Re: ulogd postgreSQL module problem

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:26:10AM +0200, vizze wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> >Yup. ulogd_PGSQL.c  LINE 1: insert into public.ulog ) values )
> >
> >Without seeing the line, I'm guessing it should be ") values ("
> >instead of ") values )"
> >
> >Does this make any sense?
> >
> Yes, the query is totally wrong to me, but i can't figure why...

Could you post the offending query? Hiding any sensitive data if
necessary.

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Re: Strange reaction to keyboard at first login

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:08:57PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> * Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:13:22PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> > > Well, not that I can see.  But, I will admit that I am likely
> > > overlooking something.  The complaint, "input: AT Translated Set 2
> > > keyboard as /class/input/input4", is in /var/log/messages.  Earlier in
> > > the same file there are more of the same, but instead of
> > > /class/input/input4 they say /class/input/input0.  I don't remember if
> > > that ever came up on screen, but I only remember the input4 quite
> > > recently, and I think these older ones predate my current kernel and
> > > the problem I am dealing with right now.
> > 
> > So, have you found the problem?
> > 
> 
> Nope.  Sad to say I have not.  I have looked into the possible
> modules, and I could only find one which seems a candidate for my
> problem, ATKBD, and I have this compiled in.  I have yet to find
> anything else which may give a clue as to what exactly is going wrong
> and so I am just not quite sure what I can tweak right now.  I have
> considered recompiling the kernel and using the above as a module and
> seeing what happens then, but since I have never used that as a module
> before I am just not very confident it will help.

If comparing configs with a working kernel and the non-working kernel
doesn't help, then maybe ask on a kernel related mailing list?

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Re: Debian OS Backup

[Mike McCarty]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 01:03:33PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
 


Note that the use of external drives like USB for "disaster recovery"
is not a very good idea. You need to store your backups remote from the
computer being backed up, and you need at least three backups used in
rotation. So, using a USB drive is expensive and subject to losing
data during transport.




What do you suggest?  Tape drives are pricy compared to a 2.5" laptop


Tape drives are indeed pricey. But the tapes are more robust than
discs. I use CDROMs. But I can fit a backup on just three of them.
If you are backing up many many gigs, then your best bet is still
a tape drive.

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Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[Chris Lale]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope someone can help with this problem...
> 
> I'm trying to get the microphone input working (actually for use with
> Skype).  I'm using audacity, arecord, and the gnome sound recorder to
> test the mic input and whichever app I use it records only silence.
> 
> 

Try running alsaconf as root and check that you are configuring the right sound
card (there may be sound built into the motherboard as well as a PCI card).

Stick with Audacity for your tests - its more reliable than Gnome sound 
recorder.

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sound problem

[Canhua]

hi, all, my laptop has problem out sound.
Mine is a samsung laptop, running debian testing.

"lspci|grep audio" outputs:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)

I have install alsa driver.
"cat /dev/sndstat" outputs:
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux comex 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686
Config options: 0

Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation

Card config:
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 with STAC9752,53 at 0xe0100c00, irq 10
Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem at 0x2400, irq 10

Audio devices:
0: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (DUPLEX)
1: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem - Modem (DUPLEX)

Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

Timers:
7: system timer

Mixers:
0: SigmaTel STAC9752,53
1: Silicon Laboratory Si3036,8 rev


THE PROBLEM is when I "mpg321 {musicfile}", an error occurs:
Creating link /home/lestat/.kde/socket-comex.
can't create mcop directory
while "mpg321 {musicfile} -o alsa" or "mpg321 {musicfile} -o oss" works well!

Could anyone tell what's wrong?

THANKS

Best regards

Canhua


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Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[x_debian-user_x]

> Try running alsaconf as root and check that you are configuring the right 
> sound
> card (there may be sound built into the motherboard as well as a PCI card).

Hi, thanks for the suggestions.

I did already run alsaconf as root prior to the transcript pasted in
my last post.  There is no PCI sound card, only the onboard sound
which I am using.

What is bizarre is that I have this same problem on two very different
machines - a Dell Precision 420 desktop, and an IBM Thinkpad T21
laptop.  Which leads to the suspicion either of a bug in 'etch', or
more likely something that I have done wrong.  It certainly looks like
a bug from where I'm sitting, even if it works for everyone else! ;-/

Any other suggestions much appreciated...

Cheers,
-bernie.

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Re: Sensible way to install packages from testing & unstable?

[Jose Rodriguez]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:50:06 +0200
Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 2007-06-20, Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:48:32 -0700
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >> 
> >> I want to install the ntfs-3g driver, which I don't find in
> >> the Etch repositories. I read that I can add the "testing"
> >> and "unstable" distributions to my sources.list, make
> >> "stable" as the default in apt.conf and go for it. Is this
> >> perfectly all right or should I do something else? I remember
> >> somebody in this list recommending not to mix distributions
> >> at all under threat of death.
> >> 
> >> Regards
> >> Jose
> >> 
> >
> > Since the packages in a Debian system are interconnected, it is
> > not wise to install packages directly from one distribution to
> > another. Sometimes it works fine, but sometimes it will install
> > dependent programs that conflict with other parts of the Debian
> > stable.
> >
> > My advice would be to learn how to re-compile or "backport" a
> > package from unstable to stable when necessary. You can get
> > more information on backports here:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/Backports?highlight=%28backport%29
> 
> Or check backports.org where someone has done the work for
> you ;)  The ntfs-3g package is currently listed there.
> 
> But, as they say, knowledge is power, so I would still recommend
> a perusal of the documentation on building for yourself.
> 
Oh, so that is what it was. "Backports" was to me one those
ethereal words you hear in the air, never being sure what
do they exactly mean. 

I too prefer to learn how to do it,
although a quick look at some guides left me with mixing feelings
about it. It should be fine, though.

Thanks for the replies
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Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[x_debian-user_x]

> What is bizarre is that I have this same problem on two very different
> machines...

Just to follow up on this, it seems both PCs use the same soundcard
chipset:

Dell Precision 420 desktop:-

02:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear 
SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0096
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
Memory at fcffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at fce0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

IBM Thinkpad T21 laptop:-

00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear 
SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
Subsystem: IBM ThinkPad A20m
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e8122000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at e800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Perhaps someone has the same onboard soundcard, and a working
microphone attached, that can confirm whether recording works or not
please?

Cheers,
-bernie.

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mplayer problem

[Thomas H. George]

mplayer worked once, then no more.  Using the iceape browser I went to a 
www.whyy.org and connected to the sound stream - no problem.  Then 
stopped this stream, went to www.wrti.org and connected to the sound 
stream - mplayer quickly reported 99% complete and the buffer just kept 
on filling.  Returned to www.whyy.org and tried to connect to the sound 
stream - failed, same 99% and buffer just keeps on loading. Tried 
stopping and restarting iceape - same problem.  Tried stopping and 
restarting gdm - same problem.

Since it worked once, something needs to be reset but what?

Tom George


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Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[Chris Lale]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Try running alsaconf as root and check that you are configuring the right 
>> sound
>> card (there may be sound built into the motherboard as well as a PCI card).
> 
> Hi, thanks for the suggestions.
> 
> I did already run alsaconf as root prior to the transcript pasted in
> my last post.  There is no PCI sound card, only the onboard sound
> which I am using.
> 
[...]
> 
> Any other suggestions much appreciated...
> 

1. In the past I have had problems caused by the Enlightenment Sound Daemon. You
can turn it off in Gnome from the Desktop menu:

Desktop -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds tab -> Enable software sound mixing
(ESD) (untick)

2. Have you turned the mic on in the mixer? Try setting your levels in
alsamixer. In the past, this has worked better than alsamixergui.

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Re: HP Pavilion 6360 with Debian

[Matthew K Poer]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 6:30 pm, Telly Williams wrote:
> How's everyone?
>
> I'm about to install Debian (with Gnome) on an HP Pavilion 6360 for
> my friend's mother.  The HP takes a maximum of 256MB's of ram.
> Originally I was going to re-install Windows XP for her, but that
> doesn't look like a good idea from a SPEED perspective (it was going
> incredibly slow when I obtained it from her).
>
> I wanted to get an opinion from someone on whether or not this will
> run well or not for her.  I personally think that it will, based on the
> documentation I've read about the very old computers that can be used
> with Linux, but I wanted to get a second thought.  Thanks.  ~Telly

Actually, if it is speed that you are looking for, tone-down the eyecandy in 
KDE and set he up with that. Just makeing the panels non-transparent, 
disabling their hiding animation, and tool-tip pop-ups, KDE runs fine with 
only 256MB. In fact, I am running it right now on an 800mhz P3 with 256, 
using transparent panels while running beagled, gaim, apache2, mysql 
services. I rarely seem to swap, if ever.
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elementay fax questions

[Haines Brown]

I remain unclear about some very elementary issues after doing some
online searching. My aim is a simple low cost facility to send and
receive faxes in very low volume. 

I suppose a simple setup would be a fax modem, either an external
modem connected to the serial port or a fax-modem card (generally if
not a win-modem) in a PC slot. The modem can be accessed by
server-client fax software, of which I gather mgetty is pretty
standard.  

For incoming faxes, the fax-modem must obviously discriminate between
analog voice and digital fax so that the phone rings with an incoming
voice message and does not with a fax. Can I assume this capability is now
present in all fax-modems, whether an external modem or an internal
card? 

I assume the hardware hookup for an external fax modem would be:

  -> DSL adapter 
  RJ11 on wall -> DSL filter |  -> phone
  -> fax-modem |  
-> computer serial port


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where ist libapache2-mod-auth-mysql?

[Till Wimmer]

Hi,

after some update of debian Etch my auth_mysql module for apache has
vanished...

What happened to this module?


Thanks,
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Re: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 & PHP?

[Till Wimmer]

When you swap the kernel, you should first install the new one, then
reboot, and THEN remove the old one.

Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote:
> I'm running Debian kernel version 2.4.27-2-386. I needed to upgrade
> Apache (from 2.0.54) & PHP (from 4.3.10-16) on our system. After doing
> “apt-get update” I executed the command:
> 
>  
> 
> apt-get -y install apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-doc lynx php4
> libapache2-mod-php4
> 
>  
> 
> Using -y, the only prompt I received was near the bottom of the output
> (see excerpt below), to which I answered 'No'
> 
> when it asked whether I wanted to remove the kernel =:0
> 
>  
> 
> I haven't yet killed the apache2 processes, but do you know if the msgs
> below indicate a real problem? Why would there be a need to remove the
> kernel? Should Apache2/PHP run ok anyway? I haven’t yet killed the
> apache2 processes so they still run ok for now. Is it likely I have a
> problem?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Ron
> 
>  
> 
> ===
> 
> Removing kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 ...
> 
>  
> 
> You are running a kernel (version 2.4.27-2-386) and
> 
> attempting to remove the same version. This is a potentially
> 
> disastrous action. Not only will /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386
> 
> be removed, making it impossible to boot it,
> 
> (you will have to take action to change your boot loader
> 
> to boot a new kernel), it will also remove all modules
> 
> under the directory /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386.
> 
> Just having a copy of the kernel image is not enough, you
> 
> will have to replace the modules too.
> 
>  
> 
> I repeat, this is very dangerous. If at all in doubt,
> 
> answer no. If you know exactly what you are doing, and
> 
> are prepared to hose your system, then answer Yes.
> 
>  
> 
> Remove the running kernel image (not recommended) [No]? No
> 
>  
> 
> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 (--remove):
> 
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> 
> dpkg: initrd-tools: dependency problems, but removing
> anyway as you request:
> 
> kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 depends on initrd-tools (>=
> 0.1.48).
> 
> Removing initrd-tools ...
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> 
> kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
> 
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> ===
> 


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Re: how to configure users X setup?

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello *,

Am 2007-06-13 08:47:56, schrieb Tom Furie:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:04:14PM +, M-L wrote:
>  
> > #!/bin/sh

~/.xsession does NOT NEED the above line but MUST BE EXECUTABLE.

> > #
> > # My creation .Xsession file
> > #
> > # To remove the cursor after a short break
> > unclutter -idle 1 &
> > # To get up the Rox panel
> > rox -b=MyPanel &
> > # Have gkrellm working
> > gkrellm &
> > # Start Fluxbox, maybe it should be up top. Not according to Liam's example
> > exec /usr/bin/fluxbox &
> 
> Try without the & in the above line.

...and without the "exec" which spans a new shell.

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Re: some problem in scripting.

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-13 13:58:18, schrieb L.V.Gandhi:
> I am using this script to find high/low
> #!/bin/bash
> rm -f highs
> rm -f lows
> touch lows
> for line in $(cat temp.csv)

Replacement:   for line in $(cat temp.csv |dos2unix)

> I get highs file. I don't get lows file. I feel there is some unprintable at
> the end of csv file. Hence matching fails.
> I added one more field and found that ^M in the LO_52_WK field before comma.
> I tried sed -e 's/M$//'. this didn't help.
> Any solutions?

See above.

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Re: risk assessment for old toolbox

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-13 22:56:02, schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty:
> So the question is: how much risk does a woody box take on dialup
> internet for simple mail and browsing?

For a Dial-Up user relativ small problem since they are generaly
not long enough On-Line.  --  But a minimal risk stay.

> What have other people here done with old hardware that they still want
> to use?

I have MSI MS-4144 as Dial-in Servers each with 4 USR Courier I-Modems
since i have not found any other Mainboards where I can put in 4 VERY
LONG 16-bit ISA-Cards and the CPU/Memory is not in the way.

The machines use the AMD Am5x86-P75-ADZ-133 with 64 MByte of memory and
a 3Com 3c905B NIC.  The machines are exploted 424/24 and 7/7 to the
Internet running currently Sarge and went never hacked since the last
6 years.

An other machine is a P1/200 which act as printserver (CUPS) for 7
Printers (2x DJ560, 1x DJ1200, 2x LJ4L, 2 Kyosera) with 192 MByte of
memory and 8 GByte HDD

And last not least I have running a 386dx/33 with 16 MByte (4 30pin SIMS
of 4MB) of memory and an ISA card DCF77 to act as local NTP-Server.  It
is running NetBSD since over 6 years without any updates.

Because you know:  DON'T TOUCH A RUNNING SYSTEM!

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Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-15 16:41:31, schrieb John Hasler:
> Jan Willem Stumpel writes:
> > I suspect some developers have been too generous in assigning
> > dependencies to some packages -- especially library packages.
> 
> It's upstream that decides to link to the libraries.

But Debian-Maintainers CAN change the "Depends:" to "Recommends:" and if
some crappy software output errormessages thet it cannot find libcupsys2
the the software is definitivly bad designed sind it can check whether
a lib is availlable and THEN load it.

> > Anyway I think the dependencies ought to be looked at very critically,
> > and when possible cleaned up. Are any developers listening?
> 
> File bugs (I don't mean that sarcastically).

Done, against Katoob and Samba.

Note:  Those two programs push 38 MByte additional packages onto my
   systems, while my selfbuild (from the Debian-Sources) are
   working without any problems IF compiled --without-cupsys.

Katoob is no problem, but Samba enforce the loading of libcupsys, so it
has to patched if wou want to leave libcupsys2 linked but it is not
availlabel.

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Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-14 19:00:47, schrieb Orestes leal:
>   $fdisk -l | grep dev | gawk -F' *' '{ print $1 }' | gawk -F'/dev/' '{ 
> print $0 }' | grep '/dev/sd' > particiones.txt

Can you tell me which version of "fdisk" you are using?
"fdisk -l" returns nothing at all (¶USER or root)

>   detecta2=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $2 }')
>   detecta3=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $1 }')
>   $fdisk -l | grep dev | gawk -F' *' '{ print $1 }' | gawk -F'/dev/' '{ 
> print $0 }' | grep '/dev/hd' > particiones.txt
>   detecta2=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $2 }')
>   detecta3=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $1 }')

And why do you run fdisk so many times?

You can use ONCE:

FDISKOUT=$(fdisk -l)

and then

echo -e "${FDISKOUT}" | some_command ...
 ^^
Do not forget it.  :-)

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Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Michelle Konzack]

Not the best way, but it works perfectly

See attached Shell-Script.

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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-15 08:02:40, schrieb Gary Rosenfeldt:
> 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.

The graphic card is eating 128 MByte and then the Kernel 10.5 MBytes.

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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> 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.

The NEW Kernel is switching the Graphiccard in a Modus
where it only consumes 8 MByte instead of 128 MByte?

Do you use Frame-Bufer?

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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-15 19:34:57, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> It was mainly an observation between the 2 kernels. I don't particularly want 
> to use the 2.6.11, but the 2.6.17 uses udev, and is hit and miss as to the 
> ordering of my 2 devices that use /dev/video. Sometimes the TV card is set 
> as /dev/video0 (which is correct), and the webcam as /dev/video1 (also 
> correct). Othertimes these are inverted. I have no such problems with the 
> 2.6.11 kernel, and as soon as I can find out the correct udev rule to write 
> to correct this problem with the 2.6.17 kernel I will use that kernel.

You do not need UDEV. Deinstall it, create all needed devices by
hand and you are done.

I have done the same since UDEV/HOTPLUG pissed me off all the time.

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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> 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.

Was the 2.6.11 kernel an 386 or 686 one and
now the 2.6.17 a k7 or something like this?

Then it is normal if HIGHMEM4 was not enabled,
since CPUS's up to 686 have general not more
then 768 MByte of ram.

Only the newer Mainboards P3 and higher have
HIGHMEM4 since all manboards support at least
2 GByte of memory

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Re: Dynamically unload kernel modules?

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-17 18:41:35, schrieb Richard Hartmann:
> >
> >Just use rmmod.  It will refuse to unload modules that are in use.
> 
> 
> At least for ipw2100, that is not the case. It unloads just fine while
> eth2 is up and happily transmitting data.

This seems to be a bug!
You should report it.

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Re: PEAR on debian

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-17 10:55:58, schrieb Ron Johnson:
> On 06/17/07 10:10, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >I have the php-pear package installed. When I try to install a PEAR
> >package (as root using 'pear install Package) it seems to install ok but
> >then I'm unable to use it.  can't find it,
> >nor can I. The php include path is
> >'include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear'. 
> >
> >'pear list' shows it as being installed.
> >
> >Could someone explain to me what's going on?
> 
> Maybe one of these packages is already installed?

???

> $ apt-cache search php | grep pear | sort
> php-pear - PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository
  
  He wrote, he HAS this package installed
  and try to download pear stuff

Note: Under Etch I have the same problem.
  I can list pear packages available on , I can
  install them using "pear install " (th package is
  definitivly downloaded and in the right directory) but if I
  want to use it, they are not availlable.

  Same problem for the "pecl" stuff.

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Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-17 17:27:30, schrieb Magnus Pedersen:
> I think lftp is your best bet.

I have tried it already but it does not delete files in the ISP server.

It upload only files and maybe override existing ones but not deleting
files which I do not more have local.

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Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2007-06-17 11:01:05, schrieb Ron Johnson:
> ncftpput might be able to simulate what you want.

Unfortunatly not.  It delete ONLY local files if they are
successfuly uploaded.  What I need is:

1)  Get a list of local files from a directory
2)  Look into the remote directory and delete ALL
files which ARE NOT in the local directory.
3)  Upload all files which are
  a)  local newer then remote
  b)  do remote not exist

It is more clear?

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Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello Magnus,

Am 2007-06-17 17:27:30, schrieb Magnus Pedersen:
> I think lftp is your best bet.

Since I must execute lftp from a script with

   lftp -f ${SCRIPT_FILE}

I have create a file :

+[ '~/freenet/linux4michelle.scr' ]---
| user linux4michelle ${PASS}
| open ftp://people-ftp.freenet.de/
| mirror --no-symlinks --no-perms --no-umask \
|--dereference --reverse --delete \
|--only-newer --only-missing \
|${HOME}/freenet/linux4michelle/ \
|ftp://people-ftp.freenet.de/
| exit
+-

and want to ask you, whether this is right or not, IF it should

1)  delete all files on the ISP server which are not in the
local directory ${HOME}/freenet/linux4michelle/
2)  upload all files recursivly from the local directory
${HOME}/freenet/linux4michelle/ to the ISP Server if
a)  the file does not exist
b)  the local file is newer as the one on the server
3)  Do not try to change perms, umnask since my ISP care about it
4)  and then exit

Sorry, if I have forgotten my password and used only ${PASS}
but my age hit me...  :-)

Oh, I must be very careful with the script since I have several
1000 files in the ISP server

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Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[x_debian-user_x]

> 1. In the past I have had problems caused by the Enlightenment Sound Daemon. 
> You
> can turn it off in Gnome from the Desktop menu:
> 
> Desktop -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds tab -> Enable software sound mixing
> (ESD) (untick)

It was already off (unticked).  Also I checked the following:

~# ps alx | grep art
0 0 11137  3845  18   0   2848   712 pipe_w S+   pts/2  0:00 grep art
~# ps alx | grep esd
0 0 11143  3845  18   0   2848   708 -  R+   pts/2  0:00 grep esd
~# ps alx | grep alsa
0 0 11147  3845  18   0   2852   716 pipe_w S+   pts/2  0:00 grep alsa


> 2. Have you turned the mic on in the mixer? Try setting your levels in
> alsamixer. In the past, this has worked better than alsamixergui.

Using alsamixer:

In 'Capture view', above Mic is written CAPTUR, also above Capture is
written CAPTUR and the Capture slider is set to 100<>100.

In 'Playback view' the Mic slider is set to 100, and not muted [00].


With these setting, the mic sounds are heard through the PC speakers
but Audacity records only silence.


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Re: kqemu on Sid

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

David Baron wrote:

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,


I installed qemu on Sid.

But Sid's kqemu is backlevelled: it depends on a non-existing 2.6.18
kernel.

So I compiled/installed
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz
and that went uneventful.

*However...* when I try to boot XP with:

qemu -m 256 -localtime -hda /hda7/xp.img -cdrom /dev/cdrom -fda /dev/fd0

it hangs the whole system absolutely solid: stops all the clocks+applets
and needs the red button.

Without kqemu it boots XP.

Does anybody run qemu with kqemu installed successfully?

Thanks for the replies.

However you cannot use the kqemu Sid package because that depends upon a
non-existent kernel.


The source package is also on Sid. Try installing that using m-a (the Debian 
way but I have also numerous times used sources from the site and compiled 
manually and simply copied the .ko to it correct place), change that 
modprobed/kqemu file and try again. I do not have XP images around to try but 
qemu runs most everything.


For an alternative, you might try virtualbox (they have an opensource version, 
a free binary and a paid product). Runs some stuff better then qemu, somewhat 
different approach. But it does not run everyting qemu does.






I saw that: it is kqemu_1.3.0~pre11.orig.tar.gz. But the kqemu I 
installed with is kqemu-1.3.0pre11.tar.gz. Seems to me to be the very 
same thing. I was going to try a different kernel, I am now running

Linux debian 2.6.21-1-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT
and I was going to backup to 2.6.18-k7 which no longer is in Sid but I 
kept the .debs in my repository.
It's more a question of "this ought to work" than running XP because I 
found out what I needed to know by now.


Hugo











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skype and amd64

[Marcelo Chiapparini]

Hello,

I am running etch in a amd64 machine. I need skype running on it,
because my co-workers uses skype in their windows worlds...
How can I get skype running in amd64+etch? I googled the web, but the
information is out of data (refers to the q3 libs, and the new version
of skype needs q4). The search in debian-lists archives doesn't work

Thanks in advance

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Re: mplayer problem

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Thomas H. George wrote:
mplayer worked once, then no more.  Using the iceape browser I went to a 
www.whyy.org and connected to the sound stream - no problem.  Then 
stopped this stream, went to www.wrti.org and connected to the sound 
stream - mplayer quickly reported 99% complete and the buffer just kept 
on filling.  Returned to www.whyy.org and tried to connect to the sound 
stream - failed, same 99% and buffer just keeps on loading. Tried 
stopping and restarting iceape - same problem.  Tried stopping and 
restarting gdm - same problem.

Since it worked once, something needs to be reset but what?



You mean

mplayer http://207.245.67.204/listen.pls

worked? It produced sound?

Hugo


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Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Orestes leal]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:29:12 +0200
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Am 2007-06-14 19:00:47, schrieb Orestes leal:
> > $fdisk -l | grep dev | gawk -F' *' '{ print $1 }' | gawk -F'/dev/' '{ 
> > print $0 }' | grep '/dev/sd' > particiones.txt
> 
> Can you tell me which version of "fdisk" you are using?
> "fdisk -l" returns nothing at all (¶USER or root)

fdisk v2.12r


> 
> > detecta2=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> > $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $2 }')
> > detecta3=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> > $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $1 }')
> > $fdisk -l | grep dev | gawk -F' *' '{ print $1 }' | gawk -F'/dev/' '{ 
> > print $0 }' | grep '/dev/hd' > particiones.txt
> > detecta2=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> > $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $2 }')
> > detecta3=$($fdisk -l | grep $particion | grep + | gawk -F'+' '{ print 
> > $2}' | gawk -F' ' '{ print $1 }')
> 
> And why do you run fdisk so many times?

I'am not a shell master at all, i'am a newbie.
> 
> You can use ONCE:
> 
> FDISKOUT=$(fdisk -l)
> 
> and then
> 
> echo -e "${FDISKOUT}" | some_command ...
>  ^^
> Do not forget it.  :-)

Thanks.
> 
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day

Ore.

Orestes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:29, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> > 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.
>
> Was the 2.6.11 kernel an 386 or 686 one and
> now the 2.6.17 a k7 or something like this?

2.6.11-1-386
2.6.17-2-686
>
> Then it is normal if HIGHMEM4 was not enabled,
> since CPUS's up to 686 have general not more
> then 768 MByte of ram.
>
> Only the newer Mainboards P3 and higher have
> HIGHMEM4 since all manboards support at least
> 2 GByte of memory

Mainboard is on an Aiii-friend machine. Celeron 1.3GHz CPU. Board is able to 
handle 1GB RAM max, and that's what's on it.
System board: CM33-TC Rev. B+
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> Michelle Konzack
> Systemadministrator
> Tamay Dogan Network
> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Nigel.


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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:29, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-06-15 17:33:04, schrieb Nigel Henry:
> > 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.
>
> The NEW Kernel is switching the Graphiccard in a Modus
> where it only consumes 8 MByte instead of 128 MByte?

According to the sales info when I bought the machine in 2003, the 
Cyberbladei1 card uses 8MB of shared memory. 
>
> Do you use Frame-Bufer?

Sorry. Not sure on that. Where (showing my ignorance) would I check that out?
>
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> Michelle Konzack
> Systemadministrator
> Tamay Dogan Network
> Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

Nigel.


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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Orestes leal]

> >
> > Do you use Frame-Bufer?
> 
> Sorry. Not sure on that. Where (showing my ignorance) would I check that out?

dmesg | grep framebuffer



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dns zone file help

[david robert]

Hi,
   
  I am having one of our clients zone file from another isp provider where 
currently dns hosting.They want to move to our service provider.Now i want to 
create an existing zone file in my server with all the existing name 
server,soa,mx records is it ok to create existing zone file in to my dns server 
pointing to other servers settings.
   
  I need to take care of anything or just i can create existing zone file 
settings into my dns server
   
  Thanks for your help
   
  Best Regards

   
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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:35, Orestes leal wrote:
> > > Do you use Frame-Bufer?
> >
> > Sorry. Not sure on that. Where (showing my ignorance) would I check that
> > out?
>
> dmesg | grep framebuffer

That's just returned me to the prompt. So is that a yes, or a no?

Nigel.


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Re: dns zone file help

[Till Wimmer]

Hi David,

I'm quite proficient in setting up DNS... but honestly i don't
understand a word of what you'd like to do ;)
What do you mean with "creating an existing file"?

When you move that zone to your own DNS then, of course, you should at
least set up the SOA und NS records accordingly.

Till

david robert wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am having one of our clients zone file from another isp provider
> where currently dns hosting.They want to move to our service
> provider.Now i want to create an existing zone file in my server with
> all the existing name server,soa,mx records is it ok to create
> existing zone file in to my dns server pointing to other servers settings.
>  
> I need to take care of anything or just i can create existing zone
> file settings into my dns server
>  
> Thanks for your help
>  
> Best Regards
>
> 
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backgrounding a script

[MiKe McClain]

Is there a way for a script to background itself?
Thanks,
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Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

[David Brodbeck]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:54 PM, yong lee wrote:


Hi,

I am trying to build a custom kernel with openMosix
patches for my debian 4.0 system. I copied an existing
config file from /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686 to my new
kernel source tree folder and renamed it to be
.config.  Then I ran 'make-kpkg kernel_image' to build
the kernel. But when I reboot with the new kernel, I
got a boot error.



Make sure you pass the --initrd option to make-kpkg.  This will build  
an initial RAMdisk with the drivers the system needs to boot.



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Information Technology Specialist 3
Computational Linguistics
University of Washington

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Orestes leal]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:04:32 +0200
Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:35, Orestes leal wrote:
> > > > Do you use Frame-Bufer?
> > >
> > > Sorry. Not sure on that. Where (showing my ignorance) would I check that
> > > out?
> >
> > dmesg | grep framebuffer
> 
> That's just returned me to the prompt. So is that a yes, or a no?
> 
> Nigel.
> 

Then doesn't look like you have any framebuffer driver memory reserved, I have 
an ASUS mb with
256M ram and 64 video onboard ati radeon express 200 series and share 64m with 
ram, the funny thing
it's that in the bios doesn't have any option that refers to hat, just I know 
that I have 64 megs 
of shared memory guessing, and I don't have any framebuffer active, my linux 
box (2.6.21.5) detects
192 Megs of phisical memory, end of story to me, consider that  in the desing 
of this mob
includes this requirement as a must to work, for now good luck.

Sorry for the crazy english.
Greetings From Cuba.
Orestes.

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Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

[David Brodbeck]

On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Julian De Marchi wrote:

Try this

cp /boot/.config /usr/src/linux

Then when you load your kernel menu, go to load alternative config  
file. Then input the file name .config.


This should help!


What I usually do is copy the .config file to the kernel build  
directory, as you say, and then run 'make oldconfig'.  It'll ask me  
about any options that are in the new kernel that aren't mentioned in  
my old configuration file.  Then I'm all set to build the kernel.



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Re: how to get a working .config kernel config file

[Orestes leal]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:16:53 -0700
David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Julian De Marchi wrote:
> > Try this
> >
> > cp /boot/.config /usr/src/linux
> >
> > Then when you load your kernel menu, go to load alternative config  
> > file. Then input the file name .config.
> >
> > This should help!
> 
> What I usually do is copy the .config file to the kernel build  
> directory, as you say, and then run 'make oldconfig'.  It'll ask me  
> about any options that are in the new kernel that aren't mentioned in  
> my old configuration file.  Then I'm all set to build the kernel.
> 
That's what i'm talking about.

ore.


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Re: backgrounding a script

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:54:20AM -0700, MiKe McClain wrote:
> Is there a way for a script to background itself?

Not as such - but you can play trick by having the script re-invoke 
itself:

#!/bin/bash

if test -t 0 ; then
nohup $0 "$@" &
exit 0
fi

echo Doing stuff ...

Or schedule itself as a background job, so the output gets mailed to the 
invoker:
#!/bin/bash

if test -t 0 ; then
# Won't play nice if the parameters have spaces in them - 
# quoting is removed...
echo $0 "$@" | batch
exit 0
fi

echo foobar was here

There's probably other ways too.

Since the shell won't wait for the script to finish, you won't get the 
exit code of it though...

Hope this helps
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Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Bob McGowan]

Orestes leal wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:29:12 +0200
> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Am 2007-06-14 19:00:47, schrieb Orestes leal:
>>> $fdisk -l | grep dev | gawk -F' *' '{ print $1 }' | gawk -F'/dev/' '{ 
>>> print $0 }' | grep '/dev/sd' > particiones.txt
>> 

<>

>>
>> echo -e "${FDISKOUT}" | some_command ...
>>  ^^
>> Do not forget it.  :-)

Why is '-e' required?  The -e tells 'echo' to "-e enable interpretation of 
backslash escapes", but there are no backslash escapes in the output of the 
'fdisk -l' to worry about.

What's important is that you have the double quotes around the variable 
expansion, which preserves all white space characters 'as is' (or if you 
prefer, as they were in the original fdisk output - tabs, spaces and newlines). 
 The entire content of the variable is passed to echo as a single (very large;) 
argument with embedded white space characters intact.

Without the double quotes, echo sees multiple arguments.  The arguments were 
created by the shell, using the white space separators to break them up.  echo 
never sees any white space, so it it prints each argument separated from the 
next by a single space, which puts everything together into one long, 
unformatted string.

> 
> Thanks.
>> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
> 
> Ore.
> 
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> 

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Re: Sound recorder records only silence

[Chris Lale]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 1. In the past I have had problems caused by the Enlightenment Sound Daemon. 
>> You
>> can turn it off in Gnome from the Desktop menu:
>>
>> Desktop -> Preferences -> Sound -> Sounds tab -> Enable software sound mixing
>> (ESD) (untick)
> 
> It was already off (unticked).  Also I checked the following:
> 
> ~# ps alx | grep art
> 0 0 11137  3845  18   0   2848   712 pipe_w S+   pts/2  0:00 grep art
> ~# ps alx | grep esd
> 0 0 11143  3845  18   0   2848   708 -  R+   pts/2  0:00 grep esd
> ~# ps alx | grep alsa
> 0 0 11147  3845  18   0   2852   716 pipe_w S+   pts/2  0:00 grep alsa
> 
> 
>> 2. Have you turned the mic on in the mixer? Try setting your levels in
>> alsamixer. In the past, this has worked better than alsamixergui.
> 
> Using alsamixer:
> 
> In 'Capture view', above Mic is written CAPTUR, also above Capture is
> written CAPTUR and the Capture slider is set to 100<>100.
> 
> In 'Playback view' the Mic slider is set to 100, and not muted [00].
> 
> 
> With these setting, the mic sounds are heard through the PC speakers
> but Audacity records only silence.
> 
> 

I'm afraid that's all I can think of. You may be right about the problem being
with the driver. I had to switch from using my expensive PCI card to using the
built-in sound because the driver would not record in stereo.

You could try building the latest driver - details on the alsa website [1].

Perhaps other people will have some ideas.

Good luck.

[1] http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Cirrus_Logic

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Re: OS File Permission issue (chown -R root.root ../)

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:17:24AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >  OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> 
> By "/root/", do you mean root's $HOME ("~root"), or do you mean root
> of the filesystem, "/"?

That shouldn't matter: The parent directory for / is / :-)

# cd /
# ls -lid ..
2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 ..
# cd /root
2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2007-05-16 21:42 ..
# ls -lid ..

Same inode ...

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Re: burning a CD for distro from an archived iso file...

[Mike McCarty]

Michael Fothergill wrote:





From: "Miguel J. Jiménez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


[...]


The md5 files are to check the integrity of the downloaded ISO:

$> md5sum 



Hang on a minute.  Does this mean I download some md sum files as well 
as the iso file and then put the iso file and the md sum files in the 
same directory and then run md5sum ?


Yep.

If so, and even if the iso file is error free and if the CD burner 
thinks it has burned the CD perfectly, there still could be errors in 
the CD image...


Yes. However, as root you can also md5sum the CD.

# umount /dev/cdrom
# md5sum /dev/cdrom

or whatever. (You may have to unmount it, as it may be recognized
when you put it in.)


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Re: OS File Permission issue (chown -R root.root ../)

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:14:16PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Simon wrote:
> > OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many "."s in
> > the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
> > 
> > I think the term is "DOH!".
> > 
> > Is there any way to fix these?
> 
> Personally I would install a chroot on my system, install in the
> chroot all of the packages that I have installed in the root system,
> and then compare the ownership of all files between the two.  Using
> that information I would fix the parent system.  When done, remove the
> chroot.  Here is some reference documentation.
> 
>   http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot

You shouldn't have to compare and chown manually...

Once you've installed the chroot (e.g. in /mnt/foobar) then this should 
do the trick:

# cd /mnt/foobar
# find . -print0 | 
xargs --max-args=1 -I@ -0 -- \
chown --reference /mnt/foobar/@ /@

(double-check the syntax - this is from memory)

PS: Considered restoring from backups?

Hope this helps

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Re: Icedove 2.0.0.0-4, filters failing to match.

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Mihira Fernando wrote:
> Dan Serban wrote:
>> Fortunately, or unfortunately I subscribe to some fairly busy mailing
>> lists and use icedove to manage incoming messages with Message
>> Filtering.  After upgrading to 2.0.0.0-3 (and thus blowing away my
>> settings) and then to 2.0.0.0-4 my message filters had to be re-entered
>> and after doing so, it seems to fail completely, eg. I ask it to run the
>> filters on the current folder (INBOX) and nothing seems to match.
>>
>> I added a custom header definition to icedove "X-Original-To" and if it
>> contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] it should move it to the
>> appropriate folder, but it fails.
>>
>> I then figured that custom headers may not be correct (although it
>> worked before) and then used a simple match on the Subject for another
>> list ... if subject contains "asterisk-users" move to folder.  This
>> doesn't appear to do much of anything either.
>>
>> Has anyone run into this yet?  I've checked BTS but it's not in there as
>> of yesterday afternoon.  I can't help but feel that it's a "sid-ism" and
>> I should just accept it, or should I file a bug report?  Or.. is there
>> anything else I could try?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> To which account did you apply the filters ?
> In Icedove 1.5 the filters created for, lest say Local Folders, does not
> get applied automatically for, lets say the gmail account, upon mail
> retrieval and vice versa.
> 
> Mihira.
> 

It's the only account I have setup in icedove.  I don't really see any
other option to move it to another account.  I've scoured the settings.
 I just don't get it :(.
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Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

[Andrew J. Barr]

Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.
 
Due to my interest in booting Linux on a system with 16 MB memory[0], I
have been reading a bit about the kernel's memory management. Seems
that some older kernels (don't remember if they were older 2.6 versions
or 2.4) only show up to about that amount (885MB) on some older
CPU-chipset combinations. If you can't upgrade to the latest and
greatest[1], I would suggest looking around for some kind of memory
boundary issue with >1GB of RAM. Another thing to try is using a
-highmem kernel.

Hope this helps.

[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/294020
[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21.5

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Re: backgrounding a script

[Bob McGowan]

MiKe McClain wrote:
> Is there a way for a script to background itself?
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> 

Yes.  But you gotta be careful, it's very easy to get a run away process
series.  The basic idea is that the script has to rerun itself in the
background and exit.  The way I do this is to set a flag in the first pass
and *export* it, so the second pass can skip the first pass code.  Like
this:

#!/bin/bash

# Got to be careful, we don't want to go into an infinite loop of scripts.

if [ ! "$DoNotBGMe" ]
then
  # Set this so we don't try to rerun this script more than one time.
  export DoNotBGMe=yes
  # Background self.  First, get full path to self.  This usage of 'type'
  # may be specific to the bash shell.
  me=$(type -p bgself)
  echo Before backgrounding:  $$
  $me &
  exit
fi

echo After backgrounding:  $$
echo "I'm running!"
# End of script

You can remove the 3 echo commands, they're there for illustration only.
The code you want to have actually run goes after the 'if' statement.

Bob McGowan

PS:  Forgot to mention, you may also not need to do the 'me=$(type...)'
part, I do it so I can verify I'm actually running the script I think I'm
running.  Problems of this type can happen if you explicitly set the PATH
being used by script (something you should do if the script is to become a
production level tool, used by many users).

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Mixer use kills ALSA

[Andrew Perrin]

I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS 
M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware:


00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ 
Queue=0/0Enable-
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping


Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including alsaplayer, 
realplayer, and mplayer. However, when any application changes a mixer 
setting, sound goes silent until alsa is force-reloaded. Any thoughts?


joehill:/var/log# lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel  19284  2
snd_hda_codec 156032  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss45344  0
snd_mixer_oss  17984  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm81092  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss34816  0
snd_seq_midi_event  8064  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq55184  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer  24388  3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device  8844  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd53284  11 
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc 10952  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm




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Re: skype and amd64

[Jonathan Kaye]

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am running etch in a amd64 machine. I need skype running on it,
> because my co-workers uses skype in their windows worlds...
> How can I get skype running in amd64+etch? I googled the web, but the
> information is out of data (refers to the q3 libs, and the new version
> of skype needs q4). The search in debian-lists archives doesn't work
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Marcelo
> 
> 
Hi Marcelo,
Skype's support for linux is rubbish and no 64 support shown on their
website so you can,
install the 32bit version and run it with chroot or convince your windows
friends to download install a sip client of which there are many that run
on windows (sjphone and wengophone come to mind). I think ekiga has a
windows version if you/they want to do video as well. Why use a proprietary
protocol when there's an open one for everyone?
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Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:26:23PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS 
> M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware:
> 
> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev 
> a2)
> Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb
> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
> Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
> Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ 
> Queue=0/0Enable-
> Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
> 
> 
> Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including alsaplayer, 
> realplayer, and mplayer. However, when any application changes a mixer 
> setting, sound goes silent until alsa is force-reloaded. Any thoughts?
> 
> joehill:/var/log# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_hda_intel  19284  2
> snd_hda_codec 156032  1 snd_hda_intel
> snd_pcm_oss45344  0
> snd_mixer_oss  17984  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm81092  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_oss34816  0
> snd_seq_midi_event  8064  1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq55184  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer  24388  3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device  8844  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> snd53284  11 
> snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> snd_page_alloc 10952  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> 

is the lsmod from before or after the force-reload? 

anything pertinent in syslog?

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Re: Icedove 2.0.0.0-4, filters failing to match.

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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:31:54PM -0700, Dan Serban wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  
>> I added a custom header definition to icedove "X-Original-To" and if it
>> contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] it should move it to the
>> appropriate folder, but it fails.
>>
>> I then figured that custom headers may not be correct (although it
>> worked before) and then used a simple match on the Subject for another
>> list ... if subject contains "asterisk-users" move to folder.  This
>> doesn't appear to do much of anything either.
> 
> I can't answer your t-bird/icedove ? directly, but I find the List-Id
> header a good one to use for sorting lists. 
> 
> hth
> 
> A

I agree, and I've tried that as well, though I seem to have it nailed
down now to only custom headers.  It manages to get through on To or CC
matching which for now is sufficient but I can't help but wonder what
will happen when Frans Pop cross posts to two lists or more :).

It's a crutch, but with zero logging = hard to figure out what it's
actually doing.  Though I may give strace a shot (yeah that's just as
nice as pushing a tennis ball up your nose).

Thanks!
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Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Michelle Konzack wrote:

Not the best way, but it works perfectly

See attached Shell-Script.



This is what I have:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df
Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1  7692876   2444696   4857404  34% /
tmpfs   518188 0518188   0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10240   160 10080   2% /dev
tmpfs   518188 0518188   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda5  5862271   2360287   3204122  43% /hda5
/dev/hda6  5862271   2658527   2905882  48% /hda6
/dev/hda7 26647936   4765152  20529144  19% /hda7
/dev/hda1029362324   8058008  19812756  29% /hda10
/dev/hdc1  7692876   3131516   4561360  41% /hdb1
/dev/hdc2  7692908   2721760   4580368  38% /hdb2
/dev/hdc3  7691004   3704415   3595808  51% /hdb3
/dev/hdc5  7690972   3509439   3790754  49% /hdb5
/dev/hdc6  7692156   3016492   4363044  41% /hdb6
/dev/hdc7 38456308  18747544  17755264  52% /hdb7
/dev/sda2  7692908   4042996   3259132  56% /sda2
/dev/sda3  7691004   3563058   3737165  49% /sda3
/dev/sda5  7690972   4135476   3164717  57% /sda5
/dev/sda6  7690972   4887187   2413006  67% /sda6
/dev/sda7 38456308  10881196  25621612  30% /sda7
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

I run ./get_partitions.sh and it shows nothing.
Is it supposed to?

Thanks Michelle,

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Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:


[snip]



is the lsmod from before or after the force-reload?


After



anything pertinent in syslog?



There's this:

Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device :00:10.1 
disabled
Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: PCI: Enabling device :00:10.1 ( -> 0002)
Jun 20 12:41:41 joehill kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:10.1[B] -> Link [AAZA] 
-> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 17


(Device 00:10.1 is the sound device.)


Thanks,
Andy


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Re: mplayer problem

[Jonathan Kaye]

Thomas H. George wrote:

> mplayer worked once, then no more.  Using the iceape browser I went to a
> www.whyy.org and connected to the sound stream - no problem.  Then
> stopped this stream, went to www.wrti.org and connected to the sound
> stream - mplayer quickly reported 99% complete and the buffer just kept
> on filling.  Returned to www.whyy.org and tried to connect to the sound
> stream - failed, same 99% and buffer just keeps on loading. Tried
> stopping and restarting iceape - same problem.  Tried stopping and
> restarting gdm - same problem.
> Since it worked once, something needs to be reset but what?
> 
> Tom George
Hi Tom,
I tried your sites and the both worked fine and continued to work, that is I
could go back and forth and they kept working. It's true the www.wrti.org
site was a bit slow but after about a minute it started streaming. I'm
using firefox 2.0.0.4 with the mplayerplug-in 2007/1/7.
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Re: screenshot

[cothrige]

* Frank McCormick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!

I believe the Gimp has a pretty straightforward tool for this.  And
there is import that comes with ImageMagick.  It is a commandline app
and works very well, in my experience.  The online documentation has
always seemed very lacking, but there are very comprehensive sets
somewhere on the internet, but I cannot recall where exactly.  I
usually have to do a google search everytime I need to figure out a
flag.

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Re: screenshot

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi Frank.

Frank McCormick, 20.06.2007 20:56:
> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!

Try "scrot", it’s extremely small but still provides a lot of functionality.


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Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

[arijit sarkar]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS 
> M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware:
> 
> 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
>  Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81cb
>  Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>  Memory at fe024000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>  Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>  Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask+ 64bit+ 
> Queue=0/0Enable-
>  Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping
> 
> 
> Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including alsaplayer, 
> realplayer, and mplayer. However, when any application changes a mixer 
> setting, sound goes silent until alsa is force-reloaded. Any thoughts?
> 
> joehill:/var/log# lsmod | grep snd
> snd_hda_intel  19284  2
> snd_hda_codec 156032  1 snd_hda_intel
> snd_pcm_oss45344  0
> snd_mixer_oss  17984  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm81092  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_seq_oss34816  0
> snd_seq_midi_event  8064  1 snd_seq_oss
> snd_seq55184  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer  24388  3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device  8844  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
> snd53284  11 
> snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> snd_page_alloc 10952  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> 
> 
> 
> 

I have the same motherboard and i was facing same problem. after
searching through google and various linux-related site, I found two
steps to solve this problem.

NOTE: install alsa-oss, alsa-utils packages
1.  edit: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
 Add the following line at the end of the file,

 "options snd-hda-intel position-fix=1 model=3stack" (withour
quotes)

After step 1, force-restart alsa module and see if it works or not.

2.  edit: /boot/grub/menu.lst
 add "noapic" option at the end of the kernel options. 
 reboot the machine. everything should work fine.

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[nones nones]

Package: knetfilter
Version: 3.5.0
Kernel version: Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-4-686
Error Signal: 11

English:
I only open and close the application (as root), and then... it crash.

Spanish:
Solo abro y cierro la aplicación (como root), entonces... se rompe.



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[KCrash handler]
#9  0x08083132 in QStrList::~QStrList ()
#10 0x0804f19f in ?? ()
#11 0xbff2f430 in ?? ()
#12 0x in ?? ()

screenshot

[Frank McCormick]

Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!

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Re: screenshot

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:09:50 +0200
Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of
> > the dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a
> 
> Try "scrot", it’s extremely small but still provides a lot of
> functionality.



   Scrot is really nice. Thanks. I also forgot about Imagemagick
capabilities.

Thanks

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Re: Knetfiter crash, knetfilter se rompe

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"nones nones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Package: knetfilter
> Version: 3.5.0
> Kernel version: Linux (i686) release 2.6.18-4-686
> Error Signal: 11
> 
> English:
> I only open and close the application (as root), and then... it crash.
> 
> Spanish:
> Solo abro y cierro la aplicación (como root), entonces... se rompe.
> 
> 
> 
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library
> "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)

Try installing more of the relevant *-dbg packages, for example,
kdelibs-dbg or kdebase-dbg. You will get a more useful backtrace that
way.

Kudos for including the backtrace in the first place, though, that is
just what you need to get help in the event of a program crash.

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Re: screenshot

[Jose Rodriguez]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:10:14 +0200
Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Frank.
> 
> Frank McCormick, 20.06.2007 20:56:
> > Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots
> > of the dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils
> > contains a screenshot maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18
> > meg installation!!
> 
> Try "scrot", it’s extremely small but still provides a lot of
> functionality.
> 
> 
I use ksnapshot, don't know how big it is, but it does a good job,
allowing to save in a number of different formats. I will try
"scrot", by the way, as I keep taking screenshots quite often.

Regards
Jose

Re: screenshot

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Frank McCormick wrote:

> 
> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!

To take screenshot you can use gimp. open File -> Acquire -> Screenshot, 
choose Single Window or Whole Screen, then click Grab. Now your next
mouse click will capture the window or screen clicked on as an image
in the GIMP. Crop and resize the image as necessary, using the
instructions at http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/#crop

My favorite program for screenshots is ksnapshot. But that might be heavy
for you.

hth
raju

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how to find the specs of a monitor

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

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?

thanks
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Re: screenshot

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!

There's always xwd in the xbase-clients package (which is probably 
installed already).

Cons:
- It writes in .xwd format. Only. not png or even jpeg. xwd only. But 
  gimp and others should have no problem reading it.
- Command-line only. No GUI.

Pros:
- You probably have got it installed already
- scriptable from the command line

Hope this helps
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Re: screenshot

[csanyipal]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:09:50PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hi Frank.
> 
> Frank McCormick, 20.06.2007 20:56:
> > Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
> > dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
> > maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!

> Try "scrot", it???s extremely small but still provides a lot of functionality.

I use imagemagick for this:
import -frame ~/Images/Screenshots/image_of_the_window_or_frame.jpg

Then I see this image with:
display ~/Images/Screenshots/image_of_the_window_or_frame.jpg

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Re: /etc is gone

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:54:30PM -0400, j j wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio).  i just discovered 
> that
> /etc directory is missing.  I dont think i deleted it, but it seems that I 
> must
> have.

Perhaps not.

Things to look at:

- you haven't mounted something on /etc, have you? Although insanely 
  stupid, pls don't be offended. When weird things happen, it's time to 
  be insanely paranoid... (/proc/mounts should tell)

- You haven't chroot'ed yourself, have you? (I know. Paranoia...)

- Anything in the system logs? (things like re-mounting read-only or 
  filesystem corruption would be very interesting...)

I am surprised that you don't mention any other problems - if /etc/ was 
really really gone, I'd expect loads of other problems.  Hence the 
somewhat paranoid checks...

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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Andrew J. Barr]

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?

The EDID data from the monitor should tell all. Most drivers for modern
hardware have support for parsing this information and configuring
themselves accordingly, and failing that there are command line tools
for this. Google should help you, now that you have an acronym to
search on. :P

> If it matters, the laptop as such runs Etch (stable).
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> thanks
> raju


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Re: screenshot

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 02:56:47PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> 
>> Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of the
>> dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a screenshot
>> maker but its a 6 meg download and am 18 meg installation!!
> 
> There's always xwd in the xbase-clients package (which is probably
> installed already).
> 
> Cons:
> - It writes in .xwd format. Only. not png or even jpeg. xwd only. But
>   gimp and others should have no problem reading it.
> - Command-line only. No GUI.
> 

Not a real issue. You can always use

xwd | convert - screenshot.jpg


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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Andrew Sackville-West]

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?

try the read-edid package and specifically

get-ided | parse-edid

as root should give some good information. 

Also, if you have any kind of name (which you might get from edid
above) you can google that. There is a wealth of monitor information
on the web...

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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Andrew Sackville-West 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?
> 
> try the read-edid package and specifically
> 
> get-ided | parse-edid
> 
> as root should give some good information.
> 

This is what I am getting with the above command. I think it is giving
information about only one monitor. If I am correct that information
belongs to the laptop's monitor. What about the external monitor's specs?

$sudo get-edid | parse-edid
parse-edid: parse-edid version 1.4.1
get-edid: get-edid version 1.4.1

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

VBE version 300
VBE string at 0xc0248 "ATI ATOMBIOS"

VBE/DDC service about to be called
Report DDC capabilities

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination supports DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

Reading next EDID block

VBE/DDC service about to be called
Read EDID

Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f15 bx=0x1 cx=0x0
Function supported
Call successful

parse-edid: EDID checksum passed.

# EDID version 1 revision 3
Section "Monitor"
# Block type: 2:0 3:f
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
Identifier "SEC:5032"
VendorName "SEC"
ModelName "SEC:5032"
# Block type: 2:0 3:f
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# DPMS capabilities: Active off:no  Suspend:no  Standby:no

Mode"1680x1050" # vfreq 59.999Hz, hfreq 64.799kHz
DotClock119.23
HTimings1680 1728 1760 1840
VTimings1050 1052 1058 1080
Flags   "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
# Block type: 2:0 3:f
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
# Block type: 2:0 3:fe
EndSection



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First Outing with MusixTex

[David Baron]

Exported a noteedit (kde score editor) to this format.
I can now run musixtex filename and get a viewable, printable dvi file.
Hebrew characters show as '?'
TexLive Hebrew is installed.
So how do I get it to be used?


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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 04:19:32PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West 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?
> > 
> > try the read-edid package and specifically
> > 
> > get-ided | parse-edid
> > 
> > as root should give some good information.
> > 
> 
> This is what I am getting with the above command. I think it is giving
> information about only one monitor. If I am correct that information
> belongs to the laptop's monitor. What about the external monitor's specs?
> 

hmmm... good point. I don't know is the short version. only you are
looking at themonitors and will be able to tell. 

Again, I recommend you get whatever you can off themonitor itself and
use google. That has always gotten me good information on old or
unknown monitors. 

also, if you're going for dual head, i've found 'X -configure' to be a
useful tool. It puts an xorg.conf.new in /root for you to look
at. MIght be helpful.

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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Raquel]

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.

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Re: Detecting disk drives from an installation script

[Orestes leal]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:53:19 -0500
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Not the best way, but it works perfectly
> > 
> > See attached Shell-Script.
> > 
> 
> This is what I have:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df
> Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1  7692876   2444696   4857404  34% /
> tmpfs   518188 0518188   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev 10240   160 10080   2% /dev
> tmpfs   518188 0518188   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda5  5862271   2360287   3204122  43% /hda5
> /dev/hda6  5862271   2658527   2905882  48% /hda6
> /dev/hda7 26647936   4765152  20529144  19% /hda7
> /dev/hda1029362324   8058008  19812756  29% /hda10
> /dev/hdc1  7692876   3131516   4561360  41% /hdb1
> /dev/hdc2  7692908   2721760   4580368  38% /hdb2
> /dev/hdc3  7691004   3704415   3595808  51% /hdb3
> /dev/hdc5  7690972   3509439   3790754  49% /hdb5
> /dev/hdc6  7692156   3016492   4363044  41% /hdb6
> /dev/hdc7 38456308  18747544  17755264  52% /hdb7
> /dev/sda2  7692908   4042996   3259132  56% /sda2
> /dev/sda3  7691004   3563058   3737165  49% /sda3
> /dev/sda5  7690972   4135476   3164717  57% /sda5
> /dev/sda6  7690972   4887187   2413006  67% /sda6
> /dev/sda7 38456308  10881196  25621612  30% /sda7
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> 
> I run ./get_partitions.sh and it shows nothing.
> Is it supposed to?

happen the same to me. ?

> Thanks Michelle,
> 
> Hugo
> 
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RE: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 & PHP?

[Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV)]

A,

I'm slowly catching up on the learning curve. My sources list is:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

My general idea of a plan (remember, all this got started because
"vulnerabilities" were reported assoc with Apache & PHP) so far:

1. Change the sources.list to look for "sarge" instead of "stable" &
update/install apache2 & PHP pkgs. I guess it would be good to do
'apt-get clean' before this to "start over" with a new pkg cache...?

2. Check to see what versions of Apache & PHP this has given me. If this
solves the problem w/vulnerabilities, the rest is optional for now. From
what I've read, to really fix web server vulnerabilities you need to
step up to Etch.

3. Upgrade to the 2.6 kernel. I think the Etch installation guide
recommends this before going straight to 4.0.

4. Upgrade to Etch.

Sound reasonable?

I back up data files daily & several directories which probably contain
config files. Is there a list of the most common directories for config
data I could check against?

-Ron

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From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:53 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 & PHP?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:24:38PM -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV)
wrote:
> I'm running Debian kernel version 2.4.27-2-386. I needed to upgrade
> Apache (from 2.0.54) & PHP (from 4.3.10-16) on our system. After doing
> "apt-get update" I executed the command:

are you still running sarge? did you fix up your sources.list so you'd
stay with sarge? you are treading in "upgrade to etch" waters
here... be careful.

> 
> when it asked whether I wanted to remove the kernel =:0
> 


did it install a new kernel first? 

[...]
>  
> 
> Remove the running kernel image (not recommended) [No]? No
> 
>  
> 
> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
> (--remove):
> 
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit
status
> 1
> 
> dpkg: initrd-tools: dependency problems, but removing
> anyway as you request:
> 
> kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 depends on initrd-tools (>=
> 0.1.48).
> 
> Removing initrd-tools ...

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so you've already begun the transition. you need to figure out what
you want to do, fix up your sources.list and attempt to fix-up
whatever you have broken... I can't be more specific without more
information

A

setting in /etc/profile in debian

[yong lee]

I add new entry in /etc/profile.(see below) 
#add java variable
JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jre1.6.0_01
export JAVA_HOME

#add JAVA_HOME to the PATH
PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

I thought these new entries would be effective after I
reopen a new terminal window. But it did not. I have
to manually do source /etc/profile to see the new
changes after I open a new terminal window everytime.
Even a reboot does not help. Does anyone have any idea
?

Many thanks

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JAVA AWT exception in debian

[yong lee]

I got a following exception when I ran a JAVA program 
which uses AWT in a terminal window. The same program
works in Windows environment. Do I miss some
configuration settings in debian environment ? Thanks
-Yong

java.awt.HeadlessException
at
java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(Unknown
Source)
at java.awt.Window.(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Frame.(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.Frame.(Unknown Source)
at
javax.swing.SwingUtilities$SharedOwnerFrame.(Unknown
Source)
at
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.getSharedOwnerFrame(Unknown
Source)
at javax.swing.JWindow.(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.JWindow.(Unknown Source)
at
org.tigr.midas.display.ProfaceProjector.(ProfaceProjector.java:60)
at
org.tigr.midas.display.Midas.showAbout(Midas.java:183)
at
org.tigr.midas.display.Midas.main(Midas.java:244)
Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.tigr.midas.display.Midas.main(Midas.java:245)




   

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Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

[Orestes leal]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:06:57 -0700 (PDT)
yong lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I thought these new entries would be effective after I
> reopen a new terminal window. But it did not. I have
> to manually do source /etc/profile to see the new

Make the same change in ~/.bashrc, it depends on the WM that you run. Good Luck.

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Re: Mixer use kills ALSA

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, arijit sarkar wrote:


On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 14:26 -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:


I am using kernel 2.6.18 with debian testing. My machine is an ASUS
M2NPV-VM, which contains the following sound hardware:

[snip]

Sound works OK from a variety of applications, including alsaplayer,
realplayer, and mplayer. However, when any application changes a mixer
setting, sound goes silent until alsa is force-reloaded. Any thoughts?

[snip]


I have the same motherboard and i was facing same problem. after
searching through google and various linux-related site, I found two
steps to solve this problem.

NOTE: install alsa-oss, alsa-utils packages
1.  edit: /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Add the following line at the end of the file,

"options snd-hda-intel position-fix=1 model=3stack" (withour
quotes)


Thank you! This worked fine. There was no need for step 2 -- just the 
above fixed the problem.


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Re: setting in /etc/profile in debian

[Bob Proulx]

yong lee wrote:
> I add new entry in /etc/profile.(see below) 
> #add java variable
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jre1.6.0_01
> export JAVA_HOME
> 
> #add JAVA_HOME to the PATH
> PATH="${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
> export PATH

That is a very un-Debian way of doing things because it requires that
a user log out and then log back in again before this type of change
would take effect.  This is not allowed for official Debian packages.
I realize this is a local addition that you are making and the
official policies do not restrict what a local administrator does.
But usually they are good ideas regardless.

> I thought these new entries would be effective after I
> reopen a new terminal window. But it did not.

No.  The /etc/profile is only sourced by the command line shell upon
login.  You would need to log out and log back in again for that to
take effect.

> I have to manually do source /etc/profile to see the new changes
> after I open a new terminal window everytime.  Even a reboot does
> not help. Does anyone have any idea ?

You say that even a reboot does not help and that seems very strange
to me because I am sure that you would log in after that point. :-)
Are you using a shell other than a POSIX compatible one such as csh?

In any case some standard ways of dealing with this are:

* Install in your $HOME directory instead of /usr/local and then add
  these paths to your $HOME/.bashrc file.  This is typical for a
  personal installation.

* Install a script wrapper in /usr/local/bin that sets these
  environment variables and then calls the program.  This way there is
  no need to log out and log back in again and changes take effect
  immediately.

* Use the Debian java-package to convert Sun's upstream binary Java
  distribution into a Debian package and install it.

I recommend using the java-package method.

  apt-cache show java-package

  Description: utility for building Java(TM) 2 related Debian packages
   This package provides the capability to create a debian package from
   a Java(TM) 2 distribution by just running make-jpkg .
   .
   This program currently works with the following Java(TM) 2 Runtime
   Environments and Development Kits:
   .
* Sun Microsystems(TM) 1.4 and 1.5 Standard Edition
* IBM(TM) 1.3, 1.4, and 5.0 Standard Edition
* Blackdown Java-Linux 1.3 and 1.4 Standard Edition

This will probably be your best solution.

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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

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.,

raju

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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Mike McCarty]

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?


You got some useful info, but seemingly can't read the specs.
I suggest you connect it as your *only* monitor, and use the
EDID info from it.

I think that the read-edid is informative, but wanted a more
complete dump. Today is the first I heard of it. But, in any
case, I am working on a program to dump everything in it.
If you need a prelim. version, I can shoot you source, or
an executable. Contact me off-list.

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Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 05:14:07PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> unfortunatly my ISP allow only FTP and it is not realy easy to update
> the FTP/Webspace by hand.
> 
> What I need is a full automated FTP commandline client which can sync
> my local mirror (Laptop) with the ISP.  I mean, not only upload files
> but deletiong fils on the ISP's mirrors too (= creating an exact copy
> of my local mirror including subdirectories).
> 
> Can anyone recommend a tool for this?
> 
> Oh yes, it must work from inside a script without interaction.

# apt-get install sitecopy

looks like exactly what you're after

Hope this helps

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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> 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?
> 
> You got some useful info, but seemingly can't read the specs.
> I suggest you connect it as your *only* monitor, and use the
> EDID info from it.
> 

I am trying to connect the external monitor to a laptop. I dont think there
is an option to switch off laptop's monitor and switch on only the external
monitor. At this place, I do not have access to another desktop.

> I think that the read-edid is informative, but wanted a more
> complete dump. Today is the first I heard of it. But, in any 
> case, I am working on a program to dump everything in it.
> If you need a prelim. version, I can shoot you source, or
> an executable. Contact me off-list.
> 

You mean you are working on a standalone program which gives complete info
of the monitor specs? or you are working on a program which extracts
information from read-edid and then gives the specs of the monitor? Sorry,
you got me lost with the above paragraph. In any case, I would appreciate
if you can email the source and the executable.

raju

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Re: screenshot

[Frank McCormick]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:34:38 +0200
csanyipal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > Anybody know of relatively simple software to take screenshots of
> > > the dexktop or of windows of applications. Gnome-utils contains a
> 
> I use imagemagick for this:
> import -frame ~/Images/Screenshots/image_of_the_window_or_frame.jpg


   What a great bunch of knowledgable and helpful people - I'd say
Imagemagick and scrot are the handiest - xwd and xwud to display have
the advantage of being on my machine already ( but they do put out HUGE
files). The Kseries suffers from the same problem as Gnome...I don't
run either so aptitude wants to pull in dozens of libraries.
Thanks to everyone!

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Re: problems with radeon driver

[Bob]

Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

Hello,

I am running etch in an amd64 system with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200
(AGP) video card. The ATI driver from x.org doesn't work with this
card, after a small GUI activity, the screen freezes. I've reported



Have you tried in xorg.conf actually specifying the "radeon" driver 
instead of "ati", it shouldn't make any difference but...

   Driver  "radeon"
have a look at the man page
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man4/radeon.4.html
you can probably find a more appropriate version on your PC, there are 
lodes of driver options, some of which are just there to overcome flaky 
implementations, if you can get the OS drivers to work it's well worth 
the effort, particularly now that ATI, in their infinite wisdom, have 
dropped support for older radeon GPUs from fglrx.

http://airlied.livejournal.com/32819.html?view=66099#t66099
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=735&num=9

Good luck.
8< snip >8
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Re: screenshot

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-06-20 16:03:18 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Not a real issue. You can always use
> 
> xwd | convert - screenshot.jpg

What's the point of using xwd, then?

import -window root screenshot.png

(since if convert is installed, then import is installed).

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Re: screenshot

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-06-20 20:29:14 +0100, Jose Rodriguez wrote:
> I use ksnapshot, don't know how big it is, but it does a good job,

Really big, taking into account the dependencies:

After unpacking 68.1MB of additional disk space will be used.

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Re: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 & PHP?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:41:40PM -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote:
> A,
> 
> I'm slowly catching up on the learning curve. My sources list is:
> 
> #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
> deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
> 
> My general idea of a plan (remember, all this got started because
> "vulnerabilities" were reported assoc with Apache & PHP) so far:
> 
> 1. Change the sources.list to look for "sarge" instead of "stable" &
> update/install apache2 & PHP pkgs. I guess it would be good to do
> 'apt-get clean' before this to "start over" with a new pkg cache...?
> 
> 2. Check to see what versions of Apache & PHP this has given me. If this
> solves the problem w/vulnerabilities, the rest is optional for now. From
> what I've read, to really fix web server vulnerabilities you need to
> step up to Etch.

you should probably do the upgrade, unless you are in production and
need to evaluate first... but that's up to you.

if you go ahead with the update, then you can skip steps 1 & 2. 

Do not to the apt-get clean until you've fixed your sources.list. Then
do an update and see what dist-upgrade tells you. 

> 
> 3. Upgrade to the 2.6 kernel. I think the Etch installation guide
> recommends this before going straight to 4.0.
> 
> 4. Upgrade to Etch.
> 
> Sound reasonable?
> 
> I back up data files daily & several directories which probably contain
> config files. Is there a list of the most common directories for config
> data I could check against?

/etc ;)

As I said before, it looks like you've already begun the upgrade as
you've removed initrd-tools and its hard to say what else has already
been changed. 

oh. one other thing: subscribe to debian-announce so you don't get
caught out when lenny goes stable ;)

A

> 
> -Ron
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:53 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 & PHP?
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:24:38PM -0700, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV)
> wrote:
> > I'm running Debian kernel version 2.4.27-2-386. I needed to upgrade
> > Apache (from 2.0.54) & PHP (from 4.3.10-16) on our system. After doing
> > "apt-get update" I executed the command:
> 
> are you still running sarge? did you fix up your sources.list so you'd
> stay with sarge? you are treading in "upgrade to etch" waters
> here... be careful.
> 
> > 
> > when it asked whether I wanted to remove the kernel =:0
> > 
> 
> 
> did it install a new kernel first? 
> 
> [...]
> >  
> > 
> > Remove the running kernel image (not recommended) [No]? No
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
> > (--remove):
> > 
> > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit
> status
> > 1
> > 
> > dpkg: initrd-tools: dependency problems, but removing
> > anyway as you request:
> > 
> > kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 depends on initrd-tools (>=
> > 0.1.48).
> > 
> > Removing initrd-tools ...
> 
> --
> 
> so you've already begun the transition. you need to figure out what
> you want to do, fix up your sources.list and attempt to fix-up
> whatever you have broken... I can't be more specific without more
> information
> 
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Re: how to find the specs of a monitor

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

[...]


> 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.,

nothing on the back or bottom or anywhere? 

WOW! 

okay. do this

X -configure

then follow its instructions for starting a dual-head system. It
probably won't work, but what I'm after is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log it
produces. There may be monitor information in that log file...

A


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