a perfect boot stanza written to Fedora's menu.lst. I did 'grub-install /dev/sda13' in Fedora (Fedora has only two partitions, / is /dev/sda13 and /home is /dev/sda14). As you say, I do not want to touch the mbr of sda. The above command created some files in /boot in FC9: # ls /boot config-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 config-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 efi System.map-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 grub System.map-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 Before this command, there was nothing much there, only efi and grub (which had the splash image). Now, if understand this right, with that rootnoverify stuff in Debian grub, that entry will lead me to FC9's grub, correct? In that case, I still don't have the grub.conf in FC9's grub. How do I go about getting that? grub-install seemed not to work in that regard. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Communication between VMed Debian and Windows
Hi, Could you please keep the conversation on debian list. You will be able to get more help that way. I am sending this reply to the list to continue the thread there. Also, it is just by chance that I am taking a peek at my list emails. I usually never do, I use gmane instead to read this list as a newsgroup. On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Neo Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have VMware tools installed and daemon run, but still don't find shared folder in /mnt/hgfs. I type modprobe vmhgfs and the response is FATAL: Model vmhgfs not found. Or maybe it has something to do with vmxnet driver?
Re: Communication between VMed Debian and Windows
Hi, (sending to list and cc'ing to you) On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Neo Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'd like to use Linux utilities so I choose #2. How do I get the shared folders with Samba? Google is your friend. I searched for 'how to seup samba in Debian windows' and one of the top links was: http://www.ctunion.com/node/53 There are other tons of sites which explain this should you need more details. You can always ask this list if you still have doubts. Good luck and regards.
Re: how to block 'rogue' attemps from China
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fail2ban? hmm ... looks interesting. What about the cpu usage? My router is an old Debian machine, intel 450 MHz and 375 MB RAM.
Re: Re: digital pictures: reordering and renaming (in a different way)
On 10/30/07, Herb Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, to bother you, but on a forum you wrote that you can rearrange images in XP via Drag and Drop. What program within XP are you using? This is precisely what I have been looking for. I just used Windows explorer to do so. Assume you want a bunch of images to be rearranged and renamed GreatVacation(101).jpg (the first image is 101, next 102 and so on). Based on memory, here are the steps I followed: 1. Open of the folder containing the pictures and arrange all your pics by dragging and dropping them in the order you want. 2. Select the images that you want renamed sequentially. 3. Select the Rename option by right clicking on the *first image*. 4. The name of the file will become editable. Enter the name of you want and the number you want the first file to be. In our example, we would type: GreatVacation (101).jpg Note the space before the first parenthesis. The space and parenthesis, both are necessary. 5. Press Enter. The files will be renamed. If you make a mistake, I think you can just click Undo from the menu at the top of the window and repeat the process. Now, what number to use in the parenthesis depends on the number of pictures you have. If you just used (1) instead, the pictures will start from 1, go on to 10 and and then to 100 so on. But they won't be listed in the proper order later on due to the number of digits varying after 9, after 99 and so on. Using (101), or (1001) or (10001) just fixes the width of the numbers. In any case, you are stuck with the space and the parenthesis in the filename, neither of which I like in a filename. I fix that in Linux using a little Bash script I wrote. If you want that, let me know and I will paste it here. regards, -HS
Locales broken after Xorg upgrade
[Please Cc: replies to me, I'm not subscribed to this list.] After the latest Xorg upgrade (unstable), my locale settings don't work anymore. Currently I'm using en_US.UTF-8, and it was working perfectly with the last version of the Xorg packages. After the latest update, I get this message every time I run rxvt: urxvt: the locale is not supported by Xlib, working without locale support. This is not only a problem with rxvt; Opera complains: qstring_to_xtp result code -2 This is very frustrating, as non-English keyboard input doesn't work anymore in rxvt (I have XKB configured to toggle between English/Russian/Greek). The characters still display properly, though, so it seems the locale settings are fine. Any clues as to what might be wrong? T -- People tell me that I'm paranoid, but they're just out to get me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crashed: Booting not complete.
Due to UPS problem (as it looks), Debain loaded PC crashed. It's booting process is not completeing.It starts and complaint as: Starting Munin-node: Could not open log file /var/log/munin/munin-node.log Checking for crashed MySQL tables in the background. Starting openGroupware.org server instance:/etc/rc2.d/S20 opengroupware.org: line 59: 2242 segmantation fault, and then it hangs, not proceeding further. Please help me to recover it. How to skip applications causing trouble, booting in a minimum way, and then how to make it functional. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crashed: Booting not complete.
Due to UPS problem (as it looks), Debain loaded PC crashed. It's booting process is not completeing.It starts and complaint as: Starting Munin-node: Could not open log file /var/log/munin/munin-node.log Checking for crashed MySQL tables in the background. Starting openGroupware.org server instance:/etc/rc2.d/S20 opengroupware.org: line 59: 2242 segmantation fault, and then it hangs, not proceeding further. Please help me to recover it. How to skip applications causing trouble, booting in a minimum way, and then how to make it functional. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cyrillic input in Xorg?
Hi all, I've a (probably dumb) question: how do I configure XKB so that I can switch between Latin and Cyrillic keyboard layouts? I tried: setxkbmap us,ru -option grp:lwin_toggle and I'm able to get it to switch between the US keyboard and the Russian keyboard, but when I'm in Russian mode, the Cyrillic letters don't come out. Here's the xev trace: KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc1, root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1436078615, (95,66), root:(662,337), state 0x2000, keycode 38 (keysym 0x6c6, Cyrillic_ef), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False KeyRelease event, serial 24, synthetic NO, window 0xc1, root 0x44, subw 0x0, time 1436078763, (95,66), root:(662,337), state 0x2000, keycode 38 (keysym 0x6c6, Cyrillic_ef), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: So obviously something is working because I'm getting the Cyrillic symbols, but for some reason XLookupString returns nothing. What's missing here? I'm running rxvt-unicode under a UTF-8 environment (I tried xterm and uxterm as well, but get the same problem), and my generated locales are: ru_RU.KOI8-R KOI8-R ru_RU UTF-8 en_US.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 en_US UTF-8 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply directly to me as I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks! T -- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
error on keyboard layout change
When it tried to change keyboard laout to enter data in davanagri (Hindi), it reults in error: Error changing keyboard layout to in(basic) I trie dit in KDE under debian. How to set things right? -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NetworkCard of IBMthinkCentre
I installed Debian3.1 on IBM Think Centre using CD. It has BroadCom's NetXtreme fast ethernet card. The driver is present. But it is not loaded automatically. On issuing command: # /sbin/modprobe tg3 It says cannot find proper PCI device base address, aborting. /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/driver/driver/drivers/net/tg3.o: init_module: No such device. Is there problem with irq or base address. How to set them? In M$win card works fine. In Debian, card's light glows. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Going back to stable
What is the way to go back to stable version, if mess has been created using apt-get for unstable and experimental vesrsion? -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setup ODBC data source
Friday at 10:07am -0400 Andrew Schulman wrote: I have file /etc/odbc.ini which has at its end: Name: MSSQLServer Description: TDS MSSQL (description isn't important) Servername: 192.168.8.88 UID: sa PWD: Port: 1433 That's strange, it's a different syntax from mine. My odbc.ini looks like: [SDW-LatestQuarter] Driver = TDS Description = SDWA data whse, LatestQuarter database Servername = SDW Database= LatestQuarter Actually, that file was blank. I followed instruction from article: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6636 and added text as reproduced above. But, after making changes as suggested by yourself, still problem is unresolved. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setup ODBC data source
I am trying to connect MSSQL from debian system. The reference which I was following, used Redhat's ODBCConfig. As that is not available on Debian, so I could not succeed there. Which is the equivalent to ODBCConfig in Deabin? I have file /etc/odbc.ini which has at its end: Name: MSSQLServer Description: TDS MSSQL (description isn't important) Servername: 192.168.8.88 UID: sa PWD: Port: 1433 and file /etc/odbcinst.ini which has at its end: [TDS] Description = FreeTDS ODBC Driver Driver = /usr/lib/libtdsodbc.so Setup: /usr/lib/libtdsS.so FileUsage = 1 File /usr/local/etc/freetds.conf has at its end: [TDS] host = 192.168.8.88 port = 1433 tds version = 7.0 On isse of command: isql -v MSSQLServer sa passwd I get [IM002][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect However, I am able to execute: debian:~# /usr/local/bin/tsql -S 192.168.8.88:1433 -U sa locale is en_IN locale charset is UTF-8 Password: 1 quit debian:~# Can you suggest me some tool or file, which I need to edit, and what to type there, or any pointer for that. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sid: Nvidia kernel 1.0.8756-2
Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 04/11/2006 03:07 PM,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid, today's upgrade to nvidia-kernel 1.0.8756-2 has not gone well. Glad that I can fall back on the nv driver and at least have a working system, if not hardware accelerated. The error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log is no compatible displays found. My GeForce FX Go5600 doesn't show up on the list of incompatible cards, however. Is anyone else having this problem? Curt- I guess this might be related. I tried to upgrade a Debian Inspiron 5160 running 2.6.16 yesterday and saw xorg 7.0 had arrived. However, I cannot upgrade to it since nvidia-glx 1.0.8756 probably is causing some problem. Using dist-upgrade option, I see that it needs to be uninstalled. I do not have the laptop near me now and cannot give exact details. I will try to see how it goes later tonight. -HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh and X forwarding
Today at 7:37am - Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: The sshd_config file (probably under /etc/ssh/sshd_config or somewhere similar) has AllowX11Forwarding no Change that to yes and restart sshd It did not solve my problem. I made changes and restarted ssh (There is no sshd). The part of file now is as: = # Site-wide defaults for various options # Host * # ForwardAgent no ForwardX11 yes # ForwardX11Trusted yes # RhostsRSAAuthentication no What went wrong? -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ssh and X forwarding
Today at 2:54pm +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: Change /etc/ssh/sshd_config, not /etc/ssh/ssh_config. Thankyou Sir, It was my mistake :-( I got things working. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssh and X forwarding
On stable Debian installed PC, it appers that X is not allowed with ssh. As on issuing command: ssh -X ip.number1 gnome-terminal it open a window, but issuing any command of graphic program, says: Gtk-Warning **: cannot open display Same command for other PC (ip.number2 having RedHat9) opens the gnome-terminal without problem. How I can allow ip.number1 to forward X? -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C++ does not support long long: QCAD
I was trying to compile QCAD, but got following error that ISO C++ does not support `long long`. What will be way to compile it on Debian system? --- In file included from /usr/include/qt3/qobjectdefs.h:42, from /usr/include/qt3/qobject.h:42, from actions/rs_actioninterface.h:31, from actions/rs_actioninterface.cpp:28: /usr/include/qt3/qglobal.h:712: error: ISO C++ does not support `long long' /usr/include/qt3/qglobal.h:713: error: ISO C++ does not support `long long' make[2]: *** [obj/rs_actioninterface.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [lib/libqcad.a] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 With kind regards, -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: C++ does not support long long: QCAD
Today at 11:28am +0100 Joerg Beyer wrote: What version of g++ are you using? g++ (GCC) 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-10) snip #include iostream using namespace std; int main(int, char **) { long long i=42L; snip It compiles your test program absolutely fine. Thanks for your response. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing fonts
Apparently, _L.V.Gandhi_, on 03/06/2006 10:42 AM,typed: On 3/5/06, H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: You put the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win98 for all users if you have root access or put it in ~/.fonts and then do dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig. Doesn't dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig also need root access to run? yes. Right ... just wanted to verify. For a per user basis, here is what I do at my school where I have installed fonts in my ~/.fonts directory: 1. Copy the ttf fonts in ~/.fonts 2. run fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts and I can then see the fonts. For system wide fonts, I guess you put all the fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts/ and tell the X system that this directory contains the fonts and then run fc-cache -fv. How to tell the system where to look for fonts? I suggest one should search google (I am not sure, and don't want to guess). GL, -HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse not working on IBM ThinkCentre
Yesterday at 11:01pm -0800 Clark Bang wrote: What type of mouse are you using IBM ps/2 and how did you setup the mouse in X? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Have you tried the mouse configuration setup command mouseconfig? This is not there in Debian. I guess it is for RedHat. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mouse not working on IBM ThinkCentre
There remain always some problem with Kernel 2.6.8-2-386. With this it used to be very slow. So, I was using this PC to my satisfaction with Kernel 2.4.27-2-386. Unforunately, I updated and upgraded every thing (including unstable, Contrib etc). With this mouse stop working in X under Kernel 2.4, so now I have to work with Kernel 2.6. But, in this system hangs, and some time unplugging and plugging mouse and keyboard solve the problem. Can I remove this problem. Since It is known that 2.6 is not working properly with IBM ThinkCentre, so I am willing to use 2.4. How I can make mouse working. I tried varous options while reconfiguring X, but fail to achieve desired results. With all configuration file same, jist changing Kernel, can it make devices not to work? If that is that case, what are the options which I can try. Or, what is the way to uninstall all unstable packages, and to have only stable packages? Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to use makefile to work with psnup
Hi, I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. I have L??N.pdf files in a directory and wish to produce a corresponding 4-up PDF for each file named L??N-4up.pdf. I have a shell script which converts all L??N.pdf files to 4up PDF files: # #!/bin/bash if (( $# != 1 )); then echo Usage: $0 pdf file exit -1 fi #get the base name of the file bn=`basename $1 .pdf` #use acroread to get the PS of the file. acroread gives smaller PS #files than pdf2ps! acroread -toPostScript $1 #now convert the PS file to 4up and then to the final PDF version psnup -m0.5cm -l -Pletter -pletter -4 ${bn}.ps | ps2pdf - ${bn}-4up.pdf #delete the intermediate ps file rm -f ${bn}.ps ### This works great, but using a makefile would be even better, won't need to run the script on all PDF in a directory if only a few are revised. Here is my dismal attempt at making a makefile: # SRC=$(wildcard L??N.pdf) OBJS=$(patsubst %N.pdf,%N-4up.pdf,$(wildcard L??N.pdf)) #reset recognized suffixes .SUFFIXES: N.pdf N-4up.pdf #%N-4up.pdf: %N.pdf # echo 'making # #@' %N-4up.pdf: %N.pdf echo making $@ from $? 4ups: *N-4up.pdf # Any help in making this makefile is greatly apprecaited. Thanks, -HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Cygwin - Debian]: rysnc hangs when backing up multiple /cygdrive/* dirs
On 12/5/05, Ryan Nowakowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you could eliminate variables from the equation to see if this isa cygwin problem or a debian problem.Some suggestions:1. What if you initiate rsync from the cygwin host?Does it still hang? 2. What if you rsync from the cygwin host to itself? (This wouldremove debian from the picture)- Ryan I don't know why, but it is working now. I exluded the .lnk files andbackedup the d drive folder separately first. Then I included otherdirectories to be backed up. Now I am backing up only '/cygdrive/d/user1 /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings' and it seems to be working great.But I agree with you over the points you mentioned. I guess I will try them anyway.Thanks,-HS
lower case character when caps lock is on
I am facing a strange problem. On console, when CAPS lock is on C and E are appearing on screen as lower case, while all appear as expected. When I open terminal under X, it behave properly. What can be reason. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Restarting gdm on same :0
Due to network failure sometime, the user lost exported desktop. At the moment to give then desktop, I restart gdm. It solve the problem of remote user, but at server, it say X is running alraedy on :0, and with user's consent it open on :1 How I can force it to open it on :0 Is there any better way than what I do, to restart X service. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is pl2303 driver there?
I read on Internet that new Kernel has pl2303 driver ( USB to Serial Driver ). I am using Debian with Kernel 3.1 I want to check wether this driver is there or not. What is the way to check it? If, it is not there, from where I could find (suitable for debian setup) it, and how one will install it? Any information about it and pointer to useful link ( or detailed help, if possible ) will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
popPort:NOKIA 3120
Can we make Nokia 3120 mobile to communicate with Debian based PC. I installed GAMMU/WAMMU, but I could not make it functional using its popPort Anyone who has used it or knows how to make it through. This is the only thing, which is compelling me use M$ windows. Any help will be appreciated greatly. Thanks in advance. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today
On 9/12/05, Jason Clinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 September 2005 8:15 pm, Joseph H. Fry wrote: I can't install it... Everything is there except sound-juicer (= 2.10.1) which gnome-desktop-environment depends upon.Is this a bug? Has anyone managed a way around this?Or is it me? I have the same problem. It looks like tomorrow's update doesn't have asolution either. You can check to see what's going in tomorrow here:http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/accepted.html Neither can I. gnomeo-desktop-environment depends upon sound-juicer 2.10.1. And such a sound-juicer doesn't exist in Debian Testing at present. -HS
Re: kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?
Apparently, _Rogério Brito_, on 10/09/05 03:21,typed: On Sep 09 2005, H. S. wrote: Only a few days ago, I couldn't install kdebase but kde-core seemed to be okay. I guess that was since not all applications had been upgraded to 3.4.2. Seems like good progress. Well, I don't use KDE (lack of computer resources for such a heavy desktop environment), but given the above comment, the availability of GCC 4 in testing and X.org in sarge, all that I can say is that it seems that Debian is, at least from my point of view, working more smoothly than it did in the past. This is, obviously, just my impression on how the release seems to go. Kudos to all the Debian maintainers working so well as of late. I agree. As I said, KDE was broken for quite a while but but was being fixed. All seems to have been completed in the last few days. During all these major changes in the last few weeks, I have upgraded my Testing machine quite a few times and it has gone very well, actually without problems. Given that the Testing machine is my work machine and all upgrades went smoothly, it has increased my trust in Debain way of things. Great job! -HS Cheers, Rogério Brito. P.S.: I see that we will soon have a newer tetex in Debian (already in experimental, soon to be uploaded to unstable) and also a new TeX distribution, TeX Live. It is a good time to work with Free Software now. -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde 3.4.2 avialabe, any problems?
I see that KDE 3.4.2 is and now available; I can now install kde or kdebase or kde-core without any problems to dselect. Before I dive into it, I just wanted to if anyone has tried this and has had any problems? Only a few days ago, I couldn't install kdebase but kde-core seemed to be okay. I guess that was since not all applications had been upgraded to 3.4.2. Seems like good progress. thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: geda, ngspice and exporting figures for Latex
Hi, I posted first to sci.electronics.design, but it seems to be quite noisy. So trying my luck here. I am currently experimenting with geda and ngspice to simulate basic circuits (for a Circuits Analysis course) and I am only starting to learn how to draw and simulate circuits. I drew a basic circuit in geda and exported it as netlist and got: ### $ gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb sch_1.sch -o sch_1.net ... (followed by lots of output) ... $ cat sch_1.net * gnetlist -v -g spice-sdb -o sch_1.net sch_1.sch * * Spice file generated by gnetlist * * spice-sdb version 10.9.2004 by SDB -- * * provides advanced spice netlisting capability.* * Documentation at http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/SPICE/ * * V1 2 3 10V R2 1 3 50K R1 2 1 100K .END ### I was wondering: 1. How can I specify within geda which nodes I want monitored during a simulation? Or do I specify them on ngspice command line, or in the output .net file? I am guessing that I can run a dc simulation and then plot various parameters? 2. How do I export the schematic so that I can include it in a LaTeX file (as PS file perhaps)? I tried exporting it as PNG but I get the whole big 'sheet' with my tiny circuit in the middle. 2b. How do I change the size of the 'sheet' or paper so that it is just big enough to accomodate my little circuits? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: #debian
Apparently, _Josh Battles_, on 09/09/05 15:51,typed: Granted these people are volunteers, but they're the ones who are volunteering their time to help others. If they would rather spend that time flaming and telling others to RTFM, then perhaps they need to re-evaluate their stance on volunteering their time. hmm .. interesting. This makes sense. But I think the best way is somewhere in the middle. So obviously there should be no need to flame(within this context of volunteer-novice situation), but to make the novice who is asking the question aware that he needs to do some homework, perhaps only mentioning this would be better while giving some hints to help him. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
quanta and bluefish project files sharing
Hi, I have been using quanta for the last week to see how it performs. It looks quite impressing and so far it is going pretty well (though I haven't looked at all it's features). One little quirk I have noticed is that quanta doesn't auto indent .php files (or I am missing something). I am going to try bluefish next. I was wondering, is there anyway I can import the web project files of quanta into bluefish? And second, any opinions on comparison of these two HTML editors? BTW, almost all of my website's files are php files. Running on Debian Testing, 2.6.11 kernel, and: ii bluefish 1.0-1advanced Gtk+ HTML editor ii kde 44 the K Desktop Environment official modules ii quanta3.3.2-6 web development environment for KDE thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?
Apparently, _David Christensen_, on 24/08/05 00:56,typed: debian users: I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that my reply went to the message author and not to the list. It is my understanding that the Hi, Have you tried reading the lists through Gname (gmane.org)? They let you subscribe to their newsgroups which mirror quite a huge number of lists. You can read any of the lists as groups and reply to them (you can reply to messages only in the groups whose corresponding mailing list you are subscribed to). I have never gone back to reading emails of the list since I discovered gmane. I have never used Outlook, but I would assume it can read newsgroups and has Reply to Newsgroup feature. If it doesn't, then I would seriously consider some other email/newsgroup readers. my $0.02. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN
Apparently, _Jiann-Ming Su_, on 24/08/05 12:04,typed: You may want to take a look at http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ as well. Right, I will. Thanks. Mount the NTFS partition and back it up when you back up the linux /home partition? As I said, the laptop is not always on so most of the backups will be skipped. To avoid that, I am looking for a script to call on the laptop. A user can just call that script and a backup will be done on the backup server (my Testing box). And by mount NTFS you mean use samba(afterall, the laptop is a remote machine)? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making backup using rsync in home LAN
Apparently, _Jiann-Ming Su_, on 24/08/05 13:15,typed: On 8/24/05, H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I said, the laptop is not always on so most of the backups will be skipped. To avoid that, I am looking for a script to call on the laptop. A user can just call that script and a backup will be done on the backup server (my Testing box). How do you run the backup script when it boots into Linux? My Debian Testing box is always on. A cron job calls the backup script periodically. And by mount NTFS you mean use samba(afterall, the laptop is a remote machine)? $ mount /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/xp type ntfs (ro) /etc/fstab: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/xp ntfsro 0 0 It mounts as a read-only filesystem when Linux boots. In your script to back up your Linux partition, add the NTFS partition as well. I misunderstood you the first time. I see what you mean now. Just a little clarification: my rsync server is my Debian Testing on a P4 desktop. Backups works perfectly on this machine. I am trying to implement a method with which the Testing desktop would backup certain directories on a laptop on my home LAN running Windows XP (and the save the backups on the Testing desktop). -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making backup using rsync in home LAN
Hi, I backup my data on my home machine using a rsync script (http://www.tux.org/~tbr/rsync/rsynchowto.html website was extremely helpful). The machine runs Debian Testing, 2.6.11 kernel. My OS is on /dev/hda and backups are done on /dev/hdb. My wife uses a laptop which has Debian Unstable and Windows XP on it. To back up here data from Debian /home partition is not difficult. I was wondering if anybody could suggest how to backup the laptop data from it's Windows (NTFS) paritition. It would probably entail installing Samba. Then there would probably be a rsync client on Windows on the laptop. Then the periodicity of the backups would need to be sorted out since the laptop is not always on and not always on my home network -- which probably means a cron job may not be enough and a little scrilpt may be needed on the laptop. It's backups are to reside on /dev/hdb on my Testing computer. Can anyone share his/her experiences regarding this? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mozilla security: hangs after clicking on binary file
Hi, Due to the various sshd dictionary (apparent) attacks I have been observing in my syslog, I tried a little seach on what script or worm or bot is doing this and discovered this site: http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/sshnotes.txt When I click on sshf on this url: http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/ssh_kits/ssh/ , mozilla seems to hang. I waited for a few seconds and then killed mozilla and used wget to download the ssf file. The file seems to be: $ file sshf sshf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, statically linked, not stripped Just being paranoid, but why would mozilla hang on when I click on sshf link on the above URL? Or is it just waiting to do something? The CPU load monitor shows high load. Hopefully I haven't shot myself in the boot :) -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla security: hangs after clicking on binary file
Apparently, _H. S._, on 22/08/05 18:39,typed: Hi, Due to the various sshd dictionary (apparent) attacks I have been observing in my syslog, I tried a little seach on what script or worm or bot is doing this and discovered this site: http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/sshnotes.txt When I click on sshf on this url: http://dev.gentoo.org/~krispykringle/ssh_kits/ssh/ , mozilla seems to hang. I waited for a few seconds and then killed mozilla and used wget to download the ssf file. The file seems to be: $ file sshf sshf: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.0.0, statically linked, not stripped Just being paranoid, but why would mozilla hang on when I click on sshf link on the above URL? Or is it just waiting to do something? The CPU load monitor shows high load. Hopefully I haven't shot myself in the boot :) -HS Apologies for the incomplete info and for hasty email: 1. Given a few more seconds, the binary is actually loaded in the Mozilla window. It is not actually running --- so I was just being paranoid. 2. Running Mozilla 1.7.8-1sarge1 on Testing, 2.6.11 kernel. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using sudo to install/remove packages
Apparently, _Vincent Lefevre_, on 20/08/05 09:35,typed: On 2005-08-19 21:50:41 -0400, H. S. wrote: Yes, except that it doesn't need to take care of anything: it is run as root, so any command it will start will also run as root. Ah! Thanks a ton. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-listbugs fails to find listed bugs
Since for the past quite a few days, when I upgrade my Testing based machine running 2.6.11, apt-listbugs cannot find any bugs. If any bugs are reported during the upgrade process and I choose to view the bug by typing the bug number, the ncurses based interface tries to connect over the internet but shows the message that the bug report was not found. Is this just me or is something wrong with the tool and others are also experiencing this? ~# dpkg -l apt-listbugs Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++--==-== ii apt-listbugs 0.0.49 Lists critical bugs before each apt installation thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using sudo to install/remove packages
I am beginning to discover sudo for package management on my Testing machine. Here is what I just set up using visudo: #users that can install remove programs User_Alias ADMINS = me Cmnd_Alias ADMINCOMMANDS = /usr/bin/apt-get ADMINS ALL=ADMINCOMMANDS This will do the job of installing/removing packages with apt-get, right? I guess it will also take care of any command that apt-get calls and that needs root permissions. thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ethtool and mii-tool cannot read eth0 NIC
Hi, A P4 running Debian unstable and 2.6.12-1-686 has a Davicom nic: :02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31) It used to use tulip driver but IIRC in 2.6.12 kernel dmfe driver is necessary to make it work. The problem is that ethtool and mii-tool do not seem to talk to the nic: ~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: No data available ~# mii-tool eth0 SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported ~# How do I making these commands work, if at all possible? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ethtool and mii-tool cannot read eth0 NIC
Apparently, _Henrique de Moraes Holschuh_, on 19/08/05 23:18,typed: On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, H. S. wrote: How do I making these commands work, if at all possible? You write the relevant kernel code to support them for the dmfe driver :-( And if I were able to do that, I wouldn't be asking the question in the first place, now would I? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
font size in xine's file browser dialog
Hi, Anybody know how to change the fonts in Xine's file browser's dialogbox? Currently, on my Testing machine running xine-ui 0.99.3-1, the fonts are too small (screen resolution of 1792x1344). Perhaps I just need the right option to set in .Xdefaults(?) thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgraded from FC2 -- FC3 successfully
Hi, This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs. Before I started the process, I by chance noted that my FC2 installation has some packages installed twice. I got a list by using the following command (found on google): rpm -q --qf %{NAME}\n -a | sort | uniq -cd Then I proceeded to remove the older version of each of the packages that were installed twice. Other than that, I didn't need to do anything else. Then I inserted FC3 CD1 and rebooted and chose the upgrade option. Everything went well, except that it took around 2 hours or so (P 4 1.9 GHz, 256MB RAM). This is actually slowerd, because I guess FC3 can be installed in around 50 minutes time (if not too much time is taken for package selection). After this, I rename my yum.conf to yum.conf.fc3 in /etc and yum.conf.rpmnew to yum.conf to get the FC3 based yum.conf file. I also made similar changes in /etc/sysconfig/rhn for sources file. This was I prepared the yum tool and up2date tool to look at FC3 sites for an update. I then upgraded the installation. It all went well, though it took quite a long while. Also, since due to the sheer number of packages to upgrade, I upgraded in steps. I upgraded by choosing groups of packages in decreasing or order of system importance: libraries and compilers first, browsers and applications second, office application third and so on. One thing to note, for those who use apt (and synaptic), the sources.list file was not upgraded (did not get a new one with rpmnew extension). I had to change that file to make it see FC3 mirrors. But once I upgraded apt and synaptic, they upgraded the /etc/apt directory too and the older files were saved with rpmsave extension. After the upgrade, I got an error while starting synaptic (something to do with libstc5++ or something like this). To resolve this, I had to install compat-libstdc++. I then found out this packages was actually needed by many other packages as well. Finally, I added the Freshrpms file in /etc/yum.repos.d and also dag repositories and updated the installation again. The new thing in FC3 seems to be the /etc/yum.repos.d directory in which each file can be each repository file. Also, I have made files in this directory which list mirrors near me and in fedora*.repo files I am calling these mirror files. -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgraded from FC2 -- FC3 successfully
Wrong newsgroup selected in Mozilla reader :( Please ignore this message. Terribly sorry for posting this off topic here. It was unintentional. -HS H. S. wrote: Hi, This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs. Before I started the process, I by chance noted that my FC2 installation has some packages installed twice. I got a list by using the following command (found on google): rpm -q --qf %{NAME}\n -a | sort | uniq -cd Then I proceeded to remove the older version of each of the packages that were installed twice. Other than that, I didn't need to do anything else. Then I inserted FC3 CD1 and rebooted and chose the upgrade option. Everything went well, except that it took around 2 hours or so (P 4 1.9 GHz, 256MB RAM). This is actually slowerd, because I guess FC3 can be installed in around 50 minutes time (if not too much time is taken for package selection). After this, I rename my yum.conf to yum.conf.fc3 in /etc and yum.conf.rpmnew to yum.conf to get the FC3 based yum.conf file. I also made similar changes in /etc/sysconfig/rhn for sources file. This was I prepared the yum tool and up2date tool to look at FC3 sites for an update. I then upgraded the installation. It all went well, though it took quite a long while. Also, since due to the sheer number of packages to upgrade, I upgraded in steps. I upgraded by choosing groups of packages in decreasing or order of system importance: libraries and compilers first, browsers and applications second, office application third and so on. One thing to note, for those who use apt (and synaptic), the sources.list file was not upgraded (did not get a new one with rpmnew extension). I had to change that file to make it see FC3 mirrors. But once I upgraded apt and synaptic, they upgraded the /etc/apt directory too and the older files were saved with rpmsave extension. After the upgrade, I got an error while starting synaptic (something to do with libstc5++ or something like this). To resolve this, I had to install compat-libstdc++. I then found out this packages was actually needed by many other packages as well. Finally, I added the Freshrpms file in /etc/yum.repos.d and also dag repositories and updated the installation again. The new thing in FC3 seems to be the /etc/yum.repos.d directory in which each file can be each repository file. Also, I have made files in this directory which list mirrors near me and in fedora*.repo files I am calling these mirror files. -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgraded from FC2 -- FC3 successfully
John Fleming wrote: Sure sounds like a lot of work compared with apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade. Actually it is. Apt-get in Debian is waaay much easier and more convenient than either the upgrading Fedora from CDs or through yum. -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev and kernel 2.6.12
Apparently, _Žáček Kryštof_, on 09/08/05 02:31,typed: Strange thing. If I type # apt-cache policy udev then I see that the current version of udev is 0.065-1. Do you have your /etc/apt/sources.list set correctly to unstable? Furthermore, there is apparently something wrong with your locale settings. Try installing localeconf to properly generate locales # apt-get install localeconf # reboot Instead of rebooting, why not do dpkg-reconfigure locales? And perhaps then relogin. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how do I change language in Gnome
Hi, I am running testing on a PIV and 2.6.11 kernel. In KDE, I can change my desktop lanuage using the Region Settings in Kontrol center and it works properly. Howerever, I haven't been able to change my desktop lanuage in Gnome. Any suggestions on how to go about it? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
different network speeds in two directions
Hi, In my home network, I have a Testing based router that has eth1 connected to my ADSL modem and eth0 connected to my LAN switch. The router computer is a Pentium III (Katmai), 449.02MHz with 159.360 MB RAM total. All my home machines are connection to the switch. One of my home machines is Pentium 4, 2GHz with 254MB RAM, running Debian Sid and 2.6.11 kernel. Let us call it C-0. Another machine is Pentium 4, 1.9GHz with 254MB running Testing and 2.6.11 kernel. Let us call it C-1. Both machines have 10/100 Mbps NICs. The problem is that when I transfer file (via sftp) from either machine to the other, I get different speeds in each direction: files sent: C-0 - C-1: around 5 MBps. files send: C-1 - C-0: around 8.5 MBps. Anybody know why is this? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PAM using php
Friday at 11:12am -0400 [KS] wrote: Did you try: $ apt-get install php4-auth-pam Oh! Thankyou KS. My stupidness! To make it working I need to make shadow file readable to all. Is there any better way than that. Thank you very much. -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PAM using php
Yesterday at 8:46pm -0700 Vinu Balaji wrote: I tried to use pam_auth http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~ccunning/pam_auth/ on Debian with PHP 4.3.10-15, ./configure gave following error: checking for pam_appl.h... checking for pam_start in -lpam... no configure: error: could not find pam_start in pam How I can remove this error. libpam-smbpass is intalled on my system, but I could not find an example which may ahow how to use it. Any pointer will be excellent for me ;-) -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev - easy setup ?
Apparently, _Nate Bargmann_, on 05/08/05 08:03,typed: * Jules Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Aug 05 01:15 -0500]: The message I half-finished writing and accidentally sent, the one that mentions Apple developer documents. I discovered that the only interesting parts of Apple's stuff is extracted from the official USB docs. I sent another message like it but with real information. Okay, thanks. I've been watching this thread with interest. So far I've not tried udev and I'm wondering if it's worth it. I think it's worth it, but I use only a small fraction of its capabilities. When I first installed it, I didn't do any sort of configuration. I didn't see any difference in how my system worked, until I looked in /dev where the dozens (hundreds?) of device nodes I don't use were gone. Well, that should restore some inodes back to the system at the very least. I've since created a few rules which while handy and pretty are nothing to get excited about. The OP wants to do the kind of thing for which udev is designed. I use keys like SYSFS{vendor} and these don't meet Uwe's requirements. However, I don't understand enough about USB or kernel internals to do more than take an insufficiently educated guess about how to proceed. So what I understand is that udev is a great framework, but it hasn't been sufficiently implemented in user space to be plug and play? Perhaps the desktop projects are working on utilizing it. I don't like comparing Debian and Windows, but here is an experience from yesterday. I have an IBM T42 at work without a 3.5 floppy drive, of course. Since more of these things are showing up, we decided it might be wise to get a USB floppy. We got it yesterday, new in the box. I plugged it into the T42 which runs XP, of course, and the OS picked it right up, assigned it as drive A, and I went right to formatting a disk in it and copying a file. Didn't even need the driver CD. I realize that Debian provides a base and that works like KNOPPIX and Ubuntu are building on Debian to provide a more user centric distribution. But, this USB stuff is so basic that it should just work. If Windows isn't confused and can distinguish between a USB floppy and assign it as A and then I can install my Lexar Jump Drive and it can figure out that it's different and assign it as E and then I can attach my portable CD/DVD RW drive and assign it as F, we in the Linux community should be able to do that as well with minimal hassle. On the other hand, I just yanked the Jump Drive while a file manager had it open and that has apparently caused a major problem. I have error boxes popping open and diagnostic information coming up, so in that regard, I know that Linux is much more robust. You are not supposed to yant it like that, neither in Windows not in Linux. In Windows, you Safely Remove a USB device and in Linux you umount that device prior to removing. Right now I have some custom Hotplug scripts for my Jump Drive and my camera. They are a kludge, but they get the job done. I tried reading about Udev rules and was able to make devices for my digital camera and my USB card reader (this was a few months ago when auto-detection wasn't working so well in Unstable). I ended up with rules something like: IF DETECTED: my digicam: THEN MAKE DEV /dev/my-digicam And I had a mount point in /media called say canon which mounted /dev/my-digicam. I could mount this by clicking on canon icon in Computer folder of Gnome desktop. At that time, this was the closes I could get to ease of use for Windows (I was setting up my wife's laptop with all this, and wanted it to be as seamless as it was in Windows for her). Having described all this, I now realize that if you are using gnome and you have udev, hal and gnome-volume-manager, you don't need to do all this stuff. If I plug in a 256MB USB stick, I get an icon on my desktop with an appropriate name, all automatically. When I umount it (right clicking on the icon on desktop), the icon dissappears and the device is unmounted, again all automatically. I asked my wife to try this. She found it no different than in Windows in terms of ease of use. And regarding digital cameras, they are also auto-detected using digikam or gtkam with libgphoto2. So in the end, I know that udev rule making is tedious, but it works. But I am also not sure how to make general rules for USB sticks separate from floppies -- but I can't say I have looked much. In any case, at least in Gnome, one does't really need to make any rules anymore. And I guess the upcoming KDE will also have this auto-detect-auto-mount-auto-unmount feature. my $0.02. -HS - Nate -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev - easy setup ?
Apparently, _Nate Bargmann_, on 05/08/05 13:15,typed: * H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Aug 05 10:54 -0500]: You are not supposed to yant it like that, neither in Windows not in Linux. In Windows, you Safely Remove a USB device and in Linux you umount that device prior to removing. :) But, what did I do that an average computer user doesn't do? There was no prompt telling me to safely remove it, so I yanked it. Actually, I received this computer as part of a training course and I'm trying to drop my expertise level so I can see what happens and learn from there. True, this may not be obvious at first to an average user. I also agree that most Windows users do not safely remove the USB device by right clicking on the devic's icon in the system tray (lower right corner of the scree) and choosing Remove device safely. Most just yank it out (not recommended at all). Most are lucky because I guess the way those devices are mounted is that data transfer is done right away on any operation (instead of flushing data at some suitable time later). So chances are you will be okay most of the times, but you can loose data if you are unlucky. Now, I believe an Windows average user does not read documentation that comes either with the OS or with the USB device. This ignorance is quite pronounced in Windows world where reading documentation by an average user is more or less unheard of ;) In Linux it is of course different. I can estimate that almost all Linux users with at least a few months's experience realize they they should read at least some kind of documentation. So this unmounting of devices prior to their disconnection is sort of an alien concept in Windows world (for average user) and quite familiar with Linux users. In Linux, I guess the default options of mounting USB device are to flush data with each write or read so data transfer is not deferred till later (at least I set it up like that when I made rules for USB disks or CF cards). So yanking out should work just as well as it should in Windows (or better). However, the proper method is to umount the device first and then remove it (or Remove device safely in Windows). SNIP unmounted, again all automatically. I asked my wife to try this. She found it no different than in Windows in terms of ease of use. And regarding digital cameras, they are also auto-detected using digikam or gtkam with libgphoto2. Good! I'm glad to see things are coming along. I don't regularly use either of the DEs and just use IceWM, so I haven't seen this progression first hand. Hmm ... If something like this comes along in IceWM, it would be really great. I have an old computer setup as a router in my home. I am running IceWM on it and have to manually mount stuff like this the odd times I have needed to. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to make dselect forgot what it wants to remove
Hi, If I do an update using dselect and it reports that n packages will be installed and nnn will be removed, and I abort dselect (thinking to do it later hoping newer packages will resolve the issue), I notice that the next time if I start dselect it still remembers which packages it wanted to uninstall earlier(assuming newer updates haven't affected that). And if I do nothing, just choose to removing pending packages, it removes all of these (which, I guess, is expected). How do I tell dselect to forgot what it wanted to do in the previous update session and start anew the next time? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to stop X, to get a text mode console (new to Debian, need help)
Apparently, _Kent West_, on 02/08/05 11:40,typed: startx or /etc/init.d/gdm start or /etc/init.d/kdm start Just a related question. Should startx be run as root(it will a desktop for root)? Aren't the second or third options you mentioned the proper way? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Sarge with 2.6.8 V.S. Canon Powershot A520
Apparently, _Dan R. Hunt_, on 31/07/05 17:34,typed: I am running Sarge with a 2.6.8-2-k7 Kernel and I want to view/copy the pictures on my new Canon Powershot A520 in via the USB cable and gthumb or similar GUI. I need advice, how do I get 'this camera' working? I have been removing the media card and putting the card into a media reader card reader on a USB port, but the convenience of plugging in the camera is what I'm looking for. I have found Libgphoto 2-2.1.6 from http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php has support for my camera. But the versions available via apt-get from debian.org http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=Libgphotosearchon=allsubword=1version=allrelease=all do not include my precious Canon Powershot A520 Backports.org http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/libgphoto2/binary-i386/ has backports for woody. I expanded the file I found http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8874release_id=337127 into a /home/me/ directory and ran the install script, but that did not work. Gthumb uses the other also installed version of Libgphoto. I have this working quite satisfactorily in my Sarge Testing running 2.6.11-1-686. What I do is just connect the camera to the USB port of the computer and then run gtkam from the Applications-Graphics menu in Gnome and it automatically detects the camera and lists the directories in it. Note that unlike other relatively older cameras, it does not recognize it as A520 but only USB PTP Class Camera; I am sure this will be corrected in future versions of gtkam or libgphoto2. anyhow, even without the actual name appearing on the detected camera, the gtkam is fully functional. This is in gnome, if you want I can test it out in KDE as well though I believe it will work in KDE (with kamera?) too. -HS PS: Packages I have in Sarge Testing: $ dpkg -l gthumb gtkam gnome-desktop-env* udev hal gnome-volume* *gphoto* | grep ^i ii gthumb 2.6.3-1.1 an image viewer and browser for GNOME2 ii gtkam 0.1.12-2.1 GTK+ application for digital still cameras ii gnome-desktop- 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment ii udev 0.056-3/dev/ management daemon ii hal0.4.8-1Hardware Abstraction Layer ii gnome-volume-m 1.2.1-1GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage media ii gphoto22.1.5-1The gphoto2 digital camera command-line clie ii libgphoto2-2 2.1.6-1gphoto2 digital camera library ii libgphoto2-por 2.1.6-1gphoto2 digital camera port library -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad cookies in ayttm and MSN connection
Hi, I am using Ayttm(0.4.6+26-1) on Debian Testing. For quite a few weeks, I am not able to connect to my MSN hotmail account. Trying to do so gives the error: Could not connect to MSN HTTPS server (bad cookies) However, people tell me they can connect via Gaim. Just wondering if anybody knows what is going on here. thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xscreensaver preferences menu entry gone in Gnome
Hi, Since a few days I have noticed that there no Xscreensaver entry in Applications-Desktop Preferences-Advanced menu of Gnome. This menu entry used to bring up the preferences dialog of xscreensaver which can be obtained from a command prompt by: $ xscreensaver-command -prefs Any idea what has changed? Running Debian Testing on a PIV, and: $ uname -r 2.6.11-1-686 $ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l gnome-desk* xscreen* gnome*panel* | grep ^ii ii gnome-desktop-data 2.8.3-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps ii gnome-desktop-environmen 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment ii xscreensaver 4.21-5 Automatic screensaver for X ii xscreensaver-gl 4.21-5 GL(Mesa) screen hacks for xscreensaver ii gnome-panel 2.8.3-1 launcher and docking facility for GNOME 2 ii gnome-panel-data 2.8.3-1 common files for GNOME 2 panel thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB Pen / Thumb / Keyring Drive
Apparently, _Graham Smith_, on 25/07/05 11:42,typed: Hi, I was just given a small USB pen drive and would like to get it working with Debian. I am sure you are probable thinking Oh god not another n00b that can't mount a drive but thankfully you would be wrong. I don't have any problems mounting the device but it feels very clunky compared to Windows where you just stick the drive in and hey presto it's there ready to be used. What I would like it something that will just automagically mount the drive. I have installed the usbmount package (which I presume is the same as usb-mount) but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's created /media/cdrom and /media/usb directories but that is it - it doesn't mount the drive when I plug it in. I am running KDE on Debian unstable and certain sites seem to indicate that one can get KDE to create an icon on the desktop when a usb drive is plugged in. Basically I'm interested to know what are my options are? Many thanks, Graham In KDE, as another poster replied, you need hal, udev, pmount and to write a rule for udev and make a mount point for a device for your USB stick. I have done this in KDE and created a device icon on the desktop. If I plugin the USB stick and click on the USB icon, it mounts the stick automatically and you can also unmount it prior to removing the stick. I believe KDE 3.4 is going to offer the feature of doing this transparently for the user as is currently being done in Gnome using gnome-volume-manager. I usually use Gnome and get the USB stick icon on the desktop as soon as I plug it in and have to unmount it before safely unplugging the stick -- same as in Windows (in which you have to Safely remove the USB device before unplugging it -- at least in XP). -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burner
Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 20:18,typed: I am looking for a simple straight forward CD Burner. Any suggestions? Rajiv best for me, YMMV, in order of preference: (in terms of features) 1) cdrecord package commands 2) k3b 3) gnome nautilus cd burner (in terms of use for simple data writing): 1) nautilus cd burner 2) k3b 3) cdrecord package commands -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burner
Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 21:00,typed: Tried couple of them. The funny thing is that K3b and natilus recognize my Sony Burner but would not burn to the CD. I am not sure if this matters for this problem, but are you in cdrom group? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burner
Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 21:29,typed: no. Right. Add yourself to the cdrom group, relogin and try burning again. -HS PS: For various things to work for me, I am in the following groups(in addition to my own(user's)): cdrom floppy audio src video staff plugdev camera -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burner
Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 22:12,typed: Tried that but didn't work. This is what I did to k3b: marked to the cdrom group. after this ... er .. pardon my probably reduntant question, but, just to be thorough, did you relogin (and confirmed you belong to cdrom group using the groups command)? -HS added the file to be burnt to projects then tried burning it. I get the message: K3b did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to create an image. -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD Burner
Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 22:33,typed: relogin from where? I am not getting the question. sorry. You are probably using either Gnome or KDE. First, logout from your current session. Then login again. The relogin is needed to make you belong to the cdrom group. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian-Installer (testing) doesn't even boot...
Apparently, _H.A.J. Koster_, on 07/19/2005 02:15 PM,typed: Hi, Tried to install testing (Etch) with debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso dated 13 July 2005, but after the boot: prompt I get the message Could not find kernel image: /install/2.6/linux. I looked on the CD, Same thing happened with me too. Solution was to boot using install24 mode of installation. We did that assuming we will upgrade later on after we have a minimal system ready. But to our pleasant surprise, during the install process there was an option to choose either 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. So it all worked out fine as we ended up with 2.6 kernel anyway :) -HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.11 and udev
Apparently, _Jules Dubois_, on 15/07/05 14:37,typed: You can downgrade to udev 0.056-3, and put udev 0.062-4 on hold for the present. That is exactly what I did. thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.
I am trying to fully convert to Xorg in a Sid machine in my home network. The problem is something to do with nvidia-glx, which upon trying to be installed complains: ~# apt-get -s install nvidia-glx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-glx: Depends: xlibmesa-glu but it is not going to be installed or libglu but it is not installable or libglu1 E: Broken packages So I have some queries regarding this whole process of shifting to Xorg. What does the above error really mean, since to install xlibmesa-glu requires me to remove gdm and other stuff: ~# apt-get -s install xlibmesa-glu Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: gdm gdm-themes gksu gnome-netstatus-applet libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0 libglu1-xorg x-window-system x-window-system-core xbase-clients xdm xprint xprint-common The following NEW packages will be installed: xlibmesa-glu 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 13 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Also, with this new Xorg, do I still need the drivers by Nvidia (the ones I used to install with module-assistant auto-install nvidia? Sorry for all these queries, but this whole transition to Xorg and the new C++ ABI is creating a bit of confusion for me. thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome-session updated and lost sound on Sarge
Apparently, _H. S._, on 13/07/05 12:41,typed: I upgraded gnome-session to 2.10.0-5 last night on my Sarge, 2.6.11, on a PIV. After that, I logged out of Gnome and couldn't login back. The login process 'hanged' on the gray screen that comes just, before the splash screen appears. I then deleted everything that belonged to me in /tmp (gconfd* alsa* .esd* orbit-* etc.) and relogged and was successful. But now sounds do not work. In my .xsession-erros, I get these messages: /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h -l :0 red /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... SESSION_MANAGER=local/bijli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8568 ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed: /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket /tmp/.esd/socket This socket already exists indicating esd is already running. Exiting... ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed: /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed: /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client and so on. What do I need to do to correct this? I tried deleting /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and restarting alsa. No luck. Btw, when I login to a KDE session, sound works okay. All help is appreciated, -HS hmm ... nobody has any suggestions on how to go about solving this? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.11 and udev
How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that 2.6.12 is required for the new version? We upgraded a Sid machine running 2.6.11 and got new version of udev with no dependency indication that 2.6.12 is required. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.11 and udev
Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/07/05 09:26,typed: How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that 2.6.12 is required for the new version? We upgraded a Sid machine running 2.6.11 and got new version of udev with no dependency indication that 2.6.12 is required. -HS I should have mentioned that the Sid machine has udev 0.062-4. -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.11 and udev
Apparently, _Paul Scott_, on 07/15/2005 12:37 PM,typed: H. S. wrote: Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/07/05 09:26,typed: How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that 2.6.12 is required for the new version? We upgraded a Sid machine running 2.6.11 and got new version of udev with no dependency indication that 2.6.12 is required. I should have mentioned that the Sid machine has udev 0.062-4. Not a real answer to your question but this is a good reason for installing apt-listbugs. I was warned in time to not install that version of udev. Paul Scott Ah, thanks. The said Sid machine is in such a disarray now that we are thinking of doing a clean install. I guess apt-listbugs might have been helpful in preventing the upgrade of some packages which might have helped in creating the mess the machine is in now. Moreover, I am also trying with a 2.6.12.2 kernel (vanilla) but am having problems with nvidia. But this another story for another thread. regards, -HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: failing to upgrade udev
Apparently, _Rogério Brito_, on 07/15/2005 12:18 PM,typed: On Jul 15 2005, Jon Roed wrote: Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.062-4_i386.deb) ... The important part is this: udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. Upgrade your kernel and everything else should work fine. The problem is, a Debian kernel package for 2.6.12 does not exit (or I am greatly mistaken). I downloaded vanilla 2.6.12 and tried compiling it. Got some problems with nv and nvidia drivers so have left it at that for now. So currently, running 2.6.11, lost udev, and after a little deliberation, starting a new clean install (incedently, the 13 July installation CD complains 2.6 kernel does not exist after booting :( , so using install24 instead, but this is beside the topic). -HS -- (Remove all underscores,if any, from my email address to get the correct one. Apologies for the inconvenience but this is to reduce spam.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome-session updated and lost sound on Sarge
I upgraded gnome-session to 2.10.0-5 last night on my Sarge, 2.6.11, on a PIV. After that, I logged out of Gnome and couldn't login back. The login process 'hanged' on the gray screen that comes just, before the splash screen appears. I then deleted everything that belonged to me in /tmp (gconfd* alsa* .esd* orbit-* etc.) and relogged and was successful. But now sounds do not work. In my .xsession-erros, I get these messages: /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h -l :0 red /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... SESSION_MANAGER=local/bijli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8568 ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed: /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket /tmp/.esd/socket This socket already exists indicating esd is already running. Exiting... ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed: /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed: /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client and so on. What do I need to do to correct this? I tried deleting /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and restarting alsa. No luck. Btw, when I login to a KDE session, sound works okay. All help is appreciated, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host
Hi, I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3 streams to work. From this page: http://dir.xiph.org/index.php I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not. While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports Couldn't connect to host: URL:port. Any idea how to fix it? Running Debian Testing on a PIV, 2.6.11-1-686 kernel. thanks, -HS PS: COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l *xmms* *mpg* *mpeg* | grep ^i ii xmms 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2 Versatile X audio player that looks like Winamp ii xmms-alarm 0.3.6xmms general plugin for using xmms as an alarm clock. ii xmms-arts0.7.1-2 aRts Output plugin for xmms ii xmms-cdread 0.14a-11 Input plugin for XMMS that reads audio data from CDs ii xmms-finespectrum1.0.1a-6 XMMS Fine Spectrum Analyzer Plugin ii xmms-flac1.1.1-5 Free Lossless Audio Codec - XMMS input plugin ii xmms-goom1.99.4-4 visualization plug-in for XMMS with a variety of effects ii xmms-infinity0.5.9-1 full-screen visualisation effect for XMMS ii xmms-infopipe1.3-4General plugin for XMMS, reports real-time information to a pipe ii xmms-iris0.12-1 advanced OpenGL visualization plugin for XMMS ii xmms-jackasyn0.1-2JACK Output plugin for xmms ii xmms-mad 0.8-1mp3 input plugin for xmms based on libmad ii xmms-mp4 2.0.0-sarge0.2 a mp4/aac audio player for xmms ii xmms-skins 0.5-1Skins for XMMS ii xmms-wmdiscotux 1.3-3Tux dancing to the music played by xmms ii mpg321 0.2.10.3 A Free command-line mp3 player, compatible with mpg123 ii ffmpeg 20050427-0sarge0.1 audio/video encoder, streaming server audio/video file convert ii gstreamer-mpeg2dec 0.6.4-5.1MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder plugin for GStreamer ii libarts1-mpeglib 3.3.2-1 mpeglib is a mp3 and mpeg I video/audio library (Arts plugin) ii libmpeg1 1.3.1-2.1The MPEG library calls for movie streams ii libmpeg2-4 0.4.0b-2 MPEG1 and MPEG2 video decoder library ii libmpeg3hv 1.2.2-3cvs20050528 advanced editing and manipulation of MPEG streams (cinelerra's i ii libsmpeg00.4.5+cvs20030824-1.2SDL MPEG Player Library - shared libraries ii mpeg2dec 0.4.0b-2 Simple libmpeg2 video decoder application ii mpegdemux0.1.2-3 MPEG1/2 system stream demultiplexer ii mpeglib 3.3.2-1 mp3 and mpeg I video/audio library for linux -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host
Apparently, _Bill Marcum_, on 30/06/05 18:13,typed: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:35:57PM -0400, H. S. wrote: Hi, I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3 streams to work. From this page: http://dir.xiph.org/index.php I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not. While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports Couldn't connect to host: URL:port. Any idea how to fix it? Could it be a firewall problem? I considered it. However, another computer in my internal home network, running Debian Sid, plays streams through xmms perfectly, this shows my router (running Debian testing) is okay as far as the router/masquarading firewall rules are concerned. I then thought about the iptables rules I have on my desktop. I 'stopped' iptables on my desktop so that all policies were ACCEPT(i.e. nothing being blocked by my computer's firewall) and still xmms showed the same problem. So it looks like firewall is not the issue here. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files
Apparently, _Brendon Lloyd Higgins_, on 24/06/05 00:56,typed: H. S. wrote (Friday 24 June 2005 8:23 am): While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting around 728MB of wav files from the original. If I understand the process correctly, this is entirely normal. You see, a given CD can either have up to 700MB of data or up to 80mins of audio. But 80mins of audio equates to 807.5MB of data! The reason for this is that in data mode a whole bunch of error-checking data is interspersed with the real data on the CD, and naturally the error-checking data takes up space. In audio mode this error-checking data is considered unnecessary and is not used, freeing space for more audio. If you were to add in the same error-checking to an audio CD you'd lose more than 10 minutes of available audio time. The quality flag of cdda2wav probably has no relation to the file size. WAV is a raw, uncompressed file type, so the size of a wav file for a given duration of audio is exactly predictable, (44100 samples/sec, 2 channels, 2 bytes/channel/sample. The size in bytes is then 44100 * 2 * 2 * duration in seconds.) If you want something smaller you'll have to look into some sort of compressed format. If for your purposes a lossy format is adequate, I'd suggest Ogg Vorbis. Otherwise, FLAC might be good (though it is larger than Vorbis, they're both smaller than WAV). Hope that helps, Brendon Your informative reply and this page: http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/manuals/text/xcdroast.txt helped me clearly understand what is going on in audio CD writing. After going through this information, I was confidently able to back up a few of my audio CDs which gave me wav files amounting to more than 700MB of data. Many thanks for your nice explanation. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB card reader prevents Sid from booting
Hi, If I boot a Sid system running 2.6.11-1-686 while a USB multi-card reader is plugged into a USB port, the boot process hangs. I get the grub menu and when I select the kernel to boot from, the screen goes blank and nothing happens at all. If I boot by disconnecting the card reader, all is normal and fine. Here are some packages I have: $ dpkg -l hal *dbus* *usb* *kernel-image*2.6.11* acpi* | grep ^ii ii acpi0.09-1 displays information on ACPI devices ii acpid 1.0.4-1Utilities for using ACPI power management ii dbus-1 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging system ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-b ii hal 0.4.8-2Hardware Abstraction Layer ii kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 2.6.11-7 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.11 on PPr ii kernel-image-2.6.11050501.alsa 10.00.Custom Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.11 ii libusb-0.1-40.1.10a-16 userspace USB programming library ii python2.3-dbus 0.23.4-3 simple interprocess messaging system (Python ii qc-usb-source 0.6.3-1source code for QuickCam Express kernel modu ii usbutils0.71-5 USB console utilities Any idea what could be going wrong? thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XP-Debian dual boot with grub
Apparently, _Marcelo Chiapparini_, on 24/06/05 19:25,typed: Hello, I have a machine with Win XP installed. I want to install sarge in the same machine in order to have a dual boot system. I want to use Grub as the main boot loader. Does exist a how-to in some place? I din't find anything in Debian list and Google pointed me to: http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html How ever, this how-to uses Win XP boot loader as the firts one in the MBR, calling Grub in a second chain-load step... Does exist any problem installing Grub in the MBR of the disk? or Win XP boot loader must be there in order to antivirus programs work fine? Thanks in advance for any help Regards Marcelo In my case, I had partitioned my hard disk in two major parititions. I installed Win XP in one of them (in the first parititon of the disk) and then Debian in the other. Debian should detect Windows XP and Grub should be installed by default. GL, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection
Apparently, _Jim Hall_, on 23/06/05 11:15,typed: For those of us who haven't run into this situation yet, could you please explain how the marker helped. Jim I searched google when I realized the CD was not a standard audio disk (did not have Compact Disc digital audio logo). Some of the links I hit were: http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0502/22.copyprotection.shtml http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1439253 http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.music.gaffa/browse_thread/thread/55c1374ff28da77e/d58cbdfa56c50abb?q=copy+protection+felt+tip+penrnum=1hl=en#d58cbdfa56c50abb So, based on the information abvoe, I just drew a band around 3~4mm wide on the outer rim of the CD (on the laser side) and played the CD on the Debian box without any problems. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: possible solution for eth0 eth1 mixup on boot
Apparently, _Chris Bannister_, on 23/06/05 12:30,typed: Hi, Try setting Plug-n-Play to NO/OFF/FALSE in bios HTH There are around 3 method to do so (learned while googling for the problem, maybe somewhere metioned them on this list too, not sure). I chose an easier one. I just mention the modules of the two NICs in /etc/modules in the order I want the cards to be numbered. So module for eth0 goes first and for eth1 goes next. The only problem is that this method will not work if a NIC card is replaced with another one which may need a different module. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome system sounds crackling (or hoarse) after upgrade
Apparently, _David Roguin_, on 23/06/05 09:47,typed: i have the same deal, i believe the GStreamer is still buggy. maybe has something to be with lack of RAM? The desktop I mentioned earlier running Sarge has 256MB and the laptop I had mentioned earlier has 512MB. With the sound distortion the same in both, looks like RAM may not be the problem. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files
While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting around 728MB of wav files from the original. I am using grip to rip the CD using the cdda2wav command. The rip command in grip is: -D %C -x -t %t -L 1 -O wav %w Since I am not familiar with cdda2wav, I was just wondering how does the ripped size from the audio CD exceed 700MB and how do I control the size so that the total of wav files size is less than 700MB? cdda2wav's manpage says -x is for maximum quality. If I remove that flag, what would happen to the quality of the wav's I get? I am using Debian Sid, and dpkg -l grip cdda2wav | grep ^ii ii cdda2wav 2.01+01a01-4 Creates WAV files from audio CDs ii grip 3.2.0-5GNOME-based CD-player/ripper/encoder thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection
Today a friend of mine tried to play his CD on my computer running Debian Sarge but couldn't. He asked if he was doing something wrong and I looked into the problem. The disc was 'confusing the drive'. I tried playing it with xmms and the CD player in gnome but both hanged. For a moment I thought something was broken either with the drive or with hal (once I got the message that hald was not running). I had to reboot the computer twice before finally realizing that the data on the CDROM was probably defective or the CD itself was defective. However, my friend insisted he could play it on his CD player. Then it dawned on me, and I looked for the small print on the CD cover. It was a Sony copy protected CD! I frantically looked at my CD covers as well, and surprisingly I had a CD like that one too. Appararently I didn't really looked for the copy protection notice while buying it. So is there a way to play that copy protected CD in Linux? Curiously enough, the same CD was playable in Windows media player and Realplayer in Windows XP. My friend was also able to 'rip' the CD in Windows Media player to obtain it's lossless wma version of the tracks. Do I have to fallback to Windows to play the CD on my computer or can I do it Linux too? thanks. -HS PS: I have learned from this experience, no more buying of copy protected CDs at all. -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome system sounds crackling (or hoarse) after upgrade
Apparently, _H. S._, on 20/06/05 15:49,typed: Hi, I am having this strange problem. I recently upgraded a laptop running Debian Unstable and a dektop running Debian Testing. Both machines now have a faulty Gnome session sounds(login sound, logout sound, system sounds). The sounds seem to crackle (as if there is static in them or as if they sound hoarse). If I run KDE though, all sounds are clean. Chromium and ppracer both have clean sounds. Is anybody else facing this problem? Both machines are running 2.6.11 kernel. thanks, -HS So, anybody know where the trouble is since at least a couple of other people are experiencing exactly the same problem? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection
Apparently, _Brendon Lloyd Higgins_, on 22/06/05 21:16,typed: I'm afraid I can't really help, but... H. S. wrote (Wednesday 22 June 2005 5:12 pm): player to obtain it's lossless wma version of the tracks. Do I have to ... isn't lossless wma a contradiction in terms? Peace, Brendon I have no idea. I am not familiar with WMA format at all. I just saw the option in Windows Media rip dialog box and experimented with it. In any case, the problem has been solved. A felt tip white-board marker was immensely helpful ;) -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Too many annoying windows! How to i make it use the same one??
Apparently, _Trevor C. Pankonien_, on 21/06/05 11:59,typed: I've been looking through every config file i can imagine and I've gotten nothing. Is there any way to make debian open a folder inside the same window, instead of opening a new window each time? it gets to be kind of annoying when you are looking for a file nested 6 or 7 layers down, and all of a sudden there are windows everywhere. Thanks in advance Trevor [EMAIL PROTECTED] I assume you are talking Gnome nautilus. If not, disregard the following. One way is to press the shift key while clicking on a folder. This way the new folder will open and the parent will close. Another method is to go into configuration editor(Applications-System Tools-Configuration Editor) and browse to /app/nautilus/preferences and see if you have some option related to spatial viewing (don't remember this correctly, but google may help here). Changing options here will change the default behavior. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome system sounds crackling (or hoarse) after upgrade
Hi, I am having this strange problem. I recently upgraded a laptop running Debian Unstable and a dektop running Debian Testing. Both machines now have a faulty Gnome session sounds(login sound, logout sound, system sounds). The sounds seem to crackle (as if there is static in them or as if they sound hoarse). If I run KDE though, all sounds are clean. Chromium and ppracer both have clean sounds. Is anybody else facing this problem? Both machines are running 2.6.11 kernel. thanks, -HS Packages info: {~} COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l gnome* *esd* | grep ^i ii gnome 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components ii gnome-about 2.8.3-2 The GNOME about box ii gnome-alsamixer 0.9.6-1 ALSA sound mixer for GNOME ii gnome-applets 2.8.2-3 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - binaries files ii gnome-applets-data 2.8.2-3 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel - data files ii gnome-audio 2.0.0-2 Audio files for Gnome ii gnome-backgrounds 2.10.1-1a set of backgrounds packaged with the GNOME desktop ii gnome-bin 1.4.2-20Miscellaneous binaries used by GNOME ii gnome-control-cente 2.8.2-3 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME 2 ii gnome-core 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment -- essential components ii gnome-cups-manager 0.25-2.1CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME ii gnome-desktop-data 2.8.3-2 Common files for GNOME 2 desktop apps ii gnome-desktop-envir 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment ii gnome-doc-tools 1.0-6.1 Tools, stylesheets and DTDs for GNOME. ii gnome-extra-icons 1.0-1 Optional GNOME icons ii gnome-games 2.8.3-2 games for the GNOME desktop ii gnome-games-data2.8.3-2 data files for the GNOME games ii gnome-games-extra-d 2.8.0-3 games for the GNOME desktop (extra artwork) ii gnome-gv2.8.4-1 GNOME PostScript viewer ii gnome-icon-theme2.10.1-2GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-icon-theme-su 0.2.5-1 Suede icon theme for GTK+ 2.x ii gnome-keyring 0.4.2-1 GNOME keyring services (daemon and tools) ii gnome-libs-data 1.4.2-20Data for GNOME libraries ii gnome-media 2.8.0-0.4 Gnome 2 Media Utilities ii gnome-mime-data 2.4.2-1 base MIME and Application database for GNOME. ii gnome-nettool 1.2.0-1 network information tool for GNOME ii gnome-office64 The GNOME Office suite ii gnome-panel 2.8.3-1 launcher and docking facility for GNOME 2 ii gnome-panel-data2.8.3-1 common files for GNOME 2 panel ii gnome-session 2.8.1-6 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-system-monito 2.8.1-2 Process viewer and system resource monitor for GNOME 2 ii gnome-system-tools 1.0.0-1 Cross-platform configuration utilities for GNOME ii gnome-terminal 2.8.2-2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator application ii gnome-themes2.8.2-3 official themes for the GNOME 2 desktop ii gnome-themes-extras 0.8.1-1 various themes for the GNOME 2 desktop ii gnome-u2ps 0.0.4-2 Tool to convert UTF-8 text to PostScript ii gnome-utils 2.8.1-1 GNOME desktop utilities ii gnome-vlc 0.8.1.svn20050314-1 GNOME frontend for VLC (dummy legacy package) ii gnome-volume-manage 1.2.1-1 GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage media devices ii gnome2-user-guide 2.8.1-2 GNOME 2 User's Guide ii gnomemeeting1.2.1-1 The GnomeMeeting Voice Over IP Suite ii alsaplayer-esd 0.99.76-0.3 PCM player designed for ALSA (ESD output module) ii gstreamer-esd 0.6.4-5.1 Enlightened Sound Daemon plugin for GStreamer ii libesd-alsa00.2.35-2Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared libraries ii vlc-plugin-esd 0.8.1.svn20050314-1 Esound audio output plugin for VLC -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which is the module for CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m
Apparently, _H. S._, on 20/05/05 00:29,typed: I am trying to make cpufreq work on a Dell Inspiron 5160. I have acpi working and acpid and cpufreqd running in 2.6.10 kernel (running Debian Sarge). However, while reading up on frequency scaling, I see that I can manually change the frequency with : echo 180 scaling_setspeed and also change governor modes. But I do not have scaling_setspeed and not many choices for governors: # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors performance I guess since I do not have userspace among available governors I do not have /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed. My kernel has CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m: # # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_24_API is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m What is the corresponding module that I have to load to get scaling_setspeed. I hope I do not have to compile this option into the kernel to make it work. thanks, -HS RobD over at alt.os.linux provided the answer: The modules related to CPU_FREQ are: obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) += cpufreq.o obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE) += cpufreq_performance.o obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE)+= cpufreq_powersave.o obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE)+= cpufreq_userspace.o obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE)+= freq_table.o obj-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF)+= proc_intf.o and, scaling_setspeed requires cpufreq_userspace. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved, but] Re: grub savedefault and saved does not seem to work
Apparently, _H. S._, on 21/04/05 00:04,typed: Hi, On a newly installed Debian Sid on an Inspiron 5160, I notice that grub always boots from the first entry even though I have default saved in the menu.lst file and all the stanzas have the savedefault keywork in them. Am I missing something here? If this is supposed to work, I can post the complete menu.lst file to ask for other's advice on what could be wrong in the file. The file has been automatically generated and I have changed only the timeout and default option. thanks, -HS The problem was the dummy Other operating Systems entry in menu.lst. I guess this entry is made by the Debian installer to provide options to boot into other OSs detected during installation. If I comment out this entry, then default=saved works perfectly. If that dummy entry is retained, then default=saved doesn't work at all. Should I be filing a bug report for this? -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vpnc client in debian: setup for normal users
Apparently, _Dennis Stosberg_, on 21/04/05 13:46,typed: Am 21.04.2005 um 13:18 schrieb H. S.: What do others use for using vpnc-connect and vpnc-disconnect? And to make these commands abstract from normal users. As always, there is more than one way: You can create a group vpnc, put your users into that group. Then, make the vpnc-(dis)connect binaries executable for that group only. And finally make them suid-root. Or you might look at sudo, which is probably easier. Regards, Dennis So I was finally(after being busy in research, configuring Debian Sarge based router and sorting out other tun0 based iptables stuff) try out the sudo method to allow users to connect/disconnect to their vpn servers at their universities. Here is the sudo config I am using to allow users 'user1' and 'user2' to using VPN: # ~# cat /etc/sudoers # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification User_Alias VPNUSERS = user1, user2 # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias VPNCOMMANDS = /usr/sbin/vpnc,/usr/sbin/vpnc-connect,/usr/sbin/vpnc-disconnect # User privilege specification rootALL=(ALL) ALL VPNUSERS ALL=VPNCOMMANDS # I then put this in .bashrc of the two users: #my aliases alias vpnopen='sudo vpnc-connect' alias vpnclose='sudo vpnc-disconnect' So after this, the users can use vpnopen univ to connect to a VPN server (whose config file is /etc/vpnc/univ.conf) and vpnclose to terminate the VPN connection. Concerning iptables, I did, however, have to give permissions in iptables script to allow all outgoing traffic to tun0 device and all related, established in through tun0 (in addition to allowing nameservers [given for univ VPN server] through eth0 device). Now sure if I need that /usr/sbin/vpnc there in sudo config though. Many thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vpnc client in debian: setup for normal users
Apparently, _H. S._, on 19/05/05 16:24,typed: Here is the sudo config I am using to allow users 'user1' and 'user2' to using VPN: # ~# cat /etc/sudoers # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # # Host alias specification # User alias specification User_Alias VPNUSERS = user1, user2 # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias VPNCOMMANDS = /usr/sbin/vpnc,/usr/sbin/vpnc-connect,/usr/sbin/vpnc-disconnect # User privilege specification rootALL=(ALL) ALL VPNUSERS ALL=VPNCOMMANDS # I then put this in .bashrc of the two users: #my aliases alias vpnopen='sudo vpnc-connect' alias vpnclose='sudo vpnc-disconnect' So after this, the users can use vpnopen univ to connect to a VPN server (whose config file is /etc/vpnc/univ.conf) and vpnclose to terminate the VPN connection. Concerning iptables, I did, however, have to give permissions in iptables script to allow all outgoing traffic to tun0 device and all related, established in through tun0 (in addition to allowing nameservers [given for univ VPN server] through eth0 device). Now sure if I need that /usr/sbin/vpnc there in sudo config though. I guess it is not needed afterall. Just took /usr/sbin/vpnc out of /etc/sudoers and was still able to establish a VPN connection. -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which is the module for CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m
I am trying to make cpufreq work on a Dell Inspiron 5160. I have acpi working and acpid and cpufreqd running in 2.6.10 kernel (running Debian Sarge). However, while reading up on frequency scaling, I see that I can manually change the frequency with : echo 180 scaling_setspeed and also change governor modes. But I do not have scaling_setspeed and not many choices for governors: # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors performance I guess since I do not have userspace among available governors I do not have /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed. My kernel has CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m: # # CPU Frequency scaling # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_PROC_INTF=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_USERSPACE is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_PERFORMANCE=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_POWERSAVE=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=m # CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_24_API is not set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_ONDEMAND=m CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_TABLE=m What is the corresponding module that I have to load to get scaling_setspeed. I hope I do not have to compile this option into the kernel to make it work. thanks, -HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apologies, but the fudging is to remove spam. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]