Re: which half are you in?

[Robin]

Dave Carrigan wrote:


On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 14:29, dave mallery wrote:

 

those who have done an rm -R * in root
and those who have not done it yet.
   


I am in the second half. I've never done rm -r anywhere important. I
have however done a mkfs on a partition that was supposed to be part of
a Disksuite stripeset. Does that count?

 

I've never done anything quite like that, but I did do this once:
dpkg --force-depends remove glibc
and I zeroed /home once...



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Re: Java Programming Environment

[Robin]

Calber Chainy wrote:


Hello List, I wondered if there would be an X programming environment 
for Java
and which packages will I have to install.

Thanks a Lot.

Chainy.



Call me weird, but I have a current preference for twin.  It's an 
ncurses window manager, in which I have one window running vim, and 
another where I run `make`.  Of course, I have to switch to X to test 
anything graphics wise.  vim does color code for me, and I could run 
\[[:make, if I wanted to.


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headphone sound.

[Robin]

I was wondering how it'd be possible to redirect audio out through my 
headphone jack if I had something plugged in, or simply how to switch to 
them.  I recall an old kernel... 2.2.17 or so (from YDL1.2) only sent 
sound out through the headphone jack, so I assume this isn't impossible. 
System is an iWhack DV; AWACS sound, kernel module is dmasound_pmac, 
etc.  Someone told me once that it's simply a matter of adjusting values 
using aumix, but I've had no luck.

- robin


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Re: USB 1.x COMPATIBLE CDRW

[Robin]

Dean Roman wrote:


Hello all,

  Has anybody got a USB CDRW drive working under linux with USB 1.x 
support?

  If so, please let me know which drive and manufacturer.

Thanks,
  ---Dean.

~% cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -checkdrive robinj@helios 
[4:13:04pm]
Cdrecord 1.11a39 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 
Jorg Schilling
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type: Removable CD-ROM
Version: 2
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info: 'SONY'
Identifikation : 'CD-RW  CRX120E  '
Revision   : '1.0k'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
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Re: real transparency (under X11)

[Robin]

if I recall correctly, the window manager in OSX uses double-buffering, 
and 10.2 uses GL to speed the transparancies.  however, it's not as fast...

Nicos Gollan wrote:

>On Sunday 01 September 2002 16:35, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>  
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>
>>Christian Schoenebeck  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm still waiting for the ability to use real transparency. What's
>>>the deal with this anyway? I mean, what is the problem that there's
>>>still only pseudo transparency?
>>>  
>>>
>>Someone has to design how this fits in with the existing X11
>>protocol, probably develop an extension, then write the code,
>>and invent and document an API for this.
>>
>>
>
>I think that's exactly what the XRender extension is supposed to do. It 
>works fairly well, but it does apparently still work with a snapshot to 
>create transparency. I don't know enough about the X11 protocol to say 
>anything definitive, but I think, part of the problem is that hidden 
>parts of the desktop are just not transmitted for a redraw which would 
>be necessary for true transparency to work.
>
>Another problem that's rather serious is the question "what for". IMHO, 
>that's the real problem hampering the development of such gimmicks.
>
>  
>




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USB gamepads

[Robin]

I was wondering how I'd go about setting up a gravis gamepad to work 
with snes9x or xmame (or for controlling the cursor on screen...)
the device is recognized and all, the following is the kern.log messages 
when disconnecting/reconnecting the pad:
--
Sep  5 21:16:02 helios kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 6
Sep  5 21:16:09 helios kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on 
bus2/1/2/1, assigned device number 8
Sep  5 21:16:09 helios kernel: input2,hiddev0: USB HID v0.01 Gamepad 
[Gravis GamePad Pro USB ] on usb2:8.0
--

I see the input2, and there's a /dev/input/js0 (using devfs), but I 
don't see how to make anything work.



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mutt-1.3

[robin]

Hello,
I see that many debian users are using mutt-1.3.
Does exist a web site where mutt-1.3 is in  .deb ?
Thanks in advance for your reply.

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module sound with potato 2.2 r2

[robin]

Hello,

With potato r0, I have to recompile the kernel to have the sound 
on my machine.

Is there any other way to enable the sound with potato r2 ?

When I do esd I obtain : /dev/dsp : no such device

When I do MAKEDEV dsp (in /dev ) I obtain :
don't know how to make device "dsp"

When I do insmod sound I obtain the attachement document forwarded.

However I have the files :
/lib/modules/2.218pre21/misc/sound.o
/lib/modules/2.218pre21/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.218pre21/mixsc/sound.o
 
are installed.

Can someone help me with this matter ?

Thanks in advance.
Gerard.

Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2

[robin]

Robert Voigt wrote:
> 
> > With potato r0, I have to recompile the kernel to have the sound
> > on my machine.
> >
> > Is there any other way to enable the sound with potato r2 ?
> 
> Try modconf and look in the misc section if you find a module that matches
> your soundcard. Selecting a module there loads it and all other modules that
> it depends on.

Many thanks I have the sound as root but I have had put the permissions
of the
devices /dev/dsp  and /dev/hdd  to  666. I don't know if it is suitable
but
I have the sound !

Gerard.

printer and masqmail (potato r2)

[robin]

 hello,
I have still two problems after that I have installed potato r2.

Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter)

If I am printing a mail with netscape or a file with lyx (.ps .lyx)
it's all right.
With Gnotepad+ or in terminal it's ok if I put "lpr -Plp3.(lpr alone 
gives nothing)
If I want to print a mail with mutt or a file with xemacs nothing is 
printed and lpq  tell me : no entries.

Pb2: Masqmail.

I used mutt, masqmail,fetchmail and procmail with potato r0 and all 
was ok.
Now, all is ok too, except masqmail which doesn't send my messages.
"masqmail -bp" or "mailq" display that ~/input/my_login contains the 
messages send by mutt, but masqmail doesn't work automaticaly or 
manualy (masqmail -q)


Can someone help me with these two problems.

Sorry for these problems of newbies and thanks in advance for your help.

Gerard.

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

[robin]

Andre Berger wrote:
> 
> * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200:

> > Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter)
.
> > If I want to print a mail with mutt or a file with xemacs nothing is
> > printed and lpq  tell me : no entries.
> 
> Add to your ~/.muttrc, or better /etc/Muttrc:
> 
> set print_command="a2ps"

set print_commande="lpr -Pmed -Plp1"  it's ok after  apt-get install
aps2

and xemacs runs  fine too.

Many thanks.

Gerard.

Re: module sound with potato 2.2 r2

[robin]

Robert Voigt wrote:
> 
> > Many thanks I have the sound as root but I have had put the permissions
> > of the
> > devices /dev/dsp  and /dev/hdd  to  666. I don't know if it is suitable
> > but
> > I have the sound !
> 
> Nice to hear that it works. But changing permissions is usually not nice. The
> right way to go is to add all users that should have access to the soundcard
> to group audio (or whatever it's called, can't remember exactly).
> Just type as root
> addgroup  

Tanks it's ok now with the correct permissions.(660)

Gerard

Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

[robin]

Andre Berger wrote:
> 
> * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 02:06 +0200:
> > Andre Berger wrote:
> > >
> > > * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200:
> >
> > > > Pb1: Printer. (I use lpr and apsfilter)
> > .
> > > > If I want to print a mail with mutt or a file with xemacs nothing is
> > > > printed and lpq  tell me : no entries.
> > >
> > > Add to your ~/.muttrc, or better /etc/Muttrc:
> > >
> > > set print_command="a2ps"
> >
> > set print_commande="lpr -Pmed -Plp1"  it's ok after  apt-get install
> > aps2
> 
> Do you really print to _two_ printers at once??

No, according to Andreas (apsfilterconfig) -Pmed give 360x360 dpi 
 
> > and xemacs runs  fine too.
> 
> :)

I am sorry, my printer deosn't work fine, when I tried to print it
was late and I did not run my printer (noise) but I printed in the
spool and verified with lpq.

The next day I ran my printer an I had a surprise :

with lyx : my text is printed correctly but in the top of the page I
have %%{stcolor.ps currendrive is not stcolor -ignored]%%

with xfig : idem

with netscape :idem

with ted : it's all right !

with mutt in .muttrc :
 set print_commande="lpr" : nothing printed
 set print_commande="lpr -Plp1" : %%[stcolor.ps...]%%
 set print_commande="lpr" nothing printed
 set print_commande="lpr" ok but without accent in french

with xemacs : print buffer : nothing printed 
: pretty print buffer : searching for program: not any file
or directory of this type :lpr -Plp3
 
I have All this problems with potato r2 and that is why I had to 
reinstall potato r0 on an other hard disk and with potato r0 my 
printer runs fine.

So it is a problem with potato r2 and my printer, my printer is epson LQ
100 and the driver st800 works fine with my printer with potato r0. 

Is it possible to obtain the same result with potato r2 without changing 
my printer ?

Thanks for ideas

-- 
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Re: printer and masqmail (potato r2)

[robin]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:46:21AM +0200, Andre Berger wrote:
> * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-13 02:06 +0200:
> > Andre Berger wrote:
> > > 
> > > * robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-11 19:02 +0200:
 
> Do you really print to _two_ printers at once??
 
> :)

Hello,
I have loosed your latest mail (I had problem with my mail )

Sorry I did an error I wanted write :

set print_commande="lpr" nothing printed
set print_commande="lpr -lp1" %%[stcolor.ps ...  ] nothing  else
printed^

set print_commande="lpr -Plp2" nothing printed
^
set print_commande="lpr -Plp3" ok but without accents in french
^  
I have applied your advices and now all is realy correct except
%%[color.ps :currentdevice is not stcolor -ignored]%%
which is always printed on the top of my page.
In fact I have the same problem with potato r0 but 
%%[color.ps :currentdevice is not stcolor -ignored]%%
is not write but I loose the first line of each page with
mutt or xemacs and now I uderstand why.

I try to use magicfilter but without succes.
Problem of transmission between spool and printer ?

Finaly I mean that if I get the good driver for my printer
all will be ok.

Many thanks to those who have helped me with this problem. 

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Re: Run Application?

[robin]

Father Parthenios wrote:
Running Unstable, and am stuck with something:
In gnome2-user-guide, section 4.6.4, the Run Button is described.
What is the command I could run from the command line to run the Run
Application Dialog?  I am having trouble finding the name of this program.
TIA
 

have a look for a file called /etc/X11/?gnome?/menu.xml
I run xfce4 and the file /etc/X11/xfce4/menu,xml indicates the run 
command as xfrun4. whether this applies to gnome ?

Robin
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Re: kernel-image-x.x.xx-i686-smc ? What's the smc stand for?

[robin]

Eric Dickner wrote:
And how can I tell if I have a plain i686 machine or
an i686-smc one?
Thanks,
ejd

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Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today!
http://vote.yahoo.com
 

Do you mean smp? If so its symmtric multi-processing ie dual processor, 
quad processor
Robin

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Cups black printing blue

[robin]

Hello,
Has anybody else come across this problem; text now prints blue instead 
of black, including the cups print test page

Kernel version: 2.4.25-k7
Device   /dev/usb/lp0
Cups:   ii  cupsys 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - server
   ii  cupsys-bsd 1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
   ii  cupsys-client  1.1.20final+cv Common UNIX 
Printing System(tm) - client pro
   ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.6-7Gimp-Print 
printer drivers for CUPS
   ii  cupsys-driver- 4.2.6-7Gimp-Print 
printer drivers for CUPS

Printer epson c70 (individual ink tanks)
Ink levels all over 50%
Action so far: Checked logs - no error messages
 Shutdown printer and removed power lead for 30 secs
 Run /etc/init.d/cupsys stop and start
 Full reboot.
Only thing that has changed on my system is the addition of open-office 
via apt about a week ago but I cannot say the problem coincides with that.

Thanks
Robin
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Re: hdparm -U

[robin]

pir aa wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know, how to tell hdparm to unregister ide1 (the secondary ide
channel). I tried with version 4.5:
hdparm -U 1
hdparm -U ide1
hdparm -U /proc/ide/ide1/channel
but it doesn't work. It just prints the help screen, not doing anything else.
Can someone please give me a hint?
Thank, Pir
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hdparm requires devicename such as:
hdparm -c3 /dev/hda
Robin
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Re: Cups black printing blue

[robin]

Greg Folkert wrote:

  On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:19 +0100, robin wrote:
  
  
Only thing that has changed on my system is the addition of open-office 
via apt about a week ago but I cannot say the problem coincides with that.

  
  
I had this once. My hp855C was printing a very Dark Blue Black as well
as cyan, magenta and yellow.

Even all black was Dark Blue. It was the cartridge. Some how the ink was
not mixed properly and had sort of separated. Giving me *VERY* black ink
for a while, then once day while printing my Daughters report for
school... it started to print this Blue.

I changed the Black cartridge and within seconds I could see black
letters being printed.

You of course also realize 99% of Black inkjet cartridges, actually have
*REALLY REALLY* dark blue in them.

Print a BLACK test block, then carefully wash it out in cold water
"sifting"... Blue is the color that comes out.

  

Thanks but I don't think this applies in this instant as when I run
escputil -n (nozzle check) black is black. Also the blue is "this colour"

Cheers
Robin

Re: disk defragmenting

[robin]

Mike Chandler wrote:

  On Friday 15 October 2004 06:49 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
  
  
Hello,
Is there any defragmenting tool in any distro, and if not why? Thanks!!!

  
  Nope, not needed.


  

There are lots of hits on google for this one being:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-admin/msg00513.html
If you are running the ext2 file system It seems only to be a possible
issue when the disk becomes very full. There is a deb package defrag,
description below:

ext2, minix and xiafs filesystem defragmenter
As a file system is used, data tends to become more and more
scattered across the disk, degrading performance.  A disk
defragmenter simply re-organises the data on the disk, so that
individual files occupy a single sequential set of disk blocks,
and all the free space on the disk is collected together in a
single region. This generally means that reading a whole file
is faster, and disk accesses in general are more efficient.

Suspicious header (OT)

[robin]

I tried to post a reply to list I am subscribed to, Linux Audio Users,  
but a message came back saying my reply had a suspicious header. This 
only happens when doing a reply not a new post. The only info from the 
list admin is "no reason given" Can anyone point out what's wrong,  if 
there is,  so I can remedy the situation.

Header:
From - Mon Oct 11 15:41:01 2004
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 0080
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:41:00 +0100
From: robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.6) 
Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.4-6 StumbleUpon/1.904
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: A list for linux audio users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MIDI In on SB Live! Value
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="010807090609010804030300"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--010807090609010804030300
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Thanks in advance
Robin
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Re: Mozilla Firefox & Java -- WTF???

[robin]

Robert Tilley wrote:
Why is Mozilla Firefox dependent an Java?  I thought it was an independent 
application?

Help!
Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mozilla-firefox
Error: No running window found
auto selected locale: en-US
Spawned gcjappletviewer successfully.
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: 
gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
  at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.awt.Window.getToolkit() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.awt.Component.reshape(int, int, int, int) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.awt.Component.setBounds(int, int, int, int) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.awt.Component.resize(int, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.awt.Component.setSize(int, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at gnu.gcjwebplugin.ConsoleDialog.ConsoleDialog() (Unknown Source)
  at gnu.gcjwebplugin.PluginAppletViewer.() (Unknown Source)
  at java.lang.Class.initializeClass() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_ResolvePoolEntry(java.lang.Class, int) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at gnu.gcjwebplugin.AppletViewer.main(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit 
not found in [file:/usr/share/gcjwebplugin/gcjappletviewer.jar, core:/]
  at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at gnu.gcj.runtime.VMClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at _Jv_FindClass(_Jv_Utf8Const, java.lang.ClassLoader) 
(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean, 
java.lang.ClassLoader)(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.5.0.0)
  ...10 more
Segmentation fault
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$  
 

I had something similar after I installed a new theme. Finding and 
removing the new theme file corrected the problem. If it is a theme 
issue removing the .jar file will resolve the problem.

Robin
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Re: sources.list entries?

[robin]

Carl Fink wrote:

  On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 03:27:13PM -0400, Skip Evans wrote:

  
  
Could someone send to me, or the list, 
entries from their own sources.list file that 
I can use to access a wider range of 
repositories?

  
  
Instructions:

1. Load www.debian.org.
2. Click on Search.
3. Search for sources.list
4. Click on the first result.

Good advice:

1. Learn to ask smart questions from Eric Raymond at
   
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Though the search page on debian.org has only just come on-line, last
day or two, before which it was disabled for sometime

Robin

Re: Login

[robin]

Arnfinn Gjøstøl wrote:
I have just installed Debian. After boting, entering username and 
password,
the boot progress stops at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
What next?


If X-window-system is installed type startx.
If you want a graphical login apt-get install gdm or kdm or wdm od xdm
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Re: USB Generic Drive Storage

[robin]

Preston Boyington wrote:

  Ryan Waye wrote:
  
  
Hello,

I am attempting to use a USB Flash drive on my 2.6.7 Linux box.
Debian seems to detect it, here is the entry from
/proc/bus/usb/devices file:

  
  
  
  
So it appears to have been detected, but how do I access it?

Sincerely,
Ryan Waye

  
  
maybe try as root:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1



  

If the above doesn't work, search dmesg for scsi 

Robin

Re: FAM causing "device or resource busy" errors when trying to smbumount

[robin]

Paul Yeatman wrote:
Hi, I've been having the same problem in Sarge.  In my case it
doesn't involve Samba but when a CD or even floppy is mounted by
nautilus/fam (or whatever is going on when you click a CD device
from the "Computer" icon), occasionally it will not unmount the
filesystem on the device with an error that the device is busy.  Once
I've convinced myself there are no processes running involving the
device and I'm not in any of its mounted directories, I'll try an 'lsof
/dev/cdrom' and will get something like
COMMAND  PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
famd 1135me 26r  DIR  2,07168 1/media/cdrom
As Rich said, until I kill famd, I am unable to umount the
FS on the device.
I wasn't aware I could stop and restart fam with a supplied init script
as Rich mentioned although last time the problem occurred I tried stopping
and restarting famd this way but things still were somewhat screwed up
until I completely logged out or rebooted.
Anyone know what it going on with this.  Just a bug?
Paul
rich wrote on 28 Jul 2004:
 

when I have an smb share mounted on a directory in my home
directory, it 
refuses to unmount.

This is new, it used to work without a problem. Perhaps something
changed in 
the later releases of Sarge? (I apt-get dist-upgrade all the time)

I used lsof and found the process that was holding the mount-point
directory 
up, which was 

/usr/sbin/famd -T 0
I shut down fam with #/etc/init.d/fam stop and I could then umount
the share 
cleanly.

Can anyone shed any light on this?
thanks,
rich
   

Not much to add but I had the problem when I used to run gnome (til 
nautilus-2.6 came out). Since going over to xfce4 it hasn't been a 
problem. Found this link 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=fam&archive=no

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Re: Sound recording in ALSA

[robin]

Kirk Strauser wrote:
I'm using Sid with Debian's 2.6.8-1-686 kernel package on a Dell PC with an 
Intel 8x0 sound device and ALSA.  My ultimate goal is to get liveice to 
read from the line in on my sound card, but I'm trying to take baby steps 
to get there.

Right now I'm attempting to record by:
  1) Going into KMix and selecting "Line" as the capture device (verified 
with amixer).
  2) Using something like "arecord -t wav -d 10 /tmp/foo.wav" to attempt to 
record the sound that's being played through my speakers to a file.

However, that file seems to be silent on playback, regardless of what 
permutations of the steps above I've messed with.  Any pointers on how I 
can get started with this?
 

Check out www.agnula.org documentation section. Agnula Demudi is a 
deb-based linux audio distribution. You may find what you need. Another 
site is http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

Robin
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Re: HP 2210 All in Wonder USB storage devices

[robin]

Tom Allison wrote:
um
How do I mount the usb storage devices?
I have usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
but when I insert the CF card, I don't get anything on the syslog 
telling me that a device was found (I expected this for USB devices).

I know I had this working under Linux at some point, but that was 
about 6 months ago under SuSE.

It prints just fine.

Load the card and run dmesg to see if  any output generated.
Normally it's a case of:  mount /dev/sda1 -t msdos  /your/mount/point 
(create if necessary). Add to /etc/fstab if that works, then next time : 
mount /your/mount/point should work

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Re: Squid and increaing from "4096 file descriptors"

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Jeff Green wrote:
In running a squid on a large and capable (Dual Xeon 4GB RAM) server 
to supply furniture graphics for a large website we are unable to find 
any way to increase the number of available file descriptors beyond 
4096. The server has the following ulimits:-
ulimit -a
core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) unlimited
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 32768
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) unlimited
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited

cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max gives
206283
and /etc/default/squid contains
SQUID_MAXFD=32768
I assume we need to rebuild the package after changing the appropriate 
files but does anyone have any clue what changes we need to make to 
which files?

Jeff
Silly question possibly but have you checked the squid site for 
configuration information. 
http://squid.visolve.com/squid/squid24s1/contents.htm.
I could be barking up the wrong tree but there seemed to possibly valid 
info there.
A "just a thought" response
from
Robin

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Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

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Brian Pack wrote:

  On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
On Oct 2, 2004, at 1:11 AM, Thomas Adam wrote:



   --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
Can someone please explain why some packages might be "kept back", or
how I might find out?

  
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=aptitude

Enjoy.
  

Thanks for the tip, Thomas, but did you mean this problem has already 
been reported, or that I should submit a bug report?

If you mean this has already been reported, I can't find the bug to 
which you're referring.

If you mean I should submit a bug, I'm not convinced my problem isn't 
my misuse of aptitude.

I guess what I'd like to know is how to get more information about why 
aptitude is concluding that these couple packages should be "kept 
back", to better understand whether the fault is aptitude's or mine. 
Unfortunately I haven't managed to gather this, using only aptitude's 
ample documentation.

Could you please clarify what you meant, Thomas?

Thanks again!

  
  
I don't think it's a bug. I see something similar with synaptic. It
usually happens after I update my lists and choose a range of files to
upgrade. The files "kept back" are the upgradeable files I have chosen
not to upgrade.

  

It would be worth installing synaptic as it is much clearer what is
happening than aptitude, in my opinion.:-)
I have a kept-back which is waiting for other packages to be upgraded
which are not available yet. It is unlikely that you are doing any
thing wrong.

Robin

Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!

[robin]

cr wrote:

  On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:57, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
  
  
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:24:10 -0500
Rodney Richison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

...



  I run a list for techs/consultants.  (ChannelVar.com)
They are a VERY qualified bunch of guys. (Admittedly not linux users
though)  :)
The preferred method is top posting.
The preferred format is to allow html.
  

Who are you trying to fool?  Your site is a pathetic bare bones sample,
probably not even paid for yet as evidenced by the little, "default
theme sample" tag in the lower left corner of /every page/.  There is
/no/ content yet you expect people on this list to listen to you about
your hypothetical top posting tech gurus?

Cybe R. Wizard -wants summa what you been smokin'

  
  
I suspect the preferred method is top posting and the preferred format is 
HTML because that's what Outhouse Excess does by default   

cr


  

 A bit like internet exploder only web sites?
Robin

Re: Upgrade KDE?

[robin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heya; I'm pretty new to Linux, and have barely ever used apt-get, save on a
ol' powermac w/ yellow dog linux.  Newho, what exactly do I need
to do to upgrade KDE 2.2 on my i586 Woody box to the latest KDE?
Thanx,
 ES
 

Upgrade to Sarge or try http://www.backports.org/
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Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back

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rds wrote:
Hi,
Ran "aptitude upgrade --show-versions" today and got the following. Can anyone
shed some light on why these packages are kept back? And what should I do about
it (I'd like to keep the system in synch with testing)?
Thanks in advance
--
Checking if the system needs to be upgraded...
...
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages [3112kB]
...
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release [81B]
...
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Sources [1224kB]
...
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Release [83B]
...
Fetched 4336kB in 1m22s (52.5kB/s)
...
Reading task descriptions... 2%
...
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 bind9 [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
 bind9-host [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
 dnsutils [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
 libisc7 [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
 libisccc0 [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
 libisccfg0 [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
The following packages will be upgraded:
 aptitude [0.2.15.7-1 -> 0.2.15.8-1] 
 grub [0.95+cvs20040624-9 -> 0.95+cvs20040624-10] 
 libc6 [2.3.2.ds1-16 -> 2.3.2.ds1-18] 
 liblwres1 [1:9.2.3+9.2.4-rc5-1 -> 1:9.2.4-1] 
 locales [2.3.2.ds1-16 -> 2.3.2.ds1-18] 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
 aptitude-doc-en [0.2.15.8-1] 
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.9MB of archives. After unpacking 20.5kB will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.




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Try apt-get install one of the packages and check the output.
Robin

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Re: Sound problems

[robin]

Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote:
Hello,
I have a dell workstation 470 with (of course) debian.
The soundcard is a:
Analog Devices ADI 198x and this should be a Intel 82801DB AC'97
(according a post i found on google) but i don't know how to install it
or what driver to use (don't find anything in the new kernel config in
sound about this piece of hardware).
Anyone has experience with it ?
Cheers,
Philippe. 


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www.alsa-project.org appears to be back now. It's worth checking it out. 
It should just be a case of: modprobe snd-intel8x0 and adjusting the 
volume levels via a mixer.

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Re: USB 2.0 speed

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Cristi Banciu wrote:
Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
I have an external HDD case, that is USB 2.0 certified. When I boot 
my machine with KNOPPIX and have the USB case plugged, I get fast 
transfer rates to my external disk (10MB/sec or so).

When I boot my regual installation of Debian (sarge), with both 
kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.8 (installed via apt-get), the same modules 
are loaded (uhci-hcd and friends), but the system can only exchange 
data with the external drive VERY slowly (less than 500kb/sec).

usbview shows me at that time that the external USB device 
(correctly) advertises speeds of up to 480Mbps, but actual file 
transfers are extremely slow.

Anyone have any idea on how to troubleshoot this?

Try to load ehci modules. I have an usb-stick and if I mount it with 
-o sync option I am able to transfer data at about 5Mb/sec, which is 
pretty good for a flash drive.
I am using kernel 2.6.8 installed with apt-get.


Hi
Try http://www.linux-usb.org/usb2.html and http://www.linux-usb.org for 
some info.

Robin
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Re: MIDI questions

[robin]

Marc Shapiro wrote:
I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed 
playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following error:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by 
Takashi IwaiThis is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
open /dev/sequencer: No such device

but, when I take a look in /dev, I see:
crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 1 Jul 12 23:08 sequencer
I am in the audio group, so it does not seem to be a permissions 
thing. Is there something else that I am missing?

Also, is there a package that will allow me to convert a MIDI file to 
.wav format so that I can burn it to CD with XCDRoast?

Marc

Is the module loaded?
Run lsmod | grep snd
Example from my machine:
debian:/home/rat# lsmod | grep snd
snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 3712 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 41744 2 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-intel8x0 21004 1
snd-ac97-codec 56368 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm-oss 38408 0 (unused)
snd-mixer-oss 13816 1 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-pcm 64416 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer 16900 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
gameport 1436 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 4064 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 14976 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4308 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd 37380 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-intel8x0 
snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer 
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc 5324 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-intel8x0 snd-mixer-oss 
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3876 6 [snd]

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Re: Need direction on alsa/oss sound.

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Randall Smith wrote:
I'm running Debian Unstable and am very confused about how to set up 
the sound properly.  Sound generally works, but it seems a mess with 
OSS this and ALSA that and esd and arts and so on.  When I pull up the 
gnome mixer, it has an oss tab and an alsa tab.  Do I need both?  Both 
of them change the system's sound.

On a seperate note, I tried to record from microphone to a wave file 
using the rec program.  After fiddling with the mixer, I was able to 
record, but there was always background noise on playback even though 
I didn't hear the noise through my headphones while recording.  I got 
frustrated and quit (for now).

I'm generally confused about sound on linux oss/alsa/esd/arts...  Can 
someone recommend a good source to help me understand it better?  Thanks.

Randall

Hi
http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php
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Re: Question about compiling the kernel

[robin]

Lian Liming wrote:
Hi all,
   This is a newbie's question about compiling kernel on debian.
   I follow the steps to compile the kernel:
   1) download the kernel source file;
   2) use "menuconfig" to choose the compile options;
   3) use "make-kpkg buildpackage -rev Custom.1 kernel_image" to 
generate .deb file
   4) install the kernel by "dpkg -i 
kernel-image-2.6.6_Custom.1_i386.deb"
This process may take a long time.
  My question is that if i want to change the compile options after 
having install the kernel. For example, i want to add some modules for 
the kernel.   Is it necessary for me to process the whole above four 
steps?  Or is there any simple way to do this?
 
  Thank you for suggestions!


Have a look at module-assistant package
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Re: Sound card troubles

[robin]

debian wrote:
Hello,
Sound or no sound, that's the question!
I have a computer :) with debian and kernel 2.6.9 There is also a SB
PCI64 in the computer so i compiled the kernel for that card.
(Creative) Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371/1373
When my computer boots i see this with dmesg:
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.6 (Sun Aug 15
07:17:53 2004 UTC)
PCI: Found IRQ9 for device :00:10.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with :00:07.2
Alsa device list:
#0: Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 at 0x1000, irq9
So i thought that this has to do it but appearantly there is more
needed.
When i perform a cat /dev/sndstat i get
Cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
So i really wondering how i can get this to work.
I also installed via apt-get the alsa base and the mixer and when i run
alsaconf i get NO SUPPORTED PnP OR PCI CARD FOUND I tried other PCI
slots but i don't think i have to search in that direction.
Help plz!
Cheers,
Phil.
 

You do not mention whether you have (as root) run:
modprobe snd-ens1371
Then adjust the levels via a mixer.
Robin
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[OT] UK report says Linux is 'viable' - Office of Government Commerce

[robin]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3960025.stm
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Re: i need help in my debian OS in my pc

[robin]

Amit Poddar wrote:
the problem in my pc is that i cant get a desktop. how do i get a
desktop? i have started using knoppix and it is working fine. i even
installed it in the harddrive but i am into to debian. 

apt-get install x-window-system
apt-get install gnome or kde, xfce4 etc.

i am planing on
gettting a IBM laptop and i want to install linux in it ,especially
debian. an i have installed debian 5 times for practice i would like
to find out if ther is any way i can get rid if everything on my
harddrive and install debian from the beginining. i will appreciate if
u can help me with his matter - thank u
 

Check out http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html
Robin

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Re: IBM Rack Server recommendation

[robin]

Rishi wrote:

  Hi

I wanted to get an IBM 1 U rack server to host a customer's web, FTP and mail 
server. Any recommendations on which is a good server to buy for installing 
Debian? I was thinking of the xSeries 306 with SCSI HDD RAID level 1

http://www-605.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-356&storeId=356&langId=356&dualCurrId=105&categoryId=13395891

Anyone cares to give me a heads up / warning on what I should watch out for?

Regards

Rishi


  

Try Linux Incompatablity List Linux
Incompatibility List for problem hardware.

Robin

Re: Debian Commands

[robin]

Mauricio Lin wrote:

  Have you tried the man command?

I mean type something like 'man dpkg', 'man dpkg-reconfigure' on your shell.

Mauricio Lin.


On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:56:34 +0100, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
Is there a document or list anywhere of all the Debian specific
commands, their parameters and what they do? I'm thinking of things like
dpkg, update-modules, dpkg-reconfigure and all the rest. I am trying to
learn the "Debian system" and a ready reference would be very helpful.

:)Fish

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Or another idea is dwww:
Description: Read all on-line documentation with a WWW
browser

All installed on-line documentation will be served via a local HTTP
server. When possible, dwww converts the documentation to HTML. You
need to install both a CGI-capable HTTP server and a WWW browser to
read the documentation.
Robin

Re: Audio Problem

[robin]

Sergio Basurto wrote:

  On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:07:04 +0200, Andrea Vettorello
wrote:

  
  
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:43:42 -0700 (PDT), Sergio

  
  Basurto
  
  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


  Hello,

Debian: Sarge
Kernel: 2.4.27-1-386

I have a problem with and audio card, I already
  

install


  the needed modules in my case:

#lspci
(...)
:00:1f.5 Multimedia Audio Controller: Intel Corp
82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC97 Audio Controller (rev
  

  
  02)
  
  

  (...)

#lsmod
ModuleSize   Used by  Not taited
(...)
i810_audio21372   2
ac97_codec11252   0   [i810_audio]
soundcore  3268   2   [i810_audio]
(...)

now the question is, if I have the correct modules
  

  
  for
  
  

  my sound card

1. why I can not hear any sound?.
2  How can I configure the sound card once the
  

  
  modules
  
  

  are loaded?
3. There is a command to do this?, which one?

I already try sndconf

I will appreciate any help or point to a source.

  

If you don't have any error messages, like devices
unavailable or like
that, and your user is in the audio group, maybe you
only need to
raise the volume, so you can try it installing a mixer
package...
(this is only a guess)

To pass some configuring options to your soundcard
(what options
depends on your brand or model) IIRC you can add them
on your
/etc/modutils file.


Andrea


  
  
Thanks for the feedback, I already have a mixer, and it
does not work, I think may be I have the wrong driver
installed. Is posible load a driver even if this one is
not the correct?

I am trying other thing right now I did this
#cat file.wav >/dev/audio 
Device or resource busy



any idea.

Thanks again.

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The modules you have loaded are OSS (Open Sound System?) modules which
are installed for compatibilty. You may find you need the alsa modules
loaded. Alsa (advanced linux sound architecture) modules all start with
snd-.
lsmod | grep snd on my pc gives:

snd-seq-oss    31104   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event  3712   0  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq    41744   2  (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-intel8x0   21004   1 
snd-ac97-codec 56368   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-pcm-oss    38408   0  (unused)
snd-mixer-oss  13816   1  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-pcm    64416   0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss]
snd-timer  16900   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
gameport    1436   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mpu401-uart 4064   0  [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi    14976   0  [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device  4308   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd    37380   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
snd-page-alloc  5324   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-intel8x0
snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore   3876   6  [snd]


Try modprobe  (the above to suit what you want)
Alternatively install alsaconf.
Check out http://alsa.opensrc.org and
http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php

Robin

Re: How to create ALSA device nodes?

[robin]

Max wrote:
Hello!
I have removed udev and now my ALSA device nodes are gone. What would be the 
best way to create the device nodes required by ALSA?

I know the device numbers/names from the documentation, but I hate typing so 
much. The documentation 
in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt says "Use 
the /dev/MAKEDEV script to create the nessecary device nodes.".. but my 
MAKEDEV script doesnt know anything about ALSA (it knows audio, but not 
alsa). Should "MAKEDEV alsa" work? Or is there some other script that creates 
ALSA device nodes?

thanks,
Max
 

Hello
If you have the alsa source there is a script called ./snddevices which 
you can run.

Robin
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Re: Permanent disabling sound in X isn't possible (Re: Sounds off in bash)

[robin]

Otto Wyss wrote:

  
 --- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 


  Creating the above .xsession files disables the default XFCE4 startup
and I get only an empty X screen. So what now?
  

You want to have a file such as this:
=
#!/bin/sh

#type any additional commands you want to launch here

#Now launch the window manager
xfce-mcs-manager
xfwm4 --daemon
xftaskbar4 &
xfdesktop &
exec xfce4-panel
==

Save that as ~/.xsession. chmod 700 ~/.xsession


  
  Sorry, even with this setup (plus the "xsetb off") I'm not able to
create a standard XFCE4 desktop, there is a warning not compatible with
"freedesktop.org".

It's now 2 weeks later, I've asked in 2 different newsgroups, poked
around every possible place on the net and still don't know how to
permanenty disable the sound in X. How can Linux ever become a contender
in the desktop marked if such a simple thing can't be accomplished?!?

O. Wyss

  

Which xfce4 packages have you installed? I ask as I had the same error
message (freedesktop.org) some time ago and found I was missing a xfce4
package. Xfce4 on my system consists the following: 

+++-==-==-
ii  xfce4  4.0.5-1    Installs XFce4 core and scripts to
set it up
ii  xfce4-artwork  0.0.4-3    Additional artwork for the XFce4
Desktop Env
ii  xfce4-datetime 0.2-3  Date and time plugin for the XFce4
panel
un  xfce4-dev   (no description available)
ii  xfce4-diskperf 1.3-3  Disk performance display plugin for
the XFce
ii  xfce4-iconbox  4.0.6-1    Iconbox for the Xfce4 Desktop
Environment
ii  xfce4-mcs-mana 4.0.6-1    Settings manager for Xfce4
ii  xfce4-mcs-mana 4.0.6-1    Development files and static plugins
ii  xfce4-mcs-plug 4.0.6-1    Special modules for the
xfce4-mcs-manager
ii  xfce4-mixer    4.0.6-1    XFce4 Mixer frontend
ii  xfce4-netload- 0.2.2-4    Network load monitor plugin for the
XFce4 pa
ii  xfce4-panel    4.0.6-1    The Xfce4 desktop environment panel
ii  xfce4-session  0.1.3+20031213 XFce4 Session Manager
ii  xfce4-systemlo 0.3.3-4    System load monitor plugin for the
XFce4 pan
ii  xfce4-systray  4.0.6-1    Systray panel plugin for XFce4 panel
ii  xfce4-themes   4.0.6-1    Theme files for Xfce4
ii  xfce4-toys 4.0.6-1    Eyes plugin for XFce4 panel and
xfce4-tips
ii  xfce4-trigger- 4.0.6-1    Panel plugin to start/stop programs
ii  xfce4-utils    4.0.6-1    Various tools for XFce

AFAIRC it was xfce4-session

Robin

Re: debian based web hosting

[robin]

RituRaj wrote:
I would like to host my web site. But currenlt i am
just looking for a free web hosting solution. Does
anyone know of some provider which has debian running
on their servers?(i do not want my site to be running
on some proprietory OS)
PLease suggest.
Rituraj
		
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Hi
In the UK there is an ISP called www.ukfsn.org (UK free software 
network). Profits are used to fund Free Software in the UK. They have a 
range of connection options starting with dialup.

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Re: Adobe Acrobat Reader

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Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote:
I cannot install AAR following the instructions in
http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?Acrobat
Why I click in the script (*.sh )I recieve an error message.
I suggest include the tarbar in the Debian packages, in a similar way 
to the Macromedia Flash (this is important because I cannot print PDF 
files using the Acrobat Reader forks ).

Regards.

What is the error message?
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Re: playing cds

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Andrea Vettorello wrote:

  On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 01:37:00 -0700, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
Ok, I have my cd-rom drive conected to my sound card.and normal sound
works but cd's do not.  I am a member of groups audio and disk.  cdcd
doesn't give me any error messages, but nothing plays.  What am I
missing here?  Where should I look for any error messages.
Sean


  
  
Look in your mixer or volume manager, and play with the cursors, with
my cheap integrated VIA VT8233 and ALSA the CD volume is adjusted with
both the "Surround" and "CD" controls. Never tried to use OSS.

For the error messages, don't know if you can raise the verbose level,
but usually you'll find them in /var/log/syslog.


Andrea


  

There is a verbose switch :  cdcd verbose

Re: program for printing sheet music

[robin]

Nardis Dome wrote:
Hi all,
i'm looking for a program for printing guitar
(tablature) sheet music. For the moment i use
Lilypond.
Unfortunately LilyPond offers only limited support for
tablature.
thx for the feedback.
		
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Have not tried but:
etktab
songwrite
Available from deb http://apt.agnula.org/demudi testing main local extra
See also www.agnula.org for info
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Re: Migrating from qmail: which MTA?

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David Garamond wrote:
Cristi Banciu wrote:
We are planning to migrate a bunch of hosting servers from RH73 + 
qmail + vmailmgr to Sarge and I'd appreciate on the comments of the 
choice of MTA to use.


Oh, I should add that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to other 
MTAs. I've used qmail ever since I've used Linux (around RH5-RH6). 
I'm not even familiar with Sendmail. Most of my friends are pushing 
for Postfix, but I see that Debian's default is exim, and I myself 
have been using courier-imap so currently I'm thinking courier would 
be the easiest migration route.

And why don't u use qmail ?

I thought qmail doesn't exist in the main debian archive?
--
dave

Looking via synaptic: qmail-src
Source only package for building qmail binary package
qmail is a secure Secure, reliable, efficient, simple mail transport system.
Dan Bernstein (qmail's author) only gives permission for qmail to be
distributed in source form, or binary for by approval. This package
has been put together to allow people to easily build a qmail binary
package for themselves, from source.
To build a binary deb package, first install the qmail-src package, then
type the command "build-qmail". If you try "apt-get source --build 
qmail-src"
it will most likely fail because the users do not exist. You MUST install
the qmail-src package first. Also be sure to build and install ucspi-tcp
before installing the binary qmail package. Install the ucspi-tcp-src 
package
to get ucspi-tcp.

This package builds a binary .deb that is FHS compliant and conforms to the
Debian standards guidelines. The resulting binary packages are not suitable
for re-distribution.
There are pre-compiled binary packages for qmail available, but they do not
conform to the Debian standards, and are not available in the official 
archive.

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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[robin]

michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, so...
I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my 
machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted WinXP. 
However, I can make no headway on getting sounds from it when I boot 
in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that doesn't seem 
to have changed anything. All solutions are most welcome! And here's 
what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for me! TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin
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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[robin]

michael wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains this, 
so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my 
machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted 
WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds from it 
when I boot in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that doesn't 
seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most welcome! And 
here's what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for me! 
TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin

That comes up with:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.
I should also have said the console gets the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

Not sure which module it is so check 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/  soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371
replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue with 
some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Robin
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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[robin]

michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains 
this, so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in my 
machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when booted 
WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds from it 
when I boot in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that doesn't 
seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most welcome! 
And here's what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for 
me! TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin

That comes up with:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.

I should also have said the console gets the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

Not sure which module it is so check 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/  soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371
replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue with 
some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o 
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod emu10k1 failed

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ dmesg|tail
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$

Thanks for helping me through this!
Michael

See 
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg120316.html 
for 2.6 details.
Do you have alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp installed?

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Re: Creative SoundBlaster Live! - how to get it working?

[robin]

michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
michael wrote:
robin wrote:
michael wrote:
I've looked but can't find anything that definitely explains 
this, so...

I have a new Creative SoundBlaster Live! 24 bit sound card in 
my machine (dual Xeon box). The card works - heard it when 
booted WinXP. However, I can make no headway on getting sounds 
from it when I boot in to my Linux
partition. I have done a 'apt-get install alsa' but that 
doesn't seem to have changed anything. All solutions are most 
welcome! And here's what I
believe is sufficient information for people to answer this for 
me! TIA.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a;sudo lsmod
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 
i686 GNU/Linux
Module  Size  Used byNot tainted
floppy 52184   0  (autoclean)
soundcore   4420   0  (autoclean)
input   3872   0  (autoclean)
lp  6916   0
parport27944   0  [lp]
af_packet  14472   1  (autoclean)
uhci   27100   0  (unused)
hw_random   2876   0  (unused)
i810_rng2788   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd   18924   0  (unused)
usbcore65804   1  [uhci ehci-hcd]
ide-scsi   10192   0
scsi_mod   97732   1  [ide-scsi]
e1000  68844   1
ide-cd 31328   0
cdrom  30080   0  [ide-cd]
rtc 7112   0  (autoclean)
ext3   84748   7  (autoclean)
jbd46200   7  (autoclean) [ext3]
ide-detect   288   0  (autoclean) (unused)
piix9128   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk   16960   8  (autoclean)
ide-core  112184   8  (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd 
ide-detect piix ide-disk]
unix   16784 221  (autoclean)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$


Hi
Try running alsaconf to set up the alsa sound modules.
Robin

That comes up with:
No supported PnP or PCI card found.


I should also have said the console gets the message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo alsaconf
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found
modinfo: snd: no module by that name found

Not sure which module it is so check 
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/  soundcard matrix and then
e.g.

modprobe  snd-ens1371
replacing, if necessary, snd-ens1371 with the correct module.
If there are any error messages post them here.
Also which kernel version are you running as there was an issue 
with some 2.6 kernels with OSS grabbing the sound card before Alsa.

Okay, it seems to be module emu10k1 that I require but I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ sudo modprobe emu10k1
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o 
failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o: 
insmod emu10k1 failed

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ dmesg|tail
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.20, 06:37:07 Sep  3 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ uname -a
Linux ratty 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$

Thanks for helping me through this!
Michael

See 
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg120316.html 
for 2.6 details.
Do you have alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp installed?

It's been a long day (that's my excuse & it also means I can go 
shortly!) but

a) isn't "2.6 details" irrelevant to me since I'm using 2.4.27?
b) err, how do I find what modules I have installed? Do you mean using 
'lsmod'? There's no alsa there

Michael

Sorry I meant the alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp deb package installed. 
It is separate from the alsa-base package.
Run

dpkg -S alsa-mod*
alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-k7: 
/usr/share/doc/alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-multimedia-k7
alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-multimedia-k7: 
/usr/share/doc/alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-multimedia-k7

means I have 2 modules packages installed to match my installed kernels.
Do you use synaptic or aptitude or apt-get to load new packages? If 
apt-get then

apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-686-smp
should do the biz. Either it

Re: Configuration DB

[robin]

Cameron Hutchison wrote:

  Once upon a time John Hasler said...
  
  
Tong writes:


  Thanks, John, that's something I am thinking of as the last resort.
  

Why as a last resort?

  
  
Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster.

It is not enough to simply backup /etc, as some packages automatically
generate config files from the debconf info (xfree86 being one). In
these cases you want the debconf info to be accurate.

Is anyone able to answer the original question? I'd like to know the
answer too.

How can you backup your debconf answers and restore them in such a way
that it replaces re-entering the answers? I'd like something similar to
dpkg --get/set--selections, but for debconf answers.

CHeers


  

What about files/directories  under /var/cache?
(Just a thought, not tried )




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Re: Mozilla Firefox: Forbidden page

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John Summerfield wrote:
Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote:
I failed to mention in my original posting that I can access those pages
if I go to a Microsoft windows machine and access them via IE.
So, I don't think it is a proxy/firewall issue.
I downloaded netscape, but with it I cannot even get to internet. It
doesn't pop up for the user id required by the proxy to get to internet.
:-(  Needless to say that I tried to configure netscape the same I
configured firefox, in terms of proxy connections.
Any other good browser I can give it a try?
 

One or more of these may already be installed on your computer:
lynx
links
elinks
w3m
They're all character-mode browsers, start them in an xterm window. Note 
that w3m doesn't play nice with konsole.

Under Help Menu
Debian Reference
file:///usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-killecn
3.7.5 Strange access problems with some websites
Recent Linux kernels enable ECN by default, which may cause access 
problems with some websites on bad routers. To check ECN status:

 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
  ... or
 # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_ecn
To turn it off, use:
 # echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
  ... or
 # sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=0
To disable TCP ECN on every boot, edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add:
 net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0

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Re: anonymous proxy

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In debian testing -apt-get install  anon-proxy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  
Can you please point me to the corresponding thread, as it simply
can't be the one at
,
at least not according to your description.

  
  
Yes, that's the one.

I am of course being deliberately extreme in my characterization, but
the essential facts of the matter, viewed from my perspective, are:

(1) I asked a completely innocent question,
(2) I was immediately, arrogantly, and ignorantly accused of wanting to
"spam",
based on no evidence at all,
(3) There is NO evidence that anyone ever understood what was meant
by an anonymous proxy server or a utility for utilizing them,
(4) The thread ended with little or no useful information going in
either direction.

Not that I really *care*, mind you, but... "that's the situation -
there's
the dog."


  

Re:

[robin]

octave?
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

  
  
   Is there a Debian -- or free -- equivalent of MATLAB. 

Re: Debian and KDE33

[robin]

John Summerfield wrote:
Jeff Goodwin wrote:
Hello,
The KDE org refers people to you to get an official ruling on 
when/whether you give your official binaries of KDE 3.3 to them. 
Also, I just did a CD install of Debian and found KDE 2.2 on there. 
Is a later KDE version ok for Debian (Woody)?


See www.backport.org and it it's not there, then www.apt-get.org
The former is better because they partition the components so if you 
configure your system to get KDE you won't accidenly get Gnome from 
the same source.


Should be www.backports.org
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Re: Zend Optimizer for Debian

[robin]

Mirko Scurk wrote:
Are there any packages for Debian?
 

caudium-php4 ?
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2.6.7 kernel build using make-kpkg no initrd.img produced

[robin]

Using make menuconfig,  initrd set to built-in under device drivers / 
block devices
After configuring run make-kpkg buildpackage following debs produced:
kernel-doc-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_all.deb  
kernel-image-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_i386.deb
kernel-headers-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_i386.deb 
kernel-source-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_all.deb
Run dpkg -i debs
Normally do not run lilo within dpkg script as I edit lilo.conf to 
reflect additional entry first.
Could'nt find new initrd.img under / or boot
Reran dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.7_10.00.Custom_i386.deb (didn't complain 
already installed).
Let lilo run this time and it produced error log :Fatal: open 
/initrd.img: No such file or directory
Have I missed something ?

Robin
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Re: gtk-config, what to install?

[robin]

Stefan O'Rear wrote:

  On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:20:42PM -0500, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
  
  

  ~ %% dlocate `which gtk-config`
libgtk1.2-dev: /usr/bin/gtk-config
~ %% 

libgtk1.2-dev (WARNING: I use woody)

  

Yeah, I am using SARGE and dlocate `which gtk-config`
does not work.

  
  
dlocate only tells you about things that are currently installed :)

I was referring you to libgtk*-dev, not dlocate.

Sorry for the ambiguity :(

* is 1.2 on woody, poss. 2.0 or 1.3 on sarge...


  

I think you are looking fo gtk-doc package
Robin

Re: download speeds on console

[robin]

Vin Jacob wrote:
What is
best app to get eth and ppp upload and download rates in a console.
  
  
Cheers,
  
  
Vin
  
  
  

I used to use ibmonitor bit does not appear to be in official deb
package lists now but is available at
http://linux.org.by/debian/pool/main/i/ibmonitor

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Re: Examine Package Conflicts

[robin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one examine conflicts between packages' dependancies?
I just tried upgrading my system, & APT concluded that an important 
package had to be removed. Now I must figure out which packages' 
dependancies require my important package's removal, so I can remove 
them, or otherwise satisfy their dependancies.

I've been over the APT HOWTO, but I'm still not clear which tool to 
use, to discover for what reason my important package must be removed.

Many thanks for your APT advice!
Jack

install synaptic , find package and look at properties.
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Re: apt-get remove doesn't remove daemons

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Peter O wrote:
Hi!
apt-get remove in Sarge (fully updated) does not remove (some?) files 
from /etc/init.d and links to them from /etc/rc2.d. For example, these two 
commands:

apt-get install cpufreqd
apt-get remove cpufreqd
left /etc/init.d/cpufreqd file there, as well as a link to it in rc2.d. 
Several other daemons were also left there after apt-get removing them.

Is this behavior 'by design'? If so, where can I read about it? The man page 
insists that apt-get remove is 'identicall to install except that packages 
are removed instead of installed'. The behavior I'm experiencing does not 
support this claim.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Peter
 

apt-get --purge remove pkg-name
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Re: Preinstalled System

[robin]

"Sid" is the testing kernel and is more advanced than
"Sarge" and will cause you problems; stay away from
that one.
 

I would disagree. For a production machine definitely but maybe not a 
desktop machine. I have run unstable without any problems for 18 months. 
Maybe I've been lucky but debian in all its forms is one of the most 
stable linux distribution I have run.

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Re: router problem

[robin]

Werner Otto wrote:
Hi All,
I recently bout a Zoom X5 Router modem. I set it up on Windows XP Pro
with no errors. I booted into Debian with no problem and worked 100%.
I then logged off and a few days later logged back into Debian and did
not work. I am unable to ping any hostname or localhost. I changed
nothing. I made sure that my nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf was set to
10.0.0.2. My /etc/network/interfaces file has the line auto dhcp and
iface eth0 inet dhcp in it, with the fallback lo interface.
The errors that I get at bootup are: DHCPNAK with no active lease 10.0.0.2
DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=10.0.0.10 DST=10.0.0.255 LEN=260 TOS=0x00
PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=1 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=138 DPT=138 LEN=240. This error
sequence seems to display indefinate.
I am a newby when it comes to router configuration. Could someone
please point me in the right direction?
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Otto
 

Possibly a silly question but have you tried switching the router off/on?
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Re: Cleaning Epson inkjets | Deb unstable & cups-gimprint

[robin]

Andrea Vettorello wrote:

  On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:30:46 +1200, Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
Hi, the Win XP printing program can clean and inkjets and do a test print.

Does anyone know how this can  be done under Debian unstable with
cups-gimprint ?


  
  
I think you need the "escputil" package.


Andrea


  

Or Mtink

Robin

Re: Can't compile apps neither burn with K3B if no-root

[robin]

Pau Capdevila wrote:
Hello,
I have a problem when I try to compile applications. At the configure
stage it complains about not bein able to find g++ and so on:
()
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
()
Finally it says this:
()
checking if C++ programs can be compiled... no
configure: error: Your Installation isn't able to compile simple C++ programs.
Check config.log for details - if you're using a Linux distribution
you might miss
a package named similiar to libstd++-dev.
but:
$ dpkg -l libstd*
(..).
ii  libstdc++53.3.4-12  The GNU
Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libstdc++5-3.3-dev3.3.4-12  The GNU
Standard C++ Library v3 (development files)
(...)
I'm unable to see anything that helps me in config.log
My Debian is testing/unstable with the developement packages upgraded
to unstable. (now I'm trying to upgrade everything to Sid)
Moreover K3B is unable to see any of my CD-ROM devices if I'm not
root. I'm using UDEV.
Help!!!
Thanks everybody.
Pau
 

Do you have g++ installed?
Robin
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Re: cups works but dont print out!

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On 28/01/2008, Andrea Ganduglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ok. It's very embarrassing but printer do not print yet. The problem
> (I think) depends from paper format. I printed Letter paper, instead
> of A4, and printer stopped.
>
> If I print with another machine, when I attach printer on this
> machine, It print out again, but if not I can shut down printer and
> restart cups, but nothing happens.
>
> How can I reset my printer from local machine?
>
> --
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In a web browser  type http://localhost:631/printers/ in the address bar and
from there you should be able change the printer options.




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Re: Strange network problem

[Robin]

On 28/01/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I bought a new ADSL2+ modem and connected to my debian PC. I used DHCP
> to get IP address, I can ping www.google.com or any domain name, but
> my browser could not see www.google.com or any web site. Any
> explanations of why I could ping www.google.com (which means the DNS
> and route worked fine), but the brower could not download web pages
> (browser does not any problem if using other network connections)?
> I've disabled all firewall and service block in the ADSL modem. My
> debian system does not have any problem if connects to other network.
> Could it be the modem problem?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jim
>
> This may be a silly question but prior to getting your new modem was your
browser set up to use a proxy?

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Re: Newby trying to install deb package

[Robin]

On 26/01/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 2008-01-19 17:42:36, schrieb Phil Timbrell:
> > I am trying to convert to most recent version of Debian but want to
> > install additional .deb packages onto the pc.  I am a newby - sorry.
> > Synaptic downloads and installs a package such as mothomatic but once it
> > has completed the install it does not appear on the desktop to run.  The
> > binary exists within a folder that synaptic places it but the binary
> > will not run.
> >
> > This must be a common problem for recent converts from windows.  What
> > missing step is there - there is obviously something else I have to do
> > to get this and other similar programs appearing in the applications
> > window ready to run?
> >
> > thankyou
> >
> > Phil Timbrell
> >
>

Something to try:

Open Gnome terminal

Type su  ( Press Enter or Return Key)

Supply root password

Type update-menus

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Re: cannot connect to my wifi

[Robin]

On 02/02/2008, oxy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi friends,
> i tryed many suggestions on internet, but no success yet to connect to my
> wifi.
> I have the following hardware:
> # lspci
> 08:07.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
> 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>
> I installed madwifi according go the post
>
> http://www.webservertalk.com/archive291-2007-4-1865856.html
>
> It seems to work. But the connection i cannot manage to get done.
> First i tried network-manager. All fields there, just typed it as worked
> for previous windows and ... no success.
> Many posts in internet report problems of network-manager anyway.
> Some ubuntu people said they solved their problems
> using gtkwifi, nm-applet, and wicd, but i didnt find
> them for debian (??? aren't they the same???).
> I also tried iwconfig but got an
>
> Error : unrecognised wireless request "thenet.com"
>
> OBS: the name was correct.
>
> Than i installed wifi-radar. It makes it easy to set
> the connection, but there is no way to set the interface
> name. So wifi-radar keeps on trying to connect a certain eth2 interface,
> that does not exist!
>
> Any tip, please, i ran out of possibilities :-)
> Thank u all in advance ...
>


This may/may not be of help as I have a different device. You will need to
adjust the settings to suit the specs of your device and router.

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid ***
iwpriv wlan0 set AuthMode=WPA2PSK
iwpriv wlan0 set WPAPSK= *
iwpriv wlan0 set EncrypType=AES
dhclient

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Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

[Robin]

On 06/02/2008, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems.
>
> Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have clicked on a
> link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing
> nothing. It displays "STOPPED" in the status bar and
> will not load any pages, either i'net or local network.
>
> The system monitor and "top" don't show that there is
> anything in particular going on and other apps have a
> good, quick response.
>
> Time cures the problem. Generally after "a while"
> something breaks loose and it sort of catches up and
> things work.
>
> I have the cache disabled. It doesn't seem to make any
> difference one way or the other.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Dennis
>
>
Same thing here occasionally. Seems related to Flash sites and
nspluginwrapper. Killing nspluginwrapper cures the problem for me.

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Re: in KDE, starting totem forces gnome libs

[Robin]

On 12/02/2008, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Debian Testing and KDE desktop, if I click on a movie link on a
> webpage, the video opens in Totem, the defualt application. Once that
> happens, it appears that Totem is forcing Gnome libs to the desktop (or
> the environment) and Firefox, pidgin, thunderbird, and perhaps other
> applications if they are open, all change their appearance as if they
> were running in Gnome. The screensaver also changes similarly. I have to
> log out and log back in get things back to normal in KDE.
>
> Is something the matter with Totem, Firefox or KDE?
>
> thanks,
> ->HS
>
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Had similar problem with a different desktop,  needing a restart of X to
clear. Might be connected with gnome-settings-daemon which starts up here
when totem starts.  Gnome apps seem to like to taking over your desktop.

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Re: Icedove doesn't drag and drop for me

[Robin]

On 14/02/2008, Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My icedove doesn't drag and drop my emails from inbox to folder. 2
> weeks ago I used drag and drop it without problem.
>
> I upgrade my (sid) system with full-upgrade frequently.
>
> Are your icedove working fine for you with drag and drop?
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
> Version 2.0.0.9 (20080109) appears to be functioning correctly here.


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Blacklisting modules

[Robin]

I have an onboard rtl8187 wireless usb chip which I want to disable but
which cannot be disabled from bios. I added 'blacklist rtl8187' to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but the module still loads. Any ideas whereelse to
check?

from /boot/config-2.6.24-1-amd64
CONFIG_RTL8187=m

network-manager not installed

Debian sid kernel: linux-image-2.6.24-1-amd64 (version2.6.24-4)

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Re: Blacklisting modules

[Robin]

On 20/02/2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:49:39PM +, Robin wrote:
> > I have an onboard rtl8187 wireless usb chip which I want to disable but
> > which cannot be disabled from bios. I added 'blacklist rtl8187' to
> > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but the module still loads. Any ideas
> whereelse to
> > check?
>
>
> Try 'install rtl8187 /bin/true' instead of the 'blacklist' if this
> doesn't work than the module is loaded somewhere else, probably in your
> initrd, which will need to be rebuilt.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
>
> Seems it is loaded somewhere else. I'll try rebuilding initrd.

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Re: wireless problems

[Robin]

On 26/02/2008, seeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hello i hope someone can help me here. i have a toshiba satellite
> notebook running debian testing.  the wireless card is realtek 8187B.
> my wireless don't work at all.  it does not even show up. thanks.
>
>
>
Realtek 8187 entered kernel at version 2.6.23, I think.  Prior to that
there was a 32bit version from Realtek site

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Re: finally got lenny installed

[Robin]

On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other
> packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome
> environment.  I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order to
> have a possibility of getting past the application non-destructively.
>
>
>

Checking my installation removing gdm will remove gnome-desktop-environment
which is a package rather than  the whole gnome desktop. The other stuff
aptitude wants to remove is what aptitude *thinks* is no longer required. A
suggestion would to install synaptic, a graphical front-end  to apt,  as
your package manager which I think is clearer in a some instances.


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Re: finally got lenny installed

[Robin]

On 27/02/2008, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2008-02-27 02:05 +0100, Robin wrote:
>
> > On 26/02/2008, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I tried aptitude remove --purge gdm and got back a whole list of other
> >> packages gdm would like to remove with it including the entire gnome
> >> environment.  I think I may just rename gdm to something else in order
> to
> >> have a possibility of getting past the application non-destructively.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Checking my installation removing gdm will remove
> gnome-desktop-environment
> > which is a package rather than  the whole gnome desktop. The other stuff
> > aptitude wants to remove is what aptitude *thinks* is no longer
> required. A
> > suggestion would to install synaptic, a graphical front-end  to apt,  as
> > your package manager which I think is clearer in a some instances.
>
>
> Why that?  If aptitude wants to remove these packages, this is because
> they were automatically installed as a dependency of
> gnome-desktop-environment, and the solution is simply to mark everything
> you would like to keep as manually installed.
>
>
> Sven
>
> Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the
wrong way round from a user perspective.



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Re: finally got lenny installed

[Robin]

On 27/02/2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:33:45AM +, Robin <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
>
> > Why should you have to mark all the packages you want to keep? It is the
> > wrong way round from a user perspective.
>
>
>   Because they were originally installed as a dependency of another
> package.  aptitude has no way to know that gnome-desktop (eg) is a fake
> package whose dependencies should be kept on if it gets removed, so if
> you want to get automatic removal of unused packages, you end up with
> situations like this.
>
>   If you don't care about this feature, you can turn it off under
> Options/Dependency Handling by disabling "Remove unused packages
> automatically", or add "Aptitude::Delete-Unused false;" to
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.
>
>
>   Daniel
>
>
I know why it does it, what I'm saying is the default behaviour is wrong. A
user new to debian/aptitude is unlikely  to understand that it is a
configuration option that needs to be turned off, whereas a more
experienced/technical user is more likely to have the knowledge to turn the
option on.

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Re: MIDI Score Reader/Editor that WORKS??

[Robin]

On 09/03/2008, laura eznarriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  *
> *
> --
> Ok, I'm getting really frustrated. I have a midi score I want to read and
> print, and I CANNOT find a program that just F*cking WORKS. I have tried GNU
> Denemo, and it crashes when I load a score. Rosegarden is nice, but won't
> allow me to split out the score into multiple lines, and since it's a piano
> score, that is a problem. I tried to install Canorus, and it won't work, and
> neither will mscore. Both gave me some weird errors or just wouldn't work
> right, and I followed the installation instructions to a T. So what can I
> do? This all is really frustrating me...not to mention the fact that jackd
> is not working properly with my Delta 1010 sound card for some reason...and
> I don't know what in the world is going on there either. Any suggestions?
> Should I just give up and reinstall Ubuntu?
>
> --
>
> Enviado desde Correo Yahoo!
> Disfruta de una bandeja de entrada más 
> inteligente.
> .
>
>
Your best bet, not being funny, is to try either Studio64, a multimedia
workstation distribution based on Debian (32bit version also available) or
ubuntu studio. Last time I looked Studio64 sets up everything for you
(audio, midi, realtime kernel) including, IIRC, the graphics  system.

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Re: MIDI Score Reader/Editor that WORKS??

[Robin]

On 09/03/2008, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 09/03/2008, laura eznarriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  *
> > *
> > --
> > Ok, I'm getting really frustrated. I have a midi score I want to read
> > and print, and I CANNOT find a program that just F*cking WORKS. I have tried
> > GNU Denemo, and it crashes when I load a score. Rosegarden is nice, but
> > won't allow me to split out the score into multiple lines, and since it's a
> > piano score, that is a problem. I tried to install Canorus, and it won't
> > work, and neither will mscore. Both gave me some weird errors or just
> > wouldn't work right, and I followed the installation instructions to a T. So
> > what can I do? This all is really frustrating me...not to mention the fact
> > that jackd is not working properly with my Delta 1010 sound card for some
> > reason...and I don't know what in the world is going on there either. Any
> > suggestions? Should I just give up and reinstall Ubuntu?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Enviado desde Correo Yahoo!
> > Disfruta de una bandeja de entrada más 
> > inteligente.<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mailuk/taglines/isp/control/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=52431/*http://es.docs.yahoo.com/mail/overview/index.html>
> > .
> >
> >
> Your best bet, not being funny, is to try either Studio64, a multimedia
> workstation distribution based on Debian (32bit version also available) or
> ubuntu studio. Last time I looked Studio64 sets up everything for you
> (audio, midi, realtime kernel) including, IIRC, the graphics  system.
>
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Re: Starting Evolution with work-online enabled

[Robin]

On 02/04/2008, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 04/02/08 13:36, andy wrote:
>
>  If one starts Evolution from the KDE kicker (as opposed to from the CLI)
> it always starts off-line. I've reviewed as many docs on Evolution as I
> can find, but cannot see anything that would enable me to configure it
> so that it starts on-line. Has anyone ever been able to set this up in
> such a way to work on-line when it starts up?
>
>  OT, but why are you using Evo with KDE?
>
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>
>  Is there a reason why I shouldn't?
>
> A
>

Had the same sort of thing a while ago with epiphany and liferea. In my
case, after a process of elimination, network-manager was the problem.

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Re: Starting Evolution with work-online enabled [SOLVED]

[Robin]

On 04/04/2008, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 04/03/08 18:06, andy wrote:
>
>  Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>  
>
>   On 04/02/08 13:36, andy wrote:
>
>If one starts Evolution from the KDE kicker (as opposed to from
> the CLI)
> it always starts off-line. I've reviewed as many docs on
> Evolution as I
> can find, but cannot see anything that would enable me to
> configure it
> so that it starts on-line. Has anyone ever been able to set this
> up in
> such a way to work on-line when it starts up?
>
>  
>
>   gconf elements are manipulated with /usr/bin/gconf-editor and stored
> in ~/.gconf.
>
> - --
>
>gconf was a bit like wading into a mine-field.
>
> Resolved problem: apt-get remove network-manager
>
>  So it turns out that either disabling network-manager didn't work,
> or there's some other bit of n-m that causes side-effects.
>
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>
>  To be honest, I couldn't find the proper switches, and since I don't need
> n-m anyway I decided to remove the whole thing. Probably a little bit like
> overkill but when you're only tool is a hammer ... :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> A
>

Package should be renamed network-mangler:)


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Re: Some images not displayed by Iceweasel

[Robin]

2008/6/17 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> On 06/17/08 15:59, Kent West wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>

 On 06/17/08 15:22, Edward C. Jones wrote:

>
> I use Debian unstable, amd64 port, on a PC with a 64 bit AMD chip.
>
> The latest version of Iceweasel, iceweasel_3.0~rc2-1, sometimes fails
> to
> display images. I suspect that javascript is involved. For example see
> the url:
>
> http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=lwx
>

 Works perfectly for me


>
> which is a US Weather Bureau radar image. What is the problem?
>

 Probably a conflict with some add-on.  Do you have No-script?


>>>
>>> A more consistent example for me is http://www.drudgereport.com/ at
>>> which some images show and some don't.
>>>
>>
>> I just tried DR on IE7 under XP Pro and Iceweasel 3.0~rc2-1 on an
>> up-to-date Sid.
>>
>> The only differences were that Ad-Block Plus did what it does.  All
>> of the news photos showed up properly.
>>
>>
>
> Here's what it looks like on my box: http://www.acu.edu/~westk/drudge.jpg
>
>
>
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>
>
>
>
 Have sid, same icew-3.0-rc2, noscript and adblock enabled and page
appears correctly. Try running from terminal iceweasel -safemode and
see what happens. Note single hyphen on flag/switch/parameter.

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Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

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2008/6/18 Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded iceweasel.
> Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of some facilities
> on my web site.
>
> Can I easily undo that upgrade?  If so how
> --
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Unless you have cleaned out packages or clean out packages
automatically you can cd to /var/cache/apt/archives and dpkg -i
iceweasel-version from there.


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Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

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2008/6/20 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is
> full of people having trouble installing Linux on it. And I've just spent a
> day and a half trying to find a version of Windows that would install on it
> so I could update the BIOS to the most recent version, hoping that'd help.
>
> The best solution I've seen so far is to use this line at the installer's
> (Etch, I believe) LILO prompt:
>
> boot: install pci=nomsi
>
> That gets me farther than anything else I've tried, but when it tries to
> find the CD-ROM, it can't find the drive. (Apparently there's something
> really mucky about the SATA controller on this particular model of Dell.)
>
> So I tried going the route of doing a network install via
> http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me
> any option to feed the "pci=nomsi" parameter (or any other similar
> parameters); I've been unable to find a way to force this grub install to
> let me add boot arguments.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> (Wow! I never thought I'd consider a Dell to be absolute cr*p, but this is
> it.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
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I may be misunderstanding, but when the grub menu comes up can you not
press 'e' to edit. If so select  kernel line and press 'e' again and
add option there. Hit the 'Return' key and then 'b' to boot.

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Re: Wacom and WINE

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2008/6/24  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello. I am new to Linux, and I wish to use my Bamboo Tablet in Linux and 
> have WINE set up for quick access to Windows. However, I can't really make 
> heads or tails of the instructions. Any help would be appreciated.
>
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As a start if you haven't already install the package: xserver-xorg-input-wacom

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Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

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2008/7/19 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:11:47PM +0100, andy wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts
>> of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is
>> outdated: "You need the latest Flash Player plugin to view the
>> multimedia content of this site."
>
>> http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/environment/global-warming/gw-impacts-interactive.html
>
> do you have flashplayer at all? That is, does it show up in
> about:plugins?  I noticed that abunch of flashpages weren't working on
> my laptop, and started poking around. It seems that the package
> flashplugin-nonfree (from debian repos) is not working with IW3.0 but
> marillat's flashplayer-mozilla package (from his repos) is working.
>
> hth
>
> A
>
Flashplugin-nonfree is working here now, version 1:1.6.2 with IW 3.0.1-1.

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Re: Module compilation

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2008/7/20 Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm following this guide:
>
>  
> http://www.debianclan.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=38
>
> .  At the step where I do:
>
>  # make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`
>
> , the system complains that the above path is not found: in fact no file or
> directory `/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build' exists.  Please can anybody suggest
> the right procedure?
>
> Many thanks in advance ofr any help
> Rodolfo
>
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Have you got the matching linux-headers-versionnumber package for you
installed kernel?

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Re: mixed (stable & sid) system - Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Robin]

2008/7/27 Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello!
>
> I have Debian Etch en Half system.
>
> I want to install from SID ion3 package so I follow the apt-howto and
> edited apt.conf and sources.list for this purpose:
>
> apt.conf:
> APT::Default-Release "stable";
>
> sources.list:
> deb http://ftp.hu.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
> deb-src http://ftp.hu.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
>
> 'sudo aptitude update' command give to me error message:
>
> ...
> Fetched 427kB in 29s (14.2kB/s)
> Reading package lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occurred while processing specto (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList \
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.hu.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> E: Couldn't rebuild package cache
>
> How can I solve this problem?
>
> Any advices will be appreciated!
>
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Re: wireless LAN problems with recent kernels

[Robin]

2008/8/1 Ansgar Burchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a RaLink RT2500 (PCI) wireless NIC.  It works without problems
> with a 2.6.20.1 kernel and the rt2500 drivers.
>
> I did try to update to the Debian 2.6.25 kernel, but there the WLAN
> connection makes problems: Sometimes the connection just drops.
> dmesg shows this message:
>
>wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:13:49:d7:ab:7c
>- assume out of range
>
> The connection is not reestablished automatically, only when I run e.g.
> `iwconfig wlan0 essid MyESSID'.  This reconnection also fails sometimes
> with the following message showing up in dmesg:
>
>wlan0: authentication with AP 00:13:49:d7:ab:7c timed out
>
> I admit having sometimes connection problems running the older kernel as
> well, but the network works again after a few moments (and without any
> manual intervention).  The link quality given by iwconfig is around
> 50/100, though it sometimes goes down to 30.  Anyway the situation is
> much worse with the newer kernel version.
>
> A forum post [1] suggested increasing IEEE80211_MONITORING_INTERVAL in the
> kernel sources, but this didn't help much:  The messages do no longer
> appear, but the connection is still flaky.
>
> Regards,
> Ansgar
>
> [1] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2081&p=29255
>
> --

I'm not sure if you mean the rt2500 drivers  as in the debian
packages. Also I have a rt73 so what follows may not apply.
I think the rt* series have been included in the kernel as of 2.6.24.
Prior to 2.6.24 I used the enhanced legacy drivers from serialmonkey
and have gone back to them in preference to the in-kernel package
modules as they performed much better, between 2 and 8 times the
throughput. You will need the linux-headers package to build them and
to rmmod the in-kernel modules before modprobe 'ing the legacy driver.
The legacy module name in my case is rt73, the kernel ones are rt73pci
or rt73usb.




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Re: --

[Robin]

2008/8/1 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:17:52 -0500
> Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Frank McCormick wrote:
>> >
>>
>> well said, Frank. well said...
>>
>>
>
>
>   Well at least one person here appreciates good writing.
>
> Cheers
> - --
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And no translations were needed!
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[OT] ( Was Re: Nikon L18 Support)

[Robin]

2008/8/1 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Since *everyone* knows that GNOME is superior...-*


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-* that is superior as in the Gnome developers knowing what's best for
mere users? :)

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Re: TTY 1 to 6 are garbled

[Robin]

2008/8/6 Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 09:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> a) When did this start happening?
>>
>> b) What packages did you update before you noticed this?
>>
>> c) Is this an English locale or Nederlands?
>>
>> --
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the quick answer! To answer your questions:
>
> a) I'm on a fresh install and the problem was always there.
> b) See a).
> c) I have an English Debian version with a Dutch locale.
>
> I have an ATI 3850 videocard. I suspect I have to add a parameter to the
> bootloader, only I don't have a clue which.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aniruddha
>
>

Another (long shot) thing to check is whether you have
grub-splashimages or grub2-splashimages packages installed. If  so try
booting after removing them.


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Re: recording and streaming in the same time, and then mixing - soundstudio app?

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2008/8/11 Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Mon,11.Aug.08, 23:29:56, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>
>>> My goal is to stream the music and record my sough and then to mix
>>> theses together. How can I perform this task on my system?
>>
>> I think you need jack or maybe just pulseaudio.
>
> I have installed these:
>
> aptitude search jack
> i A jackd
>
> aptitude search pulseaudio
> i   pulseaudio
>
> Audacity still can't works when I run audacious. :(
>
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>
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I'm using version 1.3.5-beta and going to Edit/Preferences/Audio I/O -
Playback Device, I have a choice of Alsa:default or Alsa:dmix. If you
select dmix does that help?
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Re: recording and streaming in the same time, and then mixing - soundstudio app?

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2008/8/11 Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/8/11 Csanyi Pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon,11.Aug.08, 23:29:56, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>>
>>>> My goal is to stream the music and record my sough and then to mix
>>>> theses together. How can I perform this task on my system?
>>>
>>> I think you need jack or maybe just pulseaudio.
>>
>> I have installed these:
>>
>> aptitude search jack
>> i A jackd
>>
>> aptitude search pulseaudio
>> i   pulseaudio
>>
>> Audacity still can't works when I run audacious. :(
>>
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>>
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>
> I'm using version 1.3.5-beta and going to Edit/Preferences/Audio I/O -
> Playback Device, I have a choice of Alsa:default or Alsa:dmix. If you
> select dmix does that help?
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Alternatively use /usr/bin/jacklaunch audacity
Jacklaunch is in the libjackasyn0 package.
>



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