Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500
I can't achieve to get good performance from my ati radeon 7500. [...] 8036 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1607.024 FPS Would you expect more from such card? I get... 3137 frames in 5.0 seconds = 627.234 FPS ...on GeForce2 MX200 32MB. So your 1600 FPS seems normal to me. what is surprising me is that glxinfo says DRI is working : glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes So it works. I don't understand what's going on... Please help ! glxgears is a very lousy way to measure performance. It only uses a few very basic OpenGL commands, and the number of FPS depends more on general load of your system, not the capabilities of graphics card. You will never be able to reach such high number of FPS in general use anyway. If you want to test performance, you should install some graphics intensive game (Scorched3D, VegaStrike) and see how that runs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AudioCD mount kernel 2.6.16-1
Mirco Piccin wrote:
Can anyone help me? A world without music is like a world
without...opensource!!
Totally!
I'm running a Kernel 2.6.16-1, and i've this problem:
I'm not able to play audiocd! :-(
Before upgrade kernel i remember there was not problem.
Now, if i insert audiocd, dmseg tell me something like:
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x51 { IllegalLengthIndication
LastFailedSense=0x05 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
This error happens if you try to _mount_ an audio CD. I have never seen
it happen while trying to play an audio CD.
..and if i try to mount it:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Yes, i know:
- it is not possible to mount audiocd as normal cd (iso9660), and i've read
somewhere that
You indeed cannot. An audio CD has no file system on it, only raw analog
data.
- i need the cdfs-src package,
but in any repository i'm looking for i'm not able to found the right one
for my kernel.
I was not aware of CDfs before, but it seems to be quite complicated and
would not recommend messing with it if you are not an expert (or close
enough). It is an interesting project, but you do not need it to play
audio CDs. I suggest you remove it, at least until your original problem
is solved.
You provided little information, so please answer my questions:
1. How are you trying to play a CD? Please explain it step by step.
2. Were you able to play CDs the _same_ way before kernel 2.6.16-1?
3. Are you able to use data (iso9660) CDs?
4. Do all audio CDs fail?
5. Can you play audio files? Does sound work in general?
6. Have you upgraded anything else besides the kernel?
At the meantime, here are some things that you should look at:
1. Assuming that you use ALSA, check if CD sound is not muted in
alsamixer. It is in alsa-utils package.
2. Try installing cdtool package and playing an audio CD with
cdplay. You will not see any output on the terminal, but you should
hear sound. If you do, it works.
3. Run cdinfo -v while an audio CD is in the drive. Does it show
something like no-status 0 56:35.20 0:01.66 (it works), or no_disc
(does not work).
4. Install setcd package and run setcd -i. Does it see your CD?
Good luck.
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Re: soundcard via ac97
Mark Walter wrote: Does this mean my soundcard is not supported from alsa ? That is possible, but I have a similar card (VIA 8233) and, as far as I know, they both are supported. In case you have not resolved your problem yet, please post output of cat /your/kernel.config | grep -e SND\|SOUND | grep -v ^# Here is mine: CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SND=m CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m CONFIG_SND_SEQ_RTCTIMER_DEFAULT=y CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m CONFIG_SND_AC97_BUS=m CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting Thunderbird to use Firebird as default browser
Don Jackson wrote: I wish to (again) be able to click on a URL link in an email in Thunderbird and have that link brought up on Firefox rather than Konqueror. Some time ago, this was possible, but I cannot find the magic combination of settings to do this any more. You could try usind Debian alternatives system: update-alternatives --config x-www-browser Many other packages (listen in /etc/alternatives/) can be configured the same way, but I am not sure how that will interact with KDEs internal settings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: soundcard via ac97
Mark Walter wrote: Is this the wrong driver as I can't hear sound with xmms or xine ? Did you check sound levels with alsamixer? They are all mute by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon?
John wrote: Is there a third family of choices? Would wine, win4lin, VMWare or something else be able to run XP where it is? Not sure about your original problem, but as for emulation, it goes like this: Wine allows you to run Windows applications (and games), not drivers and not the operating system itself. In fact, it does not need Windows at all. Many applications run, but some do not. VMWare and Win4Lin run entire operating system in a virtual computer. Most applications will run, but with a more or less significant slowdown, not to mention the fact that you will be running two full blown operating systems at the same time. Not for gaming. Note: there is a free computer emulator called QEMU. None of these will make Windows drivers work on a Linux system. None of these can replace an entire operating system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!
Adam Funk wrote: In that case, should linux-image-2.4.27 indicate Conflicts to prevent apt from letting them both be installed simultaneously? I guess it should. But to tell you the truth, I cannot see a package named linux-image-2.4.27 anywhere, only kernel-image-2.4.27. Either I am blind, or such package does not exist in Debian. I am a little confused here... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I missed the kernel-image to linux-image thing!
Patrick Wiseman wrote: I guess I missed something in the weekly update of my testing system. I needed to recompile my 2.4.27 kernel (because USB mass storage suddenly broke, on which I'll post seperately if I can't figure it out). So, I go to 'dpkg -i linux-image-2.4.27_...' and it bails because installation will overwrite a file (it turns out LOTS of files) provided by ' kernel-image-2.4.27'. I used the --force-overwrite option to dpkg to install anyway, and it seems no harm was done. I'm sure there was some good reason for the change, but the transition could have been made a little more transparent! I cannot speak for how transparent it is or it is not, but you should have uninstalled kernel-image-2.4.27 before installing linux-image-2.4.27, and not let it overwrite things. Now if you uninstall one of them, it will take part of files belonging to another with it. You should now uninstall (purge) both of them and only install one, or things may break when you least expect it. The rename itself was done because Debian supports not only Linux kernels, but also FreeBSD, HURD and probably more, so kernel-image would make it impossible to tell them apart. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can't find /selinux
ericradt wrote: I am running sarge,kernel 2.6.14，and choose all option about selinux for N when compile kernel, but the error can't find /selinux is appear every boot,how can i get rid of this error, You do not have to do anything. This is not an error, but an indication that SELinux is disabled. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox memory leak
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Please post output of top -b -n 1 after you start loosing memory. When firefox screen went blank output as below [...] This does not seem to be a full list. Any comments. CPU usage of Firefox is indeed a bit high, but everything else seems normal. This looks like a simple Firefox crash to me. Things happen. On the other hand, if Firefox (and Firefox only) crashes very often, you should investigate. Crashes can be caused by some (especially non-free) plugins, extensions, and last but not least - lousy backport. It is also available in Debian Unstable. You might want to try it, if possible. I though instead of having mixed system, it is better to have backports. apt-get upgrade for sarge with backports will be better than for mixed system. I may be corrected and explained if I am wrong. Sometimes, but not necessary. When using mixed system, you can run into various dependency problems, but these packages are maintained by Debian Developers. Backports have no dependency problems, but they are usually made by people not directly related to Debian, so there is no guarantee for quality of package. So you see, it depends. You can also download the source and compile it yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?
Adam Funk wrote: I had assumed that pmount's dependencies would be sufficient for it to work, so I'm curious: why aren't they? Well, it is possible to use pmount without HAL if you pass all the parameters to it yourself. Many people do just that, and there is no reason to force HAL on them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: only root can access the camera
ochnap2 wrote: Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. If I remember correctly, you need to put users in camera group to grant access. But do not quote me on that, I do not own a camera. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sarge iso cd
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I saw some posts talking abour debian 3.1r1. what is this r1? This _is_ Sarge + security updates. Just go to [1] and look for up-to-date mirror that contains this release. Look at [2] to find out what was updated. [1] http://www.debian.org/CD/ [2] http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20051220 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox memory leak
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sarge with backports using firefox. I found many times system hanging. I am now only running firefox and konsole. In the last 30 mins, free gives the following results at various points of time sequentially as below. first one when I started machine. ... Any comments. And what makes you think it is Firefox to blame? Do you regain the memory after shutting down Firefox? Please check memory usage using top or similar application and post the outcomes. By the way, is it backported Firefox? If so, Debian project can take no responsibility for it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?
Adam Funk wrote: $ pmount-hal /dev/sdb1 Error: could not connect to dbus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: No reply within specified time Are DBus (package dbus) and HAL (package hal) installed and running? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox memory leak
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am not BLAMING but SUSPECTING firefox from bacports NOT from debian. I did not mean to use word blame in any negative way. I think memory leak will not be regained after the application is closed. It will. Even after closing the application causing leak, memory can't be regained as it hangs anf becomes unusable. I hope dev gurus here will agree with me. What hangs? Your computer or the application (Firefox)? further as I said no other application was running. That is not true. You said that you run konsole. If this is not a typo, konsole is a terminal emulator for KDE, and KDE is a set of applications. Not all applications are visible in your desktop. Yes I have checked randomly FF uses CPU time even 90% and memory 40%. Here is the timed free for this boot Please post output of top -b -n 1 after you start loosing memory. I am not talking about responsibilty. Many users here use firefox from bacports as ff1.5 is vailable there. It is also available in Debian Unstable. You might want to try it, if possible. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian equivalent to service?
Rob Blomquist wrote: Under RH, to type service sensord restart will kill and restart sensord. I can't find an equivalent command. Is there one? Otherwise, how to I kill and restart a service? Can I find a list of running services, the same as service -s? /etc/init.d/service start|stop|restart Or you can install sysvconfig package that contains the service script that works much like the one in RH. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keyboard is stopping
It is unlikely (TM) that woody on its own causes keyboard hangs. it's only from time to time not precisely to say ... A couple of questions: 1) Are you using NVIDIA video card and their propiertary drivers? 2) Does pressing Num Lock or Caps Lock change the keyboard leds? 3) Can you still move the mouse? 4) Do the programs respond to mouse actions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package manager question
Hello, I've been reading some stuff about apt, dpkg and I wonder if it is possible to have more control on package's dependencies. Is there other package managers for debian that are able to support it? I've found this at www.debian.org As you can see in the above example, APT also takes care of removing packages which depend on the package you have asked to remove. There is no way to remove a package using APT without also removing those packages that depend on it.. I hope this only matters to apt. :S what is your goal here? Removing a package that another depends on would leave that other package broken and unusable (unless you get the dependencies outside the apt system). Package foo needs package bar to function. If you remove package bar, then package foo will be broken and will be removed as well. If you really want to break something, you can force this with dpkg, but this can instantly break your entire system. You have been warned. What you really need is aptitude, the most powerful package manager on Earth. Once you learn it, you will wonder how you have ever lived without it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel compile fails.
Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: I have a box with Sid with the latest upgrades, (almost cause dist-upgrade wants to remove a lot of stuff) Anyway, fact is that I can't compile any kernel on the Linus tree. This, for more than a month. Could anyone please help me find out which package is the broken one? /bin/sh in Bash. 2.6.16-rc1 has a bug that trashes /dev/null and is the cause for this error. Recreate /dev/null and compile it as a non-root user. LKML people seem to be aware of this, so it likely to be fixed in the future release (2.6.16-rc1-git4 is still affected). I also learned the lesson the hard way by forgetting to exit root before compiling. Oh well... Other than that, 2.6.16-rc1 works fine, but may break iptables on some systems (also a known bug). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gv bug, maintainer please?
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Re: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade
Matt Price wrote: So it semes to me I have to somehow temporarily run udev, or temporarily disable udev, or something, so that I can create the /dev/hda devices I need to mount the relevant partitions. BUt I don't know how to do that. Try running MAKEDEV, it should give all the missing devices the old fashioned way. If that does not work, mknod /dev/hda b 3 0. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building Linux 2.6.16-rc1-git4
I cannot get 2.6.16-rc1[-git4] to build, so am seeking advice here.
make vmlinux gives me this:
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo ' CHK include/linux/version.h';
mkdir -p include/linux/;if [ `echo -n 2.6.16-rc1-git4 .file
null .ident GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits | wc -c ` -gt 64 ]; then echo
'2.6.16-rc1-git4 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits exceeds 64 characters' 2; exit 1; fi;
(echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \2.6.16-rc1-git4 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\; echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE `expr 2
\\* 65536 + 6 \\* 256 + 16`; echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a)
16) + ((b) 8) + (c))'; ) /usr/src/linux/Makefile
include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r include/linux/version.h ] cmp -s
include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; then rm -f
include/linux/version.h.tmp; else echo ' UPD
include/linux/version.h'; mv -f include/linux/version.h.tmp
include/linux/version.h; fi'
make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2
I managed to get rid of this error by removing the trailing newline
slash in Makefile on line 902, but then I get this:
CHK include/linux/version.h
2.6.16-rc1-git4 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits exceeds 64 characters
make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 1
This error seems to originate in code that handles .kernelrelease file,
which, I am pretty sure, was not used in 2.6.15 Makefile. From what I
understand, this file should contain the release number plus
localversion, but on my system it contains this (in one line):
2.6.16-rc1-git4 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits
Does not look right to me. I tried to locate the code that generates the
weirdness, but failed. Only managed to somewhat narrow it down to make
kernelrelease:
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `echo 2.6.16-rc1-git4 .file null .ident
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits'
make: *** [kernelrelease] Error 2
The funny thing is that I can start the build by not reading the
.kernelrelease on line 347. The .kernelrelease still gets filled with
the same content, but no errors occur. I did not wait for it to finish,
because getting it to work is not the fun part. The fun part is figuring
out why it does not work.
This is my soft:
Gnu C 4.0.3
Gnu make 3.81beta4
binutils 2.16.91
util-linux 2.12r
mount 2.12r
module-init-tools 3.2.2
e2fsprogs 1.39-WIP
Linux C Library2.3.5
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.5
Procps 3.2.6
Net-tools 1.60
Kbd1.12
Sh-utils 5.93
udev 081
I tried downgrading make to 3.80-9, because I have heard of breakage
with recent versions, but it only resulted in slightly different error
messages.
I am not really experienced with Makefiles, so I do not really know how
to debug them properly. Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: File system overhead
did you execute the df command as root? if not, it might report less free space. there is a reserved space (5% is default for ext2/3, iirc, however you can set it up differently) that is available only for root... and since you report 5% in your case... You can set the percentage of reserved blocks like this... tune2fs -m number /dev/partition ...where number is number of reserved blocks of your total space in percents and /dev/partition is the device that contains EXT2/3 file system. In this case it would look like... tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda9 tune2fs can be found in e2fsprogs package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: File system overhead
Tony Heal wrote: OK below is what I have. I have another question now. If the 'reserved' space is for root, why does root need space on all partitions for? For example why would I need to reserve space for the root user on /home, /tmp, /opt, /tmp. I can see this as being need for /var and /root, but what use is this on the other partitions? The reserved blocks are also used for file system journal and are needed to avoid fragmentation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual machine
You might already know about this. But I will say it anyway. There are various alternatives for matlab and maple in Debian Linux. You can use octave instead of matlab. It is probably not a 100% replacement but it is reasonably good. Instead of maple, you can use maxima inside texmacs. All the three maxima, texmacs, octave are available in Debian (apt-gettable). Give them a shot! Also if you want a matlab similar feel and look, sci-lab is also available... And, of course, there is Wine. Virtual machine would be my last resort. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug in translation of aptitude
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I found a bug in aptitude italian translation: the help (called with ?) is not displayed. So I would like to fire a bug, I looked around and it seems that the bug must be fired aptitude for package, is it right? Is there a place where all translation bugs must be sent instead? Report it against aptitude. The easiest way to do it is with reportbug tool. Translation bugs should be reported with l10n tag set. Read the links below if you do not understand what I am talking about. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GMail like offline email client
Maybe he's asking about labels? That's kind of the gmail feature I wouldn't find in any email client. It would be sort of email directories as under any email client plus soft links between them? Any ways, if someone knows about such thing I would like to know as well, :) Something like virtual folders in Evolution? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpc.statd paranoia
Does anybody know the correct procedure for eliminating this daemon from booting? Should I be using update-rc.d or do I have to manually edit config files? I use sysv-rc-conf to edit runlevels (there are also other tools that do the same), but the best solution is, of course, to uninstall the daemons you do not need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error inserting genrtc
Dan Jacobson wrote: Looking at the hwclock docs, I suppose this is unsightly but harmless?: # grep rtc /var/log/boot Sat Jan 14 00:38:28 2006: Setting the system clock:modprobe: WARNING: Error inserting genrtc (/lib/modules/2.6.14-2-k7/kernel/drivers/char/genrtc.ko): Device or resource busy Sat Jan 14 00:39:21 2006: rtc: loaded successfully Odd how hotplug[?] has a more cheery message? If I recall correctly genrtc is a driver that emulates RTC on machines that have none, and rtc is a driver for a real RTC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gpm problem
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: This is the problem: At times, after a copying and pasting operation, the mouse cursor disappears and the last item copied appears at the prompt all the time. In midnight commander, with the gpm option enabled, all lines are selected all the time when the mouse is moved. Starting stopping gpm do nothing. I have to reboot for the mouse cursor to appear again. Are you running X and gpm at the same time? If they both are configured to use the same device, conflicts may occur and gpm may stop responding. If this is the case, you can configure gpm to repeat mouse events and set /dev/gpmdata as mouse device in X configuration file. Here are mine: gpm.conf: device=/dev/input/mice responsiveness= repeat_type=raw type=imps2 append='' sample_rate= xorg.conf: Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option CorePointer Option Device/dev/gpmdata Option Protocol ImPS/2 Option Emulate3Buttons false Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-installing lost package
Is my solution safe and appropriate? Should stable be included in my sources.list permanently? It is pretty safe and I would recommend leaving Stable in sources.list because of security updates. You can set the default release in /etc/apt/apt.conf like this: APT::Default-Release release; Of course you should investigate why it was removed in the first place. Maybe it was replaced by some other package or was too buggy. Just a word of warning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where to find latest unstable kernel src without messing sarge?
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: camera and mounting
I get this message when I try to open: mount: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist Please check that the disk is entered correctly. Any sugestions? Well, does it exist? Post output of ls -al /dev/sd*. Also try installing hal-device-manager. It gives you a great deal of information about what and how. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome
Brian Clark wrote: Yes, although it will work, surely that isn't the best solution. It is a common thing to do, but... Unless I've done something else wrong, I'm starting to think it's a bug. ...I have just read the documentation and tested this method. It does indeed not work. I seems that /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin does not even try to read either /etc/openoffice/openoffice.org, or /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf, so no wonder it does not work. It is possible that I overlooked something while debugging OpenOffice, but I am pretty sure this _is_ a bug. Feel free to report it, otherwise I will do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice GTK Gnome
Brian Clark wrote: After upgrading to OpenOffice.org 2.0 in testing, it doesn't seem to pick up and use GTK widgets, themes, et cetera, unless I run it from a shell (see below). I have this: ~$ cat /etc/openoffice/openoffice.org export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome (I've also tried `export OO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome' in that file) When I issue export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=Gnome in a shell, then launch oowriter , it picks up the GTK look correctly. And I'm using Openbox as my window manager. In OO.org 1.1 it worked as expected. Just put export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome in .xsession in your home directory and restart X. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what file removes modules at boot?
Dan Jacobson wrote: /etc/modules is for adding modules at boot. What is the file for taking away modules at boot? /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist But you should probably create your own file so that it will not be overwritten on upgrades. Something like... /etc/modprobe.d/local-blacklist ...which would contain... blacklist tsdev blacklist something-else -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)
Richard Lyons wrote: Anyone else had funny behaviour from mc lately? I have a recent sid install with mc 1:1.6.1-1. It was working yesterday (or maybe the day before). Today, when I call it, the terminal (xterm, mrxvt, or in console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor appears at the end of the first line -- then it freezes and is unkillable. I now have six mc processes showing in ps, but cannot kill any of them. I haven't updated the system, the only changes I remember are installing DBI modules and, this morning, acroread. And acroread is also freezing if I try to save a file -- on second thoughts, perhaps this is related. I've just checked and there are immortal acroreads in there too. My bets are on acroread, because: 1) It is not in Debian, so nobody checked for what it does on ones system. 2) Being non-free software it can do whatever weird things it does without you knowing it. Run debsums and see if it messed up anything and reinstall the affected packages. By the way, there is no such thing as unkillable, killall -9 mc and killall -9 acroread should get rid of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)
Richard Lyons wrote: I had not even installed debsums! Getting it now. Some packages do not provide checksums (boo to them!), so on your first run debsums can report A LOT of broken packages. It might take very long, but I do suggest you reinstall all of them. The checksums will be generated by debsums on reinstall. Do not forget to check out them manual of debsums. They are still there... bordello:/home/richard# killall -9 mc bordello:/home/richard# ps ax | grep mc 32642 ?S 0:00 mc 32659 ?S 0:00 mc 32662 ?S 0:00 mc 32681 ?S 0:00 mc 315 tty2 S+ 0:00 mc 1311 ?S 0:00 mc 1525 pts/15 R+ 0:00 grep mc Hard to kill bastards aren't they? You might want to reboot before proceeding with the reinstalls. I am not 100% sure The Evil One is acroread, but you should know that OpenOffice can export to PDF and Evince is a very nice viewer. They are both free and do not break stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to disable 'rivafb' at boot ?
alan bonard wrote: Can anyone suggest how to disable 'rivafb' at boot ? Did you try video=vesafb? If you do not want any frame buffer, not loading the modules (assuming they are compiled as modules) should do it. Search the list for loadable kernel modules if you do not know how to prevent them from loading. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: java for jabref
Please, what is the common way for java development under debian sarge? Is it better to develop under solaris and simply run and test it under debian ? netbeans and eclipse are both open source, so they should qualify for debian. Eclipse 3.1 is already in Debian Unstable. I was pretty sure that Eclipse 2.1 was included in Stable, but it seems that it was not. You could try using Unstable packages, but chances are they will not work on Sarge. You might also want to look at Anjuta. It is a rather simple programmers editor and requires some manual configuration to make it Java compatible (Google is your friend), but it works. Of course you can download Eclipse from eclipse.org and it should work just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amixer no longer working when using 2.6.15
John Covici wrote: Hi. I am trying to use kernel 2.6.15 and whenever I try to use amixer I get the following error: ALSA lib simple_none.c:1216:(simple_add1) helem (MIXER,'Front Playback Volume',0,0,0) appears twice or more amixer: Mixer default load error: Invalid argument I am using Debian SID and have the latest versions of the appropriate alsa packages. Any assistance would be appreciated. 2.6.15 (vanilla) and latest ALSA in Sid works fine here. Maybe some options changed their name since last version? Try this: alsamixer (and set everything there) alsactl store alsactl restore Also double check that all appropriate modules are loaded. There are also latest prerelease ALSA packages in Experimental. You might want to give them a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amixer no longer working when using 2.6.15
This does look like incompatibility between kernel drivers and ALSA libs. I strongly suggest you try Experimental ALSA packages. It may also be that your ALSA libs are newer that the kernel drivers. In that case you might want to try building latest ALSA modules from source (package alsa-source). By the way, did you try running alsaconf? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unthreaded Perl and Apache mod_perl
Does anyone have a good step by step how to source for recompiling a debian package? Take a look at apt-src and apt-build packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The print screen key
The print screen key is next to the BS key on my keyboard. Every time when I miss the BS key but hit the print screen key, a screen snapshot is printed from my (InkJet) printer. This has been so annoying that I decided to solve it. I'm using fluxbox, but I didn't find any such action in its hot-key def file (/etc/X11/fluxbox/keys). Is such feature defined in X? How can I disable the print screen key from printing to my printer? Just I wild guess, but maybe assigning it some kind of action would help? For example None Print :ExecCommand /bin/true. Not that I know what is the cause of such behavior... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbies needing help for graphic login
Richard Lyons wrote: The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from fedora and suze to debian. But there is a real danger of scaring them off -- and I think their plight is a sign that debian should offer a little extra help for them. What do others here think? What I have in mind is that the new installer could rewrite the welcome text to say something like This is a new install of Debian GNU/Linux stable thisbox tty1 If you expected to get a graphic logon and desktop, please login as root and run makemegraphic Otherwise, run installdone to get rid of this message. thisbox login: _ With, obviously, a couple of scripts to either revert to the normal situation or install kde and kdm (easiest, IMHO, for beginners -- but gnome and gdm would do too, or perhaps the two alternatives could be offered by the script, with a brief description of pros and cons). I'm guessing this would be a trivial exercise, but I think it would make for a much sweeter experience for many of the growing numbers of Debian newbies. Improvements? Disagreement? Consensus? This is a very interesting approach, but I am afraid it is even more confusing to the new users. Also, this (booting into X by default) should be done (and is done?) by default if the user chooses Desktop during install. There was a discussion about this in debian-devel some time ago, and the proposed solution was something like asking a user to choose from KDE Desktop and GNOME Desktop during install. Not sure what the conclusion was (or was there none?), but this problem will be solved in the next Debian release one way or another. On the other hand, what you propose could be implemented as a fallback in case a user manages to misconfigure something and X fails to start (this is already done by at least GDM by some degree). If you are familiar with what is going on in development of the latest Debian Installer and feel that your way is somewhat better, I suggest you post your ideas to debian-devel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get
Chris Stiles wrote: I have noticed that on several sources in my sources.list file I'm getting a Ignore followed by Hit/Get like so, when running apt-get: Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Packages I assume that it is looking for some something and failing to find it - from the first message, then later finding the same thing from the second message. Hit means that something did not change from the last update, and Ign tells you that it will not be downloaded. It is perfectly normal. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get Ign followed by Hit/Get
Chris Stiles wrote: Okay - in that case wouldn't Hit more logically come before Ign - and how to explain Ign followed by a Get ? Though the latter only occurs on a local archive i've built with apt-move. Well, that was a very rough explanation. Ign can also occur in slightly different situations. I am not an expert of internals of apt-get, but if you feel that something is wrong, please post your sources.lits and all the messages from apt-get and I (or somebody else) will look at it. Otherwise, if you are just _really_ interested in how apt-get does things, you can always read the source code. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound device not shared
Presumably your sound card has only one channel. To play sounds from more than one program together, you must use another program to mix them together. Two such programs are esd and arts. To use those, the programs playing the sounds will have to support output to esd or arts respectively. But ALSA should do the mixing on its own. If we are talking about an older version of ALSA, perhaps an upgrade is the solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 eth and boot
I have a box with 2 eth (1 intel, 1 3com) each time it boot, eth0 and eth1 are different: boot one: intel=eth0 3com=eth1 boot two: intel=eth1 3com=eth0 well, not alwais change, it seams to be random. How i make to alwais be the same? Interesting... i have two identical cards and they are always the same... Having two different ones you might try putting the respective modules in /etc/modules in the order you want them, but i'm no expert. You can check dmesg in order to see what modules you need This is a known problem and is currently being worked on by Debian Developers. For now, putting the modules in /etc/modules should be sufficient. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setting up the text-console on a compaq presario 2100 laptop
Sorry for not being specific enough. when I sad a bit small I was talking about the part of the screen used by the console -- alredy from booting. That is getty is not responsible, but I now recalls, that the problem also exits when Windows fails to boot. I'll just take a look at the settings in the BIOS. I am not sure I understood you correctly, but maybe you want to read svga.txt in kernel documentation. If this is what you are looking for, please also read the docs in fb, especially fb/fbcon.txt and fb/vesafb.txt. You might need to install a kernel-doc package to find these files. They will be in either linux-doc or kernel-doc at /usr/share/doc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
