I have never used IR before, and I thought I'd try to use it on my old
Dell laptop. I simply want to be able to invoke commands using an
arbitrary remote.
I'm confused as to whether I should use IrDa or LIRC, or both. The man
pages and other docs I've read don't discuss the
As the error message reports, you need to stop lircd first. Then run
irrecord (I think the reason is that both want direct access to your IR
port), this will produce a file that you can use as /etc/lirc/lird.conf.
Next, check /etc/lirc/hardware.conf is suitable for you, then run
I found this webpage useful for describing how to use tar for full backups:
http://www.aboutdebian.com/tar-backup.htm
Keith Ostertag
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote:
Hey,
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote:
tar -zcf /mnt/backup/linXXX-lenny.tar.gz /
Quick question (I think...):
Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will
allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?
My brother is in another state, and I want him to be able to see my
desktop, not necessarily control it. He only uses Windows, my system is
Debian
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 10:59 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
Quick question (I think...):
Can you recommend a free and easily available software package that will
allow a Windows user to see my Linux desktop?
snip
I would recommend X2Go - www.x2go.org. It is based upon NX and is far
You can check which packages are uninstalled but still have their
config hanging around with aptitude search '?config-files'.
You can then run apt-get purge package to get rid of the config
one particular package or apt-get purge $(aptitude search
'?config-files' -F '%p to get rid of all
I'm glad to see this thread, because I hadn't heard of the Raspberry Pi
before- way cool!
But I'm curious about the original query- what's the need for such an
ultra-quiet machine? I too hate fan noise, but even when run hard I have
to _try_ to hear my laptop fan. Is there a special reason you
Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm (i3
at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various functions that
the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the user) so that I can
replace the Gnome-related-software to software which is desktop
independent.
Thanks to all who responded.
To Claudius- you are correct ... and that is why I was having the
difficulty. I'm not really sure why I was using the wrong form of the name
(NetworkManager rather than network-manager). Documentation is funny
sometimes in that names are not always consistent and I
I found additional help in how to do this from the
linux-think...@linux-thinkpad.org list. This should work with laptops
without the use of a DE or even X if you can use acpi with pm-utils.
First, invoke acpi_listen, then close and re-open the lid. The event will
be shown onscreen, in my case it
On 6 February 2012 11:03, Stayvoid stayv...@gmail.com wrote:
Closing the lid and go suspend is an option, maye you have to enable
that.
Where?
Cheers.
This usually has to be configured in whatever power manager you're
using. What DE are you using?
How to do this without a DE...?
I'm
Hi,
which package contains the lpr command for printing.
Thanks,
lpr is the name of the package.
If a progam is installed, you can use:
dpkg -S program_name
to find the package name. If it is not installed you can use:
apt-cache search program_name
Depending on your setup you may want
The best tutorial I have found describing the Debian way to compile the
kernel is Steve Powell's pae:
http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm
There are lots of others, just google around, but be wary of older pages
and read Steve's page first.
I have no idea how using virtual box may
I am trying to get the net inst file to install debian wheezy but cant
find it. Are various files? where is the one I need for amd64?
thank you
--
Fernando Gadea
Goto: http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
and select the small cd for amd64
alternately, goto:
Thanks Chen,
using the modinfo command I can see that I was mispelling... I was using
fcb instead of fbc...
Keith
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:07:16PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
merkaba:~ cat
On 19/01/12 08:33, Balint Szigeti wrote:
run this
ls|xargs wc -l
Never parse the output of ls(1)
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
WOW, that link to Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki is awesome! Thanks!
Keith Ostertag
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What are you using to measure your laptop power use?
The LessWatts.org page recommends an external power meter- I wondered if
you have recommendations or tips for a particular type or method? I'm
wondering if there is something fairly inexpensive but reliable and
possibly useful for other things
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
merkaba:~ cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf
options i915 modeset=1 i915_enable_rc6=1 i915_enable_fbc=1 semaphores=1
When I try to use this line of options I get an error message saying
i915_enable_fcb is an unknown
If you obtain a Trinity Rescue Disk (free download online) you can boot
from that and run four different anti-virus softwares with one command. If
I remember correctly, you can designate which partition to use them on.
Using TRK:
First, run updatetrk, then:
virusscan -n -a clam;virusscan -n -a
I have a bunch of cdroms containing mp3's that I want to copy from the
cdrom to a vfat partition on a mounted drive on my network. For
completeness let me say that the drive is a hard drive in an enclosure
connected via usb. Using a simple cp command I get error messages, not
sure what they mean.
I am attempting to install a Sabrent 802.11N PCI wireless adapter card
into a fresh wheezy install. I guess I am confused about which firmware
and driver to use.
When I do a ifup wlan0 I get the follwing error mesage:
phy0 - rt2800pci_mcu_status: Error - MCU request failed, no response from
Just after posting this I found these pages:
http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta
http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci
which explain that for wheezy rt2800pci is now used instead of rt2860sta.
Still, I get this error message... Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Keith
I am attempting to install a Sabrent
OK, sorry, I found out that my configuration was wrong, now that I have
wpa_supplicant configured properly I am working with no such errors.
I just didn't think I would get an error message like that with a
configuration problem...
Keith
Just after posting this I found these pages:
OK I'm a novice, but it seems from my perspective that having adequate
addresses is only the tech part of the issue. Verizon and other large
ISP's don't want home owners to create servers accessible from outside
their homes. If they find out you are doing so they will insist on
charging you the
Hi Wayne-
Funny I had not thought of this. After googling for an hour I had not even
seen anyone else mention firmware regarding this particular card.
However, looking at the firmware-realtek package, it does not refer to my
card's chipset- neither rtl8180 nor rtl8185 nor rtl8225 (my card is the
Hi Brian-
Yes, it only hangs when there is a stanza referring to it in the /e/n/i.
I don't see anything in dmesg or /var/log/syslog from wpa_suplicant.
Thanks,
Keith
An optimistic search might lead you to the pessimistic view that this
card and Debian do not get on together, so it might be
I have an old Dell server onto which I have just loaded debian for dual
boot with windows xp. No gui- all console. The wireless PCI nic card is a
TP-Link TL-WN353G (NOT the wn353gd). Works fine with xp. Uses the realtek
driver included in the tree for recent debian releases and seems to be
Look at linux.dell.com
Dell maybe still does this. They used to a while ago.
I knew they did at one time and had gone there first. They
do a pretty good job of concealing Linux if you enter via
Home/Home Office. I did find some information by searching
their site with Google.
--
To
Thank you Sven-
The wikipedia article was just what I needed :-)
Keith
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 04:08:31PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
Hi,
I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing
in
man pages under umask, very little under pam_umask or pam ...
I have an external usb drive on which I have a fat32 formatted partition.
I can't figure out how to mount it so that I can write to it as a normal
user.
Here's what I have tried (with no fstab entry):
keith@eve:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb4 -t vfat /usb
keith@eve:~$ mount
[snip]
/dev/sdb4 on /usb
.
I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in
man pages under umask, very little under pam_umask or pam ...
Keith
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:47:12 -0800, keitho wrote:
I have an external usb drive on which I have a fat32 formatted
partition. I can't figure out how
.
I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in
man pages under umask, very little under pam_umask or pam ...
Keith
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:47:12 -0800, keitho wrote:
I have an external usb drive on which I have a fat32 formatted
partition. I can't figure out how
Thanks Pablo for responding, but still no joy.
After hours of trying different things, I finally went in search of log
files in Samba. I found that there were different relevant log files in
/var/log/samba depending, evidently, on how I had set things up at that
time. For example, from yesterday
OK, I fixed my immediate problem by changing the permissions for
/home/smbprint/ like this:
#chmod 777 /home/smbprint/
Now I can print from any Windows box to my Debian CUPS server.
My understanding of security is very weak; luckily I am just working on my
home setup. But I thought the whole
I have set up a CUPS server on one of my Debian boxes, directly attached
via parallel port. I can print to it from a different Debian box on my
LAN, but not from a Windows box.
The Windows box does see the printer, and says the printer is setup
properly and sends jobs to the printer with no
The most serious issue is, that some professional FLOSS apps were
written for GNOME 2, with GNOME 3 we fall back to an amateur OS
regarding to some apps.
- Ralf
OK, I'm a n00b, so I don't always understand how things work. But that
sounds backward to me why would one write professional
I want to try running different window managers simultaneously. I had
originally been using gdm3, but edited the /etc/init.d/gdm3 file and added
the line exit 0 as the first line just to eliminate it from working. Now
I just logon at the prompt when the system boots into tty1, so far so
good.
I do
I realize it is not necessary, but if possible I'd like to remove evolution.
This is what I have tried so far:
# aptitude unmarkauto gnome-control-center evolution-data-server
# aptitude unmarkauto libedataserverui1.2-11 capplets-data
# aptitude unmarkauto evolution-data-server-common
# aptitude
I am trying to get the sound working on a console only Wheezy laptop (all
current software updates).
I know the hardware works from (dual) booting to Windows XP.
I get no sound, not even system beeps. Initially I was getting an error on
bootup that said Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered,
... maybe I misread the alsamixer screen somehow...
But at any rate, sound now working- THANKS again!
Keith
Hello Keitho!
The Intel soundcards are known, to sometmes generate problems, because
they're not all supported yet. This architecture - if I remember correctly
-
wraps up an assortment
Thank you Brian for showing me that route -v is my friend :-) That
really helped me debug this configuration.
Thank you J. Bakshi for your explication of the use of the pre-up and
pre-down instructions.
Turns out that one of the problems with my configuration was that I had
both a scan_ssid=1
Ooops my bad...
After I posted this message I found out that there is another problem with
my configuration so now I am sorry I attached those configuration
files...
Although the interfaces work as expected, I later noticed that my syslog
was getting filled with about 15 events logged
Thanks to Brian, Raf, Camaleón, and J Bakshi for helping me out.
I have gotten wpa_supplicant and ifplugd mostly working, with wpa_cli and
wpa-roam.conf. My configuration seems to work in connecting me wirelessly
to several routers in different locations that I use and to free wifi
hotspots (I
Thank you Brian and Raf-
I learned several things from both of you, and I really appreciate it :-)
It took me several hours with your help- without your help I would still
be struggling with it.
Turns out, Brian was right to warn me about making sure I was using the
correct interface- I was not.
Thanks Brian-
I installed ifplugd. Still, the wireless does not work if I unplug the
Ethernet, but now if I do a ifdown eth1 | ifup eth1 the wireless will now
connect (most of the time). Following is a session where the process
worked, followed by my interfaces and ifplugd files. Note a couple
Hi All-
I am trying to learn how to setup wireless on one of my old Dell C610
laptops with an Intel IPW2200 wireless card using command line only. I
have a fresh install of 7.0 Wheezy (3.0), all updated, and the ipw
firmware loaded. According to the Debian Reference Manual I need to
configure
Thanks Brian-
Well, that's confusing... for the man page to say one thing and the
README.Debian file to say another...
OK, so I missed the section that says:
*
A summary of supported drivers follows:
Driver Description
== ===
nl80211Linux 802.11 netlink
laptop (one with
no gui- CLI only) to access wireless in the same manner- automatic
detection of available wireless networks and a way to enter a key when
necessary. Can someone point me to a tutorial that would help me?
Keith Ostertag
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:02:37 -0700, keitho wrote:
I hate
I hate to say this, but I am confused about how to configure wireless on
my Wheezy laptop system.
I originally installed Wheezy from a weekly net install, which means that
I had to add components I wanted. At one point I had the wireless working
through trial and error configuring the
Hi Chris-
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried Sound-Juicer, but I cannot see anyway
to create a hierarchy based on genre. Am I not seeing an option or
preference setting?
Thanks,
Keith
I did much the same but with my CD collection.
I used Sound Juicer to rip (you can rip to many formats
A few years ago I digitized my LP collection onto cdroms, and only now am
I getting around to converting them to mp3's. I'm talking hundreds of
homemade discs, many with two different albums on each disc.
I thought I would ask for some advice on ripping and organizing. I am
running Wheezy with
I am only minimally familiar with Linux, or networking.
I have four laptops (various ages and OS's) and one old desktop in my
house. My only printer is attached to a seldom-used Windows desktop (big
and slow and noisy) on the third floor. When anyone wants to print, which
is rare (once every two
Thanks to all who responded to my query.
Jude suggested I try an espeakeup enabled squeeze iso... very
interesting... I would never have thought of that. Something to try in the
future.
shawn said:
If you're looking for something to do, go for it. If you want a print
server that just works, go
Thanks so much to all those who took the time to respond to my anguished
plea for help trying to get Wheezy installed from a netinstall cd image
but the install kept failing to install GRUB. Evidently, this is a common
problem with netinstall images.
Thanks to Pelle Carlson,rlharris, David
I have been trying for three days to download Wheezy from
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ (daily builds) and each one
I have tried fails to install Grub.
I have tried:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily.old/20110829-1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso
I apologize for the previous post. It would be better to assume that if
three different daily builds don't work it is probably due to something I
am doing wrong. I should not have suggested otherwise.
Keith Ostertag
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install debug files if anyone is willing to look at
them.
I have several rescue discs, but nothing I have tried works to install
Grub properly (maybe because they have different versions of Grub?). I
have also tried Ubuntu boot-repair.
Thanks,
Keith Ostertag (keitho AT strucktower DOT com)
Lenovo
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