Re: Strange behaviour of K3B
On January 31, 2008 03:54:43 am Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:57:36 + > Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Alan, > > > I was trying to overburn the DVD with too much data. For some reason > > the main display said the DVD was 8GB big, when in fact it only held > > I've found that, if you insert a DVD/CD after starting K3b the reported > size doesn't appear to get updated correctly. To get a correct size, I > have to shut K3b down, and restart it. A bit of a pain, that. No need to shutdown and restart just right click on the size of files total progress bar at the bottom then set it manually to the 4.4 option. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: unable to start xcdroast as root
On November 15, 2007 06:01:33 pm Robert Van Horn wrote: > Hi, From the root console: > # /usr/bin/xcdroast > > The reply: > > (xcdroast:18770): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > If I start from a user console I get the window that > says you must first start as root to set up. > > If I set the suid bit on xcdroast it tries to start > > >from a user but dies. > > Any help or ideas appreciated. > > Debian unstable - kernel version = 2.6.17.8 > > bob > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] export XAUTHORITY=/home/stephen/.Xauthority in the console window changing stephen to your user name then run the program. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: 1GB RAM is missing.
On October 23, 2007 05:32:55 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/23/07 14:16, Stephen Cormier wrote: > [snip] > > > You are going to have to accept that you are never going to get all 4gb > > running a 32bit install due to the limitations of using 32bit where > > things > > At the pid level, or at the OS level? I take it by pid you mean a process if so then it is my understanding IIRC that on a 32bit install you are limited to 2gb maximum of memory that can be used by a single process. The limitations I talk about here are BIOS/arch limited where a certain amount of memory is reserved for things like your video card, interrupts ... this has to be mapped below 4gb so a hole in the memory has to be there for it to be used, like back in the DOS days where you had the 15mb-16mb memory hole option in the BIOS. I believe that was just video related though if my memory serves me but the principle is the same the space needs to be reserved on 32bit thus lowers the total ram available on 64bit it is not needed to be reserved so you get all the memory. > > need to be reserved in the 4gb which is not the case using 64bit where > > you see the whole 4gb in use. I know with my machine if I boot a Knoppix > > Live CD (32bit) I only see around 3.3gb useable if I use my normal Debian > > install (64bit) I get the whole 4gb like below. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. > Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: 1GB RAM is missing.
On October 23, 2007 09:34:52 am pgega wrote: > On Oct 22, 10:00 pm, Pasi Oja-Nisula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:29:37AM -, pgega wrote: > > > Pasi: what was the RAM seend by BIOS , when I use 4 GiB ,bios sees > > > only 3052 GiB (But the MSI board can hadle up to 8 GiB) > > > > > > If I would rise RAM number with GRUB (like you, 3900GiB), could I get > > > more then seen by bios (3052 GiB) ? > > > > In my case bios reports 3903 MB. Anyway, the usable limit in my machine > > is less than what the bios reports. > > > > One instruction I have heard about these problems was to make sure > > that bios setting "memory remap" is on. Whatever that is, my bios > > doesn't have that. > > > > Pasi > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > OK, I will check this option, > > My bios reports two values: > Physical memory : 4G > and Usage memory 3G > > And, god sake, I do not know how to enable more ram, in other hand > board supports up to 8G, none of RAM sticks is broken. You are going to have to accept that you are never going to get all 4gb running a 32bit install due to the limitations of using 32bit where things need to be reserved in the 4gb which is not the case using 64bit where you see the whole 4gb in use. I know with my machine if I boot a Knoppix Live CD (32bit) I only see around 3.3gb useable if I use my normal Debian install (64bit) I get the whole 4gb like below. >$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 40521564023220 28936 0 521601714740 -/+ buffers/cache:22563201795836 Swap: 1052216 881052128 If you want then you can read all the gory details as to why you cannot get the entire 4gb using 32bit in the many thousands of hits in the search below most of the time talking about windows but the same BIOS/reserved issues are present if using GNU/Linux. BTW if you did install 8gb in your machine you will still not get the entire eight as well. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=32+bit+4gb+memory+limit&btnG=Search Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?
On August 27, 2007 07:38:24 am Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:20 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > > which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens > > > attached? > > > > I always used nvidia video card (with vga+dvi) > > > > > or even 4 screens if that's at all possible. > > > > yep! it's possible :-) > > > > with 2 graphics card (vga+dvi) > > > > Regards > > > > Pol > > I always thought the dvi and analog output were the same signal; how do > you get X to show something different on both screens? I see you have already found a how-to for Xinerama but if you want separate X screens instead of the one big screen across the monitors then you can do similar to my Device sections below. Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "on" Option "NvAgp" "3" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "BackingStore" "On" Option "Coolbits""1" Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV" Screen 0 VendorName "EVGA" BoardName "e-Geforce 7900 GS KO" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card1" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "on" Option "NvAgp" "3" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "BackingStore" "On" Option "DPI" "100x100" Option "Coolbits""1" Screen 1 Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV" VendorName "EVGA" BoardName "e-Geforce 7900 GS KO" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Then for your ServerLayout. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "DualHead" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0" InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection And you need to put Load "xtrap" in your Module section to have the mouse move between the screens. You would want to change the LeftOf to RightOf depending on the location of the second monitor. If you want to try this with a flat panel and a crt wanting the flat panel as the primary display then you need something like this for the monitor sections to make the flat panel the primary as the nvidia driver detects/uses a crt as the primary unless you use these options. # Dell 2007WFP Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 431 272 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Dell" ModelName"2007WFP" HorizSync30-81 VertRefresh 56-76 Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0" <-- Option "AllowDDCCI" "on" Option "DPMS" "true" Option "BackingStore" "On" EndSection # Philips 201B4 Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 406 305 # mm Identifier "Monitor1" VendorName "Philips" ModelName "201B4" HorizSync30-115 # DDC-probed VertRefresh 50-160 # DDC-probed Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-1"< Option "DPMS" "true" Option "BackingStore" "On" EndSection You find the DFP-0 and CRT-1 names by looking in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the part of it where the monitors are detected. Then of course you would need a second Screen section like below. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1680x1050" EndSubSection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card1" Monitor"Monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" EndSubSection EndSection The rest of the config sections of the xorg.conf should be usable as is to be reused in a new xorg.conf for dual head. > gr. > tinus Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Working with Kworldclock
On August 15, 2007 06:35:15 pm Bob McGowan wrote: > You must tell the Linux system, during > installation, which way you went, so it knows how to use the BIOS date. > You can probably change this selection, but I'm not aware of how. The Etch installer no longer asks or at least did not on the install that I did and to change it so it uses local time you edit the /etc/default/rcS file and change to UTC=no. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: em64t
On August 9, 2007 05:39:28 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which > is compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is > only a amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel > machine... > > Therefore, I've started with a x386 architecture debian install, then > install a em64t kernel, which runs fine, despite of the hybrid install. > > problems comes to fit my nvidia graphic card (7600 GT ), between a > nvidia-glx driver based on x86 arch, and a nvidia-kernel to match the > x64_64 (em64t) kernel. > > when I try to compile the nvidia kernel, error says "ld" link editor cannot > match elf-x86 nvidia-glx with a elf-x86_64 linker. It doesn't want > nvidia-glx-ia32 neither, because it is a i386 debian install. > > These days, I use a kernel 2.6.22.1-686 on a debian i386 install, with > nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-686, and it all works fine as far as flight > gear goes. > > But if I can get a x86_64 (em64t) kernel with nvidia compiled for x86_64, > that is if it is doable, I'd love to for the sake of it. And I'm sure (I > hope that is) there is a way to get a full em64t system on my machine... Try the AMD64 Etch installer from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ it has a 2.6.21 kernel so it should have a better chance supporting the hardware in your machine. The AMD64 installer is the correct one for your machine if you want to run it in 64bit mode even though it has an Intel chip in it, otherwise if your fine running 32bit then just stick with what you have not installing the 64bit kernel the Nvidia driver will not install using 64bit kernel with a 32bit system install. > Thanks for helping if you can > > Franck, software engineer Your welcome, Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Kernel Header Information
On June 28, 2007 06:39:06 pm Nirmal Govindaraju wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new Linux user and I have the Debian distribution (2.6.18-4-686) > installed via the internet using a few floppy disks to perform the initial > boot up. I am now trying to install a VPN client on my computer and during > the installation procedure the installer asks for the kernel header files. > I could not find them in /usr/src nor did the following command find any > files (with various permutations): > > find / -name '*kernel-header*' -print > > Please let me know as to what I need to do to get these header files. Thank > you. The packages are now named linux-* instead of kernel-*, the easiest way to do what you want is install the module-assistant package then run the command without the quotes "m-a prepare" this should download headers for your running kernel and setup the proper links for building. > Nirmal Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)
On June 25, 2007 05:50:24 am Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have an NVidia GEforce 6800 with two monitors attached. One is a > widescreen, hooked up with a DVI cable, at 1680x1050, and the other is > hooked up with a VGA cable and set at 1280x1024. They are working, but > there are two issues I'd like to resolve. > > According to KDE, the CRT is #1 and the DVI is #2 (or 0 and 1 in > xorg.conf). I've swapped the connections on the card and tried to > specify the monitors differently in the MetaMode option in xorg.conf, > but it makes no difference. I've seen a few issues with this. For > instance, when I'm in Konqueror and click on a folder of bookmarks, the > drop down menu from that always appears on display 0, which is the > older monitor. I can understand there are some glitches and if I'm > going to deal with them, I'd rather have the widescreen, my main > monitor, recognized as the first screen. The nvidia driver always seems to want to make the CRT primary monitor unless you use the UseDisplayDevice option as in my first monitor section in my xorg.conf I show below. When I had dual CRT the monitor connected to the port nearest the motherboard was always primary but that is not the case with CRT/DPF connected to the card. > The other issue is one I don't think there's a resolution for. Using a > vertical resolution of 1050 on the widescreen and 1024 for the vertical > resolution of 1024 for the "regular" monitor leaves a deadspace of 26 > pixels on the regular monitor. I know I can pan on that, but seeing > anything on that screen move up and down as I move the cursor is very > distracting. Ideally, I'd like to set the resolution on that monitor > at 1312x1050 instead of 1280x1024. I've tried it and the monitor > doesn't display a thing. I think this is a twinview problem with the dead space when I use as I always have the two separate X screens I get my native 1680x1050 on the DFP and whatever resolution I want on the CRT no dead space you might want to give this a try instead of twinview. Now there are a couple of annoyances like not being able to move programs between the screens but I can live with that and one that just developed when I connected the DFP that I have to figure out where the taskbar on the CRT wants to be at the 1050 postion when I am running at 1600x1200 then when at the 1280x960 it disappears under the bottom of the monitor and I have to raise the taskbar on the DFP for it to come up on the CRT so I can use it never used to do that with dual CRT different resolutions it was always at the bottom of both screens no matter the resolutions on either. # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "Files" FontPath"/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/truetype" FontPath"/var/lib/deforma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"record" Load"type1" Load"vbe" Load"xtrap" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection #Logitech LX7 Cordless Optical Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "evdev" Option "CorePointer" Option "Name" "Logitech USB RECEIVER" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" Option "Resolution""1200" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "on" Option "NvAgp" "3" Option "RenderAccel" "true" Option "BackingStore" "On" Option
Re: how to find the specs of a monitor
On June 20, 2007 08:56:01 pm Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:53:17 -0700 > > > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:37:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S > >> > > > >> > > Kusumanchi wrote: > >> > >> I am trying to setup a dual screen from a laptop with another > >> > > > >> > >LCD > monitor. However, this new monitor came without any > >> > >manuals, > documentation etc., I know that it is working but I > >> > >just dont know the > specs. How can I find out what its > >> > >Horizontal frequency and vertical > refresh rates etc. are, so > >> > >that I input them into the monitor section of > xorg.conf file? > >> > > > >> > >> If it matters, the laptop as such runs Etch (stable). > >> > >> > >> > >> Any ideas? > > > > Well, this may sound stupid and low-tech, but what I did last time > > was to Google the monitor make and model. I got the online manual > > for the monitor from that. > > It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the model of > this monitor. All it says on the LCD panel is that it is a Dell monitor. > There is no other information like model number etc., When I put my Dell together on the inside back where the stand went into it had the model number stamped there perhaps yours does too. Another thing you could do is measure the monitor so you know what size it is then start googling from that Dell only makes so many models after all, it should be relatively easy to find even if you go to Dells site and look at all of them of that size. > raju Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny
On June 17, 2007 09:11:27 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2007 00:34, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > > I'd commented out the "options DPMS" line in my xorg.conf, so that > > > > > the monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or > > > > > so, and up to last nights updates, (including a load of X stuff) > > > > > this had been working ok. > > > > > > > > > > This morning after installing all the updates, I rebooted the > > > > > machine, just to make sure everything was still ok with Lenny, and > > > > > now I find that the monitor is again going into standby after some > > > > > 30mins or so. The "options DPMS" line is still commented out, but > > > > > appears to be being ignored. > > > > > > Any suggestions welcome. > > > > > > Nigel. > > > > You can always use xset -dpms to turn it off in a console/console window > > for the rest of your problem I have no ideas. > > > > Stephen > > Thanks Stephen. That appears to have resolved the problem. Which file has > xset -dpms made changes to? > > Nigel. > > btw. Thanks for the link to the kernel compile tutorial. Ironically the > video devices are being ordered correctly now, each time I boot with the > 2.6.17 kernel. I'll still go ahead with compiling a kernel on Debian > though, as I need the practice. Your welcome, I don't believe that it actually uses any file it just communicates directly with the xserver setting the various options you can in this case disabling the power management. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: DPMS working again after X updates on Lenny
On June 17, 2007 04:58:48 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 17 June 2007 20:40, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 16:39:40 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > I'd commented out the "options DPMS" line in my xorg.conf, so that the > > > monitor wouldn't keep going into standby mode every 30mins or so, and > > > up to last nights updates, (including a load of X stuff) this had been > > > working ok. > > > > > > This morning after installing all the updates, I rebooted the machine, > > > just to make sure everything was still ok with Lenny, and now I find > > > that the monitor is again going into standby after some 30mins or so. > > > The "options DPMS" line is still commented out, but appears to be being > > > ignored. > > > > > > I read a while back that xorg.conf was being deprecated, and would no > > > longer be necessary. If that is so, and these x updates have made that > > > change, where do I go now to stop DPMS being used. > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any pointers toward the file I need to look at. > > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not depreciated yet. If I understand you > > correctly, you had the DPMS line simply commented out in the past. This > > means that you get the default behavior, which can change with an > > upgrade. Try to turn DPMS off explicitly by using > > > > Option "DPMS" "false" > > > > in the monitor section of your xorg.conf. > > > > If this does not have the desired effect then you should post the output > > of: > > > > grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > > > -- > > Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > > Florian | > > No go with setting DPMS to false. 20mins later after restarting X the > monitor goes into standby. It's a bit annoying as yesterday before these X > updates I had no problem, and with just commenting out the "options DPMS" > line, the monitor would not go into standby mode. > > Anyway, this is all I get from grep. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i dpms /var/log/Xorg.0.log > (II) Loading extension DPMS > (**) Option "dpms" "false" > (**) TRIDENT(0): DPMS enabled > > Trident is the driver for the Cyberbladei1 onboard graphics card > > A bit annoying, and I'd like to resolve it. There's nothing more annoying > than reading some document, and then the screen goes black. > > Any suggestions welcome. > > Nigel. You can always use xset -dpms to turn it off in a console/console window for the rest of your problem I have no ideas. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory
On June 15, 2007 03:34:07 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 19:50, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is > > > > > an abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed > > > > > but debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not > > > > > experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this > > > > > oddity. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > > Gary > > > > > > > > It's obvious, your motherboard has 128mb shared memory. So debian > > > > sess only 885.5 mb. > > > > I also have 1gig RAM and 128 mb as shared graphics memory. My 'system > > > > monitor' shows ~885mb. > > > > check out your BIOS settings. :-) > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Arijit Sarkar > > > > Kolkata, India > > > > > > That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, > > > and usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since > > > rebooted with the 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel, Gkrellm is > > > showing the full 1005Mb of RAM. The onboard graphics card is a > > > Cyberbladei1 (trident driver). > > > > > > Quite why booting with the 2.6.11 shows 885Mb, and booting with the > > > 2.6.17 shows 1005Mb is a bit bizarre. Probably some kernel thingy. > > > > Yes it is a kernel thingy around the .15, .16, .17 time I can't recall > > which first had it but there was a patch called the 1gb lowmem which you > > could apply to allow a machine with 1gb of ram use all of it as lowmem > > instead of having to use the highmem option this patch was incorporated > > into the mainline kernel so you no longer had to patch it yourself to get > > all your memory. For your udev situation I see in another post you can > > always compile/install your own kernel which will not have a dependency > > on it this is what I do so I don't have to use it or try making a udev > > rule(s) to assign your /dev/video? devices the same everytime. > > > > > Nigel. > > > > Stephen > > Ok. So what it comes down to then, is that earlier kernels, my 2.6.11 for > example arn't setup to use my 1GB of physical RAM, but just 885Mb of it. If > so, that's not really a problem, as 885Mb is a fair bit, and I've never > gone into the 1.5Gb of swap that's available. Yes the stock kernels do not have the highmem option enabled as that is really where the problem lies with a 32bit machine and the way the memory gets divided between the lowmem and highmem. You could install a highmem enabled kernel but the way I understand it there is a performance cost involved that is really not worth it for the tiny extra bit of memory you are using with 1gb installed that is why someone came up with the 1gb lowmem patch. > I'll look into the udev problem, and compiling my own kernel. (only done > this once before for Gentoo, and that with someones help from a list). If you are going to compile your own kernel you should probably do it the Debian way with the kernel-package package installed then after configuring it is only a matter of using the fakeroot make-kpkg kernel-image command which would build you a .deb to install and reboot into. A guide at the URL below is a place to start it is for an 2.4 kernel but the process remains the same for 2.6. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > Many thanks. > > Nigel. aka farpoint. Your welcome, Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory
On June 15, 2007 12:33:04 pm Nigel Henry wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007 16:46, arijit sarkar wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 08:02 -0500, Gary Rosenfeldt wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I recently installed Debian Etch on my desktop system. My mobo is an > > > abit nf-7s with nforce2 chipset. I have 1 gig of ram installed but > > > debian only sees 885.5 MiB of my ram. Fortunately, I'm not > > > experiencing any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this > > > oddity. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Gary > > > > It's obvious, your motherboard has 128mb shared memory. So debian sess > > only 885.5 mb. > > I also have 1gig RAM and 128 mb as shared graphics memory. My 'system > > monitor' shows ~885mb. > > check out your BIOS settings. :-) > > > > -- > > Arijit Sarkar > > Kolkata, India > > That's interesting. I was booted up in Lenny using the 2.6.11 kernel, and > usually see Gkrellm showing 885Mb of my 1Gb RAM. I've since rebooted with > the 2.6.17 kernel , and with that kernel, Gkrellm is showing the full > 1005Mb of RAM. The onboard graphics card is a Cyberbladei1 (trident > driver). > > Quite why booting with the 2.6.11 shows 885Mb, and booting with the 2.6.17 > shows 1005Mb is a bit bizarre. Probably some kernel thingy. Yes it is a kernel thingy around the .15, .16, .17 time I can't recall which first had it but there was a patch called the 1gb lowmem which you could apply to allow a machine with 1gb of ram use all of it as lowmem instead of having to use the highmem option this patch was incorporated into the mainline kernel so you no longer had to patch it yourself to get all your memory. For your udev situation I see in another post you can always compile/install your own kernel which will not have a dependency on it this is what I do so I don't have to use it or try making a udev rule(s) to assign your /dev/video? devices the same everytime. > Nigel. Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: reorder files with a mouse in a file browser and rename them
On June 9, 2007 12:47:46 am H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > This may be a little odd question. Can any of the file browsers > (konqueror, nautilus) let a user reorder the files in a folder by > dragging them to a certain position and then to rename the ordered files > automatically with a file pattern? > > This problem arose because I have a few hundred of images which are > jumbled up in time order. I have seen a friend do something similar in > XP's Windows Explorer. I am hoping it can be done in Linux too in some > way: order the image files by dragging them to their position in the > file browser and to run a script on the newly ordered files to rename > them numerically in that order. You might want to check krename you can select the files in konqueror right click and under the actions menu use krename, it allows for regular expressions when doing the renaming depending on how the files are now named I'm not sure if it will totally do what you want but it is worth a try. > thanks, > ->HS Your welcome, Stephen -- GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst
On May 12, 2007 07:27:05 am Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > That is not what he is saying you get for your example. > > > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 (Single User Mode) > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 (Single User Mode) > > memtest86+ > > > > Happens every time I install/remove a kernel here as well then you have > > to manually delete the extra 4 entries that are created it is rather > > annoying. > > > > Stephen > > Yes, that's the point. That is what I thought Wackojacko has the answer in this thread it is because of having the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symbolic links in /boot it adds these as well. I removed them and updated grub manually I did not get the duplicates put the links back updated grub and there were the duplicates again. Which sucks because without the links it does not list my newest kernel in the grub splash screen first so I would have to select it manually instead of getting to boot into it without an action on my part. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgplxmpDBA5dc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst
On May 11, 2007 12:54:30 pm Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:11 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > Hi you all > > > > I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny. > > > > Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or > > removal, menu.lst grows bigger. Installed kernel entries for (recovery > > mode) are duplicated, same thing happened for AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST > > section. > > > > Actually the latter problem seems to be solved after a manual removal > > of AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST duplicates. > > > > I did a apt-get --reinstall install grub and dpkg-reconfigure grub > > with no success and removing recovery mode duplicated lines does not > > solve. I know I won't be installing and removing kernels every day but > > I think this is worth noting. > > On one machine I maintain, I have 4 kernels installed. > > linux-image-2.6.18-1-k7 > linux-image-2.6.18-2-k7 > linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7 > linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7 > > That means there is all four kernels installed. > > And by default the grub setup for Etch and now Lenny enabled a > "recovery" mode or Single user mode as an alternative to the regular > one. > > So for me I have these 9 menu selections > > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 (Single User Mode) > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 > Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 (Single User Mode) > memtest86+ > > I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the defaults I like rather > than what came as default. You will also note the first entry has the > "largest/newest" designation. > > If you don't like the "single User/Recover mode" then edit the line > in /boot/grub/menu.lst that reads: > > # alternative=true > > To look like > > # alternative=false > > Then as root run: update-grub That is not what he is saying you get for your example. Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-2-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-1-k7 (Single User Mode) memtest86+ Happens every time I install/remove a kernel here as well then you have to manually delete the extra 4 entries that are created it is rather annoying. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpEcf8N6hj3D.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot
On May 1, 2007 06:37:57 am Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Stephen Cormier wrote: > > Ok this looks like my driver for the jmicron controller I have for my > > SATA hard drive and the IDE burner it controls having changed its > > behavior then. But your problem is as I mentioned already then with the > > SATA naming they changed you will need to re-compile with the proper > > options set the oldconfig method does not pick this up. An example of the > > change below. > > > > grep -i sata_nv /boot/config-2.6.8-11-amd64-generic > > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=m > > > > grep -i sata_nv /boot/config-2.6.20-ck1-core2duo > > CONFIG_SATA_NV=y > > mh... I'm probably missing something... > > grep -i sata linux-source-2.6.18/.config > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_AHCI is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_MV is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_QSTOR is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SX4 is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL24 is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIS is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_ULI is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA is not set > # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VITESSE is not set > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_INTEL_COMBINED=y > > but for the new .config of 2.6.20 (this is the one in the .tar.bz) I get I do not get a .config in a freshly unpacked 2.6.20 from the kernel.org. stephen @ /usr/src/linux-2.6.20] >$ grep -i sata .config grep: .config: No such file or directory stephen @ /usr/src/linux-2.6.20] >$ ll . ./ ../ .gitignore Now once I do a make menuconfig and exit saving the defaults it picks up from the running kernel it is there. stephen @ /usr/src/linux-2.6.20] >$ grep -i sata .config # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y # CONFIG_SATA_SVW is not set # CONFIG_SATA_MV is not set CONFIG_SATA_NV=y # CONFIG_SATA_QSTOR is not set # CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE is not set # CONFIG_SATA_SX4 is not set CONFIG_SATA_SIL=y # CONFIG_SATA_SIL24 is not set # CONFIG_SATA_SIS is not set # CONFIG_SATA_ULI is not set CONFIG_SATA_VIA=y # CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE is not set CONFIG_SATA_INTEL_COMBINED=y > grep -i sata linux-source-2.6.20/.config > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set > > where have all the other options gone? Have you done a make menuconfig to get the .config or was it in the debian package? If so then you should check in the SATA section to enable the driver you need from the looks of it the sata_intel one as that is the only one set in your 2.6.18 config. One other thing I am thinking of is the option to use experimental/incomplete drivers I believe it is called if it is not set then you never get to see certain module selections you might have to set this to see the sata drivers. > thanks in advance > Lorenzo > Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpjBv07ucOK2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot
On April 26, 2007 04:00:36 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On April 25, 2007 04:48:17 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. > >> Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig > >> > >> However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic > >> when trying to mount the root partition... > >> > >> My laptop is a sony vaio... > >> > >> On other computers (desktops) this kernel update succeeded without any > >> problem... > >> > >> any clue please? > >> > >> thanks in advance > >>Lorenzo > >> > > Using make oldconfig is not really recommended your better off using make > > menuconfig, xconfig ... even if it is only to load then save and exit > > with the old .config file at least you get a warning of what has > > changed/is not > > I thought that make oldconfig was the right procedure when switching to > a new kernel, since you're asked questions only about things that > changed... am I missing something? > > are you suggesting instead to copy the old .config in the new kernel > directory and issue a make menuconfig? But how do you know about the > new options? I would suggest using make menuconfig then going down to the load configuration from another file option putting in the path to your old ,config to load then when exiting it asks if you want to save as new .config. Once you exit you should see the warning(s) of any modules that changed and could not be mapped to the new you would then do the menuconfig again if any of the modules left out were important to you having in the kernel. > > used anymore. I know the driver names for the SATA drives at least > > changed from the .18 to .20 so if it is using one of those then that is > > the first place to look and the IDE drives are now being detected as sd? > > instead of hd? > > I don't this is the issue: if you see my answer to another answer you > see that the new kernel works perfectly on desktops where I have > /dev/hd* (which are still detected as /dev/hd*) while the problem is on > my laptop where the hard disk is /dev/sda > Ok this looks like my driver for the jmicron controller I have for my SATA hard drive and the IDE burner it controls having changed its behavior then. But your problem is as I mentioned already then with the SATA naming they changed you will need to re-compile with the proper options set the oldconfig method does not pick this up. An example of the change below. grep -i sata_nv /boot/config-2.6.8-11-amd64-generic CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_NV=m grep -i sata_nv /boot/config-2.6.20-ck1-core2duo CONFIG_SATA_NV=y > Lorenzo > Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpNY2JInVW7X.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel 2.6.20 generates kernel panic at boot
On April 25, 2007 04:48:17 pm Lorenzo Bettini wrote: > Hi > > I updated the linux sources (debian package) from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20. > Copied the previous .config and issued a make oldconfig > > However, the new kernel does not boot: it freezes with a kernel panic > when trying to mount the root partition... > > My laptop is a sony vaio... > > On other computers (desktops) this kernel update succeeded without any > problem... > > any clue please? > > thanks in advance > Lorenzo > > -- > Lorenzo Bettini, PhD in Computer Science, DSI, Univ. di Firenze > ICQ# lbetto, 16080134 (GNU/Linux User # 158233) > HOME: http://www.lorenzobettini.it MUSIC: http://www.purplesucker.com > BLOGS: http://tronprog.blogspot.com http://longlivemusic.blogspot.com > http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite > http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt > http://www.gnu.org/software/gengen http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net Using make oldconfig is not really recommended your better off using make menuconfig, xconfig ... even if it is only to load then save and exit with the old .config file at least you get a warning of what has changed/is not used anymore. I know the driver names for the SATA drives at least changed from the .18 to .20 so if it is using one of those then that is the first place to look and the IDE drives are now being detected as sd? instead of hd? (which was the case on my test install of Etch for my IDE dvd burner when going from .18 to .20 Debian kernel) so if that (/dev/hd? ...) is in your /etc/fstab and the configuration is still right that would give you the panic in and of itself. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpmKhCPOCo6u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Default soundcard with alsa
On April 24, 2007 07:21:01 am Atis wrote: > Hi, > > I have two soundcards, but after each reboot the built-in gets > default, so after every reboot i have to run alsaconf, and select > correct soundcard. > > How i can have my second card to be primary after every reboot? I > suspect alsaconf doesn't write something correctly, but i don't get > any error messages. > > Currently using Lenny, but had the same problem on Etch. > > Regards, > Atis > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lspci | grep udio > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) > 01:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev > 10) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep snd > snd_cmipci 31456 5 > gameport 14632 1 snd_cmipci > snd_pcm_oss38368 0 > snd_mixer_oss 15200 2 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm68676 3 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss > snd_page_alloc 9640 1 snd_pcm > snd_opl3_lib9920 1 snd_cmipci > snd_hwdep 8836 1 snd_opl3_lib > snd_mpu401_uart 8064 1 snd_cmipci > snd_seq_dummy 3844 0 > snd_seq_oss28768 0 > snd_seq_midi8192 0 > 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 4 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq > snd_rawmidi22560 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi > snd_seq_device 7820 6 > snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi > snd47012 18 > snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu >401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore > 9248 2 snd Create a file/modify the existing one to be similar to the one I show below with the module for your PCI card being the first (snd-card-0 index=0 lines) then have your onboard as the second (snd-card-1 index=1 lines). Now when you start your machine the cards should be detected and used in the proper order. cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-intel-hda options snd-intel-hda index=1 alias snd-card-2 snd-bt87x options snd-bt87x index=2 Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpDuwRXU5oxB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: custom kernel on etch?
On April 22, 2007 09:59:39 am BartlebyScrivener wrote: > > but at the very least since > > no one has mentioned it yet install the linux-image-2.6-k7 to get a > > Debian kernel for your machine that supports the processor better than a > > 486 generic image. > > I'll start googling, but if you have a link with instructions for > accomplishing this, please provide. I'll go read more on Debian > kernels. No need for a link just apt-get install linux-image-2.6-k7 will install the -k7 flavor of the linux-2.6 kernel meta package along with the latest version of said kernel. The linux-image-2.6-k7 being a meta package which is really just a place holder package of sorts which ensures that you always have the latest version of the kernel image package installed that it tracks. Once the new kernel image is installed then you will need to reboot and it should be listed as the default choice on the grub splash screen so all that is needed is to hit the enter key to boot with it or wait for grub to time out then it will boot with the default image. > Thanks everyone for the advice. > > If I go the custom route, is this the best resource? > > http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html That looks like a reasonable explanation of the process the one below goes into more details it is a little old now but the method is the same. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > And if I go with the image you mention above, I take it that is easier > and that I can just apt-get the new kernel somehow? Yes with the command I mention mention at the first of this mail you will get the new image and meta package from the Debian archive listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list. > Thank you, > > bs Your welcome, Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpodNEDPQ4EC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: custom kernel on etch?
On April 21, 2007 04:10:05 pm BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using Debian Etch since December. Solid, as advertised. > I'm looking for a link that would discuss the repercussions and > benefits of a custom kernel. > > For instance, does a custom kernel mean that you lose all of the > benefits of "stable" that Debian is known for? Or if you stick with > the Debian kernels is it just as solid, but customized for your > machine? > > I am using Asus A7V8X motherboard socket A, AMD Athlon XP 2700+, 1 gig > ram. No wifi or fancy dvd burners, just usb and cdroms. > > My current kernel version is 2.6.18-4-486. > > Worth the trouble to customize? > > Thanks for any help or links. (sorry if this results in a duplicate > post, my first two tries from google groups were rejected). > > bs It is up to you whether you want to compile or not but at the very least since no one has mentioned it yet install the linux-image-2.6-k7 to get a Debian kernel for your machine that supports the processor better than a 486 generic image. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgprdFcvRDqha.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: lm-sensors k8temp kernel module for Etch
On April 4, 2007 10:39:31 am Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > While Installing lm-sensors package on my Etch using > > 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 11:36:53 CEST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > kernel. I got the following message > > == > > To make the sensors modules behave correctly, add these lines to > /etc/modules: > > #cut here > # I2C adapter drivers > i2c-piix4 > # Chip drivers > lm85 > eeprom > # Warning: the required module k8temp is not currently installed > # on your system. For status of 2.6 kernel ports check > # http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices. If driver is built > # into the kernel, or unavailable, comment out the following line. > k8temp > #cut here > > > From > > http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices > > it seems "k8temp" is builtinto the kernel only from version "2.6.19" > > As my kernel is "2.6.18-4-amd64 " is there any way to install this driver? > > Thankyou so much > > Kind Regards > > Siju Get the source (1) for the module follow the instructions on building it, you will need to have the kernel headers installed for your kernel for the build command to work properly. Once you have the k8temp.ko you can either keep using the insmod k8temp on every boot to load or simply copy the the .ko file to the /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/hwmon/k8temp.ko and run depmod -a then put k8temp on a line by itself in your /etc/modules as suggested above and it will be loaded on every boot. (1) http://assembler.cz/download/amd_digital_temp.tar.gz Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpJb44CC9rMl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cannot retrieve bug reports; Severe problem!
On March 24, 2007 11:19:32 pm Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm having trouble with apt tonight, and it's really getting in my > way! > > Whenever I try to install anything, apt always pauses on retrieving > bug reports: > > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not > upgraded. > Need to get 0B/142kB of archives. After unpacking 430kB will be used. > Writing extended state information... Done > Reading package fields... Done > Reading package status... Done > Retrieving bug reports... 0% > > I have no idea why it pauses here, and I've asked a friend who has > Debian and his works fine. I just always freeze at retrieving bug > reports and I can't figure out why. > > Any help would be appreciated, as this is stopping me from using Apt! You can still use apt as it will time out eventually and you get the option to continue on with what you are doing. It just did it to me here as it did a couple of weeks ago other than that it has worked fine. Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: Connection timed out - connect(2) (bugs.donarmstrong.com, #80) Error retrieving bug reports Retry downloading bug information?[Y/n]? n Abort the installation[Y/n]? n Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]? y Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpEKyXq5WswK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NVIDIA i2c adapter?
On March 22, 2007 12:22:42 pm Joe Hart wrote: > Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On March 22, 2007 07:11:54 am David Baron wrote: > >> Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: > >> > >> Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA > >> i2c adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar > >> 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > >> adapter 1 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! Mar 22 > >> 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > >> adapter 2 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! > >> > >> I am using Nvidia's 9631 driver (last one to support old Geforce mx400 > >> cards). I doubt this relates to the rt patch. There is nothing about > >> this in Xorg.0.log and the driver is working correctly. > >> > >> So ... how do I "fix it!" ?? (Or simply ignore it?) > >> > >> I do not get this error for 2.6.18 kernels. > > > > You ignore it, according to one of the Nvidia employees who post on the > > nvnews.net site it is a useless warning that will be fixed in some > > unspecified future version of the driver. > > Somehow I don't think nvidia is planning on updating that driver. They > no longer support the old cards, that's why David has to use the old > drivers. The new driver doesn't support his card. It is not typical > that companies will work on drivers of old products. They want you to > buy their new product instead. > > Sorry to say, you'll either have to live with that error, downgrade your > kernel, use open drivers or get a new video card. Those are the only > options I see. > > Joe > > -- > Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ I believe the idea is that the legacy driver as they are calling it will continue to be updated to keep supporting the older cards at least that is what I have read on the site whether they do it or not is another thing... Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpPirARVAo6R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: NVIDIA i2c adapter?
On March 22, 2007 07:11:54 am David Baron wrote: > Getting this booting a 2.6.20-3 rt-patched kernel: > > Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > adapter 0 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! > Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > adapter 1 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! > Mar 22 08:08:43 d_baron kernel: **WARNING** I2C adapter driver [NVIDIA i2c > adapter 2 at 1:00.0] forgot to specify physical device; fix it! > > I am using Nvidia's 9631 driver (last one to support old Geforce mx400 > cards). I doubt this relates to the rt patch. There is nothing about this > in Xorg.0.log and the driver is working correctly. > > So ... how do I "fix it!" ?? (Or simply ignore it?) > > I do not get this error for 2.6.18 kernels. You ignore it, according to one of the Nvidia employees who post on the nvnews.net site it is a useless warning that will be fixed in some unspecified future version of the driver. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpMPYtPxR8SP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !
On March 13, 2007 11:04:44 pm Nick Boyce wrote: > Do I *really* need to add such a large keyring to my own keyring, just > to verify the dang GPG signature on a CD image ? Have you tried/heard of the --keyring option when using gpg? That way you only need to specify the file containing the key not add it to your own keyring. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpWxWaieeoEB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Looking for DVD Writer that Debian 3.1 supports
On March 6, 2007 01:43:35 pm Michael Kerwin wrote: > I am trying to load Debian 3.1 on a Pentium Duo Core Desktop using an > internal DVD Writer on a 750GB Parallel IDE drive. Debian loads the > netintal 3.1r5 netinstall cd but after asking the the keyboard and stuff > tries to mount the cd to load the linux. At this point it complains that it > doesn't have a driver for the DVD. I have tried an emprex (which was > actually a sony dvd) and another offbrand DVD. None of them work. Does any > one know an ide DVD Writer that debian 3.1 would have the drivers for that > I could get that is a decent price? > > > > Any help would be appreciated. You are probably better off trying one of the Etch test install cd it will have a newer kernel thus better support for your new hardware. If necessary try the url below for a Sarge installer with newer kernel included. http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpLPy1HciH0N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: editing avi files
On February 18, 2007 02:05:49 pm pol wrote: > How to edit video files (especially avi files) > to select a short piece from the whole? > > thanks > > -- > Pol Try installing the avidemux package it is fairly easy to use, you need a line like the one below changing the sid in the line to the release of Debian you use. ## Various Multimedia Helper Apps Mplayer, Real, w32codecs, etc.. ## deb http://debian-multimedia.org sid main Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpc52DaSEUer.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: program to build .debs from compiled source code?
On February 11, 2007 09:09:13 pm Bruno Buys wrote: > I'm looking for checkinstall (was using it under sarge) at etch for > amd64, but it seems to be absent. Which program can I use to build debs > > >from compiled programs? According to apt-cache it is only in unstable here on my mixed testing/unstable AMD64 system you should be able to put a line in your sources for unstable and install it as a single package, it only Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), file, findutils (>= 4.2) in its package description all of which are easily met by an Etch system. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp2hFCKTTBQg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Avidemux and monitor energy saver
On January 31, 2007 04:27:22 pm Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > Hi, > > After one avidemux session (Debian Sid), the screen saver and monitor > energy saving features doesn't works. > > I can block the session (KDE) and the screensaver appears, but monitor > never goes to power save mode. > > Someone knows ho to restore the monitor power save functions without close > and open the X server? Thanks :) Right click on the desktop choose Configure Desktop then Display option next Power Control tab then I usually change the Standby setting up one click then back down and click on the Apply button. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp5AnbJnOVaI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-listbugs behavior (was libpangocairo and gimp...)
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:30, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 12:36, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:46, tom arnall wrote: > > > how do i 'hold' the packages. i can't find anything on this in either > > > the apt-get doc' or on the web. > > > > echo "package_name hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > how did you find out about this? > > tom Good question but my memory fails me as to where I got it, originally I read it on the web and have been using it every since when the need arises. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpsSRvScjOIt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-listbugs behavior (was libpangocairo and gimp...)
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 15:46, tom arnall wrote: > how do i 'hold' the packages. i can't find anything on this in either the > apt-get doc' or on the web. echo "package_name hold" | dpkg --set-selections Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpu15zCoZ9s3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/18/07 18:24, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: > >>> Thanks for the advice. > >>> I looked at the files under /root, and found > >>> there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. > >>> What is that? Can I delete it? > >> > >> That tells me you should not be using X as root. > >> > >> Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not > >> run "certain program as root". > > > > Either that or he is running programs like kaffeine, kplayer, kmplayer, > > avidemux ... anything video related it seems which just pile a ton of > > junk into the .xsessions-errors. The same partition full happened to me > > running as normal user so using root has nothing to do with it really > > after I removed the file I linked it to /dev/null which solved the > > problem. > > Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no? Well it was either the linking or have it continue to fill up the partition, this was the only time I have ever had to deal with the file in the many years I have been using GNU/Linux. I figure if I ever need to get some information out of it I will logout of X unlink and see if I can reproduce the error again. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpzr0gu8ehlC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?
On Thursday 18 January 2007 19:43, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 17:39 -0600, jie gong wrote: > > Thanks for the advice. > > I looked at the files under /root, and found > > there is a file .xsession-errors has size 4003647488. > > What is that? Can I delete it? > > That tells me you should not be using X as root. > > Yes you can remove the file... ti probably is full of warnings to not > run "certain program as root". > Either that or he is running programs like kaffeine, kplayer, kmplayer, avidemux ... anything video related it seems which just pile a ton of junk into the .xsessions-errors. The same partition full happened to me running as normal user so using root has nothing to do with it really after I removed the file I linked it to /dev/null which solved the problem. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpFJekVM24TN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: homepage in konqueror
On Friday 01 December 2006 01:24, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead > of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer your desktop!" page that keeps > popping up? I changed the homepage setting, but when I start it, I > still get the irritating, practically an advertisement, cover page. > > Mark Once started and at your google.ca address go into Settings menu Save view profile web browsing making sure to check the include URL now when you start it should go to the google page. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpAVmgP3BlCf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: strange email link
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 12:14, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to contact county officials in Lewis and Clark County MT, USA.
>
> They have a page:
> http://www.co.lewis-clark.mt.us/index.php?id=30
>
> But the email links don't work.
>
> They expand to such:
> javascript:linkTo_UnCryptMailto('nbjmup+qefibsuAdp/mfxjt.dmbsl/nu/vt');
>
> I suspect that this is a case of "M$ only" but I don't know.
>
> I yet have to install XP again, VMware isn't helpful with modems, but it
> is an odious task :-(
>
> Anybody make sense out of those email links?
Works here using Konqueror 3.5.5 the emails all end with @co.lewis-clark.mt.us
the user names are.
pdehart County Treasurer
mbracken Elections Supervisor
wgrantRecords Supervisor
rnordahl Accounting Manager
cgreenProperty Tax
pstevison Motor Vehicle
> Thanks!
>
> Hugo
Your Welcome
Stephen
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Re: How install debian if my machine has SATA?
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:05, Gabo wrote: > Hello listers i have a machine with SATA hard drive but i can´t > install debian because de debian cd installer don`t detect the SATA. > > What version i can install? > > I have a intel pentium d processor > Board intel D945GNT > SATA hard drive > > Note: i probe debian for amd64. Try one of the installers at the URL below. http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpDDwEzCFtD2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:21, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * file manager [ Konqueror, command line ] > > Many entries mentioned Bash as file manager, and please tell if Bash > is the shell you are using so that I could put it here instead of > 'command line'. Yes bash for the shell so therefore the command line. > > * pdf-reader [ Kpdf or Konqueror embeded ] > > Konqueror is everything isn't it. I didn't know it can also view pdf's. > Certainly is like a Swiss Army knife it does so many things using the kio slaves and embedding I forget half of them sometimes. > > * file archiver [ Ark, tar ] > > I put the category of 'misc utilities' for such things not deserving a > separate category. I'll recognize it as a separate category if there's > enough votes for file archiving. > > > * system monitoring [ Gkrellm, lm-sensors ] > > Many put this sort in misc utilities, but probably does deserve a > separate category. > > > * TV app [ XDTV ] > > * video editing/encoding/transcoding [ Avidemux, ToVid, Mencoder, FFmpeg > > ] > > These are interesting additions. It's even surprising that there > weren't entries for Mencoder. I'll put my vote in for it since I use > nothing else to encode video, and find its tremendous amount of > features exciting. Yeah a real nice little app. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp22p6c4zf9S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:02, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * word-processor [ Kwrite, Kword ] > > Do you mean Kate when you mention Kwrite? I searched Debian and > couldn't find Kwrite. Apparently I do it seems that Kate provides the /usr/bin/kwrite binary. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpVunyQMzMGe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?
On Thursday 26 October 2006 15:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by this to please pardon me. > * audio editor [ Audacity] * audio player [ Amarok, Xmms ] * cd-ripper [ Grip ] * Desktop Environment [ KDE ] * disc burner [ K3b ] * e-mail client [ Kmail ] * file manager [ Konqueror, command line ] * finance [ KMyMoney ] * ftp [ Konqueror ] * image editor [ Krita ] * image viewer [ Embeded in Konqueror or Krita ] * misc utilities [ grep, dpkg-www, lsof, top, wget, su ] * p2p [ Ktorrent ] * package manager [ apt ] * pdf-reader [ Kpdf or Konqueror embeded ] * spreadsheet [ Kspread ] * tag editor [ Easytag ] * terminal emulator [ Konsole ] * text editor [ Vim ] * video player [ Kplayer, Kaffeine, Mplayer, VLC whichever works with media viewed ] * web browser [ Konqueror ] * word-processor [ Kwrite, Kword ] * desktop publishing [ Scribus ] * file archiver [ Ark, tar ] * system monitoring [ Gkrellm, lm-sensors ] * TV app [ XDTV ] * video editing/encoding/transcoding [ Avidemux, ToVid, Mencoder, FFmpeg ] * (great honours) [ All Apps, Utitilies, etc ... ] As you can see I added a couple of categories. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpgQhTJM3hlo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xmms + CD
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 17:56, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 soundcards. > > I can set the xmms preferences to either one + can play mp3 files > through either. > > But playing a CD with xmms always comes out through card0. > > Why? > > I can use cdcd also: it also always puts out sound through card0. > > Is there a CD playing program that can play through the second soundcard? > > Sound is nice to listen to, a pain to install. > > Thanks! > > H I'd say your card0 has the audio cable connected between it and the CD drive that is why the sound always comes out of it. For xmms their is a setting in Play Mode for Digital audio extraction which should allow you to use the second card for playback for other programs I have no clue. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpxQpMtw6erP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: APC UPS under Linux?
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:00, Colin wrote: > Stephen Cormier wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: > > > > Make sure that you have these set they work for me. > > #UPSTYPE apcsmart > > #DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 > > UPSTYPE usb > > DEVICE /dev/usb/hid/hiddev[0-9] > > You don't have to specify the DEVICE setting anymore (at least in the > etch and sid versions of apcupsd) Apparently your correct just tried it without the device and it still works, thanks. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpOQiM9oZFVL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: APC UPS under Linux?
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 12:45, Yura wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Yura wrote: > >> Thank you. I'll try to set it up.If you have some good tutorial, etc. > >> please send. > > > > I'm afraid I don't. Though, the documentation is fine. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Roberto > > One more question: Does it work with USB data cable? Make sure that you have these set they work for me. # #UPSCABLE smart UPSCABLE usb and # #UPSTYPE apcsmart #DEVICE /dev/ttyS0 UPSTYPE usb DEVICE /dev/usb/hid/hiddev[0-9] Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpkyyrN28z2L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installer doesn't detect cdrom
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 22:32, michael wrote: > hello, > Have some new hardware, > Intel DQ965GF motherboard > Core 2 duo E6600 > IDE Cdrom > > I've tried every installer I can find, and no matter what > the installer won't detect my cdrom. > Perhaps there's one out there I haven't found yet? > > I've tried official sarge, etch, AMD64 etch > and a custom i386 sarge with kernel 2.6.15 kernel. > Perhaps a 2.6.17 or 2.6.18 kernel installer? > Is there one available? > > Thanks! > Mike You can get an i386 sarge with 2.6.18 at the url below does not seem to have updated the AMD64 one though perhaps if you ask nicely he may. http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpwKQiMPUv2F.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:37, Bruno Buys wrote: > 1F41B907 Actually you need the debian-keyring package installed then gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --export --armour 1F41B907 | apt-key add - To get Marillat's key into the secure apt keyring. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpDMRIwTgYnR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:37, Bruno Buys wrote: > Anybody having problems with gnupg and apt-get saying 'no pubkey > found...'? This is an etch install, apt-get complains not founding key > even after I do a > > vmtesting:/home/bruno# gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv 4F368D5D > gpg: requesting key 4F368D5D from hkp server keyring.debian.org > gpg: key 4F368D5D: "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2005) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" not changed > gpg: Total number processed: 1 > gpg: unchanged: 1 > > but when I apt-get update, apt says > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is > not available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907 > > am i missing something here? gpg --export --armour 4F368D5D | apt-key add - Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpRKeNyBHwsk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: added RAM, RAM not recognized by debian
On Thursday 28 September 2006 12:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 17:54:03 +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >Your kernel probably is not configured to recognize more than 1GB. > > > > > >- -- > > > > (Somewhat on topic anyway) - I've just ordered an upgrade for my box - 1 > > Gb of RAM included and an amd64 processor - will I need to recompile the > > kernel to get support for all RAM? The debian version I intend to run is > > the Etch (the file debian-testing-amd64-binary-1.iso downloaded today). > > I will make a clean install. > > I am not sure about the amd64 kernels in Etch; you can run > > grep HIGHMEM /boot/config-$(uname -r) > > to see if your kernel has been compiled with HIGHMEM support. The HIGHMEM is not necessary for a 64bit kernel/install it is still needed for 32bit though. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpBXOEjsLBHv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ktorrent
On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:10, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > where ktorrent save the tmp file . i downloaded 1 CD of 5 CD set of a > torrent. where this cd is sotred ?? If you did not change the default then the file would be in one of the ~/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent/tor* directories that get created. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpYPHy1ADny6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ALSA configuration strangeness, no card0 but card1 present?
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 02:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to get Debian configured on my laptop, and I'm unable to get > sound properly configured. I've read all of the ALSA troubleshooting > guides, and they say, in short, that if you don't have a 0 card listed > in /proc/asound/cards, you're in trouble. > > That's where I am: > > If I unload my snd_intel8x0 driver, I have no cards detected (no > surprise). In that mode, there are no card subdirectories in > /proc/asound, as there should be. When I `modprobe snd_intel8x0`, the > driver inserts properly and then the following is seen: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/asound# ls > card1 cards devices I82801DBICH4 modules oss pcm seq timers > version > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/asound# cat cards > 1 [I82801DBICH4 ]: ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4 > Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with AD1981B at 0xe0100c00, > irq 177 Try looking into you /etc/modprobe.d/sound to make sure it is listed properly you should see something like this for it being the first card. alias snd-card-0 snd_intel8x0 options snd_intel8x0 index=0 Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgplbzlvSJIPz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: activate dhcp at boot time
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 12:53, Robert Epprecht wrote: > The machine in question was configured *not* to do dhcp at boot time. > (root has to do 'pump' each time users want to connect to the internet.) > Now I want to change this. > > What's the Debian way to activate automatic connection to the network > at boot time? > > Robert Epprecht Debian uses the /etc/network/interfaces file for this an example. >$ cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp The "auto eth0" line brings up the interface on boot and the "iface .." line tells it to use dhcp. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpVDG51S1JZJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: alsa troubles
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:05, Albert Dengg wrote: > Hi > > on one of my machines i have some troubles with alsa. > > the system has 2 soundcard, one onboard via card (which is disabled in > the bios but for some reason shows up in lspci nevertheless), and a > creative sb live 1024 running with the emu10k1 driver. > > now, for some reason sometimes upon system startup, the onboard card is > initilized as the first card instead of the emu10k1. > > the system is: > MB asus a7v600-x > kernel 2.6.17.13 > and packages aside from a few execptions ( module-init-tools, udev, ... > from backports) debian sarge (including alsa userland components). > > does anybody have and idea how to fix that issue since it is anoying > when my mother calls me every few days and i have to re-run alsaconf... > > tia > > yours > albert Modify the /etc/modprobe.d/sound file to list the emu10k1 driver as the first sound card like this from my file for example. alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=1 alias snd-card-2 snd-bt87x options snd-bt87x index=2 If you want you can put the on-board as the second like I have or leave it out entirely. Once modified use "/etc/init.d/alsa reload" without the quotes and the module(s) will be unloaded then reloaded with the new options. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp1d0nr5ZEac.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dual CPU query
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 00:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After reading the e-mail regarding issues upgrading cpu, I decided to > check my Dual CPU server to see what /proc/cpuinfo said. > > This is what is says: > > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 8 > model name : Pentium III (Coppermine) > stepping: 3 > cpu MHz : 696.981 > cache size : 256 KB > fdiv_bug: no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug: no > coma_bug: no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 2 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca > cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse > bogomips: 1389.36 > > I can not see referecne to my second CPU. The system is a fresh net > install of Debian Sarge. So I need to do anything special to get the > second CPU reconzied? What have i done wrong suring the Debian install? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Julian DE Marchi > > Http://www.jdcomputers.com.au Use "apt-cache search image smp" without the " then choose a kernel image to install most likely one with a 686 in the name as well reboot and try again with the command you will see two processors or even if the frame buffer is in use when booting you will see two penguins on the screen/see both processor being initialized ... Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpjfMhY5Mo00.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: install kernel from testing on sarge
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 01:50, Vladi Lemurov wrote: > Hi there! > I use debian sarge and would like to install the latest kernel from > "testing" (I need it to set dvb interfaces down without getting the > server hung), but keep all other packets from > "stable" distribution, so I could update them, install new and so on. Is > that possible, I mean "debian-way" (Of course, I can simply take sources > and compile the kernel myself, I am quite experienced at that, but I > switched to debian to minimize compiling packages and would like to > learn how to deal with such situation "debian-way"). Could you point the > paper where it is described? > Thanks, Vladi. Try www.backports.org they have newer kenels pre-built to install on Sarge/stable. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpubpu8vsT9G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: where is glxgears now ?
On Monday 04 September 2006 03:27, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:36, Stephen Cormier wrote: > > Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others > > have told where to get it use "glxgears -printfps" without the quotes. > > If you feel like being verbose, you can also run: > > glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark > > to get the framerate. -printfps is for sissies. :) > > j Yeah I ran into that one in my many pages I had to read in my google quest^^Wsearch to find the printfps option that in their infinite wisdom decided not to put in the non-existant man page but just could not remember thatanoylinglonguselessoptionname when posting Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpY3ePbFP6YV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: where is glxgears now ?
On Sunday 03 September 2006 11:55, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I installed the package xbase-clients 7.1.ds-3 and I don't find > glxgears. > where is glxgears now ? > Thanks to Ccing me a reply. I am not subscriber to the list. Just to prevent the inevitable why no frames per second post since others have told where to get it use "glxgears -printfps" without the quotes. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpdFnp1j6CIN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bttv tuner card and tuner problems
On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:48, glenn mehesy wrote: > I have now been working on this for quite some time and cannot figure > this out. I am trying to get my leadtek tuner with a bttv chip working. > It is an NTSC tuner but debian etch insists on setting the tuner to type > 5 which is a PAL type. Needless to say it does not work. I have tried > putting various options lines in modules.conf using both bttv and tuner > as the module but I keep getting a tuner type 5. I had this card working > in this very system under Fedora Core 4 but an switching all my linux > system to Debian. I tried this same system under sarge but the kernel > was to old and did not support this card so I installed FC4 and it > worked fine when I was able to pass the tuner as an option to the > module. What do I need to do in Etch to pass the tuner=2 option to the > bttv module? I have been googling for the past 10 hours trying > everything I could find but nothing worked. The Etch install is up to > date and I'm running a 2.6.16 686 kernel. Thank you in advance for you > help. Try modprobe -r bttv and modprobe -r tuner then for my TV2000XP Deluxe I would use modprobe bttv card=34 tuner=2 you would need to find the correct card= number for your card. I use the following in a file I created /etc/modprobe.d/tvcard. ## Added by me for proper detection of tuner for TV card options bttv card=34 tuner=2 The loads the bttv module with the correct tuner and card on boot. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpmMOXADHMyj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X -configure failed
On Friday 18 August 2006 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When I did X -configure as root the X command appeared to terminate > normally but still left me with an empty /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. wc just > returns 0's on that file when asked about it. So what package am I maybe > missing that would allow this to happen? Correction, I probably had some > kind of error generated because /var/log/xorg.0.log was mentioned. Is > that logging facility advanced enough to tell me which package I'm > missing? Any time I have every used it it never gave you a file that was to be put in place of the X configuration one. It has always said that you can test using a file that is placed in the /root directory and even then the file never worked for me because it always leaves out things like the font paths and such now it has been awhile since I tried it so maybe things have changed ... Is there some reason your not using "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-org" without the quotes to try and get a working file? Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpwq6T45nMQs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get source question
On Monday 31 July 2006 14:10, Pollywog wrote: > I looked in the APT tutorial and also in a book but I could not find an > answer to this problem. > > I want to get a source package from the "testing" release, not from > "stable", so I did this: > > apt-get -t testing source > > It does not seem to work. Is there a way to do this without temporarily > modifying the sources.list in order to get the desired sources? Try apt-get source packagename=1.2.3-4 use whatever the version number is for testing. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpAq2GQJDpbt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation problems
On Thursday 27 July 2006 01:00, Rob Hurle wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Thanks for your wonderful suggestion:
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an
> > > Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb of
> > > memory. It has two SATA disc drives. Unfortunately, none of the
> > > peripherals is recognised - not the network cards, nor the two disc
> > > drives. I've tried booting with the 2.6 kernel (2.4 is the default, I
> > > think - tried that first) and, based on some advice from mailing
> > > lists, declared less memory (500M in this case). None of these things
> > > has worked. There is also no floppy on this system, only a CD drive.
> > > The system boots, ready for installation, from the CD, but then,
> > > nothing can be seen ("No media to partition" is the final message).
> > > Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you.
> >
> > You could try one of the backported sarge install discs from the
> > following site that have newer kernels.
> >
> > http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
>
> I downloaded this, and am away (sorry for the delay in reply - my ISP
> has been having "issues" with e-mail). I still have a few questions
> about this:
>
> 1. I have 2 processors, so would like an SMP kernel. Where could I
> get such a thing from?
>
> 2. I am very new to Debian (coming from FreeBSD) and I wonder if
> anyone on the list can give me a pointer as to how to incorporate a
> new kernel (RTFM - sure, but which FM?)? I tried using aptitude(8)
> but it only finds earlier kernels than the one I picked up from the
> above URL (which was 2.6.16-2-686) and these bomb (not surprisingly).
>
> >From where can I get these kernels, and can I get aptitude to install
>
> them?
You can use "apt-cache search linux-image smp" without the quotes and it
should show you the available smp kernels to install I'm sure there is a way
to search this using aptitude but I never have used it. Once you find a
suitable one then "aptitude install linux-image--smp" would install it
from the command line using aptitude then of course reboot and choose the
newly installed kernel from the list presented by Grub/LILO depending on
which you are using. BTW which image did you use to install a 32 bit or 64
bit one or does your chip(s) support 64bits.
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob Hurle
Your Welcome,
Stephen
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Re: location of header file after install gsl
On Thursday 20 July 2006 22:20, Fred J. wrote: > gsl_math.h apt-file search gsl_math.h libgsl0-dev: usr/include/gsl/gsl_math.h So installing the above package would probably help. Setphen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpdpIJGw9G2B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Installation problems
On Sunday 16 July 2006 01:50, Rob Hurle wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am trying to set up Debian 3.1r1 (Sarge) on a box with an
> Intel D945GNT motherboard and twin 3.2GHz processors and 1Gb of
> memory. It has two SATA disc drives. Unfortunately, none of the
> peripherals is recognised - not the network cards, nor the two disc
> drives. I've tried booting with the 2.6 kernel (2.4 is the default, I
> think - tried that first) and, based on some advice from mailing
> lists, declared less memory (500M in this case). None of these things
> has worked. There is also no floppy on this system, only a CD drive.
> The system boots, ready for installation, from the CD, but then,
> nothing can be seen ("No media to partition" is the final message).
> Any ideas would be welcome. Thank you.
You could try one of the backported sarge install discs from the following
site that have newer kernels.
http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
Stephen
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Re: Package question
On Sunday 09 July 2006 12:55, Aurélien Morelle wrote: > Hi, > I've done "apt-file update" and then "apt-file search msgfmt" returns > nothing. > It makes me think it comes not from a package... strange. > Works here running a mixed testing/unstable AMD64 system. >$ apt-file search msgfmt gettext: usr/bin/msgfmt gettext: usr/share/man/man1/msgfmt.1.gz gettext-doc: usr/share/doc/gettext-doc/msgfmt.1.html icu-doc: usr/share/doc/icu-doc/html/msgfmt_8h-source.html icu-doc: usr/share/doc/icu-doc/html/msgfmt_8h.html karrigell: usr/share/karrigell/k_msgfmt.py karrigell: usr/share/karrigell/msgfmt.py kbabel-dev: usr/include/kde/kbabel/msgfmt.h libgettext-ruby-util: usr/bin/rmsgfmt libgettext-ruby-util: usr/share/man/man1/rmsgfmt.1.gz libgettext-ruby1.8: usr/lib/ruby/1.8/gettext/rmsgfmt.rb libicu34-dev: usr/include/unicode/msgfmt.h libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/Makefile libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/README.TXT libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/answers/main_0.cpp libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/answers/main_1.cpp libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/answers/main_2.cpp libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/answers/main_3.cpp libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/main.cpp libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/msgfmt.sln libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/msgfmt.vcproj libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/util.cpp libicu34-dev: usr/share/doc/libicu34-dev/examples/msgfmt/util.h linkchecker: usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/linkcheck/msgfmt.py mailman: usr/lib/mailman/bin/msgfmt.py python2.1-examples: usr/share/doc/python2.1/examples/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py python2.2-examples: usr/share/doc/python2.2/examples/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py python2.3-examples: usr/share/doc/python2.3/examples/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py python2.4-examples: usr/share/doc/python2.4/examples/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py roundup: usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/roundup/msgfmt.py zope-cps: usr/share/zope/Products/CPSI18n/tests/msgfmt.py zope-cpsskins: usr/share/zope/Products/CPSSkins/tests/msgfmt.py zope-plonearticle: usr/share/zope/Products/PloneArticle/i18n/msgfmt.exe zope-pts: usr/share/zope/Products/PlacelessTranslationService/msgfmt.py Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpcfMN4Eb8ZK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sound and tv card
On Friday 07 July 2006 11:30, Felipe Leon wrote: > I could not find possibilities to connect the tv card > to the sb live with an audio cable or smthing like > that. > any ideas on this? Are you sure about that even my old cheap Zoltrix had a line out that you connected to the line in on the sound card. What is the model number of the card try using lspci if you don't know off hand or dmesg looking for where the card is detected. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp98LTM13gir.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to check whether a package has been installed
On Monday 26 June 2006 20:38, Martin Paraskevov wrote: > rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. > is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? > > - martin $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.6.44.2 Candidate: 0.6.44.2 Version table: *** 0.6.44.2 0 990 http://ftp2.de.debian.org testing/main Packages 600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp8Wx7Kh0i47.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Really slow glxgears, excellent speed in Planet Penguin
On Thursday 22 June 2006 06:47, Geoff Reidy wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Nvidia GX 5200 (128MB RAM) > > xorg 7.0.22 > > nvidia binary driver 1.0-8762 > > linux-source-2.6.16 (home-rolled kernel) > > > > > > As the subject mentions, I get good speed in Planet Penguin, and > > also in Google Earth, and also in glxheads but glxgears in *slw*. > > > > Any thoughts? > > They've changed it after all these years, try: > > glxgears -iacknowledgethatthistoolisnotabenchmark > > Geoff Or for the people who perfer not to type the whole alphabet. glxgears -printfps Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpFNIDr1GNLn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: iTunes Lib. to Ogg
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 06:11, CRASSlogic wrote: > Greets all. > I recently installed Debian on my PowerMac G4. Having > used OS X for a long time, i've acquired a perfectly > organized library of full CD's, no drm, in the aac > format. > > I've recently learned about how aac and mp3 are > proprietary formats, and what that's all about in > general. I've looked into and rather admire the Ogg > Vorbis codec, and want very much to use it. My > question is; is there a way (here in Debian, Sarge) to > convert my iTunes library (currently 20.8GB) to Ogg > Vorbis? I can't find a batch encoder or similar > myself, having spent quite some time on google. > > Any information is sincerely appreciated. > --Q > You can use xmms to do this with the xmms-mp4 and xmms-oggre plugins. The -mp4 allows you to play the file and the -oggre allows you to convert the output on the fly to .ogg, so all you really need to do is put all the songs you want converted into a big playlist hit play and xmms plays/converts the songs while putting the .ogg files into a directory of your choice. You would want something like easytag to put the proper tags back into the resulting .ogg's. It can search the internet via the CDDB database(s) to fill in the tags for your albums or you can if you have named the files properly before conversion use the fill masks feature using the file names to fill in the tags. Unfortunately according to the description it does not seem to support aac so renaming before conversion to make it really easy looks like a no-go. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpsuiuc8Eat5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to get libX*.la ?
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:45, LeVA wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to compile a software which needs a lot of libX*.la files. Which > package(s) contains these files? (I thought the -dev packages does) > > $ dpkg -l > [...] > libxcursor-dev > libxcursor1 > [...] > xlibs-dev > xlibs-static-dev > [...] Install apt-file then as root "apt-file update" then as normal user you can "apt-file search file/missing.la" and it will tell you which package(s) contain it. I believe you could also go to http://packages.debian.org and do a search there. > Thanks! > > Daniel > > -- > LeVA Your welcome, Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpQlwjTJkadB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mixed dual-monitor setup: too weird?
On Monday 12 June 2006 04:32, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi Kent, > I'd love to see your x info and conf files. I tried a few times but got > only 1 card to work and the other did nothing. TIA! > Kev When I was running AGP & PCI cards for the dual head I had to have the BIOS set to boot off the PCI card otherwise it would not be initialized properly, perhaps the same was happening to you. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpFX3AfTjP5W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Building rawimage fails
On Thursday 08 June 2006 00:55, Bruno Buys wrote: > I'm trying to build rawimage, a kfile plugin for raw image formats > (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30971). > > The problem is, I'm failing with the same error of this guy: > > *** Warning: Linking the shared library kfile_rawimage.la against the > *** static library /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a is not > portable! > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[2]: *** [kfile_rawimage.la] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory > `/home/Software/SoftwareTesting/SourceFiles/rawimage-0.4/src' > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/home/Software/SoftwareTesting/SourceFiles/rawimage-0.4' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > > And here's the reply from the developer: > > Yes, you need libperl.so somewhere in your lib-path and > Encode.so,Zlib.so, MD5.so, POSIX.so, IO.so and ExifTool in your PERLLIB > path. So what does 'locate libperl.so' says? In Gentoo your missing > package is called 'sys-devel/libperl'. > > > So, how do I fix this on my debian sarge machine? If it helps, 'locate > libperl.so' says (but i have no idea what to do with it): > > /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 > /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8.7 apt-file seems to suggest you need libperl-dev if you install it you can find the other packages you may need as well. >$ apt-file search libperl.so libperl-dev: usr/lib/libperl.so perl-base: usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 perl-base: usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8.8 weechat-plugins: usr/lib/weechat/plugins/libperl.so weechat-plugins: usr/lib/weechat/plugins/libperl.so.0 weechat-plugins: usr/lib/weechat/plugins/libperl.so.0.0.0 Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpoSerImcuVT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: non-free nvidia driver on etch?
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 13:12, Jonathan Pearce wrote: > I am running etch. I installed the legacy nvidia driver to work around > a bug with the 8178 release. I am ready to move back to the current > version, but I can't sort out the situation with the etch & the nvidia > drivers. > > Some googling turns up nothing except the fact that the nvidia drivers > aren't working on etch: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#head-783b4c1ece4093dca2810eeff >7da15c17a2b031a > > I tried downloading the unstable driver packages and doing dpkg -i. > The unstable drivers depend on xorg 1.7.0, so that was a bust. > > I was hoping to keep my driver installed 'the debian way' rather than > install the package from Nvidia. Does anyone know how best to install > the nvidia graphics driver on etch? Try the line(s) in your sources.list mentioned on the maintainers page (1) use something less than the -3 version of the 8756 driver IIRC to not have the dependency on Xorg 7. (1) http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpvj1SeRxyAH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to test a hard drive
On Saturday 27 May 2006 19:36, thierry wrote: > Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? > I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is > still a problem in disregarding it right away > Thank you for help. > Thierry Go To the manufacturer's website and check in the support section for a downloadable testing program, most have one there that you make a boot floppy with then boot from it to test. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpbVj1VhDFlI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: repetitive apt-get upgrade
On Friday 26 May 2006 08:21, Daniel D Jones wrote: > What causes a package to be listed everytime you run apt-get upgrade? > Specifically, mailman is constantly listed for upgrade. It appears to go > through the upgrade process but if I immediately rerun apt-get upgrade it's > listed again. Is this a problem with the package or something on my > machine? Don't have a clue as to what caused it but I had the same problem awhile back. What I finally did was go into my /var/cache/apt/archives directory and deleted the already downloaded .deb files for the packages giving me the problem. Then once apt downloaded and installed the packages again it went away, you may want to try the same. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpmvBHgkdI5v.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How do I use the linux-headers with the linux-source?
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:59, Marco wrote: > #locate autoconf.h > /usr/include/asm-i486/autoconf.h > /usr/include/asm-x86_64/autoconf.h > /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h > > Any idea? Have you configured/compiled the source tree yet? >$ locate autoconf.h /usr/include/asm-i386/autoconf.h /usr/include/asm-x86_64/autoconf.h /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.16/include/linux/autoconf.h The above is from my compiled and installed kernel tree whereas if I move it to a backup and untar a new tree the file does not exist. >$ ls /usr/src/linux-2.6.16/include/linux/autoconf.h ls: /usr/src/linux-2.6.16/include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory >$ ls /usr/src/linux-2.6.16.orig/include/linux/autoconf.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.16.orig/include/linux/autoconf.h Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgptY5UtYgl0i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian
On Monday 15 May 2006 13:26, Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Would some PLEASE clue me in on what the secret key is to enable the > desired selection? Try pressing the spacebar when the selection is highlighted. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpZjURHdzEun.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Screen resolution
On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, Debian users. > > I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be: > everything appears very big. > Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? > And a way to make it be what it should? > When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86', > the resolution displayed is never what I put: 1024×768. > I have Sarge 3.1 stable. > > I got no help from the debian-laptop mailing list. > I hope someone can point me to the right way. > > Thanks, > Rodolfo Get out the manual/search online for the specifications for the horizontal and vertical refresh rates for the screen/monitor. Then use advanced when reconfiguring and put in the values when asked, Debian always sets up the refresh rates too low which stops you from getting the higher resolutions. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpXe92gB3z0S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: C/C++ toolchain
On Monday 24 April 2006 00:51, IraqiGeek wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a simple way to install a C/C++ toolchain into debian (sarge) > without having to select each package manually under aptitude (nor > installing everything under the devel category)? > > I have installed GCC, G++, glibc, make, autoconf, automake, ncurses5, along > with all their dependencies. However, when I try to compile motor 3.4.0, > configure exits with an error saying ncurses terminal library isnt > installed, which according to aptitude it is, and I have manually installed > ncurses-term using apt-get. > You would want another package ending in -dev not the ncurses-term. A quick search here would seem to suggest I would need to install libncurses5-dev to get the developement files. apt-cache search ncurses dev kernel-source-2.4.27 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.27 with Debian patches libaca0 - The Advanced nCurses API -- development files libncurses5-dev - Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses libncursesw5-dev - Developer's libraries for ncursesw librote-dev - a simple C library for VT102 terminal emulation - development moc - ncurses based console audio player bochs-term - Terminal (ncurses-based) plugin for Bochs dav-text - A minimalist ncurses-based text editor kernel-source-2.2.25 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.25 php4-cli - command-line interpreter for the php4 scripting language php5-cli - command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language tcd - Portable CD player with an ncurses interface whiptail - Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts ekg2 - instant messenger and IRC client for UNIX systems You would do the same search on your machine to see if the package is named the same in sarge. If you still get errors then you may want to install apt-file and use apt-file update as root then you can use apt-file search file/missing.? to find the package which contains the needed file then install it. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpefsWAYBM3B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gpg error when using hkp
On Sunday 23 April 2006 21:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > $ gpg --search-keys [EMAIL PROTECTED] > gpg: searching for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu > gpgkeys: HTTP search error 7: couldn't connect: eof > gpg: key "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" not found on keyserver > gpg: keyserver internal error > gpg: keyserver search failed: keyserver error > > What does this mean? I haven't been able to receive keys for a while, so I > decided to take a look at what was going on. Using ldap to > ldap://keyserver.pgp.com works, except that nobody uses that keyserver. Don't know where to tell you to start looking for the error but it works here once I specify the server to search on. Perhaps you have something blocking the 11371 port for sending/receiving to/from the hkp server. $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-keys [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: searching for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from hkp server pgp.mit.edu (1) Paul Johnson (Now even bigger!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024 bit DSA key 65183BB4, created: 2006-04-21 (2) Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024 bit DSA key 462BC47C, created: 2005-03-27 (3) Paul Johnson (Mail and News) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Johnson (Mail and News) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024 bit DSA key 5A103307, created: 2003-08-07 (4) Paul Johnson (Mail and News) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024 bit DSA key 8B362A2F, created: 2003-08-06 (5) Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Johnson (Replacement key 3/10/03) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Baloo Ursidae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Johnson (Replacement key 3/10/03) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1024 bit DSA key A5692B69, created: 2003-03-11 Enter number(s), N)ext, or Q)uit > q Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpTus5Glc5Sa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xorg problems when trying to play videos onto a TV with an nvidia card
On Thursday 13 April 2006 09:31, Thomas McLean wrote: > Section "Module" > Load "GLcore" > Load "bitmap" > Load "dbe" > Load "ddc" > Load "dri" > Load "extmod" > Load "freetype" > Load "glx" > Load "int10" > Load "record" > Load "speedo" > Load "type1" > Load "vbe" > EndSection In the section above you should not have the Load "GLcore" or Load "dri" when using the nvidia driver. > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" > Driver "keyboard" > Option "CoreKeyboard" > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "gb" > EndSection Here you should have Option "XkbRules" "xorg" and Driver "kbd" when using Xorg. > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nvidia" > VendorName "Videocard vendor" > BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 (generic)" > Option "NvAGP" "1" > Option "DigitalVibrance" "2" > Option "TwinView" "1" > Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-61" > Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-76" > Option "TwinViewOrientation" "clone" > Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B" > Option "MetaModes" "1024x768 @024x768,800x600 @800x600" > EndSection Here it looks like a typo in the MetaModes line should be 1024x768 @1024x768. >Section "Screen" > >Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Videocard0" > Monitor"Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > Option "TwinView" > Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30.0 - 61.0" > Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56.0 - 76.0" > Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 800x600 @1280x1024; 1024x768, >1024x768 @1024x768; 1024x768, 1024x768" >SubSection "Display" > Depth 24 > Modes"1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > EndSection I never used twinview but I am certain that the options you have here in the screen section are not needed. >(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X ># I have tried loading this module also and the same happens # >(EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X > (EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If > (EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try > (EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver. Now here I think the glcore and dri are interfering with the loading of the nvidia glx remove/comment out the lines and see if that helps. For your TV-Out problem I would suggest checking the Nvnews Linux Forum (1) I have seen a couple of posts on the TV-Out and the 8756 driver perhaps someone has discovered a solution. (1) http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgppqjS7btCIs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: not able to install kio-locate
On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:18, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I downloaded kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb from > http://arminstraub.de/browse.php?page=programs_kiolocate&lang=en . But I > am unable to install it on Debian Sid running kde 3.5.2. The exact > errors are > > $sudo dpkg -i kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package kio-locate. > (Reading database ... 264885 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking kio-locate (from kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kio-locate: > kio-locate depends on kdelibs4c2 (>= 4:3.4.2-1); however: > Package kdelibs4c2 is not installed. > dpkg: error processing kio-locate (--install): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > kio-locate > > > The website > http://arminstraub.de/browse.php?page=programs_kiolocate&lang=en does > not tell where to report the problems. So I thought I would ask on d-u > if other users were able to solve this problem and offer some suggestions. Download and unpack the file http://arminstraub.de/downloads/kio-locate/kio-locate_0.4.5.tar.gz change into the directory that will be created. Now run the command "fakeroot debian/rules binary" without the "" and it should build the package for you to install if you have the qt and kde -dev files installed along with build-essential. The problem you are having is the .deb is the kdelibs is at version/name kdelibs4c2a on your machine where it is looking for kdelibs4c2 to be installed. I have linked (1) the output of building the package I just did here if you want to check and see what it will look for if you try too build it yourself. (1) http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/kio-locate-build.txt > thanks > raju Your Welcome, Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp7TbXZM83xF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Really stupid question about apt
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:13, Brad Sims wrote: > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed > version? > > I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I would ask. > > -- > Remember: Every time a criminal gets his skull blown open by a > law-abiding citizen, the Baby Jesus smiles. > And so do I. Use dpkg-repack. Stephen -- GPG Pubic Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp4JvTuksitH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: packages.debian.org status update?
On Friday 03 February 2006 03:58, Scott wrote: > [If there is a better forum for these questions, please advise and > I'll redirect. Thank you] > > > Is there any more current information than what can be found here?: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00035.html > > That report is dated 8 January 2006 and it's now 3 February 2006. > Nothing has changed. The site is still down. > > I think that's some sort of record for web sites I've visited. :-) > > In the above referenced email I read: > > "packages.debian.org was disabled because the load of the machine > hosting it, saens.debian.org, which also is our only ftp.debian.org > at the moment, rose to 141.32, 135.82, 135.71, as on January 4th, due > to amongst others a cron job from packages.debian.org started in 2005 > still running -- and probably more. packages.debian.org was already > very slow for days, as multiple people noticed on IRC." > > What type of cron job could have that been (he didn't say)? And is > it *still* running? > > And what does "and probably more mean"? > > This all rather odd. > > Again, I don'' recall a web server out of commission this long > unless it was permanent. > > In other words, what's the status now? What are the problems that > prevent it from being back online? And lastly, is there any remote > estimate as to when it will be back up? > > Thanks. :) > > Curiously, Try http://pdo.debian.net I seen this on http://planet.debian.net/ which seems like a rather strange place to be mentioned. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpaCK6QXq8jW.pgp Description: PGP signature
SOLVED - Abit AV8, Alsa and 5.1 Surround Sound
Well did not ask a question but figured I would share my solution to my problem of getting the surround sound working on my Abit AV8 motherboard. The actual problem was no sound coming from the rear speakers when they were hooked up according to the colour coding of the wires. The solution use the speaker-test program to test your speakers with the command "speaker-test -c6 -Dsurround51:0" (without the quotes) if your board is anything like mine you will find that the sound for the base/center speakers will be coming out the rear speakers and for the rear they will be coming from the base/center speakers so you need to put the center/subwoofer wire in the rear right/left port and the rear right/left wire into the center/subwoofer port on the back of the mother board then when running the speaker-test command the sound should be coming from the proper speakers. The :0 on then end of the speaker-test command is for the first card in the system when using alsa most likely the default for anyone using only the on-board sound. To get sound from all the speakers using alsa you must unmute the Duplicate Front mixer setting which will give you sound on the front/rear right/left speakers you must also unmute then raise the volumes on the Surround, Center and LFE channels in the mixer of your choice. Hopefully this post will save someone some time in the future. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpSy5BdPAYXC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: odd apt error
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:52, Stephen Cormier wrote: That would be dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpLD24yvqPoc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: odd apt error
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:12, Preston Boyington wrote: > Would someone mind helping me with this? I was doing an > update/upgrade and it keeps dying with this error message: > > Unpacking libiec61883-0 (from .../libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb) > ... dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libiec61883.so.0.0.0', which is also > in package libiec61883 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > maybe there is a way to skip this file and let it upgrade the rest? Use dpkg --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libiec61883-0_1.0.0-0.1_i386.deb then dpkg --configure -a to get the unconfigured packages that may have been left over and proceed with the last update/upgrade you were doing. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpiB8ltqDvM5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Building deb package frome installed files
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:05, Виталий Ищенко wrote: > I have installed package i.e. apt-get install openoffice.org-core -t > unstable then i've deleted file openoffice.org-core_2.0.1-1_i386.deb > And now i want to build back this package with files, which have been > installed with apt-get Install dpkg-repack then use it to rebuild the package. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpNueZ1e92KD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get error
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 18:38, Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: > Hi, > I'm getting following errors after "apt-get upgrade".I'm using Sarge > 3.1 and tried to upgrade after adding testing & unstable repositories > to my source.lst file.All packages were successfully downloaded. > - > > Preparing to replace kdemultimedia-kio-plugins 4:3.3.2-1 (using > .../kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement kdemultimedia-kio-plugins ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.de >b (--unpack): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kioslave/audiocd.docbook', which is also > in package kdebase-kio-plugins > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.de >b E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > - > > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards > Nikhil Prabhakar dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kdemultimedia-kio-plugins_4%3a3.5.0-3_i386.deb then dpkg --configure -a to get any unconfigured packages and you may want to try the upgrade command again as well. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpGX3OFN7WBa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't mount a newly created ext3 partition from the new Hard Disk I installed...
On Thursday 22 December 2005 16:39, Dom wrote: > I bought a Western Digital 80GB Hard Disk as a second disk for my > GNU/Linux Debian system (kernel 2.6.8-2-386). > > I attached it as a Slave and set its jumper accordingly. The next > step was to create partition, and I created one by running (under > root of course) 'fdisk /dev/hdb' and using the command new (n) to > create a primary partition with partition number 1 for which I only > used 12GB (of 80GB available). Also with command 't' I made sure the > filesystem is ext3 (code 83). > > I created a directory /music on which I plan to mount this > filesystem. > and this is what I get when I enter "dmesg | tail": > > > SCSI subsystem initialized > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev hdb1. > > > Please help, I'm new with all of this and I really can't figure out > what I did wrong nor can I find an adequate solution Googleing the > web. > > Can you see what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance! I see no mention of you having formatted the partition so. mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dev address of serial ata
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 16:08, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > The disk I ordered turned out to be SATA. I thought I ordered ATA. I > was wrong. > > If the master in IDE0 is /dev/hda and the master in IDE1 is /dev/hdc, > the master in SATA1 is /dev/hde? > > Thanks! > > H Mine shows up as /dev/sda although I believe there are some SATA that can be set to work as the older IDE. In either event look in your boot messages with dmesg and it will tell you what it gets detected as. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gcc internal error
On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:40, Marty Landman wrote: > UNCLELEO:~# memtest86 > bash: memtest86: command not found > UNCLELEO:~# find / -name memtest86 > UNCLELEO:~# > > Did above as root. Or could this indicate a hosed install? You download from the web and burn the memtest86 iso image to CD then boot with it and let it run its tests. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpsA8MGR8EAo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xine Skips Horribly
On November 27, 2005 03:03 pm, Jacob Jennings wrote: > How does one go about verifying that DMA is enabled on > their harddrive? HappyTux:/home/stephen# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) <- keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0 If playing the video from a DVD you will also want to check that drive as well. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpQq0mSiZcTk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: List files of installed package (apt?)
On November 24, 2005 11:01 am, Lupu wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way I can list all files of an installed package in Debian > - something similar to rpm -ql [package name] in Red Hat. > > Mike Since others have mentioned dpkg -L if you ever need to do the same for a package that is not installed then you can install the apt-file package. Then after an apt-file update as root you can use apt-file list package_name to list the files in an uninstalled package or if compiling a package and you get an error about not finding a file apt-file search file_name will show you the package(s) the file is in. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp1tunLETo17.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Alsa card activation order
On November 20, 2005 11:02 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote: > 2005/11/21, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On November 20, 2005 04:54 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote: > > > I can think of two ways to fix the problem. But I want to know > > > the Debian Way(tm). > > > > > > My problem is simple. I have two sound "cards" in my computer. > > > But I want my onboard sound to be the first sound card recognized > > > by Alsa in both its /dev/dsp* (OSS emulation) and /dev/snd/pcm* > > > (Alsa proper) incarnations. > > > > > > What files in /etc/ do I need to edit to set the card activation > > > order of my two sound cards ? > > > > If using a 2.6 kernel then in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory check > > to see where the alias is set on my install it is the sound file. > > Edit the file to look similar to this. > > > > alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx > > options snd-via82xx index=0 > > > > alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1 > > options snd-emu10k1 index=1 > > > > Changing the drivers to match your install putting the onboard > > sound module in the lines with 0 in them and your pci card module > > in the lines with 1. Now when booting modutils will process the > > file and the drivers should be loaded in the correct order. If > > using a 2.4 kernel then check in the /etc/modutils/aliases file and > > see if that is where your sound card is being set. If so then add > > the couple of lines for the second card and make sure your onboard > > is set to the 0 then run update-modules to have the new information > > entered in > > the /etc/modules.conf for use on next boot if not then check the > > other files to see where it is located and make the changes there. > > Thanks. Your approach seems more elegant than the solution I had in > mind. But wouldn't any changes I make to, in my case, > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base get in the way of a fresh alsa upgrade? Yes they would because that file is provided by the alsa-base package and you should not be making your changes there. > I know there's an option to have dpkg not overwrite any changed files > in /etc. But that would mean I would miss installing any > policy-mandated changes. Yes that is how it would end up working out. >So I experimented with creating my own > configuration file and naming it /etc/modprobe.d/01_My_Module_Hacks: > > options snd-via82xx index=0 > options snd-ymfpci index=1 > I'm still not sure now where a Debian users is supposed to place > special module parameters needed to make some kernel modules work > properly. I'd surely like a pointer to any policy document. As it is > my configuration looks more and more like a mish-mash of hacks that I > have to check every time I upgrade. > Your experiment is the Debian way of doing it, any local options needing to be passed at boot should be put in a file in the /etc/modprobe.d directory (when running a 2.6 kernel). You will not have to check every time you upgrade as no package should be trying to write to a file it knows nothing about. I would guess that you have not run the alsaconf yet because the sound file I mentioned should have been created and already on your system so you could have put your changes in there and they would have been left alone until the next time you ran alsaconf. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgp0E6lfx5WZp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Alsa card activation order
On November 20, 2005 04:54 pm, Heimdall Midgard wrote: > I can think of two ways to fix the problem. But I want to know the > Debian Way(tm). > > My problem is simple. I have two sound "cards" in my computer. But I > want my onboard sound to be the first sound card recognized by Alsa > in both its /dev/dsp* (OSS emulation) and /dev/snd/pcm* (Alsa proper) > incarnations. > > What files in /etc/ do I need to edit to set the card activation > order of my two sound cards ? > > -- > Albert Einstein: Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist > begrenzt. If using a 2.6 kernel then in the /etc/modprobe.d/ directory check to see where the alias is set on my install it is the sound file. Edit the file to look similar to this. alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx options snd-via82xx index=0 alias snd-card-1 snd-emu10k1 options snd-emu10k1 index=1 Changing the drivers to match your install putting the onboard sound module in the lines with 0 in them and your pci card module in the lines with 1. Now when booting modutils will process the file and the drivers should be loaded in the correct order. If using a 2.4 kernel then check in the /etc/modutils/aliases file and see if that is where your sound card is being set. If so then add the couple of lines for the second card and make sure your onboard is set to the 0 then run update-modules to have the new information entered in the /etc/modules.conf for use on next boot if not then check the other files to see where it is located and make the changes there. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpbdmAGuYjlw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can't get grip to normalize before encoding.
On October 29, 2005 01:01 pm, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Where do you get normalize-mp3? It is part of the normalize-audio package. >$ apt-file search normalize-mp3 normalize-audio: usr/bin/normalize-mp3 normalize-audio: usr/share/man/man1/normalize-mp3.1.gz Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpMlANW73Qv1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Everything SSH related is dead
On October 18, 2005 10:15 am, Graham Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Having a touch of trouble with SSH. Anything that goes near SSH fails > horribly with a segfault. For instance running SSH at a command > prompt gives: > > Oct 18 14:13:06 localhost kernel: ssh[6763]: segfault at > 00014a00432c rip 2ac40817 rsp 7fce6e58 error 4 > > in the syslog ssh-agent gives: > > Oct 18 14:07:20 localhost kernel: ssh-agent[6705]: segfault at > 000114211b2c rip 2ac40817 rsp 7fdbaa48 error 4 > > I would like to file a bug report (and fix the problem) but I'm not > sure what to file it against. I presume one of the base libraries is > at fault but how do I tell which one? > > I'm running the amd64 version of sid BTW. openssl would be the one to file on although from the posts to the amd64 list I would think more than one of them have filed already. You can downgrade the package if the old one is still in your cache by using dpkg -i package_in_cache or getting it here. http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/pool/main/o/openssl/openssl_0.9.8-3_amd64.deb > TIA, > > Graham Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpG97AeuT315.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ip address
On October 14, 2005 02:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use this. # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 # Iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 And do not forget to make sure that you have your namesevers in the file /etc/resolv.conf the file looks like this. >$ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 24.222.0.66 nameserver 24.222.0.91 You would of course change the numbers to those provided by your ISP or if you have a nameserver running its IP address. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpXG397N5uXF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgraded from 512 to 1024 ram. Now, how to fine tune the system?
On October 7, 2005 07:44 pm, Bruno Buys wrote: > One vendor told me there's a way to enable some double channel > configuration, if you have two mem modules, that goes way faster. I > didn't find it on my BIOS. Is there such a thing, and how do I enable > it? I have the same motherboard as you and you don't have that option with it or any other 754 board for that matter, you would have needed to get a socket 939 board with support for dual channel memory. The memory modules themselves are usually purchased packaged as matched pairs. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpczmTH15N7L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: root cannot su to normal user now
On September 29, 2005 09:49 pm, Wang Xu wrote: > Hi All, > > I have 2 linux computer, one is running testing, and the other is > running unstable. > > Now the sid one cannot use `su' to change from root to any user, > including itself. > > cannot su - xx > cannot su xx > cannot su xx -c 'command' > > but the 'su -c' is improtant for the acpid script for the button of > laptop. > > The libpam0g version in the sid machine is 0.79-1, and in the etch > machine is 0.76-23, and > > I did enable the > ``auth sufficient pam_rootok.so'' > in ``/etc/pam.d/su'' > > and enable the wheel group in it. > > Any advices? Many thanks. > > The following is my /etc/pam.d/su, while other setting about pam and > login is shipped with the distribution. > > > > # > # The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `su' service > # > > # Uncomment this to force users to be a member of group root > # before they can use `su'. You can also add "group=foo" to > # to the end of this line if you want to use a group other > # than the default "root". > # (Replaces the `SU_WHEEL_ONLY' option from login.defs) > auth required pam_wheel.so group=adm > > # Uncomment this if you want wheel members to be able to > # su without a password. > auth sufficient pam_wheel.so trust group=adm > > # Uncomment this if you want members of a specific group to not > # be allowed to use su at all. > auth required pam_wheel.so deny group=nosu > > # This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation) > auth sufficient pam_rootok.so > > # Uncomment and edit /etc/security/time.conf if you need to set > # time restrainst on su usage. > # (Replaces the `PORTTIME_CHECKS_ENAB' option from login.defs > # as well as /etc/porttime) > # accountrequisite pam_time.so > > # The standard Unix authentication modules, used with > # NIS (man nsswitch) as well as normal /etc/passwd and > # /etc/shadow entries. > @include common-auth > @include common-account > @include common-session > > # Sets up user limits, please uncomment and read > /etc/security/limits.conf # to enable this functionality. > # (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login) > # sessionrequired pam_limits.so Try upgrading the login package I think you may have run into bug #330291. Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpbVAFPCnh68.pgp Description: PGP signature
