How can I use pulse as as user on a headless server?

2015-05-01 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi gurus, I have a dac attached to a debian server running mpd and output the sound from the desktop machine to pulseaudio on the server. This works if I start pulseaudio -D --system which is considered to be "a bad idea". Another disadvantage is that mpd does not work connected to alsa direc

Crackling sound from external DAC with usb 3

2014-07-13 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hello, Using an DAC with a Intel NUC I get distorted, crackling sound. The device has four USB 3 ports, tried out all of them. System is jessie. Klaus root@nuc:~# lsusb -t /: Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 5000M /: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=x

Re: Crackling sound from usb sound device

2013-03-25 Thread Klaus Pieper
Does it crackle, when the USB storage device and the USB video device are unplugged? Were the USB storage and video devices plugged to other USB slots in the past? Hi Ralf, changed the slot for the audio device, now it works. Thanks for the hint Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Crackling sound from usb sound device

2013-03-23 Thread Klaus Pieper
Does it crackle, when the USB storage device and the USB video device are unplugged? Were the USB storage and video devices plugged to other USB slots in the past? The video device is the builtin camera of the Thinkpad. I unplugged the USB CD and got the same behaviour (reboot, while mpd is p

Re: Crackling sound from usb sound device

2013-03-23 Thread Klaus Pieper
On 03/23/2013 03:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: With a new kernel there could be a different IRQ assignment, run $ lsusb -t /: Bus 08.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M /: Bus 07.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M /: Bus 06.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub,

Crackling sound from usb sound device

2013-03-23 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, I have been using an external dac over usb for some months. Since about two weeks sometimes sound is distorted (irregualar crackles, which usually diappear after closing and reopening the application, i.e. mpd, xine, rhythmbox or a stream from firefox, some times). I am under the impress

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Klaus Pieper
Is it really broken? Have you mounted the SD card on another computer or on a Windows system (just in case...)? Tried the camera and three computers with linux, xp and win7. Linux seems to recognize the device (/dev/sdb on this machine), so does xp (there is a drive e:), but it can't be accessed

Re: Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Klaus Pieper
Did you mount the card as /dev/sdb...if so...mount the partition /dev/sdb1 YMMV # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Recover broken SDHC card

2012-09-07 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hello debian gurus, is it possible to recover anything from this flash card? Klaus [ 1008.061896] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk SDDR-113 9412 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 1008.063822] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 1008.196914] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 7744512 512-byte logical blocks: (

Re: Canon Pixma MX870 in wheezy

2012-07-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
On 07/21/2012 06:20 PM, Camaleón wrote: Are you on a 64 bits sytem? Can you run the Canon application? Yes. Before multiarch, you had to install the 32 bit Canon packages with "--force architecture" (this is what the Ubuntu guy does in his script). With multiarch, dependencies are resolved

Re: Canon Pixma MX870 in wheezy

2012-07-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
Finally understand debian multiarch. dpkg --add-architecture i386 aptitiude update ./install.sh # for the cnij drivers, dpkg fails apt-get -f install # install missing i386 libs ./install.sh # rerun dpkg after resolving dependencies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Canon Pixma MX870 in wheezy

2012-07-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10878776&postcount=83 Thanks Camaleon, installation was without errors. But I still have conflicts with 64/32 bit libraries. I understand I need 32 bit version of libcups and libpopt. How do I install these? TIA Klaus /usr/lib/cups/backend/cniju

Canon Pixma MX870 in wheezy

2012-07-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hello, tried to install the cnijfilter-mx870series-3.30-1-i386-deb package provided by Canon which works in stable. In wheezy however got version conflicts with libc6 and other libraries. The source also refused to compile. How can I get this beast up and running? Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Occasional hangups with forcedeth

2011-01-17 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi Camaleon, Does "ifdown eth0&& ifup eth0" restore the connectivity? Didn't try. If you are running lenny, I would try with an updated updated kernel (if this can be an option at your side) :-? It's squeeze. I have been waiting since 2.6.26 for a kernel fix. I might try 2.6.37. Linux

Occasional hangups with forcedeth

2011-01-16 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi gurus, using 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1) I have occasional (i.e. occuring about every 6 weeks) hangups of this device. Ping to and from the machine does work, but loss is over 70%. Any hints or workarounds? Regards, Klaus # dmesg |grep -i for

Re: Multiboot partitioning to share data, not dot files

2010-02-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
With LVM you could put anything on logical partitions which can be created/increased/decreased/dropped as necessary. You need a small separate boot partition, which can be shared between both systems. You might want to create a swap partition, which also is shared, maybe a separate partiti

Re: Can't remove LVM swap device

2009-06-27 Thread Klaus Pieper
groucho:~# cat /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume RESUME=/dev/mapper/vg01-swap Replace with the new logical volume, update-initramfs -u, reboot et voilà: groucho:~# lvremove -fv /dev/vg01/swap Using logical volume(s) on command line Archiving volume group "vg01" metadata (seqno 4).

Re: Can't remove LVM swap device

2009-06-27 Thread Klaus Pieper
try: swapoff remove the LV swapon groucho:~# swapoff -a groucho:~# lvremove -fv /dev/vg01/swap Using logical volume(s) on command line Can't remove open logical volume "swap" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Can't remove LVM swap device

2009-06-27 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, I have to replace a disk that contains a lvm volume group with a logical partition previously used as swap device (dev/vg01/swap). I replaced the swap partition with another one, changed /etc/fstab and removed the uswsusp package since I noticed that there was an entry for /dev/vg01/swap

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi Chris, So - I thought I'd try to chroot in from a CD live disk - knoppix was what I had lying around (4.0) - but that doesn't have lvm or has an lvm version difference. The dm_mod kernel module is there, but not the lvm utilities. So, you simply install it. modprobe dm_mod apt-get

Re: Fwd: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Klaus Pieper
Which file systems are (or maybe were) on lvm? Do you need lvm to boot up the system? What about backups? Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-03-31 Thread Klaus Pieper
vgreduce --removemissing vg0 Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Free VMware beta server experience

2006-03-25 Thread Klaus Pieper
You need to get 3 files: the beta server, the management interface, and the server console interface. You only need the server if you connect locally. The management interface is used for remote startup/shutdown, the console interface for remote connect. That does not *seem* to be necessary.

Re: dpkg serious warning ? help please ...

2006-02-26 Thread Klaus Pieper
dpkg --force-all -P lale Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

VPN with sarge and Citrix Secure Access

2006-02-24 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi gurus, my company introduces VPN connection with Citrix which also offers a client for linux 2.4. I set up a Vmware vm with sarge kernel 2.4 and installed the client which consists of a daemon (net6vpnd) and a user application (net6vpn). I can log in and apparently established a connecti

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-22 Thread Klaus Pieper
This may not be your only problem, but it probably is one of them. You're trying to *read* from your memory stick here, not write to it. If you want to blank the memory stick, you need to use the prior command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb Andrew, Just wanted to backup the mbr before overw

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Look in log files for what system messages when you plugged in the memory. One of them may tell you what device ID the system assigned to the memory. On my machine usb-storage: device found at 8 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Di

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 13564 6836224+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2

USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi debian gurus, A colleague gave me an usb stick she considers broken since she cannot access it with windoze any more. With debian I get usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash DiskRev: 7.78 Type: Direct-Access

No X with home brewed Xen kernel

2005-12-17 Thread Klaus Pieper
I can't get X up on a etch system configured for Xen 3.0. It works with debian's standard 2.6.12-1-k7, with 2.6.12.6 compiled from the xen sources X hangs on startup, I get a black screen and nothing happens, can't switch back to the console, can do a soft reboot with ctrl-alt-del, however. M

Re: mounting iPod

2005-11-18 Thread Klaus Pieper
VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sdb1. sdb1 contains the system, you have to mount sdb2. Klaus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems with potato

2000-01-18 Thread Klaus Pieper
1. National prefix in isdnlog I use an old configuration from slink; my telephone number and the number of the ISP are given without national or area prefix callerid.conf:NUMBER = 30002946 device.ippp0:LOCALMSN=08930002946 device.ippp0:# REMOTEMSN='0191011' device.ippp0:REMOTEMSN=0191011 isdnlog

Install Source Packages

1999-07-19 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, How can I install a tar package and replace a debian package. I would like to install perl 5.005_03. I tried to remove the old one with dselect and all the web packages were gone. So, is there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep the dependent packages or can I build a deb p

File Attributes in /var

1999-07-04 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, After moving the /var directory to another partition using tar cfSp - * | ( cd /mnt && tar xfSpv - ) I got problems because exim could not write to /var/spool/exim and /var/log/exim. How are the correct settings? I changed them to drwxrwx--- 5 root mail 1024 Jun 24 06:27 /var/s

Re: Nameserver activity

1999-06-28 Thread Klaus Pieper
I'm guessing you might have looked for things. The only thing I > can think of is if the IBM network calls you, if you have tcp_wrappers > running and PARANOID in I think it will do a reverse on the incoming IP > address to try and stop spoofing. > > Steve > > On Sat

Nameserver activity

1999-06-26 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, I user an isdn dialup network with two isdn ppp interfaces for connections to the ISP and to an IBM host on two telephone lines. 1. I get spontaneous nameserver requests (port) without doing anything. 2. When I connect to the IBM host there is a nameserver request (to the ISP) AFTER dialing t

ip-up with 2nd isdn interface

1999-06-25 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hi, I user two syncppp isdn interfaces ippp0 and ippp1 for dialin at the ISP (ippp0) and my office (ippp1) respectively. The first one works fine. When I ping the ip address for ippp1 dialing works, but the /etc/ppp/ip-up script is not executed so there is no network setup with the new IP address

Re: Network setup

1999-06-21 Thread Klaus Pieper
Hans Dumbrajs wrote: > Klaus Pieper wrote: > > > I have problems setting up my network with isdn, sync ppp, diald. > > Debian is 2.1, kernel 2.2.5. > > > > The first time I try to connect to the internet diald does not call; > > after isdnctrl dial ippp0

Network setup

1999-06-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
I have problems setting up my network with isdn, sync ppp, diald. Debian is 2.1, kernel 2.2.5. The first time I try to connect to the internet diald does not call; after isdnctrl dial ippp0 anything is ok, diald redials if the connection was interrupted because of timeouts. I suspect problems wit

wished I found wish

1999-06-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
You need wish to make xconfig. What do I have to install for my wishes to become true? Klaus

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1999-06-19 Thread Klaus Pieper
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Linker Error Building New Kernel

1999-06-19 Thread Klaus Pieper
I installed Debian 2.1 and tried to recompile the 2.0.36 sources. During the link phase I got lot's of unresolved references. What is missing? ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x10 -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o init/main.o init/version.o \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o m