from:"H. S."


Since for the past quite a few days, when I upgrade my Testing based
machine running 2.6.11, apt-listbugs cannot find any bugs. If any bugs
are reported during the upgrade process and I choose to view the bug by
typing the bug number, the ncurses based interface tries to connect over
the internet but shows the message that the bug report was not found.

Is this just me or is something wrong with the tool and others are also
experiencing this?

~# dpkg -l apt-listbugs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++--==-==
ii  apt-listbugs 0.0.49 Lists critical bugs before each apt installation


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using sudo to install/remove packages


I am beginning to discover sudo for package management on my Testing
machine.  Here is what I just set up using visudo:

#users that can install remove programs
User_Alias ADMINS = me
Cmnd_Alias ADMINCOMMANDS = /usr/bin/apt-get
ADMINS   ALL=ADMINCOMMANDS



This will do the job of installing/removing packages with apt-get,
right? I guess it will also take care of any command that apt-get calls
and that needs root permissions.

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ethtool and mii-tool cannot read eth0 NIC


Hi,

A P4 running Debian unstable and 2.6.12-1-686 has a Davicom nic:
:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x
DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)

It used to use tulip driver but IIRC in 2.6.12 kernel dmfe driver is
necessary to make it work.

The problem is that ethtool and mii-tool do not seem to talk to the nic:
~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
No data available
~# mii-tool eth0
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
~#


How do I making these commands work, if at all possible?

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Re: ethtool and mii-tool cannot read eth0 NIC

Apparently, _Henrique de Moraes Holschuh_, on 19/08/05 23:18,typed:
 On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, H. S. wrote:
 
How do I making these commands work, if at all possible?
 
 
 You write the relevant kernel code to support them for the dmfe driver :-(
 

And if I were able to do that, I wouldn't be asking the question in the
first place, now would I?
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font size in xine's file browser dialog

2005-08-18 Thread H. S.


Hi,

Anybody know how to change the fonts in Xine's file browser's dialogbox?
Currently, on my Testing machine running xine-ui 0.99.3-1, the fonts are
too small (screen resolution of 1792x1344). Perhaps I just need the
right option to set in .Xdefaults(?)

thanks,
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upgraded from FC2 -- FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread H. S.



Hi,

This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully 
using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs.


Before I started the process, I by chance noted that my FC2 installation 
has some packages installed twice. I got a list by using the following 
command (found on google):

rpm -q --qf %{NAME}\n -a | sort | uniq -cd

Then I proceeded to remove the older version of each of the packages 
that were installed twice. Other than that, I didn't need to do anything 
else.


Then I inserted FC3 CD1 and rebooted and chose the upgrade option. 
Everything went well, except that it took around 2 hours or so (P 4 1.9 
GHz, 256MB RAM). This is actually slowerd, because I guess FC3 can be 
installed in around 50 minutes time (if not too much time is taken for 
package selection).


After this, I rename my yum.conf to yum.conf.fc3 in /etc and 
yum.conf.rpmnew to yum.conf to get the FC3 based yum.conf file. I also 
made similar changes in /etc/sysconfig/rhn for sources file. This was I 
prepared the yum tool and up2date tool to look at FC3 sites for an update.


I then upgraded the installation. It all went well, though it took quite 
a long while. Also, since due to the sheer number of packages to 
upgrade, I upgraded in steps. I upgraded by choosing groups of packages 
in decreasing or order of system importance: libraries and compilers 
first, browsers and applications second, office application third and so on.


One thing to note, for those who use apt (and synaptic), the 
sources.list file was not upgraded (did not get a new one with rpmnew 
extension). I had to change that file to make it see FC3 mirrors. But 
once I upgraded apt and synaptic, they upgraded the /etc/apt directory 
too and the older files were saved with rpmsave extension.



After the upgrade, I got an error while starting synaptic (something to 
do with libstc5++ or something like this). To resolve this, I had to 
install compat-libstdc++. I then found out this packages was actually 
needed by many other packages as well.


Finally, I added the Freshrpms file in /etc/yum.repos.d and also dag 
repositories and updated the installation again. The new thing in FC3 
seems to be the /etc/yum.repos.d directory in which each file can be 
each repository file. Also, I have made files in this directory which 
list mirrors near me and in fedora*.repo files I am calling these mirror 
files.


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Re: upgraded from FC2 -- FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread H. S.



Wrong newsgroup selected in Mozilla reader :(  Please ignore this message.

Terribly sorry for posting this off topic here. It was unintentional.

-HS



H. S. wrote:


Hi,

This is just to describe how I upgraded from FC2 to FC3 successfully 
using the upgrade option from the FC3 CDs.


Before I started the process, I by chance noted that my FC2 installation 
has some packages installed twice. I got a list by using the following 
command (found on google):

rpm -q --qf %{NAME}\n -a | sort | uniq -cd

Then I proceeded to remove the older version of each of the packages 
that were installed twice. Other than that, I didn't need to do anything 
else.


Then I inserted FC3 CD1 and rebooted and chose the upgrade option. 
Everything went well, except that it took around 2 hours or so (P 4 1.9 
GHz, 256MB RAM). This is actually slowerd, because I guess FC3 can be 
installed in around 50 minutes time (if not too much time is taken for 
package selection).


After this, I rename my yum.conf to yum.conf.fc3 in /etc and 
yum.conf.rpmnew to yum.conf to get the FC3 based yum.conf file. I also 
made similar changes in /etc/sysconfig/rhn for sources file. This was I 
prepared the yum tool and up2date tool to look at FC3 sites for an update.


I then upgraded the installation. It all went well, though it took quite 
a long while. Also, since due to the sheer number of packages to 
upgrade, I upgraded in steps. I upgraded by choosing groups of packages 
in decreasing or order of system importance: libraries and compilers 
first, browsers and applications second, office application third and so 
on.


One thing to note, for those who use apt (and synaptic), the 
sources.list file was not upgraded (did not get a new one with rpmnew 
extension). I had to change that file to make it see FC3 mirrors. But 
once I upgraded apt and synaptic, they upgraded the /etc/apt directory 
too and the older files were saved with rpmsave extension.



After the upgrade, I got an error while starting synaptic (something to 
do with libstc5++ or something like this). To resolve this, I had to 
install compat-libstdc++. I then found out this packages was actually 
needed by many other packages as well.


Finally, I added the Freshrpms file in /etc/yum.repos.d and also dag 
repositories and updated the installation again. The new thing in FC3 
seems to be the /etc/yum.repos.d directory in which each file can be 
each repository file. Also, I have made files in this directory which 
list mirrors near me and in fedora*.repo files I am calling these mirror 
files.


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Re: upgraded from FC2 -- FC3 successfully

2005-08-13 Thread H. S.


John Fleming wrote:




Sure sounds like a lot of work compared with apt-get update, apt-get 
dist-upgrade.





Actually it is. Apt-get in Debian is waaay much easier and more 
convenient than either the upgrading Fedora from CDs or through yum.

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Re: udev and kernel 2.6.12

2005-08-09 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Žáček Kryštof_, on 09/08/05 02:31,typed:
  Strange thing. If I type
 
 # apt-cache policy udev
 
 then I see that the current version of udev is 0.065-1. Do you have your 
 /etc/apt/sources.list set correctly to unstable?
 
 Furthermore, there is apparently something wrong with your locale settings. 
 Try installing localeconf to properly generate locales
 
 # apt-get install localeconf
 # reboot


Instead of rebooting, why not do dpkg-reconfigure locales? And perhaps
then relogin.

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how do I change language in Gnome

2005-08-09 Thread H. S.


Hi,

I am running testing on a PIV and 2.6.11 kernel. In KDE, I can change my
desktop lanuage using the Region Settings in Kontrol center and it works
properly. Howerever, I haven't been able to change my desktop lanuage in
Gnome. Any suggestions on how to go about it?

thanks,
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different network speeds in two directions

2005-08-08 Thread H. S.


Hi,

In my home network, I have a Testing based router that has eth1
connected to my ADSL modem and eth0 connected to my LAN switch. The
router computer is a Pentium III (Katmai), 449.02MHz with 159.360 MB RAM
total. All my home machines are connection to the switch.

One of my home machines is Pentium 4, 2GHz with 254MB RAM, running
Debian Sid and 2.6.11 kernel. Let us call it C-0.

Another machine is Pentium 4, 1.9GHz with 254MB running Testing and
2.6.11 kernel. Let us call it C-1.

Both machines have 10/100 Mbps NICs. The problem is that when I transfer
file (via sftp) from either machine to the other, I get different speeds
in each direction:

files sent: C-0 - C-1: around 5 MBps.
files send: C-1 - C-0: around 8.5 MBps.

Anybody know why is this?

thanks,
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Re: PAM using php

2005-08-06 Thread H S Rai

Friday at 11:12am -0400 [KS] wrote:

   Did you try: $ apt-get install php4-auth-pam

Oh! Thankyou KS. My stupidness!

To make it working I need to make shadow file readable to 
all. Is there any better way than that.

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PAM using php

2005-08-05 Thread H S Rai


Yesterday at 8:46pm -0700 Vinu Balaji wrote:

I tried to use pam_auth 
http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~ccunning/pam_auth/


on Debian with PHP 4.3.10-15,  ./configure gave following 
error:



checking for pam_appl.h... checking for pam_start in
-lpam... no
configure: error: could not find pam_start in pam


How I can remove this error.

libpam-smbpass is intalled on my system, but I could not 
find an example which may ahow how to use it. Any pointer 
will be excellent for me ;-)


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Re: udev - easy setup ?

2005-08-05 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Nate Bargmann_, on 05/08/05 08:03,typed:
 * Jules Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Aug 05 01:15 -0500]:
  
 
The message I half-finished writing and accidentally sent, the one that
mentions Apple developer documents.  I discovered that the only
interesting parts of Apple's stuff is extracted from the official USB docs. 
I sent another message like it but with real information.
 
 
 Okay, thanks.
 
 
I've been watching this thread with interest.  So 
far I've not tried udev and I'm wondering if it's worth it.

I think it's worth it, but I use only a small fraction of its capabilities. 
When I first installed it, I didn't do any sort of configuration.  I didn't
see any difference in how my system worked, until I looked in /dev where
the dozens (hundreds?) of device nodes I don't use were gone.
 
 
 Well, that should restore some inodes back to the system at the very
 least.
 
 
I've since created a few rules which while handy and pretty are nothing to
get excited about.  The OP wants to do the kind of thing for which udev is
designed.  I use keys like SYSFS{vendor} and these don't meet Uwe's
requirements.  However, I don't understand enough about USB or kernel
internals to do more than take an insufficiently educated guess about how
to proceed.
 
 
 So what I understand is that udev is a great framework, but it hasn't
 been sufficiently implemented in user space to be plug and play? 
 Perhaps the desktop projects are working on utilizing it.
 
 I don't like comparing Debian and Windows, but here is an experience
 from yesterday.  I have an IBM T42 at work without a 3.5 floppy drive,
 of course.  Since more of these things are showing up, we decided it
 might be wise to get a USB floppy.  We got it yesterday, new in the
 box.  I plugged it into the T42 which runs XP, of course, and the OS
 picked it right up, assigned it as drive A, and I went right to
 formatting a disk in it and copying a file.  Didn't even need the
 driver CD.
 
 I realize that Debian provides a base and that works like KNOPPIX and
 Ubuntu are building on Debian to provide a more user centric
 distribution.  But, this USB stuff is so basic that it should just
 work.  If Windows isn't confused and can distinguish between a USB
 floppy and assign it as A and then I can install my Lexar Jump Drive
 and it can figure out that it's different and assign it as E and then I
 can attach my portable CD/DVD RW drive and assign it as F, we in the
 Linux community should be able to do that as well with minimal hassle.
 
 On the other hand, I just yanked the Jump Drive while a file manager
 had it open and that has apparently caused a major problem.  I have
 error boxes popping open and diagnostic information coming up, so in
 that regard, I know that Linux is much more robust.


You are not supposed to yant it like that, neither in Windows not in
Linux. In Windows, you Safely Remove a USB device and in Linux you
umount that device prior to removing.


 Right now I have some custom Hotplug scripts for my Jump Drive and my
 camera.  They are a kludge, but they get the job done.

I tried reading about Udev rules and was able to make devices for my
digital camera and my USB card reader (this was a few months ago when
auto-detection wasn't working so well in Unstable). I ended up with
rules something like:
IF DETECTED: my digicam: THEN MAKE DEV /dev/my-digicam

And I had a mount point in /media called say canon which mounted
/dev/my-digicam. I could mount this by clicking on canon icon in
Computer folder of Gnome desktop. At that time, this was the closes I
could get to ease of use for Windows (I was setting up my wife's laptop
with all this, and wanted it to be as seamless as it was in Windows for
her).

Having described all this, I now realize that if you are using gnome and
you have udev, hal and gnome-volume-manager, you don't need to do all
this stuff. If I plug in a 256MB USB stick, I get an icon on my desktop
with an appropriate name, all automatically. When I umount it (right
clicking on the icon on desktop), the icon dissappears and the device is
unmounted, again all automatically. I asked my wife to try this. She
found it no different than in Windows in terms of ease of use. And
regarding digital cameras, they are also auto-detected using digikam or
gtkam with libgphoto2.

So in the end, I know that udev rule making is tedious, but it works.
But I am also not sure how to make general rules for USB sticks separate
from floppies -- but I can't say I have looked much. In any case, at
least in Gnome, one does't really need to make any rules anymore. And I
guess the upcoming KDE will also have this
auto-detect-auto-mount-auto-unmount feature.

my $0.02.
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Re: udev - easy setup ?

2005-08-05 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Nate Bargmann_, on 05/08/05 13:15,typed:
 * H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005 Aug 05 10:54 -0500]:
 
You are not supposed to yant it like that, neither in Windows not in
Linux. In Windows, you Safely Remove a USB device and in Linux you
umount that device prior to removing.
 
 
 :)
 
 But, what did I do that an average computer user doesn't do?  There was
 no prompt telling me to safely remove it, so I yanked it.  Actually, I
 received this computer as part of a training course and I'm trying to
 drop my expertise level so I can see what happens and learn from there.

True, this may not be obvious at first to an average user. I also agree
that most Windows users do not safely remove the USB device by right
clicking on the devic's icon in the system tray (lower right corner of
the scree) and choosing Remove device safely. Most just yank it out
(not recommended at all). Most are lucky because I guess the way those
devices are mounted is that data transfer is done right away on any
operation (instead of flushing data at some suitable time later). So
chances are you will be okay most of the times, but you can loose data
if you are unlucky.

Now, I believe an Windows average user does not read documentation that
comes either with the OS or with the USB device. This ignorance is quite
pronounced in Windows world where reading documentation by an average
user is more or less unheard of ;)  In Linux it is of course different.
I can estimate that almost all Linux users with at least a few months's
experience realize they they should read at least some kind of
documentation. So this unmounting of devices prior to their
disconnection is sort of an alien concept in Windows world (for average
user) and quite familiar with Linux users.

In Linux, I guess the default options of mounting USB device are to
flush data with each write or read so data transfer is not deferred till
later (at least I set it up like that when I made rules for USB disks or
CF cards). So yanking out should work just as well as it should in
Windows (or better). However, the proper method is to umount the device
first and then remove it (or Remove device safely in Windows).



SNIP

unmounted, again all automatically. I asked my wife to try this. She
found it no different than in Windows in terms of ease of use. And
regarding digital cameras, they are also auto-detected using digikam or
gtkam with libgphoto2.
 
 
 Good!  I'm glad to see things are coming along.  I don't regularly use
 either of the DEs and just use IceWM, so I haven't seen this
 progression first hand.

Hmm ... If something like this comes along in IceWM, it would be really
great. I have an old computer setup as a router in my home. I am running
IceWM on it and have to manually mount stuff like this the odd times I
have needed to.

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how to make dselect forgot what it wants to remove

2005-08-03 Thread H. S.


Hi,

If I do an update using dselect and it reports that n packages will be
installed and nnn will be removed, and I abort dselect (thinking to do
it later hoping newer packages will resolve the issue), I notice that
the next time if I start dselect it still remembers which packages it
wanted to uninstall earlier(assuming newer updates haven't affected
that). And if I do nothing, just choose to removing pending packages, it
removes all of these (which, I guess, is expected).

How do I tell dselect to forgot what it wanted to do in the previous
update session and start anew the next time?

thanks,
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Re: How to stop X, to get a text mode console (new to Debian, need help)

2005-08-02 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Kent West_, on 02/08/05 11:40,typed:

  

 startx
 
 or
 
 /etc/init.d/gdm start
 
 or
 
 /etc/init.d/kdm start
 


Just a related question. Should startx be run as root(it will a
desktop for root)? Aren't the second or third options you mentioned the
proper way?

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Re: Debian Sarge with 2.6.8 V.S. Canon Powershot A520

2005-07-31 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Dan R. Hunt_, on 31/07/05 17:34,typed:
I am running Sarge with a 2.6.8-2-k7 Kernel and I want to view/copy
the pictures on my new Canon Powershot A520 in via the USB cable and
gthumb or similar GUI.

I need advice, how do I get 'this camera' working? I have been
removing the media card and putting the card into a media reader card
reader on a USB port, but the convenience of plugging in the camera is
what I'm looking for.

I have found Libgphoto 2-2.1.6 from
http://gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
has support for my camera.

But the versions available via apt-get from debian.org
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=Libgphotosearchon=allsubword=1version=allrelease=all
do not include my precious Canon Powershot A520

Backports.org
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/libgphoto2/binary-i386/
has backports for woody.

I expanded the file I found
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=8874release_id=337127
into a /home/me/ directory and ran the install script, but that did not
work. Gthumb uses the other also installed version of Libgphoto.

I have this working quite satisfactorily in my Sarge Testing running
2.6.11-1-686.

What I do is just connect the camera to the USB port of the computer and
then run gtkam from the Applications-Graphics menu in Gnome and it
automatically detects the camera and lists the directories in it. Note
that unlike other relatively older cameras, it does not recognize it as
A520 but only USB PTP Class Camera; I am sure this will be corrected in
future versions of gtkam or libgphoto2. anyhow, even without the actual
name appearing on the detected camera, the gtkam is fully functional.
This is in gnome, if you want I can test it out in KDE as well though I
believe it will work in KDE (with kamera?) too.

-HS
PS: Packages I have in Sarge Testing:
$ dpkg -l gthumb gtkam gnome-desktop-env* udev hal gnome-volume*
*gphoto* | grep ^i
ii gthumb 2.6.3-1.1 an image viewer and browser for GNOME2
ii gtkam 0.1.12-2.1 GTK+ application for digital still cameras
ii gnome-desktop- 64 The GNOME Desktop Environment
ii udev 0.056-3/dev/ management daemon
ii hal0.4.8-1Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii gnome-volume-m 1.2.1-1GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage
media
ii gphoto22.1.5-1The gphoto2 digital camera
command-line clie
ii libgphoto2-2 2.1.6-1gphoto2 digital camera library
ii libgphoto2-por 2.1.6-1gphoto2 digital camera port library

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bad cookies in ayttm and MSN connection

2005-07-28 Thread H. S.


Hi,

I am using Ayttm(0.4.6+26-1) on Debian Testing. For quite a few weeks, I
am not able to connect to my MSN hotmail account. Trying to do so gives
the error:
Could not connect to MSN HTTPS server (bad cookies)

However, people tell me they can connect via Gaim.

Just wondering if anybody knows what is going on here.

thanks,
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xscreensaver preferences menu entry gone in Gnome

2005-07-27 Thread H. S.


Hi,

Since a few days I have noticed that there no Xscreensaver entry in
Applications-Desktop Preferences-Advanced menu of Gnome. This menu
entry used to bring up the preferences dialog of xscreensaver which can
be obtained from a command prompt by:
$ xscreensaver-command  -prefs

Any idea what has changed?

Running Debian Testing on a PIV, and:

$ uname -r
2.6.11-1-686

$ COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l gnome-desk* xscreen* gnome*panel* | grep ^ii
ii  gnome-desktop-data   2.8.3-2  Common files for
GNOME 2 desktop apps
ii  gnome-desktop-environmen 64   The GNOME Desktop
Environment
ii  xscreensaver 4.21-5   Automatic
screensaver for X
ii  xscreensaver-gl  4.21-5   GL(Mesa) screen
hacks for xscreensaver
ii  gnome-panel  2.8.3-1  launcher and
docking facility for GNOME 2
ii  gnome-panel-data 2.8.3-1  common files for
GNOME 2 panel


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Re: USB Pen / Thumb / Keyring Drive

Apparently, _Graham Smith_, on 25/07/05 11:42,typed:
 Hi,
 
 I was just given a small USB pen drive and would like to get it working with 
 Debian. I am sure you are probable thinking Oh god not another n00b that 
 can't mount a drive but thankfully you would be wrong. I don't have any 
 problems mounting the device but it feels very clunky compared to Windows 
 where you just stick the drive in and hey presto it's there ready to be used.
 
 What I would like it something that will just automagically mount the drive. 
 I 
 have installed the usbmount package (which I presume is the same as 
 usb-mount) but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's created /media/cdrom 
 and /media/usb directories but that is it - it doesn't mount the drive when I 
 plug it in. I am running KDE on Debian unstable and certain sites seem to 
 indicate that one can get KDE to create an icon on the desktop when a usb 
 drive is plugged in.
 
 Basically I'm interested to know what are my options are?
 
 Many thanks,
 
 Graham
 


In KDE, as another poster replied, you need hal, udev, pmount and to
write a rule for udev and make a mount point for a device for your USB
stick. I have done this in KDE and created a device icon on the desktop.
If I plugin the USB stick and click on the USB icon, it mounts the stick
automatically and you can also unmount it prior to removing the stick.

I believe KDE 3.4 is going to offer the feature of doing this
transparently for the user as is currently being done in Gnome using
gnome-volume-manager. I usually use Gnome and get the USB stick icon on
the desktop as soon as I plug it in and have to unmount it before safely
unplugging the stick -- same as in Windows (in which you have to Safely
remove the USB device before unplugging it -- at least in XP).

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Re: CD Burner

Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 20:18,typed:
 I am looking for a simple straight forward CD Burner. Any suggestions?
 
 Rajiv
 

best for me, YMMV, in order of preference:
(in terms of features)
1) cdrecord package commands
2) k3b
3) gnome nautilus cd burner

(in terms of use for simple data writing):
1) nautilus cd burner
2) k3b
3) cdrecord package commands
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Re: CD Burner

Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 21:00,typed:
 Tried couple of them. The funny thing is that K3b and natilus recognize
 my Sony Burner but would not burn to the CD.

I am not sure if this matters for this problem, but are you in cdrom group?

-HS





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Re: CD Burner

Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 21:29,typed:
 no.


Right. Add yourself to the cdrom group, relogin and try burning again.
-HS
PS: For various things to work for me, I am in the following groups(in
addition to my own(user's)): cdrom floppy audio src video staff plugdev
camera

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Re: CD Burner

Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 22:12,typed:
 Tried that but didn't work. This is what I did to k3b:
 
 marked to the cdrom group.

after this ... er .. pardon my probably reduntant question, but, just to
be thorough, did you relogin (and confirmed you belong to cdrom group
using the groups command)?

-HS



 added the file to be burnt to projects
 then tried burning it. I get the message: K3b did not find a suitable
 writer. You will only be able to create an image.



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Re: CD Burner

Apparently, _Rajiv Vyas_, on 25/07/05 22:33,typed:
 relogin from where? I am not getting the question. sorry.


You are probably using either Gnome or KDE. First, logout from your
current session. Then login again. The relogin is needed to make you
belong to the cdrom group.
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Re: Debian-Installer (testing) doesn't even boot...

2005-07-19 Thread H. S.


Apparently, _H.A.J. Koster_, on 07/19/2005 02:15 PM,typed:

Hi,

Tried to install testing (Etch) with debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
dated 13 July 2005, but after the boot: prompt I get the message
Could not find kernel image: /install/2.6/linux. I looked on the CD,



Same thing happened with me too. Solution was to boot using install24 
mode of installation. We did that assuming we will upgrade later on 
after we have a minimal system ready. But to our pleasant surprise, 
during the install process there was an option to choose either 2.4 or 
2.6 kernel. So it all worked out fine as we ended up with 2.6 kernel 
anyway :)


-HS


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Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-17 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Jules Dubois_, on 15/07/05 14:37,typed:

 
 You can downgrade to udev 0.056-3, and put udev 0.062-4 on hold for the
 present.
 
 


That is exactly what I did.

thanks,
-HS

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xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.

2005-07-17 Thread H. S.


I am trying to fully convert to Xorg in a Sid machine in my home
network. The problem is something to do with nvidia-glx, which upon
trying to be installed complains:
~# apt-get -s install nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  nvidia-glx: Depends: xlibmesa-glu but it is not going to be installed or
   libglu but it is not installable or
   libglu1
E: Broken packages




So I have some queries regarding this whole process of shifting to Xorg.
What does the above error really mean, since to install xlibmesa-glu
requires me to remove gdm and other stuff:
~# apt-get -s install xlibmesa-glu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gdm gdm-themes gksu gnome-netstatus-applet libgksu1.2-0 libgksuui1.0-0
libglu1-xorg x-window-system x-window-system-core
  xbase-clients xdm xprint xprint-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xlibmesa-glu
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 13 to remove and 1 not upgraded.




Also, with this new Xorg, do I still need the drivers by Nvidia (the
ones I used to install with module-assistant auto-install nvidia?

Sorry for all these queries, but this whole transition to Xorg and the
new C++ ABI is creating a bit of confusion for me.

thanks,
-HS

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Re: gnome-session updated and lost sound on Sarge

Apparently, _H. S._, on 13/07/05 12:41,typed:
 I upgraded gnome-session to  2.10.0-5 last night on my Sarge, 2.6.11, on
 a PIV. After that, I logged out of Gnome and couldn't login back. The
 login process 'hanged' on the gray screen that comes just, before the
 splash screen appears.
 
 I then deleted everything that belonged to me in /tmp (gconfd* alsa*
 .esd* orbit-* etc.) and relogged and was successful. But now sounds do
 not work. In my .xsession-erros, I get these messages:
 
 /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
 /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w
 /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h  -l
 :0 red
 /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
 SESSION_MANAGER=local/bijli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8568
 ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
 /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
 esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
 /tmp/.esd/socket
 This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
 Exiting...
 ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
 /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
 ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
 /tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
 and so on.
 
 
 What do I need to do to correct this? I tried deleting
 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state and restarting alsa. No luck. Btw, when I
 login to a KDE session, sound works okay.
 
 All help is appreciated,
 -HS
 


hmm ... nobody has any suggestions on how to go about solving this?

-HS

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2.6.11 and udev


How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that
2.6.12 is required for the new version? We upgraded a Sid machine
running 2.6.11 and got new version of udev with no dependency indication
that 2.6.12 is required.


-HS


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Re: 2.6.11 and udev

Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/07/05 09:26,typed:
 How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that
 2.6.12 is required for the new version? We upgraded a Sid machine
 running 2.6.11 and got new version of udev with no dependency indication
 that 2.6.12 is required.
 
 
 -HS
 
 

I should have mentioned that the Sid machine has udev 0.062-4.

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Re: 2.6.11 and udev


Apparently, _Paul Scott_, on 07/15/2005 12:37 PM,typed:

H. S. wrote:


Apparently, _H. S._, on 15/07/05 09:26,typed:
 


How come udev package has been upgraded in Sid without any warning that
2.6.12 is required for the new version? We upgraded a Sid machine
running 2.6.11 and got new version of udev with no dependency indication
that 2.6.12 is required.
  



I should have mentioned that the Sid machine has udev 0.062-4.
 

Not a real answer to your question but this is a good reason for 
installing apt-listbugs.  I was warned in time to not install that 
version of udev.


Paul Scott






Ah, thanks. The said Sid machine is in such a disarray now that we are 
thinking of doing a clean install. I guess apt-listbugs might have been 
helpful in preventing the upgrade of some packages which might have 
helped in creating the mess the machine is in now.


Moreover, I am also trying with a 2.6.12.2 kernel (vanilla) but am 
having problems with nvidia. But this another story for another thread.


regards,
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Re: failing to upgrade udev


Apparently, _Rogério Brito_, on 07/15/2005 12:18 PM,typed:

On Jul 15 2005, Jon Roed wrote:

Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 
(using .../archives/udev_0.062-4_i386.deb) ...



The important part is this:



udev requires a kernel = 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.



Upgrade your kernel and everything else should work fine.


The problem is, a Debian kernel package for 2.6.12 does not exit (or I 
am greatly mistaken). I downloaded vanilla 2.6.12 and tried compiling 
it. Got some problems with nv and nvidia drivers so have left it at that 
for now. So currently, running 2.6.11, lost udev, and after a little 
deliberation, starting a new clean install (incedently, the 13 July 
installation CD complains 2.6 kernel does not exist after booting :(  , 
so using install24 instead, but this is beside the topic).



-HS


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gnome-session updated and lost sound on Sarge

2005-07-13 Thread H. S.

I upgraded gnome-session to  2.10.0-5 last night on my Sarge, 2.6.11, on
a PIV. After that, I logged out of Gnome and couldn't login back. The
login process 'hanged' on the gray screen that comes just, before the
splash screen appears.

I then deleted everything that belonged to me in /tmp (gconfd* alsa*
.esd* orbit-* etc.) and relogged and was successful. But now sounds do
not work. In my .xsession-erros, I get these messages:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers -h  -l
:0 red
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/bijli:/tmp/.ICE-unix/8568
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
/tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
esd: Esound sound daemon already running or stale UNIX socket
/tmp/.esd/socket
This socket already exists indicating esd is already running.
Exiting...
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
/tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:196:(make_local_socket) connect failed:
/tmp/alsa-dmix-7175-1121233374-426838: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:834:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to connect client
and so on.


What do I need to do to correct this? I tried deleting
/var/lib/alsa/asound.state and restarting alsa. No luck. Btw, when I
login to a KDE session, sound works okay.

All help is appreciated,
-HS

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xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host

2005-06-30 Thread H. S.


Hi,

I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3
streams to work. From this page:
http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not.
While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports Couldn't
connect to host: URL:port.

Any idea how to fix it?

Running Debian Testing on a PIV, 2.6.11-1-686 kernel.

thanks,
-HS

PS:
 COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l *xmms* *mpg* *mpeg* | grep ^i
ii  xmms 1.2.10+cvs20050209-2 Versatile X audio
player that looks like Winamp
ii  xmms-alarm   0.3.6xmms general
plugin for using xmms as an alarm clock.
ii  xmms-arts0.7.1-2  aRts Output plugin
for xmms
ii  xmms-cdread  0.14a-11 Input plugin for
XMMS that reads audio data from CDs
ii  xmms-finespectrum1.0.1a-6 XMMS Fine Spectrum
Analyzer Plugin
ii  xmms-flac1.1.1-5  Free Lossless
Audio Codec - XMMS input plugin
ii  xmms-goom1.99.4-4 visualization
plug-in for XMMS with a variety of effects
ii  xmms-infinity0.5.9-1  full-screen
visualisation effect for XMMS
ii  xmms-infopipe1.3-4General plugin for
XMMS, reports real-time information to a pipe
ii  xmms-iris0.12-1   advanced OpenGL
visualization plugin for XMMS
ii  xmms-jackasyn0.1-2JACK Output plugin
for xmms
ii  xmms-mad 0.8-1mp3 input plugin
for xmms based on libmad
ii  xmms-mp4 2.0.0-sarge0.2   a mp4/aac audio
player for xmms
ii  xmms-skins   0.5-1Skins for XMMS
ii  xmms-wmdiscotux  1.3-3Tux dancing to the
music played by xmms
ii  mpg321   0.2.10.3 A Free
command-line mp3 player, compatible with mpg123
ii  ffmpeg   20050427-0sarge0.1   audio/video
encoder, streaming server  audio/video file convert
ii  gstreamer-mpeg2dec   0.6.4-5.1MPEG1 and MPEG2
video decoder plugin for GStreamer
ii  libarts1-mpeglib 3.3.2-1  mpeglib is a mp3
and mpeg I video/audio library (Arts plugin)
ii  libmpeg1 1.3.1-2.1The MPEG library
calls for movie streams
ii  libmpeg2-4   0.4.0b-2 MPEG1 and MPEG2
video decoder library
ii  libmpeg3hv   1.2.2-3cvs20050528   advanced editing
and manipulation of MPEG streams (cinelerra's i
ii  libsmpeg00.4.5+cvs20030824-1.2SDL MPEG Player
Library - shared libraries
ii  mpeg2dec 0.4.0b-2 Simple libmpeg2
video decoder application
ii  mpegdemux0.1.2-3  MPEG1/2 system
stream demultiplexer
ii  mpeglib  3.3.2-1  mp3 and mpeg I
video/audio library for linux



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Re: xmms doesn't play streams, complains couldn't connect to host

2005-06-30 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Bill Marcum_, on 30/06/05 18:13,typed:
 On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:35:57PM -0400, H. S. wrote:
 
Hi,

I am trying to make xmms play streams from websites and cannot get mp3
streams to work. From this page:
http://dir.xiph.org/index.php

I have tried Ogg streams on xmms and they work. The MP3 ones do not.
While trying to play an MP3 stream (.m3u file?), xmms reports Couldn't
connect to host: URL:port.

Any idea how to fix it?

 
 
 Could it be a firewall problem?
  
 


I considered it. However, another computer in my internal home network,
running Debian Sid, plays streams through xmms perfectly, this shows my
router (running Debian testing) is okay as far as the
router/masquarading firewall rules are concerned. I then thought about
the iptables rules I have on my desktop. I 'stopped' iptables on my
desktop so that all policies were ACCEPT(i.e. nothing being blocked by
my computer's firewall) and still xmms showed the same problem. So it
looks like firewall is not the issue here.

-HS

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Re: cdda2wav giving more than 700 MB of wav files

2005-06-25 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Brendon Lloyd Higgins_, on 24/06/05 00:56,typed:
 H. S. wrote (Friday 24 June 2005 8:23 am):
 
While making a backup a music CD, I noticed that I am getting around
728MB of wav files from the original.
 
 
 If I understand the process correctly, this is entirely normal. You see, a 
 given CD can either have up to 700MB of data or up to 80mins of audio. But 
 80mins of audio equates to 807.5MB of data!
 
 The reason for this is that in data mode a whole bunch of error-checking data 
 is interspersed with the real data on the CD, and naturally the 
 error-checking data takes up space. In audio mode this error-checking data is 
 considered unnecessary and is not used, freeing space for more audio. If you 
 were to add in the same error-checking to an audio CD you'd lose more than 10 
 minutes of available audio time.
 
 The quality flag of cdda2wav probably has no relation to the file size. WAV 
 is 
 a raw, uncompressed file type, so the size of a wav file for a given duration 
 of audio is exactly predictable, (44100 samples/sec, 2 channels, 2 
 bytes/channel/sample. The size in bytes is then 44100 * 2 * 2 * duration in 
 seconds.) If you want something smaller you'll have to look into some sort of 
 compressed format. If for your purposes a lossy format is adequate, I'd 
 suggest Ogg Vorbis. Otherwise, FLAC might be good (though it is larger than 
 Vorbis, they're both smaller than WAV).
 
 Hope that helps,
 Brendon

Your informative reply and this page:
http://linux.math.tifr.res.in/manuals/text/xcdroast.txt
helped me clearly understand what is going on in audio CD writing. After
going through this information, I was confidently able to back up a few
of my audio CDs which gave me wav files amounting to more than 700MB of
data.

Many thanks for your nice explanation.
-HS

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USB card reader prevents Sid from booting

2005-06-25 Thread H. S.

Hi,

If I boot a Sid system running 2.6.11-1-686 while a USB multi-card
reader is plugged into a USB port, the boot process hangs. I get the
grub menu and when I select the kernel to boot from, the screen goes
blank and nothing happens at all. If I boot by disconnecting the card
reader, all is normal and fine.

Here are some packages I have:
$ dpkg -l hal *dbus* *usb* *kernel-image*2.6.11* acpi* | grep ^ii
ii  acpi0.09-1 displays
information on ACPI devices
ii  acpid   1.0.4-1Utilities for
using ACPI power management
ii  dbus-1  0.23.4-3   simple
interprocess messaging system
ii  dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-3   simple
interprocess messaging system (GLib-b
ii  hal 0.4.8-2Hardware
Abstraction Layer
ii  kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686   2.6.11-7   Linux kernel
image for version 2.6.11 on PPr
ii  kernel-image-2.6.11050501.alsa  10.00.Custom   Linux kernel
binary image for version 2.6.11
ii  libusb-0.1-40.1.10a-16 userspace USB
programming library
ii  python2.3-dbus  0.23.4-3   simple
interprocess messaging system (Python
ii  qc-usb-source   0.6.3-1source code for
QuickCam Express kernel modu
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Any idea what could be going wrong?

thanks,
-HS


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Re: XP-Debian dual boot with grub

2005-06-24 Thread H. S.

Apparently, _Marcelo Chiapparini_, on 24/06/05 19:25,typed:
 Hello,
 
 I have a machine with Win XP installed. I want to install sarge in the
 same machine in order to have a dual boot system. I want to use Grub as
 the main boot loader. Does exist a how-to in some place? I din't find
 anything in Debian list and Google pointed me to:
 
  http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
 
 How ever, this how-to uses Win XP boot loader as the firts one in the
 MBR, calling Grub in a second chain-load step...
 
 Does exist any problem installing Grub in the MBR of the disk? or Win XP
 boot loader must be there in order to antivirus programs work fine?
 Thanks in advance for any help
 
 Regards
 
 Marcelo
 

In my case, I had partitioned my hard disk in two major parititions. I
installed Win XP in one of them (in the first parititon of the disk) and
then Debian in the other. Debian should detect Windows XP and Grub
should be installed by default.

GL,
-HS

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Re: CDROM was confusing the drive: copy protection

Apparently, _Jim Hall_, on 23/06/05 11:15,typed:

 
 
 For those of us who haven't run into this situation yet, could you
 please explain how the marker helped.
 
 Jim
 
 

I searched google when I realized the CD was not a standard audio disk
(did not have Compact Disc digital audio logo). Some of the links I hit
were:
http://www.audiorevolution.com/news/0502/22.copyprotection.shtml
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1439253
http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.music.gaffa/browse_thread/thread/55c1374ff28da77e/d58cbdfa56c50abb?q=copy+protection+felt+tip+penrnum=1hl=en#d58cbdfa56c50abb

So, based on the information abvoe, I just drew a band around 3~4mm wide
on the outer rim of the CD (on the laser side) and played the CD on the
Debian box without any problems.

-HS


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Re: possible solution for eth0 eth1 mixup on boot

Apparently, _Chris Bannister_, on 23/06/05 12:30,typed:
 Hi,
 
 Try setting Plug-n-Play to NO/OFF/FALSE in bios
 
 HTH
 

There are around 3 method to do so (learned while googling for the
problem, maybe somewhere metioned them on this list too, not sure). I
chose an easier one. I just mention the modules of the two NICs in
/etc/modules in the order I want the cards to be numbered. So module for
eth0 goes first and for eth1 goes next. The only problem is that this
method will not work if a NIC card is replaced with another one which
may need a different module.

-HS


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Re: gnome system sounds crackling (or hoarse) after upgrade

Apparently, _David Roguin_, on 23/06/05 09:47,typed:
 i have the same deal, i believe the GStreamer is still buggy.
 maybe has something to be with lack of RAM?

The desktop I mentioned earlier running Sarge has 256MB and the laptop I
had mentioned earlier has 512MB. With the sound distortion the same in
both, looks like RAM may not be the problem.

-HS



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