Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth green at 2009-03-25 14:26...
> This is off-topic for the thread, but
> I am happy with my 3945ABG: it works good with 2.6.26 (though I don't know 
> about before that).  I suppose you are using iwl3945 now; if you are not (are 
> using ipw3945 and ipw3945d) be sure to try out iwl3945.  Of course this may 
> all 
> be old news to you...

I am indeed using iwl3945 as I'm using kernel 2.6.26 for day-to-day
operations.  The main annoyance is that it makes the wireless light
blink (before it was either on or off) which is going to require either
tracking down how it does it and disabling it or possibly duct tape.

Still need 2.4.27 for realtime/audio stuff but wireless networking won't
be an issue there as it will be disabled along with a load of other
stuff that causes unnecessary interrupts and thus impacts on the
realtime performance and causes those horrible xruns on jackd.

Thanks for the tip anyway!

Cheers

M

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Re: Which timezone does the cron use in Debian?

[Celejar]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:15:09 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."  wrote:

> In <20090322151837.7d584022.cele...@gmail.com>, Celejar wrote:
> >On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:18:34 +
> >Nuno Magalhães  wrote:
> >> > and the date and time is correct. They're the same as the bios (cmos)
> >> > clock shows.
> >> I'd assume cron uses system-time, so whichever time 'date' tells
> >> you... Did you check to see you don't have any other cron-jobs alying
> >> around?
> >But IIUC, timezone is a property of individual user environments, and
> >is not a systemwide constant;
> 
> It can be overridden by an individual user's settings, but it is also 
> configured system-wide via the /etc/localtime file/symlink.

Thanks; I didn't realize this.
 
...

> >I assume, but I'm no expert, that cron also uses the
> >timezone of the user whose cronjob it's currently running.
> 
> I don't think the user's .bash_profile, .profile, etc. are sourced during a 
> cron run.  Your .bashrc might, but normally not.  Even global files of this 
> type like /etc/profile are generally not sourced during the cron run.
> 
> This means that the user's overrides are generally not honored, so the 
> timezone will be what is specified in /etc/localtime.  The overrides are all 
> via environment variables, so you can set them in your crontab if you want.

Thanks for the explanations.

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Re: Xwindow Failed Suddenly

[Celejar]

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:06:29 +0100
Florian Kulzer  wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:48 +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote:

...

> > Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds
> 
> It looks like this problem has been around for a while:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/494321

and here:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16262

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Re: Kernel issues: booting from USB storage (Repost)

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Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-03-16 23:18 -0600:
> It even found my horrible Intel  
> 3945ABG card which is usually a real pig to get to work.  It didn't work  
> - complaining about something which I intepreted as a missing firmware  
> package; but it found it, which is quite amazing!

This is off-topic for the thread, but
I am happy with my 3945ABG: it works good with 2.6.26 (though I don't know 
about before that).  I suppose you are using iwl3945 now; if you are not (are 
using ipw3945 and ipw3945d) be sure to try out iwl3945.  Of course this may all 
be old news to you...


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Re: Delete 4 million files

[Tapani Tarvainen]

> kj wrote:

>> Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
>> but this is going at about 700,000 per day.  Would simply doing an rm  
>> -rf on the Maildir be quicker?  Or is there a better way?

While rm -rf would certainly be quicker and is obviously preferred
when you want to remove everything in the directory, the find version
could be speeded significantly by using xargs, i.e.,
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
This is especially  useful if you want to remove files selecticely
instead of everything at once.

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Re: Best slim laptop on debian

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth gusti at 2009-03-24 18:26...
> I want to by a slim laptop, but the last time that was buy a laptop was  
> a Toshiba Portege R100 and still I have not 3D support.
> I don't want to make a wrong decision, so can you please recommend the  
> best slim laptop today supported fully support on linux?

I'd suggest that you have a look here:

http://www.linuxlaptops.org/

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Re: Xwindow Failed Suddenly

[Zaki Akhmad]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Florian Kulzer
 wrote:
>
> It looks like this problem has been around for a while:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/494321

[...]

> The intel driver seems to be a bit flaky at the moment. (I have run into
> problems with my 82Q963/Q965 card as well.)
>
> You can try to switch to XAA as suggested in the bug report.
>
> You can save the following:
>
> 
>  
>         
>                 
>         
>  
> 
>
> into a file named ".drirc" in your home directory and test if this
> improves the situation. (I found some upstream bug reports suggesting to
> set vblank_mode=0; however, this does not really make a difference for
> me.)
>
> You can wait for the next version of the intel driver in Debian or try
> the current upstream snapshot.
>
> You can try if a newer or older kernel improves the stability.

[...]

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Best slim laptop on debian

[gusti]

Hello,

I want to by a slim laptop, but the last time that was buy a laptop was  
a Toshiba Portege R100 and still I have not 3D support.
I don't want to make a wrong decision, so can you please recommend the  
best slim laptop today supported fully support on linux?



Thank you very much in advance,

Gustavo.



BTW: I found the Toshiba Portege R600 a nice laptop, do you know if 
Linux  have or not support this laptop?








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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Celejar]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:24:37 +0100
Nigel Henry  wrote:

...

> Personally I use MhWaveedit for recording. Normally I compile it from source, 
> but it is available on some Debian based installs from their repo's.

It's in Sid.

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Re: sound blaster problem -

[Joey L]

>
>
> > Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Channels PCI Express
> > Interface Sound Card -
> > OEM
> >
> >- *Sample Rate:* 96KHz
> >- *Digital Audio:* 24-bit
> >- *SNR:* >100dB (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
> >- *Line In:* Yes
> >- *MIC In:* Yes
> >- *Other Ports:* Speaker out (4x 1/8" mini jacks) Optical out
> (TOSLINK)
> >Digital Out supports stereo SPDIF out and pass through of multichannel
> >DVD sound Optical in (TOSLINK) Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel
> >Header (2x5pin)
> >- *Features:* X-Fi Technology X-Fi Crystalizer X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual
> >X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone Hear headphone surround that sounds like
> >multichannel speakers Enjoy Realistic sound effects in games
> Experience
> >cinematic surround sound from DVD movies
> >- *Model #: *30SB10420
> >- *Item #: *N82E16829102023
>
> I've googled fast and found that your card is supported by ca0106 driver
> I would try latest alsa drivers and so on
>
> have a look here I hope it helps http://alsa.opensrc.org/Ca0106
>
> you need to check for the proper driver
>

Thanks for the solution - but i do not see any drivers on that page to
download.
Sorry - i must admit i am lost on linux...I can run the alsaconf utility.
But where can i download the drivers  Any steps ??

thanks
mjh

Re: Xwindow Failed Suddenly

[Florian Kulzer]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:43:48 +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using Debian Testing. While I am using computer on my xwindow,
> suddenly the xwindow it blink and failed. And I should restart my
> computer if I want my xwindow works again. The strange behaviour is,
> if I restart from terminal (# restart) then the splash works fine.
> 
> Then it shows an error message. Here's my Xorg.log[1]. Anybody can
> give me a hint?

[...]

> X.Org X Server 1.4.2
> Release Date: 11 June 2008
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: Linux Debian (xorg-server 2:1.4.2-11)
> Current Operating System: Linux zara 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10
> 18:29:31 UTC 2009 i686
> Build Date: 20 February 2009  03:06:29AM

[...]

> (--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
> Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0xb008/19, 0xc000/28,
> 0xb000/18, I/O @ 0x1800/3
> (--) PCI: (0:2:1) Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
> Graphics Controller rev 3, Mem @ 0x8800/19

[...]

> (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
>   "Default Screen" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
> (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
> (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> (II) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) 915GM
> (--) intel(0): Chipset: "915GM"
> (--) intel(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xC000
> (--) intel(0): IO registers at addr 0xB008
> (II) intel(0): 2 display pipes available.
> (==) intel(0): Using EXA for acceleration
> (==) intel(0): Enabling EXA render acceleration

[...]

> Error in I830WaitLpRing(), timeout for 2 seconds

It looks like this problem has been around for a while:

http://bugs.debian.org/494321

[...]

> (II) intel(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) intel(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf8eba000 at 0xb7ae8000
> (II) intel(0): [drm] Closed DRM master.
> 
> Fatal server error:
> lockup

The intel driver seems to be a bit flaky at the moment. (I have run into
problems with my 82Q963/Q965 card as well.)

You can try to switch to XAA as suggested in the bug report.

You can save the following:


 
 
 
 
 


into a file named ".drirc" in your home directory and test if this
improves the situation. (I found some upstream bug reports suggesting to
set vblank_mode=0; however, this does not really make a difference for
me.)

You can wait for the next version of the intel driver in Debian or try
the current upstream snapshot.

You can try if a newer or older kernel improves the stability.

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Re: sound blaster problem -

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Joey L wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Andrei Popescu
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue,24.Mar.09, 14:01:53, Joey L wrote:
>>
>> What model is this? As far as I know some recent models are not
>> supported in Linux, because Creative Labs doesn't provide any drivers
>> and doesn't cooperate with the community.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrei
>> --
>>
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply - I got the sound blaster that is a pci-express
> bus.
> If this is not supported by linux..do you have another solution for me ???
> 
> Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Channels PCI Express
> Interface Sound Card -
> OEM
> 
>- *Sample Rate:* 96KHz
>- *Digital Audio:* 24-bit
>- *SNR:* >100dB (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
>- *Line In:* Yes
>- *MIC In:* Yes
>- *Other Ports:* Speaker out (4x 1/8" mini jacks) Optical out (TOSLINK)
>Digital Out supports stereo SPDIF out and pass through of multichannel
>DVD sound Optical in (TOSLINK) Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel
>Header (2x5pin)
>- *Features:* X-Fi Technology X-Fi Crystalizer X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual
>X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone Hear headphone surround that sounds like
>multichannel speakers Enjoy Realistic sound effects in games Experience
>cinematic surround sound from DVD movies
>- *Model #: *30SB10420
>- *Item #: *N82E16829102023

I've googled fast and found that your card is supported by ca0106 driver
I would try latest alsa drivers and so on

have a look here I hope it helps http://alsa.opensrc.org/Ca0106

you need to check for the proper driver

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[H.S.]

Emanoil Kotsev wrote:

> excuse me but you are not correct
> 
> use amixer
> 
> amixer | grep Input
> Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Source',0
>   Items: 'Analog Inputs' 'Digital Mic 1' 'Digital Mic 2' 'CD'
>   Item0: 'Analog Inputs'
> Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Source',1
>   Items: 'Analog Inputs' 'Digital Mic 1' 'Digital Mic 2' 'CD'
>   Item0: 'Analog Inputs'
> 
> and use alsamixer or similar to turn your mic on
> 
> If your driver is not properly configured you can have some options mixed up
> so play around
> 
> I'm personally using following to test input
> 
> 1) find out cards and inputs
> 
> shell> cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
>   HDA Intel at 0xff95 irq 22
>  1 [HVR900 ]: USB-Audio - WinTV HVR-900
>   WinTV HVR-900 at usb-:00:1a.7-3, high speed
>  2 [Webcam ]: USB-Audio - Philips SPC 1000NC Webcam
>   Philips CE Philips SPC 1000NC Webcam at
> usb-:00:1a.7-5.4, high speed
> 
> => I'm going to use the Webcam built in mic => card # 2
> 
> 2) find out the input
> 
> shell> cat /proc/asound/devices
>   0: [ 0]   : control
>   1:: sequencer
>   6: [ 0- 2]: hardware dependent
>   7: [ 0- 3]: hardware dependent
>  16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
>  17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
>  19: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback
>  24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
>  32: [ 1]   : control
>  33:: timer
>  56: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture
>  64: [ 2]   : control
>  88: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture
> 
> 
> => my input is the capture on the second card
> 
>  88: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture
> 
> 3) so no we can test the mic
> 
> shell> arecord -c1 -Dplughw:2,0 -f cd -vv /dev/null
> 
> Recording WAVE '/dev/null' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz,
> Stereo
> Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE)
>   Transformation table:
> 0 <- 0
> 1 <- 0
> Its setup is:
>   stream   : CAPTURE
>   access   : RW_INTERLEAVED
>   format   : S16_LE
>   subformat: STD
>   channels : 2
>   rate : 44100
>   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
>   msbits   : 16
>   buffer_size  : 22050
>   period_size  : 5513
>   period_time  : 125011
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   avail_min: 5513
>   period_event : 0
>   start_threshold  : 1
>   stop_threshold   : 22050
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary : 1445068800
> Slave: Hardware PCM card 2 'Philips SPC 1000NC Webcam' device 0 subdevice 0
> Its setup is:
>   stream   : CAPTURE
>   access   : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
>   format   : S16_LE
>   subformat: STD
>   channels : 1
>   rate : 44100
>   exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
>   msbits   : 16
>   buffer_size  : 22050
>   period_size  : 5513
>   period_time  : 125011
>   tstamp_mode  : NONE
>   period_step  : 1
>   avail_min: 5513
>   period_event : 0
>   start_threshold  : 1
>   stop_threshold   : 22050
>   silence_threshold: 0
>   silence_size : 0
>   boundary : 1445068800
> ###   +| 10%^C
> Aborted by signal Interrupt...
> 
> regards
> 
> 


Wonderful explanation of the magic that alsa does! Thanks a ton. I
didn't know about "cat /proc/asound/devices" before.

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Re: questions about CUPS

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:27:57 +0200, Angelin Lalev wrote:

[...]

> Is it possible to use native PCL drivers for my printer and bypass the
> long conversion -> text and
> images->Postscript>CUPS>Postscript->PCL5/6 (and solve the
> naming problem besides)?

CUPS has a special printer model called "raw", which allows you to pass
input directly to the printer without processing by CUPS. 

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Rick Pasotto wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:38:55AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> > > Alex Samad wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> > > >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
>> > > >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> > > It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to
>> > > see which device number to use) your devices using:
>> > > 
>> > > ~$ arecord -l
>> > 
>> > Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
>> > 
>> >  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
>> > card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>> >   Subdevices: 1/1
>> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> > card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>> >   Subdevices: 1/1
>> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> 
>> I am not a alsa expert, but the way I interpret this is there is 1
>> counds card it has 2 devices (could be 1 analogue and 1 digital) each
>> device has a set of functions / capabilities like play , record etc..
> 
> Well, I did what I should have done before -- read the man page. Turns
> out 'arecord -L' (capital L) gives better info:
> 
> ---
> $ arecord -L
> default:CARD=V8237
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> Default Audio Device
> front:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> Front speakers
> surround40:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> iec958:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> null
> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
> ---
> 
> So it looks like I don't have a mike although I have gotten it to barely
> work before. The question now becomes, how do I turn the mike on?
> 
> Also, the -D parameter uses the PCM, which is what the -L gives -- not
> that I know which of those numbers *is* a PCM.
> 

excuse me but you are not correct

use amixer

amixer | grep Input
Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Source',0
  Items: 'Analog Inputs' 'Digital Mic 1' 'Digital Mic 2' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Analog Inputs'
Simple mixer control 'Digital Input Source',1
  Items: 'Analog Inputs' 'Digital Mic 1' 'Digital Mic 2' 'CD'
  Item0: 'Analog Inputs'

and use alsamixer or similar to turn your mic on

If your driver is not properly configured you can have some options mixed up
so play around

I'm personally using following to test input

1) find out cards and inputs

shell> cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [Intel  ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
  HDA Intel at 0xff95 irq 22
 1 [HVR900 ]: USB-Audio - WinTV HVR-900
  WinTV HVR-900 at usb-:00:1a.7-3, high speed
 2 [Webcam ]: USB-Audio - Philips SPC 1000NC Webcam
  Philips CE Philips SPC 1000NC Webcam at
usb-:00:1a.7-5.4, high speed

=> I'm going to use the Webcam built in mic => card # 2

2) find out the input

shell> cat /proc/asound/devices
  0: [ 0]   : control
  1:: sequencer
  6: [ 0- 2]: hardware dependent
  7: [ 0- 3]: hardware dependent
 16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
 17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
 19: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback
 24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
 32: [ 1]   : control
 33:: timer
 56: [ 1- 0]: digital audio capture
 64: [ 2]   : control
 88: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture


=> my input is the capture on the second card

 88: [ 2- 0]: digital audio capture

3) so no we can test the mic

shell> arecord -c1 -Dplughw:2,0 -f cd -vv /dev/null

Recording WAVE '/dev/null' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz,
Stereo
Plug PCM: Route conversion PCM (sformat=S16_LE)
  Transformation table:
0 <- 0
1 <- 0
Its setup is:
  stream   : CAPTURE
  access   : RW_INTERLEAVED
  format   : S16_LE
  subformat: STD
  channels : 2
  rate : 44100
  exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
  msbits   : 16
  buffer_size  : 22050
  period_size  : 5513
  period_time  : 125011
  tstamp_mode  : NONE
  period_step  : 1
  avail_min: 5513
  period_event : 0
  start_threshold  : 1
  stop_threshold   : 22050
  silence_threshold: 0
  silence_size : 0
  boundary : 1445068800
Slave: Hardware PCM card 2 'Philips SPC 1000NC Webcam' device 0 subdevice 0
Its setup is:
  stream   : CAPTURE
  access   : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
  format   : S16_LE
  subformat: STD
  channels : 1
  rate : 44100
  exact rate   : 44100 (44100/1)
  msbi

Re: testing microphone - how?

[H.S.]

Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:38:55AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
 Alex Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
>> [snip]
>>
 It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
 which device number to use) your devices using:

 ~$ arecord -l
>>> Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
>>>
>>>  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
>>> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> I am not a alsa expert, but the way I interpret this is there is 1
>> counds card it has 2 devices (could be 1 analogue and 1 digital) each
>> device has a set of functions / capabilities like play , record etc..
> 
> Well, I did what I should have done before -- read the man page. Turns
> out 'arecord -L' (capital L) gives better info:
> 
> ---
> $ arecord -L
> default:CARD=V8237
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> Default Audio Device
> front:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> Front speakers
> surround40:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
> surround41:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> surround50:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
> surround51:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
> iec958:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
> VIA 8237, VIA 8237
> IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
> null
> Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
> ---
> 
> So it looks like I don't have a mike although I have gotten it to barely
> work before. The question now becomes, how do I turn the mike on?
> 
> Also, the -D parameter uses the PCM, which is what the -L gives -- not
> that I know which of those numbers *is* a PCM.
> 

Did you try the commands I mentioned earlier? If not, please do so and
report what happens.

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Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

[Joey L]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> The relevant part is this:
>
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/tagcoll.1.gz', which is also in
> > package tagcoll
>
> You have a file conflict. If both packages are from Debian (and not from
> some other source) then this is a bug. Check the bug pages for both
> packages and see if this has been reported already (the report might
> also contain a workaround). If not, you should report it yourself.
>

Thanks for the quick reply -
I do not know where the bug page is ??? Can you give me a url ???
this is holding up my updates.

thanks

Re: sound blaster problem -

[Joey L]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Tue,24.Mar.09, 14:01:53, Joey L wrote:
>
> What model is this? As far as I know some recent models are not
> supported in Linux, because Creative Labs doesn't provide any drivers
> and doesn't cooperate with the community.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
> --
>

Thanks for the quick reply - I got the sound blaster that is a pci-express
bus.
If this is not supported by linux..do you have another solution for me ???

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Channels PCI Express Interface
Sound Card - 
OEM

   - *Sample Rate:* 96KHz
   - *Digital Audio:* 24-bit
   - *SNR:* >100dB (20kHz Low-pass filter, A-Weighted)
   - *Line In:* Yes
   - *MIC In:* Yes
   - *Other Ports:* Speaker out (4x 1/8" mini jacks) Optical out (TOSLINK)
   Digital Out supports stereo SPDIF out and pass through of multichannel DVD
   sound Optical in (TOSLINK) Intel HD Audio Compatible Front Panel Header
   (2x5pin)
   - *Features:* X-Fi Technology X-Fi Crystalizer X-Fi CMSS-3D Virtual X-Fi
   CMSS-3D Headphone Hear headphone surround that sounds like multichannel
   speakers Enjoy Realistic sound effects in games Experience cinematic
   surround sound from DVD movies
   - *Model #: *30SB10420
   - *Item #: *N82E16829102023

Re: How does host lookup work

[Alan Chandler]

On Tuesday 24 Mar 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:40:41PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >
> > I still do not understand [NOTFOUND=return].
> >
> > My reading of the manual is that it stops a failed lookup moving on
> > to the subsequent entries.  How do the dns entry and the mdns4
> > entry ever get used?
>
> from man nsswitch.conf, it say about the same thing, so if you have
> mdns (or mdns_minimal) installed it takes over all dns resolution for
> you
>
> success - means you have resolution and returns -  goes no further
> notfound - means mds worked but did not find a record and thus
> returns unavail - this is the only time it will make it past
>
> > [I know the DO get used, so my understanding is obviously WRONG.  I
> > want to find out what the correct interpretation of that is]
>
> from the README.html
>
> libnss_mdns{4,6,}_minimal.so (new in version 0.8) is mostly identical
> to the
>versions without _minimal. However, they differ in one way. The
> minimal versions
>will always deny to resolve host names that don't end in .local or
> addresses that
>aren't in the range 169.254.x.x (the range used by
> IPV4LL/APIPA/RFC3927.)


I think I understand now - Thank you.  I think that the words written in 
the README.html document are slightly confusing.

I assume what it really means is that mdns4_minimal returns UNAVAIL when 
the domain being asked for is NOT in .local domain (or in ip range 
169.254.x.x) rather than NOTFOUND - so in the case of a lookup of a 
domain name not in local, with the nsswitch.conf line as it is now 
configured goes on to try the dns (and finally a full mdns4). 

On the otherhand if you attempt to look up xxx.local and its not a valid 
name for .local mdns4_minimal returns NOTFOUND, and thus prevents 
further lookup in the dns.





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Re: How can I install mencoder on Lenny?

[Daryl Styrk]

Thomas Weinbrenner wrote:



My advice is to read what's written on http://debian-multimedia.org/.

Because these questions are answered there.



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Re: libglib1.2ldbl

[Daryl Styrk]

André Moreira wrote:

Hey,

been there already, got the source
[glib1.2_1.2.10.orig.tar.gz]build
it and... no libglib1.2ldbl anywhere...

That's why I was looking for a repository that had it. What repos are you
using with aptitude.

I have a minimal debian install on a samllform PC with XCFE (or something
like that) as X.

Cheers


deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

should get it done.


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Re: Iceweasel: Can't find helper application

[Matthew Smith]

Quoth Thorny at 2009-03-25 03:11...
> I have a default installation of Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny and when I go to
> Preferences-->Applications I only see one instance of Portable Document
> Format. For it there is a drop down list to choose other than the default
> "Always ask" which also includes navigation for "Use other ..." choices.
> This doesn't sound like what you are describing (3 instead of the 1 I
> see). You didn't mention anything about which version of either Iceweasel
> or the OS, don't know if it might be related.

I've gone from FF2 (Gentoo x86_64) to Iceweasel 3.0.6 (Lenny x86_64).

> Hummm. Could it be that you tried to copy some configuration files
> over from one of your other installations to save what you had already
> done or something like that? Something that might not be compatible?

I think that you may have hit the nail on the head.  As I use a load of
Firefox extensions (including one of my own) and have done a lot of
configuration, I copied my profile from the old disc.

Think that my assumption that FF3/Iceweasel would be compatible with my
old FF2 config may have been faulty.

I'll take a dive into the profile directory and remove all the PDF
references in mimeTypes.rdf so that it will be forced to ask me next
time I encounter one, hopefully putting things straight.

Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Cheers

M

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Rick Pasotto]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 08:38:55AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> > > Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> > > >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
> > > which device number to use) your devices using:
> > > 
> > > ~$ arecord -l
> > 
> > Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
> > 
> >  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
> > card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
> >   Subdevices: 1/1
> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> > card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
> >   Subdevices: 1/1
> >   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 
> I am not a alsa expert, but the way I interpret this is there is 1
> counds card it has 2 devices (could be 1 analogue and 1 digital) each
> device has a set of functions / capabilities like play , record etc..

Well, I did what I should have done before -- read the man page. Turns
out 'arecord -L' (capital L) gives better info:

---
$ arecord -L
default:CARD=V8237
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
iec958:CARD=V8237,DEV=0
VIA 8237, VIA 8237
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
---

So it looks like I don't have a mike although I have gotten it to barely
work before. The question now becomes, how do I turn the mike on?

Also, the -D parameter uses the PCM, which is what the -L gives -- not
that I know which of those numbers *is* a PCM.

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Re: How can I install mencoder on Lenny?

[Thomas Weinbrenner]

Csanyi Pal  writes:

> If I can to install mencoder from http://debian-multimedia.org/ then
> what to put in sources.list and mayhep what keyring to install?
>
> Any advices will be appreciated!

My advice is to read what's written on http://debian-multimedia.org/.

Because these questions are answered there.

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> > Alex Samad wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> > >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:

[snip]

> > It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
> > which device number to use) your devices using:
> > 
> > ~$ arecord -l
> 
> Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
> 
>  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I am not a alsa expert, but the way I interpret this is there is 1
counds card it has 2 devices (could be 1 analogue and 1 digital) each
device has a set of functions / capabilities like play , record etc..

> 
> 

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How can I install mencoder on Lenny?

[Csanyi Pal]

Hi,

I want to install mencoder on Lenny.

aptitude search mencoder give me nothing.

If I can to install mencoder from http://debian-multimedia.org/ then
what to put in sources.list and mayhep what keyring to install?

Any advices will be appreciated!

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Re: lenny reinstall

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:38:23AM -0600, postid wrote:
> I need to reinstall lenny using netinstall. (I had some problems 
> with the network, etc. during the first attempt.) I want to keep 
> the partitioning I currently have set up. I especially don't want 
> to risk messing up hda1 since I promised the user that I'd give 
> them the option of booting either system.

To prevent having network problems mess up an install, I always just
install a minimal system (don't choose anything from tasksel).  Then run
aptitude and install what I want.  If you want to use tasksel, just
install it later.

>hda1 win2000
>hda2 /
>hda5 /swap
>hda6 /home
> 
>  Will the partitioner give me the option of reusing the current 
> scheme and formatting over the old data on hda2 and hda6 or do I 
> need to delete the contents of hda2 and hda6 using a live distro 
> (or the installer command line?) before I start the install? I 
> seem to recall reading somewhere that Debian won't install over 
> itself. Any pitfalls to watch for here or am I just paranoid? I 
> don't want to lose the contents of hda1. I'm planning on using 
> the graphical installer and manual partitioning.
 
It should present the existing partitions as they are.  You'll have to
select each one and tell the installer what to do with each, e.g.

hda2 use as ext3, mount point /
hda5 use as swap (not /swap)
hda6 use as ext3, mount point /home

You'll have to tell it to reformat the partitions.

Don't tell it to do anything with hda1.  It should leave it alone.

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Re: File Sharing Problem

[Chris Davies]

Thomas H. George  wrote:
> I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN.  Each
> can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and
> phoenix.

There are myriad ways (well, quite a number, anyway) to do this. Here
are a few:

1. ssh

aptitude install ssh# On both boxes, please
...
scp -p /path/to/source  otherhost:/path/to/target
scp -p otherhost:/path/to/source /path/to/target


2. rsync

aptitude install ssh rsync  # On both boxes
...
rsync -avP /path/to/source  otherhost:/path/to/target
rsync -avP otherhost:/path/to/source /path/to/target


3. NFS (actually the NFS automounter)

aptitude install autofs nfs-kernel-server   # All of this on both boxes
...
echo '/var/autofs/net /etc/auto.net --timeout=60' >>/etc/auto.master
mkdir /var/autofs
invoke-rc.d autofs restart

echo '/data (rw,no_root_squash)' >>/etc/exports
invoke-rc.d nfs-common restart
invoke-rc.d nfs-kernel-server restart

If I've remembered everything correctly, you should now have each server's
/data mounted under /var/autofs/net/{machine_name}/data on the other.
Consequently, you should be able to do things like this from each box:

ls /var/autofs/net/phoenix/data/...
cp -p /var/autofs/net/dragon/data/some/file /target/path


4. Samba (SMB)

I'm going to leave this one alone, as I've never got it to work reliably
without fiddling around for hours. If you really decided to go this route
then maybe I'll try to give you my recipe. But you'll probably be better
off with #3, above. Or someone else's Samba configuration.


5. FUSE/ssh

A bit esoteric for this posting, I think.


> I have tried to copy the file I need with command on dragon:

> dragon:~# spc phoenix:/data/filename /data
> ssh: connection to host phoenix port 22: no route to host

That suggests you're not running ssh (service) on phoenix.


> Notes: I have edited hosts.allow on both systems to allow each other.
> There are no entries in hosts.deny.  I have checked the output of
> netstat -pln and find that neither is listening on port 22 so I tried 

If nothing's listening there's no point trying to talk to it.

aptitude install ssh
invoke-rc.d ssh restart


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Re: mouse and gpm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:50:17PM +0100, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:42:44PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using a mouse with gpm and brltty, and it is working well... Is it
> > possible to get the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the terminal in
> > text mode? eg. work like the page up and page down keys, maybe not as
> > bigger chunks though... Thought it could be cool to scroll emacs buffers
> > and the like with a mouse under text mode?
> > 
> > Is this possible with gpm?
> 
> I think the next/new ncurses will allow this sort of thing. Maybe Thomas
> Dickey has more info. He seems to magically pop in if xterm or lynx is
> mentioned in a post. :)

google (though as time passes, it's more and more spotty in its coverage)

I hadn't really thought about gpm in particular, but wheel mice are
doable with the extension I added a few years ago, and have tested in
xterm (which is a binary change).

That part is something that Daniel Baumann is steering toward
in ncurses updates.

For gpm specifically - that would still require some change (but doesn't
require a whole new version of ncurses).  Someone a few months ago
stated that there's some patch (or configuration) where gpm would
deliver button 4/5 events sort of like xterm, but looking at the gpm.h
header, the only comments regarding wheel mice say it's not clear:

/*... Cfg buttons */
/* Each button has one bit in the 16 bit buttons field. 
 * Mouse movement and wheel movement are not associated with a button 
 * i.e. buttons=GPM_B_NONE in these cases 
 * (except for ms3 mouse, for reasons unknown?) 
 * The middle button if pressed down (or clicked) is independent of  
 *  the wheel "device" which it happens to be associated with 
 * The use of GPM_B_UP/DOWN with ms3 is unclear. Maybe the wheel  
 * could be rolled forward then backward 
 * and this would generate a 'click' event on 'button 5' GPM_B_UP, 
 * but really the expected behaviour of wheel is movement, typically 
 * used for jump scrolling or for jumping between fields on a form. */

#define GPM_B_DOWN  32
#define GPM_B_UP16
#define GPM_B_FOURTH8
#define GPM_B_LEFT  4
#define GPM_B_MIDDLE2
#define GPM_B_RIGHT 1
#define GPM_B_NONE  0

(since gpm's documentation is its source code...)

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> Rick Pasotto wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>>> Alex Samad wrote:
 arecord,  aplay  -  command-line  sound  recorder  and player for ALSA
 soundcard driver
>>> Yes, I second that.
>>>
>>> Try with the following command (duration is in seconds):
>>> ~$> arecord -D plug:hw:1 --duration=60   audio_sample.wav
>>>
>>> It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
>>> which device number to use) your devices using:
>>>
>>> ~$ arecord -l
>> Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
>>
>>  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
>> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>>   Subdevices: 1/1
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>
> 
> Try with plug:hw:0. I admit I am clear about how to specify the devices
> to arecord. If that doesn't work, try with plug:hw:1. If these do not
> work, try with just "hw:0" or "hw:1".
> 
> 
> 

meant to type "... admit I am not clear ..."

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[H.S.]

Rick Pasotto wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> Alex Samad wrote:
>>>
>>> arecord,  aplay  -  command-line  sound  recorder  and player for ALSA
>>> soundcard driver
>> Yes, I second that.
>>
>> Try with the following command (duration is in seconds):
>> ~$> arecord -D plug:hw:1 --duration=60   audio_sample.wav
>>
>> It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
>> which device number to use) your devices using:
>>
>> ~$ arecord -l
> 
> Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:
> 
>  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
>   Subdevices: 1/1
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> 

Try with plug:hw:0. I admit I am clear about how to specify the devices
to arecord. If that doesn't work, try with plug:hw:1. If these do not
work, try with just "hw:0" or "hw:1".



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Re: How does host lookup work

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:40:41PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Monday 23 Mar 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:28:27PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > > I am extremely confused about host lookup works now that avahi
> > > daemon has been added into the equation.
> > >
> > > my /etc/nsswitch.conf file has this in it for the host entry
> > >
> > > hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
> > >
> > > But as much as I google, I can find absolutely no explanation of
> > > what mdns4_minimal does.
> >
> > its part of libnss-mdns
> > /usr/share/doc/libnss-mdns/README.Debian
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/94940 (of
> > interest)
> 
> But neither of these two links explain what mdnd4_minimal does. 
at a guess they are providing nss linkages to mdns, so pam calls
libnss-mdns_minimal

> > > In particular - if one does a host lookup and its not found in
> > > files (presumably /etc/hosts) and not found by mdns4_minimal, does
> > > the "[NOTFOUND=return]" stop the lookup process from using the dns.
> > > (It clearly doesn't - so presumably mdns4_minimal does something
> > > else)
> 
> I still do not understand [NOTFOUND=return].
> 
> My reading of the manual is that it stops a failed lookup moving on to 
> the subsequent entries.  How do the dns entry and the mdns4 entry ever 
> get used?

from man nsswitch.conf, it say about the same thing, so if you have mdns
(or mdns_minimal) installed it takes over all dns resolution for you

success - means you have resolution and returns -  goes no further
notfound - means mds worked but did not find a record and thus returns
unavail - this is the only time it will make it past


> 
> [I know the DO get used, so my understanding is obviously WRONG.  I want 
> to find out what the correct interpretation of that is] 

from the README.html

libnss_mdns{4,6,}_minimal.so (new in version 0.8) is mostly identical to
the   
   versions without _minimal. However, they differ in one way. The
minimal versions   
   will always deny to resolve host names that don't end in .local or
addresses that  
   aren't in the range 169.254.x.x (the range used by
IPV4LL/APIPA/RFC3927.)



> 
> ...
> > > I will want to use it to develop some simple
> > > javascript/php/html/css web applications - and therefore will want
> > > to run apache web server. Ideally I would like a number of separate
> > > virtual hosts, for each separate application but
> > >
> > > a) When I am disconnected from the network I still need to see the
> > > host names (so I assume I use /etc/hosts to give aliases to
> > > localhost?)
> >
> > sounds good, although there are problems when you use 127.0.0.1
> 
> You say problems, what problems?
can't remember at this time. came about when machine names where added
to /etc/hosts ast 127.0.0.1  localhost localhost.localdomain


> 
> >
> > > b) When I am connected to the local home network I want to have
> > > other people see these virtual hosts so that I can test some
> > > multiuser aspects of the applications.  In this case, I could
> > > either use avahi to publish these names (although at the moment I
> > > can't quite work out how - it seems only to publish a single host
> > > name derived from the /etc/hostname), or make sure the names are
> > > properly identified in my local dns (I can allocate the IP address
> > > based on the mac address of the laptop thereby ensuring it always
> > > has the same one)
> >
> > do the names need to be dynamic, why not make then static such that
> > when you are not there the web page times out!
> 
> I need them to refer to a valid ip address of the laptop - but one that 
> is also valid when the laptop is disconnected from the network. 
> 
> So I "think" a plan like this might work
> 
> I set up my dbcp server at home to recognise the MAC address(es) of my 
> laptop and to allocate a fixed ip address [say 192.168.0.26] to the 
> laptop (this allows me also to connect the laptop to other networks 
> away from home and obtain an ip address) 
> 
> My home network is in the .home domain.  I then add green.home and 
> blue.home to my dns server, so any reference by a computer on the home 
> network to green.home or blue.home get the ipaddress 192.168.0.26
> 
> I then add the following lines to /etc/hosts (over and above what debian 
> adds)
> 
> 127.0.2.1 green.home green
> 127.0.3.1 blue.home blue
> 
> This ensures that any references in the software internal sees addresses 
> for green.home and blue.home as the local machine regardless of whether 
> its connected to the network or not.
> 
> In apache, I set up named virtual hosts like this
> 
> 
>   ServerName green.home
>   DocumentRoot /home/alan/web-dev/green
> 
> 
>   ServerName blue.home
>   DocumentRoot /home/alan/wev-dev/blue
> 
> 
> Tnen when I am not on my home network I can still point my browser at 
> http://green.home, or http://blue.home to test out my applications
> 
> B

Re: testing microphone - how?

[Rick Pasotto]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:44:24PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
>  I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
>  same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> 
>  I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
>  applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
> > 
> > have you looked at arecord
> > 
> > arecord,  aplay  -  command-line  sound  recorder  and player for ALSA
> > soundcard driver
> 
> Yes, I second that.
> 
> Try with the following command (duration is in seconds):
> ~$> arecord -D plug:hw:1 --duration=60   audio_sample.wav
> 
> It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
> which device number to use) your devices using:
> 
> ~$ arecord -l

Interesting but I have no idea what the output is telling me:

 List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 0: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: V8237 [VIA 8237], device 1: VIA 8237 [VIA 8237]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[H.S.]

Alex Samad wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
 I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
 same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.

 I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
 applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
> 
> have you looked at arecord
> 
> arecord,  aplay  -  command-line  sound  recorder  and player for ALSA
> soundcard driver

Yes, I second that.

Try with the following command (duration is in seconds):
~$> arecord -D plug:hw:1 --duration=60   audio_sample.wav

It will record from the device specified by "-D". You can list (to see
which device number to use) your devices using:

~$ arecord -l


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debian 5.0 supports virtual private servers

[chloe K]

Hi all
   
  What is xen kernel in new debian now?
   
  Can I use it as virtual private server?
   
  or I have to download xen kernel to recompile to support xen
   
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Re: Sid/unstable+mozilla-mplayer

[Jimmy Johnson]

Jimmy Johnson wrote:
On my latest Sid/unstable update I see that mozilla-mplayer is now 
marked as obsolete, dose anybody have any info as way it's getting 
marked obsolete?


apt-get -u dist-upgrade gave me no info nor did it mark mozilla-mplayer 
for removal.


aptitude full-upgrade gave me no info nor did it mark mozilla-mplayer 
for removal.


Only in Synaptic is it showing as obsolete.


While updating Squeeze/testing I saw the same problem and noticed that 
there where two versions so I downgraded the version I had and fixed the 
problem on both Squeeze and Sid. :)

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Alex Samad]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 05:51:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
> > > I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
> > > same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> > >
> > > I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
> > > applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
> >
> > Hi Lisi,
> 
> Hi, Thorny,
> 

[snip]

> > ALSA working fine for other sounds on your system?
> 
> See above.  No problems at all with playing sound - and I actually think that 
> it may now (after my last lot of fiddling) be transmitting/recording sound.  
> I just need to test it somehow!  While sparing my poor friend - I don't want 

have you looked at arecord

arecord,  aplay  -  command-line  sound  recorder  and player for ALSA
soundcard driver

> him to become an ex-friend. ;-)
> 
> I have yet to try Sinan Can İmamoğlu's suggestions, tho' I shall certainly do 
> so.
> 
> TIA
> Lisi
> 
> 
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Re: Delete 4 million files

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <49c93fd1.7040...@net153.net>, Sam Leon wrote:
>Most everyone here is recommending just plain old rm -rf
>
>I might add that once you start the rm process that you find the pid of
>it and then lower its priority with renice so that away your whole
>system won't be slowed down while it works.

Why re-nice?  Just nice it to begin with:
nice -n 15 rm -rf
(Can also be chained with ionice if you like.)
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Re: Delete 4 million files

[Sam Leon]

kj wrote:

Hi guys,

This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better 
way.


I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in.  The 
result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed.


Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
but this is going at about 700,000 per day.  Would simply doing an rm 
-rf on the Maildir be quicker?  Or is there a better way?


Thanks

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Most everyone here is recommending just plain old rm -rf

I might add that once you start the rm process that you find the pid of 
it and then lower its priority with renice so that away your whole 
system won't be slowed down while it works.


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Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

[Barclay, Daniel]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Barclay, Daniel  > wrote:
> 
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 
>  > Mail 1: Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>  > Mail 2: A: Top-posting.
>  > Mail 3: Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>  > Mail 4: A: Because it messes up the order in which people
> normally read
>  > text.
> 
> Wrong.  Since when does even a threaded mail reader rearrange the
> content
> within a single message into a different order?
> 
> It doesn't, and you're splitting hairs.  

No, I'm not.  You're presenting unclear and/or unrealistic examples, and I'm
calling you on it.


> In a threaded mail reader, I've 
> just read the previous post, there is zero need to provide context. 

That's only true if you haven't deleted the previous messages.

If you've read a thread, deleted the messages you've read, and then come
back later, you have no context via your mail reader.  That's when you
want some context in each message.



>  This is what it looks like in a threaded mail reader when you're bottom 
> posting:
> 
> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> 
>  > What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> Top-posting.
> 
>  >> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>  > Top-posting.
> Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> 
>  >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>  >> Top-posting.
>  > Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.


> This sort of display is annoying.  

Again, your example is ambiguous and misleading (since the display never
shows the above sequence (at any given time)).


Apparently you're also talking about the _sequence_ of displays as you read
through the messages.

Yes, if each message quotes every previous message in its entirety, it
is annoying, as you claim.


However, "proper" replying cuts the quoted text down to just what is needed
to provide sufficient context.  Obviously there's a judgment call there, but
don't think thate completely untrimmed quoting is what bottom-posting
proponents are arguing for.


Imagine a business letter in reply to a previous letter, in particular
the stereotypical wording "Regarding your letter of  about
: ..."

That's the type of thing bottom-posters are arguing for:  A reference (via
simply quoting, rather than rewording like the "Regarding your ..." in a
letter) to what's being replied to, but not the entire previous message.



> I understand the other Chris' example just fine.  Do you understand mine?

Of course not.  You construct them too ambiguously.



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Sid/unstable+mozilla-mplayer

[Jimmy Johnson]

On my latest Sid/unstable update I see that mozilla-mplayer is now 
marked as obsolete, dose anybody have any info as way it's getting 
marked obsolete?


apt-get -u dist-upgrade gave me no info nor did it mark mozilla-mplayer 
for removal.


aptitude full-upgrade gave me no info nor did it mark mozilla-mplayer 
for removal.


Only in Synaptic is it showing as obsolete.
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Re: File Sharing Problem - Thanks

[Thomas H. George]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:28:23PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,24.Mar.09, 12:17:29, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN.  Each
> > can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and
> > phoenix.
> 
> Good
>  
> > I have gotten lost in the NFS-Root-Client-Mini-HOWTO which seems far
> > more elaborate than my needs.  From either system I only want to access
> > the files in the directory /data on the other system.
> > 
> > I have tried to copy the file I need with command on dragon:
> > 
> > dragon:~# spc phoenix:/data/filename /data
> > ssh: connection to host phoenix port 22: no route to host
> >
> > Notes: I have edited hosts.allow on both systems to allow each other.
> > There are no entries in hosts.deny.  I have checked the output of
> > netstat -pln and find that neither is listening on port 22 so I tried 
> > 
> > dragon:~# spc -P 22 phoenix:/data/filename /data
> > ssh: connection to host phoenix port 25: no route to host
> 
> Is sshd running? Did you make changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Can you 
> 'ssh localhost'?
> 
The systems had no sshd!  Foolishly I assumed that since the systems had
ssh they also had sshd running in the background.  A little searching
revealed openssh-server needed to be installed.  When this was done scp
worked with no further setup.

Many thanks for pointing out my oversight.

Tom
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Re: export variables bash

[Javier Barroso]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Daniel Dalton wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:51:08PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How can I export (or just run a bunch of commands like .bash_profile),
> > when gnome starts from gdm?
>
> Solved, configured in the gnome-terminal profiles window...

Does ~/.profile make it possible too ? (I remember that in xfce4 desktop)

Re: How does host lookup work

[Alan Chandler]

On Monday 23 Mar 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:28:27PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
> > I am extremely confused about host lookup works now that avahi
> > daemon has been added into the equation.
> >
> > my /etc/nsswitch.conf file has this in it for the host entry
> >
> > hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
> >
> > But as much as I google, I can find absolutely no explanation of
> > what mdns4_minimal does.
>
> its part of libnss-mdns
> /usr/share/doc/libnss-mdns/README.Debian
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/94940 (of
> interest)

But neither of these two links explain what mdnd4_minimal does. 


>
> > In particular - if one does a host lookup and its not found in
> > files (presumably /etc/hosts) and not found by mdns4_minimal, does
> > the "[NOTFOUND=return]" stop the lookup process from using the dns.
> > (It clearly doesn't - so presumably mdns4_minimal does something
> > else)

I still do not understand [NOTFOUND=return].

My reading of the manual is that it stops a failed lookup moving on to 
the subsequent entries.  How do the dns entry and the mdns4 entry ever 
get used?

[I know the DO get used, so my understanding is obviously WRONG.  I want 
to find out what the correct interpretation of that is] 

...
> > I will want to use it to develop some simple
> > javascript/php/html/css web applications - and therefore will want
> > to run apache web server. Ideally I would like a number of separate
> > virtual hosts, for each separate application but
> >
> > a) When I am disconnected from the network I still need to see the
> > host names (so I assume I use /etc/hosts to give aliases to
> > localhost?)
>
> sounds good, although there are problems when you use 127.0.0.1

You say problems, what problems?

>
> > b) When I am connected to the local home network I want to have
> > other people see these virtual hosts so that I can test some
> > multiuser aspects of the applications.  In this case, I could
> > either use avahi to publish these names (although at the moment I
> > can't quite work out how - it seems only to publish a single host
> > name derived from the /etc/hostname), or make sure the names are
> > properly identified in my local dns (I can allocate the IP address
> > based on the mac address of the laptop thereby ensuring it always
> > has the same one)
>
> do the names need to be dynamic, why not make then static such that
> when you are not there the web page times out!

I need them to refer to a valid ip address of the laptop - but one that 
is also valid when the laptop is disconnected from the network. 

So I "think" a plan like this might work

I set up my dbcp server at home to recognise the MAC address(es) of my 
laptop and to allocate a fixed ip address [say 192.168.0.26] to the 
laptop (this allows me also to connect the laptop to other networks 
away from home and obtain an ip address) 

My home network is in the .home domain.  I then add green.home and 
blue.home to my dns server, so any reference by a computer on the home 
network to green.home or blue.home get the ipaddress 192.168.0.26

I then add the following lines to /etc/hosts (over and above what debian 
adds)

127.0.2.1   green.home green
127.0.3.1   blue.home blue

This ensures that any references in the software internal sees addresses 
for green.home and blue.home as the local machine regardless of whether 
its connected to the network or not.

In apache, I set up named virtual hosts like this


  ServerName green.home
  DocumentRoot /home/alan/web-dev/green


  ServerName blue.home
  DocumentRoot /home/alan/wev-dev/blue


Tnen when I am not on my home network I can still point my browser at 
http://green.home, or http://blue.home to test out my applications

BUT when I am at home and not travelling, I can also point my desktop's 
brower at http://green.home or http://blue.home and get it to also see 
the web sites.

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Re: sound blaster problem -

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 14:01:53, Joey L wrote:
> I ran lspci and got this:
...
> 04:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs Unknown device 7006
> 05:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Unknown device 0009
> 
> when i run alsaconf - I get no sound devices detected.
> Is there another step that i am missing - The last 2 devices in lspci is the
> soundblaster card, yes?

What model is this? As far as I know some recent models are not 
supported in Linux, because Creative Labs doesn't provide any drivers 
and doesn't cooperate with the community.

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Re: weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

[Andrei Popescu]

The relevant part is this:

> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/tagcoll.1.gz', which is also in
> package tagcoll

You have a file conflict. If both packages are from Debian (and not from 
some other source) then this is a bug. Check the bug pages for both 
packages and see if this has been reported already (the report might 
also contain a workaround). If not, you should report it yourself.

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Re: File Sharing Problem

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-03-24 12:57, Daryl Styrk wrote:
[snip]


Tom,
You need top open port 22 on the destination machine and make sure your 
have openssh-server installed on the destination as well.


I use shorewall and have the following rule to allow ssh on 22...

#ACTIONSOURCEDESTPROTODESTSOURCE   
ACCEPT all  F$ tcp 22


If the machines are inside the LAN, isn't shorewall superfluous?

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Re: libglib1.2ldbl

[André Moreira]

Hey,

been there already, got the source
[glib1.2_1.2.10.orig.tar.gz]build
it and... no libglib1.2ldbl anywhere...

That's why I was looking for a repository that had it. What repos are you
using with aptitude.

I have a minimal debian install on a samllform PC with XCFE (or something
like that) as X.

Cheers

2009/3/24 Daryl Styrk 

> André Moreira wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> some front matter ;)
>>
>> I'm having a hard time installing lazarus on a debian machine with kernel
>> 2.6.18-5-686.
>>
>> I have a dependency issue with libglib1.2ldbl and I can't find it anywhere
>> in my repositories with apt-cache.
>>
>> Can anyone point me to the right place?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>
>
> $ aptitude show libglib1.2ldbl
> Package: libglib1.2ldbl
> State: not installed
> Version: 1.2.10-19
> Priority: optional
> Section: oldlibs
> Maintainer: Daniel Baumann 
> Uncompressed Size: 274k
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5)
> Conflicts: libglib1.2
> Replaces: libglib1.2
> Description: The GLib library of C routines
>  GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as
> trees,
>  hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK+ toolkit,
> but
>  has been split off as of version 1.1.0.
>
>
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libglib1.2ldbl&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
>
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Re: File Sharing Problem

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 12:17:29, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN.  Each
> can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and
> phoenix.

Good
 
> I have gotten lost in the NFS-Root-Client-Mini-HOWTO which seems far
> more elaborate than my needs.  From either system I only want to access
> the files in the directory /data on the other system.
> 
> I have tried to copy the file I need with command on dragon:
> 
> dragon:~# spc phoenix:/data/filename /data
> ssh: connection to host phoenix port 22: no route to host
>
> Notes: I have edited hosts.allow on both systems to allow each other.
> There are no entries in hosts.deny.  I have checked the output of
> netstat -pln and find that neither is listening on port 22 so I tried 
> 
> dragon:~# spc -P 22 phoenix:/data/filename /data
> ssh: connection to host phoenix port 25: no route to host

Is sshd running? Did you make changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Can you 
'ssh localhost'?

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Re: libglib1.2ldbl

[Daryl Styrk]

André Moreira wrote:

Hello,

some front matter ;)

I'm having a hard time installing lazarus on a debian machine with kernel
2.6.18-5-686.

I have a dependency issue with libglib1.2ldbl and I can't find it anywhere
in my repositories with apt-cache.

Can anyone point me to the right place?

Cheers





$ aptitude show libglib1.2ldbl
Package: libglib1.2ldbl
State: not installed
Version: 1.2.10-19
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann 
Uncompressed Size: 274k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5)
Conflicts: libglib1.2
Replaces: libglib1.2
Description: The GLib library of C routines
 GLib is a library containing many useful C routines for things such as 
trees,
 hashes, and lists. GLib was previously distributed with the GTK+ 
toolkit, but

 has been split off as of version 1.1.0.

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:51, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
> > > I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
> > > same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> > >
> > > I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
> > > applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
> >
> > Hi Lisi,
>
> Hi, Thorny,
>
> > This sounds interesting. Why can't you get them going
>
> I have no idea - I have never used either but would like them to try and
> record something so that I can test the mike.
>
> > and what do you mean
> > by "going"?
>
> I can't persuade them to do anything recognisable to me.  But then I have
> never before tried to use a mike on a computer.  All I want to use it for
> now, is to use Twinkle to make telephone calls.  But I so far only have one
> SipGate number - and there is a limit to how often I feel able to make the
> poor chap on the other end of it carry on a one-sided conversation.
>
> > I suppose you've already checked in your mixer that mic input isn't
> > muted, eh?
>
> Yes.  Everything is on maximum in KMix, and I tried to set "capture" and
> "+20" and various other bits in alsamixergui.  Not very successfully
> because I can't make sense of the colours and symbols and alsamixer doesn't
> go in for words much. :-(   I shall persue this line a bit more.
>
> > What is your soundcard,
>
> Card: NVidia nForce2, chip: Realtek ALC650F
>
> > any known issues with it with Lenny, if that is
> > what you use?
>
> D'oh!  I haven't checked.  Everything else I have thrown at it has Just
> Worked, including the earphone part of this headset.
>
> I did have to adjust the mixer settings to get it to work, way back in the
> mists of time when I first went from Etch to Lenny, tho' it had worked fine
> in Sarge and Etch.  And I have just finally found the thread about this
> from when it happened, and have not yet worked thro' it all.  I was looking
> on the wrong list - it was on Debian Women, not here.
>
> But I have recently reinstalled Lenny, and deliberately lost all my config
> files (It's a long story.) and audio is working fine still.
>
> > ALSA working fine for other sounds on your system?
>
> See above.  No problems at all with playing sound - and I actually think
> that it may now (after my last lot of fiddling) be transmitting/recording
> sound. I just need to test it somehow!  While sparing my poor friend - I
> don't want him to become an ex-friend. ;-)
>
> I have yet to try Sinan Can İmamoğlu's suggestions, tho' I shall certainly
> do so.
>
> TIA
> Lisi

Hi Lisi.

I have used Krecord before, but you have to check the  "full duplex"  box in 
KDE's control centre > Sound & Multimedia > Sound System > Hardware, and 
that'assuming that the KDE sound server is running, otherwise the "full 
duplex" checkbox is greyed out.

Personally I use MhWaveedit for recording. Normally I compile it from source, 
but it is available on some Debian based installs from their repo's.

Nigel.


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Re: help - Browsing network Issue after installing SAMBA?

[dbpbandit]

The method I used before was just using Nautilus 2.20.0 > network >
Windows Network > select the server and brows from there. Never got
any error messages, it worked fine. Turns out I ended up doing a
reinstall and this time I didn't select the "File Server" option,
works fine now. I will post a new thread and ask how to go about
setting up file sharing. Thanks...

-Dave


On Mar 24, 4:40 am, Thorny  wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:49 -0700, dbpbandit posted:
>
> > I've been experimenting with several distributions of Linux over the past
> > few months and I finally decided on Debian for many reasons. Currently I
> > have it running on a couple of laptops and an old PC. The PC has two HDD,
> > one has Debian Lenny and the other has Fedora 9 so I could switch between
> > the two. The HDD with Debian died last week so I put in a working drive
> > and ran the Debian Net-Install but this time I selected to "File Server"
> > option. Everything seems OK as far as the OS but now I can't brows to the
> > other Windows systems on the network like I could before. Does this have
> > something to do with the fact that it's now running SAMBA? Is there
> > something I need to do to brows to the other network machines? I'm pretty
> > new to Linux so any help is greatly appreciated, thanks..
>
> Dave, you're more likely to get useful answers if you provide a bit more
> information.
>
> What method did you use to browse the network "before". Include any error
> messages you receive when you now try. Otherwise, it isn't easy to guess
> where the problem might be occurring and many people who might be able to
> help you will just read your post and move on.
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libglib1.2ldbl

[André Moreira]

Hello,

some front matter ;)

I'm having a hard time installing lazarus on a debian machine with kernel
2.6.18-5-686.

I have a dependency issue with libglib1.2ldbl and I can't find it anywhere
in my repositories with apt-cache.

Can anyone point me to the right place?

Cheers

Re: minimal xorg.conf for usb mouse

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 12:17:38, David Goodenough wrote:
> With the sid Xorg code for many systems you now no longer need an
> xorg.conf, everything self configures.
> 
> But it would appear that USB mice are not supported in this configuration.
 
My usb mouse works just fine. Try running 'tail -f /var/log/messages' in 
terminal and plug the mouse. What happens?

> Normally I have a synaptic mousepad on my laptop, but sometimes I would
> rather use a mouse.
> 
> What do I have to have in my xorg.conf (currently there is no such file) in 
> order to get everything working?

I only have this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Configured Mouse"
Driver  "mouse"
EndSection

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Re: export variables bash

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 19:46:28, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:51:08PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > How can I export (or just run a bunch of commands like .bash_profile),
> > when gnome starts from gdm?
> 
> Solved, configured in the gnome-terminal profiles window...

But it will only work for gnome-terminal. From 
/usr/share/doc/x11-common/NEWS.Debian.gz:

This release provides the ability to set session-wide environment
variables easily. If you have the file ".xsessionrc" in your home
directory it will be read (sourced) by the X session scripts during
login. This allows you to easily set environment variables in this file
that apply to all apps. This is most immediately useful for setting
locale information. Remember that for most shells you will have to
explicitly export the variable for it to take effect in your session.

Regards,
Andrei
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Re: Possible bug in packaging

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 06:30:50, Amey Parulekar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I built and installed mercator from source, and then built and installed
> cyphesis (which has mercator as one of the dependencies), but on running
> cyphesis I got a linking error saying libmercator-0.2.so not found. However,
> installing mercator from the repos made this problem go away.
> 
> Now, cyphesis doesn't build unless it finds an installed copy of mercator,
> so this is not a problem with cyphesis. The fact that it is a runtime error
> suggests that it has something to do with the directory structure that
> debian uses for libraries.

Did you try installing libmercator-0.2-dev ?

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sound blaster problem -

[Joey L]

I ran lspci and got this:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a3)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:05.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:05.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3)
00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro
Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
HyperTransport Technology Configuration00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro
Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM
Controller
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
01:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs Unknown device 7006
05:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs Unknown device 0009



when i run alsaconf - I get no sound devices detected.
Is there another step that i am missing - The last 2 devices in lspci is the
soundblaster card, yes?

Re: File Sharing Problem

[Daryl Styrk]

Thomas H. George wrote:

I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN.  Each
can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and
phoenix.

I have gotten lost in the NFS-Root-Client-Mini-HOWTO which seems far
more elaborate than my needs.  From either system I only want to access
the files in the directory /data on the other system.

I have tried to copy the file I need with command on dragon:

dragon:~# spc phoenix:/data/filename /data
ssh: connection to host phoenix port 22: no route to host

Notes: I have edited hosts.allow on both systems to allow each other.
There are no entries in hosts.deny.  I have checked the output of
netstat -pln and find that neither is listening on port 22 so I tried 


dragon:~# spc -P 22 phoenix:/data/filename /data
ssh: connection to host phoenix port 25: no route to host

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions.

Tom




Tom,
You need top open port 22 on the destination machine and make sure your 
have openssh-server installed on the destination as well.


I use shorewall and have the following rule to allow ssh on 22...

#ACTION SOURCE  DESTPROTO   DESTSOURCE  
ACCEPT   all F$  tcp 22


Daryl


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Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 13:30:15, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:06:11 +1300, Chris Bannister 
> (mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz) wrote: 
> 
> [...]
> > It was mentioned that inline posting and deleting unnecessary text is a
> > better method, but that was shrugged off as being too confusing. :o
> > So in that situation I was happier[2] seeing a silly top posting
> > message.
>  
> > [2] Only because I didn't have to press  a dozen or so times.
> 
> As you use mutt, 'S' should skip to the end of each section of quoted
> text, or, if you know there is no interleaved quoting, just press the
> 'End' key to go right to the bottom ;-)

 by itself is a bit annoying as it doesn't show the last 
few lines (which should have relevant context). I prefer this:

macro   index,pager s   

(I use S for save)

There is also  (jump to parent message, "P" by default) 
but you can't jump back :/

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:21:06 Thorny wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:
> > I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
> > same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> >
> > I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
> > applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
>
> Hi Lisi,

Hi, Thorny,

> This sounds interesting. Why can't you get them going 

I have no idea - I have never used either but would like them to try and 
record something so that I can test the mike.

> and what do you mean 
> by "going"?

I can't persuade them to do anything recognisable to me.  But then I have 
never before tried to use a mike on a computer.  All I want to use it for 
now, is to use Twinkle to make telephone calls.  But I so far only have one 
SipGate number - and there is a limit to how often I feel able to make the 
poor chap on the other end of it carry on a one-sided conversation.

> I suppose you've already checked in your mixer that mic input isn't muted,
> eh?

Yes.  Everything is on maximum in KMix, and I tried to set "capture" and "+20" 
and various other bits in alsamixergui.  Not very successfully because I 
can't make sense of the colours and symbols and alsamixer doesn't go in for 
words much. :-(   I shall persue this line a bit more.  

> What is your soundcard, 

Card: NVidia nForce2, chip: Realtek ALC650F

> any known issues with it with Lenny, if that is 
> what you use?

D'oh!  I haven't checked.  Everything else I have thrown at it has Just 
Worked, including the earphone part of this headset.

I did have to adjust the mixer settings to get it to work, way back in the 
mists of time when I first went from Etch to Lenny, tho' it had worked fine 
in Sarge and Etch.  And I have just finally found the thread about this from 
when it happened, and have not yet worked thro' it all.  I was looking on the 
wrong list - it was on Debian Women, not here.

But I have recently reinstalled Lenny, and deliberately lost all my config 
files (It's a long story.) and audio is working fine still.

> ALSA working fine for other sounds on your system?

See above.  No problems at all with playing sound - and I actually think that 
it may now (after my last lot of fiddling) be transmitting/recording sound.  
I just need to test it somehow!  While sparing my poor friend - I don't want 
him to become an ex-friend. ;-)

I have yet to try Sinan Can İmamoğlu's suggestions, tho' I shall certainly do 
so.

TIA
Lisi



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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1751-1] New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,24.Mar.09, 10:05:06, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
 
> For how long have I been running a (knowingly) insecure Iceweasel?

It seems to me as you haven't. I searched through my archive of 
debian-security-announce and I don't see any other related message.

Did you try searching the archives of debian-security? This subject 
might have come up.

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Re: Pocket Hard Drive or Keypen to run Linux

[Daryl Styrk]

Dean Chester wrote:

Hi
Im soon to be buying a new key pen/pocket hard drive that will have a
linux distro installed on a partition. What would be the best to go
for as key pens only have a certain life and the keypen will be used
daily. I know i shouldn't run it as a main OS off the keypen yet im
not allowed to install it on the hard drive of my school issued
laptop. I will be looking at either at getting 2 16gb keypens or one
big pocket hard drive. Will also the read and write speed be an issue
aswell?
Thanks in advance
Dean




I have knoppix installed on a 2G thumb drive..  After the initial 
install I had 699MB left for a /home . Cost like what $4 on amazon.com.. 
even replacing once a year is cost effective for me..  I haven't needed 
to yet.  And at the rate they keep coming down in price I could care 
less if I replaced it twice a year.. I can not longer read the brand of 
my current drive so I can't help you there..



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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Thorny]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:26:33 +, Lisi Reisz posted:

> I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the
> same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> 
> I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the
> applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).
>
Hi Lisi,

This sounds interesting. Why can't you get them going and what do you mean
by "going"? 

I suppose you've already checked in your mixer that mic input isn't muted,
eh?

What is your soundcard, any known issues with it with Lenny, if that is
what you use?

ALSA working fine for other sounds on your system?


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Re: flakey internet access through network

[Thorny]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:11:53 -0700, postid posted:

> I'm working on our school's computer system and discovering that the
> internet access is really a pain. I can log on to the wireless  network
> and get a strong signal, but internet access comes and goes. I just
> discovered that if I try to do a search, click on something online, or
> start writing a webmail email, it will just try and try and then finally
> give up trying to access the internet. If I start a process, however,
> then in a console enter
> 
> # dhclient eth2
> 
> Bingo! the internet responds.
> 
> Otherwise I just have to wait until it comes back, which could be five
> minutes or 20 minutes or whatever.
> 
> What's happening here? Is it forgetting that I'm logged in?
> 
> The commands I use for the initial connection are:
> 
> # iwconfig eth2 essid "NAMEHERE"
> # iwconfig eth2 mode Managed key open # iwconfig eth2 key KEYHERE #
> iwconfig eth2 dhclient eth2
> 
> I was doing a netinstall here (with a wired connection on this network)
> a few nights ago and it was taking forever because I'd lose the internet
> and have to wait for it to come back again and continue the download.
> Sometimes I'd still have internet access on one of the desktops and on
> my laptop, sometimes just the laptop, sometimes just the desktop,
> sometimes just the wired computer involved in a netinstall.
> 
> What's going on here? How do I solve this problem, at least for my
> laptop and the machine on which I'm installing lenny? My laptop is
> running Debian Sarge (it'll get lenny when I finish here), I'm trying to
> install lenny on one of the desktops, and everything else is windows.
> 
> postid

This sounds a lot like something that you probably should take up with the
school's IT department and maybe check the terms of service. What you
describe doesn't like any of your machines are "forgetting" your IP
address. But you could check that with the command ipconfig eth2 (since
you mentioned eth2 as the interface involved) before issuing the dhclient
command. Or do you have a router connect to the feed in your room, then
check the router for possible problems. Any wireless can come and go for a
variety of reasons. Maybe other machines on the school network are using
up the bandwidth available or maybe the school has a bandwidth limit per
unit of time for systems on the network. Or, even the school's feed from
cyberspace could come and go from time to time, is this issue always
reproducible?. The topology of the school's network isn't clear from your
description. I'm just guessing but I don't think anything about Debian is
causing what you describe, so it would be OT here. Your IT department can
work with you to pin down the source of your problem.

Remember Sarge is no longer getting security updates so be careful when
using it.


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weird error while trying to run apt-get ? has anyone seen this...google has not

[Joey L]

serv:/usr/share/man/man1# apt-get upgrade tagcoll
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libtagcoll-dev
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3429kB of archives.
After unpacking 1950kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 230141 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libtagcoll-dev 1.6.3-1 (using
.../libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libtagcoll-dev ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/tagcoll.1.gz', which is also in
package tagcoll
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libtagcoll-dev_1.6.3-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Re: Iceweasel: Can't find helper application

[Thorny]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:19:53 +1030, Matthew Smith posted:

> Hi Folks
> 
> Don't know if this is a Debian issue or a Firefox issue - having only just
> switched from Gentoo+FF2 to Debian+FF3/Iceweasel.
>
> * Try to follow a link to a PDF document. * Get a message that the helper
> application (xpdf) can't be found. * Go to Preferences/Applications and
> change the 3 instances of PDF to invoke specifically /usr/bin/xpdf (in
> case there was an issue with the path.)
> * Issue persists.
>

I have a default installation of Iceweasel 3.0.6 on Lenny and when I go to
Preferences-->Applications I only see one instance of Portable Document
Format. For it there is a drop down list to choose other than the default
"Always ask" which also includes navigation for "Use other ..." choices.
This doesn't sound like what you are describing (3 instead of the 1 I
see). You didn't mention anything about which version of either Iceweasel
or the OS, don't know if it might be related.

 
> I have seem issues before with Firefox and what to do with various MIME
> types; in FF2, I'm pretty sure that one could delete entries in
> Applications which would force an 'ask' dialogue next time that MIME type
> was encountered, generally fixing the issue.  It appears that we no longer
> have that luxury.
> 

Hummm. Could it be that you tried to copy some configuration files
over from one of your other installations to save what you had already
done or something like that? Something that might not be compatible?


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File Sharing Problem

[Thomas H. George]

I wish to share or move files between two Debian systems on a LAN.  Each
can successfully ping the other using their system names, dragon and
phoenix.

I have gotten lost in the NFS-Root-Client-Mini-HOWTO which seems far
more elaborate than my needs.  From either system I only want to access
the files in the directory /data on the other system.

I have tried to copy the file I need with command on dragon:

dragon:~# spc phoenix:/data/filename /data
ssh: connection to host phoenix port 22: no route to host

Notes: I have edited hosts.allow on both systems to allow each other.
There are no entries in hosts.deny.  I have checked the output of
netstat -pln and find that neither is listening on port 22 so I tried 

dragon:~# spc -P 22 phoenix:/data/filename /data
ssh: connection to host phoenix port 25: no route to host

I would appreciate any comments or suggestions.

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flakey internet access through network

I'm working on our school's computer system and discovering that the internet 
access is really a pain. I can log on to the wireless  network and get a strong 
signal, but internet access comes and goes. I just discovered that if I try to 
do a search, click on something online, or start writing a webmail email, it 
will just try and try and then finally give up trying to access the internet. 
If I start a process, however, then in a console enter

# dhclient eth2

Bingo! the internet responds.

Otherwise I just have to wait until it comes back, which could be five minutes 
or 20 minutes or whatever. 

What's happening here? Is it forgetting that I'm logged in? 

The commands I use for the initial connection are:

# iwconfig eth2 essid "NAMEHERE"
# iwconfig eth2 mode Managed key open
# iwconfig eth2 key KEYHERE
# iwconfig eth2 dhclient eth2

I was doing a netinstall here (with a wired connection on this network) a few 
nights ago and it was taking forever because I'd lose the internet and have to 
wait for it to come back again and continue the download. Sometimes I'd still 
have internet access on one of the desktops and on my laptop, sometimes just 
the laptop, sometimes just the desktop, sometimes just the wired computer 
involved in a netinstall.

What's going on here? How do I solve this problem, at least for my laptop and 
the machine on which I'm installing lenny? My laptop is running Debian Sarge 
(it'll get lenny when I finish here), I'm trying to install lenny on one of the 
desktops, and everything else is windows.

postid


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Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

[John]

On (25/03/09 01:05), Chris Bannister wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:37:45PM -0700, johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com wrote:
| > 
| > Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download 
mail. ...
| > )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection
| > ...
| 
| Does it work using the -m option?

Everything now works fine. The solution, suggested by Florian Kulzer,
was to upgrade lsb* to version 3.2-22.

For some strange reason, it was necessary that day to "aptitude
update" several times to be offered version 3.2.22. A laptop updated
the morning of Saturday, 21 March, got 3.2-22, and never had a
problem.  Two other machines updated _later_ that same afternoon were
moved only from 3.2-20 to 3.2-21. After receiving Florian's
suggestion, two or three repeats of "aptitude update" were needed in
order to get the desired choice.

Anyway, this puzzling fact aside, all is well at present. I've written
it off to the joys of running side.

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Re: lenny reinstall

[Jimmy Johnson]

postid wrote:
I need to reinstall lenny using netinstall. (I had some problems with 
the network, etc. during the first attempt.) I want to keep the 
partitioning I currently have set up. I especially don't want to risk 
messing up hda1 since I promised the user that I'd give them the option 
of booting either system.


   hda1 win2000
   hda2 /
   hda5 /swap
   hda6 /home

 Will the partitioner give me the option of reusing the current scheme 
and formatting over the old data on hda2 and hda6 or do I need to delete 
the contents of hda2 and hda6 using a live distro (or the installer 
command line?) before I start the install? I seem to recall reading 
somewhere that Debian won't install over itself. Any pitfalls to watch 
for here or am I just paranoid? I don't want to lose the contents of 
hda1. I'm planning on using the graphical installer and manual 
partitioning.




No problem, when you get to the partitioning part of install choose the 
manual partitioning and choose the partitions you want to install to, as 
for /root you will need to have it formated during the install or you 
can delete the system files before hand by using a Live cd and not have 
it formated (this is good if you have /home on the /root partition), as 
for /home you do not need to format, if you want a clean install it's 
best to let the installer format all the partitions.


The /swap will be auto-formated, you have no choice.
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Re: minimal xorg.conf for usb mouse

[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

David Goodenough wrote:

With the sid Xorg code for many systems you now no longer need an
xorg.conf, everything self configures.

But it would appear that USB mice are not supported in this configuration.

Normally I have a synaptic mousepad on my laptop, but sometimes I would
rather use a mouse.

What do I have to have in my xorg.conf (currently there is no such file) in 
order to get everything working?


David

  


Hi David.

I have this code:

Section "InputDevice"
   # generated from default
   Identifier "Mouse0"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "auto"
   Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
   Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection




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Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

lenny reinstall

[postid]

I need to reinstall lenny using netinstall. (I had some problems 
with the network, etc. during the first attempt.) I want to keep 
the partitioning I currently have set up. I especially don't want 
to risk messing up hda1 since I promised the user that I'd give 
them the option of booting either system.


   hda1 win2000
   hda2 /
   hda5 /swap
   hda6 /home

 Will the partitioner give me the option of reusing the current 
scheme and formatting over the old data on hda2 and hda6 or do I 
need to delete the contents of hda2 and hda6 using a live distro 
(or the installer command line?) before I start the install? I 
seem to recall reading somewhere that Debian won't install over 
itself. Any pitfalls to watch for here or am I just paranoid? I 
don't want to lose the contents of hda1. I'm planning on using 
the graphical installer and manual partitioning.


postid


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Re: Can't print print in gnome 2.22 after upgrading etch >> lenny

[Sebastian Schnur]

Hi,

I found out what was wrong. The cups in lenny uses the FQDN. You can 
checkout the used FQDN using "ngrap".


There was no error reported by /vav/log/cups/error.log

Thank you and greetings!

Javier Barroso wrote:

Hi,
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Sebastian Schnur
 wrote:
  

Hi dear debian-users,

the new gnome in lenny is kidding me. I can't print out of all
gnome-applications. So whats wrong?

"lpstat -p" says that everything is allright with cups. I haven't found any
bug according this. So I might solve the problem with some help.
The libgnomeprint* are already installed. So I don't know where the problem
could lie.

I hope someone has a possible suggestion.


Did you look at /vav/log/cups/error.log ?

Regards
  



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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 1751-1] New xulrunner packages fix several vulnerabilities

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:57:11PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun,22.Mar.09, 18:35:21,  wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm running Etch, and use Iceweasel.  I'm concerned about this security
> > advisory.  It says that the Etch release notes said that the Mozilla
> > products would have to be stopped prior to the end of the Etch support
> > period.  I don't see this.
> 
> Here it is:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/oldstable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-mozilla-security

That, again, is just like in Lenny, where they say that, at some point in
the future, security support may be dropped.  They still do the security
support for Lenny, but they didn't announce dropping it for Etch.  

For how long have I been running a (knowingly) insecure Iceweasel?

I'm glad I use a different user for it.

Doug.


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Re: Consolechars Question

[Thomas H. George]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:02:42AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font
> > and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters.  The final
> > font is very readable but when I start mutt the symbols used to indicate
> > threading of messages are weird.
> 
> OK, install console-terminus then edit /etc/console-tools/config 
> 
> -- /etc/console-tools/config ---
> # Turn on numlock by default
> #LEDS=+num
> APP_CHARSET_MAP=utf8
> APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc1=utf8
> APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=utf8
> APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc3=utf8
> APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc4=utf8
> SCREEN_FONT=Uni3-TerminusBold16
> -- /etc/console-tools/config ---
> 
> The lines "# Turn on numlock by default" and "#LEDS=+num" should already
> be there at the end of the file.
> 
> Do the threading symbols now show correctly?

No, they have become more complex - i.e. the space between the start of
a line and the threading symbol is now filled with capital n's with
tilde over them.  Previously there was just one N with tilde over it at
the start of a line.

Initially there was no change after editing /etc/console-tools/config as
indicated above though echo $LANG responded en.US.UTF-8.  I rebooted
again seeing the switch to wiry fonts part way through the bootup.  When
the bootup was complete the console font looked like what I expect from
en.US.UTF-8 but when I ran mutt the threading symbols were double line
things and the space was filled with the N's with tilde over them.
I ran consolechars -d and the threading switched to single line symbols
and no N's with tilde.

I'll check the archives as you suggested. 
> 
> I think that is all that is needed although you might want to check the
> list archives as this problem has arisen in the past and there may be
> something I've missed.
> 
> According to /usr/share/doc/mutt/README.Debian:
> 
> l10n support
> 
> If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no
> use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in the manual
> page muttrc(5).
> Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package "locales" installed on
> your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable.
> e.g. US users will want to add "export LC_CTYPE=en_US" to their
> ~/.bashrc.
> If you have a /etc/locale.gen file read carefully the comment and do
> what it says, or it will not work.
> No, linux systems do not need --enable-locales-fix or
> --without-wc-funcs,
> so don't bother me saying these switches cure your problems.
> 
> 
> BUT
> 
> I haven't done that and it works fine -- see:
> chr...@box:~$ echo $LC_CTYPE
> 
> chr...@box:~$ echo $LANG
> en_NZ.UTF-8
> 
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> possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
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Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

[Bob Cox]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:06:11 +1300, Chris Bannister 
(mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz) wrote: 

[...]
> It was mentioned that inline posting and deleting unnecessary text is a
> better method, but that was shrugged off as being too confusing. :o
> So in that situation I was happier[2] seeing a silly top posting
> message.
 
> [2] Only because I didn't have to press  a dozen or so times.

As you use mutt, 'S' should skip to the end of each section of quoted
text, or, if you know there is no interleaved quoting, just press the
'End' key to go right to the bottom ;-)

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Re: testing microphone - how?

[Sinan Can İmamoğlu]

On 2009-03-24, Lisi Reisz  wrote:

> I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing
> the same poor person repeatedly by VOIP.
> 
> I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the 
> applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).

(GNOME) Sound Recorder works for me. Also has "record from input"
choice. You may also use 5...@ekiga.net echo service and Skype echo123
echo service if you cannot find a better solution.


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Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-03-24 07:06, Chris Bannister wrote:

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote:

Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting.
The only person who can say that with a straight face is one who has  
spent too much time using Windows.


Or who reads quite a lot of mail from outhouse users.

At least with top posting you don't have to scroll through _all_ the 
previous posts just to see if the reply is relevant.

The problem isn't bottom-posting, it's...


More importantly, IMHO is deleting any text which is not relevant.
This.  Which should be done whether you top- or bottom-post.  It's just 
that with top-posting it's easy to forget to snip out all the crud.


Good point!, but I regret it is more to do with laziness and this "throw
away and damn the consequences[1]" way of life. :(


[snip]


[2] Only because I didn't have to press  a dozen or so times.


Yet another reason for in-/bottom-posting with context: finding the 
email that it is replying to can be a bit tricky.


http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/Far_away_replies.png

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minimal xorg.conf for usb mouse

[David Goodenough]

With the sid Xorg code for many systems you now no longer need an
xorg.conf, everything self configures.

But it would appear that USB mice are not supported in this configuration.

Normally I have a synaptic mousepad on my laptop, but sometimes I would
rather use a mouse.

What do I have to have in my xorg.conf (currently there is no such file) in 
order to get everything working?

David


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Re: iceape-browser disappear of debian

[Thorny]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:00:30 +0100, Gerard Robin posted:

> Hello,
> iceape is no more part of debian, I would like to know if is it possible
> to install the package seamonkey of ubuntu in sid ?
> 

It was dropped from Debian because no one stepped up to act as maintainer,
you may be able to do your own local install of the suite depending upon
your ability and desire. Be sure to read the release notes. I agree with
poster Mark Allums about mixing packages from Ubuntu, might work, might
not, might cause you grief, Ubuntu is based on a snapshot of sid at a
particular time and I don't think it's clear how that might impact your
system or what effect it might have on future upgrades.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/



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Re: confused about gcc-4.3 version in my system

[Sven Joachim]

On 2009-03-24 13:03 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:37:47AM -0700, shaul Karl wrote:
>> 
>> dpkg (dpkg -l gcc-4.3) reports that 4.3.3-3 is installed.
>> The latest entry in /var/log/apt/term reports 4:4.3.3-2 were set up.
> ^^
>   typo?
>
>> To add to my confusion, I seem to remember that the head of 
>> /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/changelog.Debian.gz pointed to 4.3.3-3 before the 
>> mentioned entry in var/log/apt/term.
>> How can it be?
>
> "I seem to remember" is not good enough. I wouldn't worry about it since
> the -2 and -3 are just the Debian version numbers, that is you still
> have gcc 4.3.3 installed.
>
> There is no way that 4.3.3-3 would be installed before 4.3.3-2,
> discounting any dpkg forcing options.

The confusion seems to come from the fact that there is both a gcc-4.3 
package and a gcc package which just depends on the default compiler,
currently gcc-4.3.  There versions differ somewhat:

,
| % dpkg -l gcc gcc-4.3   
| [...]
| ii  gcc 4:4.3.3-2   The GNU C compiler
| ii  gcc-4.3 4.3.3-5 The GNU C compiler
`

Sven


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Pocket Hard Drive or Keypen to run Linux

[Dean Chester]

Hi
Im soon to be buying a new key pen/pocket hard drive that will have a
linux distro installed on a partition. What would be the best to go
for as key pens only have a certain life and the keypen will be used
daily. I know i shouldn't run it as a main OS off the keypen yet im
not allowed to install it on the hard drive of my school issued
laptop. I will be looking at either at getting 2 16gb keypens or one
big pocket hard drive. Will also the read and write speed be an issue
aswell?
Thanks in advance
Dean


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Re: 64 vs 32 lenny

[Chris Bannister]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:40:09AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> As for applications, the only one I'm missing at the moment is a 64bit version
> of skype (you can still run the static version), most everything else has 64
> bit versions I believe (at least things I use)

Not tovid, that I could see, but videotrans seems to do the trick.
Nor fvwm-themes :(

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Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40:14AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> Bottom posting of course is just as bad or worse than top posting.
>
> The only person who can say that with a straight face is one who has  
> spent too much time using Windows.

Or who reads quite a lot of mail from outhouse users.

>> At least with top posting you don't have to scroll through _all_ the 
>> previous posts just to see if the reply is relevant.
>
> The problem isn't bottom-posting, it's...
>
>> More importantly, IMHO is deleting any text which is not relevant.
>
> This.  Which should be done whether you top- or bottom-post.  It's just 
> that with top-posting it's easy to forget to snip out all the crud.

Good point!, but I regret it is more to do with laziness and this "throw
away and damn the consequences[1]" way of life. :(

One of the mailing lists I am on suffers horribly from top posters, the
same software is also availabe for windoze. The admin occassionaly posts
a message saying along the lines of "bottom posting is the preferred
method ..." with the consequence that each post grows + grows + grows
until it gets really annoying scrolling just to read some silly remark.

It was mentioned that inline posting and deleting unnecessary text is a
better method, but that was shrugged off as being too confusing. :o
So in that situation I was happier[2] seeing a silly top posting
message.

[1] Remembering the story of the Big Mac which was forgotten about in a
cupboard and when the person noticed it there a year or so later it
looked just as "fresh" as the day it was purchased - no sign of decay
... nothing, not even the rodents etc. had bothered it.

[2] Only because I didn't have to press  a dozen or so times.

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Re: Fetchmail problem: connection to localhost refused

[Chris Bannister]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 07:37:45PM -0700, johnrchamp...@columbus.rr.com wrote:
> 
> Fetchmail, for reasons I can't figure out, has started refusing to download 
> mail. An identitical .fetchmailrc works on a different laptop, both running 
> uptodate sid.  Here's a sample error message:
> 
> 2 messages for JohnRChamplin at pop-server.columbus.rr.com (11760 octets).
> reading message johnrchamp...@pop-server.columbus.rr.com:1 of 2 (4264 octets
> )..fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [127.0.0.1/25] failed: Connection
>  refused.
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from johnrchamp...@pop-serv
> er.columbus.rr.com and delivering to SMTP host localhost
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)

Does it work using the -m option?

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Re: mouse and gpm

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:42:44PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a mouse with gpm and brltty, and it is working well... Is it
> possible to get the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll the terminal in
> text mode? eg. work like the page up and page down keys, maybe not as
> bigger chunks though... Thought it could be cool to scroll emacs buffers
> and the like with a mouse under text mode?
> 
> Is this possible with gpm?

I think the next/new ncurses will allow this sort of thing. Maybe Thomas
Dickey has more info. He seems to magically pop in if xterm or lynx is
mentioned in a post. :)

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Re: confused about gcc-4.3 version in my system

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 03:56:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> Debian has a sort of rule about ABIs.  There can be two named "versions  
> for the same package.  For example, a kernel might be 2.6.xx-1 and  
> 2.6.xx-6 at the same time, a little confusing.  The -1 is the ABI, and  
> if the ABI changes, it will be changed to -2 to reflect that there is a  
> break in the binary compatibility.  The -6 is a patch level, or point  
> release, and reflects the 2.6.xx.yy version.

AIUI, the -x (where x is any number) is the Debian version of a package,
e.g. the diference between gcc 4.3.3-2 and 4.3.3-3 could just be a
simple fix that fixes a bug caused by creating 4.3.3-2 from 4.3.3-1

Can you please elaborate or give a reference to your assertion.

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Re: PHP5 Warning: pg_connect() Cannot create new link.

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 05:04:07PM +0100, Pet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've php5-pgsql installed, but php-scripts throw
> 
> Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Cannot create new link.
> 
> For any help, many thanks

That is insufficient information. Honestly, this is probably why your
post is being unanswered.

For a start, how did this error occur -- what happened to cause this
error. Hang on, its only a warning! You can normally ignore warnings.

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Re: confused about gcc-4.3 version in my system

[Chris Bannister]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 08:37:47AM -0700, shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> dpkg (dpkg -l gcc-4.3) reports that 4.3.3-3 is installed.
> The latest entry in /var/log/apt/term reports 4:4.3.3-2 were set up.
^^
typo?

> To add to my confusion, I seem to remember that the head of 
> /usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/changelog.Debian.gz pointed to 4.3.3-3 before the 
> mentioned entry in var/log/apt/term.
> How can it be?

"I seem to remember" is not good enough. I wouldn't worry about it since
the -2 and -3 are just the Debian version numbers, that is you still
have gcc 4.3.3 installed.

There is no way that 4.3.3-3 would be installed before 4.3.3-2,
discounting any dpkg forcing options.

In fact lenny has 

gcc-4.3:
  Installed: 4.3.2-1.1
  Candidate: 4.3.2-1.1

Are you running sid?

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Re: Consolechars Question

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> During bootup (Lenny) the console font changes to a thin, wiry font
> and then changes again to a font with much fatter characters.  The final
> font is very readable but when I start mutt the symbols used to indicate
> threading of messages are weird.

OK, install console-terminus then edit /etc/console-tools/config 

-- /etc/console-tools/config ---
# Turn on numlock by default
#LEDS=+num
APP_CHARSET_MAP=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc1=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc2=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc3=utf8
APP_CHARSET_MAP_vc4=utf8
SCREEN_FONT=Uni3-TerminusBold16
-- /etc/console-tools/config ---

The lines "# Turn on numlock by default" and "#LEDS=+num" should already
be there at the end of the file.

Do the threading symbols now show correctly?

I think that is all that is needed although you might want to check the
list archives as this problem has arisen in the past and there may be
something I've missed.

According to /usr/share/doc/mutt/README.Debian:

l10n support

If you want to see non-ASCII characters on a Debian system, there's no
use fiddling with the variable "charset", as described in the manual
page muttrc(5).
Instead, you'll need to have the Debian package "locales" installed on
your system and set the LANG or LC_CTYPE environment variable.
e.g. US users will want to add "export LC_CTYPE=en_US" to their
~/.bashrc.
If you have a /etc/locale.gen file read carefully the comment and do
what it says, or it will not work.
No, linux systems do not need --enable-locales-fix or
--without-wc-funcs,
so don't bother me saying these switches cure your problems.


BUT

I haven't done that and it works fine -- see:
chr...@box:~$ echo $LC_CTYPE

chr...@box:~$ echo $LANG
en_NZ.UTF-8

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Re: msginit doesn't work

[Chris Bannister]

Please don't hijack threads. Start a new thread instead of replying to
an existing thread and changing the subject.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 06:04:51PM +0800, Chris wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I try to use msginit to generate a po file, but it doesn't work.
>
> msginit -l zh_CN.UTF-8
>
> The new message catalog should contain your email address, so that users  
> can
> give you feedback about the translations, and so that maintainers can  
> contact
> you in case of unexpected technical problems.
>
> Which is your email address?
> 1 a...@gmail.com
> 2 b...@gmail.com
> 3 bbsh...@gmail.com
> 4 ch...@debian
>
> Please choose the number, or enter your email address.
> 4 [enter]

ch...@debian isn't the correct address.

> It stucks here.
>
> I've examined the script /usr/lib/gettext/user-email that verifies the  
> email address. It just requires something like   *...@*.*   . But whatever  
> a fully qualified domain name I give here, it stucks and doesn't show  
> any messages.Could anyone help me?

Are you sure it still sticks when you put "ch...@debian.org" as the
address?

I think there is a mailing list for translators, or you could contact
Christian Perrier 

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Re: help - Browsing network Issue after installing SAMBA?

[Thorny]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:49 -0700, dbpbandit posted:

> I've been experimenting with several distributions of Linux over the past
> few months and I finally decided on Debian for many reasons. Currently I
> have it running on a couple of laptops and an old PC. The PC has two HDD,
> one has Debian Lenny and the other has Fedora 9 so I could switch between
> the two. The HDD with Debian died last week so I put in a working drive
> and ran the Debian Net-Install but this time I selected to "File Server"
> option. Everything seems OK as far as the OS but now I can't brows to the
> other Windows systems on the network like I could before. Does this have
> something to do with the fact that it's now running SAMBA? Is there
> something I need to do to brows to the other network machines? I'm pretty
> new to Linux so any help is greatly appreciated, thanks..
> 

Dave, you're more likely to get useful answers if you provide a bit more
information.

What method did you use to browse the network "before". Include any error
messages you receive when you now try. Otherwise, it isn't easy to guess
where the problem might be occurring and many people who might be able to
help you will just read your post and move on.



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testing microphone - how?

[Lisi Reisz]

I am trying to test a microphone by some method other than ringing the same 
poor person repeatedly by VOIP.

I have tried to run record applications, but cannot seem to get the 
applications going (so far Audacity and KRec).

I have tried to run tests, but either I get an error message that the device 
is busy or I get the following:

u...@localhost:~$ cat /dev/dsp1 > /dev/dsp
cat: /dev/dsp1: No such file or directory
u...@localhost:~$

So - help!  I need to be able to test the mike simply in order to see whether 
I have got it going or not.

TIA
Lisi


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Re: Possible bug in packaging

[Thorny]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:30:50 +0530, Amey Parulekar posted:
[...]
> Now, cyphesis doesn't build unless it finds an installed copy of
mercator,
> so this is not a problem with cyphesis. The fact that it is a runtime
> error suggests that it has something to do with the directory structure
> that debian uses for libraries.
> 

It may be of interest to read this:
Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html

I think Debian adheres to the standard structure. At least mostly, I
haven't encountered diversions but YMMV.

You could symlink anything that you want to place outside of it.




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Re: "Domain of sender address does not resolve" in mail logs

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

> >> Quoth Bob Cox at 2009-03-18 18:39...
> >> >The question is whether you should be rejecting email from any user
> >> >@act.gov.au just because act.gov.au does not resolve.
> >
> >On 18.03.09 19:31, Matthew Smith wrote:
> >> we need to
> >> be tolerant of such things as MX records not having corresponding A
> >> records - even though it makes our spam-filtering configuration that
> >> much harder.

> On Friday 20 March 2009 10:02:56 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> >If a domain doesn't resolve, it's not available for e-mailing, thus it
> >should not be used in mail addresses (you can't mail there, you can't bounce
> >there...).

On 20.03.09 16:10, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> If it has an MX record, it is available for mailing.  The A record is an old 
> fall-back that is not required for proper mail delivery.
> 
> The name contained in the MX record must (since an address is required to 
> establish the SMTP connect) have an A or  record, but the right-hand side 
> of the email does not *have* to.

So it depends on what anyone means by "domain does not resolve". If it has
MX, I don't take it as "does not resolve" from the SMTP point of view. and I
think that the error message meant just that, not that "it does not resolve
to an A record"

I guess that the original problem was by (temporary) error with resolving -
act.gov.au. has one NS servers, one MX pointing at mail.act.gov.au., which
has another NS servers. The resolution errors may apear ocasionally appear
if some of delegation/authoritative NS records do not match, not talking
about mistake in DNS configuration.

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Re: export variables bash

[Daniel Dalton]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:51:08PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I export (or just run a bunch of commands like .bash_profile),
> when gnome starts from gdm?

Solved, configured in the gnome-terminal profiles window...

Daniel.


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stopping syslog errors from vserver guests

[Anton Piatek]

Hi,

Following on from the below message where I found that some of my
vserver guests are causing errors to be written in the vserver host's
syslog, does anyone know if/how it is possible to stop certain errors
from appearing?

2009/3/23 Anton Piatek :
> 2009/3/23 Anton Piatek :
>> Not sure when these errors started, but I have recently been seeing
>> errors in my syslog like the following:
>>
>> Mar 23 13:55:05 dementia kernel: [ 8535.882191] vxW:
>> [�gkrellmd�,4613:#40002|40002|40002] did lookup hidden
>> 8103f59eeb08[#0,4026531859] �/proc�.
>> Mar 23 13:55:05 dementia kernel: [ 8536.218039] vxW:
>> [�gkrellmd�,4613:#40002|40002|40002] did lookup hidden
>> 8103f59eeb08[#0,4026531859] �/proc�.
>>
>> I thought they were coming from gkrellmd, but I have since uninstalled
>> and rebooted and am still getting the errors.
>> Can anyone tell me anything more about the errors? All I can figure
>> out is they have something to do with gkrellmd which is no longer
>> installed..
>
> Never mind - I found the cause. one of the vservers running on the box
> has gkrellmd installed and it is obviously trying to read something
> from /proc/ that is worthy of noting in the syslog of the vserver host
> box

Anton

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export variables bash

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi,

How can I export (or just run a bunch of commands like .bash_profile),
when gnome starts from gdm?

Thanks,

Daniel.


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