Re: Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated

2013-04-04 Thread Tim Long
e reported the problem as a bug to the lm-sensors package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=701518 This weekend I will post a note with my theory and probably another post to debian-users to see if anyone can confirm that it is viable idea. Regards, Tim. On Thu, Nov 29,

Can not get fan control going in wheezy. Any help appreciated

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Long
Hi all, I have just updated my laptop (HP Compaq 6730s) to Wheezy and I am diagnosing my first problem. The fan control deamon refuses to run and I think lm-sensors is unable to find/configure the fan control system. I suspect it a bug with the lm-sensors package. After the install I get the fol

Re: Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Long
Thanks for spotting of the error in the sources.list. It error message was confusing me. I did run apt-get dist-upgrade after apt-get update. The process ground to a halt with a problem over dependency error over 'default-jre' After googling the new error I had to run: apt-get -o APT::Immediate

Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-26 Thread Tim Long
Hi all, I have an installation of debian stable I am trying to upgrade to testing. I have updated sources.list to testing/wheezy but when I do apt-get upgrade I get the following error: = W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/testing/Release Unable to find expected entr

Diagnosing lack of sound problem on HP laptop

2011-04-26 Thread Tim Long
Hi all, I have installed squeeze (amd64) on a HP Compaq 6730s laptop and currently the sound is not working. It works fine in when running Vista of the other partition. The sound chip is Intel: $ lspci | grep Audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (