I find this whole discussion interesting. I have been using Debian
unstable AMD64 for 3 years now. I currently have Ubuntu (32 bit)
installed on another partition (as a back up for those rare times when
I have upgraded and lost X or had some other temporary problem). I
have been thinking about
I have a puzzling problem I could use some help with. The computer
will not burn DVD discs, recognize blank DVDs, recognize DVD movie
discs. However, the computer does automatically recognize and
automount Audio CDs, blank CD-R discs, and data DVD-Rs.
I have tried burning with K3b and other
On 8/30/06, Michael Langley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can mount and read data DVD-Rs but not video DVD then you might not have
UDF support in your kernel. Either that or your drive is toast.
I compiled the kernel about 6 months ago. It had all the necessary
modules built at that time
On 8/30/06, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually the HAL used by gnome/kde on newer systems causes serious
problems for writing DVD/CD on a lot of systems because it keeps polling
the drive to check if there is a disk in there yet. Any chance that is
screwing it up? Look for
On 8/30/06, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're mistaken. I've never had an optical drive fail entirely - I've
had DVD drives forget how to read DVDs, DVD drives forget how to read
CDs, CD Writers which forget the existence of certain brands of blank
media... And age isn't a factor.
I
utilities to use would be much appreciated.
Craig Hagerman
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On 7/21/06, Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, I use the Sun Java JRE. I have another JRE installed by
apt, but I also installed the Sun JRE by hand and put it in a
different directory. Then I opened the azureus script
(/usr/local
On 7/20/06, P|pex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Thomas Halva Labella [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha
scritto:
Where do I get libswt-gtk-3.1-jni? Where is the
problem?
I saw there is a package called libswt3.1-gtk-jni,
but azureus does not
care much about it.
I Thomas
the package libswt-gtk-3.1-jni
Hi,
I use a Debian AMD64 Unstable/Sid machine as a home file / web server
and media center. I did an apt-get upgrade yesterday and right
afterwards noticed that a video I watched in Totem was pixelated. I
thought perhaps it was just that one file, but after some checking
today I have found that
Hi,
Sorry if this is off topic - I have been searching for an answer
unsuccessfully for a couple days.
I have been trying to get my computer set up to use Japanese. I have
read through several web pages and installed a lot of suggested
software with apt-get. (Can't remember all of it anymore.)
On 7/8/06, LI Daobing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
install scim + scim-tables-jaAnd then...?I found out I already had scim installed, and not scim-tables-ja. Both are now installed. But I still don't understand how I am supposed to input Japanese text. Is there some magic key combination to switch
:
On 7/8/06, Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And then...?
I found out I already had scim installed, and not scim-tables-ja. Both are
now installed. But I still don't understand how I am supposed to input
Japanese text. Is there some magic key combination to switch between English
For some reason I just lost my cdrom / dvd drive (same). I did an
update and upgrade, burned a CD in k3b and all was working well. I
came home to find that the computer had crashed hard - no mouse, no
keyboard, couldn't log in remotely, nothing worked. I restarted and
everything is OK except that
When I did a fresh install of Debian amd64 (couple years ago?) I
booted from a live CD (ubuntu has a 64 bit live CD) and did everything
from there. ie. partition the disk, create a chroot to where you want
the deb root partition, install debootstrap etc and go from there.
If you are that
I updated my sources.list and used mirrors from the official debian
list. (A push-primary with the lowest score in netselect). Did an
update and dist-upgrade and downloaded around 30 MB of upgrades.
Unfortunately this has not helped my problem. I still get the same
messages about nvidia-glx
Running Debian AMD64 unstable (sid).
I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and lost the GUI. Seems there
is a problem with the nvidia driver.
nvidia-glx was removed and now is uninstallable. It tells me:
nvidia-glx: Depends: xserver-common (= 4.0.3) but it is not going to
be installed
When
On 5/2/06, Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
try to change the sources.list to the i386-path. Apt recognizes your
architecture.
Really?? Are you sure about this? Wouldn't that mean I would be
pointing at 32-bit sources? I have never heard of this before. Are you
saying that xorg7.0 is not in the
Briefly I am wondering how I can set up the (gnome) screensaver to NOT
come on when I am running a video app.
Up until a few months ago I had my debian machine set up so that the
screen would go blank after 5 minutes and then shut off the monitor
after 10 minutes. But the screen would remain on
On 1/12/06, Jaime Ochoa Malagón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I suggest try amarok I'm realy enjoy using it...and the pluggin of kxdocker...
Thanks for the suggestion Jaime, amaroK looks nice. I'll give it a try.
By the way, is there some kind of law that linux apps must have stupid names?
On 1/11/06, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
incredibly slow starting up (because I have so much music). I usually
use xmms, but for some reason when I create and save a playlist it
won't open in xmms afterwards anyway (wants to open
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From: Craig Hagerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Jan 10, 2006 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: lm_sensors package
To: Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for all the advice. I have things solved and will report on
what I have done.
Did an apt-get install lm-sensors
Hi,
Just curious - does anyone here use crossover office (or wine) and
been able to run iTunes successfully? I would really love to run
iTunes on my debian box. I tried out crossover office in a 32bit
chroot, and was able to get iTunes installed successfully, but never
could get the sound to
On 1/11/06, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dont forget 'gtkpod' for all your ipoding needs. except buying
music... but thats what the cd store is for ;)
Thanks for the suggestion, but I am OK with using my Powerbook to sync
my iPod. I have my music on an NFS share on the Debian server
Hi,
When i do apt-get install lm_sensors it reports that it can't find any
such package. I have tried using different sources in my source.list
to no avail. I used to have this package installed on a previous
debian amd64 installation. Anyone know what it up with this? Do I have
to download the
On 1/1/06, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you do it ALL the Debian way, it's just fine. You should see your new
kernels added into the LILO configuration automatically, or at least the
GRUB configuration (preferred to LILO these days).
Another part of the Debian way is that you
I finally have the conclusion to my problem. (that some apps like find
take up almost all the CPU.) The responses were correct - DMA was not
enabled on my system. I just finished compiling and installing a new
kernel. Now, with DMA enabled, and activated on /dev/hda there is no
longer a problem.
Thanks for all the feedback. I tried installing a new kernel the 'debian way':
% make menuconfig
% make-kpkg
followed by:
% dpkg -i kernel_name.deb
which did everything automatically. Then I restarted ... to find I had
no GUI and no internet. I realized that the automatic install had
renamed
Hi,
I have spent the past day or so compiling and re-compiling a kernel to
try to get everything working right. My original reason was to be able
to activate dma. Fortunately DMA now works correctly. Now I have a new
problem - sound doesn't work. I am sure that I have the correct
choices selected
Hi again,
I was not able to figure out all of the sound errors, but I have fixed
everything. I think that (maybe) the problem had to do with compiling
and installing a kernel manually vs. the debian way. I have been
wrestling with a new kernel compile all last night and this morning
and tried to
Hi,
I asked a question last week about why my computer seems to use the
CPU a lot during disc access. (Like using find, cp etc) Responses led
me to figure out that DMA is not activated. After doing some searching
on the internet I found out that I probably should compile a kernel
with dma support
On 12/18/05, Maciej Matysiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this command as root :) (I guess that $ is prompt in non-root shell).
m.m.
Those commands WERE given as root. (I have custom prompts and use the
# as root.)
Craig
I'm running Debian amd64 on an Asus board with an AMD64 3200+ and a gig of ram.
This box is mainly used as a home media center and file server. Most
of the time the system monitor shows that CPU usage is around 23% and
ram usage between 40% and 80%. But for some reason when I copy files
(cp or
On 11/23/05, Jo Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're using Woody (Debian 3.0, obsolete as of quite a long time ago)?
AMD64 debian doesn't even have 2.4, let alone 2.2
I don't think so. As I said, I did a net install from a chroot, like this:
% apt-get install debootstrap
% debootstrap sid
On 11/23/05, Aethon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The package names have changed, try linux-source.
Aethon
Arrrggg..!! THAT explains it. I have been hunting all over the
internet and all the instructions I come across seem to be talking
about kernel-sources none I read mentioned the change.
Thanks for the replies Gilles and Cameron. I tried the suggestion to do
apt-get --reinstall -u install
and it does seem to have gotten things back ALMOST to where they
should be. still a couple of obvious problems. I have no sound for
some reason. I checked and things like /dev/audio0 ARE
On 11/9/05, Ian Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Ian Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Nov 8, 2005 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: X not start after dist-upgrade
To: Santiago Kci [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had the same experience this weekend. The problem is
it
should be? On my mac computer there is an option to repair
permissions which I would love to have on Linux but don't think it
exists.
Any help at all would be MUCH appreciated.
Craig Hagerman
On 10/20/05, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LVM does not find sda2.What does pvdisplay /dev/sda2 say?
% pvdisplay /dev/sda2
No physical volume label read from /dev/sda2
Failed to read physical volume /dev/sda2
I guess LVM only scans devices that have its type set to LVM.So itmight be
On 10/20/05, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mounting totaly ignores the partition type anyway. So that did
nothing. But running pvcreate will have overwritten some data.
Try mounting with an alternate superblock and mount read-only and save
whatever you can.
What does it mean
Thanks for the reply and explanation. I understand better now. Are you
sure that Debian takes care of mounting the new LVM share on boot? It
didn't work for me. From what I have read online you have to create
your own startup script.
I had LVM set up successfully on my new HD, copied all the data
On 10/20/05, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This just means what is says. The disk is in use and the kernel can
not reread the partition table. You have to reboot to do that.
Unfortunately I did reboot before I noticed the typo. After the reboot
neither disc can be seen.
Hi,
I recently bought a new hard drive. I alread have another big hard
drive for files so altogether they have 450 GB. I decided to set up
LVM on my system to make it easy to access both together and be able
to add more space in the future, but I am a bit wary because I know
little about LVM.
Hi,
I am still having troubles with a recent upgrade. This time I have no
GUI display at all. I have tracked the problem down to the mouse
configuration in the xorg.conf file, but don't know what I should do
from here.
On start up it throws up the nvidia spash screen a couple times, then
tells
On 10/14/05, Ted Kisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what kind of mouse do you have (ps/2, usb, touchpad, etc)? On my laptop
with an Alps touchpad, I had to reinstall the synaptics driver when upgrading
from XFree86 to Xorg.
USB mouse. Anyone know what driver I am supposed to install for this?
PROBLEM SOLVED
-
On 10/14/05, Ted Kisner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would use the standard mouse X driver
(/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o), which should be installed if you
have an xserver installed.
I'm assuming that you have the proper kernel
On 10/11/05, Tobias Krais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sounds interesting, but please tell me more. One hint in advance. Use
the new driver for your Ralink wireless card. Then ra0 changes to eth1.
Now, please paste /etc/network/interfaces.
The Ralink driver is already the newest. (Hasn't been
On 10/11/05, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And azureus? :)
I had tons of problems with Azureus. I tried installing an older
version, upgrading to the newest and everything in-between. I found it
would crash if I was downloading a number of LARGE files at once. A
number of small files
Hi,
I did apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade a couple days ago. I got
some message about setting up xorg and did I want to let it
automatically detect my monitor and mouse. I said yes. I just
installed a new HD and restarted to find that my GUI system is
f**ked.
The start up messages
Thanks to everyone for their input.
I renamed the former XFree86 file to xorg and changed the XkbRules as
suggested. Everything seems OK. It boots up into the GUI as it should.
However, there does seem to be one strange thing that has been
changed. The GUI is back, but the screen seems to be
Hi,
Has anyone had success installing mythtv on debian (sid) amd64
recently? I have been trying recently without success. I added these
lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
### --- mythtv
deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv
deb-src http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian
I recently (yesterday) did an apt-get dist-upgrade which upgraded a
ton of stuff. After that I discovered that my web site was down. I
tracked it down to a problem with mysql. MySQL reports that
% Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
After doing
Hi,
I am planning on setting up a headless file server using debian on an
AMD64 system. I just realized that (unlike other distros I have used)
Debian doesn't have a default run level for command line only (no GUI
interface). Why is this?
My question is how to set up Debian so that I DO have
I recently got the wireless card working on my Asus A8V motherboard.
(Using the 64 bit rt2500 driver). So now I have two NICS - ethernet
(eth0) and the wireless (ra0). How do I tell which one is being used
for what? Both are connecting to a YahooBB (ISP) modem / router (56MB
ADSL) which gives them
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