make - doesn't find header file but file is available
Hello community Maybe this is one of the beginner questions answered more than a thousand times without becoming visible in google search ;) Some projects to compile with gcc/make come with the script ./configure. They are easy for me to build. But what I have now is a project without it. And although I have the specific dev-package installed (in this case its libdrm-dev an some others) it doesn't find the header files. The quick-and-dirty solution is to copy these h-files into the project-space. So the question is: How can I configure without ./configure in the general way? Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Browsing offline filesystems
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Thank you, Nuno. However, the other filesystems have tens of gigabytes that I do not want to copy. I only want to know which files are there, not to have the actual files themselves. If you want just the names, not the content... then it would probably be a very weird combination of ls, grep and cut, unless there's some proggie that'll do that for you (in perl maybe?). Plus mkdir to preserve the hierarchy, unless absolute paths suffice. Nuno Magalhães $ find specific directoryfilelist.txt like $ find ~/hugeDirectory/filelist.txt generates you a textfile with a list of all files, directories (and special files). Should be enough. To search, use less or grep. vi could block your system for some minutes. I am not aware of some caching filesystem, which only caches the directory structure, without the files content. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: HELP - Problem with Debian (password of root)
Hello Manuel At the first start of a fresh debian installation you are asked to enter the root password (if I remember correctly). It would be very strange if you were never prompted for that. Why don't you just install with so called Debian of October. In this world it's not necessary to reinstall your whole system regularly. Just update your software with apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt Manuel Gómez wrote: Hi, i would like to install Debian (19 December) but i have a problem: The root password doesn't works, i have tried to install Debian two times but it happens the same. My installation is this: 35 gb for /, 15 gb for /usr with /nodev, 5 gb for /tmp with /nodev and /nosuid, 6 gb for /var with /nodev. The last version of Debian was works properly with this configuration (Debian of October), but the last version (december) not. Why this happen? What could i do? I don't want the password, but install Debian properly. Thank you very much, I appreciate your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Setting Video Card
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 16 2008, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: Before spending many hours trying to get a usable Xserver-configuration (or other configs), I always used an live-cd like Sidux, Knoppix, Kanotix or maybe Ubuntu (all Debian based). The distribution running the best way, you can simply install on your harddisk or export the live-cd X-configuration file. I noticed when I ran the new Knoppix CD 5.3.1, that it had all the cool effects, that i DON'T have with my Ubuntu Hardy install.. if you are running a LIVE CD, how do you save teh xorg.conf ( or X-configuration) file??? I'm talking about my DELL XPS laptop, I think it has Intel graphics card.. my desktop has NVIDIA.. that it had all the cool effects Don't what you exactly mean with cool effects. Is it the KDE desktop, the login-window or some 3d animations? The simplest way of copying /etc/X11/xorg.conf is to copy it on a memory stick (when plugged in, you get automatically a window if it's content). This way copy is very easy. Otherwise you mount your local harddisk (there is maybe a symbol on the desktop) and copy it directly. If that doesn't work cause of permission restriction, use the root terminal. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt :: You get a quicker answer, when posting on the list. Additionally others can help or benefit. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Setting Video Card
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Dear Madams Sirs Thanks Benjamin Schmidt for your advice. I have been spent about ten hours looking through documentation and trying things but to no avail. hwinfo told me that I had a Cirrus Lorgic GD5446 card but xdebconfigurator did not use it. Instead it used a SiS card and X failed to load. Stephen Grant Brown Before spending many hours trying to get a usable Xserver-configuration (or other configs), I always used an live-cd like Sidux, Knoppix, Kanotix or maybe Ubuntu (all Debian based). The distribution running the best way, you can simply install on your harddisk or export the live-cd X-configuration file. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Setting Video Card
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, How do I tell the xserver what video card to use? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen Grant Brown Assumed you have the x-server xorg in use... A simple and quick configuration menu you get when you call the command: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg You find the main configuration file of xorg here: /etc/X11/xorg.conf Additional information: man xorg.conf Nearly forgot: Be sure you have installed the specific driver as a package like xserver-xorg-video-nv for example. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: replacing pxe.linux.0
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: abelahcene wrote: Hi, I install successfully debian via pxe (dhcp and al.) , from a remote server, but I want instead of using pxe.linux.0 , I want to use a full CD1, to do the installation without using extra server. Is it possible ? thanks a lot Boot from CD1 and install? Or am I missing something? Sounds like installing from CD is some very old guru-task and possible no more provided ;) On www.debian.org you have on the left navigation a point called CD ISO images. Get it per HTTP (for example) by searching the nearest mirror. Direct link: http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: ssh to Vmware linux on a MS Window machine
Rich Healey wrote: hce wrote: Hi, Can my debian box ssh to a Vmware linux on a MS Window machine? Both debian box and the Window in the same subnet, I can ping the Window IP address, but I cannot ping the Vmware linux IP address from my debian box. How can I fix it? Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim Select both your primary network interface and the virtual interface that the VM is attached to and right click - select bridge connections. This will set up your windows machine to relay packets to the VM. for that to work, you must set the hostmachine as an additional gateway to your debian box. The faster and easier solution would be if you simply bridge the the VM's network adapter to the physical one. Todo that, open the VMs specific configuration window, goto the primary network adapter and select: bridge. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)
David Baron wrote: I am reposting since I have received no advice and have not found a solution: After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an aopen MB with a somewhat faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and 575). Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all auto -- BIOS choices for the IDEs are auto, p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma auto or disabled. Hdparm will not allow -d1 either. Other info: ~$ dmesg | grep DMA6b (rev 12) ID DMA 0 - 4096 DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4040 pages, LIFO batch:0 Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 12) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci:00:07.1 ~$ dmesg | grep IDE Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:07.1 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c596b (rev 12) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci:00:07.1 VP_IDE: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0 VP_IDE: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1 VP_IDE: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) (this last item could be it? Saw nothing in BIOS setup. The MB has VIA chips, apparently) Any ideas and help greatly appreciated. Google was not so informative. - Also, while I am stuck in PIO, where to I place that message idebus=66 to get the 66-mhz speed I assume (??) is available? Did you try to boot with * dma (when you use lilo press TAB before the boot sequence starts and add dma. Press enter. Maybe you should try to reinstall Debian. Can read that from your text. Enabling DMA with the command hdparm doesn't work on devices like /dev/sda* . If the mounted harddisks all are like /dev/sda* not /dev/hda* the dma somehow works by itself. You could test the harddisk performance with hdparm. Boot with the additional kernel parameter dma and nodma. Compare the results. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: From linux software raid to none software raid?
Paul Csanyi wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian Etch with software raid 1. I am using for this two sata drives. Is it possyble to turn this system to non software raid? Doing so I wish to get the first sata drive to use with Debian Etch as non software raid, and to use second sata drive as a backup, and data drive. Any advice will be appreciated! Hey Paul I would do it this way: 1. Place your second harddisk to another bus (or plug it on over an usb-sata adapter) OR Remove in ~ /etc/mdadm the second disk. 2. Restart and boot from a newer kanotix live-cd (maybe others work also). With it, you can easily mount a raid partition. 3. Maybe repartition and format your first drive and copy the new files on it. 4. Write MBR and other things with lilo/grub (this is the tricky part). 5. Boot Maybe someone else has a better solution. But that's the way I do such things. Fixes are welcome ;) Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Automating Debian installations
Bjorn Meyer wrote: I have been digging for a few days now for some clarification on automating the installation of debian. I have created a local mirror that I would like to use via nfs, but I am not sure how to configure either the preseed file or if I have to add a command to the kernel boot command. I am able to get the machine to boot the installer and it seems to find the preseed config file in on the tftp server, but it doesn't appear that it will mount the nfs location, not to mention how to configure the preseed file to point to this location. Please let me know if more information will help. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you Bjorn Hey Bjorn Maybe you looking for FAI (http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/). Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: ac adapter serious problem
roberto wrote: hello unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) very frequent on these models: sometimes, the BIOS does not recognize the ac adapter and this seriously prevents the system performance: the CPU works at 600MHz (instead of 2000MHz); if the battery is not at 100% then the ac adapter cannot recharge it and so on... now, since the current can flow inside the pc i'd like to tell Debian to force the CPU working at full speed, without concerns about the adapter i post here this output since it may be helpful: ~$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power active state:C2 default state: C1 bus master activity: states: C1: promotion[C2] demotion[--] latency[000] usage[00198990] *C2: promotion[C3] demotion[C1] latency[050] usage[01315600] C3: promotion[--] demotion[C2] latency[050] usage[] thank you very much -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Hey Roberto Best would be doing a bios upgrade, if a newer version is available. ~$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power active state:C2 ... to change this state (this is probably your question), do this: $ su # echo 1 /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power The echo-command with the does not work with sudo (or I do not know better), so you actually have to be root. Please note that /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/throttling would also be interesting for you. But still a bios upgrade would be the better solution. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: ac adapter serious problem
roberto wrote: hello unfortunately, i encountered a bad problem in my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) very frequent on these models: sometimes, the BIOS does not recognize the ac adapter and this seriously prevents the system performance: the CPU works at 600MHz (instead of 2000MHz); if the battery is not at 100% then the ac adapter cannot recharge it and so on... now, since the current can flow inside the pc i'd like to tell Debian to force the CPU working at full speed, without concerns about the adapter i post here this output since it may be helpful: ~$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power active state:C2 default state: C1 bus master activity: states: C1: promotion[C2] demotion[--] latency[000] usage[00198990] *C2: promotion[C3] demotion[C1] latency[050] usage[01315600] C3: promotion[--] demotion[C2] latency[050] usage[] thank you very much -- roberto OS: GNU/Linux, Debian Hey Roberto Best would be doing a bios upgrade, if a newer version is available. ~$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power active state:C2 ... to change this state (this is probably your question), do this: $ su # echo 1 /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/power The echo-command with the does not work with sudo (or I do not know better), so you actually have to be root. Please note that /proc/acpi/processor/CPU1/throttling would also be interesting for you. But still a bios upgrade would be the better solution. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Network (LAN) 'lost'
If you have udev installed and it recognizes a ethernet adapter with a unknown mac address, it will assign a new eth*-reference. So maybe you used a mac changer or some updates deletes a udev specific file. I don't know. The configuration file you need, is: /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules delete the entry with eth0 and rename the other entry from eth2 to eth0. Ok, now reboot (or only restart udev, don't know) and you will have eth0 again. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt Uwe Dippel wrote: This morning, at boot, suddenly no LAN. The boot screen already had some SIOCSIF errors. Solaris booted properly, with LAN. In a nutshell, eth0 suddenly migrated to eth2, as one and only eth device. Details: This is what I get from dmesg: ... ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states) 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) 8139cp :00:09.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp :00:09.0: Try the 8139too driver instead. 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:09.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 169 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd800, 00:02:44:90:97:27, IRQ 169 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ... And there is no other eth: $ dmesg | grep eth eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd800, 00:02:44:90:97:27, IRQ 169 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' $ ifconfig says # ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:600 (600.0 b) TX bytes:600 (600.0 b) # ifconfig does not 'up' eth0: # ifconfig eth0 up eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device # But it is in there: # lspci -v ... 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 169 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] Memory at febff400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Only man ifconfig gave me an idea: # ifconfig -a eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:90:97:27 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:169 Base address:0xd800 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:600 (600.0 b) TX bytes:600 (600.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) # And it does work !: # dhclient eth2 Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 sit0: unknown hardware address type 776 Listening on LPF/eth2/00:02:44:90:97:27 Sending on LPF/eth2/00:02:44:90:97:27 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.116.200 bound to 192.168.116.101 -- renewal in 432000 seconds. Now I ask myself WHY !? How can a properly working system suddenly end up with a strange eth2 instead of eth0 ? How does an eth0 recognised in dmesg at boot migrate to eth2; on its own ? Is this a bug ? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script partly fails when in cron.weekly
Ok, first: Why it doesn't work I simply don't know. You should test if this is a problem with find, or the egrep command, cpio or cat by making verbose output into a own log file. But maybe you should not use this (in my opinion) unusual command find / -print Instead use tar, like: tar -zcvf /media/mirror/`date +%F`.tar.gz -C / --exclude=/media/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/sys/* --exclude=/mnt/* (please test this first before going productive) or use rsync. You will find a lot of examples in our great? world. Best regards, Benjamin Schmidt Haines Brown wrote: I asked this question some time ago. I've a script in /etc/cron.weekly named backup (rwxr-xr-x root/root) that looks like this: #!/bin/sh mount /media/mirror dirName=`date +%F` mkdir /media/mirror/$dirName find / -print | egrep -v ^/media|^/proc|^/sys|^/mnt | cpio -pdmuv \ /media/mirror/$dirName 21 | cat -vt umount /media/mirror exit 0 I regularly get only partial backups when run by cron, but full backups if run from command line by root. For example, in / I have two symlinks. Both are rwxrwxrwx root/root, but only one gets backed up. Another example, /home gets backed up, but /etc does not, even though both are rwxr-xr-x root/root, Yet another example: In / I have two plain text files, both are rw-r--r-- root/root, but only one gets backed up. Plenty of room on the backup device (external UPS drive). My syslog reports the backup started. No other log entries of interest: Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel /USR/SBIN/CRON[23041]: (brownh) CMD (/home/brownh/scripts/backup) Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel /USR/SBIN/CRON[23043]: (brownh) CMD (fetchmail) Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3 FS on sdd1, internal journal Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Dec 9 04:00:01 teufel identd[23056]: started -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound
Use ALSA (OSS is old). Check if required packages are installed: $ dpkg -l | grep alsa alsa-base alsa-utils ... execute: $ sudo alsaconf set volume with: $ alsamixer Alou Dialy wrote: What do I need to make the sound work. I just installed etch but there is no noise from /dev/dsp. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
