Re: audio recorder in linux ... what's its name?

[H.S.]

Howard Eisenberger wrote:

On 2007-02-25, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I remember there is an application to record audio (mic or line-in) and 
IIRC it had the X11 interface. What I also remember is the level meters 
it had, they were two dials, one for each channel, and had needles 
showing the levels (something like a speedometer on dashboards of a 
vehicle). But I can't remember the application's name. Can anyone help?


Maybe snd, which looks like this:

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/reclin.png

Regards,

Howard E.
Ottawa




Looks a bit different than what I recall from the distant past ... but 
maybe it has changed since. Will try it out.


BTW, I just wanted to try it again just to get a kick out seeing the 
needle swinging with the rythm :)


I am using audacity at present to record a live event. It is going quite 
nicely so far.


thanks,
->HS



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audacity takes very long time to import flac

[H.S.]

Does anybody know anything about this? I have tried to import a flac 
file in audacity (in Testing as well as in Sid), but audacity takes ages 
to do so. On a command line (I think using flac package), exporting the 
 same flac to aiff takes very short time. Example: audacity takes 
around 44 minutes to import a particular flac file, which can be 
converted to aiff using flac in around 4 minutes and imported into audacity.


->HS


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icedove confused with new DST? Shifts events by 1 hour

[H.S.]

Hello,

I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the 
next week, the event is shown one hour ahead of the time I specify. For 
example, if I specify an event for next week's Tue, 10h00~11h00, it is 
shown at 09h00~10h00. I have to drag that even one hour to correct that. 
However, then, even though the event is displayed correctly and shown 
correctly(10h00~11h00), when I try to edit to see its properties, the 
time there shown is 11h00~12h00.


Looks like whatever time is entered in the event, the event is shown one 
hour ahead of its time.


Anybody else having this problem? The events for this week are shown 
okay. Also the events, repeated for a few weeks ago till a few weeks 
down the road, are also shown properly during the next week.


Does the day light saving time change have anything to do with this? I 
am in EST zone.


->HS



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Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

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Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote:

Hello,

I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the


How do you do that?



Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and 
it had been a long day.


I use lightning extension in Icedove.

->HS


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Re: audacity takes very long time to import flac

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Jonathan Kaye wrote:

H.S. wrote:


Does anybody know anything about this? I have tried to import a flac
file in audacity (in Testing as well as in Sid), but audacity takes ages
to do so. On a command line (I think using flac package), exporting the
  same flac to aiff takes very short time. Example: audacity takes
around 44 minutes to import a particular flac file, which can be
converted to aiff using flac in around 4 minutes and imported into
audacity.

->HS

I'm running Audacity 1.3.2 beta on Debian Etch (2.6.18.3). I found a .flac
file of around 9.7MB and it loads into Audacity in less than 2 seconds. You
don't mention how large the file that took 44 minutes to load was, so I
don't know if you're having a problem or not. I compiled Audacity myself
after installing (among other things) libsndfile1-dev. If you give us more
details about the size of the .flac file and the version of Audacity you're
running it might be easier to help you.
Jonathan





The flac file I tried was around 550 MB in size. It was audacity in 
unstable, version 1.3.2-1.


->HS



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Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

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Ron Johnson wrote:

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Ron Johnson wrote:

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On 03/06/07 23:35, H.S. wrote:

Hello,

I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the

How do you do that?


Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and
it had been a long day.

I use lightning extension in Icedove.


Interesting.

I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being
compatible with Iceweasel.


And it complains correctly. Lightning is an extension for Icedove 
(Debian version of Thunderbird), not of the browser Iceweasel.


->HS


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[Solved] Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

[H.S.]

Ron Johnson wrote:


I use lightning extension in Icedove.

Interesting.

I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being
compatible with Iceweasel.

And it complains correctly. Lightning is an extension for Icedove
(Debian version of Thunderbird), not of the browser Iceweasel.


https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2313/

Is there a different location?

BTW, v0.3.1 is supposed to fix the DST issues.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/releases/lightning0.3.1.html




I clicked on Tools->Extensions and the lightning extension has an 
"Update" button beside it. Clicked on that, it upgraded lightning's 
version and asked me to restart Icedove. After the restart, the problem 
was gone. I just had to move a couple of appointment in the next week to 
their correct times, but now all times are shown properly.


Thanks,
->HS


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accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

[H.S.]

Hello,

In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes 
accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as 
question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN):

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html?cnn=yes

I see this "or his prot�g�s". I assume the last word is protege with 
accents on the e's. How do I find out what I am missing to have these 
characters shown properly? Maybe a font? My default locale is 
en_CA.UTF-8 and many of the international languages are shown properly. 
I even see accents properly on this web page:

http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html

thanks,
->HS


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Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

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Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:59:07 -0500, H.S. wrote:

Hello,

In Debian Etch Mozilla browser (Iceape), I notice that sometimes 
accented characters are not displayed properly. They are shown as 
question marks in black diamonds. For example, on this web page (CNN):

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1597226,00.html?cnn=yes

I see this "or his prot�g�s". I assume the last word is protege with 
accents on the e's. How do I find out what I am missing to have these 
characters shown properly? Maybe a font? My default locale is 
en_CA.UTF-8 and many of the international languages are shown properly. 


Try to change to "View > Character Encoding > Western (ISO-8859-1)".


Yes, that worked.


Your en_CA.UTF-8 would be able to display this page correctly if
time.com would bother to tell your browser that is uses ISO-8859-1.


I am not sure I understand this comment. I am not very familiar with 
encoding. I was assuming the web pages which have international 
characters are better off by using UTF-8 encoding.


I was assuming they should have used UTF-8 along with the language tags 
around that word. I might be mistaken though.


->HS




I would have expected time.com to be more professional.


I even see accents properly on this web page:
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html


This page uses utf-8, so it matches your locale setting. It also
specifies the encoding in the source, so it should display correctly on
other locales as well, as long as they have the "é" character at all.
(The browser transcodes transparently if it knows what it is dealing
with.)




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Re: Off-Topic Posts

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Kent West wrote:
Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely 
because such threads have tended to be short-lived.


One of the reasons I love this list. Most of the messages are on topic, 
off topic messages are tolerated and if they live for too long, polite 
requests are sent to throttle them. All signs of a mature group of 
people sharing their ideas on the list. All this is in huge contrast to 
the newsgroups and lists of the 80's and 90's in which all people not 
having a thorough detailed knowledge of each and every aspect of Linux 
or Unix operating systems were considered lesser mortals not worthy of 
any helpful comments other than "read the manual". Those lists were so 
full of arrogant self-proclaimed Linux or Unix experts, that there was 
hardly any sharing of useful information other than between the "gurus". 
Maybe such newsgroups and lists still exist. I was a newbie once (well, 
still am) and experienced those. But Debian, on the other hand, is a 
very mature, respectful and extremely helpful list. Simply love this list.



->HS







However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to 
have taken this to mean that this list is appropriate for any and all 
discussions by users of Debian. I would doubt that was the original 
intent of the spirit of the phrase "Help and discussion among users of 
Debian".


I would urge the off-topic posters to return to the spirit of the 
phrase, and please wind down your off-topic posts, and then strive to 
keep your posts a bit closer to Debian-related topics.


Thanks!




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Re: Απ: accented chars. shown as questio n marks in black diamonds in mozilla

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Nick Demou wrote:


ROUGH EXPLANATIONS

when one writes a text in a text-editor the text-editor must store it
in the disk as a series of numbers (for example ABC will become
65,66,67)
  this is called encoding the text
when your browser renders that text in the screen it must convert the
series of numbers to glyphs of letters (for example 65,66,67 will be
presented as ABC)
   this is called decoding

in order for this to work the two programs (text editor and browser)
should agree in order to use the same rules of conversion (for example
A<->65, B<->66,...)


I am familiar with the above.



this is where everything gets messed up because there are more than
one possible encoding rules and web server, a database server, a lot
of programmers and sysadmins and heaven knows what else in between the
two programs. You the user then, must try a few possible encoding and
see what works. Not too difficult just use the view->encoding menu.
Still it is annoying


Right.




in the case of this page the text is really encoded as iso8859-1 (as
you can find out if you manually select this encoding when everything
displays properly) but the html code reports that it's text is encoded
as UTF-8 (as you can see if you look at the first lines of the html
source: content="text/html; charset=utf-8" - you can see the source
with menu->view->page source).

So its a problem that only time.com can solve properly


For a moment pretend that I am the person responsible to do that (HTML 
programmer or HTML editor or whatever). What would I do to resolve this?


My guess: use an HTML editor which supports UTF-8? Then the tag in the 
web page, content="text/html; charset=utf-8", would specify the 
encoding, the editor would input proper encoding of the character and my 
UTF-8 enabled browser should show the characters exactly as they were 
typed(?)


->HS



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Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in black diamonds in mozilla

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Florian Kulzer wrote:



What I meant was this: Your utf-8 setup (combined with using the proper
fonts) is able to encode and display umlauts, accented characters,
characters for Slavic languages, Scandinavian, Russian, Greek, (some)
Asian characters, etc. This is in contrast to, say, someone using an
iso-8859-1 locale who cannot display many of these "foreign" characters.
(Unless s/he uses an application which can work around the limitations
of the system's encoding, for example LaTeX.)

The problem is that a webpage has to tell your browser which encoding it
uses to transmit the characters. If the browser has to guess things can
go wrong. In your case iceape guessed the page was encoded in utf-8
which goes wrong for many characters outside the standard us-ascii set.
Once you told your browser that the page was in iso-8859-1 it could
transcode properly. The root of the problem is that the character "é"
(the accented e) exists in both utf-8 and iso-8859-1 but it has a
different code in the two encodings.


Ah, that makes complete sense!


I was assuming they should have used UTF-8 along with the language tags 
around that word. I might be mistaken though.


This would maybe work if they would encode that word in utf-8. Since
they decided to use iso-8859-1 throughout the document they could simply
have included



in the HTML header.


Thanks for your excellent explanation.
regards,
->HS





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Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

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Arlie Stephens wrote:



I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow


Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this 
right. Try this:

1. Use gnome-terminal or konsole (at least it out)
2. Make sure your locale is set to UTF-8 (see further below).
3. Make sure the relevant language fonts are installed.



automatically done the right thing - for the European ISO standard at
least (I forget the precise number), and their version of emacs would
also successfully cut and paste non-US-character text, and asked me what
encoding I preferred to use. Debian hasn't done the right thing since
sarge - I don't remember for sure whether woody worked right, or
whether my last good experience was on redhat - and I've had no luck
whatsoever finding documentation or a FAQ that actually corresponded
to anything real and workable. (Don't tell me to process 'locales'
that don't exist on my system, without at least giving me a clue what
package might contain them - or how to create my own - given that I've
installed every relevant-seeming package for every language I want to
be able to read.)


Give the "set" command on a command prompt and see that you get for 
these variables (I have the following):

$> set | grep LANG
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en_US:en_GB:en

If your LANG is not set to UTF-8, you need to set it right. Make sure 
you have the various locales install:

$> locale -a
C
en_CA
en_CA.iso88591
en_CA.utf8
en_GB
en_GB.iso88591
en_GB.iso885915
en_GB.utf8


If you do not a list similar to the one above, you need to generate the 
locale choices:


#> dpkg-reconfigure locale

(or is it locales? try both). It will give you an ncurses based list of 
locale choices to generate, Select the one you want and press OK. Next 
screen will ask you to set a default locale. Set a UTF-8 locale. After 
this configuration, logout and log in again. Use the "set" command again 
to make sure you have a UTF-8 locale now.


Next, make sure you have relevant fonts install. I guess it is good to 
have the ttf-* fonts installed, at least the ones you think you might need.


Finally, open gnome-terminal or konsole and fire up mutt. You should see 
various language characters in all their glory. BTW, xterm does not 
support UTF-8 properly yet.





Etch _claimed_ to default to UTF-8 - not my preference, but any
consistent and working setup is better than nothing - and I need to
check whether _that_ encoding actually works. (How can I find some
text that's definitely encoded in that format?) But what I want is the
ability to read anything. Well, anything in any European language,
with emphasis on french, german, and icelandic, plus a few related
dead languages.) 


Using a windows XP box for all my non-english language work is *not*
making me happy.



True. I wanted the same thing. It turns out that making international 
languages work is easier in Linux (I have done this in Debian Etch, Sid 
and Ubuntu also) than in Windows! At least for me.


->HS



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Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

[H.S.]

Thomas Dickey wrote:

H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Arlie Stephens wrote:



I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use,
notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow


Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this 
right. Try this:


yawn (it requires reading the manpage, or using the uxterm script).


I was helping a friend setup his system with Indic fonts with unicode 
support some time ago (a few months). We couldn't get it working in 
xterm but it was a breeze to get gnome-terminal and konsole working with 
Indic fonts under UTF-8 locale. I recall at that time reading someplace 
that UTF-8 support for unicode is not complete in xterm. But I would 
sure like to be corrected ... even would be glad since I use xterm on a 
daily basis, especially when I am logged in remotely to my univ. machine.



xterm supports ANSI color, VT220 emulation and UTF-8
There's an faq at
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html


I guess I am missing something here, the above page has no occurrence of 
UTF in it.


->HS



ftp://invisible-island.net/xterm/




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Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

[H.S.]

Arlie Stephens wrote:


Well, what I got was a different kind of gobbletygook. I presume it
won't cut and paste ;-) but looking at a message that should be
quoting Icelandic, I'm seeing improbably characters like a capital A
with a horizontal bar across it, embedded in the middle of
words. (This is not a valid Icelandic character.) Even better was the
cute little fraction symbol (3/4) embedded in the middle of the
word. My best guess is that this probably isn't UTF-8 text, but I
suppose it could be a font problem. 

Aha - bingo - 


export LANG=en_US.iso885915

Now the bizarre symbols are replaced with eths and other Icelandic
characters, and the quoted text becomes comprehensible. (Well, close
to comrehensible, my Icelandic understanding is even more limited than
my systems administration savvy.) 


And let me guess - there's no way to automatically determine what
encoding a given message may contain, and the mutt mail client
probably cannot switch encodings on the fly. 


Oh what fun!

Still, it's way better than it's been in ages. 


Thank you very much.


To enter text in a terminal in a different language (the default LANG 
should be some utf-8), I have to change my keyboard layout. I do this 
from KDE->Settings->Regional and Accessibility->Keyboard layout. I 
select the language layout I want and I get an applet on the KDE panel 
which lets me switch between different input languages. I can then type 
in those languages in konsole or in gnome-terminal. Not sure how to do 
this via conf files though. In Gnome, there is something like scim input 
methods which let you change the keyboard layouts as you type in 
different languages. Works pretty nicely.


->HS





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Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

[H.S.]

Paul Scott wrote:


Oh, terribly sorry for the lack of information. It was late at night and
it had been a long day.

I use lightning extension in Icedove.



Interesting.

I tried to install Lightning 0.3.1, but it complains about not being
compatible with Iceweasel.
  
I just tried and got that exact result with no evidence of anything 
being installed.


Paul Scott



Did you try installing it in Icedove?


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Re: Appointments in Icedove? (was Re: icedove confused with new DST?...)

[H.S.]

Paul Scott wrote:


Did you try installing it in Icedove?
That's a good question!  I went to the IceDove Tools menu and chose 
Extensions.  Then I chose "Get More Extensions" which took me to 
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions.php?app=%7b3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6%7d 

using IceWeasel.  That page says Thunderbird Extensions but the page 
title is actually:


Add-ons :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software

Then I had to search for Lightning.

You tell me :)

Paul





hmm .. does sound confusing. When I did this, I noticed this and saved 
the extension file ( .xpi file?) to my computer and then imported or 
installed the extension in icedove.


->HS



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restricting internet access for some users

[H.S.]

Hello,

On a computer connected to a router, which in turn is connected to the 
internet (more or less constantly), how do I restrict some users from 
accessing the internet.


The lan is actually in a small community office. A couple of computers 
are for the staff, but a third is set aside for a number of public users 
to use. It is running Ubuntu. I was asked how to restrict internet 
access from that computer (for example, users should be allowed to 
connect to the internet only during certain hours of a day) on a user by 
user basis. I am more familiar with Debian, hence the query here. 
Apparently, they want the administrator to have free access, but 
restricted access for other users on that computer.


Pointers will be helpful too,
thanks,
->HS



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export an image of unicode keyboard layout

[H.S.]

Hello,

Is there is some way I can export the current layout of the keyboard to 
an image (eps would be ideal)? This is on Debian Testing. I would like 
to see the keymaps of the various language settings -- to I would just 
sent the necessary keyboard layout from an applet and export the image 
to a file (to be later included in a document). I am not sure how to 
specify it, but I am looking for the image of unicode keyboard layout.


thanks,
->HS


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do I need jackd?

[H.S.]

Hello,

Do I need jackd on a computer which is recording output from an audio 
mixer? Currently the output of the mixer is being fed to the line-in of 
the computer's sound card and audacity is being used to record the 
audio. Seems to be working fine. I have also tried to playback the audio 
while it is being recorded and this seems to have had no ill effects 
either. Now, do I stand to gain anything by installing jackd in this 
scenario?


->HS


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console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

[H.S.]

It appears that cdrecord package is ... deprecated in debain(?) I am 
trying to see what should I use to burn CD's from a terminal. This is on 
an Etch bases system with only icewm installed on it. I don't want to 
use nautilus cd burner and neither k3b, if I can help it.


How do wodim and burn compare for such a task? Any experiences with 
these utilities? I am trying to decide which one to start and keep using 
depending on its stability and features. And it would be great to have 
the option of burning audio cd's with text information (never been able 
to do so with k3b, even with checking the cd-text option).


->HS



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Re: export an image of unicode keyboard layout

[H.S.]

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

HS wrote:


Is there is some way I can export the current layout of the
keyboard to an image (eps would be ideal)? [..]


xkbprint -eps :0 kb.eps

(see also man xkbprint)

Regards, Jan




Thanks for the pointer. I tried it, but I keep getting an eps with keys 
labeled with, I guess, key codes beginning with U0. I am not getting the 
key character symbols. I tried the following command:

$>  xkbprint  -diffs -label symbols -eps :0 kb.eps

when the keyboard selector applet was set for the different language. I 
get correct symbols for English though. What am I missing?


->HS



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Re: My sound card!!!

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The Navigator Gold wrote:

Hi everyone my name is Jeser and I'm from Panama.


Hello,


But I have a big problem, I am a sound editor, and I
need my sound card works very well and Debian can´t
recognize it!!.
I need an explication of how can I install my sound
card.
It's a Sound Blaster Audigy 2.
I am so inexperienced in this OS so please be kind.

Thank You.


Can you tell us if you have the following packages installed:
alsa-base, alsa-utils, alsa-oss

You can find this by giving the following command:
$> dpkg -l alsa* | grep ^i

Give us the output of the above command.

->HS

PS: I am not sure if you need alsa-oss, I am sure others can clarify 
this doubt.



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how to print unicode encoded file to ps

[H.S.]

Hello,

I am trying to print a text file containing different languages 
characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters 
in the non-english character's place. Then I discovered u2ps, but it 
gives boxes instead with some messages given by the u2ps command:


$> u2ps  20070311-02.tag -o 20070311-02.ps

(gnome-u2ps:10989): GnomePrint-WARNING **: Problem while creating filter 
from 'frgba': filter 'frgba' is unknown



While searching google, I notice that there is probably a problem with 
the conversion of truetype fonts to ps fonts. Not sure if I am right though.


So, does anyone know what is the state of printing text files in unicode 
(or unicode files in general) to postscript files in Linux? And how do I 
accomplish the task I described above?


thanks,
->HS


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Re: Sound on Linux?

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Ken Heard wrote:



I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so
 I installed alsa-tools and alsa-tool-gui; aptitude also installed one
lib file.  I then ran as root alsaconf which did its thing, including
detecting the builtin sound card, and told me to enjoy.

Unfortunately the results were the same as reported previously.  I tried
to listen to an audio CD -- a commercial one, not a CD burned with MP3
on it -- using in succession noatun, juk and kaffeine -- no response.

I checked to see whether the CD was mounted; it was.  Directory
/media/hdc listed the tracks on the CD.

As for the newscast, the same result as before as well -- the KDE crash
handler.

The laptop, by the way, is a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a P2 CPU.  When it
still had Windows 2000 on it I was able to do both -- listen to audio
CDs and watch and listen to downloaded newscasts.  So it would seem that
the problem(s) is(are) not hardware related.

Any further suggestions?


Not sure if you have check this before, but have you verified you have 
proper volume settings on all your audio channels? Run alsamixer in a 
terminal, you will get a text based graphic display of the levels. Make 
sure none of the outputs are zero or muted. Up/Down arrows change the 
levels, "M" mutes/unmutes, and Left/Right change the channel.


->HS


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Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

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li sh wrote:

2007/3/16, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Hello,

I am trying to print a text file containing different languages
characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters
in the non-english character's place.


I encountered a2ps's embarrassment,too.


So, does anyone know what is the state of printing text files in unicode
(or unicode files in general) to postscript files in Linux? And how do I
accomplish the task I described above?


I use kde. Konqueror(kwite)->file->print->print to file(ps) ,this is
my way. Gnome should also print it to file. Have a try?



Interesting, kwrite worked. Gedit, however, did not. The result in that 
case was the same as in u2ps, along with the same gnomeprint warning.


So, looks like I have to fire up kwrite just to print a simple text file 
to a postscript file.



thanks,
->HS



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Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:34:47PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
 >

I use kde. Konqueror(kwite)->file->print->print to file(ps) ,this is
my way. Gnome should also print it to file. Have a try?

Interesting, kwrite worked. Gedit, however, did not. The result in that 
case was the same as in u2ps, along with the same gnomeprint warning.


So, looks like I have to fire up kwrite just to print a simple text file 
to a postscript file.


Have you tried LaTex?  Sure a .tex file starts with a preamble but you
could have two files head.tex (preamble) and tail.tex (\end{document}).
Then cat head.tex file.txt tail.tex > file.tex, then latex file.tex then
dvips file.dvi.  Then you have your file.ps.

Once this all works, write a script that takes your file.txt as an
argument and gives you file.ps.  All without X.

Doug.




I haven't tried LaTeX yet. But it seems overkill for printing a simple 
text file to a ps file. However, I have been playing with the idea of 
trying out LaTeX for preparing a document containing international 
language characters (I am pretty familiar with LaTeX, but only in 
English language bases documents). I will take your hints above and try 
it out. For the task at hand through, paps seems promising.


thanks,
->HS


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Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

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Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

Have you tried LaTex?  Sure a .tex file starts with a preamble 
but you could have two files head.tex (preamble) and tail.tex 
(\end{document}). Then cat head.tex file.txt tail.tex >

file.tex, then latex file.tex then dvips file.dvi.  Then you
have your file.ps.



Once this all works, write a script that takes your file.txt as
an argument and gives you file.ps.  All without X.


This will work if you have a Unicode-aware TeX, but why so
complicated? paps (apt-get install paps, in Etch since April last
year) just allows you to say

paps [font options] < test.txt   > test.ps.


Worked like a charm!

Thanks a ton,
->HS



If you put paps into your lprng input filter, you can just say lpr
test.txt or cat test.txt|lpr (if your basic print system
understands PostScript; normally it does, either natively or
through ghostscript). Completely transparent; Unicode (UTF-8) is
printed just as if you were pushing bytes to an ASCII printer, but
with the whole Unicode charset available. And of course also
without X. Very fast, very neat prints, for Unicode and for ASCII
(because ASCII is a subset of UTF-8), so it can replace your
normal ASCII print setup.

Regards, Jan





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Re: microphone

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Mark Grieveson wrote:

More teeth grittin' sound issues, which are a plenty with good ol' Linux!

I bought a cheap microphone, to record my voice on a wav file.  I opened gnome-sound-recorder (of the gnome-media package), and, under "Record from input:", I  selected "microphone".  However, it kept switching to "AC97", and not recording anything (I began feeling like the woman in Demon Seed, trying to instruct the computer to do something, only to have it refuse, and want its own way).  I opened the volume control, and unmuted the microphone, and unmuted the capture.  But, it just kept remuting the microphone, and remuting the capture, and the sound-recorder kept switching back to AC97 (Demon Seedit's acting on its own nowgetting ready to screw me good).  


Eventually, I did manage to record my voice (I'm still not sure how I did this, 
though.)  I then tried to play it back, but got feedback.  So, I muted the 
microphone, and muted the capture.yet, still, I got feedback when playing 
the recording back (Demon Seed. my computer is getting ready to screw me, I 
just know it).

I'm anticipating that an odd mutation of my own DNA, and my computer, will 
eventually see the sun upon its face.  However, I'm HOPING that I can simply 
figure out how to record, and subsequently play back my voice, without all this 
fuss.  So, if anyone out there can assist me in asserting my human dominance 
over my computer, I would appreciate it.  I'm running Etch, on an old Pentium 
III.

Mark





Try audacity.


->HS

PS: Using a microphone connected with the mic socket of a computer's 
sound card is not going to give you a good quality sound. For that you 
need a mic and a pre-amp that is connected to the line-in of the sound card.


PPS: Could you please wrap your text in your messages. Thanks.


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Re: microphone

[H.S.]

Mark Grieveson wrote:
.




I listened to a podcast recently (The Linux Action Show) and they were
discussing this issue.  It turns out that they use another recording
device, then use audacity to mix the their recording and create the
finished podcast.  They say if they try to use audacity to do the
recording directly, they get feedback.



Joe


Thanks for the feedback.  I'll try audacity, and look into getting a
pre-amp for the line-in of the sound card.  Also, thanks for letting me


Well, before you go off buying a pre-amp or some such device, maybe it 
will be worthwhile to try a recording device as suggested by Joe. For 
example, I would try recording the audio on an mp3 player (obviously, 
one which can record, and it turns out I have one) and copying that mp3 
file over to the hard disk of the computer and then using audacity to 
export it to a suitable format. Another example, I would try recording 
the audio on a cassette recorder and playback that tape on a player 
which has a line out jack while connecting that line-out jack to the 
computer's line-in jack and capturing that audio using audacity. In both 
cases, you will have a nicer audio input than you can get using a cheap 
mic connected to the mic jack of the computer.


Depending on the situation, cost and some other factors I guess, the 
near ideal solution would be of course to have some sort of a pre-amp 
with a mic. For example, for more or less excellent results (near 
professional?), one would buy a small mixer (2 or 4 channel) and connect 
its line-out to the computer's line-in. But if this equipment needs to 
be bought, it will definitely be more expensive than the two examples I 
described above.


And I am not expert, so I guess others maybe able to contribute more or 
correct me.





know that I was unwrapped (and I was also flying low); so, after
zipping and wrapping up, hopefully I'm now presentable.


Thanks.



Glad to hear too, from the Linux Action Show, that others have had
similar issues.  Good to know I'm not alone.

Mark.




Good luck,
->HS





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"I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

[H.S.]

Just saw this in the following piece:
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html

"Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous impact 
on the number of people worldwide using Debian (I do consider Ubuntu to 
be Debian). ..."


->HS


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Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

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Paul E Condon wrote:


In another thread, a poster who claims to be Ian Murdock said that Ubuntu is


I think you are referring to a post I made regarding his quote in one of 
his interviews.


I *never* claimed to be Ian Murdock. What is the world gave you that 
impression? What you wrote above is grossly wrong.




considered to be Debian. I say Debian is the 'One True Way', but that Ubuntu
is a 'Lesser Way' that can lead to Debian ;-)




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Re: make/g++ within emacs causes wierd unicode control characters

[H.S.]

Micha Feigin wrote:

I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which calls make -k)

In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters):

main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™:
main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to 
ג€˜LaplaceMat::LaplaceMat(int&)ג€™
LaplaceMat.hh:7: note: candidates are: LaplaceMat::LaplaceMat()

The system is setup to use unicode (hebrew).

Any ideas on how to fix this?




Any luck with the problem? I am experiencing the same thing. I have
$> dpkg -l emacs* | grep ^i
ii  emacs-goodies-el26.9-1 Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
ii  emacs21 21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs21-bin-common  21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor's 
shared, architecture
ii  emacs21-common  21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor's 
shared, architecture

ii  emacsen-common  1.4.17 Common facilities for all emacsen


->HS



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[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:

Micha Feigin wrote:
I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which 
calls make -k)


In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters):

main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™:
main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to 
ג€˜LaplaceMat::LaplaceMat(int&)ג€™

LaplaceMat.hh:7: note: candidates are: LaplaceMat::LaplaceMat()

The system is setup to use unicode (hebrew).

Any ideas on how to fix this?




Any luck with the problem? I am experiencing the same thing. I have
$> dpkg -l emacs* | grep ^i
ii  emacs-goodies-el26.9-1 Miscellaneous add-ons for Emacs
ii  emacs21 21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs21-bin-common  21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor's 
shared, architecture
ii  emacs21-common  21.4a+1-3  The GNU Emacs editor's 
shared, architecture
ii  emacsen-common  1.4.17 Common facilities for all 
emacsen



->HS



Found the answer to a reply to me own post last year :)
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_thread/thread/335d679625ef67c1/f09d00c2ddf8e752?lnk=st&q=font+problem+in+emacs+make+messages+warning%3A+unused+variable&rnum=1&hl=en#f09d00c2ddf8e752

Basically, make sure your environment in emacs is utf-8:
M-x prefer-coding-system RET utf-8 RET

->HS




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Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

[H.S.]

Michael Pobega wrote:


I gave up on that after an unsuccessful Dapper->Edgy upgrade, because
I realise if I really want to keep my laptop working for college (I'll
be using this next year to take notes during class), I'll need
something stable that won't break every six months (Of course I can
just not dist-upgrade, but then I wouldn't get ANY package upgrades).


Have you looked at "backports" repository for your distribution?

->HS




The Debian social contract is the main thing that won me, and I have a


Yes, that is some contract! Debian's 'persona', I guess, is largely due 
to the contract. I love the democratic nature of Debian. That and the 
maturity and collective intelligence of Debian users (no, I am not 
trying to be patronizing here). To put this into context, try visiting 
the MS Windows XP newsgroup one of these days. geez ... the kind of 
advice you can get there!


->HS



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Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

[H.S.]

Freddy Freeloader wrote:

> I would have a hard time saying Ubuntu==Debian on a technical level
> too.  I just tried an Ubuntu install on a laptop and the process of
> configuring WPA on that laptop was another animal altogether than doing
> the same thing when running Debian.
> To tell the truth the Debian way of doing things, and I'll admit I'm
> biased because I'm far more familiar with Debian, is more
> straightforward and seems more logical to me.  It doesn't hide anything
> like the Ubuntu way of doing things does.

I can pitch in here a couple of my cents. My wife usually works on
Windows (mainly because her peers in her lab all use Windows) but her
laptop also had Debian installed (I am her "unofficial" sys admin :).
Last year, I wiped her Debian install and installed Ubuntu so I have
some experience in setting up the new-cool-kid-in-town distro.

Mainly, once I had installed Ubuntu, which was a breeze, I noticed that
I did not have to configure her Nvidia card and her 1400x1050 display as
I had to in Debian couple of years ago (I am sure this has changed
since). The admin part was mostly done in Debian (it is same in Ubuntu).
I could always edit text files, but Ubuntu provided a GUI method to do
the most common things.

The most challenging thing in the whole installation was getting the
wireless working as she wanted. The card itself was detected without any
problems. Basically, it had to work at home, at her lab where she works
and also at another lab which she sometimes visits and, ideally, at any
other hotspot (conferences etc.). I was getting some trouble setting up
this thing the Debian way. It took me quite a while to get it working at
both places, home and her lab, using profiles in interfaces file.
However, the solution was not ideal. IIRC, for any new wireless network,
one had to be root to add a profile. In Ubuntu however, I discovered
network-manager and nm-applet. With these two, the key was never to
touch the /etc/network/interfaces file and configure everything from the
manager -- as a normal user. The nm-applet actually shows all the
available wireless networks and one only to put his/her key to
authenticate. No need to become root. The keys are saved on a per user
basis. This method in Ubuntu actually solved the
wireless-anywhere-connection problem.

Having said that, I must stress that Debian also has network-manager now
and it appears to work as well but I haven't verified.

>From this, I just learned that even though Ubuntu may be based on
Debian, but Ubuntu people make great efforts to present the distro so
that it is much simpler for non-geeks to use and configure.

For the records, I am still with Debian Etch on my machine and plan to
stay with it, and another machine has Debian sarge. My router machine,
connected to an ADSL modem, has Debian Etch on it and also has a
wireless card which is an access point in my home (setting that up was
quite an experience itself, but once it was setup in Debian, I haven't
touched it since).

->HS




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Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

[H.S.]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Freddy Freeloader wrote:
>> To tell the truth the Debian way of doing things, and I'll admit I'm
>> biased because I'm far more familiar with Debian, is more
>> straightforward and seems more logical to me.  It doesn't hide anything
>> like the Ubuntu way of doing things does.
> 
> There's hiding and there's automating.  Do you say that Debian hides how
> to install software because you don't have to make install everything ala
> Slackware or Gentoo or do you say that Debian automates it?  To
> Slackware/Gentoo folk I'd wager a goodly portion would call it hiding while we
> Debian people call it automating.
> 
> Same with Ubuntu.  Just as there's nothing stopping you from getting down
> and dirty and make install on Debian there's nothing on Ubuntu to getting down
> in the dirt to configure what you want to the way you want to.  On the other
> hand it sure was nice to have my video configured properly, sound working out
> of the box and on my game machine having Ubuntu detect and properly install my
> USBNIC which didn't even work on one of my two Windows boxes.
> 
> Could I have done all of that on my own?  Probably after hours of cursing
> and screaming and having to hunt the net over for esoteric incantations.  Am I
> glad that Ubuntu hid^H^H^Hautomated the process for me?  You're damn skippy!
> 


I agree with this. In my experience, one can choose to configure every
detail in Ubuntu by editing configuration files, the same way as in
Debian. At the same time, Ubuntu also automates many things and provides
a nice simple GUI for others (source packages gui, update gui, package
installation gui).

At our univ. we had our Linux image changed to Ubuntu recently. I kind
of manage my own machine, and still use text files for administration
whenever needed, even though I could use Ubuntu's GUI. Just shows that
the user has more than one option to customize her/her system.

->HS



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Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

[H.S.]

Michael Pobega wrote:

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:43:56PM +0100, Nik wrote:

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
   Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

And it's not just me. I've noticed that a lot of people get the same
problem from Ubuntu upgrades. That isn't to say that nobody can
upgrade their Ubuntu system, but I personally believe that 75% of
upgrades fail, at least on a minor scale.

I would be interested how you reach a figure of 75%
How many Ubuntu users have you polled?

Nik



Months of hanging out on the Ubuntu forums, both lurking as a guest
and being a registered member for a while:

http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=206056

Every day there seemed to be at least three new topics about "apt-get
dist-upgrade" breaking a system.




I think one should keep in mind that Debian users in general tend to be 
more thorough and careful with their systems. Ubuntu users are, on the 
other hand, *on an average* less experienced in the nitty gritty details 
of the configurations (I am not saying *all* Ubuntu users tend to be 
novices). Given this, it is no wonder that more number of dist-upgrades 
create problems in Ubuntu -- so it may not be Ubuntu to be blamed, the 
blame rests partly on users too. Hell, if one is careful enough, one can 
even upgrade a Fedora distribution via yum with no problems (I did that, 
twice).





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loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

[H.S.]

Hello,

I am playing round with the blocklist file obtained from peerguardian 
(level1.gz). I have written a bash function which I call in my iptables 
script to load these rules.


The following function actually loads the rules from a gzipped file 
(e.g. /etc/firewall/level1.gz, defined by the P2PBLOCKLISTFILE variable)


#function that creats the rules to block the traffic from blocked list
function FuncBlockedIPsRules {
echo "Making rules for Blocked IPs traffic";
while read Line; do
#get the ip address range from the file
IpRange=`echo -n $Line | sed -e 's/.*:\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\1-\2/'`;
#drop the traffic from this port range
$IPTABLES -A ${CHN_BTBLOCKEDIPS}  \
  -m iprange --src-range $IpRange -j DROP
done < <(zcat ${P2PBLOCKLISTFILE} | iconv -f latin1 -t utf-8 - | dos2unix)
}


Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to 
block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting 
the rules for each range. And this is taking huge amount of time: in 
over 50 minutes, only around 12% rules have been loaded on my router 
running Etch (Pentium III, 449MHz, 380 MB RAM).


How can I speed this up? Advice?

thanks,
->HS


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Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

[H.S.]

Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote:

I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the
home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the
networking.

Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this?


Take a look at network-manager. You can switch between different profiles.

->HS





Thank you!

Regards:
Zhang





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Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:



Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to 
block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting 
the rules for each range. And this is taking huge amount of time: in 
over 50 minutes, only around 12% rules have been loaded on my router 
running Etch (Pentium III, 449MHz, 380 MB RAM).


How can I speed this up? Advice?

thanks,
->HS




Anyone ... ?

->HS




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Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

[H.S.]

Ron Johnson wrote:

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote:

H.S. wrote:


Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz
to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times
inserting the rules for each range. And this is taking huge amount of
time: in over 50 minutes, only around 12% rules have been loaded on my
router running Etch (Pentium III, 449MHz, 380 MB RAM).

How can I speed this up? Advice?

thanks,
->HS



Anyone ... ?


That's a whole lotta rules.  I'm not surprised that iptables doesn't
scale that well.


Yes. The experiment shows that this is not going well. I was wondering 
if there are any alternatives. I currently have around 80,000 rules now 
inserted, and the process is still continuing more than 17 hours later! 
However, my internet connection seems to be holding up without any 
noticeable performance cut so far.


->HS


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Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

[H.S.]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:



nice to know that the connection is holding up, but there's got to be
a better way to do this. I'm not really up on iptables, but surely
there is some better way to distinguish the traffic to allow or not?
Maybe even just some judicious grepping of the rule set for partial
matches that could be lumped together? 


It seems that your operating on a default allow scenario with a bunch
of rules to delineate the deny situations. maybe you could go the
other way? default deny with a limited number of rules of what to
allow? 


I am already working with default deny. The ip ranges in the list 
provided by peerguarding need to be blocked -- so any traffic (not only 
NEW) from or to those ipranges is to be blocked. So either I block them 
all, or I allow all the rest. In either case, I see a huge bunch of 
rules being put in iptables (and I don't have an ip range list for the 
latter choice). Or am I missing something?


->HS


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Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> 
> I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking
> around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for
> what purpose? 
> 
> I'm not trying to say that this is not the right solution for whatever
> your problem is, but it certainly seems very brute force. Hence my
> questions. 

We were discussing some rogue p2p sites which try to connect to
bittorrent clients to collect information about the users. The
discussion was prompted by a number of posts on slashdot, which led to
peerguardian website and kind of took off from there. The purpose is to
block/drop traffic from all the ip ranges listed in blocklist provided
by peerguardian website. I can give more pointers if this is not sufficient.

The result was the experiment to use the massive blocklist and to
automate the process in iptables firewall on a router -- needs iptables,
bash, curl and maybe pythong or perl. I am giving it a shot. As I said
before, this is the first attempt.

->HS





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Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

[H.S.]

Wackojacko wrote:
> 
> 
> H.S. wrote:
>> Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote:
>>> I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm
>>> and the
>>> home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and
>>> restart the
>>> networking.
>>>
>>> Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this?
>>
>> Take a look at network-manager. You can switch between different
>> profiles.
>>
>> ->HS
>>
> 
> IIRC wpasupplicant can handle multiple networks.  Just put the different
> networks in a conf file, point /etc/network/interfaces to this file and
> it *should* do the rest.  No need to enter anything unless the keys change.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Wackojacko


So if I were to go to an internet cafe, I would need to put that
network's configuration in the conf file as well, wouldn't I? And is
that conf file writable only by root?

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Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

[H.S.]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote:

> 
> okay, I follow... and you want otherwise unfettered p2p operating, but
> security from these particular sites. ugh. nasty problem.

Nasty problem, yes. But I can live without it since I don't do much p2p.
But the problem did present me a chance of reading IP ranges from a file
and blocking them. I have been playing around with this idea for
blocking some IP addresses that seem to bombard you with ssh attempts.
But this is probably overkill for that and is surely to give many false
positives (Using a differnt port that 22 seems to be easiest solution).


>> The result was the experiment to use the massive blocklist and to
>> automate the process in iptables firewall on a router -- needs iptables,
>> bash, curl and maybe pythong or perl. I am giving it a shot. As I said
>> before, this is the first attempt.
> 
> so, is there some other way to use this info besides a massive
> iptables rule set? I'm in territory I don't understand, so feel free
> to ignore me ;). What about a proxy? instead of a ruleset in the
> firewall, run the whole thing through a proxy that is set up to read
> the list of denies. then a simple update of the list can result in new
> blocking without reloading a whole set of rules. I don't have a clue
> as to the mechanics of this.


I am already playing with similar idea: but it needs to bootstrap the
iptabels rules once. After that, I can work out a script that downloads
the ipranges block list and diffs it with the previous one and deletes
or inserts the different rules. However, even starting up the rules once
is taking impractically long (I think it will take around 2~3 days to
load all the rules on my old machine).


> Another possibility, from my reading it appears this is supposed to
> work with a program called moblock. moblock seems to do some parsing
> to eliminate duplicates and so forth. I've done a little grepping
> through the list and can can tell that it could be done more
> efficiently. First, there are duplicates as shown here:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zcat level1.gz  | wc -l
> 151663
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zcat level1.gz | cut -d: -f2 | uniq | wc -l
> 150695
> 
> that's 1000 rules gone right there.  (the cut eliminates the name,
> giving just the ip range.

Interesting.

> 
> Also, a little scripting could probably concatenate a lot of the
> ranges. just a cursory look through shows that there are contiguous
> ranges specified on different lines. I don't have time today to hack
> at it, but I think you might be able to cut as much as 25% out of the
> list that way. 

25% reduction won't cut it, I am afraid. If we are talking about 80%
reduction in the eventual number of rules, then it is workable. Or a
different method is needed to make up these many rules.

I am not going to follow up on my current method. A better one is
definitely needed.

In any case, an interesting experience.
->HS


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new features in gnome - better webdav support? (was: Re: "I do consider ...)

[H.S.]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:

Personally, I'm getting a little
frustrated being stuck on Gnome 2.14 when 2.18 has been released.  Etch
is two Gnome releases behind already, and Etch itself hasn't even been
released.


Out of curiousity, what features are in 2.18 that are not in 2.14 that
you absolutely cannot live without?  What about that you just consider
nice to have?

Regards,

-Roberto


Since you mentioned this, let me pitch in with a few comments.

In our university most of the student related stuff, e.g. assignments, 
solutions, grades, etc., is on WebCT. I know that Winodws users can 
access their WebCT folders just like another folder in the OS by 
pointing to the URL of that folder.


For the life of me, I couldn't get it to work in Gnome even though Gnome 
claims to have built in support for webdav folders. I have tried this in 
on Debian Etch, Ubuntu Dapper and Ubuntu Edgy (all fully updated). 
However, the same thing has worked flawlessly in KDE on these systems. 
Now, as far as I understand this, Gnome people can have a look see at 
KDE's code to see what it does to access a WebCT folder (webdav 
filesystem, I guess it is called) and see what is going wrong in their 
code. However, my posts in various newsgroups haven't really gained me a 
solution, I think I even posted in gnome people's m-l as well (cannot be 
sure though).


So I just try it out in Gnome once every month or so in the hope that 
this problem has been solved. So far, no luck. If the new version solves 
it, it will be great.


Interestingly though, I was a Gnome user. Due to the above problem, I 
started using KDE temporarily. And I have started to actually like it. 
KDE has some very cool applications, k3b being one of them (nautilus CD 
burner seems too dumbed down for my purpose), and quanta being another.


->HS


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Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

[H.S.]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Greetings;

I just learned of Icedove today.

Is anybody here using it?

What do you think of it?

Where caqn I find some more info on it?

Thanks for any info!

Dennis




I am using it on my Debian Testing machine. I just love it. After adding 
the Lightning extension, I also have my schedule appointments included 
in Icedove. At my univ. we have Ubuntu and there I use Thunderbird. 
Except the name change and some other stuff (icons, artswork, etc.), 
they are the same.


->HS



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Re: find encoding of filenames

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

Kevin Mark wrote:


maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool


This tool seems to work either on the whole /home/user directory or on the
whole system. I do not want that. I just want to convert the encoding of
filenames that belong to a single directory. I do not want to migrate the
whole system to utf8.


Is iconv what you are looking for?
NAME
   iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

SYNOPSIS
   iconv -f encoding -t encoding inputfile

DESCRIPTION
   The iconv program converts the encoding of characters in 
inputfile from one coded character set to another. The result
   is written to standard output unless otherwise specified by the 
--output option.






Moreover, the original question still remains. Given a bunch of files, how
do I determine their current encoding?



Use file command perhaps? Real example:
$> file foo.txt
foo.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text


->HS


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kscd doesn't show utf-8 characters

[H.S.]

Hello,

On Debian Etch, if I listen to an audio CD using Kscd, the application 
doesn't show utf-8 encoded characters. Instead, it shows a series of 
question marks. Information that is in English is shown properly. I have 
selected the UTF-8 option in kscd's configuration menu without success. 
However, that information is shown properly if I output it using 
cdda2wav with -J flag in konsole.


Any idea what I am missing here?
->HS



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Re: emacs: too fast scroll speed when selecting region with mouse

[H.S.]

Tyler Smith wrote:

On 2007-06-26, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In emacs, if I start selecting a region in a buffer by clicking the left 
mouse button and dragging the mouse, the buffer scrolls extremely fast 
if the mouse moves beyond the lower end of the buffer window. 


Any idea how to solve this one?



Not sure, but I'd try playing with larger values of mouse-scroll-delay:


+-+
mouse-scroll-delay is a variable defined in `mouse.el'.
Its value is 0.25


Documentation:
*The pause between scroll steps caused by mouse drags, in seconds.
If you drag the mouse beyond the edge of a window, Emacs scrolls the
window to bring the text beyond that edge into view, with a delay of
this many seconds between scroll steps.  Scrolling stops when you move
the mouse back into the window, or release the button.
This variable's value may be non-integral.
Setting this to zero causes Emacs to scroll as fast as it can.

You can customize this variable.
+-+



I tried various values. Looks like the first time I modify this 
variable, there is some improvement in the scrolling behavior, but then 
it just comes back to the same situation and no value of this variable 
seems to have any effect.


->HS


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aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

[H.S.]

When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to 
remove these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been 
putting off upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved 
with newer versions of packages):

dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1]
libssp0

Do I need these packages? For now, I have removed libssp0 and kept a 
note about it. I do C/C++ programming. If it turns out I need libssp0, I 
will then try to reinstall it.


thanks,
->HS



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dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure)

[H.S.]

In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade:

-
Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118: 
/usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of 
texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-common (>= 
2005.dfsg.2-1); however:

  Package texlive-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
 latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-xcolor (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pgf:
 pgf depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
 pgf depends on latex-xcolor (>= 2.00-1); however:
  Package latex-xcolor is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pgf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up prosper (1.00.4+cvs.2007.05.01-1) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-common
 texlive-latex-recommended
 latex-xcolor
 pgf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118: 
/usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of 
texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on texlive-common (>= 
2005.dfsg.2-1); however:

  Package texlive-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of latex-xcolor:
 latex-xcolor depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing latex-xcolor (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pgf:
 pgf depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
 pgf depends on latex-xcolor (>= 2.00-1); however:
  Package latex-xcolor is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pgf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texlive-common
 texlive-latex-recommended
 latex-xcolor
 pgf
-


What should I do next? It is probably not okay to leave the things in 
this state, is it?


thanks,
->HS



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Re: dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure)

[H.S.]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:40:09 -0400, H.S. wrote:

In Debian testing, I am getting this error after an upgrade:

-
Setting up texlive-common (2005.dfsg.3-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/texlive-common.postinst: line 118: 
/usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade: No such file or directory

dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1


[ snip: more errors for packages that depend on texlive-common ]

What should I do next? It is probably not okay to leave the things in this 
state, is it?


Seems to be this issue:

#429753 [FIXED 2007-10]: texlive-commong post-install action fails, blocking 
tex/latex install
#425270 [FIXED texlive-base 2007-7]: texlive-common: still calling 
tetex-bin-upgrade

One of the follow-ups of #429753 suggests that it is enough to comment
out line 118 in the post-installation script. (tetex-bin-upgrade is
obsolete for Lenny; it only exists in the Etch version the tex-common
package.) If that is the case then it should also be possible to provide
a symlink to /bin/true as a "fake" tetex-bin-upgrade command:

ln -s /bin/true /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade
dpkg --configure texlive-common
rm -i /usr/share/tex-common/tetex-bin-upgrade
aptitude install -f

(You can of course also use apt-get for the last step if you prefer.)


Thanks. I will do as you suggest below, unless I have to use latex and 
see that I need to fix the package (in which case, I will try one of the 
above two methods).




If you want to play it safe then you can simply wait for texlive-common
2007-10 to come to Lenny. This might still take a while, though:

http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texlive-base





regards,
->HS


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digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

[H.S.]

Hello,

On Debian Testing, if I try to upgrade digikam, aptitude wants to remove 
digikamimageplugins and kipi-plugins (the actual output is further 
below). Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do 
I find out if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new 
package has the two packages built-in now?


Upgrade output:
--
$> sudo aptitude -sV dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  libquicktime0 [2:0.9.7-5 -> 2:0.9.10+debian-0.3]
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  libkdcraw-runtime [0.1.0-2] libkdcraw0 [0.1.0-2] libkexiv2-1 [0.1.5-1+b1]
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  digikamimageplugins [2:0.8.2-4] kipi-plugins [0.1.2-3]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libkdcraw-runtime [0.1.0-2] libkdcraw0 [0.1.0-2] libkexiv2-1 [0.1.5-1+b1]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  digikamimageplugins [2:0.8.2-4] kipi-plugins [0.1.2-3]
The following packages will be upgraded:
  digikam [2:0.8.2-4 -> 2:0.9.2~beta3-1]
2 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9869kB of archives. After unpacking 17.7MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libquicktime0: Depends: libavcodec1d (>= 0.cvs20070307) which is a 
virtual package.
 Depends: libavutil1d (>= 0.cvs20070307) which is a 
virtual package.

Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
digikam [2:0.8.2-4 (now)]
digikamimageplugins [2:0.8.2-4 (now)]
kipi-plugins [0.1.2-3 (testing, testing, testing, now)]
libquicktime0 [2:0.9.7-5 (testing, testing, testing, now)]

Score is -28

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
-

thanks,
->HS





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Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them?

[H.S.]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove 
these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off 
upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer 
versions of packages):

dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1]
libssp0


  Looks to me like dbus-1-utils has been folded into the dbus package.
libssp0 is only available in experimental -- it's been removed from
stable and testing.  Probably it's obsolete and not needed any more?

  Daniel




Thanks everyone. I have proceeded with upgrading dbus. Hopefully nothing 
will go amiss (main concerns are auto-mounting removable devices).


->HS


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Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

[H.S.]

Florian Kulzer wrote:



BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new
trick, the "why/why-not" command:

$ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins
i   kde-extras Recommends digikam
p   digikamConflicts  digikamimageplugins

This is really useful to figure out what is going on with complicated
dependency issues. It is currently only available to Sid users, though
(aptitude version 0.4.5.3 or higher).


Wonderful new features! I just noticed that 0.4.5.4-1 is now available 
in Testing. Going to upgrade right away.




Now, how do I know why these removals are necessary? And how do I find out 
if I should go ahead with the upgrade since, maybe the new package has the 
two packages built-in now?


This information is often included in the package description. For
digikam you can find this:

"All plugins previously provided by the digikamimageplugins package are
 now included in this package."


Ah, that clears up that bit.

Thanks,
->HS




Failing that, you can download and read the changelog of the package
before installing or upgrading.




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tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

[H.S.]

Hello,

Since a couple of days, if I upgrade my Debian Testing machine, I see
that a whole bunch of texlive* packages are to be installed, many of
them new and a few hundreds of additional disk space is to be used. Are
there any changes going on in Latex packages in Testing these days? Do I
need both tetex and texlive packages? And, finally, what's the relation
between these two kind of packages?

thanks,
->HS


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Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

[H.S.]

Tyler Smith wrote:
> On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> If you search the list you'll find several threads about people
> switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless.
> 
> Tyler


Thanks for the explanation. I will probably wait and let things settle
on their own.

regards,
->HS



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Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

[H.S.]

Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070706 14:21]:
>> Tyler Smith wrote:
>>> On 2007-07-06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> If you search the list you'll find several threads about people
>>> switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless.
>> Thanks for the explanation. I will probably wait and let things settle
>> on their own.
> 
> Things just don't "settle on their own".  

hmm ...

> The safe procedure is simply to uninstall tetex, making sure to tell
> the package tool (apt-get, aptitude, or synaptic) to PURGE the
> configuration files.

 already did that.

> Then simply install texlive.
> 
> The change from tetex to texlive should be invisible to the end user.

Yeah, this is what I had meant by things settling on their own.
->HS




> RLH
> 
> 


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Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

[H.S.]

David Fox wrote:
> 
> 
> On 06 Jul 2007 17:13:19 GMT, *Tyler Smith* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> If you search the list you'll find several threads about people
> switching from tetex to texlive now, which is generally painless.
> 
> 
> Kind of. But my last dist-upgrade involved grabbing a whole slew of texlive
> packages, and in particular way too many international files that I'll
> never need got
> installed (they seem to be gone now) and it affected me because I ran
> out of room
> on my / partition during the dist-upgrade. Most everything is better now


Same here. From all the texlive packages that are to be intall, there at
least a few tetex package still, e.g. tetex-bin tetex-extra.

These packages I would expect to be purged by aptitude automatically (by
reporting they are no longer used) some time "soon".

->HS


> (except for a
> few camera / photo packages that are still only partially installed).
> 
> 
> Tyler
> 
> 
> 


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Re: tetex and texlive: changes in Debian?

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:

> 
> Same here. From all the texlive packages that are to be intall, there at
> least a few tetex package still, e.g. tetex-bin tetex-extra.
> 
> These packages I would expect to be purged by aptitude automatically (by
> reporting they are no longer used) some time "soon".
> 
> ->HS
> 

Just now did an update and upgrade and a huge bunch of texlive packages
are to removed because they 'are unused':
$> sudo aptitude  dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  preview-latex-style texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-font-utils
texlive-fonts-extra texlive-generic-extra texlive-lang-croatian
  texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-lang-czechslovak texlive-lang-danish
texlive-lang-dutch texlive-lang-finnish texlive-lang-french
  texlive-lang-german texlive-lang-greek texlive-lang-hungarian
texlive-lang-italian texlive-lang-latin texlive-lang-mongolian
  texlive-lang-norwegian texlive-lang-other texlive-lang-polish
texlive-lang-portuguese texlive-lang-spanish texlive-lang-swedish
  texlive-lang-vietnamese texlive-latex-extra texlive-math-extra
texlive-pictures texlive-publishers texpower texpower-manual
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 31 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 400MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

Hmm ... maybe things are settling down after all.

->HS



>> (except for a
>> few camera / photo packages that are still only partially installed).
>>
>>
>> Tyler
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 


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dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

[H.S.]

Hello,

How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg:
$> dpkg -l linux-image-*

doesn't list kernels 2.6.2* at all. However, I can get some  hits if I
try to install such a package:

$> sudo aptitude -s install linux-image-2.6.21*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find package "linux-image-2.6.21*".  However, the following
packages contain "linux-image-2.6.21*" in their name:
  linux-image-2.6.21-2-vserver-686 linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64
linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7 linux-image-2.6.21-2-486 linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
  linux-image-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem linux-image-2.6.21-2-vserver-k7
The following packages have been kept back:
  transcode
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.



So what am I missing with dpkg?

thanks,
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Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

[H.S.]

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>>
> 
> dpkg -l lists info for debs it knows about, ie. installed ones.  It


dpkg also lists packages that are not installed (2.6.21 is listed below
because I just now installed it):
$> dpkg -l linux-image-2.6.*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersion Description
+++-===-===-==
pn  linux-image-2.6.15-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.15-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.16-   (no description available)
ii  linux-image-2.6.17- 2.6.17-9Linux 2.6.17 image on 486-class
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
pn  linux-image-2.6.17-   (no description available)
ii  linux-image-2.6.18- 2.6.18-7Linux 2.6.18 image on x86
ii  linux-image-2.6.21- 2.6.21-5Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4


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Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

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Wayne Topa wrote:
> H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg:
>> $> dpkg -l linux-image-*
> 
> Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available?

Please see my other post.


>> doesn't list kernels 2.6.2* at all. However, I can get some  hits if I
>> try to install such a package:
> 
> Try (apt-cache | aptitude) search linux-image-2.6.21* 

I tried this before I installed the new kernel today and remember that
it didn't show me the new kernel as available.

->HS


> Wayne
> 


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Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

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Wayne Topa wrote:
> H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg:
>> $> dpkg -l linux-image-*
> 
> Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available?
> 
>> doesn't list kernels 2.6.2* at all. However, I can get some  hits if I
>> try to install such a package:
> 
> Try (apt-cache | aptitude) search linux-image-2.6.21* 
> 
> Wayne
> 


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Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

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Wayne Topa wrote:
> H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>> Hello,
>>
>> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg:
>> $> dpkg -l linux-image-*
> 
> Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available?
> 
>> doesn't list kernels 2.6.2* at all. However, I can get some  hits if I
>> try to install such a package:
> 
> Try (apt-cache | aptitude) search linux-image-2.6.21* 
> 
> Wayne
> 

(my previous email might been without reply, sorry)

I just realized I have my router machine still using 2.6.18 in Testing.
There apt-cache and aptitude works to search for a package:

{~}> aptitude search linux-image-2.6.21*
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-486- Linux 2.6.21 image on x86
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-686- Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64  - Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD64
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7 - Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD K7
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-vserver-686- Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
p   linux-image-2.6.21-2-vserver-k7 - Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD K7

{~}> apt-cache search linux-image-2.6.21*
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on x86
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-686 - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-amd64 - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on AMD64
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-k7 - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on AMD K7
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-vserver-686 - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
linux-headers-2.6.21-2-vserver-k7 - Header files for Linux 2.6.21 on AMD K7
linux-image-2.6.21-2-486 - Linux 2.6.21 image on x86
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 - Linux 2.6.21 image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
linux-image-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem - Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64 - Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD64
linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7 - Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD K7
linux-image-2.6.21-2-vserver-686 - Linux 2.6.21 image on
PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4
linux-image-2.6.21-2-vserver-k7 - Linux 2.6.21 image on AMD K7


Thanks,
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Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hello.
> 
> I have the same problem :
> * if i install digikam, then kipi-plugins is removed automatically
> * if i install kipi, then digikam is removed .
> :-(
> 
> and about :
>> "All plugins previously provided by the digikamimageplugins package are
>>  now included in this package."
> I don't see anymore in digikam the possibility to treat several
> pictures together (like resizing for example). This was earlier in the
> "tools" menu.
> 
> regards,
> 
> nicolas
> 
> 

I have since removed kipi-plugins for now. I see that a newer version of
kipi-plugins is required to work with digikam:

$> sudo aptitude -s install kipi-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  digikam
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  sane-utils
The following packages have been kept back:
  transcode
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kipi-plugins sane-utils
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 7748kB of archives. After unpacking 16.5MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  digikam: Conflicts: kipi-plugins (<= 0.1.3~rc0) but 0.1.2-3 is to be
installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
digikam

Score is 119

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q



So you may want to wait till the new version of kipi-plugins comes into
testing. From this page:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/k/kipi-plugins.html, it looks like the
package for sparc architecture is holding it from being included in Testing.

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Re: dpkg doesn't show newer kernel packages available?

[H.S.]

Wayne Topa wrote:
> H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>> Wayne Topa wrote:
>>> H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> How come I cannot see newer kernel packages available with dpkg:
>>>> $> dpkg -l linux-image-*
>>> Maybe because dpkg show whats installed, not available?
>> Please see my other post.
>>
>>
>>>> doesn't list kernels 2.6.2* at all. However, I can get some  hits if I
>>>> try to install such a package:
>>> Try (apt-cache | aptitude) search linux-image-2.6.21* 
>> I tried this before I installed the new kernel today and remember that
>> it didn't show me the new kernel as available.
> 
> I replied _before_ your last post. 
> 
> I should have mentioned that _before_ you do the search you should
> do an aptitude update, which you must have done between your posts
> because in the last post, you did see what was available when you used
> dpkg.
> 
> Wayne
> 

Well, the mistake was on my part. I had updated my system, but for
aptitude search command, my pattern was wrong. So, my bad. Sorry. :(

->HS







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Re: new debian user. help :)

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Lorenas Bartkus wrote:
> hi,
> I'm new in debian and previosly i used windows xp. now i decided to try
> debian for the first time.
> i have downloaded boot cd to install debian from network, in the
> bigining everything gone well but when i was asked to choose the mirror
> i can't.
> because it was said no version in this server (i have debian 4.0). my
> internet connection is pppoe.
> i have read that pppoe is supported to install debian via network. maybe
> i did somethig wrong?
> by the way now it is installed only basical system of debian (i think) i
> can just use terminal to make a commands.
> is there any way to configure my pppoe connection and upgrade the
> system? what commands i shoud use?
> sorry i am just first time user :)
> * *

Welcome to Debian! I hope you love the experience.

In your Windows XP, if you had an icon on your desktop which you had to
double click to make your internet connection (using your internet
connection username and password), then your modem was working in bridge
mode and your computer was making the pppoe connection. If this was the
case, then you would need to set up pppoe connection in Debian as well.

However, if you did not have such an icon in XP, and you were connected
as soon as you switched on your modem (i.e. you did not have to double
click on any icon to make the connection), then your modem was working
in pppoe mode. In this case, your computer was getting an automatic
private IP address. It appears that, in your case, this isn't happening
else your Debian installation should have obtained an IP address
automatically.

So there are two method now to make your internet connection in Debian:
1. Configure pppoe in Debian and give your username and password. BTW,
is your modem connection to your computer via a LAN cable or a USB cable?
2. Boot into Windows XP and reconfigure your modem to work in pppoe
mode. Then your Debian installation should automatically get an IP
address if your modem is ON.

Ask here if you need more clarifications.

Good luck,
->HS


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working with two nics (lan and wlan)

[H.S.]

Hello,

I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a 
wireless card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an 
IP automatically from my firewall machine. But if I activate the 
wireless card, the networking seems to hang or freeze. My lan card is on 
192.168.0.x network and the wireless card is on 192.168.5.x network.


Is there any way I can have both the cards active and networking 
working? Perhaps by specifying somewhere which network has the higher 
priority? This is so because there are many situations where I sometimes 
want both cards up, mainly while trying out various wireless drivers 
with my wireless card. Another situation when I want to transfer huge 
amounts data via the wired network (higher speed) to other machines on 
the local network.


Alternatively, I suppose ifplugd can handle multiple cards at the same 
time. In my situations, can it be configured to use wlan card if it is 
up, else to use the lan card?


Thanks,
->HS



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Re: working with two nics (lan and wlan)

[H.S.]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:40:14AM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a headless machine on my home network with a LAN card and a wireless 
>> card. If my lan cable is connected to its lan card, it gets an IP 
>> automatically from my firewall machine. But if I activate the wireless 
>> card, the networking seems to hang or freeze. My lan card is on 192.168.0.x 
>> network and the wireless card is on 192.168.5.x network.
>>
>> Is there any way I can have both the cards active and networking working? 
>> Perhaps by specifying somewhere which network has the higher priority? This 
>> is so because there are many situations where I sometimes want both cards 
>> up, mainly while trying out various wireless drivers with my wireless card. 
>> Another situation when I want to transfer huge amounts data via the wired 
>> network (higher speed) to other machines on the local network.
>>
>> Alternatively, I suppose ifplugd can handle multiple cards at the same 
>> time. In my situations, can it be configured to use wlan card if it is up, 
>> else to use the lan card?
> 
> we need more information. what hardware? what do the appropriate
> config files look like? is there any relevant log output? etc etc
> 
> A


Well, it looks like the problem has gone away by itself. I updated the
machine a few times in the last few weeks. To give you more information
as you requested, I rebooted the machine and ... lo and behold ... it
was working fine. So now I can get both the nics up without having the
machine freeze on me. Sorry for all the trouble.

Next, I have a further query. I run another headless box as a firewall,
DNS server (using dnsmasq) and do masquarading to let my wired lan and
wireless computers share the DSL connection (the router machine has
three nics, one connected to the DSL, the second connected a wired
switch and the third is a wireless nic).

I now assign the wlan nic of the previously mentioned computer an IP
address from the WLAN network (192.168.5.x) and a different IP address
to the wired NIC (192.168.0.x). In this scenario, I can only ssh to the
host corresponding to the wired IP address from my other computers. If I
try to ssh to the host corresponding to the wireless IP address, I get
something like the following:
$> ssh -vv wwaja
OpenSSH_4.6p1 Debian-4, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to wwaja [192.168.5.20] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /home/red/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /home/red/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-BEGIN'
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'Proc-Type:'
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type 'DEK-Info:'
debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-END'
debug1: identity file /home/red/.ssh/id_dsa type 2

and nothing happens. The logs in the computer in questions show
something like the following:
Aug  4 18:00:12 waja sshd[3484]: Server listening on :: port 22.
Aug  4 18:00:12 waja sshd[3484]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0
failed: Address already in use.


Any idea where I should start looking.

thanks,
->HS


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video editing of digicam avi files

[H.S.]

Hello,

I am trying to find a method to make an mpeg movie from a number of avi
files captured from a digital camera (Canon A540). Any suggestions what
steps to follow? The original videos are at 15 fps and I am not too
concerned about the output fps. However, if I wanted a DVD from the avi
files, I suppose I would need to have either 24 or 30 fps.

Also, any idea how do I go about making short captions between two avi
files? Something like the titler in Kino.

thanks,
->HS


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Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

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andy wrote:
> andy wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>>> Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>> On 08/08/07 12:51, andy wrote:
>>>  
 Hi again

 Yes, apparently gphoto2 *does* recognise the camera (and this is
 confirmed by Canon as well). However, with the Sony, I never used
 gphoto2 and only installed it thinking that it might help with this
 one.

 Anyway, here's the output of your suggestion:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo tail -n40 -f /var/log/syslog
 Aug  8 18:09:01 valhalla /USR/SBIN/CRON[3830]: (root) CMD (  [ -d
 /var/lib/php4 ] && find /var/lib/php4/ -type f -cmin
 +$(/usr/lib/php4/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm)
 
>>> [snip]
>>>  
 connect to a high speed hub
 Aug  8 18:49:52 valhalla kernel: usb 2-2.3: configuration #1 chosen
 from
 1 choice

 Aside from the USB messages, it looks like the camera is being
 recognised. But, beyond that ...
 
>>>
>>> Are you plugging the camera *directly* into your PC, or into a hub?
>>>  Specifically, an un-powered hub?
>>>
>>> Are thumb drives recognized when you plug them into that exact port?
>>>
>>> - --
>>> Ron Johnson, Jr.
>>> Jefferson LA  USA
>>>   
>> Ron
>>
>> I have switched to a different port because of the hub issue and now
>> plug the USB cable directly into the port. I don't know what a thumb
>> drive is - if you mean a memory stick, then yes, those are recognised
>> readily and auto-mounted.
>>
>> With reference to your other post: my system already had kamera
>> installed and I have just added digikam. Still no dice.
>>
>> So far I've eliminated that the problem source is the camera or the
>> USB cable. It also doesn't appear to be the kernel as I have booted
>> this machine into an earlier kernel version (2.6.18).
>>
>> The camera and the images are recognised on an Etch machine running
>> KDE and kamera. The Etch machine does not have gphoto2 nor digikam
>> installed, nor is the user a member of any camera group.
>>
>> I cannot get the camera nor images recognised on my Lenny machine
>> running KDE, Xfce4, nor Gnome, even though kamera (and now digikam) is
>> installed. Using KDE a camera device appears to be found, but the
>> camera type/brand/model isn't recognised even though on the Etch
>> machine it is recognised natively.
>>
>> This is all very confusing, and aside from the obvious (my machine) I
>> am unable to discern a coherent pattern.
>>
>> A
>>
> OK have run digikam at the command line and manually added the camera to
> it and now I can view the images. So that at least is progress. It still
> does not answer the more basic question of why the camera is not being
> auto-mounted as it is on the Etch machine.
> 
> Any ideas on that would be really helpful.
> 
> Thanks to all who have contributed so far.
> 
> A
> 

If I recall correctly, if I connect my wife's camera directly to my Etch
machine, I have to detect the camera from digikam's menus -- i.e. it
isn't detected automatically. If you wish, I can verify this in a few
minutes.

However, I normally just insert the camera's SD card into my card reader
connected to the computer via a USB cable. Using that external card
reader makes reading the flash drives very easy (auto-detection,
auto-mounting, etc.).

->HS



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Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

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andy wrote:

> 
> If it is no trouble for you to verify this, then that would be a useful
> comparison to know. As noted earlier, I have now installed digikam and
> will use that from now on to download the images from the camera. I am
> just used to having the Sony auto-mounted and clicking through the
> directories to the images. Force of habit, but I am still puzzled by the
> inconsistency between why the Sony auto-mounts and the Canon doesn't and
> why my wife's Etch machine auto recognises (and auto-mounts) the camera
> and Lenny doesn't. Go figure!!

Okay, just tried it again (it a Canon A520). The syslog is given at the
end of this message. When I switched on the camera in playback mode, I
got a window (in KDE) asking if I want to open the detected device in a
new window, use digikam to detect and download photos or to do nothing.
I chose the second option.

Digikam started and at first attempt it failed to detect the camera
correctly and asked in a dialog window if I want to try detection again.
I tried that again and this time it worked and listed all the photos in
a window. So appears it worked, after a little hiccup.

This is on Etch using
$> dpkg -l *digikam* *photo* | grep ^i
ii  digikam  2:0.9.2-4digital photo management application for KDE
ii  gphoto2  2.3.1-2  The gphoto2 digital camera
command-line clie
ii  libgphoto2-2 2.3.1-8  gphoto2 digital camera library
ii  libgphoto2-2-dev 2.3.1-8  gphoto2 digital camera library (development
ii  libgphoto2-port0 2.3.1-8  gphoto2 digital camera port library
$> uname -r
2.6.21-2-686


> 
> I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a
> bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD
> card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from
> frequent handling.

I have found the card reader to be must faster than using the camera.
But using digikam directly with the camera has some added advantages,
for example batch renaming images during downloading (I used it to
rename image files based on the subject of pics).

->HS

Aug  8 16:00:01 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.075014] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun2').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.077570] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.086872] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun3').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.095099] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353_0').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.100771] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun0').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.109374] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.116725] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353_2').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.123471] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0_scsi_host_scsi_device_lun1').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.131797] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SanDisk_ImageMate_6_in_1_105025001353_1').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.144731] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_usbraw').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.149232] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353_if0').
Aug  8 16:01:30 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603290.156930] nm_hal_device_removed (): Device removed (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_621_105025001353').
Aug  8 16:02:25 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 4
Aug  8 16:02:25 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from
1 choice
Aug  8 16:02:26 localhost NetworkManager: ^I[1186603346.103743] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal
udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_30c1

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

[H.S.]

andy wrote:

> Thanks for your ideas. I suspect that you are probably right in your
> assessment of the protocols the different devices use: the Sony
> registers as a storage device while the Canon is registered as a camera.
> While this doesn't answer the issue of why on my partner's Etch machine
> running KDE the icon pops up on her desktop ready to be transferred from
> but not on my Lenny machine, the matter is now more than workable with
> the help of the good folk here and the digikam application. For the rest
> of it, I'll have to file that under that ever-expanding title of WTF? ;-)
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
> 
> -- 
> 
> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry 
> about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
> 

Okay, here is a last try. Let's compare the package we have. I have:
$> dpkg -l *usb* *kam* *gphoto* *dbus* | grep ^ii | gawk '{print $1,
"\t" $2, "\t" $3}'
ii  dbus1.1.1-3
ii  dbus-x111.1.1-3
ii  digikam 2:0.9.2-4
ii  gphoto2 2.3.1-2
ii  gtkam   0.1.12-2.2
ii  kamera  4:3.5.7-2lenny1
ii  libdbus-1-3 1.1.1-3
ii  libdbus-1-dev   1.1.1-3
ii  libdbus-glib-1-20.74-1
ii  libdbus-qt-1-1c20.62.git.20060814-2
ii  libgphoto2-22.3.1-8
ii  libgphoto2-2-dev2.3.1-8
ii  libgphoto2-port02.3.1-8
ii  libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil   0.3-2
ii  libndesk-dbus1.0-cil0.4.2-1
ii  libusb-0.1-42:0.1.12-7
ii  libusb-dev  2:0.1.12-7
ii  usbutils0.72-8
ii  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb   1:0.8.1-3

Now lets compare our gruops. I belong to the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 17:54:03{dat}$> groups
hs adm dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev staff netdev camera

I think plugdev and camera are the most important. adm certainly
shouldn't make any difference here.

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can glx work without nvidia driver?

[H.S.]

I am trying to get this little OpenGL program I wrote some months ago,
but this time it gives me this error (it compiles okay though):

$> ./mktrngdat
freeglut (./mktrngdat): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ':0.0'

I notice that there is some problem with Nvidia driver now adays and
module-assistant auto-install does not work for nvidia. So at present,
my system (Etch) is not using the proprietary Nvidia module, just the
native nv module.

Here are some of the related packages installed:
$> dpkg -l *free* *glu* | grep ^ii | gawk '{print $1 " "  $2 "\t" $3}'
ii freeglut32.4.0-5.1
ii freeglut32.4.0-5.1
ii freeglut3-dev2.4.0-5.1
ii freeglut3-dev2.4.0-5.1
ii libfreebob0  1.0.3+svn443-2
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1
ii libfreetype6-dev 2.3.5-1+b1
ii libglu1-mesa 6.5.2-7
ii libglu1-mesa-dev 6.5.2-7
ii ttf-freefont 20060501cvs-12


My xorg.conf file has the following parts:
Section "Module"
Load"i2c"
Load"bitmap"
Load"ddc"
Load"dri"
Load"extmod"
Load"freetype"
#Load   "glx"
Load"GLcore"
Load"int10"
Load"type1"
Load"vbe"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier  "NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
Driver  "nv"
BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode0666
EndSection




Furthermore:
$> glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

   visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
 id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
--
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 24 dc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None



So, the questions is, how do I get my little program to work without
installing Nvidia driver?

thanks,
->HS






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Re: can glx work without nvidia driver?

[H.S.]

Florian Kulzer wrote:

> 
>> So, the questions is, how do I get my little program to work without
>> installing Nvidia driver?
> 
> I would try to uncomment the 'Load "glx"' line in your xorg.conf. You
> probably commented out that line because the proprietary nvidia driver
> requires you to do so, but AFAIK the "nv" driver does need the normal
> Xorg glx module if you want to use the GLX extension.
> 

Okay. I just tried that and from the Xorg log  file I see that it being
loaded okay, but it is not being initialized:
$> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not
found)


I am using 2.6.21 Debian kernel and
$> dpkg -l *nvidia* | grep ^ii | gawk '{print $1 " " $2 "\t" $3}'
ii nvidia-glx   1.0.8776-4
ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-486   1.0.8776-4+2.6.17-9
ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-3-486   1.0.8776-4+2.6.18-7
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1
ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.8776-4

What do I try next?

thanks,
->HS


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[solved] Re: can glx work without nvidia driver?

[H.S.]

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 11:09:07 -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>
>>>> So, the questions is, how do I get my little program to work without
>>>> installing Nvidia driver?
>>> I would try to uncomment the 'Load "glx"' line in your xorg.conf. You
>>> probably commented out that line because the proprietary nvidia driver
>>> requires you to do so, but AFAIK the "nv" driver does need the normal
>>> Xorg glx module if you want to use the GLX extension.
>>>
>> Okay. I just tried that and from the Xorg log  file I see that it being
>> loaded okay, but it is not being initialized:
>> $> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
>> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>> (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
>> (EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not
>> found)
>>
>>
>> I am using 2.6.21 Debian kernel and
>> $> dpkg -l *nvidia* | grep ^ii | gawk '{print $1 " " $2 "\t" $3}'
>> ii nvidia-glx   1.0.8776-4
>> ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-2-486   1.0.8776-4+2.6.17-9
>> ii nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-3-486   1.0.8776-4+2.6.18-7
>> ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1
>> ii nvidia-kernel-source 1.0.8776-4
>>
>> What do I try next?
> 
> I think the above error message means that your X is presently still
> loading nvidia's glx module (which only works with nvidia's driver). The
> nvidia-glx package overwrites the original Xorg glx module and uses
> dpkg-divert to make sure that nvidia's glx module stays in place.
> Purging the nvidia-glx package should give you the original Xorg glx
> module back. Make sure you use "purge" and not just "remove" because
> otherwise an initscript stays on your system which could cause trouble.
> (I think this issue is fixed now, but it cannot hurt to be on the safe
> side.)
> 

That worked. Did "sudo aptitude --purge remove nvidia-glx", logged out,
restarted gdm and logged back in and glx worked. It is veeery slow
(understandably) but my OpenGL program runs at least.

BTW, I get this in Xorg's log file:
$> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep '(EE)'
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable



If the second error a problem? Is trying to remove it worthwhile?


Thanks,
->HS




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desktop icons for all users in Gnome

[H.S.]

Hello,

Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all
current user's Gnome desktops?

More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link
to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the file
on a central location, for example in /usr/local/docs. The links on
desktops are good since any update to the file would not need the links
to be updated as long as the name of the file remains the same.

(Perhaps this is very much similar to the concept of All Users desktop
in Windows XP.)

So, any ideas?

thanks,
->HS



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Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

[H.S.]

Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 08/22/2007 10:19 PM, H.S. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all
>> current user's Gnome desktops?
>>
>> More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link
>> to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. I also want to put the
>> file on a central location, for example in /usr/local/docs. The links
>> on desktops are good since any update to the file would not need the
>> links to be updated as long as the name of the file remains the same.
>>
>> (Perhaps this is very much similar to the concept of All Users desktop
>> in Windows XP.)
>>
>> So, any ideas?
>>
>> thanks,
>> ->HS
>>
>>
>>
> 
> If I had any ideas, they would probably relate to files within
> /usr/share such as /usr/share/gnome, /usr/share/gnome-2.0,
> usr/share/gnome-2.2 and /usr/share/nautilus; however, I can find nothing
> that defines the default desktop there. Perhaps you'll have better luck.
> 
> 

This seems to be promising:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gnome_Desktop_Admin_Guide

At least it introduces the workings of gconf.

->HS


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Re: desktop icons for all users in Gnome

[H.S.]

Hi,

Krzysztof Lubański wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This should do the trick:
> 
> # for dir in /home/*; do ln -s /usr/local/share/doc/instructions.pdf
> $dir/Desktop/
> 
> Of course, you may want to make sure that /home/* matches only real home
> directories (there may be /home/lost+found if you have a separate /home
> partition) and e.g. replace it with `cat listfile` where 'listfile'
> contains the names of home directories. Also, adding 'mkdir
> $dir/Desktop' can be necessary if some users have not run GNOME/KDE yet.

Yes, I already thought about it. In fact, I have already done something
like for a few users. However, apparently, Gnome guys do not like this
approach, they would rather use gconfd path. I found this little intro:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gnome_Desktop_Admin_Guide


>> (Perhaps this is very much similar to the concept of All Users desktop
>> in Windows XP.)
> 
> I am not aware of an analogous concept in GNOME or others... Looks much
> a Microsoft way, forcing users to have something on the desktop that's
> not theirs and what they can not remove.

Now, I am not familiar with that either, but I know it exists. And for
this particular machine, having an icon on every user's desktop which he
cannot remove is actually the exact desired objective!


->HS



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books and library inventory

[H.S.]

Hello,

Somebody was asking me earlier today how to set up an electronic
database of a community library with a few hundred books. I just
realized I cannot find much on the web. Perhaps I am not looking for the
right words.

What I have in mind is an open source application that can be used to
keep a database of books and CDROMs in a library and keep track to whom
certain items have been lent out. Any ideas?

thanks,
->HS



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Re: books and library inventory

[H.S.]

Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/26/07 14:30, H.S. wrote:
>> Hello,
> 
>> Somebody was asking me earlier today how to set up an electronic
>> database of a community library with a few hundred books. I just
>> realized I cannot find much on the web. Perhaps I am not looking for the
>> right words.
> 
>> What I have in mind is an open source application that can be used to
>> keep a database of books and CDROMs in a library and keep track to whom
>> certain items have been lent out. Any ideas?
> 
> Did you try Googling:
> open +source +library +management

I tried but slightly different words (which did not include managment word).

> http://www.emilda.org/
> http://www.myacpl.org/about/koha
> http://www.koha.org/
> 

Great! This will get me started.

thanks,
->HS


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lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

[H.S.]

Hello,

I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my
home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on
both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I
am not interested in installing a calendar server of any sorts).


Thanks,
->HS



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Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my
> home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on
> both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I
> am not interested in installing a calendar server of any sorts).
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> ->HS


By the way, if I knew exactly which files hold calendar data, I wouldn't
mind an rsync option.

->HS


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frame and tx errors in wifi0 interface (using madwifi)

[H.S.]

Mailed this to madwifi list but haven't got any response. Trying my luck 
here in case somebody with wireless knowledge can comment on this problem.


I am using madwifi driver for D-link DWL-G520 pci wireless card. The
card is working in access point mode (master mode) and has WPA-PSK
encryption enabled using hostapd. I am also running a DHCP server on
this machine (which has Debian Etch and 2.6.17 kernel) and the card is
working and gives out ip addresses to wireless clients.

However, if I do ifconfig, I see that there are frame and TX errors. I
wonder why these are there and if I am doing something wrong or if I am
missing something.
#> ifconfig  ath0
ath0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 
   inet addr:192.168.5.1  Bcast:192.168.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
   inet6 addr:  Scope:Link
   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2290  Metric:1
   RX packets:2837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
   TX packets:768 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
   RX bytes:123758 (120.8 KiB)  TX bytes:113561 (110.8 KiB)
#> ifconfig  wifi0
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
   RX packets:61091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:9156346
   TX packets:25088 errors:5810 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
   collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
   RX bytes:3374650 (3.2 MiB)  TX bytes:4495630 (4.2 MiB)
   Interrupt:201 Memory:c8bc-c8bd


The TX errors and the frame numbers in wifi0 is what I don't understand.
Can anybody explain these?

Also, why is the MTU of ath0 2290 and not 1500? Is this something that
is normal in wireless interfaces?

Thanks,
->HS


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Re: [Fwd: dvd+rw-tools inconsistency??]

[H.S.]

steef wrote:

in one of two new tests *directly after*  my first message burning a dvd 
of 4,4 Gb succeeded without a problem, the second -ceteris paribus- went 
wrong.
so the behoviour of the kernel or dvd+rw-tools or something else ?? 
seems unpredictable.


maybe it is the media you are using.

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vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

er ... I am not sure if I should be asking this in this forum since 
vmware is not open source.


I wanted to play around with vmware server and installed it on my etch 
system in /usr/local.


I also intalled vmware-mui in /usr/local as well.

When I browse to localhost:8333, I get an empty page, only the footer 
text is being displayed.


The installation seemed to have gone alright and the modules were also 
built without any complaints. I am not sure where the problem could. I 
installed vmware from its tgz sources.


If somebody has been successful in installing vmware in Debian Etch, I 
would love to know how you did it.


thanks,
->HS



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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

On Friday 17 November 2006 13:44, piter wrote:


H.S. wrote:


er ... I am not sure if I should be asking this in this forum since
vmware is not open source.

I wanted to play around with vmware server and installed it on my etch
system in /usr/local.

I also intalled vmware-mui in /usr/local as well.

When I browse to localhost:8333, I get an empty page, only the footer
text is being displayed.

The installation seemed to have gone alright and the modules were also
built without any complaints. I am not sure where the problem could. I
installed vmware from its tgz sources.

If somebody has been successful in installing vmware in Debian Etch, I
would love to know how you did it.

thanks,
->HS



Well, since nobody has really bothered to answer your question, I'll try.

What footer text is being displayed?  Are you accessing the URL as https, not 
http?  If you go to https://locahost:8333/ you should be redirected to 
https://locahost:8333/vmware/en/ Are you?  What browser are you using?  
Konqueror didn't work for me.  Firefox worked great.


I do get the redirected url you mention above (ending with en). But all 
I get is a gray text that seems to be a footer (with the copyright 
notice etc.). I did this on Mozilla and Firefox, both. And yes, I was 
trying the https url.


I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am 
going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works.


Just for completeness, here is the text I get (in light gray near the 
top of the page, there is nothing above this text, apparently the page 
is empty and only this text is being displayed):


© 1998-2006 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved.
Protected by one or more of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,397,242, 6,496,847, 
6,704,925, 6,711,672, 6,725,289, 6,735,601, 6,785,886, 6,789,156, 
6,795,966, 6,880,022 6,961,941, 6,961,806 and 6,944,699; patents pending.
VMware, the VMware "boxes" logo and design, Virtual SMP and VMotion are 
registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States 
and/or other jurisdictions.
All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their 
respective companies.



thanks,
->HS





That's all I can offer for now...did anything I say help?




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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

On Friday 17 November 2006 14:44, H.S. wrote:


I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am
going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works.



You installed via the TAR.GZ before?  That was what I did, and all seemed to 
work.


I did change the target installation location to /usr/local however. Do 
you think that would have mattered?



Yes, that is the right text. :)  Do you have javascript turned off?  Any other 
security features?  The login page seems to make use of some funky iframe 
stuff, as well as Javascript.


Not that I know of. All other pages work and I have never knowingly 
killed javascript in either of the two browsers.


->HS




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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

Russell Ost wrote:
I've been using VMware player and Workstation for over a year now. The 
default installation script works for both Sarge, and Etch without 
issue. My current image (Etch) can be found at www.netliving.com. VMware 
publishes a link to my server on VMTN. Over 10,000 images have been 
downloaded within the last 11 months. I update the virtual machine every 
few months. Hopefully, this helps spread the joy of Debian.


hoestly speaking, I am quite new to all this virtualization stuff. I 
started looking at it only yesterday, so I am going to ask a few newbie 
questions.


I understand that VMware server is free. Are there any other 
applications from them that are free (workstation?).


Once I install vmware server, I want to install Windows XP in the 
virtual machine. This is possible, right? And, er .. a few hints how to 
go about this?


I got stumped when my web interface didn't work. I am going to give it 
another try today with a fresh install.


thanks,
->HS


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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

On Friday 17 November 2006 14:59, H.S. wrote:


Joshua J. Kugler wrote:


On Friday 17 November 2006 14:44, H.S. wrote:


I have read the other replied, and I just now uninstalled vmware. I am
going to try the rpm now and I'll see if that works.


You installed via the TAR.GZ before?  That was what I did, and all seemed
to work.


I did change the target installation location to /usr/local however. Do
you think that would have mattered?



No, that's where I have mine installed.



Yes, that is the right text. :)  Do you have javascript turned off?  Any
other security features?  The login page seems to make use of some funky
iframe stuff, as well as Javascript.


Not that I know of. All other pages work and I have never knowingly
killed javascript in either of the two browsers.



Hmm...that is odd.  Are you getting any error messages in the logs 
under /var/log/vmware-mui?  Specifically access_log and error_log, but look 
in the other files too.


j




I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into 
/usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in 
/usr/local).


The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at bijli Port 8333


and the error log of mui has this in it:
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [error] ModVmdb load: Address of 
ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xa7c785a0\n
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 
mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d configured -- resuming

normal operations
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Accept mutex: fcntl (Default: sysvsem)
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to / failed because search permissions a

re missing on a component of the path
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to /vmware/blank.html failed because sea

rch permissions are missing on a component of the path


I guess I need to change some permission somwhere?

->HS



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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:



I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into 
/usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in 
/usr/local).


The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at bijli Port 8333


and the error log of mui has this in it:
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [error] ModVmdb load: Address of 
ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xa7c785a0\n
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 
mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d configured -- resuming

normal operations
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Accept mutex: fcntl (Default: sysvsem)
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to / failed because search permissions a

re missing on a component of the path
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to /vmware/blank.html failed because sea

rch permissions are missing on a component of the path


I guess I need to change some permission somwhere?

->HS





Here is what I have:
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# ls -l /usr/local/lib/vmware*
/usr/local/lib/vmware:
total 1116
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 bin-debug
-r  1 root root 615 2006-11-17 19:37 config
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 configurator
drwx--x---  3 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 help
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 isoimages
drwx--x--- 41 root root2048 2006-11-17 19:37 lib
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 libconf
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 licenses
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 messages
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 modules
-r-x--x---  1 root root   22538 2006-11-17 19:37 net-services.sh
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 perl
drwx--x---  5 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 perl5
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:44 serverd
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 share
-r  1 root root 1093728 2006-11-17 19:37 vix-perl.tar.gz
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 xkeymap

/usr/local/lib/vmware-mui:
total 9
drwx--x--- 12 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 apache
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 doc
drwx--x---  3 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 include
drwx--x---  5 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 lib
drwx--x---  3 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 man
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 sbin
drwx--x---  4 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 src
drwx--x---  6 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 ssl


and also:
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# ls -al /usr/local/lib/vmware-mui/apache
total 14
drwx--x--- 12 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 .
drwx--x--- 11 root staff 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 ..
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 cgi-bin
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 conf
drwx--x---  3 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 htdocs
drwx--x---  3 root root  3072 2006-11-17 19:57 icons
drwx--x---  3 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 include
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 libexec
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 logs
drwx--x---  4 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 man
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 proxy


->HS



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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:

H.S. wrote:



I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into 
/usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in 
/usr/local).


The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at bijli Port 8333


and the error log of mui has this in it:
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [error] ModVmdb load: Address of 
ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xa7c785a0\n
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.28 
mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d configured -- resuming

normal operations
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Accept mutex: fcntl (Default: 
sysvsem)
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to / failed because search permissions a

re missing on a component of the path
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to /vmware/blank.html failed because sea

rch permissions are missing on a component of the path


I guess I need to change some permission somwhere?

->HS





Here is what I have:
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# ls -l /usr/local/lib/vmware*
/usr/local/lib/vmware:
total 1116
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 bin-debug
-r  1 root root 615 2006-11-17 19:37 config
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 configurator
drwx--x---  3 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 help
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 isoimages
drwx--x--- 41 root root2048 2006-11-17 19:37 lib
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 libconf
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 licenses
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 messages
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 modules
-r-x--x---  1 root root   22538 2006-11-17 19:37 net-services.sh
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 perl
drwx--x---  5 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 perl5
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:44 serverd
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 share
-r  1 root root 1093728 2006-11-17 19:37 vix-perl.tar.gz
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 xkeymap

/usr/local/lib/vmware-mui:
total 9
drwx--x--- 12 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 apache
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 doc
drwx--x---  3 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 include
drwx--x---  5 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 lib
drwx--x---  3 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 man
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 sbin
drwx--x---  4 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 src
drwx--x---  6 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 ssl


and also:
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# ls -al /usr/local/lib/vmware-mui/apache
total 14
drwx--x--- 12 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 .
drwx--x--- 11 root staff 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 ..
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 cgi-bin
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 conf
drwx--x---  3 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 htdocs
drwx--x---  3 root root  3072 2006-11-17 19:57 icons
drwx--x---  3 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 include
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 libexec
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 logs
drwx--x---  4 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 man
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 proxy


->HS






Seems to be working now, at least I got the web interface. Here is what 
did the trick:

/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# chmod go+rx /usr/local/bin/vmware*
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# chmod -R go+rX /usr/local/lib/vmware*


->HS




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Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:

H.S. wrote:


H.S. wrote:



I just reinstalled vmware and vmware-mui. vmwere went into 
/usr/local/bin and mui also in /usr/local (pixmaps and icons also in 
/usr/local).


The first time I try to access https://localhost:8333/, I get:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at bijli Port 8333


and the error log of mui has this in it:
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [error] ModVmdb load: Address of 
ModVmdb_InitCore: 0xa7c785a0\n
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) 
mod_perl/1.28 mod_ssl/2.8.20 OpenSSL/0.9.7d configured -- resuming

normal operations
[Fri Nov 17 19:57:39 2006] [notice] Accept mutex: fcntl (Default: 
sysvsem)
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to / failed because search permissions a

re missing on a component of the path
[Fri Nov 17 19:59:03 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission 
denied: access to /vmware/blank.html failed because sea

rch permissions are missing on a component of the path


I guess I need to change some permission somwhere?

->HS





Here is what I have:
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# ls -l /usr/local/lib/vmware*
/usr/local/lib/vmware:
total 1116
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 bin-debug
-r  1 root root 615 2006-11-17 19:37 config
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 configurator
drwx--x---  3 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 help
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 isoimages
drwx--x--- 41 root root2048 2006-11-17 19:37 lib
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 libconf
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 licenses
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 messages
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 modules
-r-x--x---  1 root root   22538 2006-11-17 19:37 net-services.sh
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 perl
drwx--x---  5 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 perl5
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:44 serverd
drwx--x---  4 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 share
-r  1 root root 1093728 2006-11-17 19:37 vix-perl.tar.gz
drwx--x---  2 root root1024 2006-11-17 19:37 xkeymap

/usr/local/lib/vmware-mui:
total 9
drwx--x--- 12 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 apache
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 doc
drwx--x---  3 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 include
drwx--x---  5 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 lib
drwx--x---  3 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 man
drwx--x---  2 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 sbin
drwx--x---  4 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 src
drwx--x---  6 root root 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 ssl


and also:
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# ls -al /usr/local/lib/vmware-mui/apache
total 14
drwx--x--- 12 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 .
drwx--x--- 11 root staff 1024 2006-11-17 19:57 ..
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 bin
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 cgi-bin
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 conf
drwx--x---  3 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 htdocs
drwx--x---  3 root root  3072 2006-11-17 19:57 icons
drwx--x---  3 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 include
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 libexec
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 logs
drwx--x---  4 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 man
drwx--x---  2 root root  1024 2006-11-17 19:57 proxy


->HS






Seems to be working now, at least I got the web interface. Here is what 
did the trick:

/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# chmod go+rx /usr/local/bin/vmware*
/tmp/vmware-mui-distrib# chmod -R go+rX /usr/local/lib/vmware*


->HS






When I gave the 'vmware' command as normal user after the installation, 
I got this error and no GUI:

{tmp}$> vmware
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: 
/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version 
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: 
/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version 
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: 
/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version 
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)




Removing the older versionof libdbus solved that problem(hint from: 
http://mindwarp.net/?p=28):

{tmp}$> sudo apt-get  --purge remove libdbus-1-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  libdbus-1-2* libnautilus-burn2*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 590kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 174532 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libnautilus-burn2 ...
Purging configuration files for libnautilus-burn2 ...
Removing libdbus-1-2 ...
Purging confi

Re: vmware on debian etch

[H.S.]

Joshua J. Kugler wrote:

On Friday 17 November 2006 16:33, H.S. wrote:


When I gave the 'vmware' command as normal user after the installation,
I got this error and no GUI:
{tmp}$> vmware
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware:
/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware:
/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware:
/usr/local/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)



There is no server-side GUI with VMWare server.  Use the VMWare server console 
to access the server-side process.


j



I am not sure I understand this. After the step I mentioned above, I got 
the web interface gui and was able to login. When I gave the 'vmware' 
command as a normal user, I got a GUI window in which I am now 
installing Windows XP after creating a new virtual machine. Is this the 
same GUI you are talking about? I haven't installed any other vmware 
packages yet (only the server and mui; no console). In the message bar 
at the bottom edge of the GUI window I do see a message sometimes that 
"vmware tools are not installed" or some such thing.


->HS



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Re: [OT] looking for a image (re)compressing tool

[H.S.]

T wrote:

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:31:26 -0500, T wrote:



Is there any command line tool that can take a jpeg file and re-compress it
with a new compress level/factor?



Hi,

thank you Florian & Sven for the swift respond.

yes, the -quality option of convert/mogrify is what I'm looking for. 


I was just blindly searching their man pages with some keywords but didn't
notice that the man pages are actually less than a pageful. :-)



The man page also suggests visiting:
file:///usr/share/doc/imagemagick/index.html

in your browser. The webpage has a link to command line options. This 
has proved to be very helpful to me in the past.


->HS


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Re: WMP54G under amd64 - anyone got it working?

[H.S.]

Anton Piatek wrote:
Hi, 

I am trying to get my WMP54G wireless card working under amd64 (etch). I tried 
compiling the kernel driver from ralink, but while it compiles ok (lots of 
warnings but no errors) when I try to load it I get no errors, but when I try 
to bring up the card I get an error and the system becomes incredibly 
unstable (and the card does not work).


# dhclient ra0
Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
All rights reserved.

Please contribute if you find this software useful.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
/etc/dhclient-script: line 119:  5829 Killed  ifconfig  

$interface up

Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Nov 18 12:08:31 2006 ...
debian kernel: Oops:  [1] SMP

Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Sat Nov 18 12:08:31 2006 ...
debian kernel: CR2: 00043000

Anyone had any luck getting this card working? What about with another driver?

Anton




I have the card working in a P-III on Debian Etch. I think you need the 
rt2500-source package and you need to install the corresponding module 
using module-assistant. I had tried the ralink driver as well, but that 
was only to get the card working in master mode. I wasn't successful in 
that. Using the debian rt2500 package makes the card work as a wireless 
client without any problems. I don't use that card on a regular basis so 
cannot say much about stability of the connection.


->HS



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evolution: how to sync the calendar and schedule between two Linux PCs?

[H.S.]

Hi,

I have a Debian Etch based system at home and a Ubuntu based system at
the univ. I use evolution to manage my schedule. How do I keep the
calendar at my Debian Etch box at home sync'ed with the Ubuntu box at
the univ. I have evolution version 2.6.3-2 in Debian Etch and
2.6.1-0ubuntu7 in the Ubuntu box.

If the calendar info is saved in a directory or in a file, I can do
rsync between the two PC for that particular file. Then, which file am I
looking for?

I do not need to sync email at all (actually, i want to exclude email
from being sync'ed). Just the calendar part is the one I am interested in.

thanks,
->HS


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