Decrypting old HP200lx / HP100lx / HPLX palmtop memo files [and package search]

[Samuel Wales]

[I am not subscribed to this mailing list.  Is it OK to ask
if you can include me on any replies or must I subscribe?]

I want to decrypt my old HPLX memo [ASCII] files.  I am
pretty sure I remember the short password.

There might have been packages that are designed for
decrypting those files, or that emulate the application.
However, they do not seem to exist on bullseye.  Older
releases had more HPLX packages.

I searched the package database. but all I found is lx-gdb,
which is not useful for this case.  The site I used does not
seem to go before buster.  Also, I am not sure how to use
old packages, but I figured this is a good place to start.

===

As for other ideas, I searched for old DOS tools but did not
find anything that seemed relevant that I could download.
They might still exist, but they might be proprietary or
closed source.  I don't know how to use them on Linux.

The database application (GDB) encryption algorithm was
different from the memo application.

I think the memo files are plain unformatted DOS ASCII,
encrypted using 1990s tech.



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is Ansible easy to use?

[Samuel Henrique]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 14:45 Philipp Ewald 
wrote:

> Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create
> the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates
> everything more)
> Then formatting is destroyed or need more time on creating the playbook...
>
> It is so hard or im so bad?
>

You might find ansible-lint useful when writing ansible playbooks, it's in
the oficial repo.

>

nocache nice ionice -c3 ... chrt? for rsync.

[Samuel Wales]

i seem to get sluggish interactive x pointer etc. on rare occasions
with rsync.  i use nocache nice ionice -c3.  i am wondering why chrt
exists also, and what teh best set of options is for this kind of
purpose.

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must i consider zfs or lvm for smr large drive?

[Samuel Wales]

apologies for the subject header being kind of an opinion poll rather
than a question.  but it is meant as a question.


until now, i have avoided lvm and zfs determinedly.  i have always
been completely satisfied to copy some big partition rather than deal
with the complexity of those.  i don't want to get confused about them
when i am debugging or setting up.

i use luks and ext4 and that's enough complexity for me.  i get them
right, understand them, and glory in few corner cases.

i have a new 4tb portable external drive.  i want it to have a huge partition.

even such things as resizing sound error-prone or complex.  more
layers and commands to learn.  and zfs is a whole new thing, with, oh,
yeah, you have to use contrib or non-free [can i rely on this being
secure and also available into the future?] and oh, yeah, it's
different from luks, and oh, yeah, do a balance/resilver/whatever.
yes, send/recv beckons.

but now i am thinking, with smr, the drive could pseudo-brick, despite
discard and fstrim.  and i might then want to do some kind of, idk, dd
if=/dev/zero of=some-partition to "reset" it.  and my 20gb root
partition might be too small for that.

i don't actually know if /dev/zero resets smr to stop shuffling.  i am
just speculating.

but if it does, then i might want lvm's or zfs's resizing feature so
that i can do /dev/zero to some lo... gical ... volume?  which would
then in my imagination reset smr and then the drive would work again
instead of 3.6tb filled non-writable.

idk if zfs/btrfs has smr features better than ext4 or vice-versa.  i
do NOT need snapshotting, raid.  my box is old and would not support
deduplication and i wonder if it would even support zfs at all at 6gb
which always gets filled up with firefox.

so, am i going to need one of these two
more-complex-than-luks-and-ext4 technologies just for safety when the
huge partition fills up?  i know they are /desirable/ technologies for
those who like them.

but desirability is not the question at all.  :)  the question is, for
MY case, is lvm/zfs/btrfs? going to be needed for smr.


idk if i am on this mailing list.

preliminary comments below.  :)


p.s.

as a preliminarty comment, i have partitioned it for booting, my idea
being for it to boot off of anything for quick perfectly-my-env
rescue, not for all the time use.  i ahve accessibility issues that
make installing and rescue cd's problematic.]

as more preliminary, the thing does not boot on my old bios box no
matter what i try.

and yet more preliminary, it is toshiba canvio basics.  it does
spindown or head parking at a ridiculously low delay.  idk if hdparm
-y or -Y or scsi-spin or scsiadd or eject or idle3 or what is safest.
or if i should let it rack up those smartctl attrs.

and another.  i am limited in computer use and have a very large
number of limitations that i cannot go into beause it would take too
much out of me to do so.  i am not a normal kind of user.  but i'd
still like gentle, helpful comments on my question if anybody has
some.  i've seen issues with myself and others in the past [not on
this list] with "help" being used as a very transparent, quite obvious
excuse for being a rather extreme jerk, and i'd be interested in
knowing of some accepted things to say that say "thanks, but i do not
want 'help' from you personally at all but others are still very
welcome to contribute as i know already that they are sincere and
helpful" other than quitting the place entirely [at this point always
my best option].  the idea being to encourage sincere others to help
while getting others to realize i do not want help from the problem
person and that my not replying to the problem person does not mean
sincere others can't contribute, i/e/ the problem person has not
claimed accepted ownerhip over helping me and i am in no mood to be
attacked merely for asking a question or having accessibility and
other limitations or for no reason at all.

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

[Samuel Wales]

thanks very much to all.

i almst missed this as it didn't show uyp in my inbox.

it sounds like there exist things that say the time or can be made to.
then i can use cron to run it or at for a one-off.

i have beep turned off [and currently pulseaudio purged] but videos
play sound with no problem so great.


On 3/22/22, Will Mengarini  wrote:
> * Samuel Wales  [22-03/20=Su 23:03 -0700]:
>> [...] i want debian to tell me the time at certain times.
>
> Nobody has yet mentioned the festival package, which is a full
> text-to-speech system.  Once you have that installed, you can use
> cron or at jobs to speak whatever you want at specific times.
>


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simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

[Samuel Wales]

i have to have all lights and monitors off at night.  but i have to
know the time so i can take medicine.

i use slock and turn off monitor with ddccontrol.  this might turn off
mouse and keyboard; i wouild have to check.

i want debian to tell me the time at certain times.  for example
tonight i have to take medicine at 2:40 am.

here are ideas:

- tell me time when i right click [kb much less accessible]
- tell me at a prespecified time like 2.40 am
- tell me the following hours: midnight, 1 am, 2am

any would be ok i think.

beeping would be ok too, such as the ship's bell's system or just 1
extra beep added to the time for those 3 times.

ideas please?  i am not going to be able to do anything particularly
complex, buyt i can script bash.

[if aboe not possible this would be off topic but if anybody has off
list a settable alarm or soething with a red light to see the time
[blue or white no good and pwm no good], that would be a lasst resort.
i don't hae a digita watch or cell phon e.]

Re: Problem Installing Debian

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

john doe, le sam. 06 juin 2020 08:24:32 +0200, a ecrit:
> On 6/5/2020 11:56 PM, Analis Dannen wrote:
> > Orca will not respond when I try to navigate the installer.  It
> > simply says the name of the program and that is about it.

AIUI, you are trying to install Debian from the live CD.  Accessibility
is not supported in that case yet.  Please use an installation CD, not a
live CD, and type 's' when the boot menu beeps, to get into a
speech-enabled installation process.

Samuel

[apt-pinning] always install given package and its deps from unstable

[Samuel Henrique]

Hello people,

These days I'm wondering what's the correct approach to have the
following behaviour:

* Using Testing
* Always install firefox (or some other packages) and its deps from the
unstable repository
* Keep downloading upgrades of these packages from unstable
* Don't install anything else from unstable unless the I'm using "apt -t
sid install"

I've tried somethings in the past, like using apt pinning to set everything
from unstable to -1, and firefox to something else, but it doesn't seems to
work exactly how I intended to.

I don't remember the details about what exactly didn't work*, so I would
like
to get some examples of people who are accomplishing the same and how
they have chosen to do so, as opposed to debug my scenario.

* If I remember correctly, I still needed to use "-t sid" to install
firefox in that
case, I don't remember what priority I was setting though.

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Re: zenmap as root, starts on one and not the other system

[Samuel Henrique]

Hello,

I believe you are experiencing this bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880601

You can try to run gnome with xorg (instead of wayland) as a workaround.


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Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello Didier,

Didier Spaier, le jeu. 20 déc. 2018 10:21:01 +0100, a ecrit:
> FYT, I attach the shortcuts that will be set by  default in Slint.

Well, I'd say this should be synchronized upstream, so all distributions
can benefit from it.

Samuel

Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 22 nov. 2018 19:08:37 +0100, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 30 août 2018 17:26:27 +0200, a ecrit:
> > The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode
> > and will not make further development since Ubuntu has stopped using it.
> > 
> > How do people feel about switching to compiz-reloaded?
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/compiz
> 
> No reaction, so we moved on :)
> 
> Compiz-reloaded 0.8.14 is currently in sid, and 0.8.16 is currently in
> experimental, up for your testing :)

0.8.16 just migrated to testing, with the ability of ezoom to track
focus events, implemented by Hypra, making it a very effective screen
magnifier.

Samuel

Re: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 30 août 2018 17:26:27 +0200, a ecrit:
> The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode
> and will not make further development since Ubuntu has stopped using it.
> 
> How do people feel about switching to compiz-reloaded?
> 
> https://gitlab.com/compiz

No reaction, so we moved on :)

Compiz-reloaded 0.8.14 is currently in sid, and 0.8.16 is currently in
experimental, up for your testing :)

For debian-accessibility: a very interesting feature of 0.8.16 is the
ability of ezoom to track focus events, which makes it a very effective
screen magnifier.

Samuel

Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

[Samuel Henrique]

That's something that I always wondered about but never got the time to
debug,but:

If you have Nvidia and wants to use their driver on Ubuntu, it's pretty
straightforward and a no-brainer using their (Ubuntu's) driver installation
tool.
If you're using Debian, you very very likely will end up with a system who
does not start any DE and is greeted but the terminal.


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Bug#907640: compiz: Migrating to compiz-reloaded?

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: compiz
Severity: important

Hello,

The launchpad upstream for compiz has switched to light maintenance mode
and will not make further development since Ubuntu has stopped using it.

How do people feel about switching to compiz-reloaded?

https://gitlab.com/compiz

Basically they restarted from the 0.8.8 version to avoid all recent
changes which have apparently introduced issues (see
http://compiz-debian.tuxfamily.org/ ). We can probably just take the
packaging from tuxfamily and work in hand with them to maintain it
officially in Debian.

Of course, since this is an older (but maintained) version, some
recent features are not there. Perhaps people can check, by installing
packages from tuxfamily, that everything they need is there?

Samuel

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

[Samuel Henrique]

> > I use gdebi to install local .deb files. It handles the dependencies,
> > too.
>
> As I said already, dpkg does install dependencies. Actually, I don't
> know any (Debian) tool which wouldn't, by default.


I really don't know what you're talking about, dpkg knows nothing about apt
and its repositories, it can't install any dependency.

That's why i recommend using apt to install .deb files.

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Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

[Samuel Henrique]

If you pass a file as parameter to apt install, like:
apt install ./package.deb
It will work, at least on buster.

A partial "mea culpa" ;/
> I was completely focused on Debian tools and never thought of searching
> the whole web.
>
> My gut feeling is still there should be a way to use Debian tools.
>

It would be nice if this was documented on the apt manpage, i have a strong
feeling that it's just a matter of opening a bug report asking for it, or
even better, sending a patch to the maintainers. Whatever suits you better.

Regards,

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Samuel Henrique 

Re: New su behavior in util-linux 2.32

[Samuel Henrique]

>
> There was a lengthy discussion, but within it I don't remember anyone
> detailing the numerous reasons (or any reason at all) executing plain
> 'su' is a "really bad idea," (where I'm reading "really bad idea" to
> mean having unintended and very detrimental consequences to the
> hapless user).
>

I think i missed that discussion, will catch that later.

I would like to suggest that instead of showing only "Doing plain 'su' is a
really bad idea for many reasons" on the NEWS file, one should add some
external reference on why it is a bad idea, because most probably the user
using only "su" is not aware of why it's bad and is left empty handed on
the reasons (obviously they can search online, but that doesn't mean we
can't show the reasoning behind that on NEWS).

I'd really like if Stretch users also received an external URL for
reference or a proper explanation on why this is bad during the
Stretch->Buster upgrade.

There was a lengthy discussion, but within it I don't remember anyone
> detailing the numerous reasons (or any reason at all) executing plain
> 'su' is a "really bad idea," (where I'm reading "really bad idea" to
> mean having unintended and very detrimental consequences to the
> hapless user).


I don't think it's a good idea to expect users to search for that
discussion when they see the NEWS file, we should assume that at the least
they will continue to try using "su" and fallback to "su -" when something
goes wrong, without ever looking for the reasons (and that is what is
actually happening with Brazilian users right now).

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Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

[Samuel]

  
  
could you add a support for wiko
  I have a wiko lenny 4 plus
 

  




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RE: pleasant news

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,
I've just  read the latest news  and I was pleasantly surprised,  please  read 
it here  <http://pol.robimlaw.com/dedf>

Looking forward, Samuel Thibault



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Re: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

[Samuel Bächler]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Felix Miata  wrote:

> Samuel Bächler composed on 2016-10-29 21:56 (UTC+0200):
>
> I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
>> motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
>> installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
>> A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
>> system administrator'. Is there a known problem with GNOME and my graphics
>> adapter?
>>
>
> Is this with Debian 8 Jessie or Debian 7 Wheezy?
>
> [1]
>>
>
> 'lspci' shows in particular 'Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510'. 'dmidecode
>> --type baseboard' shows in particular 'Manufacturer: FUJITSU' and 'Product
>> Name: D3400-B1'.
>>
>
> NAICT from Googling, Jessie's 3.16 kernel is too old to fully support
> Skylake (August 2105 release) CPU features required by Gnome, so you need a
> kernel newer than 4.1 (June 2015), and/or Stretch (currently on 4.7).


I just installed Stretch and can confirm that this works.

Re: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

[Samuel Bächler]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Felix Miata  wrote:

> Samuel Bächler composed on 2016-10-29 21:56 (UTC+0200):
>
> I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
>> motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
>> installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
>> A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
>> system administrator'. Is there a known problem with GNOME and my graphics
>> adapter?
>>
>
> Is this with Debian 8 Jessie or Debian 7 Wheezy?
>
>
Sorry, I forgot to mention that. The system is on Debian 8.


> [1]
>
> 'lspci' shows in particular 'Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510'. 'dmidecode
>> --type baseboard' shows in particular 'Manufacturer: FUJITSU' and 'Product
>> Name: D3400-B1'.
>>
>
> NAICT from Googling, Jessie's 3.16 kernel is too old to fully support
> Skylake (August 2105 release) CPU features required by Gnome, so you need a
> kernel newer than 4.1 (June 2015), and/or Stretch (currently on 4.7).


In that case the kernel I am using is just too old. Thank you.

Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
system administrator'. Is there a known problem with GNOME and my graphics
adapter?

Regards,
Sam

[1]

'lspci' shows in particular 'Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510'. 'dmidecode
--type baseboard' shows in particular 'Manufacturer: FUJITSU' and 'Product
Name: D3400-B1'.

Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510 on GNOME

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

I have got a graphics adapter that is somehow integrated on the
motherboard. [1] On this hardware I can use KDE but no GNOME. When
installing GNOME I get the error message 'Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
system administrator'. Is there a known problem with GNOME and my graphics
adapter?

Regards,
Sam

[1]

'lspci' shows in particular 'Intel Corporation HD Graphics 510'. 'dmidecode
--type baseboard' shows in particular 'Manufacturer: FUJITSU' and 'Product
Name: D3400-B1'.

eeepc 1015pn: no audio cards detected

[Samuel Bernardo]

Dear maintainers,

I'm using debian testing/sid and audio card modules are not being loaded
as extected.
After boot neither pulseaudio or alsa can detect audio card.
Only when I load
modprobe snd-hda-intel; modprobe snd-pcm-oss; snd-mixer-oss
they can detect audio card.

I already try to add that modules to /etc/modules but problem remains.
> cat /etc/modules
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
> # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
> 
> loop
> snd-hda-intel
> snd-pcm-oss
> snd-mixer-oss

This is the diff between modules loaded on boot and after I run modprobe
as I mentioned above:
diff modules.boot modules.after
> 1a2,14
> > snd_hda_codec_hdmi 45118  4
> > snd_hda_codec_realtek63031  1
> > snd_hda_codec_generic63107  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
> > snd_pcm_oss44798  0
> > snd_mixer_oss  22042  1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_hda_intel  26327  14
> > snd_hda_controller 26727  1 snd_hda_intel
> > snd_hda_codec 104463  5
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
> > snd_hwdep  13148  1 snd_hda_codec
> > snd_pcm88662  8
snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
> > snd_timer  26614  1 snd_pcm
> > snd65244  35
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_mixer_oss
> > soundcore  13026  2 snd,snd_hda_codec
> 41c54
> < evdev  17445  21
> ---
> > evdev  17445  25

Since I didn't know what could be the package that can be the source of
the problem I ask you what would be the right one to mention in reportbug.

Best regards,
Samuel



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Fwd: php install

[Samuel Morgan]

Please tell why php5 does not work under apache2 (with engine on)
using this index file:


  
Test Page
  


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all I get is the --- display.

Can you help?

Thanks.

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From: Tollef Fog Heen 
Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: php install
To: Samuel Morgan 
Cc: ad...@db.debian.org


]] Samuel Morgan

> Please tell why php5 does not work under apache2 (with engine on)
> using this index file:

You've reached the people responsible for Debian's account
infrastructure.  You probably want to email debian-user@lists.debian.org
instead.

Cheers,
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UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

C Compiler

[Samuel Morgan]

Hi-

I as sent to you to answer this question:

"
> Where do I get a C Compiler built for DEBIAN Squeeze so I can build other
> packages?  The page(s) GNU
> sends me too either are no longer in service or charge fees.  Can you
help?

Those kinds of questions are better asked on
debian-user@lists.debian.org.

You probably want to install the build-essential package, which gives
you a C compiler amongst other bits.
"

Can you help?   What is build-essential?

Thanks,

Tom

Where is CC and why do my downloads not find it?

[Samuel Morgan]

Hi-

I recently installed DEBIAN Linux on my 386 PC and then
tried to install an Apache web server, as I have on Mac and
Windows, binary and it asked for a C compiler.  Where do I get,
if I really need, a CC binary pre-built?  Seems a bit like
the chicken and the egg.

Can you help?

Thanks.

Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

[Samuel Thibault]

Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 12:43:43 +0100, a écrit :
> On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 12:27:57 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:41:12 +0100, a écrit :
> > > 
> > > Yes, planning ahead is required if you want to stay in X. For a spur of
> > > the moment need for information there is w3m in a terminal.
> > 
> > How do you start a terminal? Going through the main menu is not an
> > option, one often needs to have both the question being asked by debconf
> > and the documentation at hand.
> 
> I should have been clearer: CTRL-ALT-F1

That's not very user friendly.

> With the Xfce Live image the installer window can be minimised. Also,
> it does not cover the task bar at the bottom of the screen, so another
> workspace is selectable. The documentation is only is a URL away.

Ok, but that's not the case with at least gnome/lxde. As mentioned in a
previous mail, that's what this bug could be about (documenting "use
the xfce liveCD" seems quite lazy to me)

Samuel


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Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

[Samuel Thibault]

Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:41:12 +0100, a écrit :
> On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 11:23:10 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:15:44 +0100, a écrit :
> > > 
> > > Boot into a live sytem. Start a browser. Start d-i. ALT-TAB between the
> > > two. Or CTRL-ALT-Fx for a virtual terminal.
> > > The feature you requested exists. Surely the bug could now be closed?
> > 
> > So you need to know in advance that you'll need a browser. If you don't
> > remember starting one, you're stuck in d-i. That's not really a good
> > solution.
> 
> Yes, planning ahead is required if you want to stay in X. For a spur of
> the moment need for information there is w3m in a terminal.

How do you start a terminal? Going through the main menu is not an
option, one often needs to have both the question being asked by debconf
and the documentation at hand.

Samuel


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Re: Bug#687804: installation-reports: users are not able to review external documentation while stuck in the installer

[Samuel Thibault]

Brian, le Wed 19 Sep 2012 10:15:44 +0100, a écrit :
> On Wed 19 Sep 2012 at 03:14:05 +0200, lee wrote:
> 
> > Richard Owlett  writes:
> > 
> > > Should one not be able to switch out of the installation process and
> > > into a browser (2 are already included) to search out answers?
> > 
> > One should be able to.  Since I haven't tried the life-installer yet, I
> > don't know what's possible.  It would be nice if one could switch
> > between the installer and a browser any time after starting the
> > installation.  I wouldn't say it's needed since one can just reboot from
> > the installer into the life system, assuming that one doesn't lose much
> > when doing so.  This assumption might be a bad idea, though.
> 
> Boot into a live sytem. Start a browser. Start d-i. ALT-TAB between the
> two. Or CTRL-ALT-Fx for a virtual terminal.
> The feature you requested exists. Surely the bug could now be closed?

So you need to know in advance that you'll need a browser. If you don't
remember starting one, you're stuck in d-i. That's not really a good
solution.

Samuel


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"Unable to connect" wrong IP address in OpenMPI of Squeeze

[(Samuel) Byeongjun Park]

Hi,
I don't know whether this is a bug or my setting problem.
So I want to check this before reporting bug.

This is the error message from mpirun

[[22878,1],3][../../../../../../ompi/mca/btl/tcp/btl_tcp_endpoint.c:589:mca_
btl_tcp_endpoint_start_connect] from ray003 to: gamma00 Unable to connect to
the peer 10.51.111.1 on port 4: Network is unreachable

gamma00 has several different IP address with virtual interfaces.
eth2   = 10.51.1.1  - MPI network
eth2:0  = 10.51.2.1
eth2:1 = 10.51.111.1

Since ray003 is in 10.51.1.0 network, they should connect gamma00 using
10.51.1.1.
I also specified it in /etc/hosts in ray003.

This is an new thing for Squeeze, The same configuration was working with
Lenny.

Another thing I found was that it didn't recognize the default host file at
/etc/openmpi/openmpi-default-hostfile
It worked after I manually added the line
   orte_default_hostfile = /etc/openmpi/openmpi-default-hostfile
in the /etc/openmpi/openmpi-mca-params.conf

Is there anybody have an answer for these?

Sam Park.

-- Innovation for the Future Radiation Oncology  (
<http://rophys.meds.case.edu/> http://rophys.meds.case.edu)

(Samuel) Byeongjun Park, Ph.D.  -- Research associate of Sohn Lab.

Case Western Reserve Univerisity, School of Medicine

Visiting: Wood building W517,  Phone: 1-216-368-6583

 

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

[Samuel Thibault]

Stefan Monnier, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:58:14 -0400, a écrit :
> >> > for much.  But I am opposed to the removal of lilo.
> >> > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside
> >> > of the master boot record (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1).  In other
> >> > words they use cylinder 0, head 0, sector 2 and possibly subsequent
> >> > sectors on cylinder 0 head 0.
> >> Really?
> > Yes.
> 
> That sucks.
> 
> >> and it sounds very odd: why would they do that when they can use
> >> sectors on specified partitions?
> > Because the question is "where?".
> 
> Inside a file, like LILO does.
> 
> > The lilo approach is "inside the filesystem", which can break.
> > The grub approach is "right after MBR", which needs room there.
> 
> But you can install Grub in a partition (rather than the MBR), so how
> does it work then?

Grub1 could because it was small enough to fit in a well-known usable
area in the ext2fs filesystem, but grub2 can not any more.

> >> grub (legacy) can be installed in any partition. IIUC grub2 is limited to 
> >> being installed in the MBR.
> > Due to the differing sizes, yes.
> 
> Why does the size make any difference?

Because the availabnle well-known areas have limited size.

> At least for the Lilo-like technique, size is not an issue.

Yes, but the file moving in the filesystem is an issue.

Samuel


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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

[Samuel Thibault]

Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit :
> In article ,
> Ferenc Wagner   wrote:
> >
> >Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself.  If there's anything
> >which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the
> >Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists.  I suppose it will be heard.
> 
> Does either grub2 or syslinux allow for single-key booting?

It is available in the experimental branch of grub2.

Samuel


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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

[Samuel Thibault]

Frans Pop, le Thu 27 May 2010 01:32:17 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Because the question is "where?".  The lilo approach is "inside the
> > filesystem", which can break. The grub approach is "right after MBR",
> > which needs room there.
> 
> grub (legacy) can be installed in any partition. IIUC grub2 is limited to 
> being installed in the MBR.

Due to the differing sizes, yes.

Samuel


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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

[Samuel Thibault]

Stefan Monnier, le Wed 26 May 2010 14:23:44 -0400, a écrit :
> > for much.  But I am opposed to the removal of lilo.  Both grub-legacy and
> > grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record
> > (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1).  In other words they use cylinder 0, head 0,
> > sector 2 and possibly subsequent sectors on cylinder 0 head 0.
> 
> Really?

Yes.

> Never heard of it,

It's called stage 1.5, which contains the code for the filesystem
support.

> and it sounds very odd: why would they do
> that when they can use sectors on specified partitions?

Because the question is "where?".  The lilo approach is "inside the
filesystem", which can break. The grub approach is "right after MBR",
which needs room there.

Samuel


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Re: extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2"))

[Samuel Thibault]

Bjørn Mork, le Wed 26 May 2010 10:45:49 +0200, a écrit :
> Just comparing http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git with
> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ should IMHO give more
> than enough information to choose extlinux over grub2

I don't understand what you mean here.

Samuel


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repeated ATA errors debian lenny

[samuel]

Hi all,

Recently a couple of new machines came to my hands, HP DL 180 G6 with 500Gb
SATA hard disk, and I tried to setup a 2-nodes ganeti cluster with debian
lenny.

Default 2-6-26 kernel does work without any issue.

I've done a fresh installation with nothing more than the basics (vim and
less ;) ) and after a aptitude install ganeti, editing xen-config.xsp and
grub xen options, upon restarting I get the following error on the screen:

Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.381987] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0
SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.382163] ata3.00: cmd
a0/00:00:00:24:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.382164]  cdb 12 00 00 00 24 00
00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.382165]  res
40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.382595] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.382727] ata3: hard resetting link
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.858982] ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps
(SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.914096] ata3.00: configured for PIO0
Apr 15 13:24:56 virt8 kernel: [  297.914235] ata3: EH complete

The installed versions are:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-xen-686
xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-i386
ganeti  1.2.6-3+lenny2
ganeti-instance-debootstrap 0.5-1
drbd8-utils 2:8.0.14-2+lenny1

I upgraded to kernel 2-6-26-2 to see whether it solved the issue without
success.
I also tried booting with clocksource=acpi_pm. I've also just tried
acpi=off, pci=nosmi, and nocpi as suggests the ata kernel website without
much success.

I've checked through internet and found the following:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480317

It should be solved because hipervisor version 3.2 is higher than the one
solving the issue (3.0.3) unless redhat's version differ much from the
debian ones in minnor versionwhich i don't think.


Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

Thank you in advance!!

Samuel

Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Samuel Bächler]

I need to convert an HTML document to PDF from the CLI. Currently, I
am using a Firefox extension to do this:
http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2

However, this has many drawbacks and I would like to remove the
dependency on Firefox. These are other solutions that I have looked
into, and their problems:

1) CUPS
Prints the HTML, not the formatted output. It treats the whole document as text.

2) html2ps
Does not work with UTF-8 text! My native language cannot be
represented in Latin or Japanese characters.

3) Open Office
Requires either a macro or a wrapper script, both which are
problematic and change each new OOo version (which I update often).

4) convert (from imagemagick)
Does not support UTF-8!

5) gnome-web-print
Slight formating problems with HTML tables. However, it is my
runner-up so far as it is the only other solution that works at all.


On http://www.unicodetools.com/#html they mention a tool called iconv.
Maybe you can convert your utf-8 encoded text to whatever html2ps can
handle with iconv?

Sam


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Re: Convert HTML to PDF from CLI?

[Samuel Bächler]

I missed the beginning of the thread, but why not html2ps?


And then ps2pdf...


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[OT] imap-server for short message services?

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

Does anyone know if there exists a kind of imap-server for sms' (the one 
you can send and

receive on your mobile phone)?

If this kind of server exists one can receive, write and delete sms' 
from your mobile phone

but also using a computer.

Cheers

Sam


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Hardware Firewall Suggestions

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

I have 2 Computers behind a Firewall (currently D-Link DFL-200). Consider
one of them having IP-address 192.168.1.10 and the other having 
192.168.1.11.

On both computers there is a ftp-server running. I want connect to the first
by `foous...@192.168.1.10:21', to the second by 
`foous...@192.168.1.11:2121'.

After fiddling around for some time I am wondering if my idea can be
implemented using a D-Link DFL-200 Firewall.

Did any of you configure successfully a Firewall the following way:

- If request is on port 21 connect to ftp-server with IP-address 
192.168.1.10
- If request is on port 2121 connect to ftp-server with IP-address 
192.168.1.11


If yes, whats the name of it and is there a sound howto about it?

Looking forward to your inputs.

Regards

Sam


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Re: livecd accessibility

[Samuel Thibault]

Osamu Aoki, le Sat 25 Apr 2009 01:07:40 +0900, a écrit :
> As I understand, there is option for Braille installer. (I think it was
> choice fot image with GUI installer)

The braille installer is available in _all_ images. The speech installer
is only available with the GUI installer.

As for the liveCD, see the thread starting at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/2008/09/msg00013.html

Samuel


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Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

[Samuel Bächler]

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:


[snip]
There are a limited number of place where a piece of software can leak
info:

1.  to /tmp:Its encrypted
2.  to /var/tmp:Its encrypted
3.  to somewhere on ~/  I have /home encrypted
4.  left in swapits encrypted
5.  in a core dump after a crash:   use ulimit (see man bash) to
limit core dump size to 0


So, encrypting one to five as mentioned by Doug above the
use of easypg will be more secure. Am I right?

sam


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Re: Adding a user

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Frank

Frank McCormick wrote:

Running Squeeze - tried to add a user today using the graphical front
end under Gksudo ...everything except properties was grayed out.

I have implemented root on this machine - so I modified GDM to allow
root logons...same result.

What am I missing here?
  


Why don't you add user in the console environment? See `man adduser' or
`man useradd'.

sam


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Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

[Samuel Bächler]

Thanks a lot to everyone!

Just as a short description:
I installed easypg. In the console environment I type `emacs keys.pgp'.
This starts emacs and prompts for passphrase of `keys.pgp'. After entering
the passphrase you can edit your file with the passwords. When you are
finished with altering the password-file type `ctrl+x ctrl+s' and close
emacs.

sam


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Re: Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

[Samuel Bächler]

Thanks for the inputs so far.

On Axels input I modified the script:

#!/bin/sh
gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null
emacs keys
rm keys.gpg
gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys
srm keys # *secure*rm keys
srm keys~# *secure*rm keys~

Drawback: During the time one works on the list `keys' it is readable
at `/path/to/keys'.

Is there a way to pipe the output of `gpg keys.gpg' directly to emacs
somehow like `gpg keys.gpg | emacs'?

Cheers

Sam



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Decrypt, Edit and Encrypt a File

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear Everyone

I store logins and passwords of some dozen of Web-Services in
an encrypted file. I used to use kgpg to read and update this file.

Some weeks ago I found on debian-security [1] the following script:

#!/bin/sh
gpg keys.gpg > /dev/null
emacs keys
rm keys.gpg
gpg -r "user-ID" -e keys
rm keys

What do you guys think is this approach reasonably secure? I like
the script above because it is rather simple.

Inputs will be appreciated.

Cheers

Sämi

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2000/09/msg00023.html


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Issues with Egroupware and Lenny

[Samuel Torton]

Hi, 

I have installed eGroupware on a Debian Lenny distribution. 
   Apache2 : 2.2.9
   PHP5: 5.2.6
   php-net-sieve

   Php-pear
   cyrus-imapd-2.2: 2.2.13
   eGroupWare: 1.4.004 (et tous ses modules)
   slapd: 2.4.11
   mysql-server-5.0: 5.0.51
   postfix 2.5.5

 

Well. all updated Lenny packages, necessary for Egroupware + LDAP
authentication + Cyrus IMAP 2.2 for messaging.


Most functionnalities seem to be OK, except 4 or 5... 
I just wonder whether issues are due to bad settings, or due to bugs on EGW
debian packages. 
Here are below my issues descriptions: 


. FelaMimail - filter rules cannot display 
Sieve works fine, I can install sieve scripts with sieveshell command line. 
When users receive emails, Cyrus + IMAP + Sieve filter rules work fine, and
email are filtered OK. 
My problem: from EGW interface, whatever the user, it's impossible to list
filter rules in Felamimail interface (list empty), impossible to create new
rules, ... If I open the popup window to create a new rule, the popup
disappears as soon as I save... but nothing is saved. 
Note: sieve is activated in the mailadmin interface. 
Is it better to use Debian sieve package (php-net-sieve), or Pear package
(Net_Sieve) ?


. FelaMimail - vacation rules cannot display 
The same problem as described above. 

. Calendar : 
If I setup an alarm on an appointment (ie. 2 hours before), is it normal to
receive an email every 5 minutes until the appointment ? Is it a normal
behaviour ? A bug ? Bad settings ? ... 

. Calendar : 
If I setup an appointment with no attendee, my popup window cleanly
disappears, and my main window is automatically refreshed and I see the new
appointment. 
If I setup an appointment with some attendees, my popup windows becomes
blank, I need to close it, and I need to refresh the main window so that the
new appointment appears on the main window. 
(I sniffed server side, an error 500 occurs on Apache). 
Is it an egroupware bug ? specific to Debian Lenny ? 

. Calendar : 
If I remove an appointment with no attendee, no problem, it works fine. 
If I try to remove an appointment with some attendees, my popup window
becomes blank, I need to close it, and when I refresh th emain window, the
appointment has not been removed ! What is more surprising, is that the
appointment can only be removed by an attendee !!! 
Is it an egroupware bug ? specific to Debian Lenny ? Bad settings from me ? 



 

The problem with all my issues, is that logs are not very verbose.



Thank you very much for your answers. 

Regards, 
Samuel Torton

 

 

Re: TV tuner card

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Allan

Allan Xavier Aguilar Castillo wrote:
 Hello, there! My question is this: how can I install my tv tuner 
card. Is the ATV-TUNER-FV model of Advantek Networks [1]. Thank you!
It looks like that people of this list think you should start at "How To 
Ask Questions The Smart Way" [1].


Cheers

Sam

[1] www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html


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Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

[Samuel Bächler]

Zaki Akhmad wrote:

I am installing Debian AMD64 testing on my HP Proliant ML110. I try to
run x-window on this machine. I've installed kde. But then the GUI
won't show up.


Samuel Bächler wrote:
What do you mean by "GUI (General User Interface) won't show
up"?

Only the terminal, shows up.


Does 'startx' at the command line interface work?

s.


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Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

[Samuel Bächler]

Zaki Akhmad wrote:

I am installing Debian AMD64 testing on my HP Proliant ML110. I try to
run x-window on this machine. I've installed kde. But then the GUI
won't show up.
  

What do you mean by "GUI (General User Interface) won't show
up"?

I've done this
# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

But it didn't display resolution. Here's my lspci resutl
$ lspci
..
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200e [Pilot]
ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 02).
  



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Re: Mounting an old external USB drive

[Samuel Bächler]

S D wrote:

Am trying to mount an old BusLink USB drive but can't determine what device the USB drive 
is connected to, that is, the device that I'd pass to the mount command. I tried 
"fdisk -l" but it only appears to show my other internal HDs.
  

Here is one (though unsexy) way to do it:

(1) Press M-C-F1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) on your keyboard
(2) Plug in your stick
(3) Wait...

If something is popping up on your screen...maybe your are lucky.

Doing things mentioned above on my system I see things like

SCSI device sdb:...
[and]
sdb: sdb1

From that stick I know that I can mount it by the command
'mount /dev/sdb1 /path/to/where/I/want/to/have/it'

Hope that helps.

Sam




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Re: Test thunderbird

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Jesus

Jesus arteche wrote:
I'd like to test how good thunderbird is with a huge amount of 
mails...Someone knows how can i test this...my idea is send a small 
files (10-mb) frequently to test this...but i dont know how to do 
this...someone has anyidea?

Here is one way to do it:
1. Setup a mail-sever on a old box [1].
2. Configure that server in a way that it does not refuse to send 100s 
of 1000s of mails.


[1] If you never set up a mail-server take the one deeproot.in is 
hacking on. In fact a smtp-server

maybe would be just enough.



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Re: latex/maketextfm problem

[Samuel Bächler]

Peter Robinson wrote:

kpathsea: Running mktextfm hv
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation v 
for hv.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update 
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/map/fontname/special.map?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; 
nonstopmode; input hv

This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf hv
! I can't find file `hv'.
<*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input hv
Find out what this file 'hv' is needed for. Maybe your template is a old 
one and hv is somehow

not needed anymore.


Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input hv

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: hv.log: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; 
input hv' failed to make hv.tfm.

kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font \footnotefont=hv at 6.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not 
found.

l.163 \font\footnotefont\frutigermed at 6pt
For me one thing seems quite clear: the hv-file (whatever it is) is 
missing. Install it or try to do

it without it. Hope this will help.

Cheers

Sam


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Re: How can I clean the cache of debtorrent?

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Simon

I just saw that there is a debtorrent-specific mailing-list. I never
used debtorrent before

Simon Pepping @ Home wrote:

How can I clean the cache of debtorrent? I did this by find, also cleaning
empty directories, but that was too aggressive, and brought debtorrent in a
non-startable state:

2008-10-18 09:37:35,499 MainThread DebTorrent.launchmanycore ERROR SYSTEM
ERROR - EXCEPTION GENERATED
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/DebTorrent/download_bt1.py", line
952, in loadState
d = self.pickled_data['resume data']['priority']
KeyError: 'resume data'

Or maybe it was due to the fact that I forgot to stop debtorrent client when
I did the cleanup. I solved the problem by purging and reinstalling
debtorrent. Maybe it would have sufficed to bring the cache back to a clean
state: /var/cache/debtorrent/.DebTorrent/{data,piece,torrent}cache?

Which parts of the cache must be kept? Can you suggestions for a good script
for this, that can run in a cron job?

Regards, Simon Pepping
  



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Re: Problems in Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Masatran

Masatran / Deepak, R. wrote:

I recently installed Debian Lenny XFCE I386 Weekly 20080922 alongside Debian
Etch. I use Sawfish with XFCE panel, Thunar, etc. I have these problems:

  

Do not put all your questions in one email. Moreover your mail looks
like you did not try hard enough by yourself. Tough I must confess
that I do by far not consider myself to be a first class hacker I did
not understand much of your questions.

1. Some XFCE icons are missing, including "Show Desktop". Thunar shows the
   same icon (sheet of paper) for everything.

2. MPD won't play. Sonata says "No Read Permission". I copied the config
   from Etch but it doesn't work. NMap shows nothing running on port 6600.

3. CHBG is missing . The
   Etch version has dependency problems. The experimental version is missing
   the I386 version. I tried QIV but the wallpaper doesn't show up through
   translucent XFCE terminal.

4. Firefox takes me to a web page that says that it is an alpha build. But I
   thought that Lenny is frozen? Am I misunderstanding something?

5. LUKS couldn't decrypt my home partition; I thought I had lost all my data
   :-( Etch was able to read it fine. However, when I rebooted into Lenny,
   the partition worked fine.


sam


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Re: ALSA not working properly

[Samuel Bächler]

[snip at lot], :-)]


 Moving on to option 2, simply upgrade the alsa driver. Many patches
 have been added to the alsa driver since 1.0.12rc1, particularly with
 reference to the snd-hda-intel module, so go to the link below, and
 download alsa driver 1.0.17, which is the current stable version.

 http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page

 I'd suggest creating a new folder in your /home/user directory for
 this Alsa stuff. I simply name mine Alsa-drivers, and download all
 the Alsa packages into this folder/directory.

 You now need to install some packages, so as to get your newly
 downloaded alsa driver built, and installed.

 Su to root on the CLI, and open synaptic, and install the following
 packages. build-essential kernel-package linux-headers-2.6.18-6

 That done, close synaptic,and run apt-get install
 linux-headers-$(uname -r)

 This will install the headers for your kernel.

 Now to build, and install the 1.0.17 alsa driver.

 As user, cd to where you downloaded the driver, then do: tar xjvf
 alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2

 A new folder/directory has now been created, so do:

 cd alsa-driver-1.0.17

 Now type: ./configure, and when that runs to completion, type: make,
 which may take some time. When make completes, with hopefully no
 errors, su to root, and type make install. If all has gone well, and
 after a reboot, (using the Etch kernel, not the musix one, if you've
 also installed that) running cat /proc/asound/version should now show
 the alsa driver as 1.0.17.

 Now you may, or may not have better control of sounds on your T60.

That seems to work on my laptop. See threat *Compiling alsa-driver-1.0.17
for Debian etch* on this list for details.

Big *thank you* goes to Nigel.

Cheers

Sam


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Compiling alsa-driver-1.0.17 for Debian etch

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

*This email just sums up what I did to compile the alsa-driver-1.0.17 
with the hope that it might
be useful to someone else.* (1) to (6) is information provided by Nigel  
Henry  (see 'Alsa not
working properly' on debian-user@lists.debian.org).  I am using etch 
(see system information).


Following Nigel I:
(1) Downloaded alsa driver 1.0.17 to /path/to/alsa_driver.
(2) Installed build-essential, kernel-package and linux-headers-2.6.18-6.
(3) Changed to /path/to/alsa_driver and unpacked tar-file using 'tar 
xjvf  alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2'.

(4) Changed to alsa-driver-1.0.17 (directory with unpacked files).
(5) Typed './configure'.
(6) Typed 'make'.

After (6) I got the following error-messages:

/path/to/Alsa_drivers/alsa-driver-1.0.17/acore/rtctimer.c:4: error: 
redefinition of 'is_power_of_2'
/path/to/Alsa_drivers/alsa-driver-1.0.17/include/adriver.h:1424: error: 
previous definition of 'is_power_of_2' was here
make[3]: *** [/path/to/Alsa_drivers/alsa-driver-1.0.17/acore/rtctimer.o] 
Fehler 1

make[2]: *** [/path/to/Alsa_drivers/alsa-driver-1.0.17/acore] Fehler 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/path/to/Alsa_drivers/alsa-driver-1.0.17] Fehler 2
make: *** [compile] Fehler 2

By commenting out (/* static inline ... */)
static inline int is_power_of_2(unsigned long n)
{
   return (n != 0 && ((n & (n - 1)) == 0));
}
in '/path/to/Alsa_drivers/alsa-driver-1.0.17/acore/rtctimer.c' I typed 
'make' again and everything worked fine.


(7) Typed 'make install' to complete the job.
(8) Rebooted the laptop.
(9) Saw the right version nr in '/proc/asound/version'
(10) Alsa control seemed to work better so far.

s.

System information
 *uname -a* tells me that I am using *Linux foosys 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP 
Thu Oct 9 15:52:18 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux*.



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Re: ALSA not working properly

[Samuel Bächler]

Nigel,

Thanks.


 Hi Sam. If the above doesn't change anything on your T60 for the
 sounds, there are a couple of options I can suggest, both of which
 I've tried, and work. Not on a T60 admittadly, but on an Asus M2N-X
 Plus mobo, with hda intel Azalia soundcard.


Especially the second approach seems interesting to me. I will check
that out let you know about pains and successes.


 So to work, and this is the first thing I tried. Add the following
 line to /etc/apt/sources.list.

 deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./

 All you want from the above repo is a kernel, and the one I installed
 has alsa driver 1.0.16, which resolved my problem, and may resolve
 yours.

 Next, do an apt-get update, then open synaptic. The kernel I
 installed was, as below. linux-image-2.6.26.2-rt1-libre1

 Having installed this kernel, make sure to go back into
 /etc/apt/sources.list, and comment out the musix repo line, by
 putting a # at the start of the line. I cannot stress this enough, as
 if you do an apt-get dist-upgrade with the musix repo still active,
 you could possibly find packages being updated from the musix repo,
 and oftentimes can cause problems.

 Ok. Now the new kernel is installed,  reboot using your newly
 installed kernel, and see if your sounds are working any better than
 before.

 Moving on to option 2, simply upgrade the alsa driver. Many patches
 have been added to the alsa driver since 1.0.12rc1, particularly with
 reference to the snd-hda-intel module, so go to the link below, and
 download alsa driver 1.0.17, which is the current stable version.

 http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page

 I'd suggest creating a new folder in your /home/user directory for
 this Alsa stuff. I simply name mine Alsa-drivers, and download all
 the Alsa packages into this folder/directory.

 You now need to install some packages, so as to get your newly
 downloaded alsa driver built, and installed.

 Su to root on the CLI, and open synaptic, and install the following
 packages. build-essential kernel-package linux-headers-2.6.18-6

 That done, close synaptic,and run apt-get install
 linux-headers-$(uname -r)

 This will install the headers for your kernel.

 Now to build, and install the 1.0.17 alsa driver.

 As user, cd to where you downloaded the driver, then do: tar xjvf
 alsa-driver-1.0.17.tar.bz2

 A new folder/directory has now been created, so do:

 cd alsa-driver-1.0.17

 Now type: ./configure, and when that runs to completion, type: make,
 which may take some time. When make completes, with hopefully no
 errors, su to root, and type make install. If all has gone well, and
 after a reboot, (using the Etch kernel, not the musix one, if you've
 also installed that) running cat /proc/asound/version should now show
 the alsa driver as 1.0.17.

 Now you may, or may not have better control of sounds on your T60.

 I don't have a Lenovo T60 laptop, so these are only suggestions given
 with the hope that they may be of some help in resolving your
 problem.

 You asked where I'd found the model options for the AD1981 codec. I
 assume you have downloaded the 1.0.17 driver, and unpacked it using
 tar xjvf, which creates a new folder/directory. Click on the new
 directory, then on alsa-kernel, then Documentation, then
 ALSA-Configuration.txt.

 All the best.

 Nigel.


Regards,

Sam.


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Re: ALSA not working properly

[Samuel Bächler]

Nigel, Florian, thank you so far for the hints.

Nigel Henry wrote:

 On Wednesday 15 October 2008
 16:41, Samuel Bächler wrote:
> Dear All
>
> I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply
> clicking on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that
> specific file. But, sometimes it does not. There are three
> sound-bottoms on my keyboard: mute, volume-up and volume-down.
> In my opinion the sound problems occur whenever I boot the laptop
> when the mute-bottom was pressed the last time I used the laptop.
> On the other hand sound seems to work fine whenever the
> volume-up-bottom was pressed at least once the last time I used the 

laptop.

 [snip]

 Before I ramble on, could you open alsamixer on the CLI, and confirm
 that the chipset is AD1981.


The chipset is AD1981.


 Looking at model options for AD1981 with alsa driver 1.0.15, I see:

>   basic  3-jack (default)
> hp  HP nx6320 thinkpad

 Lenovo Thinkpad T60/X60/Z60

> toshiba Toshiba U205

Where does one find such information?


 These options are unlikely to work with the 1.0.12rc1, but your
 welcome to try the one for the thinkpad.


My version is 1.0.13.


 Su to root on the CLI,Konsole, or Terminal. Navigate to
 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, and at the bottom of the alsa-base file
 add the following line.

 options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad

 Save the changes, and reboot.

 I suggested the option above from the alsa driver 1.0.15, so this may
 not change anything for you, and you may have to upgrade the alsa
 driver, but lets see how this goes.

 Nigel.


I check this now.

Thanks a lot.

Sam


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ALSA not working properly

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

I have an etch installed on a lenovo T60. Most of the times simply clicking
on a mp3-file in konqueror [1] will start playing that specific file. 
But, sometimes

it does not.
There are three sound-bottoms on my keyboard: mute, volume-up and 
volume-down.

In my opinion the sound problems occur whenever I boot the laptop when the
mute-bottom was pressed the last time I used the laptop. On the other 
hand sound
seems to work fine whenever the volume-up-bottom was pressed at least 
once the

last time I used the laptop.

Any hints?

Moreover I can provide you with the output of a script I found at 
alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Aadebug:


ALSA Audio Debug v0.1.0 - Mit Okt 15 15:29:33 CEST 2008
http://alsa.opensrc.org/aadebug
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

Kernel 
Linux ... 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 15:52:18 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Loaded Modules 
snd_hda_intel  17332  2
snd_hda_codec 137856  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss38368  0
snd_mixer_oss  15200  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm68676  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy   3844  0
snd_seq_oss28768  0
snd_seq_midi8192  0
snd_rawmidi22560  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event  7008  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq45680  6 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event

snd_timer  20996  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device  7820  5 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd47012  13 
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device

snd_page_alloc 10184  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

Modprobe Conf -
Warning: module config file does not exist
This means any kernel modules will not be auto loaded
See your linux distro docs on how to create this file

Proc Asound ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.12rc1 (Thu Jun 22 
13:55:50 2006 UTC).

0 [Intel]:HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
 HDA Intel at 0xee40 irq 66
 0: [ 0]   : control
 1:: sequencer
16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
33:: timer
00-01: AD198x Digital : AD198x Digital : playback 1
00-00: AD198x Analog : AD198x Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
Client info
 cur  clients : 3
 peak clients : 3
 max  clients : 192

Client   0 : "System" [Kernel]
 Port   0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
 Port   1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
   Connecting To: 15:0
Client  14 : "Midi Through" [Kernel]
 Port   0 : "Midi Through Port-0" (RWe-)
Client  15 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
 Port   0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
   Connected From: 0:1

Dev Snd ---
controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  pcmC0D1p  seq  timer

CPU ---
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200  @ 2.00GHz
cpu MHz: 1000.000
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200  @ 2.00GHz
cpu MHz: 1000.000

RAM ---
MemTotal:  2075828 kB
SwapTotal: 3243200 kB

Hardware --
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 
945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03


Cheers

Sam

[1] Default file-manager by KDE


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Re: Can't start X-Server as normal user

[Samuel Bächler]

> # startx ...works $ startx ...does not In
> /home/sam/.xsession-errors I can see Xsession: X session started
> for sam at Fre Jul 25 09:07:21 CEST 2008 open: Permission denied

 Now, I saw somewhere on the web[1] that chmod 1777 /tmp might solve
 the problem. I remember that I was not able to write to /tmp after
 the problem came.



That did the job.

s.


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Re: Debian on Lenovo Thinkcentre 6078

[Samuel Ribas]

Ok,

I made an alternative solution, building another install image from
bussinesscard.iso, avaliable as busscard-intell82566DM2.iso at
http://www.transbrasilvirtual.org/debian/busscard-intell82566DM2.iso, today
at 23:55 (-3).

Thanks all!
Samuel.

2008/5/27 cody chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Samuel Ribas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Installing Debian on Lenovo Thinkcentre 6078, the installer can´t find
> > network card modules. The network card its an Intell 82566DM-2 Gigabit
> > network Conection. Somebody have some issue about this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Samuel Ribas
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> according to
> (
> http://www.nabble.com/Bug-469143:-Daily-builds-lack-e1000e-nic-driver-td15802877.html
> )
> this driver isn't inlcuded in the netinst, yet. check the page out for
> more info.
>



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Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

[Samuel Bächler]

 You mean guru.com?


Thanks for the input Steve. Guru.com is interesting to see if it
works and how it works. But of course I would like to see it
implemented in a FOSS way.

s.







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Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

[Samuel Bächler]

The idea which came to my mind some time ago was to establish a marketplace
where "geeks" meet "normal" users.


You invented the mailing list?
  

That' s not what I meant. By the term "normal" user I am thinking of
someone who sees some advantages of using a computer but does not
want to make his living out of it. Therefore that person maybe is willing
to spend some of his wage to the other person who loves computers and
therefore will solve tasks somewhat faster than others.
And one last point: Think as well of small companies as customers rather
than of yourself who of course is embedded in a network of friends who know
a lot about IT to.

Sam


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Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

[Samuel Bächler]

Here it is, no error messages: 

Now, what lead to the solution?

s.


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Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

[Samuel Bächler]

>> Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done
>> The following packages are BROKEN: libhsqldb-java
>> openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core
>> openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress
>> openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
>> openoffice.org-writer python-uno
>
> Try to uninstall all the broken packages by typing something like
> 'aptitude remove --purge '.
>
> Then try again 'aptitude install openoffice'.
>

 Thank you very much for the advice. However, I am still having the
 same problem: 'aptitude remove --purge ' does not fix the
 problem. The problem with the unmet dependencies

 libstlport4.6c2
 libxt-java
 libmdbtools
 libportaudio0


Maybe there are some mirrors missing in your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
And read also http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/.

s.



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Re: problems installing openoffice.org in etch

[Samuel Bächler]

 Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The
 following packages are BROKEN: libhsqldb-java openoffice.org-base
 openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw
 openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
 openoffice.org-writer python-uno


Try to uninstall all the broken packages by typing something like
'aptitude remove --purge '.

Then try again 'aptitude install openoffice'.

Maybe this will help.

Cheers

Sam



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[OT] FOSS Marketplace

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi everyone

I am using debian etch for everyday task since 2005. As more
as I learn about computer I realize that one can do all the things
on e can do with the other proprietary systems. The only drawback
of FOSS is that it is sometimes harder to configure. The idea which
came to my mind some time ago was to establish a marketplace
where "geeks" meet "normal" users.
On the marketplace people could ask: "Who can set up a mythTV
media center for me?" Questions like this aren't asked on lists
(e.g. debian-users) which brought myself to the idea that maybe
there is a market for such problems.
Such a marketplace would help to promote FOSS. A drawback of it
is that money is going to be involved but probably this kind of
drawback will be reduced by an intelligent control structures.
Does something like this already exist in the FOSS world? Do you
consider this as a rather sound or a rather stupid idea?

Cheers

Sam


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Kept back packages

[Samuel Bächler]

Dear All

I did
# aptitude update
# aptitude upgrade
[...snip...]
The following packages have been kept back:
 ipw3945-modules-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6-686
[...snip...]

Shall I do a
# aptitude dist-upgrade
to install the packages mentioned above?

Regards

Sam


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Re: Configuring Wireless Dlink

[Samuel Bächler]

 debian:~# iwconfig sit0 essid Corporation Error for wireless request
 "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device sit0 ; Invalid argument.

...

 debian:~# iwconfig sit0 key Corporation Error for wireless request
 "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "chave"


Make sure that sit0 really is the name of the device.

I do not understand what you are doing in the above

My wireless network is configured as follows:

Name of the Network (configured on the router): foo-net
Encryption: WEP
First WEP-Key: 1BA45646

Thus, as root you type the following:
# iwconfig sit0 essid foo-net key 1BA45646
# dhclient sit0

On my system "essid" is not alway set propererly therefore
check with by doing iwconfig sit0.

s.


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Re: X & interesting problem

[Samuel Bächler]

 Number one : I'm using Debian lenny repository. My desktop is gnome &
 my desktop manager is gdm. When i don't X server, it means i work
 with just console, i can switch to other consoles(with
 CTRL+ALT+F1...F7) But when i start gdm it means my X is up, i can't
 switch to other consoles.


By default [1] things work like this:

* If you are on X you can switch to say tty1 by pressing "CTRL+ALT+F1".
* If you are on tty1 you can switch to tty2 by pressing "ALT+F2".
* If you are on tty2 you can switch back to X by pressing "ALT+F7".

I am stating this because your description was not clear enough for me. So,
doesn't it work like this on your computer?


 Number two: Somtimes my monitor is became blank. Even i run reboot
 command or i run init 6, It is became blank.


You need to be more precise! Maybe it's your X configuration, maybe it's a
hardware issue.

s.

[1] As far as I know.


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Re: Slow Name Resolution - I guess

[Samuel Bächler]

 and you can check the file /etc/resolv.conf and try to add more DNS
 servers. For example, the ones from OpenDNS [1]:

 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220


Thanks, Sergio that helped!

S.




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Slow Name Resolution - I guess

[Samuel Bächler]

Hoi Everyone

Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser
and type www.foo.bar.
Now, my problem begins:
Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..."
In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite
a lot of time (more than 15 seconds).
Now, I suppose that something is going wrong with the name
resolution on my laptop.
I also tested the "Looking-up" process at another place meaning that
I was using another cable-connection. The behavior was the
same as at home. Therefore, I conclude that something must
be wrong with the configuration of my laptop.

What shall I check?

Regards

Sam


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Re: Jpeg to pdf filter?

[Samuel Bächler]

 Is there such a utility that can convert a scaned image (saved in
 jpeg) to a pdf format?


As far as I know sam2p [1] is one of the best for that kind of jobs.

s.

[1] http://www.inf.bme.hu/~pts/sam2p



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Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

[Samuel Bächler]

 Is the vfat module loaded? You might want to check the filesystem
 type with "file -s /dev/sdb1". Also are you able to access the files
 on any other system? If the data on the usb drive is not important,
 then try formatting it. "mkdosfs /dev/sdb1" will create a fat16
 filesystem while mke2fs will create an ext2 partition.


Thanks a lot! I learned quite a lot this weekend, :-).

Summary of mistakes:
(1) I wanted to mount a wrong device (sda1 instead of sdb1).
(2) Did not have the vfat module and the usb_storage module loaded.

Cheers

Sam


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Re: Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

[Samuel Bächler]

Thanks for your many inputs so far!


 Are you sure /dev/sda1 is your usb stick and not your primary hard
 disk?  Do a tail -f /var/log/syslog and then plugin your memory
 stick. That will give you some info as to what the actual device is.


Your are right, Raj, sda* is my harddisk. Shame on me...


 Is kernel module usb_storage loaded (or built into the kernel)? What
 version of Debian are you running? The real console, or a GUI? What
 happens to syslog when you insert the memory stick?


Thanks, Ron, I did not 'modprobe usb_storage'. I am using etch and work
on the console.

Hitherto I learned a lot. But it still does not work. On the 'Konsole 
Terminal

Programm' of KDE I did the folling things:

# tail -f /var/log/syslog
Then  I inserted the stick...
Dec  2 12:28:29 ataraxia kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device 
using uhci_hcd and address 7
Dec  2 12:28:30 ataraxia kernel: usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 
choice
Dec  2 12:28:30 ataraxia kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices

Dec  2 12:28:30 ataraxia kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7
Dec  2 12:28:30 ataraxia kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to 
settle before scanning
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel:   Vendor: USB 2.0   Model: Flash 
DiskRev: 2.00
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel:   Type:   
Direct-Access  ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: SCSI device sdb: 249120 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (128 MB)

Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: SCSI device sdb: 249120 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (128 MB)

Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel:  sdb: sdb1
Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable 
disk sdb

Dec  2 12:28:35 ataraxia kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

I tried also 'mount -t [ vfat | usbfs | ntfs ] /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb' but 
only with poor results.


S.


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Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Everyone

Does anyone know what is going wrong on my system or
what I am doing wrong or else?

To mount a memory stick I do:

# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
...
# ls /mnt/usb
boot
bootmgr
MFGSTAT
preboot
recovery
SCRREC.VER
swwork
System Volume Information
tvtos
windows

So, I can't see what's on the stick but some other stuff.


Thank's for your inputs.

Sam


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Re: [OT] LaTeX

[Samuel Bächler]

Ctan.org recommends
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/
as a document to start with.

Cheers

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Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

[Samuel Krieg]

Pigeon a écrit :
> 
> It doesn't work with 2.4 kernels :-(
> 

As I wrote, I'm using Kenshi MUTO's custom kernel ( http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ 
).
It provides 2.6.20 kernels for Sarge.

By the way, Maarten gave me this link, it may help someone besides me.
http://www.uta.fi/~pauli.borodulin/dellomsa/omsa44.html

Thank's Maarten!

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Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

[Samuel Krieg]

Maarten Vink a écrit :
> 
> Apart from that omreport will also give you information on fan speeds,
> temperature, installed hardware, etc. It also installs an SNMP agent
> that allows you to monitor RAID status, fan speeds, temperature, etc via
> SNMP. The SNMP agent is disabled by default, but is easy to setup. We
> use this both for monitoring and to graph fan speeds and temperature
> with cacit.
> 
> For more useful info on using Debian on Dell hardware see
> http://linux.dell.com/debian_9g.shtml
> 

Hello,

These packages look very intersting but I'm still using Sarge (kmuto.jp kernel) 
on my Poweredge boxes.

Do you know if this repository will work on Sarge?

Thank you.

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Re: DHCP and domain name

[Samuel Bächler]

1) When I start the system, my IP address is 192.168.0.72. If I make
a renew of ip address with dhclient, my IP address change
192.168.0.20. If I change again, my IP address stay at 192.168.0.20. 
Is that possible that at the startup of the computer, the network

component just assign a choosen IP without asking the DNS ?


Assume "less /etc/network/interfaces" shows you something where you
can see...

iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.72
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1

...which means that whenever your system boots up your computer will
have 192.168.0.72 as its IP. If you do a "dhclient" as mentioned above
you probably get a new IP from some DHPC-Server somewhere in your
network.
Maybe this is what is going on on your system.

I did not understand what you meant in (2) and (3).

Cheers

Sam


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Re: nslookup from behing router/modem

[Samuel Bächler]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ less /etc/resolv.conf
search
nameserver 158.152.1.58
nameserver 158.152.1.42


In Switzerland I would say "the dog is buried here" (how to
say in English?):

I entered your nameserver in my resolv.conf and it did not work.
For now try to use my configuration:
search foo.ch
nameserver 62.2.24.162
nameserver 62.2.17.60
nameserver 62.2.17.61


My Question:
Is it a problem if Michael uses my configuration?

Cheers

Sam


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touchpad not working in HP 500

[Rahul Samuel]

Please help...i have been trying to install debian 4 on my laptop, a
HP 500, but the touchpad is not working at all. I am fairly new to the
linux domain and do not know how to get it working, plese let me know
in easy steps if there is a way to get the pointer working. i even
installed the kernel 2.6.21.3 but did nt help...


thanks a ton

sam

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Help - touchpad not working

[Rahul Samuel]

Hey

I have been trying to install linux in my HP 500 laptop but all have failed.
I last installed the Debian 4 and this also doesnt work. Please help.

Everything goes fine, but when the GUI comes up my touch pad doesnt work at
all. After installation also the touchpad is probably not even detected. I
cant even go through the OS with my keyboard, so the only thing I can do is
shutdown. Please help, I'm not very familiar with linux but want to switch
from windows. Please give me in detail how to get my touchpad working am
almost a newbie.

Thanks a ton.

Sam

Re: Boot troubles

[Samuel Bächler]

I installed Windows XP, it setted it's  own code in MBR. I wasn't
confused, I just inserted first DVD of Debian GNU/Linux Sarge in
DVD-ROM, but then I understood... The kernels on DVD doesn't support
my reiserfs filesystem!


In my opinion this point is confusing. Did you install XP when debian
was allready installed?


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Re: why can't feh view tiff images

[Samuel Bächler]

I'm using feh to view most the images that I have but whenever I try
to open a tiff file using feh, it just shows a blank black screen.
Any ideas? I read up on the documentation but could not find anything
saying that tiff is not supported.



I do not know feh. I am using gwenview which works fine.

S.


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Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

[Samuel Bächler]

Well - it isn't that old. It is a Compaq Desktop EN, Pentium III with about 
> > 500MB RAM. But there is only one Ethernet-Connection which - I guess - can 
> > be solved by using a Hub or Switch, isn't it?
> 
> no. to use a desktop machine as a router, you need two network

> connections: one for the local network to attach to and one for the
> internet at large. The computer then routes packets appropriately and


I've read somewhere that it can be done with one card, but it's very 
difficult to setup. Did you mean Deskpro EN? I've used one of those for 
the very same purpose with Coyote Linux (also runs from a floppy). But I 
put a cheapo Realtek based in one of the PCI slots (there are two if I'm 
not mistaken). It's own card is on-board.


You are right - it is a Deskpro EN.


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Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

[Samuel Bächler]

> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old 
> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such 
> as web- and mail-sever.

> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.
> 
> Question A:

> Can someone recommend a router with the following properties:
> -NAT
> -port forwarding


Use your old desktop machine, just give it a second NIC to go to the
cable modem.  Then install shorewall and read the shorewall-doc.  I
should clarify this a bit: how old is the desktop machine?  Debian now
needs at least a 486 and the installer needs 48 MB ram.  If the desktop
is a 386 or has less ram, then you'll need either NetBSD or OpenBSD (24
MB ram).


Well - it isn't that old. It is a Compaq Desktop EN, Pentium III with 
about 500MB RAM. But there is only one Ethernet-Connection which - I 
guess - can be solved by using a Hub or Switch, isn't it?


I now got a Linksys WRT54GL to which Eric Reymond refers to in "Linksys 
Blue Box Router HOWTO"[2].



Question B:
> Is it possible to install FREESCO on top of a commercial router 
> (hardware, e.g. linksys, netgear etc.)


What's FREESCO?


FREESCO is a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and runs on a 
single 1.44MB floppy[1].


S.


[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/freesco
[2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/index.html


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[OT] Recommended Router Hardware

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Everyone

I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old 
desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such 
as web- and mail-sever.

I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.

Question A:
Can someone recommend a router with the following properties:
-NAT
-port forwarding

Question B:
Is it possible to install FREESCO on top of a commercial router 
(hardware, e.g. linksys, netgear etc.)


Question C:
Any recommendations for Guides, HOWTOs about networking.

Question D:
Are there any mailing lists for conceptional discussions about Computers?

Cheers

Sam


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Re: Installing problems: Debian 4.0r0, on LiteON DVD-RW LH-20A1p

[Samuel Bächler]

The drive is a ATAPI CDROM
LiteOn DVD LH-20A1p 
Search  the Net to see if anybody else had the same problem using the 
divices above.


In my opinion a nice way to search is:

(1) google.com
(2) KEYWORD site:lists.debian.org

Happy hacking

Cheers

Sam


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Re: kile

[Samuel Bächler]

 In testing, kile has been removed. It appears that texlive is
 undergoing a reorganization. As a result, kile's dependencies are at
 odds with the new organization. When will kile be returned to the
 distribution?



I started using eclipse with a LaTeX-plugin (or whatever you call it).
It works quite fine.

Sam


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Re: Printers won't run

[Samuel Bächler]

 The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP
 connected, and all of my windows computers can send to it just fine.
 Just not my Debian Etch.


I have never done such a thing before. Assuming that you are using
CUPS go to localhost:631/help/ get yourself a cup of coffee and start
reading - the guys of cups did quite a nice job in documentation.


 The second printer has the same problem. It is a local USB connected
 Epson Stylus CX7800. It worked on this computer in it's previous
 incarnation as a Win 2k machine.


As long as it is listed on linuxprinting.org it should work smoothly.
Have you got all the foomatic packeges?

foomatic-db: linuxprinting.org printer support - database
foomatic-db-engine: linuxprinting.org printer support - programs
foomatic-filters: linuxprinting.org printer support - filters


Cheers

Sam


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Re: Making Deb Packages

[Samuel Bächler]

 How do I get started making my own debian package files from source.
 I need to use non-debian source, ie. a spanking new ffmpeg source
 from svn.


Go to "http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-creatingdebs";
and press the link at "6.15 How do I create Debian packages myself?".
That is all I know about.

Cheers

Sam


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Re: Perl Programming within Debian

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Rocky


 I'm thinking of learning Perl Programming. Can any of you help me get
 started on how to programming Perl in Debian?


In my opinion you should go through *Leaning Perl* by O'Reilly. I quite
liked it. I am sure you will find it somewhere in the web.
To install perl do *apt-get install perl*.

Cheers

Sam


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Re: GUI and USB question

[Samuel Bächler]

Hi Keath

Unfortunatly I can not help on every topic you mentioned.


 1st question is, how do I start the GUI (KDE, Gnome, whatever) that I
 assume is bundled with the distro?


Well, as far as I know you have to install these things first.
Type *dpkg -l kde-core* or generally *dpkg -l package* to see wether
you have installed these things. *ii  kde-core...* means kde-core is 
installed.

Anything else means that you have to install it first.

Try some of the things Operator mentioned earlier in this list to 
install stuff

you need:
apt-get update
apt-get install x-window-system-core
apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install gnome
startx // to start X-Window-Server


 2nd question, completely unrelated, is about when I plug in my USB
 memory stick. The OS spots it and seems to mount it, but I can't find
 the mount point. Where do I cd to in order to find my files that are
 on the stick?


In my opinion you have to mount it manually while using sarge. Check 
your */etc/fstab*-file

where you can mount this kind of devices. On my sarge there is one line like
*/dev/sda1 /usbstick auto user,noauto 0 0* this tells us that I can 
mount a memory-stick

by typing *mount /usbstick*.

As Linas mentioned you will be better off using Etch. Especially when it 
comes to USB you

will apreciate Etch much more since it uses a later kernel version[1].

Hope that helped.
Happy hacking.

Sam

[1] Maybe you can compile your on latest kernel under Sarge.


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Re: Mount digital camera

[Samuel Bächler]

 A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might
 only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel
 from backports.org


Trrhaa, I installed a etch version of debian which uses 2.6.17. Now I
can do a 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera' and everything works fine.


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Re: Mount digital camera

[Samuel Bächler]

 A quick google of 'Sony DSC-W30 linux' showed that mounting might
 only work since kernel 2.6.16, ie. from debian etch or a sarge kernel
 from backports.org


That is what I am going to do next.

Cheers

Sam


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Re: Mount digital camera

[Samuel Bächler]

Thanks for your inputs, :). One can copy all the pictures on a camera
using 'gphoto2' with 'gphoto2 -P' over PTP.
But as far as I know gphoto can not copy any movies.


I am running a debian sarge using the 2.6.8-2-386 kernel.
I have got a Sony DSC-W30. Its Device ID is 054cx0010.

Here some information that may be useful:

When I connect my camera to the computer using USB the
system says:

Nov 13 12:30:39 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed
USB device using address 2

Mounting does not work:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/somewhere
// mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/somewhere
// mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

mount -t usbfs /dev/sda /mnt/somewhere
// does not work either

# ls /proc/bus/usb
001  devices

So there is a file called driver which should show up here but
does not either.

// Some more hardware Information.
# less /proc/bus/usb/devices
T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor= ProdID= Rev= 2.06
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.8-2-386 uhci_hcd
S:  Product=Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
S:  SerialNumber=:00:1f.4
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  5 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  2
P:  Vendor=054c ProdID=0010 Rev= 6.00
S:  Manufacturer=Sony
S:  Product=Sony DSC
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=ff Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 2 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=10ms

// Some information about my loaded modules:
# lsmod | grep usb
usb_storage59328  0
usbcore   104164  4 uhci_hcd,usb_storage
scsi_mod  115148  2 sd_mod,usb_storage
ide_core  125028  5 
usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_generic,piix,ide_disk


I read all the entries at http://www.linux-usb.org/ on my vendor and
device ID. Some of them said that they could mount similar cameras
very easly. Others mentioned that they had to recompile their whole 
kernel.


What do you think? Thanks in advance for your valuable inputs. 




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Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

[Samuel Bächler]

A.



First of all you should not call yourself anonymous, tell us your real name.


I would like to know whether all these CDs have binary files or are
these also include CDs with
sources and documentation. If so, which ones of them?


As far as I know they include documentation and source code - thats in fact
one key-feature of free-software.


How much would it need for a complete install on a P-IV 2.5GHz with 256
MB RAM?
And how much for the disk space?


If you want to have a pretty installation create different partitions. 
Here is

my partition table. I use my system just as a desktop-computer:

directory; filesystem; size
root; ext3; 100 MB
/home; ext3; 10 GB
swap; SWAP; 1 GB // for swap rule of thumb is twice your ram (2*256)
/var; ext3; 1 GB
/tmp; ext3; 1 GB

Certainly there are *much* better setups. But at least it works for over one
year now.

Cheers

Sam


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