IOMMU issues workaround (was Re: realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel)
On 12/10/13 16:49, Wackojacko wrote: On 12/10/13 16:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/10/13 11:03 AM, Wackojacko wrote: On 12/10/13 15:32, Gary Dale wrote: I had a similar problem but fixed it by enabling IOEMU in the BIOS of my Gigabyte 970A-D3P. I assume you mean IOMMU, I had already enabled this a few minutes before you suggested it but it didn't appear to work at first. However, I have just rebooted again and the network has come up so thankyou. Enabling this has given me a new problem in that my usb 3.0 now doesn't work :-( I get lots of messages like this in dmesg AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=02:00.0 domain=0x0014 address=0xbea01740 flags=0x0010] and lspci shows 02:00.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3483 (rev 01) I prefer network and no usb 3.0 but I'd like both so I'll look in the BIOS again to see if there's anything I can change to see if it helps. Thanks Wackojacko I'm having exactly the same problem. Let me know if you get it to work. Ah ok, will do but it looks like a kernel bug in amd64 because these problems don't exist with 32 bit. Thanks to Gary, and a bit of googling IOMMU issues, it appears this is common on Gigabyte M/B's and if a BIOS update doesn't work (none available in my case) then try appending iommu=soft to the kernel options in grub. Using this option I have USB 3.0 and Network using the stock amd64 kernel. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525bc8be.5000...@sky.com
realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel
I have recently updated my motherboard which has resulted in me having an updated realtek r8168 chip (rev 6 instead of rev 3), unfortunately the new chip fails to get a connection via dhcp, and setting a static address results in 100% packet loss. I am currently running sid amd64 and have tried various things including downloading the latest driver from Realtek, experimental kernel and numerous live CD's. What I discovered by chance was that the NIC worked when using debian 32 bit distribution (confirmed with debian live cd) which is now installed to keep me on the go :). Interestingly it works whether the firmware is installed or not on 32 bit. I have compared the output of dmesg, lspci, lshw, ethtool from both distributions and the only difference I found relating to the driver was r8169 :03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control and a different address and IRQ for the NIC. so I tried booting with pcie_aspm=off (it was disabled anyway) and the warning disappeared but the NIC still didn't work. This is the adapter on a Gigabyte 970a-dsp3 motherboard 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06) and dmesg shows on amd64 r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded r8169 :03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control r8169 :03:00.0: irq 72 for MSI/MSI-X r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: RTL8168evl/8111evl at 0xc9616000, (MAC ADDRESS), XID 0c900880 IRQ 72 r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] r8169 :03:00.0: firmware: agent loaded rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw into memory on 32bit r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded r8169 :03:00.0: irq 73 for MSI/MSI-X r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: RTL8168evl/8111evl at 0xf8274000,(MAC ADDRESS), XID 0c900880 IRQ 73 r8169 :03:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9200 bytes, tx checksumming: ko] r8169 :03:00.0: firmware: agent loaded rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw into memory As you can see the driver loads and eth0 comes up but no ip address from the router. Any help would be aprreciated Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52595bdb.2050...@sky.com
Re: realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel
Sending tot the list sorry gary On 12/10/13 15:32, Gary Dale wrote: I had a similar problem but fixed it by enabling IOEMU in the BIOS of my Gigabyte 970A-D3P. I assume you mean IOMMU, I had already enabled this a few minutes before you suggested it but it didn't appear to work at first. However, I have just rebooted again and the network has come up so thankyou. Enabling this has given me a new problem in that my usb 3.0 now doesn't work :-( I get lots of messages like this in dmesg AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=02:00.0 domain=0x0014 address=0xbea01740 flags=0x0010] and lspci shows 02:00.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3483 (rev 01) I prefer network and no usb 3.0 but I'd like both so I'll look in the BIOS again to see if there's anything I can change to see if it helps. Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525964ad.60...@sky.com
Re: realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel
On 12/10/13 16:37, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/10/13 11:03 AM, Wackojacko wrote: On 12/10/13 15:32, Gary Dale wrote: I had a similar problem but fixed it by enabling IOEMU in the BIOS of my Gigabyte 970A-D3P. I assume you mean IOMMU, I had already enabled this a few minutes before you suggested it but it didn't appear to work at first. However, I have just rebooted again and the network has come up so thankyou. Enabling this has given me a new problem in that my usb 3.0 now doesn't work :-( I get lots of messages like this in dmesg AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=02:00.0 domain=0x0014 address=0xbea01740 flags=0x0010] and lspci shows 02:00.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3483 (rev 01) I prefer network and no usb 3.0 but I'd like both so I'll look in the BIOS again to see if there's anything I can change to see if it helps. Thanks Wackojacko I'm having exactly the same problem. Let me know if you get it to work. Ah ok, will do but it looks like a kernel bug in amd64 because these problems don't exist with 32 bit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52596f94.2050...@sky.com
Re: Looking for software to manage snail-mail subscriptions
On 05/12/10 11:23, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 02:50:38 +, Alex Gould wrote: Camaleón writes: This may sound a bit overwhelming but have you thought in a CMS (like Drupal or Joomla) and a module for managing those subscriptions? :-? Thanks. I'd consider it -- but do you know of any such module or add-on? It's hard to just do a web-search for this kind of thing because terms like mailing list, newsletter subscription etc. all refer to email list management software, which is much easier to find. Hum... maybe they are located under e-commerce category. For example: http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid%3A104solrsort=sis_project_release_usage%20desc Ubercart looks quite complete. http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/e-commerce/paid-membership-a-subscriptions You can also look under ERP software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ERP_software_packages Basically I guess you need a database (offile/online) which handles users data (subscription type: magazine, newspaper... periodicty: weekly, monthly, quarterly... client postal address for delivering, etc...) :-? Greetings, If I have understood you correctly then you are looking for 'mail merge' which is available for openoffice (and word in the windows world) HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cfb8267.4050...@ntlworld.com
Re: How to tune display position on external VGA display
On 19/06/10 14:31, Matteo Riva wrote: I'm using a laptop which I connect to a plasma TV through a VGA connection. I can get the display on the plasma to work at the correct resolution (1360x768) but the image is shifted on the left so that part of it is hidden and I have a black bar on the right. My card is a Radeon Mobility 3430. With the ATI proprietary drivers (which I cannot use now due to display corruption with the latest version) I can tweak settings with ATI control panel, but now I'm using the radeon driver and I don't know what I can use to move the display. I tried xvidtune but all I get is Unable to query monitor info Thanks Try this website http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Working_with_Modelines#Getting_rid_of_overscan_and_centering_the_image it was a lot of help recently in creating a custom modeline for my Panasonic Plasma. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c1cf719.9080...@ntlworld.com
Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor
T o n g wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:21:38 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default (installing as minimum packages as possible)? look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils If I don't 'modprobe powernow-k8' manually, this is what I got: % aptitude install cpufrequtils The following NEW packages will be installed: cpufrequtils 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 33.6kB of archives. After unpacking 262kB will be used. Setting up cpufrequtils (004-2) ... CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...disabled, governor not available...done. Doesn't seem to be helping from my point of view... You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rsync mirrors of debian CD How?
Thanks. It is clear from this that Rsync Mirrors is not at all what I thought it was. I had thought it was an improvement on jigdo for downloading an updated version of an iso for which I already had an older, out-of-date file. What I had thought was that I could take my netinst.iso from a few months before Lenny release and rsync it into being a true copy of the latest version of Lenny netinst without having to transfer ALL the individual bits of the new copy. That would save some time and bandwidth over downloading a whole new copy, but ... I sure was mistaken. I certainly don't want to mirror the whole Lenny repository locally. No wonder Thorny was puzzled by my question! This is exactly how I use jigdo. Mount the iso to /mnt/somedir and then scan the mount point for files that exist in the new image before asking to download. I also scan /var/cache/apt/archives for any packages I have updated since the original iso was downloaded. My download of a new netinst is half done while I composed this reply. Probably a bit late now! Thanks. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How to append a simple text presentation at the beginning of a video file?
thveillon.debian wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote : On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 19:52:43 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: How do I install cinelerra? I did many attempts with different entries in sources.list, but either the package is `not found' or there are unmet dependencies. What shall the proper entries be in sources.list? AFAICT, cinelerra is available from debian-multimedia.org (please try to use a mirror in your sources.list), but only for Lenny and Sid. If you are on Etch then you might have to compile it yourself, which will probably be a pain in the neck because it depends on some libraries that are themselves not in Debian. Cinelerra and Kdenlive are both available for Lenny and upward, not Etch. Outside of the debian-multimedia packages (which I would recommend) there's a few other possible repositories, this one for instance has given good results for 64bit systems : http://giss.tv/~vale/debian64/ But I would definitely stick with debian-multimedia, and as Florian Kulzer said building from sources is really not an easy option with Cinelerra... Out of curiosity I have tested Openmovieeditor following your question, which is available in Debian http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openmovieeditor saving you the hassle of adding debian-multimedia to your sources. It has worked very well doing exactly what you want: adding some still images in the beginning of a 800M video, wrapping up some text on top of that, and then rendering everything in mpeg video and audio. So it's worth a try if you can't cope with Cinelerra installation and not-so-friendly gui... To quickly grasp the basics of Openmovieeditor : http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9ljEb1PdEdM To see what Cinelerra can do for you : http://makefx.wordpress.com/ Tom Or a simpler way might be to use dvd-slideshow from the debian-multimedia repository. Create your images with gimp and then use dvd-slideshow to make a slideshow for you. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Is this bug in aptitude?
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:02:08AM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Rob Gom wrote: Hello, is this bug in aptitude when I try: $ aptitude install a [...] b will be removed $ aptitude install a b [...] b will be removed [OK] $ aptitude install b [b is installed fine, the same with a] So why does aptitude want to remove package b in the first place? [snip] Aptitude tries to remove automatically installed packages. If you manually install them, aptitude won't try to do this. It's not a bug. It is interesting that install a b doesn't flag b as manual. The command-line parsing logic is hairy and tries to do the right thing in various cases, but this one seems to be falling through the cracks (due to when aptitude calculates unused removals). Problem is, I'd have to be careful adding code to handle this situation: the command-line is one of the few parts of aptitude that's not very well specified, and so I'm not sure exactly what would happen if I tried various hacks to do what you (quite reasonably) expect here. I don't see any obvious problems, but it's entirely possible that some other use case would be affected. Daniel Daniel I don't know whether you saw my earlier message http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/08/msg02156.html but the OP has testing and unstable in his sources list and is doing #aptitude install -t unstable a so wouldn't this remove any testing packages that conflict with a or any of its dependencies? #aptitude install -t unstable b will then install the new package from unstable as its supposed to. This is how I read the OP and wouldn't want you to spend time hacking for a problem that doesn't IMHO exist. Mixing dists will cause these anomalies and they should be expected, no? HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot read partition table on disk.
Shachar Or wrote: On Monday 25 August 2008 22:46, Ben Olive wrote: No, I haven't. What should I look for there? I didn't change anything between debian and ubuntu but ubuntu saw it as SCSI automatically. Look for anything that may be related... Such as making IDE look like SATA (although I've only seen the opposite). --Ben Olive On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Shachar Or [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 August 2008 14:09, Ben Olive wrote: I am trying to install debian on a computer with one IDE drive attached. Partman on the debian installer does not see a partition table on the drive though there is one and if I write a new one it still doesn't see it. When I load the ubuntu installer, it sees the disk as a SCSI (sda) instead of IDE (hda). Even though this disk is actually IDE, it somehow only works when treated as SCSI. How can I force debian to treat the device as a scsi device? Have you looked into the options at the BIOS setup? --Ben Olive -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ It could be that the Ubuntu Kernel is using the new PATA drivers which make all drives appear as sd?. These are available in the Debian kernel source (2.6.25 at least) also, but as they are experimental they are not compiled in. If you do an lsmod on the two systems you should see that the debian kernel has generic 'ide' modules, and probably a module for your specific chipset, and the ubuntu kernel has 'pata' modules for your chipset. If this is the case you could roll your own kernel, very easy with make-kpkg, and disable the ide modules and build the pata modules you need into the kernel. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is this bug in aptitude?
Rob Gom wrote: [cut] Aptitude tries to remove automatically installed packages. If you manually install them, aptitude won't try to do this. It's not a bug. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF Thank you very much. However I don't understand the answer. Why does aptitude want to uninstall them? Are they in conflict with something else? If so, why removed packages can be installed without problem later? In other words - _why does aptitude want to remove automatically installed packages_? Regards, Robert Rob Are you running lenny and picking things from sid? My theory is that are only using some packages from sid. These sid packages sometimes depend on new versions of libraries and replace old libraries in lenny. Any packages in lenny which depend on the old libraries and not the new ones (due to transition to newer software) will be automatically removed due to unsatisfied dependencies. However, when you reinstall the packages (from sid) that got removed it will install the newer version which depend on the new libraries. If you are running sid then you need to dist-upgrade first then all would be well. Of course it may be none of the above :) My 2p! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.
Adam Hardy wrote: However, using #chkrootkit -x lkm and #/usr/lib/chkrootkit/chkproc -v -v Wacko, you haven't got a script that does that have you? (Identifying the process that is hidden from /proc/PID?) Seems a bit laborious doing it manually more than once. Adam As per my original mail above, these two commands will show you the hidden processes. First one asks chkrootkit why it thinks there is an LKM Trojan on the system. Second one is the helper script run by chkrootkit that lists the hidden processes but can be run directly. I am still seeing output from these commands, but the daily chkrootkit email warning of LKM Trojan has now disappeared!! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.
Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a little further I see this has been a problem in the past but was unable to find any recent examples. However, using #chkrootkit -x lkm and #chkproc -v -v and comparing these to the output of ps and ls /proc I have determined that there are processes which do not show up on /proc or ps but I am still able to #cd /proc/PID for these processes and then #cat cmdline to find out what service is hidden. The results suggest that icedove-bin and nepomukerserver are the main culprits, but I want to know why!! I do not have any services running on external ports as I am behind a netgear router and have confirmed this via various external port scan sites. I do run smb, imap (dovecot), postfix, cups and apt-cacher (perl) locally for my internal network. Am I really rooted? Anyone else seeing something similar? TIA Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.
Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/16/08 06:17, Wackojacko wrote: Hi all I realise there has been some discussion recently over the merits or otherwise of chkrootkit, but the last two days it is warning of hidden processes (ps and readdir). After googling a little further I see this has been a problem in the past but was unable to find any recent examples. However, using #chkrootkit -x lkm and #chkproc -v -v and comparing these to the output of ps and ls /proc I have determined that there are processes which do not show up on /proc or ps but I am still able to #cd /proc/PID for these processes and then #cat cmdline to find out what service is hidden. The results suggest that icedove-bin and nepomukerserver are the main culprits, but I want to know why!! I do not have any services running on external ports as I am behind a netgear router and have confirmed this via various external port scan sites. I do run smb, imap (dovecot), postfix, cups and apt-cacher (perl) locally for my internal network. Am I really rooted? Anyone else seeing something similar? Is this your personal workstation? How is it connected to the Intarweb? Directly, or behind a NATing firewalling router? If directly, how many services do you have listening to ports? Get a friend to nmap you. If this is your PC, and are behind a hardware firewall, I seriously doubt that you are compromised. Hi Ron Yeah this is my thinking. It is my personal workstation and I only have the services I listed above listening on the local network. I am behind a Netgear Router and external port scans show zilch! Forgot to mention I am running Sid AMD64 with homerolled 2.6.25 Kernel. Rkhunter shows nothing but they means nothing if the system is compromised. I suppose the next question is why are these services hiding from me? Thanks again Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debian-User] Debian + non ose virtualBox
Javier Vasquez wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:06:20 -0600 Javier Vasquez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed the non ose virtualBox, and I got a XP image running under it with bridged ethernet. However I haven't been able to get USB working on the guest, neither shared folders... I've searched with google, and found several suggestions (often about the permissions of the usbfs devices), and I tried almost everything unsuccessfully (most suggestions for ubuntu btw), + I also read the user Manual. Is there a debian guide to get USB and share directory working... Thanks, Have you installed Virtualbox Guest Additions in the guest OS (win xp)? -- Nyizsa. Yes I did. I can see in the devices tab of virtualbox the usb devices, but they're always grayed... I also included filters (automatically picked BTW by virtualbox), but that doesn't help a thing. And for the shared folders, I see in the shared folders tab as well the directory, but when I go in the guest to the network places, and go into VirtualBox shared folders, there's nothing... I'm not sure if there's something that needs explicetely to be done, but if there is, I just can't find it, :(... Thanks, I had a similar problem and google led me to the same conclusions re usbfs without much luck. Debian seems to mount usbfs as standard (check with #mount). The solution for me was the Guest Additions was not installed in the Guest OS. So just to make sure have you checked to see if the icon is displayed in the taskbar in the guest OS. Can you seamlessly use your mouse in the guest display or do you have to click r-ctrl? Sorry to repeat the same advice as previous poster but this really was the solution for me! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT?]Re: pc doesn't start
Redirecting to list Sudev Barar wrote: 2008/7/30 Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was refering to the coin cell that some motherboards have for keeping bios settings between reboots. The OP mentioned that removing the BIOS battery for a few minutes helps the PC start so maybe it just gives the battery enough time to recover enough charge for the reboot. Just a guess. This means battery is having charge but removing it is causing BIOS to reset to defaults. So is not likely problem. Waiting an hour resolves this problem. Which means battery is not good and waiting and hour resets BIOS (I am contradicting myself) But why would running the client load BIOS with some useless settings that go away when BIOS resets? Hmmm wish I could contribute more Me too! I just remember reading that a dead, or dying, BIOS Battery can lead to trouble getting the PC to POST, why I don't know. If you can get your hands on another battery to test this it might be cheaper than a new PSU :) HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pc doesn't start
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:03:45PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Brian McKee wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Claudius Hubig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lóránd Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and the pc is in a wooden box:D but the connector is grounded, could that be the problem? I have a similiar problem with my desktop PC: After running for a while and then being shut down, it wont turn on again. Waiting a few minutes (quite a few in fact, maybe an hour) and the problem is solved again. Both of you could try unplugging it for ten seconds. I have seen a couple of units that behave that way. It seems to be the motherboard/BIOS as replacing the PSU on one of units I have that behaves that way didn't change anything. ... Also try replacing the BIOS battery back up. I seem to remember reading on this list about similar problems being solved that way. I think Andrew S-W may have been involved in the thread, maybe even the OP, but I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong :) Not sure what you're referring too by BIOS battery back up... PSU's have a pretty high failure rate, at least on a par with if not worse than HD's. If you had a warning about voltage, and now the thing doesn't work correctly, the first thing I'd suggest is testing or replacing the PSU. Note though that a failing PSU could take other stuff with it, so don't be surprised if it ends up being multiple parts. OP's PSU (or some other part) could merely be overheating in some odd way that keeps it from powering back up until it's had time to cool back down. I've found that investing in a battery backup helps with the life span of PSU's. In fact the only ones I've had fail in a couple of years now are the ones that aren't on battery backup. The battery backup generally provide some power conditioning which helps minimize the stress on the PSU. hth A I was refering to the coin cell that some motherboards have for keeping bios settings between reboots. The OP mentioned that removing the BIOS battery for a few minutes helps the PC start so maybe it just gives the battery enough time to recover enough charge for the reboot. Just a guess. I was sure that you had had a problem like this with an older PC which was solved by replacing the coin cell. Maybe my memory is just not what it used to be!! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pc doesn't start
Brian McKee wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Claudius Hubig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lóránd Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and the pc is in a wooden box:D but the connector is grounded, could that be the problem? I have a similiar problem with my desktop PC: After running for a while and then being shut down, it wont turn on again. Waiting a few minutes (quite a few in fact, maybe an hour) and the problem is solved again. Both of you could try unplugging it for ten seconds. I have seen a couple of units that behave that way. It seems to be the motherboard/BIOS as replacing the PSU on one of units I have that behaves that way didn't change anything. Brian Also try replacing the BIOS battery back up. I seem to remember reading on this list about similar problems being solved that way. I think Andrew S-W may have been involved in the thread, maybe even the OP, but I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong :) HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Steve Lamb wrote: Hrm, not sure, I'm getting the dreaded VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error. Will have to twiddle with this tomorrow night. C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmd k -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PysicalDrive0 ^ Is this a typo in the e-mail or the command? VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 1.6.2 (C) 2005-2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Error opening the raw disk: VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND I did get this initially but the latest versions seem to work OK. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?
Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:08:30PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi. I'm not quite sure what you want to do, but it sounds to me like you want a windows host to boot a linux guest. Correct. So, you need to download the correct windows binary, install it and then create the linux guest in the windows host. This is where I am now. A Windows host is booting a Linux guest from a hard drive image. Did that answer your question? Nope. What I want to do is have my Windows host boot a Linux guest from a *real* hard drive partition, not an image. The VirtualBox help gives a method to do the reverse, IE, a Linux host booting a real Windows partition. However, the command to do so references the partition from the /dev tree; something that obviously will not work for a Windows host. I'm looking for the Windows version of that command. The command is the same except the device section is as follows (from user manual section 9.9) *On a Windows host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g. \\.\PhysicalDrive0.* May need full path to VBoxManage to work. The only problem I had was getting an mbr to boot the linux partition. Tried the fakembr package but as I have grub in the MBR of the physical disk it wouldn't work for me. I eventually used a grub floppy image mounted at boot time pointing to the menu.lst on the linux partition which works! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using apt to install only one package
andy wrote: BTW - your sig: you have New New York, so unless it is an updated version of NYC, I suspect it might be a typo? Andy OR a subtle admission that he is a Dr Who fan!! New New York is the name of New York in Parallel Earth I think! HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IMAP is teh r0x0rz! [was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.]
Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Of course, it drops mails directly into Maildir folders, so you'd have to tell Dovcot to use Maildir instead of mbox. But that should not be hard. I was talking about the filters from the client more than the subfolders. Dovecot doesn't do sieve. There is a plug-in for sieve. http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux-image-2.6.25 won't boot - target filesystem error -SOLVED
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 02 Jul 2008, Bob Cox wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 07:51:20 +0100, Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't understand label in this context. Where is it set? This was explained by Florian Kulzer earlier in this thread. (It was such a good explanation I kept it for future reference!) On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:00 +0200, Florian Kulzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You can use UUIDs or labels to refer to the partitions. This is robust if a newer kernel changes the device nodes (e.g. from /dev/hda to /dev/sda). You can use the blkid utility to find out the UUIDs of your partitions, or you can set your own labels with e2label (and mkswap -L for the swap partition). To give you an example, I labeled my root partition root and this is the corresponding fstab entry: LABEL=root / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 If you want to use UUIDs then the syntax is UUID=. -- Sorry, I hadn't read the e2label line properly. But I don't think it would affect the issue I encountered here, which was a change in the actual partition referred to. The label would still be referring to the wrong partition. Still, now that I know this can happen I will not be caught by it in the future. Anthony I think you should be asking yourself how the old kernel boots with hdb9. Grub numbering system starts from 0 so hd(0,0) is hda1 and hda(1,9) is hdb10 etc. Are you sure you don't have another debian/linux install on hdb9 :). Anyhow glad you got it fixed. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd and cd burning and ripping
Daniel Dalton wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:39:40AM -0700, Lee Glidewell wrote: On Saturday 28 June 2008 12:31:55 am Daniel Dalton wrote: Yes, it is. For a Gtk based burning application, take a look at Brasero. wodim Can that do dvds? (that will play in all dvd players?) Yes, it can. That said, whether or not it plays in a DVD player is more a So, do I need to create the video_ts folder into an iso image and then burn the iso? Yes, genisoimage in debian will create dvd-video iso images which can then be burnt by wodim. But there is an outstanding bug in genisoimage that means some standalone players wont play them. My Panasonic DVD recorder for one :(. When I ripped it, I got a video_ts folder with vob files which mplayer can play. Also, how would I burn single vob files from my camera to a dvd? (so the dvd player can play them) You need to create the dvd-video structure. dvdauthor is the tool from the command line that does this. Its very simple to get a basic dvd with no menus, but with some learning you can create very good looking dvd's. function of the file creation software than the burning software. So, if you So if the original disk did the burnt one should? Yes but beware of the bug on some standalone players. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:59:12 Adrian Chapela wrote: Vwaju escribió: I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing computers: Have you calculated the md5sum ? was it the right md5sum ? Gateway Solo 1100 laptop Dell Dimension 4100 Dell Inspiron 8500 (I set the boot order to boot the CD drive first. However, the CD is bypassed in every case. And does it boot on any other computers? And how did you burn the iso? Does the cd contain just the one iso file or a number of files and directories? I think from your comment copied to cd you may not have burnt the CD correctly. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: csh: how to use indirect ref to env vars
michael wrote:
Hi, I have a csh script in which I'd like to do set up a list of vars
and then to chk each of these are set, something like the below.
However, I can't find the magic incantation that allows to to check
${$Vars} eg if $InMetFiles is set on the first loop - suggestions
welcome!
#!/bin/csh
foreach Vars (InMetFiles InTerFile OutDir)
echo Checking $Vars\.\.\.
if ( ${?Vars} == 0) then
echo $Vars not set \- aborting
exit 1
endif
end
maybe use (empty string) instead of 0 in the comparison.
HTH
Wackojacko
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Re: Project's Colaboration
Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 06:23:07PM -0700, gaston Rey wrote: Hi people, as you all I'm a Linux fun, but I need a recommendation from you. What I mean is that I'm a fun but I have never programmed or collaborated directly in linux projects, could you recommend a Guide or amything like that to know how to start making a debug or what program use to debug and run software made in C/C++? My knowledge is only working with Java and Netbeans but I want to begin debuging, changing and improve linux aplications but in C/C++. Please help me to find out a Guide and software to get this skills! :D Bye, Salu2 I guess you can look for tutorials with gcc and gdb and then look for a 'beginners guide' to c and try some basic code to lean about compiling c. -K I found this http://newdata.box.sk/bx/c/ to be a good starting point for me. Its available all over the net. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with tar for backup (maximum tar file size?)
Jimmy Wu wrote: I haven't been backing up any of my stuff, and yesterday I decided to start doing that I want to use tar with bz2, and I wrote this little script to hopefully automate this process (attached) The script works, but tar doesn't. The logs show no errors until somewhere near the end, when it says tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors but no other errors. I've been searching online, and the only thing I can think of that's wrong is the directory is too big. From what I read, the way tar works, the tar archive can't be bigger than 8GB. My home directory is about that much, maybe a little more. The largest file I have is a 2+ GB dvd iso. So I was wondering: (1) Is it true that tar files can't be bigger than 8GB, and (2) If so, what should I use to backup directories bigger than 8GB? I wanted to stick with tar because I can open those on other platforms. If directory size isn't the problem, then what could be going on? Thanks! -- Jimmy Wu Registered Linux User #454138 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments I use backup2l and it makes backups using tar and bz2. My initial backup is about 16G. #ll /mnt/backup/backup/backup.1.tar.bz2 #-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17991855331 2008-05-05 15:22 /mnt/backup/backup/backup.1.tar.bz2 Maybe a filesystem restriction in the same way vfat is restricted to 4G? HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with grub
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008-05-15 17:02+0200 Gilles Guiot:
my server has two raid1 arrays, each with two disks, for a total of
four hd. sda1 relates to the biggest partion on the first array (sda)
and sdb1 relates to the only partition on the second raid array. point
is this sdb1 is in lvm so to speak, ie there is an lv using all of
the partition.
2008-05-15 16:43+0200 hh.eu:
I don't quite understand why you only create LVM on sdb, not on sda,
and what you mean by copying the filesystem from sda to sdb.
This is an installed and working server. Because we needed more space
for backuppc, the initial plan was to create an lvm on the second raid
array, boot to it and see if it worked, if so extend it by
incorporating the first raid array.
I am using software RAID, which gives me device names such as md0 and
md1 for
the RAID arrays rather than sda and sdb, so are you using some sort of
hardware RAID (either with a real hardware RAID controller or 'fake
hardware
RAID' using the embedded controller on the motherboard)?
Anyway, if I understand you correctly, you have two partitions on the
old RAID
set and just one partition (with LVM) on the new RAID set. The problem is
that (legacy) GRUB cannot deal with LVM directly. GRUB can understand RAID,
but not LVM. That's why people usually have a small RAID1 set on two disks
that contains just a partition on each disk for /boot, and another larger
RAID1 set on the same two disks that is entirely filled with LVM. That's
what
I was talking about:
You probably mean you have two partitions on disks sda and sdb, one
small
partition and a larger partition. Then you put the two small partitions
together in RAID1 and use it for /boot. You also put the two larger
partitions
together into another RAID1 array and use this for LVM.
In other words: You need two partitions on the new RAID set, too. The
size for
the /boot partitions can be quite small, I chose 512 MB which should be
much
more than enough. (I didn't want to make it smaller because hard disk
space is
cheap nowadays and making it bigger isn't so convenient because it's not on
LVM!).
when i type grub root (sdb,0) , i get the message : syntax error near
unexpected token '('.
Could someone tell me what's my mistake and how to do it properly ?
Do you type grub root (sdb,0) (without the ) all in one line? If
so, you
have misunderstood the instructions! You first need to type grub,
then press
enter, this will get you to the GRUB command, i.e. you will see a
command
prompt of grub at the left. Only then you have to enter root
(sdb,0) and
all the other commands (each followed by pressing enter and without
the ).
I typed the first grub to enter the grub command, omitted to specifiy
it . Apologies.
I was asking because the error message seems very much like an error
message
from your normal shell, e.g. bash, which you shouldn't get from the GRUB
shell. (I am not in front of a Debian system so I can't test...)
You also need to specify the hard disk name/number in GRUB notation
(which is
something like hd0 or hd1, even for SCSI disks), not in the normal
notation,
i.e. root (sdb,0) doesn't work.
Unfortunately, GRUB uses some sort of guessing to map device names (e.g.
sdb
-- hd0, sda -- hd1) which is not very reliable. See a recent post
from me
for tips and details to find out about the mapping:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/05/msg01006.html
Did you read the manual
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html?
-Moritz
Grub does tab completion so if you type root (tab it should give you a
list of the available drives as grub sees them. The file
/boot/grub/device.map shows how these translate to real hard drives.
HTH
Wackojacko
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Re: AMD Athlon XP3200
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run Windows, odds are you're on i386, less likely ia64 or amd64. IIRC, the AMD XP3200 is an amd64 CPU which will run either i386 or amd64. Search the archives of this list for many, many discussions on which is better. It depends on if all the apps you want to run are available for amd64, how much memory your system has, and if for your application you need 64-bit executables. Note that on i386, you can install a 64-bit kernel, however IIRC, some add-on apps (e.g. Adobe's Acroread) which is 32-bit will not run with the 64-bit kernel. Better to ask on the debian-amd64 list if you are in any of these edge conditions. Most normal people wouldn't notice a difference either way. Doug. I would have to disagree with this info Doug. Athlon XP CPU's are Barton cores and are strictly 32 bit only AFAICT. Google search seems to support this. To the OP, i386 is the correct architecture, and install a i686 kernel. There are no k7 kernels in debian, but you can roll your own if you think that this will be of benefit over the 686 kernel. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch nvidia xorg nvidia-glx-legacy X crashes
Hugh Lawson wrote: Since posting, I've done some more work. nvidia-glx-legacy has been purged; now I have nvidia-glx. AFAIK you don't need nvidia-glx if you are using the script from the nvidia site. nvidia-glx is for the module in the repository. Nevertheless, /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx causes the same problem, when used along with the nvidia proprietary installer. I do not understand this technically, only empirically from trial-and-error. Somehow, the /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx init script fiddles around with library files and links, that are needed by the nvidia module, as it is installed by: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run Hence, /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx on the next boot changes things in a way that won't let X start. To fix this, I did once more: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run and then: cd /etc/init.d/ sudo mv nvidia-glx XXnvidia-glx That paralyzes the /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx script and prevents it from messing up the links and files needed by the nvidia module as installed by NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run. I don't understand what the /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx script is supposed to accomplished, and how I can get along without it. You are mixing the two methods of installing the the nvidia module. 1. Use the script from the nvidia site and nothing else. 2. Install the nvidia module for your kernel from the repository, which will also require the nvidia-glx package that matches the module version. Either purge the nvidia-glx package and reinstall the NVIDIA script or remove the NVIDIA script and then install the modules from the repository. HTH Wackojacko NB if you run custom built kernel you can build the nvidia module using module-assistant As root #aptitude install module-assistant #m-a prepare #m-a a-i nvidia #aptitude install nvidia-glx restart x -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:33:52PM +, Tim Channon wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:48:16AM +, Tim Channon wrote: Mitchell Laks wrote: Question 1: On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. I am running sid. Which of these kernels is appropriate? linux-image-2.6-24-1-486 linux-image-2.6-24-1-686 linux-image-2.6-24-1-k7 I assume that the kernel by apt-cache show linux-image-2.6-24-1-amd64 listed is the 64 bit kernel, which will be inappropriate for my old 32 bit installation. You can run a 64-bit kernel to take advantage of CPU features, in a 32-bit userland (i386) install with no problem at all. The only caveat being if you want to build additional modules (e.g. nvidia) as mixing 64-bit kernel with 32-bit userspace doesn't allow this. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. I don't recall ever having problems with Windows and multiple primary partitions (and that was my prefered way of partitioning). Regards, Andrei Me neither, and a little googling on the subject seems to suggest this problem is limited to the driver windows uses for USB sticks. Apparently, there is a work around (not tested by me) by forcing windows to see your stick as a USB disk (1). This will only work on PC's that have been modified for your particular stick though. Suppose its an extra level of security and you could always carry the modified driver on the first partition of the stick for portability. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t69211.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
Wayne Topa wrote: Wackojacko([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:41 +, Chris Lale wrote: snip trying to install acroread from debian-multimedia The following packages have unmet dependencies. acroread-l10n-en: Depends: acroread (= 8.1.2-0.0) but it is not installable E: Broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I'm running Debian Etch on AMD64 arch. Thanks, Michael Acroread is not available for AMD64, you will need to run a 32 bit chroot environment. Its fairly easy to set up (I've got one :) ) but may be overkill if acroread doesn't do what you need. Google will help if you decide to go this route. Oh? Is this incorrect or am I reading it wrong?? [VT2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] show acroread Package: acroread Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 64056 Maintainer: Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: amd64 Version: 8.1.2-0.0 Replaces: acroread-debian-files (= 0.0.8), acroread-plugins (= 7.0-0sarge0.3), mozilla-acroread (= 8.1.1-0.2) WT The OP is running etch and this multi-arch stuff is fairly new. If you look at the depends of acroread you will see that it installs the ia32-libs to be able to run i.e. it is the 32-bit version. Although it seems my 32-bit chroot may soon be history, thanks for the heads up. :) Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
Micha wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:00:32 + Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:41 +, Chris Lale wrote: snip trying to install acroread from debian-multimedia The following packages have unmet dependencies. acroread-l10n-en: Depends: acroread (= 8.1.2-0.0) but it is not installable E: Broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I'm running Debian Etch on AMD64 arch. Thanks, Michael Acroread is not available for AMD64, you will need to run a 32 bit chroot environment. Its fairly easy to set up (I've got one :) ) but may be overkill if acroread doesn't do what you need. Google will help if you decide to go this route. HTH Wackojacko Just installed acroread 8.1.2 from marillat on an amd64 system and it works just fine (from the dependencies it does use the 32bit libraries though so it's probably the 32bit version) Yeah see my response to WT. Fairly recent change though. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: reliable editting of any PDF file
michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 14:41 +, Chris Lale wrote: snip trying to install acroread from debian-multimedia The following packages have unmet dependencies. acroread-l10n-en: Depends: acroread (= 8.1.2-0.0) but it is not installable E: Broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I'm running Debian Etch on AMD64 arch. Thanks, Michael Acroread is not available for AMD64, you will need to run a 32 bit chroot environment. Its fairly easy to set up (I've got one :) ) but may be overkill if acroread doesn't do what you need. Google will help if you decide to go this route. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?
Amogh Hooshdar wrote: but in your aptitude list I can't find sun java plugin anywhere. and adobe flash player works fine on my system. I am unable to get java plugin with iceweasel. i sun-java5-jre i A sun-java6-jre I think these two packages provide the java-runtime-environment which is what is required for web browsers. Flash player works in sid via some wrapper script but it is not natively 64 bit. HTH Wackojacko Perhaps you meant Adobe flashplayer is not available for 64 bit OS's? Regards Wackojacko Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?
Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 13, 2008 1:56 PM, Amogh Hooshdar [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to mention that I use Debian AMD 64 bit. Is this the cause of the problem? Yes it is. Sun has still not distributed a Java browser plugin for 64-bit on any OS. Are you sure, on my system I have uname -a Linux home 2.6.23 #2 Sat Jan 12 19:53:14 GMT 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux aptitude search sun-java p ia32-sun-java5-bin p ia32-sun-java6-bin i sun-java5-bin p sun-java5-demo p sun-java5-doc i sun-java5-fonts p sun-java5-jdk i sun-java5-jre p sun-java5-source i sun-java6-bin p sun-java6-demo p sun-java6-doc p sun-java6-fonts p sun-java6-javadb p sun-java6-jdk i A sun-java6-jre p sun-java6-source Perhaps you meant Adobe flashplayer is not available for 64 bit OS's? Regards Wackojacko Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???
Helge Hafting wrote: There is another problem though. My homemade script uses iwlist scan in order to see where the machine is (at home, at work, at friends/family house) and then select the appropriate essid, key and other stuff. Have you tried putting all the various networks into a config file for wpasupplicant (see the examples in /usr/share/doc/). AFAIK, it will scan for the available networks and connect to the right one. Worth a try. HTH Wackojacko This part used to work well - now I always have to try bringing the network up 2-4 times before it actually works. If I run manually, I see that iwlist comes up empty many times before it suddenly sees the available networks and access points. Setting a longer timeout between bringing up the driver and running iwlist didn't seem to help. The old driver needed 2s. I tried 4s, but still have to try many times before iwlist will see anything. Is there a trick to make this work? Running iwlist in a loop is not what I want, that is error-prone and wastes CPU. I use the machine in places with no network too. I want to detect the available networks in minimum time and with only one attempt. Helge Hafting -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Icedove opens embedded images in iceweasel
Using amd64 sid, updated today, KDE as Desktop. 2.6.23 kernel home rolled. As of the recent icedove update (2 days ago) I am having a problem with icedove and embedded images. If I click the load images button it attempts to open each of the embedded images in a separate iceweasel window. As you can imagine with some e-mails this can run into tens or hundreds of iceweasel processes which quickly reduces my PC to a crawl and if not stopped causes it to thrash and require a reboot. Anyone else seeing this problem or got any ideas how to fix it? I've tried google and the BTS without success. TIA Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Icedove opens embedded images in iceweasel
Sven Joachim wrote: [Resending this to the list, I typed the wrong reply command. My apologies to Wackojacko.] On 2008-01-04 20:17 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Using amd64 sid, updated today, KDE as Desktop. 2.6.23 kernel home rolled. As of the recent icedove update (2 days ago) I am having a problem with icedove and embedded images. If I click the load images button it attempts to open each of the embedded images in a separate iceweasel window. As you can imagine with some e-mails this can run into tens or hundreds of iceweasel processes which quickly reduces my PC to a crawl and if not stopped causes it to thrash and require a reboot. Anyone else seeing this problem or got any ideas how to fix it? I've tried google and the BTS without success. Look here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459135. Sven Thanks for the pointer, the workaround fixed the problem. Now why couldn't I find that bug report? :) Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?
Mike McCarty wrote: Anyway, unless I want to make a hobby of making that machine able to boot Debian, and fiddling with it just to see if it could have been made to work, I'm afraid Debian is pretty much gone on this machine. Even if I make the machine dual boot, I wonder just how often it actually would get booted to Debian. Her plan is to use Knoppix to move her mail files etc. from the Debian partition to an external FAT drive, and then reboot Windows and import. If the debian install used ext2/3 then there is a driver for windows XP (http://www.fs-driver.org/) which will allow direct access to the partitions without the need to boot a live CD. HTH Wackojacko Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-glx and xorg
onlynewro wrote: I'm using sid install debian / testing and edit /etc/apt/source.list file to sid apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common m-a prepare m-a auto-install nvidia reboot apt-get install nvidia-glx this is all and message is newro-debian:/home/newro# apt-get install nvidia-glx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable type-handling libmyspell3c2 libavahi-compat-howl0 liferea-xulrunner guile-1.6-libs libguile-ltdl-1 libpixman-1-0 xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xserver-xorg-input-wacom xorg-docs libcurl3-gnutls Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: nvidia-settings The following packages will be REMOVED: xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i810 xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo The following NEW packages will be installed: nvidia-glx 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 41 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 4910kB of archives. After unpacking 9540kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n what is wrong??? I'm seeing the same on sid AMD64. A new version of xorg has hit us which requires xserver-xorg-video-2 and the old nvidia-glx only provides xserver-xorg-video-1. I think (from error logs) the ABI has changed. Nvidia drivers are not part of debian main so we will have to wait until the new drivers are released and packaged for debian. In the mean time back to nv driver :( HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-glx and xorg
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Wackojacko wrote: I'm seeing the same on sid AMD64. A new version of xorg has hit us which requires xserver-xorg-video-2 and the old nvidia-glx only provides xserver-xorg-video-1. I think (from error logs) the ABI has changed. Nvidia drivers are not part of debian main so we will have to wait until the new drivers are released and packaged for debian. In the mean time back to nv driver :( For me this is VERY weird, I updated 3 days ago my notebook, using AMD64 and SID. I updated my kernel (2.6.22-2), downloaded the linux-headers and installed the nvidia and wifi (ipw3945) drivers with m-a... Regards, Jose Luis. The xorg update came in yesterday to AMD64. Anyhow the new nvidia installer from the nvidia site works with the new xorg version and packages will be available soon according to Randall Donald's website. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I hate Alsa
Jude DaShiell wrote: This may be important, are you running with etch or one of the other distributions? I run unstable myself but have had no need to try recording with alsa so can't verify or refute your experiences in this instance. On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Barry Samuels wrote: Debian Testing up to date as of yesterday. Kernel 2.6.22 Sound from on-board Intel (snd_hda_intel) Kmix as the mixer When I used OSS I had no audio problems at all - everything (playback and recording) just worked but since I went over to Alsa (about a year ago) I've had trouble getting recording to work. Normally I find that playback gives no problems and I did for a short period get playback and recording working properly then after a Debian upgrade the recording stopped working properly again. If I try to record (arecord) using a microphone I cannot move the recording volume slider above 70% otherwise I start getting extremely distorted sound on playback (aplay) and although the recording volume is adequate there is a loud background hum. If I reduce the recording volume to about 60% the loud hum changes to a noticeable hiss but the recorded voice is too low. I had a similar problem using audacity with alsa and google suggested wrapping the offending program with 'aoss' from the alsa-oss package. i.e. run 'aoss arecord' I have to use the 'Digital' slider on the Kmix input tab to control microphone volume - none of the other sliders seem to do anything. I also have to have the first capture slider on (un-muted) to get any sound at all but it makes no difference whether that slider is at the bottom or not - it does not affect the volume. I also have a record deck with a USB connection which I last used under OSS. The setup was working then and, as I remember, it was pretty straightforward to set up. Since that time there have been many Debian updates and I'm almost certainly using a later kernel and I'm now using Alsa. When I came to use it this time in conjunction with Audacity, which I was using last time, I can't get a peep out of it. I have this problem also now. Audacity will not record anything! No solution here though :) I have tried various inputs without success. The appropriate modules are loaded including snd_usb_audio. When the USB lead is plugged in I get this in the logs: kernel: usb 1-7.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 kernel: usb 1-7.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice kernel: input: Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC as /class/input/input4 kernel: input: USB HID v1.00 Device [Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC ] on usb-:00:1d.7-7.1 kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio a little further on in the log I see: kernel: cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, error -28: not enough bandwidth Originally I got this in the log: kernel: cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, error -38: enable CONFIG_USB_EHCI_SPLIT_ISO to play through a hub so I enabled that in the kernel and recompiled although I'm not using a USB hub and then got the 'not enough bandwidth' error. As you may have gathered I'm beginning to take a dislike to Alsa. Can anyone suggest some fault tracing procedures please? -- Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Always falling to grub prompt
Wayne Topa wrote: title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.22-2-686 --- root(hd1,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-2-686 root=/dev/hdd1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-2-686 savedefault Grub did the 2 -- Lines? The root line says hdb and the kernel line says hdd. No wonder it won't boot. Yet the older kernels boot up with the same (wrong looking) root and kernel lines, so I am wrong. I have not yet upgraded any of my sid partitions to the 2.6.22-2 kernel. Maybe I have this problem to look forward to or maybe I should wait till it (whatever 'it' is) gets fixed. Sorry I could not help. Wayne Not necessarily. Grub uses /boot/grub/device.map to identify which HDD maps to which (hd?). It might be useful to see the OP's device.map file, but grub could just ignore hda and hdb as they are not HDD. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipod mount and udev
Richard Lyons wrote:
I'm sure someone here knows how to do this. Two days of trawling google
have given me many examples to crib but none have worked.
I recently acquired an ipod nano (2nd gen.) 4GB. With grip and gpod, or
just with lame and a lot of painful manual renaming and gpod, I can put
tracks from CDs on it. The problem is, of course, that it doesn't always
appear at /dev/sdb2, as it did at first. I have tried adding a file
/etc/udev/rules.d/060-ipod.rules containing
BUS=usb, SYSFS{product}=iPod, KERNEL=sd*, NAME=%k, SYMLINK+=ipod
The first three = are assigning not comparing. Replace them with ==
and restart udev.
Here's mine for completeness which is slightly different but works.
BUS==scsi, SYSFS{model}==iPod, KERNEL==sd?2, NAME=%k,
SYMLINK+=ipod
HTH
Wackojacko
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Re: latest udev (0.114-2) problem
Wayne Topa wrote:
Mathias Brodala([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
Hi Wayne.
Wayne Topa, 23.08.2007 18:21:
I have an Athlon k7 box, running testing, as my gateway. Due to a new
system install, I had not upgraded in a few weeks. On the 21st I
decided that it was time and did the upgrade overnight. This morning
I rebooted the box to upgrade my sid partition and when I rebooted
testing, I had lost my my localnet connections.
Dmesg shows that the new udev package had decided to change eth0 to
eth1, for some reason. To use the localnet, I changed eth0 to eth1 in
/etc/network/interfaces, restarted networking and killed the firewall.
My localnet was back. I then rebooted and found that udev had now
changed the interface to eth3. This will be a PITA to users that don't
run their boxes 24/7.
Correction: udev stopped at eth2 NOT eth3. (I mistyped yet again) On a reboot
it came up again as eth2. So it is not as bad as I first thought.
This definitely doesn't sound like udev were working correctly. Is there a
/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file? This one should contain the
mapping of the ethernet devices based on their MAC address. Manual reordering
should be done here, the file usually never ever gets touched after initial
generation.
Yes there is. I've had problems with udev on systems that I was
trying out various interface cards (usb, pcmcia) on, so thats the first
file I checked. It is ignoring the, original, eth0 stansa that it was
not having a problem with and adding new eth interfaces.
Here it is, currently.
-
# PCI device 10ec:8139 (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVER==?*, SYSFS{address}==00:48:54:d1:35:1c, NAME=eth0
# USB device 2001:3c00 (rt2500usb)
#SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTRS{address}==00:11:95:e6:19:12, ATTRS{type}==1,
NAME=wlan0
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too)
#SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:48:54:d1:35:1c,
NAME=eth1
# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM==net, DRIVERS==?*, ATTR{address}==00:48:54:d1:35:1c, NAME=eth2
--
Prior to this udev version if I removed all the non existant
interfaces from the /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules file,
it would work as expected. Something changed in this version as that
no longer works.
I found a fix (?) with a google search but I can't try it until I
finish downloading a new kernel. It was on an Ubuntu Forum so just in
case I'll list it here. Not Tested Yet so take it with a grain of
salt.
- Possible Fix --
Create/Edit a file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules with the following content
Code:
KERNEL=eth*, SYSFS{address}==00:10:5a:33:44:55 NAME=eth0
KERNEL=eth*, SYSFS{address}==00:0c:44:55:66:77 NAME=eth1
Just change the mac addresses to your own values from ifconfig.
Thanks for the reply!
Wayne
Wayne
It looks as though udev is now detecting the card differently as the PCI
device now has a '0x' before 8139 so effectively the mapping for eth0 is
for a non existent card. I would try deleting all the eth* entries and
restart.
HTH
Wackojacko
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Re: /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd symlinks and udev
cothrige wrote:
I have two dvd drives, hdc is a standard drive and hdd is a cd/dvd
writer. The problem is that all the cdrom symlinks always point at
/dev/hdd which is not my primary drive. I like cdrw and dvdrw as they
are, but would like to have cdrom and dvd to point correctly to hdc. In
trying to do this I have followed a number of online howtos but nothing
has any effect.
I have tried using 10-local.rules, local.rules, z99.rules without luck.
I have also tried a number of entries in these files, including:
SUBSYSTEMS==ide, KERNELS==1.0, SYMLINK+=cdrom, ENV{GENERATED}=1
and:
KERNEL==hdc, SUBSYSTEM==block, SYMLINK+=cdrom
and a couple of others I cannot even recall right now. I used udevinfo
to get the above data, and udevtest would return that the symlinks would
be created, but they never were. They continue to point to /dev/hdd
apparently regardless of what I do. I have restarted udev with the
init.d script and have rebooted, all without any change.
What exactly am I doing wrong here? Is there something I am
overlooking? Is there perhaps another rules file which overrules this
one and resets or refuses to allow a reset of the symlinks?
Thanks for any help.
Patrick
See /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules this is auto generated by
the script in /etc/udev/. I think you can change these around if you
set the $GENERATED variable to 0 (from comments in file).
HTH
Wackojacko
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Re: CD/DVD Burner Configuration
Adriano Bonat wrote: Its version 2.6.22.1. Follow attached my dmesg. You can check on it the message: sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 Thanks. On 8/7/07, Marko Randjelovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Bonat wrote: Hm, I have a SATA controller, so the SCSI emulation owns the HD and the CD/DVD, I'm not at home now, but if i remember, the /dev/cdrw is a link to /dev/sr0 Which kernel version is it? You don't need SCSI emulation under 2.6. And CD cannot be SATA, only IDE. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the new (experimental) ATA drivers in 2.6.22 kernel all drives are seen as SCSI drives hence the sr0 assignment. This may be what confused K3b if you have recently upgraded the kernel and your IDE burner went from /dev/hd? to /dev/sr0. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM
michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:03 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: michael wrote: snip lspci output showing ICH8 controller iTCO_wdt 20625 0 iTCO_vendor_support12741 1 iTCO_wdt snd_page_alloc 19025 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_core 35777 1 i2c_i801 rtc_cmos 17017 0 sr_mod 26853 0 cdrom 44009 1 sr_mod sg 45673 0 dm_snapshot25609 0 dm_zero10817 0 dm_mirror 30785 0 dm_mod 68785 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror pata_marvell 16449 0 ata_piix 25413 3 ata_generic17221 0 libata137201 3 pata_marvell,ata_piix,ata_generic sd_mod 37441 5 scsi_mod 168697 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod ext3 141905 2 jbd73009 1 ext3 mbcache18249 1 ext3 ehci_hcd 42957 0 ohci_hcd 30405 0 uhci_hcd 34401 0 It would appear from this, and other info in subsequent e-mails, that you need to load the 'ata_piix' module. When the install stalls do Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to another terminal and 'modprobe ata_piix'. Apologies if you have already tried this. I hadn't tried that particular module, but doesn't help :( There is a possibility that the etch kernel is not new enough for this MB, what kernel does fedora run on? If this is the case you may need a custom installer, google is your friend here. 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 That's probably the reason then if the box is very new. Look for a custom installer or, if the box is not mission critical, try the testing installer which should have a newer kernel. HTH Wackojacko. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian4 network install woes [WAS: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM]
michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 18:01 +0100, michael wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:47 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: michael wrote: Folks, I've a new machine Its likely that the machine has more bearing on this problem than the CDROM itself. We need more information regarding the Motherboard and in particular the IDE or SATA chip the drive is connected to. with a writemaster CDROM drive. When trying to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen where the CD drive is to be recognised (for continuing the installation). I've tried various module/device combos but all to no avail. I've looked about on Google but not come up with a working solution. Has anybody else successfully uses this CDROM drive to install Debian, or have suggestions on how I can determine a working module/device combo. Please let me know if you need any further information. here's some more info (snippets from 'dmesg'): sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk ata_piix :00:1f.5: MAP [ P0 P2 P1 P3 ] ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.5[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:1f.5 to 64 scsi2 : ata_piix scsi3 : ata_piix ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00012128 ctl 0x0001214e bmdma 0x000120f0 irq 19 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x00012120 ctl 0x0001214a bmdma 0x000120f8 irq 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:00.0[A] - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :02:00.0 to 64 scsi4 : pata_marvell scsi5 : pata_marvell ata5: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00011018 ctl 0x00011026 bmdma 0x00011000 irq 17 ata6: DUMMY BAR5:00:00 01:7F 02:22 03:CA 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00 08:00 09:00 0A:00 0B:00 0C:01 0D:00 0E:00 0F:00 ata5.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S182M, SB03, max UDMA/33 ata5.00: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROMTSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 scsi 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 rtc_cmos 00:03: rtc core: registered rtc_cmos as rtc0 rtc0: alarms up to one month iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :06:03.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 19 iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (21-Jan-2007) iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH8DO TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460) iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:19.0[A] - GSI 20 (level, low) - IRQ 20 PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:19.0 to 64 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 cdrom: sr0: mrw address space DMA selected ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts As W-J, suggested, I've tried a Ubuntu installation CD which does indeed detect and use the CDROM okay. Here's a snippet of the syslog: Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.554527] scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182M SB03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562154] SCSI device sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562163] sda: Write Protect is off Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562165] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562174] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: ce sda: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562208] sda: Write Protect is off Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562209] sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562217] SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.562220] sda: sda1 sda2 Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581569] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581647] SCSI device sdb: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581653] sdb: Write Protect is off Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581654] sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581663] SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581685] SCSI device sdb: 1465149168 512-byte hdwr sectors (750156 MB) Jul 30 14:05:42 kernel: [3.581690] sdb: Write
Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM
michael wrote: Folks, I've a new machine Its likely that the machine has more bearing on this problem than the CDROM itself. We need more information regarding the Motherboard and in particular the IDE or SATA chip the drive is connected to. with a writemaster CDROM drive. When trying to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially recognises the CD and starts the installation but fails at the screen where the CD drive is to be recognised (for continuing the installation). I've tried various module/device combos but all to no avail. I've looked about on Google but not come up with a working solution. Has anybody else successfully uses this CDROM drive to install Debian, or have suggestions on how I can determine a working module/device combo. Please let me know if you need any further information. Have you tried to boot a live CD like Knoppix or Ubuntu? If this boots OK the output of lspci -vv lsmod would help identify the correct modules to load. Thanks, Michael HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems installing with 'writemaster' CDROM
michael wrote: snip lspci output showing ICH8 controller iTCO_wdt 20625 0 iTCO_vendor_support12741 1 iTCO_wdt snd_page_alloc 19025 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm i2c_core 35777 1 i2c_i801 rtc_cmos 17017 0 sr_mod 26853 0 cdrom 44009 1 sr_mod sg 45673 0 dm_snapshot25609 0 dm_zero10817 0 dm_mirror 30785 0 dm_mod 68785 9 dm_multipath,dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror pata_marvell 16449 0 ata_piix 25413 3 ata_generic17221 0 libata137201 3 pata_marvell,ata_piix,ata_generic sd_mod 37441 5 scsi_mod 168697 4 sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_mod ext3 141905 2 jbd73009 1 ext3 mbcache18249 1 ext3 ehci_hcd 42957 0 ohci_hcd 30405 0 uhci_hcd 34401 0 It would appear from this, and other info in subsequent e-mails, that you need to load the 'ata_piix' module. When the install stalls do Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to another terminal and 'modprobe ata_piix'. Apologies if you have already tried this. There is a possibility that the etch kernel is not new enough for this MB, what kernel does fedora run on? If this is the case you may need a custom installer, google is your friend here. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
Kent West wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:04:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: [a bunch of resolved cifs/smbfs stuff... ] And finally, the last issue remains: if mount normally must be run by root, how can I give non-root users access to mount shares without knowing before-hand what shares to pre-populate /etc/fstab with? It would be much easier just to continue using smbmount, but like I say, I'm trying to be a good, forward-going sort of guy rather than living in the fading past I;m jumping in here. What makes you think smbmount is going away? its still listed as a file in the sid versions of samba stuff. The man page, as in ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: man smbmount snip DESCRIPTION smbmount mounts a Linux SMB filesystem. It is usually invoked as snip WARNING: smbmount is deprecated and not maintained any longer. mount.cifs (mount -t cifs) should be used instead of smbmount. maybe the solution to your problem is to go right around it and use automount (can you use that with samba? I think so) and just set up automounts for everything that could be mounted. I'm not really familiar with automount, but doesn't it require you to pre-define the available mounts (as your question indicates)? That would prevent Joe User 1 on his Windows box from sharing out a folder on Saturday evening so Jane User 2 on the Linux box could get to the pictures from the birthday party that day, unless the admin of the Linux box had already foreseen that Joe User 1 would be doing that, in which case I suspect the admin could be doing a lot better things with his prophetic gift than adminning a Linux box. But as mentioned, I don't really understand automount, so that might be an option for me to investigate. Thanks! I have had no problem mounting windows shares on my debian box. For one of mounts I use LinNeighborhood (like Win Xp Network Neighbourhood) which allows you to view and mount available shares on the network. It's basically a front end to smbmount. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Eeek?! smbmount is deprecated?!
Wackojacko wrote: I have had no problem mounting windows shares on my debian box. For one of mounts I use LinNeighborhood (like Win Xp Network Neighbourhood) ^^ s/of/off :) KDE also has a quick browser menu for samba shares if you just want to view the contents. You can mount them this way also but you need to know the /path of the share. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: entering data into a pdf file
Andrew Gray wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: Hello List! I need to enter data into a pdf file and print it. I can view the pdf using evince but I can't seem to enter any data into the fields. How can I do this? I remember from my dad's experience at work, where he does this very act on an extremely regular basis, that you need the professional version of Adobe Acrobat in order to enter data into fields; not even the regular Acrobat Reader would do the job. Evince won't work because it's only a viewer, similar to Acrobat Reader. I don't know about free software alternatives. Acrobat reader is available from the unofficial debian repository at www.debian-multimedia.com. With the additional plugins available from this site, it does allow filling of forms in pdf format. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel modification and CONFIG_HIGHMEM issue
Wayne Topa wrote: P Kapat([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi, I am running Debian unstable on an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor and a MSI K8N Neo4 Mobo. When I asked the amd-64 list I was told that CPU is a K8, not a K7. WT That's correct but it uses a lot of the same features as the k7 with a few extra so the k7 is the best fit on a 32 bit install. There was a -k8 kernel on i386 ( and it was reinstated for a while so may still be available ) but, you can run into problems with compiling modules, for example, as the compiler expects a 64-bit os and bombs out. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel building not idempotent?
Caeles wrote: I have trouble with building a custom kernel and hope somebody can help. Short story: The last thing I tried was to unpack the kernel sources, unpack /proc/config.gz to .config, run make-kpkg, install the resulting binary package, and try the lines new for grub. I would have expected, that this should have given me the exact same kernel that I had before. Instead it gave me a kernel that panics on boot. The current running kernel also has its config in /boot/config-`uname -r` I assume I have to apply the kernel-patches at some point. But I could not figure out, how that is done. Where is the documentation for the kernel-patches package? Running /usr/src/kernel-patches/apply/debian -h gives some cryptic instructions. But how do I tell this script where the kernel sources needing to be patched are? And is this the right script after all? Are you using vanilla sources or the debian ones? AFAIK the debian sources you download with apt-get are already patched. I did try running this script from within the sources directory. It then told me it had nothing to do. If that was the right way to invoke the script, then I am again mystified as to why the new kernel differed from the old one. Longer story: The kernel panic has to do with the kernel not finding the root partition. I originally had that problem when trying to install sarge. Then, even the installer did not find my SATA II disc. What I then did was to install woody, upgrade to sarge without replacing the kernel, and wait for etch. Now the installer of etch as well as the installed kernel find the disc, but the compiled kernel does not. Knoppix as well as etch address the disc as /dev/sda (ie SCSI), woody adressed it as /dev/hde (ie IDE). In the mean time I tried compiling a kernel in the old way without make-dpkg. Similar results. One maybe noteworthy fact is, that the custom kernel does not use an initramfs, while the installed kernel does (at least according to grub's menu.lst). Thought so, his is the problem. Debian kernels build the majority of the drivers as modules and include them in an initrd. You need to pass the --initrd option to make-kpkg when building the kernel. Alternatively, build the modules for your SATA controller and root filesystem into the kernel an no need for initrd. The CPU is an AMD sempron. The previous woody and sarge installs were i386, the etch install is amd64. Thankful for any help, Mark Weyer P.S.: Sorry for incorrect details, most likely file and package names. I do not write this mail from the box in question, so cannot check. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup script modification help
Haines Brown wrote: I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named mirror. The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v ^/media/mirror|^/proc | cpio -pdmuv /media/mirror/$1 21 | cat -vt Since installing Etch, this script has not worked well because it does not like to backup the /sys directory. Actually, backing up /sys dangerous). So I'd like to modify the script to block cpio from doing /sys as it avoids /proc, but not sure how. Help would be appreciated. Try backup2l. Very simple backup script that automates this for you and makes incremental daily backups. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia dies hard after upgrade Sarge-Etch
Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: (from /var/log/Xorg.log.0) ... (II) Initializing extension GLX Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4354] 1: [0xb7fb6420] 2: /usr/bin/X(main+0x2aa) [0x806e4ba] 3: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7db3ea8] 4: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa9) [0x806d9d1] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting It does load nvidia (see below), but has problems with GLcore and GLX: snip logfile This is what I have installed: rc nvidia-glx1.0.8776-4 NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver ii nvidia-glx-legacy 1.0.7184-3 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver (legacy version) rc nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-4-6861.0.8776+6 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18-4-686 ii nvidia-kernel-common 20051028+1 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files ii nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-k7 1.0.7184+6 NVIDIA binary kernel module for 2.6 series compiled for k7 ii nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-4-486 1.0.7184+6 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18-4-486 (legacy versi ii nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6.18-4-k7 1.0.7184+6 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 (legacy versio Some detail: I did reboot; with nv it works. Any hint appreciated, Uwe Please Cc: to me; the list is too busy for my newsreader I would purge the non legacy nvidia packages (marked rc) and then try to upgrade the nvidia-glx-legacy package as the version is slightly different to the module package (-3 versus +6). HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless adapter recommendation
Default User wrote: Would anyone please recommend a suitable wireless adapter for these conditons: 1) Use in 2004 Toshiba Satellite M35X-S109. Has USB ports, Cardbus slot. Does not have mini-pci-E space/slot, (whaterver that is, it must be something new they have these days). Does not have built-in wireless. 2) run Debian Etch '486 (will later upgrade to Debian testing). 3) Should work out of the box, with out having to try to learn how to recompile the kernel or insert modules or ndiswrapper, etc. However painful to realize, I am wise enough to know that I am just too old to learn all that. 3) Should be easily available new (not used ebay, etc) in USA. Preberably in brick-and-mortar store (Best Buy, Circuit City, OfficeMax, Office Depot, etc). [Or as poor alternative, available by phone/mail/web from reputable US retail source payable in US dollars (I'm not up to the hassles of currency exchange and payment method problems with non-US sources, and do not want to wait months to get it (if ever) and more months to return it, etc).] 4) USB is preferable, since Cardbus slots may soon be extinct. I would like to have something that can be used in a future laptop that may by then only have USB available. NOTE: Laptops with pre-installed with Ubunty 7.04 use Intel PRO/wireless 3945 a/g adapters. But preliminary searching seems to suggest that these are mini-pci-E cards, and the laptop in question doesn't have that. And I can not afford to buy a new laptop just to get wireless connectivity. And I really want to use Debian testing rather than Ubuntu. Thank you in advance for your help! I used a Edimax Ew-7138ug usb stick which works with the zd1211 module in the kernel (1). There are quite a few others listed on the linux wireless site (2) so you should be able to find one near u. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ (2) http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/zd1211rw/devices -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi you all I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny. Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or removal, menu.lst grows bigger. Installed kernel entries for (recovery mode) are duplicated, same thing happened for AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST section. Actually the latter problem seems to be solved after a manual removal of AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST duplicates. I did a apt-get --reinstall install grub and dpkg-reconfigure grub with no success and removing recovery mode duplicated lines does not solve. I know I won't be installing and removing kernels every day but I think this is worth noting. Any ideas? I believe that it is designed that way on purpose. If you install a new kernel and it doesn't work, you can always fall back to using the old one. You can safely remove any kernel that you are not running at the time, but I would recommend keeping 2 kernels. The current one, and the one that worked before. You never know when one might not work and you'll need the other. Joe Could the OP be referring to the fact that grub installs boot options for both the kernels *and* any symlinks in /boot. On my sid system I have vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old which are symlinks to the two latest kernel installed. Update-grub will add these to menu.lst in addition to the direct kernels so I have duplicate entries for these two kernels. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion
Amy Templeton wrote: Wackojacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, since we are getting all scientific, the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference is in fact 3, if all you have is one significant digit, which it appears is all we have from the text. Now, if it said ten point zero zero cubits and five point zero zero cubits and thirty point zero zero cubits then there might be a point in there. Regards, -Roberto Ah but is it. 30 could be 2 significant digits, in that case it is incorrect as it should be 31 :) Actually, this is not the case. It would only be two significant digits if it were written with a three followed by a 0 with a bar over it; the bar indicates that it really is *exactly* thirty, not just rounding from 28 or 31 or something. So no, as written it is not two significant digits. My point was the original reference stated 'thirty' so who knows how many significant figures this is when written in words. Also what you have written is a contradiction. Either the bar means it is exactly 30 or it means it is 30 to 2 significant figures, in which case it might be 30.4, not the same. But I know what you meant. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Well, since we are getting all scientific, the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference is in fact 3, if all you have is one significant digit, which it appears is all we have from the text. Now, if it said ten point zero zero cubits and five point zero zero cubits and thirty point zero zero cubits then there might be a point in there. Regards, -Roberto Ah but is it. 30 could be 2 significant digits, in that case it is incorrect as it should be 31 :) Regards Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: driver for ati mobility radeon
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I am running a fresh install of etch in an amd64 box. The system has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 video card. xserver-org choosed for it the ati driver with the radeon module during the installing. Since I am having problems regarding the gui, I would like to give fglrx-driver a try, since it also supports my video card. I would like to know, just in case I change my mind and decide to go back to the xorg driver, how do that with the driver from the fglrx package installed? thanks in advance Marcelo Simply change the driver section of xorg.conf back to ati, either manually using your favourite editor, or using dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Restart X. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD 64 DVD Installer for Debian Lenny Hangs
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I've tried both the DVD installer for AMD 64 and the i386 CD installer for Debian Lenny. The installer hangs in the same spot with both media installation types. The installer hangs after this message is printed to the screen: io scheduler cfq registered First hit on google is http://deekayen.net/fedora-core-5-io-scheduler-cfq-registered-hang-fix not sure its the same system as yours as you dont give much info but try booting the intaller in expert mode and use the boot paramaters mentioned here. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/07 16:56, Wackojacko wrote: [snip] I am able to play most file formats on amd64 OS, including WMV-HD, with mplayer. S... what *can't* you play? Well I haven't actually found anything I can't play lately, but then I'm sure I haven't tried every format there is hence the most above :). I think some Real Media files have caused me problems in the past, but I haven't tried one with the new ffmpeg version so maybe. Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?
P Kapat wrote: On 5/2/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the long lines... Well according to: ffmpeg -formats [snip] I am sorry if I didn't get it, but what was the point of the long lines? Note, the names of encoders and decoders dont always match, so there are several cases where the above table shows encoder only or decoder only entries even though both encoding and decoding are supported for example, the h263 decoder corresponds to the h263 and h263p encoders, for file formats its even worse Hopefully they are like Prego, its in there. you mean to say the ffmpeg from www.debian-multimedia.org are robust enough to work on 32-bit as well as 64-bit systems without doing a chroot? To re-instate the issue and not go astray: Are there any options of using the w32codecs (or anything similar) in 64-bit systems? As Joe had commented, there are no such thing as 'w64codecs'. The way to use w32codecs is to chroot into a 32bit system. Is that THE ONLY way? Are there any other ways around? What pacakges (if any) from www.debian-multimedia.org incorporate these codecs for a 64-bit system? Does ffmpeg from www.debian-multimedia.org for 64-bit systems include the relevant codecs? Has anyone used it with success or is everyone just conjecturing? I am able to play most file formats on amd64 OS, including WMV-HD, with mplayer. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Migrating system to new PC
Fernando Cacciola wrote: Hi people, I have Etch happyly installed, on its own hard disk, in a Pentium 4 with this and that hardware. I just bought a brand new Intel Core Duo 2 based PC. Given that I can just plug the debian HD into the new system, what's the best way to move my Etch to the new PC? I suppose it's not as easy to just boot it up there, as most modules would mismatch. If you have a debian stock kernel installed it should just work, by that I mean at least boot. If you compile your own kernel for specific hardware then install a stock kernel before swapping the HDD. TIA Fernando Cacciola HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.
Does anyone have any instructions on nvidia using amd64 kernel on etch i386 userspace? I am trying the debian way from http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers but fail with errors on conversion from elf32-i386 to elf64-x86-64 on the m-a auto-install nvidia step. /Andreas Rönnquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFAIK you can't do this. The nvidia module has 64-bit and 32-bit versions and having a amd64 kernel makes it think you are trying to build the 32-bit version on a 64-bit system hence the error. If you use the -k7 kernel it will build, but you lose some of the special features of the processor, not sure which but you can compare the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' on both kernels and google for any differences. I compile my own kernel and select the K8 processor type, but this does not change the architecture of the kernel so the module builds like this also. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel panics
steve downes wrote: Just compiled my 1st kernel. Using sources from 2.6.18-4 (same as present kernel to keep it simple) Compiled ext3 ext2 into the kernel (not as modules) installed kernel modules installed into grub root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux root=dev/hda2 ro noinitrd save default The stock kernel was root (hd0,0) kernel/vmlinux-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro initrd/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 savedefaults The stock kernel works, the new kernel fails after 20 lines (or so) with:- please append correct root= boot optopns kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I have tried all combinations of (hd0,0) 0,1 root=/dev/hda1 2. There is no initrd for the new kernel which is what I want file systems hda1 is /boot hda2 is / both are ext3 I have been presuming it to be a grub menu.lst problem but it could be a kernel compile problem. I would have thought that if so it would have to be around the ext3 file system but it seems to load something before it panics so I would think that is OK Can anybody suggest anything else - PLEASE Steve Have you compiled the driver for your motherboard IDE/SATA controller into the kernel. If its a module and no initrd then grub will not be able to see the disks, let alone the partitions :) HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new kernel panics
steve downes wrote: Just compiled my 1st kernel. Using sources from 2.6.18-4 (same as present kernel to keep it simple) Compiled ext3 ext2 into the kernel (not as modules) installed kernel modules installed into grub root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinux root=dev/hda2 ro noinitrd save default The stock kernel was root (hd0,0) kernel/vmlinux-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro initrd/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 savedefaults The stock kernel works, the new kernel fails after 20 lines (or so) with:- please append correct root= boot optopns kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) I have tried all combinations of (hd0,0) 0,1 root=/dev/hda1 2. There is no initrd for the new kernel which is what I want file systems hda1 is /boot hda2 is / both are ext3 I have been presuming it to be a grub menu.lst problem but it could be a kernel compile problem. I would have thought that if so it would have to be around the ext3 file system but it seems to load something before it panics so I would think that is OK Can anybody suggest anything else - PLEASE Steve Have you compiled the driver for your motherboard IDE/SATA controller into the kernel. If its a module and no initrd then grub will not be able to see the disks, let alone the partitions :) HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove
Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but really mean the 4th of December. Still, your system should know the real day, and really so should you. Therefore, I am not asking for a fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system. Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining. OTOH, if it's April 12th ... ... it's probably raining. I'm not seeing the difference! :-) Icedove has its own locale packages, you may need to install one of these. aptitude search icedove-locale HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but really mean the 4th of December. Still, your system should know the real day, and really so should you. Therefore, I am not asking for a fix, rather I am just pointing out the way it is on my system. Here in Oregon, if it's December 4th, it's probably raining. OTOH, if it's April 12th ... ... it's probably raining. I'm not seeing the difference! :-) Icedove has its own locale packages, you may need to install one of these. aptitude search icedove-locale HTH Wackojacko Ah, but if I do that, then the language of my menus and everything else changes. The LC_TIME variable on the other hand just fixes the dates to display like they should, and leaves the rest of the things alone. A perfect solution to my date problem. Florian's advice went straight into my button, and now when I click on IceDove, it looks fine. I would imagine Ken has also implemented this, or he's still evaluating other MUAs. As for the weather in Seattle, I can relate to that. It rains a lot here too. That's good for the flowers that we export. ;) Joe - -- Joe Thanks for the reminder, and for archives sake. I had the same problem and AFAICR it was *not* the icedove-locale package that made it work. Google suggested putting #Locale LC_TIME=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 export LC_TIME in ~.bash_profile and it was this that made the time display correctly. Of course this works across all user apps, which is what I wanted, so YMMV. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UUID vs /dev
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I can see why UUID is a good idea, but a LABEL is much easier to read. Well, my Kubuntu system runs 2.6.20 and havs everything as sdX (when it was hdX before), and my Debian system runs 2.6.18 and still has hdX, some somewhere in-between. Problem with labels is if the label is not set at format time, what should the system set the label as? Some random string? Label is not a required setting when you format the partition. Yes, I believe it is the 2.6.20 that changed it. Now, I run a self compiled kernel and still have a HDD showing up as hdc. However, I did notice that there were new experimental ATA/SATA drivers in the kernel, which I also compiled in, but maybe the kernel is still using the old drivers? Time for and experiment I think :). Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UUID vs /dev
Wackojacko wrote: Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I can see why UUID is a good idea, but a LABEL is much easier to read. Well, my Kubuntu system runs 2.6.20 and havs everything as sdX (when it was hdX before), and my Debian system runs 2.6.18 and still has hdX, some somewhere in-between. Problem with labels is if the label is not set at format time, what should the system set the label as? Some random string? Label is not a required setting when you format the partition. Yes, I believe it is the 2.6.20 that changed it. Now, I run a self compiled kernel and still have a HDD showing up as hdc. However, I did notice that there were new experimental ATA/SATA drivers in the kernel, which I also compiled in, but maybe the kernel is still using the old drivers? Time for and experiment I think :). Wackojacko Having removed all the ide related stuff from my config and recompiling, the pata_amd module now controls the ide controller (it was blocked by the ide stuff previously according to dmesg). And yes my backup HDD is now sdb not hdc. So it is the transition to the new ATA drivers that cause the name changed as suspected. However, my DVD drives are no longer assigned a device node. They are picked up in dmesg as SCSI drives scsi4 : pata_amd scsi5 : pata_amd scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROMHL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B A105 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 4:0:1:0: CD-ROMMATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8585F 2A25 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Maxtor 6E040L0 NAR6 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 scsi 4:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 and assigned sg1 and sg2 but these are not mountable. Ideas anyone? Udev perhaps? Thanks Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sid: nVidia fails with x.org
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/23/07 10:21, Paul Johnson wrote: Since the latest sid upgrade, I haven't been able to make use of the nvidia drivers. Here's the x.org output: xauth: creating new authority file /home/baloo/.serverauth.30719 X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: Linux Debian Current Operating System: Linux ursa-major 2.6.18-4-k7 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:57:1 5 UTC 2007 i686 Build Date: 21 April 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Mon Apr 23 08:20:53 2007 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (II) Module already built-in dlopen: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1: undefined symbol: _nv40gl (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (EE) Failed to load module glx (loader failed, 7) (EE) Failed to load module nvidia (module does not exist, 0) (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found giving up. xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console Any ideas? A 2.6.20.x kernel where PARAVIRT is *disabled* definitely works with the nvidia.com 9755 driver. I can also confirm that the debian packaged drivers also work with 2.6.20 (self compiled) on AMD64. No juggling required. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: schroot leaving sessions behind
Anton Piatek wrote: Wackojacko wrote: Anton Piatek wrote: Wackojacko wrote: Anton Piatek wrote: It may help if you could give us more information on what myprogram does, and how it is launched, in the chroot? In any case you could try #schroot -e --all-sessions to kill the existing processes. mypgrogram is one of: skype, bibblepro (photo editor), firefox (to have 32bit flash). I am sure there are a few others. Do you have any scripts in the chroot to start them? Normally I close them down, but often I will just shut down the computer, maybe that causes it? Possible If i use -e --all-sessions will that not kill a running program in another schroot? Yes meant to add that caveat. Maybe add something to a run level 0 and 6 that executes this on shutdown to clean up /var/lib/chroot. Anton There is one script... do_schroot: exec schroot -p -c sid32 -q -- `basename $0` $@ Looks identical to mine. The problem I had was that I use 64bit Iceweasel most of the time and 32 bit when I need flash so I couldn't have a symbolic link called iceweasel. I called this flashweb which pointed to a script in the chroot, it was this script that launched iceweasel and didn't die properly keeping the schroot session open I think. I solved this by using a symbolic link in the chroot 'flashweb' pointing to iceweasel 32 bit. If you are not using wrapper scripts in the schroot then you probably have a different issue :). All programs I run are a symbolic link to that script, which figures out how it was called and then runs that command in the 32 bit schroot. I could change the paramaters there, but that still wouldnt help as I want to be able to run several schroot programs. Would it be better to define one schroot instance and get all programs to use that explicitly? It should work how you have it set up so I'm not sure what may be wrong? Anton Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: schroot leaving sessions behind
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, I set up a basic schroot environment to run a couple of 32 bit apps on my amd64 box. The problem is that when the program exits schroot leaves all its session data behind, mount points and all (so `mount` returns a hell of a lot of entries) schroot is being called as follows `ls -l myprogram` myprogram - do_schroot `cat do_schroot` exec schroot -p -c sid32 -q -- `basename $0` $@ So when I run `myprogram` schroot runs it for me in a 32bit env. My question is, what should I change to make sure that schroot uses as few sessions as possible and closes them when done? Anton snip large amount of chroots Anton I had a similar problem when I first switched to schroot from dchroot. In my case it turned out to be a problem with the way was launching the program in the chroot. I originally used wrapper scripts, which for some reason didn't terminate when the program they had launched terminated, and therefore kept the session open. It may help if you could give us more information on what myprogram does, and how it is launched, in the chroot? In any case you could try #schroot -e --all-sessions to kill the existing processes. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: schroot leaving sessions behind
Anton Piatek wrote: Wackojacko wrote: Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, I set up a basic schroot environment to run a couple of 32 bit apps on my amd64 box. The problem is that when the program exits schroot leaves all its session data behind, mount points and all (so `mount` returns a hell of a lot of entries) schroot is being called as follows `ls -l myprogram` myprogram - do_schroot `cat do_schroot` exec schroot -p -c sid32 -q -- `basename $0` $@ So when I run `myprogram` schroot runs it for me in a 32bit env. My question is, what should I change to make sure that schroot uses as few sessions as possible and closes them when done? Anton snip large amount of chroots Anton I had a similar problem when I first switched to schroot from dchroot. In my case it turned out to be a problem with the way was launching the program in the chroot. I originally used wrapper scripts, which for some reason didn't terminate when the program they had launched terminated, and therefore kept the session open. It may help if you could give us more information on what myprogram does, and how it is launched, in the chroot? In any case you could try #schroot -e --all-sessions to kill the existing processes. mypgrogram is one of: skype, bibblepro (photo editor), firefox (to have 32bit flash). I am sure there are a few others. Do you have any scripts in the chroot to start them? Normally I close them down, but often I will just shut down the computer, maybe that causes it? Possible If i use -e --all-sessions will that not kill a running program in another schroot? Yes meant to add that caveat. Maybe add something to a run level 0 and 6 that executes this on shutdown to clean up /var/lib/chroot. Anton HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deb 4.0 - Samba - NTFS
Randy Patterson wrote: Hey, I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected to my Deb Box. Everything is working as it should with no problem connecting through Samba. the permissions on the share in the Win Box, an NTFS partition, is set to allow full control to my user login. I have mounted the network share to a local directory on the Deb system /home/randy/wwwroot. The only problem is I can't write to the directory. I have read about the lack of write support to an NTFS partition so am I to understand that this applies when using Samba as well or is there a way I can get around this problem? Thanks, Randy How are you mounting the samba share on the debian box? AFAIK you need to specify the mount options to allow write access for your user, the default is read only. This is not a limitation of NTFS write as the host win box does the writing to the disk. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deb 4.0 - Samba - NTFS
Randy Patterson wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 13:10, Wackojacko wrote: Randy Patterson wrote: Hey, I have a home network with a Win Adv. Ser. 2003 box connected to my Deb Box. Everything is working as it should with no problem connecting through Samba. the permissions on the share in the Win Box, an NTFS partition, is set to allow full control to my user login. I have mounted the network share to a local directory on the Deb system /home/randy/wwwroot. The only problem is I can't write to the directory. I have read about the lack of write support to an NTFS partition so am I to understand that this applies when using Samba as well or is there a way I can get around this problem? Thanks, Randy How are you mounting the samba share on the debian box? AFAIK you need to specify the mount options to allow write access for your user, the default is read only. This is not a limitation of NTFS write as the host win box does the writing to the disk. HTH Wackojacko Here's my mount command executed from /home/randy; smbmount //myserver/wwwroot wwwroot -o usernane=myusername,password=mypassword,rw Just to mention again 'myusername' was permission set to full control on the wwwroot directory on the win box. Thanks, Randy Have you tried the dmask and fmask options to smbmount to force the mounted filesystem to be writeable? I think this is how linneighborhood does it. Also, on the win box (XP here) in `sharing and security` tab of the properties for the shared folder I tick `allow users to modify files` or something similar. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MBR Confusion?
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 01:30:57 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: I've attached an external hard drive to my etch AMD64 box, booted my AMD64 box into the debian installer, and installed a fresh i386 etch onto the external drive. Now I can't boot my box without the external drive attached, because grub complains with error 21. So boot into AMD64 with the drive attached, then grub-install /dev/path-to-internal-drive. You may need to update the menu.lst on the AMD64 partition to include the i386 partition on the external drive if you still want to boot it. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk logical backup tools
- Tong - wrote: Hi, Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both Linux Windoze partitions? By logical backup I meant, at least the backup tools don't do blind sector to sector backup. Ideally it would be something like Norton Ghost. I hope I can use it to backup Windoze partitions under Linux, and restore to VmWare virtual drives. Last time I checked, about a year or two ago, such tools didn't exist under Linux... thank Is partimage what your looking for? aptitude show partimage Package: partimage New: yes State: not installed Version: 0.6.4-17 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uncompressed Size: 942k Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (= 1:4.1.1-12), libnewt0.52, libpam0g (= 0.76), libslang2 (= 2.0.6-3), libssl0.9.8 (= 0.9.8c-1), libstdc++6 (= 4.1.1-12), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1) Conflicts: partimage-server ( 0.6.0), partimage-doc (= 20020126-6) Description: backup partitions into a compressed image file Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the following file systems: * Ext2/3, the linux standard * Reiser3, a journalised and powerful file system * FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems * HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system * JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX * XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from sgi, used on Irix * UFS (beta), Unix file system * HFS (beta), MacOS File system * NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for example), burned on a CD-R, etc. This makes it possible to save a full Linux/Windows system with a single operation. In case of a problem (virus, crash, error, etc.), you just have to restore, and after several minutes, your entire system is restored (boot, files, etc.), and fully working. This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just install one of them, create an image, and restore the image on all other machines. Homepage: http://www.partimage.org Tags: admin::backup, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, special::not-yet-tagged, special::not-yet-tagged::p, works-with::archive HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla and Flash
Dave Walker wrote: Running Mozilla/5.0 1.7.8-1sarge10(current stable release). I am curious whether it is possible to get some version of Flash to work? --- Here is what I did to this point: apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree (appeared to download and install correctly) From Mozilla help about Plug-ins- no Flash listed Searched for the Flash download. Found: /var/cache/apt/archives/flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.25-5_i386.deb Tried (as root) : dpkg -i flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.25-5_i386.deb Churned away a bit and returned to prompt. Still no Flash available in Mozilla. Went to youtube to determine if the plugin was installed but I was just too thick to see it. When clicking on a video, message shown was JavaScript turned off or an old version of Flash Playeryadayada Anybody got a hint or even better, a solution (one that does not involve -- wait for Etch, etc...I know someone wants to say that!) ??? Thanks, all Dave W. Flash Player is up to version 9, have you got 'debian-multimedia' in you sources list and have you upgraded lately? HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux
Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/29/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/29/07 11:37, Michael Marsh wrote: On 3/29/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IOW, sure they could try to sell add space on the Linux desktop, but who would buy it? Oracle? Veritas? Google? Why? Granted, their market penetration is pretty significant already, but I meant it more to be illustrative. On the other hand, a one-click desktop alias for google preempts another search engine doing the same thing. Either way, it's likely to show up as Web Search or something similar. I have just purchased a Dell laptop, now dual booting debain of course, and it already has Google Desktop preinstalled. So maybe they are one step ahead :). Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: riped dvd menu
gustavo halperin wrote: Wackojacko wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs'. 4: try to burn the dvd with 'growisofs'. The problem is that the image is to big to be burned in the DVD with capacity of 4.7GB. So my idea is to remove the Special Features from the DVD and from the dvd-menu and the burn the DVD. So my question is How can to be riped the dvd-menu, then rebuild it just with the movie, How to know with files are the Special Features and also remove them. And finally make the image and burn it (steep 3 and 4 above). Thank you in advance, Gustavo K9copy from debian-multimedia does exactly this. You can chose to keep whatever aspects of the original DVD you want and they are recoded to fit a standard DVD. HTH Wackojacko Thank you, but I'm not sure about K9copy, first K9copy is KDE depend and I prefer don't install programs that are KDE based (also Gnome based to), second looks like K9copy use dvdauthor for the menu issues and dvdauthor can't integrate the original menu and copy and modify or edit it (see link the K9copy page: http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/). So that is my question/problem: Can I extract from the DVD its menu and edit this menu ? Thank you Gustavo I have just done exactly what you want to do with k9copy. It uses dvdauthour to create menus *if* you chose not to include the original menu. Otherwise it automatically uses the existing menus and the links to features that were not encoded don't work. From its description Package: k9copy snip Suggests: k3b Description: copy DVD like dvdshrink A small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps. o Copy without menus : In this case, dvdauthor is used to create a new DVD structure. It is possible to choose the order in which the video sequences are played. o Copy with menus : As dvdauthor does not make it possible to integrate the original menus, K9Copy reproduces the original structure of the DVD. The navigation packs as well as IFO files are modified to point on the compressed MPEG stream. As for the KDE dependencies I dont think you can get round this :). HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: riped dvd menu
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I need change the DVD region of my DVDs, What I do is: 1: make a dvd backup with 'dvdbackup'. 2: change the region with a rubi's script that I found in the net. 3: make a dvd image with 'mkisofs'. 4: try to burn the dvd with 'growisofs'. The problem is that the image is to big to be burned in the DVD with capacity of 4.7GB. So my idea is to remove the Special Features from the DVD and from the dvd-menu and the burn the DVD. So my question is How can to be riped the dvd-menu, then rebuild it just with the movie, How to know with files are the Special Features and also remove them. And finally make the image and burn it (steep 3 and 4 above). Thank you in advance, Gustavo K9copy from debian-multimedia does exactly this. You can chose to keep whatever aspects of the original DVD you want and they are recoded to fit a standard DVD. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA
Ian Broadbent wrote: Question please... should the driver be 'nvidia' or 'nv', (if 'nvidia' - any suggestions as to what I am missing?) ... if it's should be 'nv' in any event .. then can someone help me find the settings for this to get the colours to be accurately displayed? It depends. IIRC 'nv' is the open source driver that comes with Xorg and 'nvidia' is the proprietary driver. Which one you use depends on what you want out of your card I suppose. Thanks Magnus, with the 'nv' all I get is basic graphics. The modules and various bits'n'pieces for the 3d acceleration and advanced elements all load and report (via the log files) as being 'ok', but each time (and I have now rebuilt the kernel with the proprietory driver pack 5 times with various options selected and deselected) I fire it up with 'nvidia' in the xorg.conf file it fails with warnings about no instance for NVIDIA and the X-server failing with a 'Caught signal 11'. Also note that there are two versions of the proprietary driver available in Debian (at least in Sid); the package names for the older one end with -legacy. On top of this there's a new version of the driver out, but it doesn't seem to have hit Sid yet AFAIU it removes support for some older cards. Yep, I was aware of that thanks I haven't gone the legacy route because this is meant to be a 'new' motherboard and revised NVIDIA chipset (NF-6100-406)... so I presumed that going 'legacy' would not be much use. Sorry I can't help you out more than this... /M Thanks for at least responding Magnus I have been asking the same questions now for days of various forums ... and folks must be getting as sick of me asking as I am of trying to get this thing to work. I have read dozens of trails about this 'Signal 11' ... but so far not one of them has thrown any light on it. (The error codes listed for the xserver are about as obscure as they could be ... at least the version I downloaded was). I must have done something really dumn... but I just can't figure this one out. I suspect it has somethign to do with the warning about there being no instance for NVIDIA at 00:1:3 (or 00:0:13 ... quite why they keep alternating is also a mystery to me). Try commenting the PCI bus line out of the xorg.conf and see if the driver can auto detect the card. Otherwise, look at lspci -v for details of the bus. Ah well, ... as written .. thanks for responding at least. Ian HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA
Ian Broadbent wrote: Try commenting the PCI bus line out of the xorg.conf and see if the driver can auto detect the card. Otherwise, look at lspci -v for details of the bus. Oh and BTW. I had already tried that (and have just repeated it 'just in case') ... no effect whatsoever. same error-11 , same warnings. Ian OK, rename the current xorg file and rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select nvidia, leave the PCI BUS empty and restart X. Also post the output of lspci -v |grep VGA (should show video controller) and /var/log/xorg if no luck. HTH Wackojacko PS no need to CC me I am subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA
Ian Broadbent wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:39 +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Ian Broadbent wrote: Try commenting the PCI bus line out of the xorg.conf and see if the driver can auto detect the card. Otherwise, look at lspci -v for details of the bus. Oh and BTW. I had already tried that (and have just repeated it 'just in case') ... no effect whatsoever. same error-11 , same warnings. Ian OK, rename the current xorg file and rerun dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and select nvidia, leave the PCI BUS empty and restart X. Done.Same warnings (only this time for PCI 00:1:3 rather than 00:13:0) Same error 11. Also post the output of lspci -v |grep VGA (should show video controller) and /var/log/xorg if no luck. return from root call to lspci. brutus:~# lspci -v |grep VGA 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 03d1 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) IIRC, this suggests the bus id is 00:0d.0. Also try installing the pciutils package and running update-pciids as root. Then rerun the lspci command. which looks very similar to the entry in the longer lspci report. The log file(s) are attached. Xorg.0.log.old is the one from when it fails using 'nvidia' Xorg.0.log is the most recent after I reset the xorg.conf to use 'nv' I presume that the fonts having warnings is just that warnings as it appears to find alternatives later. ...as for the rest, I don't know what I am missing, ...perhaps i am too hooked up on the PCI warning and missing something more obvious. Ian snip xorg nv log (II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:0d:0 (WW) NV: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:1:3) found Again suggests different PCI Bus ID as above. snip xorg nvidia log (II) Initializing extension GLX Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6d) [0x4802ed] 1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2ac51f460110] 2: /lib/libc.so.6(__ctype_tolower_loc+0x25) [0x2ac51f45a2c5] 3: /usr/bin/X(xf86nameCompare+0xfe) [0x4a4cde] 4: /usr/bin/X(InitInput+0x103) [0x45ea23] 5: /usr/bin/X(main+0x337) [0x430e57] 6: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xda) [0x2ac51f44d4ca] 7: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x9a) [0x43026a] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Ah! Seems to be a problem with the GLX extension, are you sure the nvidia-glx package matches the source from which you compiled the module? I have googled this error (last line of backtrace) and it appears others are having problems and it does seem to be the nvidia-glx package causing the problem. Bug#415878 (1) seems similar to your problem and suggests commenting the Load glx from xorg. Might want to try this and see if it loads (albeit without glx acceleration) and add to the bug report if necessary. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/thread/20070324.205818.d7d3b216.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pthread has error on Etch
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh writes:
void *task1(int *counter)
{
while(*counter 5 ){
printf(task1 count: %d\n,*counter);
(*counter)++;
}//end of while
You are missing a parenthesis here.
void cleanup(int counter1,int counter2)
{
printf(Total iterations: %d\n,counter1+counter2);
}//end of cleanup function
But i receive following error:
With the parenthesis mentioned above added compiles fine in Debian
unstable.
HTH,
I can't understand where i put parenthesis.
--Mohsen
Excuse me jumping in, but I think its the 'end of task1 function' that
requires a '}'.
HTH
Wackojacko
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Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)
Thias wrote: Hello, Unfortunatly, you should have a vfat partition to exchange data between Linux and Windows using mtools. As ntfs filesystem and write permission under linux are not very friendly, you may want to have a look at ntfs-3g. On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:16:15PM -0500, Charles Blair wrote: With a lot of help from people on this list, I have a dual-boot system with /dev/sda1 as a windows partition (etch install). After mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 ./mntpoint I can use ls to see files in the windows partition and copy files to debian. However, I cannot send files in the other direction. I hope there is a simple fix. On an older dual-boot system, I used mtools. Is this still recommended? I tried created a mtools.conf file that just said drive c: file=/dev/sda1 but I just get a message drive c: not supported If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://www.fs-driver.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppconfig command not found
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 eklektik wrote: http://jozmak.googlepages.com - Original Message From: M-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:32:56 AM Subject: Re: pppconfig command not found On Saturday 24 March 2007 15:00, eklektik sent this for all our perusal: ---} ---} ---} ---} - Original Message ---} From: M-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---} To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ---} Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 10:01:56 PM ---} Subject: Re: pppconfig command not found ---} ---} On Saturday 24 March 2007 11:54, eklektik sent this for all our perusal: ---} ---} Hi, ---} ---} I've just installed etch and want to hook up to the Internet via an ---} external modem. But when I issue the command pppconfig I get the message ---} command not found. pppconfig always worked for me before. Now I dont know ---} how to hook up to the internet. ---} Also after installation my ubuntu on ---} the other partition doesn't see the partitions any longer. What could be ---} the problem. ---} ---} ---} jmak ---} ---} Probably a silly question but :- did you install pppconfig? ---} ---} Actually the pppconfig is not installed from some reasons. I thought when I install the distro the pppconfig is part of the istallation. So what can I do now? ---} ---} jmak ---} ---} (Sorry the previous email went to the wrong place) Easily fixed; as root just type apt-get install pppconfig [without the quotes of course] into a terminal. Once installed just run it in the same terminal as root. HTH Charlie Thanks, But the pppconfig package cannot be found on the cd and I cannot connect to the internet to install it. Is there way to connect to the internet without pppconfig? Jmak __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com The catch-22. How can you install something from the internet if you can't connect to the internet. Been there, done that. Solution. Use another distro (like knoppix) that comes with pppconfig and download the ppconfig.deb file and put it somewhere on the hard drive, then you can use dpkg to install it when you reboot. Joe Joe Or, as someone has already hinted at, the OP could boot into the Ubuntu partition he already has installed and then *chroot* into the debian partition and run apt-get as normal using the internet connection from ubuntu. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to switch between different network configurations?
H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Take a look at network-manager. You can switch between different profiles. -HS IIRC wpasupplicant can handle multiple networks. Just put the different networks in a conf file, point /etc/network/interfaces to this file and it *should* do the rest. No need to enter anything unless the keys change. HTH Wackojacko Thank you! Regards: Zhang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to switch between different network configurations?
H.S. wrote: Wackojacko wrote: H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Take a look at network-manager. You can switch between different profiles. -HS IIRC wpasupplicant can handle multiple networks. Just put the different networks in a conf file, point /etc/network/interfaces to this file and it *should* do the rest. No need to enter anything unless the keys change. HTH Wackojacko So if I were to go to an internet cafe, I would need to put that network's configuration in the conf file as well, wouldn't I? Yes, but the OP talked about three different but frequently used networks, for this I think wpasupplicant would be better. And is that conf file writable only by root? I'm not sure, but as you can put the conf file anywhere I suppose it may be possible to put it in home and make it user editable. Untested though :) HTH Wackojacko -HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems
ChadDavis wrote: I need some advice in troubleshooting mount problems. I've got al ls120 superdisk that I'm trying to mount. I've installed it as the secondary device on my main ide channel, behind the boot hard drive. Here's what I've got in my fstab: /dev/hdb /media/ls120 vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 And when I try to mount, with mount /media/ls120 I get: mount: special device /dev/hdb does not exist So, I'm thinking the drive might be dead? Or not being recognized? How do you troubleshoot such a thing? Thanks for your help. /dev/hdb is the whole disk I doubt you want to mount it like this. #dmesg | grep hdb should give you some idea whether its seen #cfdisk /dev/hdb will tell you about the partitions. I suspect you need to change the 'hdb' in fstab to 'hdb1' if you only have one big partition on the disk. HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: troubleshooting ls120 mount problems
Redirecting to list ChadDavis wrote: /dev/hdb is the whole disk I doubt you want to mount it like this. #dmesg | grep hdb should give you some idea whether its seen dmesg gives me : sudo dmesg | grep hdb [17179574.996000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio Seems like there's something there, but no indication that it recognizes it as the device it is. I would expect to see more about the disk than this eg. on my system hdb is a dvd-rom and I get #dmesg| grep hdb ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hdb: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8585F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) Probably time to check the cables and jumpers on the disk in question, maybe swap a few around as see what happens. #cfdisk /dev/hdb will tell you about the partitions. This fails with fatal error: can not open disk drive. It doesn't look like its recognised the disk. As an aside I think you may benefit from installing hdparm and setting the DMA mode of your disks to improve performance (currently pio which IIRC is not the best). HTH Wackojacko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
