Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 19:32:31 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:08:11 +, Brian wrote: In the post you responded to there is: I have connected something to the other ethernet port now ... and so ifconfig -a reports (with me doing nothing special but having rebooted): and both have received a dns served address (the one ending 42 is hard coded at the router by MAC. The range 100-150 is left for misc). Yes, I already read it but when he said the other ethernet port I thought he was referring to eth1, of course, because there's no mistery otherwise. the other ethernet port is ambiguous but the second statement and the ifconfig output make it clearer. Who wants mystery? A clear statement of the perceived problem would be sufficient. Rebooting has altered the previous network settings and it is not certain we are dealing with the same situation as originally described. -- 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/20120212195257.GE2867@desktop
Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 11:44:33 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Is there a tutorial someone can point me to that would help educate me on how best to approach this task? Or do I need to go cold-turkey and uninstall NetworkManager before configuring wicd? Normally I try to address the actual question asked, but when I see something like this I want to ask - is the machine always connected to one network or is it roaming between networks? If its just one network then about eight lines in /etc/network/interfaces will set you up for life. -- 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/20120212201926.GF2867@desktop
Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces
On Sun 12 Feb 2012 at 20:31:25 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:52:57 +, Brian wrote: the other ethernet port is ambiguous but the second statement and the ifconfig output make it clearer. Well, all this issue is around an ethernet card that received its configuration data when it was not apparently connected to any cable nor other facility, so who knows what's happening now. Anyone who reads the previous mails and who is intent on perception rather than argumentation. -- 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/20120212213144.GG2867@desktop
Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces
On Mon 13 Feb 2012 at 16:13:24 +, Camaleón wrote: I trust logs rather than perceptions. The thread has moved on: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg00975.html We should do the same. -- 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/20120213191917.GJ2867@desktop
Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces
On Mon 13 Feb 2012 at 19:40:53 +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:19:17 +, Brian wrote: On Mon 13 Feb 2012 at 16:13:24 +, Camaleón wrote: I trust logs rather than perceptions. The thread has moved on: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/02/msg00975.html We should do the same. I don't have additional suggestions for Harry, it seems he finally solved the problem. I'm pleased the last word on this subject has been said. But watch this space! :). -- 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/20120213195904.GK2867@desktop
Re: Networking Q concerning /etc/network/interfaces
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 10:07:52 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: In the confused thread I butchered, I missed this little snipped from Brian. I very much appreciate this explanation. I had it wrong. You're being too hard on yourself. I get things wrong all the time and it may be only months later I realise it. I thought that without the machine being set up as a router. That is, with /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward set to 0, in that case the eth1 adaptor would NOT ask eth0 anything, and would not communicate anything about eth0 back to host b. The eth1 interface is obliged by ARP to either discard the request or to communicate back what it has been able to find out. I had no experience with that scenario, but that was my first thought on it. I'm still a little unclear just how eth1 queries eth0. The part in Brians explanation that says: [ ...] eth1 is aware 192.168.1.54 isn't its address but, being conscientious, asks about on the machine it lives on. eth0 says: 'hey that's me!'. eth1 then tells host b: 'I've found what you are looking for, 192.168.1.54's traffic can be sent to 192.168.1.42 first. Did I say that? It's a demonstration of what can happen when you become overenthusiastic! But, in the absence of a networking guru, the essence is there. Just how is that asking and reporting part performed? Does eth1 then handle all traffic to and from eth0? eth1 doesn't actually query eth0 directly. I was being dramatic. :) The ARP request goes to the kernel, which knows about everything on the machine. It instigates the reply that the IP asked for is known there. How traffic to eth0 is dealt with depends on how the machine is set up but it must first go through eth1 in the situation you describe - no network cable attached to it. An analogy: Mr Harry Putman walks into Hotel Debian. He approaches the reception desk and asks whether Mr Important Person (IP to his friends) is staying there and whether he may speak with him. The concierge says he is but all communication must go through her and, for a small consideration, she will set up the channels. -- 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/20120215213914.GA2869@desktop
Re: Get to the bottom of what is running my networks
On Wed 15 Feb 2012 at 12:57:24 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: [Snip] Honestly it is confusing... surely there is some straight forward way by now on this modern of a version of debian to simply work with the tools that control networking... There is: ifupdown Command line is my preferred idiom, but anything would be a good start. No - you do not want anything. There must be a quick and easy way to start stop cleanly without major study and scrutinizing of vast man pages or such. Some reading is unavoidable. In fact, it is essential. Can anyone provide a simple step by step procedure? For what? You haven't descibed the network setup and what you want to achieve. Another distro I've used worked with a simple /etc/init.d/net.eth[0-9] start/stop/status And a brief and easily understood configuration in /etc/conf.d/net. Do we have anything similar? A basic underlying control mechanism that supersedes any add-on gui bunkem? ifupdown. -- 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/20120215215437.GB2869@desktop
All flash videos playing far too quickly
I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's using KDE, I'm using XFCE. The problem we're both having is that all Flash videos play FAR too quickly - maybe (guesstimate) by a factor of three or four. I've tried removing and reinstalling the flashplugin package. I've tried downloading the latest player from Adobe. I've tried IceWeasel, Chromium and Epiphany. Nothing helps. I've tried doing searches, and obviously I'm not the only one to have seen this problem, but I can't find anything which gives a solution for Debian. Has anyone managed to solve this? Thanks, Brian. -- 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/4f3e7329.6030...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/17/2012 10:51 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 07:32, brianbr...@meadows.pair.com wrote: I've just switched my wife and myself to Debian because I got fed up with reinstall-type upgrades. We're both running Wheezy, all updates applied, my wife on an AMD Athlon X2, my PC is a Phenom X4. She's using KDE, I'm using XFCE. The problem we're both having is that all Flash videos play FAR too quickly - maybe (guesstimate) by a factor of three or four. I've tried removing and reinstalling the flashplugin package. I've tried downloading the latest player from Adobe. I've tried IceWeasel, Chromium and Epiphany. Nothing helps. I've tried doing searches, and obviously I'm not the only one to have seen this problem, but I can't find anything which gives a solution for Debian. Has anyone managed to solve this? Never heard of it. Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug flash too fast Debian into a Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the problem, dating from 2006 onwards. For some reason, Mint 9 (our previous distro, based on Ubuntu) didn't show the problem, using exactly the same hardware. There seems little doubt that it's the installation of Debian which has caused us both the problem - either that or it's an unbelievable coincidence. And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details. Brian. -- 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/4f3e7d51.1030...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/17/2012 11:38 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:16, brianbr...@meadows.pair.com wrote: snip And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details. Well, it isn't emulation. If it says that, it has a GeForce 6150 chip on the motherboard. It is odd, but not unheard of, to have an nVidia chipset and an AMD CPU. Hardware's not my strong point - I didn't know whether it was just something claiming to be compatible with the GeForce 6150, nor that it was a chip rather than a card. Pat's PC is a eMachines/Wal-Mart model, so no doubt it's slightly cheaper to have that combination, unusual though it might be. I am suspecting the drivers, though it could be some library or something if all of those browsers you tried where the Debian versions. Have you tried any of the upstream versions? (e.g. FF tarballs, Google's Chromium repos) No, the browsers are all from the Wheezy repositories. Now you mention it, IceWeasel does seem to be based on a rather old version of Firefox. I'll try grabbing at least Firefox and Chromium direct from the sites. Watch this space... Brian. -- 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/4f3e9788.9040...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/17/2012 01:12 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 17 feb 12, 11:16:17, brian wrote: And yes, this is all 64-bit, and I did try the Flash 11 downloaded direct from Adobe. Neither of us have separate video cards, Pat's mobo claims to emulate an nVidia GeForce 6150 SE, I'll have to dig a little to find mine as my box doesn't carry a sticker giving the details. $ lspci -nn | grep VGA OK, that made life easy. :) My PC is an ATI Technologies Inc RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] Brian. -- 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/4f3ea70b.8090...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: brian wrote: [snip] Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug flash too fast Debian into a Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the problem, dating from 2006 onwards. I added bug to your search http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=mozillaas_q=video+flash+too+fast+Debian+bug led to (among other) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 I cannot follow further as I'm on dialup and do not have debian installed HTH Thanks, Richard. I have found one other suggested fix which involved a couple of parameters in the bootup. I'll give both of them a try either this evening or tomorrow morning and report back, they're both quicker tweaks than installing new versions of software so I'll put the latter on hold. Brian. -- 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/4f3ed082.6010...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: brian wrote: [snip] Hi Kelly, I'll gather together the other information as soon as I can (i.e. later today, hopefully) but if you plug flash too fast Debian into a Google search box, you will see plenty of other reports of the problem, dating from 2006 onwards. I added bug to your search http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=mozillaas_q=video+flash+too+fast+Debian+bug led to (among other) http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 I cannot follow further as I'm on dialup and do not have debian installed HTH The solution linked to above worked as regards reducing the speed of the video playback back to normal i.e. blacklisting snd_hda_intel in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf Unfortunately the sound no longer works, but that may well be another problem. Brian. -- 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/4f3fe269.5050...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 I cannot follow further as I'm on dialup and do not have debian installed HTH The solution linked to above worked as regards reducing the speed of the video playback back to normal i.e. blacklisting snd_hda_intel in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf Unfortunately the sound no longer works, but that may well be another problem. Do you have another soundcard in addition to the intel onboard one? If not then it is not too surprising that sound stops working as soon as you unload the driver of the intel card. The bug report cited above suggests that the HDMI alsa sink is the root of the problem. I have some spare sound cards, but I suspect that (given the size of the case) my wife's PC is going to be one of those annoying ones with no spare slots. Are you actually using the HDMI output for sound? No. If you are connecting external loudspeakers or headphones to the analog output (standard 3.5 mm plugs), or if you are using the internal speakers of a laptop, then you might get flash and sound working together by disabling the HDMI slot when you load the snd_hda_intel module. If you need help with this then please show me the output of cat /proc/asound/cards (when the snd_hda_intel module is loaded) cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xfe7f4000 irq 16 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfe9e8000 irq 19 2 [CODEC ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-:00:12.1-1, full speed -- 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/4f402d44.4050...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/19/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 [...] The bug report cited above suggests that the HDMI alsa sink is the root of the problem. [...] Are you actually using the HDMI output for sound? No. [...] cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xfe7f4000 irq 16 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfe9e8000 irq 19 2 [CODEC ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-:00:12.1-1, full speed So there is an USB audio device connected as well? Unless it's my cassette tape to MP3 converter, I'm at a loss to know what it could be. I'm not aware that USB sound was an option with this PC. I'll have to see whether Gateway still have the manuals available (the PC was an E-bay purchase from an overstock company, I got no software or documentation of any kind, just the hardware). If you want to use that one with flashplayer then it might be enough to run modprobe -r snd_hda_intel modprobe -r snd_usb_audio modprobe snd_usb_audio index=0 as root or with sudo. You may have to log out from your desktop environment and issue these commands on a terminal (you cannot remove modules that are in use). After you have done this, verify that /proc/asound/cards now lists the USB device as card number 0, then try if you get sound output from flashplayer. The annoying thing about sound with Flashplayer is that the browser plugin seems to be hell-bent on using alsa's card number 0 directly; I have never managed to make it to respect any KDE/phonon or pulseaudio setting that says otherwise. If you want to use the Intel SB device then you can test if disabling the HDMI sink is sufficient to make flashplayer behave: modprobe -r snd_hda_intel modprobe snd_hda_intel enable=1,0 (Verify that /proc/asound/cards lists SB as card 0 and that the HDMI card is gone after you do that.) If you find a configuration that works then you can make it permanent by putting the corresponding module options in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ to make them persistent across reboots. I recommend creating an extra file for that rather than adding the options to an existing file. (This approach ensures that your settings will never be overwritten by an upgrade.) Thanks for the detailed help. I will try the second approach first, then try to look up the documentation for the PC. There is also one other solution I found which involved some switches to the commands in grub, I have that waiting in the wings if this approach doesn't work. I'll report back as soon as I've had a chance to try it all, but that may not be for a couple of days. Brian. -- 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/4f40f0e5.9050...@meadows.pair.com
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/19/2012 08:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-02-19, brianbr...@meadows.pair.com wrote: So there is an USB audio device connected as well? Unless it's my cassette tape to MP3 converter, I'm at a loss to know A usb-connected webcam? Nope, don't have a webcam. Brian. -- 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/4f40fd72.6040...@meadows.pair.com
Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the CA0106 module as card 0. Does anybody know the details? This should start you off: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/09/msg00285.html -- 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/20120223124700.GA8580@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 10:46:03 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: As I understand, the newest version of CUPS is buggy. I cannot print from my Okidata 10ex. What can I do? This bugginess - is it a reference to the two reported Severity: grave bugs? If you could print before (you don't say) there may be a connection but what you could do is download packages from testing and install with 'dpkg -i'. -- 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/20120223163445.GB8580@desktop
Re: live usb automatic boot parameters
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:00:42 -0800, alvaro rincon wrote: i need to set automatic these two boot parameterslive persistent because i have to write it every time i boot my live usb GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub is the place. Do 'update -grub' afterwards. -- 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/20120224002139.GD8580@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:01:45 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: rosenberg:/var/log/cups# cat error_log E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter hpgltops not found. E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter pstoraster not found. E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter oopstops not found. None of these filters are in testing or unstable so one must wonder why CUPS is looking for them. oopstops has been removed completely (see the Debian changelog) ; what has happened to the other two I don't know. Bug #638933 mentions an iffy fix. Is the installation a new or upgraded one? Was printing previously in a working state? You could completely purge CUPS and all its related packages. Then reinstall (with the Recommends:) and install your printer. -- 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/20120224004058.GE8580@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 20:10:11 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: You could completely purge CUPS and all its related packages. Then reinstall (with the Recommends:) and install your printer. I need instructions how to do it. Backup /etc/cups first. apt-get purge cups followed by apt-get --purge autoremove Unless you have set up your system not to, you'll get the recommended packages with apt-get install cups Installing the printer is done from Administration at http://localhost:631 There is a CUPS+Gutenprint driver for your Oki, or you could try one of those under Generic. I'm not a great believer in reinstalling as a cure for problems, so you could try this last step first. -- 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/20120224160557.GG8580@desktop
Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:34:12 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to +install it, just in case. I've found out that if I do install Windows, I won't be able to boot Debian. Although it appears that this +can be fixed, I want to make sure I know what I'm doing before risking having to start all over again. Any hints? Have you got a USB stick handy? Using fdisk make a Linux primary partition on it, or part of it. Format the partiton ext2 (mkfs.ext2). Mount the partition you have created: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt Install GRUB to the MBR of the stick: grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sdb This will create /boot/grub on the stick and put GRUB's files there. Copy /boot/grub/grub.cfg to /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg. Boot from the USB stick. Can you get into your expected Debian? The sdb is on my machine (not yours) and I'm using testing. I'm unsure whether --boot-directory is --root-directory on Squeeze. Read the manual for this. I've no idea what Windows does when it installs but if it leaves the other partitions undisturbed you should be able to get Debian running and put GRUB back on the hard disk's MBR. -- 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/20120226193321.GA32189@desktop
Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 07:28:51 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 26 Feb 06:43 -0600, Camaleón wrote: Try with the last good version of the package in Sid and if it works, just open a bug report. Two bugs are open in this topic, 660348 (mine) and 660420 (Mike's). Both of us have tried the latest update (1.5.2-5) and Mike sees help with the Generic PS 1 driver and I see no improvement with the HL-5240 PPD. We're following it closely. Fortunately, Mike's report is marked Grave to prevent the latest CUPS update (1.5.2) from moving into Testing. Bug #660420 at most rates a severity level of 'Important'. Designating it as 'Grave' to prevent it getting into testing is not the purpose of the BTS. Bug #660852 can be categorised in a similar way. If the CUPS maintainers don't do downgrade it themselves I'd think of doing it myself. -- 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/20120226195518.GB32189@desktop
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly
On 02/19/2012 11:29 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-02-19, brianbr...@meadows.pair.com wrote: A usb-connected webcam? Nope, don't have a webcam. It's your cassette tape to mp3 converter. Check out dmesg or 'tail -f /var/log/messages' when you plug the thing in to confirm. Sorry for the extended delay in replying. You're correct, it's the tape converter. Brian. -- 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/4f4a9227.8090...@meadows.pair.com
Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:02:47 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Wow. Your message came as a separate base64 encoded attachment. Whatever you did when you sent it please try to do something different next time. Is that what happened? With Mutt I did 'v' and copied and pasted. But forgot to tell vim about it! Mind you, I had originally just deleted the message because there was no discernable text to it. The second thoughts were because the subject line seemed interesting. -- 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/20120226201845.GC32189@desktop
Re: Nvidia Ion + Xserver problem
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 15:24:30 -0500, rypervenche wrote: Hello. I've been dealing with this problem for a long time, and would like to finally have a solution. I am using Debian Testing on an EeePC with an Nvidia Ion GPU. For a long while, once xserver 1.11 came out, I was unable to run X without 50% of my CPU being used constantly. I downgraded to xserver to squeeze-backports as a temporary solution, and have been using it for months now. Every time there is an upgrade to Nvidia's graphics drivers, I try again, but to no avail. I saw that the problem was with Nvidia's driver's not being compatible with Xserver's new ABI thing, but I thought it had been solved. I have also used nvidia-xconfig to make my xorg.conf file, and added my personal preferences to it manually afterward. Any ideas? My initial thought is why do you need to use the Nvidia's graphics drivers? It doesn't solve your problem but could indicate a different path to take. -- 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/20120226203603.GD32189@desktop
Re: All flash videos playing far too quickly - SOLVED
On 02/19/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 17:59:16 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/18/2012 04:09 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:39:53 -0500, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 05:11 PM, brian wrote: On 02/17/2012 02:40 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658128 [...] The bug report cited above suggests that the HDMI alsa sink is the root of the problem. [...] Are you actually using the HDMI output for sound? No. [...] cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [SB ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB HDA ATI SB at 0xfe7f4000 irq 16 1 [HDMI ]: HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI HDA ATI HDMI at 0xfe9e8000 irq 19 2 [CODEC ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio CODEC Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio CODEC at usb-:00:12.1-1, full speed So there is an USB audio device connected as well? If you want to use that one with flashplayer then it might be enough to run modprobe -r snd_hda_intel modprobe -r snd_usb_audio modprobe snd_usb_audio index=0 as root or with sudo. You may have to log out from your desktop environment and issue these commands on a terminal (you cannot remove modules that are in use). After you have done this, verify that /proc/asound/cards now lists the USB device as card number 0, then try if you get sound output from flashplayer. The annoying thing about sound with Flashplayer is that the browser plugin seems to be hell-bent on using alsa's card number 0 directly; I have never managed to make it to respect any KDE/phonon or pulseaudio setting that says otherwise. If you want to use the Intel SB device then you can test if disabling the HDMI sink is sufficient to make flashplayer behave: modprobe -r snd_hda_intel modprobe snd_hda_intel enable=1,0 (Verify that /proc/asound/cards lists SB as card 0 and that the HDMI card is gone after you do that.) If you find a configuration that works then you can make it permanent by putting the corresponding module options in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ to make them persistent across reboots. I recommend creating an extra file for that rather than adding the options to an existing file. (This approach ensures that your settings will never be overwritten by an upgrade.) My apologies to anyone who's been following this and waiting for confirmation of the results. Sometimes life interferes with computing... As you may have seen from another reply, the USB device was definitely my cassette tape to MP3 converter. I unplugged that, the third entry in /proc/asound/cards disappeared. On to the two commands to disable the HDMI sink. I logged in as root in console mode, and entered the two commands you gave. The output of the first command was snd_hda_intel :01:05.1: PCI INT B disabled snd_hda_intel :00:14.2: PCI INT A disabled The output of the second command was snd_hda_intel :00:14.2: PCI INT A - GSI 16 (level, low) - IRQ 16 hda_codec: ALC1200: BIOS auto-probing. hda_codec: ALC1200: SKU not ready 0x41f0 input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci:00/:00:14.2/input/input8 input: HDA ATI SB Headphone as /devices/pci:00/:00:14.2/sound/card0/input9 snd_hda_intel: probe of :01:05.1 failed with error -2 While this looked a little less than promising, logging out of the console, logging back in as myself and then running startx seems to have got everything working on my PC. I have sound, MP4s play correctly, and flash videos play correctly. Thanks all, but especially Florian, for your assistance. Brian. -- 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/4f4a9ba4.2060...@meadows.pair.com
Re: grub gets confused when I upgrade the kernel
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:54:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have two different Debian systems on my EEEPC -- stable and testing. Whenever testing installs a new kernel as a result of the routing update, my grub/menu.list file gets rewritten. WHen it does this, it matches the kernels I have in one Debian sysstem with the fie-system root I have in the other. I have to hand-edit menu.list to make things right again, using static boot stanzas in front of the AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST. (a) Is there any way I can stop this misbehaviour? (b) If I were to progress to grub2, where I gather I can't take control of the boot process by editing menu.lst, is there some other way of making sure things go right? I fear that one of these years, upgrading to grub2 will become inevitable. It is inevitable now; well, desirable at least. Just do it! Most people who have have used Grub 2 have never looked back. All this hand-editing will become a thing of the past. Debian has moved on. You are having problems with a legacy bootloader and cannot expect to get the support you require for it. -- 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/20120226211209.GE32189@desktop
Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 15:55:27 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 26 Feb 14:12 -0600, Brian wrote: Bug #660420 at most rates a severity level of 'Important'. Designating it as 'Grave' to prevent it getting into testing is not the purpose of the BTS. Strangely, I thought it was intended to be used in such a manner as to keep severely broken package upgrades from Testing which, AIUI, is *supposed* to be stable enough to be frozen at any time so the remaining RC bugs can be shaken out for a Stable release. ISTM that parts of recent GNOME upgrades were kept out of Testing by this method. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone The bit after the comma is the relevant bit. Now you make out a case for the bug being Grave. grave makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package. You could start with addressing how the package is unusable for everyone (including, of course, those who have inkjet and dotmatrix printers). Breaking a swath of heretofore working PostScript printers seems grave enough to me to keep this update from affecting a larger user base. From the bug report, a 'swath' appears to be two. Mine isn't one of them. Bug #660852 can be categorised in a similar way. I don't have his issue but I'm not going to deny he's experiencing trouble. Of course he is. But it's not a Grave bug. If the CUPS maintainers don't do downgrade it themselves I'd think of doing it myself. I would suggest contacting the CUPS maintainers before stepping into their territory. Not consulting them before modifying their bugs seems rather impolite, perhaps even rude. Do you have any knowledge that they are unaware of this issue or disagree with the status of the bugs? Sorry, the bug is in the database; it concerns everyone. Contacting anyone at all before contributing is not part of the deal. There is no territory off limits as you seek to suggest. It is all ours. -- 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/20120226223710.GF32189@desktop
Re: iceweasel update from 9 to 10.0.2 went wrong on Wheezy
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:25:06 -0300, Eike Lantzsch wrote: Yesterday I upgraded iceweasel on my two wheezy boxes to 10.0.2. Since then I get this message on both boxes: XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul Line Number 553, Colum 7: menuitem id=context-video-showstats --^ I have no specific advice for you relating to this message but a search with 'xml parsing error undefined entity Location: chrome iceweasel', or with 'firefox' in place of 'iceweasel', does throw up some avenues you could explore. -- 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/20120227001447.GG32189@desktop
Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 18:20:25 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: I suspect that if this update hits Testing that many more users will be impacted. I know that I will have to put CUPS on my laptop in Hold status just so I have a machine to print from should it migrate to Testing in its current state. Quite possibly. But that's the nature of Testing, isn't it? Preventing packages in a good state (like CUPS) from migrating there defeats its purpose. As to your problem: you could pursue Camaleón's suggestion and find the last CUPS package which works for you. The changelog for the following version might give you something to base debugging on. Not that I'd envy your doing this; there have been quite a few important changes in CUPS recently including, but not confined to, a new upstrem version. Changing the ppd is another, simpler option. Your printer supports PCL 6 so under Generic there are quite a few to try. Using 'lp -d' is also an alternative to printing through Iceweasel. -- 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/20120227153806.GH32189@desktop
Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets
On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 11:29:59 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Quite possibly. But that's the nature of Testing, isn't it? Preventing packages in a good state (like CUPS) from migrating there defeats its purpose. Why don't you add a comment to the bug stating that you disagree with the diversity and let the maintainers decide? Sorry, I'm a bit thrown by 'diversity'; I'll assume you mean 'severity'. There is already one mail expressing that view and I try not to go in for 'me toos'. -- 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/20120227165619.GI32189@desktop
Re: when an xterm starts, it always starts in ~/Documents
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 20:53:58 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: I'm running KDE on a siduction distribution. Konsole starts in $HOME. Xterms started from the KDE Launcher-System-Uxterm or Xterm start in ~/Documents. There's nothing in the environment which mentions ~/Documents. I've been through all the KDE settings and there's no mention of it. It is definitely weird. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201072 Move Documents/ to documents/ and it goes away. -- 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/20120227175927.GJ32189@desktop
Re: CUPS on Sid printing blank sheets
On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 12:44:34 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Sorry, I'm a bit thrown by 'diversity'; I'll assume you mean 'severity'. There is already one mail expressing that view and I try not to go in for 'me toos'. I must've mistyped severity and gmail transformed it... I missed the other mail... I don't understand the me too. All that I was saying is that since you feel so strongly about the bug's severity, just add a comment to that effect and let the maintainers decide whether to change it. What does that have to do with me too?! #660420 is the source of the mail I referred to. Sending a similar mail there adds nothing of value to the report. I've already dealt with the issue of who can manipulate the severity of a bug. -- 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/20120227182847.GK32189@desktop
Re: Where is cheops-ng
On Mon 27 Feb 2012 at 14:51:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: With this sources.list: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free deb http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/ deb-src http://emacs.naquadah.org/ unstable/ deb http://packages.linuxmint.com debian import An `aptitude search cheop' returns no hits. Is there a cheops-ng package available for debian? apt-cache has no knowledge of one. From http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net/ 5/29/2005 - Nobodys home :( I have been unable to work on this project, too much going on and no help. Sorry :( maybe someone can help out with this project It bit the dust. -- 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/20120227201636.GL32189@desktop
Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 10:35:31 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Googling led me to lpr and cups-pdf which, once installed, gives a neat printer called, unsurprisingly, PDF. But, when I try printing with that - you guess -I get an error with a totally uninformative message showing lpr usage. his does not happen with, say, libreoffice which will correctly print a document to my ~/PDF directory. Please post the exact command you used. -- 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/20120228101152.GM32189@desktop
Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:17:08 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 28/02/12 11:11, Brian wrote: Please post the exact command you used. lpr -P PDF -o PageSize=A4 -o PageRegion=A4 -o Resolution=300dpi is the (un-editable) command displayed in window opened by clicking on Properties... in the print dialog. The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here. -- 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/20120228113301.GN32189@desktop
Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 11:33:01 +, Brian wrote: The PDF printer converts a file into a pdf document. But you have the pdf so it's a litle unclear what you want to do here. But if all you want is to process a file without using Acrobat you have lp -d PDF file or lpr -P PDF file The message from lpr; was it telling you of an error or was it a warning? My experience is that neither lp nor lpr give a summary of their usage when invoked incorrectly. There isn't even a --help option given in the manual. What was the gist of it? -- 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/20120228163255.GO32189@desktop
Re: [SOLVED]: Re: [OT]: Printing to file from Adobe Acrobat's reader
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 18:16:06 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: For some strange reason lpr -P PDF will fail here with lpr: PDF: unknown printer Theory:You have the lpr package installed. The failure message indicates this. Test: dpkg -l | grep lpr Solution: apt-get install cups-bsd -- 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/20120228184708.GP32189@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Tue 28 Feb 2012 at 12:05:08 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: After a recent sid dist-upgrade, I'm having problems printing. The CUPS test page prints a border with this text only: Brother HL-5340D Series 3010.106 5 -88807824 That is using the 5240 driver. I tried a couple other Brother HL-* drivers, but no success. There are also drivers in Generic you could try. Now, I've got a PPD file for HL-5340D, but when I try to select it I get this error: unable to copy interface script: no such file or directory Any ideas what I can do with this? It might be particular to the ppd you have. Tell CUPS to use one in /usr/share/ppd. Still the same error?. Creating /etc/cups/interfaces might be a way round the issue. -- 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/20120229134038.GA13677@desktop
Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
On Wed 29 Feb 2012 at 23:48:22 +0300, Stayvoid wrote: This guide wasn't helpful. modprobe nouveau outputs nothing and It wouldn't output anything if the module was already in place. there is no nouveau module in the output of lsmod. But nouveau That is extremely surprising considering you have shown a dmesg output elsewhere which displays it being brought into use and being used for the framebuffer on the console. appears in the output of lspci -vv. I don't suppose it said 'Kernel driver in use: nouveau? Let's try to fix it in gNewSense. (My version is based on Squeeze.) gNewSense is nearly three years old and, I think, based on Ubuntu. The suggested mismatch is most likely the cause of X not running. In Debian at that time nouveau packages were possibly classed as experimental. -- 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/20120301004352.GB13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 02:56:15 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:40:38PM +, Brian wrote: It might be particular to the ppd you have. Tell CUPS to use one in /usr/share/ppd. Still the same error?. Knowing the outcome of doing this would have been useful. What is the result of file your_supposed_ppd_file ? -- 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/20120301131822.GC13677@desktop
Re: bzr-hg gone missing from unstable?
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 16:49:47 -0500, Max Hyre wrote: bzr-hg's bug list has nothing relevant, and I could find no mention of the lack in the last couple of months of debian-user, so here it is: where'd it go, and should it come back? http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bzr-hg.html -- 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/20120301221851.GD13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 21:51:09 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 01:18:22PM +, Brian wrote: What is the result of file your_supposed_ppd_file ? UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text This is the norm here: brian@desktop:/usr/share/ppd/cups-pdf$ file CUPS-PDF.ppd CUPS-PDF.ppd: PPD file, version 4.3 The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 -- 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/20120302104155.GE13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy (SOLVED!)
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 18:54:55 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:11:28PM +, Camale??n wrote: Good to know, but if your only problem was in selecting the PPD file from CUPS wizard, just copy the PPD manually as instructed and go on :-) That is easier now that I see that CUPS copies the PPD file to /etc/cups/interfaces and renames it to match the printer name. The web interface also deals with adjusting /etc/cups/printers.conf. -- 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/20120302104516.GF13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Fri 02 Mar 2012 at 16:30:26 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:41:55AM +, Brian wrote: The error you got is reproducible by removing the first line of a ppd *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 I see I have a couple leading characters of garbage. Removing them, I now get /etc/cups/interfaces/HL-5340D_native_ppd failed Worth getting a virgin copy of the ppd to be sure (although I'm doing fine with the PCL6 driver ATM.) If you do acquire another copy you may want to run cupstestppd on it. -- 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/20120303103222.GG13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:03:26 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2012 03 Mar 05:38 -0600, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have posted full details of how I got the printer working on my blog: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/serendipity/index.php; see the entry for 16 Feb for details. I did find your blog a few days ago and considered going back to lprng and magicfilter and all. I think I would miss the cups-pdf plug-in as I use it quite a lot with programs that can't export directly to PDF as with Libre Office. There is File/Print.../Print to File to output in PDF format. It renders cups-pdf superfluous. Do some of your programs not provide it? Also, using cups-pdf on testing/unstable is questionable as CUPS has PDF (previously Postscript) as its output for all jobs. cups-pdf is not made for processing PDF. -- 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/20120303141337.GH13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 09:17:55 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: Not strange as most other programs don't have an export to PDF as Libre Office does. That is what I was trying to say. This is an underselling of GTK and QT based applications which have a Print... dialogue, including Libre Office. They can all export to PDF. It may not be expressed that way but it is what happens. -- 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/20120303161821.GI13677@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 07:45:20 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:32:22AM +, Brian wrote: If you do acquire another copy you may want to run cupstestppd on it. Where do I find it? It's on your system. man cupstestppd -- 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/20120303182324.GJ13677@desktop
Re: Problem with NetworkManager - WAS: Re: Help needed to repair a damaged dual boot Debian System
On Sat 03 Mar 2012 at 20:59:30 +0100, Bernard wrote: So, everything seems to work fine... except for the 'NetworkManager' ! On that machine, I only have a wired ethernet connexion ; there is no wlan chipset for now ; I will install one soon. So, the Internet connexion happens automatically upon booting. But, as a difference with my other machines (still running Lenny), the NetworkManager tool on the Gnome desktop does not operate as an ON and OFF switch as I like to use it. Probably because the interface is not being managed by NM but by /etc/network/interfaces. -- 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/20120303203338.GK13677@desktop
Re: printing dead slow since squeeze
On Mon 05 Mar 2012 at 12:26:56 +0100, Rémi Letot wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: [...] The ppd is the one provided with cups, and I also tried with the generic ps ppd. Try also with Brother's PPD file: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/download_prn.html#HL-4050CDN This dit it. I tried everything, including creating a new pure squeeze vm on my server to test, but nothing worked. Except using Brother's ppd. Now my printer is printing as fast as ever, and I also got a bunch of new options to configure it in cups. So all is well under the rain, sorry for the noise, I should have tried that much earlier but frankly I didn't believe in that solution. CUPS supplies quite a few PPDs so I wonder which one you used. The openprinting-ppds package has a PPD for your printer. It is identical to one you downloaded from Brother's site! -- 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/20120305125401.GA4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 at 13:49:36 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: I am trying to install the stable version. I can't make it work. Here is what I did: rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2# apt-get purge cups apt-get --purge autoremove rm -r /etc/cups Here is the result of an attempted install: rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2# dpkg -P cups1.5.2-5 dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove cups1.5.2-5 which isn't installed. rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2# dpkg -i cups1.4.4-7 dpkg: error processing cups1.4.4-7 (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: cups1.4.4-7 My reckoning is that trying to go back to stable is fraught as there are quite a few important changes in the CUPS packaging since then. You may decide to be wary and just step back to testing but the version there now is what you have removed on unstable. However, if you insist on pressing on (and why not, it is a learning experience) you will have to download 1.4.4-7+squeeze1 from http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/cups and then use dpkg -i. Please let us know how you make out. -- 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/20120306235758.GE4889@desktop
Re: bug report request for advice
On Tue 06 Mar 2012 at 17:53:05 -0800, David Christensen wrote: You sohuld try and pin down what printer driver you are using. How do I determine what printer driver my system is using? From http://localhost/printers. But also consider that I *think* when evince prints it's relying on external tools such as postscript etc. How do I test that hypothesis? Which Debian distribution are you using? -- 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/20120307101748.GF4889@desktop
Re: What's clobbering /etc/network/interfaces?
On Wed 07 Mar 2012 at 23:06:46 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: Oh, sorry! I've already resolved this via the debian-live list — I didn't realise you hadn't seen that, because I didn't see which mailing list this was from. http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2012/03/msg00030.html -- 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/20120307172225.GG4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Wed 07 Mar 2012 at 16:05:01 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: At 06:57 PM 3/6/2012, Brian wrote: Please let us know how you make out. Brian - Thanks. Not well regrettably. I tried the stable version and then testing, and had the same result - rosenberg:/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0# modprobe parport rosenberg:/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0# modprobe parport_pc rosenberg:/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0# cat modes PCSPP,TRISTATE Does that mean that the parallel port is not being properly detected? I'd think it was, otherwise parport0 would not be in /proc. In dmesg I have [ 39.872683] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). [ 39.883749] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver When I try to add a new printer, it never gives me the option of a parallel port printer. Let's establish some basic groundwork. You are using Debian unstable. Your printer is an Okidata 10ex which uses the parallel port and it was previously working on unstable. The connection between the machine and the printer is tight and secure. Please correct any misconceptions. It is possible the printer ceased to work because of bugs in an upgraded CUPS or programs associated with it but, with all the changes you have brought about in attempting to rectify the problem, the state of your system may not be known to you. So we are are going to be drastic by starting by completely removing any printing abilty from your machine. We will also take this step-by-step, so it be some time before we conclude. List the packages involving CUPS with dpkg -l | grep cups You are going to remove all of them with apt-get purge package Start with libcupsimage2. Then do apt-get --purge autoremove Repeat these three steps until you are CUPS-free, apart from libcups2. Do not purge this package. There are probably other printing related packages installed. They could be left alone but we may as well be ruthless! Using the first command, search for 'gutenprint', 'pppds' and 'foomatic'i. Purge if necessary. Run the third command too. Back out of this if it looks as though half your software or something you recognise as important will be removed. Check for /etc/cups, /usr/lib/cups, /usr/share/cups, /var/spool/cups and /var/log/cups; they should all be absent. Now 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade', followed up by apt-get install --no-install-recommends cups We will test this minimal printing system with cups-pdf. apt-get install --no-install-recommends cups-pdf A printer named PDF is automatically set up. You should see it in the print dialogue for Iceweasel. Print a web page to it. You should find the resultant pdf in $HOME/PDF. Being able to successfully display the pdf in your pdf reader is a strong indication that the CUPS filtering system is working. Do say how all this turns out before we move on to attending to your printer. -- 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/20120308000344.GH4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Thu 08 Mar 2012 at 00:03:44 +, Brian wrote: Do say how all this turns out before we move on to attending to your printer. I forgot to mention that you could also check from the web interface whether the option to add a parallel port printer exists. -- 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/20120308004412.GI4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 00:10:09 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: ls $HOME/PDF does not find the directory. It should be created on the first use of the PDF printer. However, configuring cups-pdf wasn't really part of the agenda and being able to use it is not critical. Of far more importance is whether CUPS detects your parallel port printer from Administration/Find New Printers. -- 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/20120309103554.GK4889@desktop
Re: synaptic bombs!
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 07:09:07 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: This is debian testing, with recent updates. When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message: E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 bytes is already reached. E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf) E: Error occurred while processing python-event-dbg (NewFileDesc1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.cl.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache-open() failed, please report. The first few links seaching with 'Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit' look useful. I wonder if 'apt-get autoclean' or 'apt-get clean' might restore normality. -- 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/20120309132611.GM4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:35:59 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Find New Printers - No Printers Found. At https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems there is some parallel port printer troubleshooting advice. You might want to post the outputs of some of the suggested commands. -- 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/20120309134756.GN4889@desktop
Re: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 09:28:52 -0500, Joey L wrote: I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw does anyone know how i can get around this ? Make the network card be seen during install ? or after install ? I have located a file bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw in the debian repository. But do not know how to or when to use it ? You want the firmware-bnx2 package. On an installed system you enable the non-free archive and get it in your usual way. During an install put the .deb on a USB stick. The Debian wiki will have more on catering for firmware. -- 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/20120309143820.GO4889@desktop
Re: synaptic bombs!
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 08:43:06 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: kjetil@kjetil:~$ apt-get clean Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. -- 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/20120309144630.GP4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 11:22:13 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: Everything on the parallel port looks kosher (hopefully, other eyes are peeking to) but when you report: rosenberg:/home/ethan# lpinfo -v WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /tmp/keyring-e42sxy/pkcs11: No such file or directory network lpd file cups-pdf:/ network ipp network ipps network http network socket network beh network https and I compare it to mine on Sid: network http network lpd file cups-pdf:/ network ipp network https network ipps network socket direct scsi direct parallel:/dev/lp0 you can see you do not have 'direct parallel:/dev/lp0', which explains why CUPS doesn't see your printer (I think). But why is it missing? What is the output of ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend ? -- 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/20120309191525.GQ4889@desktop
Re: synaptic bombs!
On Fri 09 Mar 2012 at 10:36:21 -0600, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:46, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: Log in as root (or use sudo) for this command to be successful. thanks! sudo apt-get clean is successfull, while /var/cache/apt/archives should now be empty of packages but what does 'successful' mean? sudo apt-get autoclean gives the exact same error Which error is that? -- 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/20120309193016.GR4889@desktop
Re: CUPS
On Sat 10 Mar 2012 at 21:27:06 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: ethan@rosenberg:/var/www/Webpages2$ ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ total 508 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7250 Mar 2 16:54 beh -rwx-- 1 root root 21284 Dec 26 22:43 cups-pdf -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 18096 Mar 5 02:52 dnssd -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 http -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 https -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 ipp -rwxr--r-- 5 root root 63516 Mar 5 02:52 ipps -rwxr--r-- 2 root root 38744 Mar 5 02:52 lpd -rwxr--r-- 3 root root 18096 Mar 5 02:52 mdns -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17924 Mar 7 09:04 parallel -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13800 Mar 7 09:04 serial -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 22252 Mar 5 02:52 snmp -r-xr-xr-x 2 root root 30488 Mar 5 02:52 socket -r-xr--r-- 2 root root 30460 Mar 5 02:52 usb Ihis is identical to mine but. unlike your situation, the parallel port is listed in 'lpinfo -v' and /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel gives direct parallel:/dev/lp0 unknown LPT #1 , which is ok because there is no printer present You get parport_pc and parport inserted into the kernel but one would expect a line identifying a switched on and connected printer. Maybe not all printers report themselves correctly but it is of concern. CUPS later loads the lp module without a complaint. The BIOS has settings for the parallel port. I've used ECP and EPP but really don't see either making any difference. It seems like the kernel is not getting some information about the port, so there is nothing to pass on to CUPS. You do have the latest kernel, I hope. Doing 'ls -l /dev/lp0 /dev/parport0' here has the outcome: crw-rw 1 root lp 6, 0 2012-02-14 16:34 /dev/lp0 crw-rw 1 root lp 99, 0 2012-02-14 16:34 /dev/parport0 You could see where you get with altering the ownership and/or modes of these files. chown lp.lp /dev/lp0 /dev/parport0 chmod 666 /dev/lp0 /dev/parport0 Not that I'm recommending this as permanent solution if it works, but my cupboard of decent ideas is now empty! -- 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/20120311174446.GS4889@desktop
Re: X-server problem
On Tue 13 Mar 2012 at 11:05:27 +0100, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: i am currenttly running debian 6.0 with 2.6.32-5-486 on CF-27 (toughbook) 300MHz Pentium II with 128MB RAM. I dont need a desktop (gnome, kde, etc) but would like to have X-server running. X starts for root, but not for non-root user user is in groups: users, tty, audio, video The normal Debian installation doesn't put a user in the users and tty groups. /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config is set to allowed_users=anybody It's usually 'allowed_users=console'. Every time i start X i get: Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) changing of the permissions of /dev/tty0 does not help. I would appreciate any suggestions! Somebody has walked your path in the past: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618733 -- 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/20120313115741.GU4889@desktop
Re: CUPS and Brother HL-5340D dual whammy
On Thu 01 Mar 2012 at 07:03:51 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: I think you're the newest member to our growing club! See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660420 You may or may not be aware that another chapter of your club has recently opened over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/950713 Lots of fun games to play there. All owners of Brother printers are invited to join in. The good news is that a successful end seems to be in sight. -- 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/20120313184627.GV4889@desktop
Re: Cups init.d file missing
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 12:01:29 +, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Hi! I just did an update and it seems that the cups init file is missing. I looked at the bug reports,didn't see anything. I am on unstable. /etc/init.d/cups is not there? The same upgrade here went without a hitch. Try 'apt-get remove cups' followed by a reinstall. -- 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/20120314124139.GX4889@desktop
Re: Boot problem : how to make it verbose ?
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 11:06:04 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
I installed Debian Squeeze on a multi-boot PC where Ubuntu is the first
and bootable distro.
Using GRUB2, the options 'nosplash debug --verbose' are used, but Debian
freezes silently.
How to make boot verbose to see what happen ?
Hereafter the /boot/grub/grub.cfg :
menuentry test Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (on
/dev/sda4) --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,gpt4)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root b6ebc0b2-59cc-4ceb-81ba-c60d90be2fdc
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64
root=UUID=b6ebc0b2-59cc-4ceb-81ba-c60d90be2fdc ro nosplash debug
--verbose
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
Are 'nosplash' and 'debug --verbose' parameters the kernel knows about?
Anyway, when GRUB comes up edit the entry (hit the 'e' key) to remove
them and then boot.
The original entry in grub.cfg was created by update-grub under Xubuntu.
From this entry was added in file /etc/grub.d/40_custom the option
'quiet( was replaced by 'nosplash debug --verbose' as a try to obtain
verbosity.
Then again update-grub to update grub.cfg file.
The usual place to put kernel parameters is /etc/default/grub. Just
removing 'quiet' should get you more verbosity.
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Re: Cups init.d file missing
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 13:11:37 +, Ralph Bacolod wrote: I did that and still no go. I notice that during install. I get this message. Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/cups ... Do you have any output from the command 'lsb_release -is'? -- 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/20120314133952.GZ4889@desktop
Re: Cups init.d file missing
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 14:29:41 +, Ralph Bacolod wrote: Ubuntu brian@desktop:~$ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) Release:unstable Codename: sid In the cups package the preinst file checks for an Ubuntu installation and removes /etc/init.d/cups if 'lsb_release -is' reports one. You could put the file back and reverse what update-rc.d did. That still leaves you with tracking down what you did to alter Sid's identity! -- 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/20120314145036.GA4889@desktop
Re: Boot problem : how to make it verbose ?
On Wed 14 Mar 2012 at 20:48:03 +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Yes, the GRUB2 menu is reached (in fact, it's used to boot the other system on same PC). The Debian system hangs direcly. Nothing is displayed. Yes, a LiveCD Debian 6 works fine (however it was a i386, the installed Debian is a amd64, the working Xubuntu is also a amd64). Go to the commandline from the GRUB menu. Type 'ls' for a list of the disks and partitions on them. It seems (hd0,gpt4) is where you have Debian. 'ls -l (hd0,gpt4) should allow you to check the UUID of the partition. With 'ls -l (hd0,gpt4)/boot' the kernel and initrd.img can be checked. -- 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/20120314230720.GB4889@desktop
Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I installed yet another distro yesterday (on sda7), chose not to have it install the boot loader, exited after the install and rebooted into Debian Sid. From the command line I updated grub.cfg via update-grub. Rebooted again and found that Grub had written 3 lines, all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). We might be able toguess the distro has something to do with Slackware but . the three lines? Give us a hint, please. :) It had no trouble finding the kernel. You mean you booted into the OS? This is what is in sda7/boot/ boot_message.txt config config-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp inside.bmp onlyblue.bmp README.initrd slack.bmp System.map System.map-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp tuxlogo.bmp vmlinuz vmlinuz-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp These are files that the distro put into /boot. Seems ok. Any clues as to why Grub is doing what it's doing ? Doing what? -- 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/20120315234049.GF4889@desktop
Re: Advice for a bug report
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 16:27:55 -0700, Baruch wrote: [Snipped: apt-get doings] My guess is that this is a bug somewhere in the 'alternatives' system, and that it is (against my wishes) trying to force me to have a graphical browser installed. Against what package should I file the bug? (FWIW - debian wheezy) The result of 'cat /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-www-browser', please. -- 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/20120316005146.GG4889@desktop
Re: Grub finds a distro, but messes up grub.cfg
On Thu 15 Mar 2012 at 20:58:32 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: and found that Grub had written 3 lines,(into grub.cfg) all the same for the new installation (which was absolute linux by the way). Ah, I'm with you now, I think. There are three entries for Absolute Linux in grub.cfg. I can see a possible reason: /boot has vmlinuz and vmlinuz-huge-smp-3.2.7-smp and GRUB will pick up on them in its search for kernels. Is vmlinuz a symlink? -- 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/20120316011816.GH4889@desktop
Re: Latest Linux Kernel 3.x.x Series Compiled for Ubuntu and Debian Linux
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 13:01:19 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: Perhaps instead of distributing the kernel, the OP should distribute the .config files for the various kernels he is offering and interested individuals could compile it locally... If this is the same person he could do without any encouragment. http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/mpich-discuss/2010-August/007811.html -- 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/20120317172615.GL4889@desktop
Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 01:37:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I do not know whether the firmware is faulty (the IPW firmware) or the mirror settings within the downloaded netinst ISO, are bad. But, it does not work. If not a single mirror works for you it looks like a network problem. Could you beef up on the previous 'IPW something or other'? Was firmware asked for during the install? How did you provide it if it was? Any chance of knowing what the card is and whether you set up the network with DHCP? Cables plugged in tightly? -- 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/20120317184138.GM4889@desktop
Re: Advice for a bug report
On Fri 16 Mar 2012 at 16:45:13 +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: Baruch whatmeurg...@yahoo.com wrote: # aptitude why iceweasel i sun-java6-plugin Depends firefox | firefox-2 | iceweasel | mozilla-firefox | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser | epiphany-gecko | epiphany-webkit | epiphany-browser | galeon | mid browser | moblin-web-browser | xulrunner | xulrunne r-1.9 | konqueror | chromium-browser | midori | goo gle-chrome I really don’t understand why someone thought this dependency would be a good idea, because the list containing all supported browsers can hardly be complete (for example, Opera is missing). Not that I completely understand either but I'd theorise that the dependency has to be so explicit because Java is involved. It wouldn't do to have Lynx replace Iceweasel! As for there being an exact equivalant in apt to 'aptitude why', I do not think there is. 'apt-cache rdepends' is the best it has to offer at present. As you said, there is no bug in the alternatives system but Baruch may gain a little more understanding from: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47t=82722 -- 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/20120317192946.GN4889@desktop
Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian
On Sun 18 Mar 2012 at 03:13:39 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The IPW thing is the firmware required for the network adaptor. I think it is IPW200 or something similar. You should know, but I'll not press it. That is why I had to use the firmware instal, and the only way availabl;e, is using the netinst ISO. The instal process defaulted to setting up DHCP, but that did not work, as the LAN here uses static IP addresses this side of the firewall/gateway computer. I think that the modem/router uses DHCP, and it is thus DHCP from the modem/router to the firewall/gateway computer, and the firewall/gateway computer and everything this side of it, uses static IP addresses. So you fill in all the fields pertaining to setting up a static address and certify it is correct when asked. At this point go to a console with ALT-F2. Unfortunately, the installer doesn't have ping but it does have wget. So wget http://www.debian.org Do you see a line of stars on the screen? Does 'ls -l' show index.html? -- 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/20120317195603.GO4889@desktop
Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 20:21:13 +, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2012 19:56:03 Brian wrote: So you fill in all the fields pertaining to setting up a static address and certify it is correct when asked. I almost always set up a static IP. It is very simple. When the installer asks you, reject the DHCP offer. I do too. But Brett needs to find out whether it works for him. -- 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/20120317205844.GP4889@desktop
Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian
On Sat 17 Mar 2012 at 22:01:00 +, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 17 March 2012 20:58:44 Brian wrote: I do too. But Brett needs to find out whether it works for him. Of course. But I thought that he may not know to reject the DHCP offer. It isn't immediately obvious that doing so will mean that you have the chance to set up a static IP. And I find that it can help psychologically if you tell someone that something is easy. That's a good point. I had assumed that when he said DHCP didn't work he had gone for the static setup. -- 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/20120317225531.GQ4889@desktop
Re: Failed to open VDPAU backend for mplayer2.
On Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 01:31:39 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. Using mplayer2 for playing video files I get this error always: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_r300.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1 In order to solve it I tried to find a package that has libvdpau_r300.so file but w/ no luck. Do You have any idea how I can make use of VDPAU w/ mplayer2 on my system (testing, video ATI X1100)? Your post comes top of the list with a search on 'libvdpau_r300 debian', which tells you something or nothing. I rather liked http://vsingleton.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/failed-to-open-vdpau-backend.html partly because the solution is simple and partly because I like the name 'Vernon'. -- 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/20120318194446.GV4889@desktop
Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian
On Mon 19 Mar 2012 at 13:11:38 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I do not know whether the wireless stuff is the cause of the problem(s) with the installation process (apart from the Debian 6 CD/DVD Creator not creating a bootable DVD from the ISO image), but, as the installation process appears to have enabled the dreaded wireless network device, whilst I chose the eth0 (wired network card) for configuring the network, I suppose it is possible that the reason that the repositories mirrors cannot be accessed, is due to this wireless network device, which has no device with which to communicate, and therefore, could be simply shouting into space, with no-one to hear it. The installer would have offered you a choice of two interfaces. What were they called? How were they described? To set up a wireless interface you have to provide a WEP password. From what you say you didn't, so it appears unlikely the network was enabled with the wireless device. I think using d-i in expert mode has been mentioned. Looking at the fourth console (ALT-F4) may also be beneficial. -- 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/20120319095519.GY4889@desktop
Re: Problem with trying to instal Debian
On Tue 20 Mar 2012 at 11:14:28 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: I answered NO to the firmware question for the wireless NIC driver (it is unfortunate that the question does not indicate that it is for a wireless device, otherwise I would have answered No from the start, and The dialogue names the missing firmware files. At the bottom of the box it says 'Please Google this if you do not know what it means'. But the font for the message is very, very tiny and easily missed. saved all the trouble and the coasters), and then proceeded through the installation without any problems, and now have an apparently functional installation of Debian 6.03 on the NX5000. Good. -- 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/20120320122235.GC4889@desktop
Re: update-alternatives vs. dpkg-divert [was: Re: rt kernel and nouveau]
On Wed 28 Mar 2012 at 18:35:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: By locally diverting Sven meant using dpkg-divert(8) which is the correct tool for what he ended up doing. I have a machine for which I want to manually manage grub.cfg and I agree totally with you (and Sven, of course). It's a brilliant way of doing it. Here is another Debian maintainer's view: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-03/msg00111.html -- 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/20120328172954.GO16316@desktop
Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp
On Wed 28 Mar 2012 at 15:12:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:50:50 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: The improvement long term *could* be valuable enough to justify the pain. The correct way is usually not the easy way. And what (or who) decides what is correct? It's my package so I do. Hopefully, I make the same sensible decisions Roger Leigh makes. I've just seen another thread at this mailing list where another user has been hit by this correct default. I don't mean that having /tmp mounted as tmpfs is not correct but the default is clearly not suited to many of the users as you can see. For years I've gone with the Debian tmpfs defaults. Me and thousands of others. We don't speak up so often as the ones who have problems. The machine without swap space is a good point; one of mine is configured like that. But defaults are defaults. Files in /etc/default can be altered. Do I really want portmap to listen on all interfaces? Do I want CUPS to load a driver for a parallel port printer when I do not have one. No? Then I change the situation. But if I do not it doesn't lead to disaster. One of the big reasons I love Debian is because it is not afraid to choose the hard path[1] when the long term benefits are worth it. (...) Although that's your personal opinion as you can easily understand it has nothing to do with the issue we are currently debating. Every user can/do love Debian for their own/different reasons but none of our personal reasons can be used as arguments to make changes in the defaul settings, unless there's a strong technical reason that proves they're the right thing to do, which I still don't see for this specific issue. Andrei's 'hard path' is one which involves the primary concern being a focus on technical excellence. It's pleasing to see you agree with this. -- 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/20120328181227.GP16316@desktop
Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 16:29:40 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: Debian testing (wheezy) has recognized the network printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN correctly, I have first taken the driver offered by Debian and then the one offered by Kyocera. If I print I standard text document created for eg. by Libre Office, it works fine. If I want to print a PDF produced by pdfLaTex, it might print one page but if I print a larger amount, I get the following printout error message: ERROR: undefined OFFENDING COMMAND: m STACK: --nostringval-- 133 The reported bugs against the cups-filters package might interest you sufficiently to see where you get if you installed the version in unstable. Reading the changelog is advisable. and nothing is printed anymore. KPDL is put on AUTO and I have to say, that in Ubuntu 11.10, the printer is recognized as well and the native Ubuntu driver has been install. On this computer, printing of the same document works without any problems. I can print the docs only if I generate PS files. Furthermore, I have to mention that there was once some problem on Ubuntu systems wich might be related: CUPS in Ubuntu 11.10 is different from CUPS in Wheezy in ways which do not involve PPD files. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/foomatic-db/+bug/442451 Attached a PDF where this problem appears. Is there a way to take the Ubuntu PPD file? And if, how I get it to try on the Debian system? The PDF file is unlikely to be the problem. -- 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/20120330161814.GQ16316@desktop
Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 20:00:23 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: It is obviously not a driver problem, as the driver from Kyocera is the most recent and works fine on other systems (such as Ubuntu 11.10). So as you suggested, it is the cups which is affected - as reported by others. Hence I will have a look there (some took the cups from Ubuntu 11.10). Is it CUPS or is it the printer? That is the question. A way to explore this is: 1. Download cups-filters from unstable. 2. Open the package and go to the README and follow the instructions which begin with the words 'To extract the Postscript output for'. The PPD file is the one you have for your printer in /etc/cups/ppd. 3. Install the gv package. As root, 'chmod 777 /tmp/printout'. As a user 'gv /tmp/printout'. Post the output of 'ls -l /tmp/printout, and say what happens when you attempt to open the file with gv. Here the content of my /var/log/cups/error_log There doesn't appear to be anything of great consequence in it. E [30/Mar/2012:15:13:49 +0200] [Job 24] PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Ghostscript will probably repair the xref table but use another PDF for your tests if you feel uneasy about it. -- 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/20120330195034.GR16316@desktop
Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN
On Sat 31 Mar 2012 at 20:28:09 +0200, Leonard Le-Rey wrote: Hey guys, thanks for your answers! So the current state is the following: 1.) With the Generic-PCL-6-PCL-XL, everything works fine and the PDF is printed without any problems. This is fine for me for the moment, of course, duplex and some other options are not available. Generic PCL/6 PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint offers duplex printing. What are you using? 2.) With the PPD driver offered by Kyocera on their website or with the driver offered by Debian/Testing, the printing of PDF documents might fail (especially longer ones). On the other hand, it is no problem to print a long Libre Office Writer document, with lots of pictures. One of life's mysteries! Libre Office's output for printing is (or should be) in PDF format, so CUPS sees PDF input in either case. -- 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/20120331191225.GS16316@desktop
Re: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN
On Sun 01 Apr 2012 at 14:04:05 +, Camaleón wrote: *** http://www.openprinting.org/ppd-o-matic.php?driver=pxlcolorprinter=Generic-PCL_6_PCL_XL_Printershow=1 *OpenUI *Duplex/Double-Sided Printing: PickOne (...) *** Without leaving the comfort of your fireside and with foomatic-db-engine installed: /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic --help /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic list | grep '6/PCL XL' /usr/lib/cups/driver/foomatic cat foomatic:Generic-PCL_6_PCL_XL_Printer-pxlcolor.ppd | less -- 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/20120401162050.GT16316@desktop
Re: [OT] Posting styles -- Top vs Bottom
On Sun 01 Apr 2012 at 19:32:47 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Didn't this whole thread start, because some people (I) top-posted? It has continued to its present length of nearly fifty posts after you said: Could someone explain me, what are top- and bottom posting styles? If Debian had an award for Most Inane Question of the Year yours would most definitely be well in the running based on the Search Engine Test. Applying a few of the other criteria the judges might consider: Does it help the person who started the thread? Does it add value to the topic in the subject header? Does having it labelled [OT] make it more acceptable? Does the poster appear to be wearing a trolling costume? you can anticipate being a winner. -- 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/20120401165522.GU16316@desktop
Re: print jobs to parallel printer now hang
On Sun 01 Apr 2012 at 19:18:23 +, Steve Kleene wrote: If I cancel the print job, the job is deleted from the list, but the printer Status is still Processing and process 8190 hangs around. The calling process (8014) is /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks. Read the bugs for cups-filters and decide whether installing the version in unstable is worth installing. -- 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/20120401220122.GV16316@desktop
Re: print jobs to parallel printer now hang
On Mon 02 Apr 2012 at 01:44:00 +, Steve Kleene wrote: Sid instead of unstable also fails. I tried downloading the packages manually and using dpkg -i, but the chain of dependencies was getting too scary. The dependencies for cups-filters in unstable are different from those in testing but I didn't realise they would present so much of a problem. After 'dpkg -i cups-filters_1.0.11-1_i386.deb' I'd try 'apt-get-f install'. -- 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/20120402104050.GW16316@desktop
Re: Brother HL-5370DW Error: Undefined Offendign Command Stack 441
On Mon 02 Apr 2012 at 14:54:42 -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: I have sent this question to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-printing/2012/03/msg00107.html but didn't have any clue. I discovery if I use acroread, my printer work OK. Any help for me? Thank you very much! Please say whether you are using stable/testing/unstable. -- 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/20120402234405.GX16316@desktop
Re: Xerox Phaser 3140
On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 08:44:12 +, James Brown wrote: By some reasons I want to buy a printer of Xerox Phaser 3140. Is it workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the printer Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? There are no drivers of it in the cups-package from distr. There are only drivers for 3150 in database of openprinting too. There are propietary drivers for Linux from the Xerox company: http://www.support.xerox.com/support/phaser-3140/downloads/enza.html?operatingSystem=linuxfileLanguage=rux=16y=5 but only for lenny and older Debian versions. There is a PPD file for this printer in the printer-driver-splix package in unstable. You could extract it and provide it to CUPS. -- 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/20120404111233.GY16316@desktop
Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again
On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 09:35:19 +, James Brown wrote: After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of fonts in the console. Problem has been overcome in this way: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00294.html After installing the kernel linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 I have problems with fonts/video again: when loading new kernel I have a small screen size so as in console as in X11. I exclude video = LVDS-1:640 x 480 from grub configuration. After that the new kernel load fine, but I have very small fonts in my console so as last summer after upgrading from lenny to squeeze. Have any ideas? Does dpkg-reconfigure console-setup do anything for you? -- 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/20120404114221.GZ16316@desktop
Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 09:08:39 +, James Brown wrote: On 04.04.2012 11:42, Brian wrote: Does dpkg-reconfigure console-setup do anything for you? I have the max size of fonts in the setting of console-setup. A year ago What are FONTFACE and FONTSIZE in /etc/default/console-setup? changing configuration of that settings was unhelpfull too. Only usage of video = LVDS-1:640 x 480 was helpful in that problem. (Probably something else but I didn't know and didn't try). What is the native resolution of your laptop screen? And it seems to me that reconfiguring console-setup cannot help me in the matter of the screen in the console are not full, corresponding to the physical size of display. Are SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEN_HEIGHT commented out in the file above? -- 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/20120405102225.GA16316@desktop
Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 12:17:49 +, James Brown wrote: On 05.04.2012 10:22, Brian wrote: What are FONTFACE and FONTSIZE in /etc/default/console-setup? FONTFACE=Fixed FONTSIZE=16 You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a little surprised your console-setup doesn't offer them. What is the native resolution of your laptop screen? 1280x800 I'd say you should be booting into this resolution. With KMS and the cards I have it is done automatically. Are SCREEN_WIDTH and SCREEN_HEIGHT commented out in the file above? Yeah:# # SCREEN_WIDTH=80 # SCREEN_HEIGHT=25 Do it needs to indicate 1280x800? Mine (like yours) are untouched and things are fine. -- 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/20120405131329.GB16316@desktop
Re: grub2 screen resolution
On Thu 05 Apr 2012 at 11:48:57 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: AHA, an undocumented feature. At least, it is not documented in the /etc/default/grub file itself. You need to do: info grub Bet you didn't know about that. :) -- 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/20120405132030.GC16316@desktop
Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 16:40:22 +, James Brown wrote: On 05.04.2012 13:13, Brian wrote: You can do better than this. Install the xfonts-terminus package. I'm a little surprised your console-setup doesn't offer them. I know. But using terminus is not useful to me (in the case of resolving described problem). I don't see any difference between fixed and terminus when the size of both fonts are so small :) Terminus is significantly larger than the fixed fonts. Quite what the cause of your problem (or problems) is I do not know, but your response to Andrei might move us forward. -- 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/20120406181550.GD16316@desktop
Re: [NOT OT]: i3 configuration
On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 10:26:40 -0700, Brian Flaherty wrote: I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and i3 mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, let's me know dropbox is running, mounts usb drives, etc. If you use i3 and you integrate any of these services/features, how do you have it configured? I assume most people don't want to log in as root to mount a key drive, so how do you use basic usability features wit a simple window manager like i3? You could consider pmount for mount/unmounting removable drives. -- 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/20120406182203.GE16316@desktop
