Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Justin The Cynical]

Steve Kreyer wrote:

Hi *,

thank you all for your help on this issue. With Justins advice  on the 
nvnews forum thread I was able to fix it using the


Glad it helped.  This bug has been around for a /long/ time, and it 
seems the fix is different for a lot of people.


In my case, I narrowed it down to the PCIe video card in this laptop I'm 
using now as I didn't see this problem on an old AGP based system, nor 
do I see it on the Myth system I've got in the living room.




 $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/options
 options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0



Heh, I guess I should try this as well.  It wasn't given as an option 
last I looked into this, and I just grumbled about it and learned to 
deal with it.



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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Dotan Cohen]

> debiantutorials.org is 4 years old, the "blog" aspect is new for new Debian 
> users to
> write about their experiences.

The site may have been available, but it was unknown until now.



> I'm hearing a lot that the web is already saturated with Debian 
> documentation, and
> you may be right.  There are many, many sites out there with related 
> information.
> Mine, too.  However my site is completely different than all of them.  It's 
> very
> easy to see, as well.
>

How is it different? Serious question, not trolling. If it has
something new to offer that the current sites cannot provide, then I
am sure that the community would welcome it.



> Where else but here to ask for assistance?  I don't know, but to be honest I 
> didn't
> expect such a negative reaction.
>

You did not get a negative reaction! Everyone has applauded your
efforts, and some have made suggestions, however, it has been said
that your efforts would be better gone into improving the current
documentation instead of spreading it out further.



> Thanks for all the input.  I won't bother the list with this again.
>

A good way to introduce the site to the list would be to answer
questions with links to your site. Such as, when a user asks how to
install MythTV on Debian, you could provide him with a link to the
page of your site that explains how to do just that.



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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Steve Kreyer]

Hi *,

thank you all for your help on this issue. With Justins advice  on the 
nvnews forum thread I was able to fix it using the


 $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/options
 options nvidia NVreg_UseVBios=0

workaround. I wonder that I didn't stumbled over this thread during 
research. However, now it's time to challenge luck with the vesafb 
graphic driver turned on.


Again, thanks very much, you've rescued me from getting mad about blank 
tty's.


Kind Regards,
Steve

Justin The Cynical wrote:

Steve Kreyer wrote:

Hi all,

I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary 
driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the 
graphic card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off.


This is an old issue with the NVidia binary blog drivers.  I've had 
this problem as well on my laptop, but not an older AGP card.


This thread on the nvidia forums may have your fix:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126534&highlight=black+tty 







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Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

[Jochen Schulz]

Divick Kishore:
> 
> General SMART Values:
> Offline data collection status:  (0x00)   Offline data collection activity
>   was never started.
>   Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
> Self-test execution status:  (   0)   The previous self-test routine 
> completed
>   without error or no self-test has ever
>   been run.

You can make your disk run SMART self-tests to find out whether your
disk thinks it is dying. The command is something like 'smartctl -t long
/dev/hdX'.

> Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a   100   100   051Old_age Always   
> -   210
-- snip

I am not an expert, but the values look ok to me. Gemeral rule of thumb:
compare WORST with THRESH. If WORST is lower, you might have a problem.
If the attribute is of type Pre-fail, it is probably severe.

> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   253   253   010Old_age
> Always   -   0

No unreadable sectors are waiting to be relocated by the disk. This is
good.

> Error 238 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 17802 hours (741 days + 18 
> hours)
>   When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was
> active or idle.
> 
>   After command completion occurred, registers were:
>   ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
>   -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>   40 88 08 af 19 1c e0   8 sectors at LBA = 0x001c19af = 1841583
> 
>   Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
>   CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
>   -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --    
>   c8 00 08 af 19 1c e0 00  00:07:19.000  READ DMA
>   ca 00 40 87 05 44 e0 00  00:07:19.000  WRITE DMA
>   ca 00 10 47 05 44 e0 00  00:07:19.000  WRITE DMA
>   ca 00 08 2f 05 44 e0 00  00:07:19.000  WRITE DMA
>   ca 00 20 07 05 44 e0 00  00:07:19.000  WRITE DMA

I *think* these errors aren't necessarily bad, but I cannot really tell.

What I would do: use the disk as little as possible, get a replacement
and do a backup.

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Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

[Jochen Schulz]

Divick Kishore:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz  > 
>> wrote:
> 
>> Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take
>> a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find
>> messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have trouble
>> interpreting them.
> 
> Strangely this starts off when I try to run make-kpkg. I don´t see any
> error messages in the dmesg log, till I run this command. After I run
> this, I see the following error messages in the dmesg log. I am not
> sure what does that point to...i.e. how it can be fixed.

Probably the kernel sourcs are located on a damaged location on your
hard drive.

> [  629.127668] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> [  629.127668] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
> [  629.127668] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> [  629.127668] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
> [  629.127668] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
> to read inode block - inode=58202, block=230190

I am not completely sure, but it looks like your hard drive is dying.
You can try to run a bad blocks test (see man fsck.ext3, I don't have
the syntax at hand).

> OK. I will try doing that as wellsince the current file system is
> readonly, I can´t install anything till I reboot :(. BTW is there a
> way to remount the root filesystem as rw after it has encountered this
> error and becomes ro ?

mount -o remount,rw /

But you are risking (further) data loss if you keep writing to the disk.

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Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

[Divick Kishore]

Hi,

>> Posting the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' (from smartmontools, insert
>> your hard drive device name) might help as well.
>>

The output from smatctl is fairly cryptic for me, posting it below:


 sudo smartctl -a /dev/hdc1
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: SAMSUNG SV4084H
Serial Number:0274J1FR139181
Firmware Version: PM100-12
User Capacity:40,822,161,408 bytes
Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   4
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17
Local Time is:Tue Apr 21 21:37:59 2009 IST

==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details.

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:  (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 960) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:(0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off 
support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported.
No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:(   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:(  16) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 9
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a   100   100   051Old_age
Always   -   210
  4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032   094   094   000Old_age
Always   -   6287
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   010Pre-fail
Always   -   0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a   253   253   051Old_age
Always   -   0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0024   253   253   000Old_age
Offline  -   0
  9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   097   097   000Old_age
Always   -   2136356
 12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   096   096   000Old_age
Always   -   4064
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   253   253   010Old_age
Always   -   0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   253   253   010Old_age
Offline  -   0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count0x000a   200   200   000Old_age
Always   -   0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   100   100   051Old_age
Always   -   0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate0x000a   100   100   051Old_age
Always   -   0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
Warning: ATA error count 238 inconsistent with error log pointer 5

ATA Error Count: 238 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 238 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 17802 hours (741 days + 18 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was
active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  40 88 08 af 19 1c e0   8 sectors at LBA = 0x001c19af = 1841583

  Commands leading to the command tha

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Kelly Clowers]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 20:01, H.S.  wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>
>> If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL.  The truth of 
>> your
>
> Isn't that in the subject line? Or am I missing something here?

In gmail in particular, it can be easy to miss the subject line once you
click it to see the conversation. I know I saw the url in the subject, then
read the email and decided to view the site and for a moment could
not find the url, although I knew I had seen it somewhere.


Cheers,
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Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

[Divick Kishore]

Hi,

> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz  > 
> wrote:
> Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take
> a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find
> messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have trouble
> interpreting them.

Strangely this starts off when I try to run make-kpkg. I don´t see any
error messages in the dmesg log, till I run this command. After I run
this, I see the following error messages in the dmesg log. I am not
sure what does that point to...i.e. how it can be fixed.

[  629.127668] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[  629.127668] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
[  629.127668] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[  629.127668] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
[  629.127668] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
to read inode block - inode=58202, block=230190
[  629.127668] Aborting journal on device hdc1.
[  629.128573] ext3_abort called.
[  629.128587] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_journal_start_sb:
Detected aborted journal
[  629.128599] Remounting filesystem read-only
[  629.129010] Remounting filesystem read-only
[  629.971851] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[  629.971851] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
[  629.971851] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[  629.971851] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
[  629.971851] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
to read inode block - inode=58199, block=230190
[  630.980013] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[  630.980013] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
[  630.980013] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[  630.980013] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
[  630.980013] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
to read inode block - inode=58193, block=230190
[  632.136021] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[  632.136021] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
[  632.136021] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[  632.136021] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
[  632.136021] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
to read inode block - inode=58195, block=230190
[  633.295745] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[  633.295771] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
[  633.295795] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[  633.295809] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
[  633.295921] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
to read inode block - inode=58194, block=230190
[  634.475282] psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost
synchronization, throwing 3 bytes away.
[  634.515097] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
[  634.515097] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
[  634.515097] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
[  634.515097] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
[  634.515097] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
to read inode block - inode=58206, block=230190


>
> Posting the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' (from smartmontools, insert
> your hard drive device name) might help as well.
>

OK. I will try doing that as wellsince the current file system is
readonly, I can´t install anything till I reboot :(. BTW is there a
way to remount the root filesystem as rw after it has encountered this
error and becomes ro ?

Thanks a lot for your help,
Regards,
Divick


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Re: Instalacion de debian

[David Fox]

2009/4/21 Jimmy Muñoz Bravo :
> Buenas noches señores de Debian
> Me gustaria instalar debian en mi pc.  No tengo linux y quiero aprender a
> instalarlo y utilizarlo.
> Les describo mi computador para que me recomienden q version de debian le

Hola!

Mi Espanol no esta bueno - puede escribirle en espanol con la lista de
Debian en espanol "debian-user-span...@lists.debian.org". En esta
lista se comunicarle en ingles.

Pase un buen dia




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Instalacion de debian

[Jimmy Muñoz Bravo]

Buenas noches señores de Debian
Me gustaria instalar debian en mi pc.  No tengo linux y quiero aprender a
instalarlo y utilizarlo.
Les describo mi computador para que me recomienden q version de debian le
puedo instalar:
-Pentium IV de 1.8 Ghz
-Tarjeta madre Intel 845
- memoria de 256 ram
-Disco duro de 60 GB ( tiene 2 particiones c: y d: )
- otro disco adicional de 150 Gb.
- Cd rewritable- lector dvd  Lg( combo )
- cd -rom Lg
- tarjeta de radio y television
-web cam genius

Mi pregunta es: que version de debian trabajaria bien en mi equipo deacuerdo
a las caracteristicas que les indique ?
Y tambien que me indiquen los pasos como instalarlo, para poder tener
Windows XP Sp II y linux debian en mi pc.  Me gustaria tener los dos
sistemas trabajando.


En espera de su respuesta me despido


Saludos
Jimmy
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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[H.S.]

Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
> If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL.  The truth of 
> your 

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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Justin The Cynical]

Steve Kreyer wrote:

Hi all,

I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary 
driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic 
card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off.


This is an old issue with the NVidia binary blog drivers.  I've had this 
problem as well on my laptop, but not an older AGP card.


This thread on the nvidia forums may have your fix:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=126534&highlight=black+tty


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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:59PM EDT, machiner wrote:
> Reply to: cjns1...@gmail.com
> Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400
> RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood   [See Original Message 
> Below]

> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400  cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:

[..]

> >You mean "germane".

> D'oh!  Yes, I do.

Nice to see you have a sense of humor.

[..]

> Where else but here to ask for assistance?  I don't know, but to be
> honest I didn't expect such a negative reaction.

Sign of the times... 

> Thanks for all the input.  I won't bother the list with this again.

Certainly didn't bother me...

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Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

[Daniel Burrows]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:54:56PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini 
 was heard to say:
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
>> hce wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see
>>> from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the
>>> man to display it?
>>>
>>> ii  stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML
>>>
>>>
>> Yes. Man pages are in the 'libstdc++-4.3-doc' package.
>>
>
> However, where is the API documentation?
> I cannot find it in this package...

  Manpages for STL classes are under the STL class name; e.g., try
"man std::string".

  Daniel


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Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

[Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato]

Disk seems to be ok brand new SATA
I have Solaris 10 scsi, Red Hat EL5AS sata, Windows Vista IDE on the 
same machine.

I want to add Debian 5.0.
I tried   noapic   acpi=offunsuccessfully.
I will give it a new try and report the result here.

Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:


On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:15:09AM -0300, Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato wrote:
 


Hi,

I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine
but it hangs at partitioning. Why ?
   



Are you sure the disk is ok?

Have you tried running a livecd (like Knoppix) and mount the disk
there? Perhaps try to write a filesystem to the disk again and see
what happens.

HTH

Oli


 



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Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

[Daniel Bareiro]

On Tuesday, 21 April 2009 19:32:15 +0200,
Florian Kulzer wrote:

> > > [...]
> > >
> > > What output do you get for this:
> > > 
> > > cat /proc/asound/{pcm,devices}
> > 
> > This is the output that I've obtained:
> > 
> > # cat /proc/asound/{pcm,devices}
> > 00-01: ALC662 Digital : ALC662 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
> > 00-00: ALC662 Analog : ALC662 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
> >   0: [ 0]   : control
> >  16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
> >  17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
> >  24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
> >  25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
> >  33:: timer
 
> OK, the capture channels for this chipset are listed, but it is not
> clear to me what their associated alsa mixer channels are called. Can
> you paste the complete output of
> 
> amixer
> 
> on http://debian.pastebin.com/ (or a similar site) and post the link
> here?

Interesting... I didn't know this site. This is the link:

http://debian.pastebin.com/m5c8e07e


Thanks for the patience :-)

Regards,
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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[machiner]

Reply to: cjns1...@gmail.com
Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400
RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood   [See Original Message 
Below]



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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:45:33 -0400  cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:52:05PM EDT, Michael Pobega wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> > On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote:
>
>> > > Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older
>> > > fellow in particular is going gang-busters!  I would like to
>> > > expand the site to include any of you that can muster up an hour a
>> > > week or so to write tutorials or articles germain to new or
>> > > relatively new Linux (Debian) users.

debiantutorials.org is 4 years old, the "blog" aspect is new for new Debian 
users to
write about their experiences.
>
>No such word in the English language.
>
>You mean "germane".


D'oh!  Yes, I do.
>
>> > I'd rather not spread resources all over the net. If I'd have time
>> > to write new stuff I'd put it on wiki.debian.org (or help maintain
>> > existing content).
>
>> I completely agree - I think one of the main problems with GNU/Linux
>> documentation (and Debian in particular) is that it's so spread among
>> different places;
>
>> [0] the Debian Wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)
>> [1] Debian Documentation (http://debian.org/doc/)
>> [2] Debian Help (http://www.debianhelp.org/)
>> [3] Debian Forums (recently deceased, http://forums.debian.net)
>> [4] Debian Administration (http://www.debian-administration.org/)
>> 
>> Do we really need another source of "information"?
>
>No we don't. Far too many already.
>
>If [1] above says white and [2] says light-gray, who is the lowly user
>to trust...?
>
>None.
>
>CJ
>
>

I'm hearing a lot that the web is already saturated with Debian documentation, 
and
you may be right.  There are many, many sites out there with related 
information.
Mine, too.  However my site is completely different than all of them.  It's very
easy to see, as well.

Where else but here to ask for assistance?  I don't know, but to be honest I 
didn't
expect such a negative reaction.

Thanks for all the input.  I won't bother the list with this again.

Happy Computing

--machiner






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Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:15:09AM -0300, Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine
> but it hangs at partitioning. Why ?

Are you sure the disk is ok?

Have you tried running a livecd (like Knoppix) and mount the disk
there? Perhaps try to write a filesystem to the disk again and see
what happens.

HTH

Oli


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Re: Chillispot for Stable

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:37:06PM +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote:
> Hello Debian Users,
> 
> I found that chillispot is not available in Stable Repos, it's there
> in Oldstable and Unstable though. How can I install it on my stable
> system? Is there any option, other than manually downloading .deb file
> from http://packages.debian.org and installing using "dpkg -i" ?

Have a look through http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

I see on my system (an unstable one), then chillispot is available.

HTH

Oli


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Re: Lenny: Rhythmbox, mp3, sound problems

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Len Berman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having problems with sound and the rhythmbox player.  Unfortunately,
> the problems are not completely repeatable.  The problem seems to have
> started when Lenny went stable and I switched from tracking Lenny to the
> stable.
> 
> There are a bunch of problems.
>  1) The rhythmbox GUI doesn't open unless it is started twice.  This happens
> every time.

Try starting it from the command line and see if you get some more
meaningfull error messages there.

Cheers

Oli


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Re: Two problems with installation of Lenny

[Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:24:31AM +0200, Ibrahim Shaame wrote:
> I have two problems in installing Debian Leny:
> 
> 2 - I have just acquired ASUS with AMD Phenom Quad and NVIDIA GForce. I have
> installed Slamd64 ( a Slackware variant for AMD 64bit). It booted after the
> first shot and X used framebuffer as a default display drvier. I then
> downloaded the NVIDIA driver from NVIDIA and could install within seconds.
> Everything is working perfectly. Then I installed my 5 DVDs of Debian amd64.
> But at the end of the exercise X Windows could not fire up (screens not
> found, etc..) When I tried to install the NVIDIA driver I got the message
> "ld" not found. And truely I could not find it any where in the "bin"s. And
> there I am stuck. The only good news is that "Grub" can boot both Slamd64
> and Debian

Is the ld not in /usr/bin/ld?
If not, try to install the binutils package.

HTH

Oli


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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Chris Jones]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 01:52:05PM EDT, Michael Pobega wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote:

> > > Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older
> > > fellow in particular is going gang-busters!  I would like to
> > > expand the site to include any of you that can muster up an hour a
> > > week or so to write tutorials or articles germain to new or
> > > relatively new Linux (Debian) users.

No such word in the English language.

You mean "germane".

> > I'd rather not spread resources all over the net. If I'd have time
> > to write new stuff I'd put it on wiki.debian.org (or help maintain
> > existing content).

> I completely agree - I think one of the main problems with GNU/Linux
> documentation (and Debian in particular) is that it's so spread among
> different places;

> [0] the Debian Wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)
> [1] Debian Documentation (http://debian.org/doc/)
> [2] Debian Help (http://www.debianhelp.org/)
> [3] Debian Forums (recently deceased, http://forums.debian.net)
> [4] Debian Administration (http://www.debian-administration.org/)
> 
> Do we really need another source of "information"?

No we don't. Far too many already.

If [1] above says white and [2] says light-gray, who is the lowly user
to trust...?

None.

CJ


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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Hugo Vanwoerkom]

Steve Kreyer wrote:

Hi all,

I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary 
driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic 
card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off.


I've done a lot of research concerning this issue, but haven't found a 
solution yet. Most solutions that came up have something to do with the 
FB driver (vesafb vs. vga16fb vs. fbcon), but unfortunately not even one 
of them is loaded in my setup. My setup consists just of the pure nvidia 
driver and "console output". Also there is no vga mode configured at the 
grub boot prompt.


Iam running an amd64 platform (processor and kernel). The kernel version 
is 2.6.29.1, the version of my graphic driver is 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44. My kernel config (concerning framebuffer 
related configuration) looks as followed:


$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep FB
CONFIG_FB=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=m
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m

lsmod gives me:
$ lsmod | grep "\(fb\|nvidia\)"

When I start my computer the console output is fine until the X-Server 
is started. After that I get a blank screen when trying to switch to 
ttyX. Also I noticed that if the x-server doesn't start (so that nvidia 
module does not load) the TTYs just work as expected.


Does anyone came up with the same problem? Maybe the nvidia driver 
version is buggy?


Any help on this issue would be very appreciated since a Linux 
installation without working tty's probably drives me mad :-)




Curious. When did you run into this problem for the first time?

I run Sid's 2.6.29-1 and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.11-pkg1.run and have no 
such problem.


h...@debian:/$ lsmod | grep "\(fb\|nvidia\)"
nvidia   4697060  56
i2c_core   21384  3 nvidia,eeprom,i2c_viapro
agpgart30744  2 nvidia,via_agp

What happens if you use driver 96.43.11?

Did you ask at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Hugo

Hugo



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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Jan Muszynski]

You can try what I have. Since you know you want these why do you have
them as modules? Compile directly into the kernel you don'y have to
worry about loading, and why ot why not it's loaded.

CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y

The above are the only things set, Anything else starting with
CONFIG_FB or CONFIG_VGA is off.


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Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?

[Graham Williams]

Received Tue 21 Apr 2009  7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> > Received Sat 18 Apr 2009  3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
> > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
[...]
> There should be some input devices opened by Xorg. Please run this
> command instead (as root with X started):
> 
> lsof $(find /dev/input/)

Thanks. Starting in normal multi-user mode, having removed gdm,
logging in as a normal user, starting X ("startx") with a .xinint
consisting of "chvt 1" and "xterm", login in as root, run the above
"lsof" gives:

COMMANDPID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
hald-addo 3640 root4r   CHR  13,69  5677 /dev/input/event5
hald-addo 3640 root5w   CHR  13,68  5671 /dev/input/event4
hald-addo 3640 root6r   CHR  13,67  5567 /dev/input/by-path/../event3
hald-addo 3640 root7r   CHR  13,66  5589 /dev/input/by-id/../event2

> 
> > > Another thing to check is if certain processes are running:
> > > 
> > > ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev'
> 
> [ snip: all normal, except that dbus is not running ]
> 
> Did you run this in single user mode, or did you deliberately kill dbus?

Multi user mode. I think dbus is running? Isn't it the dbus-daemon?

root  1369 1  0 08:38 ?00:00:00 udevd --daemon
103   2832 1  0 08:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
105   3619 1  0 08:39 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root  3620  3619  0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-runner
root  3640  3620  0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on 
/dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event2
105   3648  3620  0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on 
acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
root  3651  3620  0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling 
/dev/hda (every 2 sec)
root  3745  3608  0 08:39 ?00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -lf 
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth1.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid -q -e 
dhc_dbus=31 -d eth1
anet  4419  4402  0 08:44 tty3 00:00:00 xinit /home/anet/.xinitrc -- 
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.LvCwEgYUrc
root  4420  4419  0 08:44 tty7 00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp
root  4488  4446  0 08:47 tty1 00:00:00 grep -E X|hal|dbus|udev

[...]
> > Yes - now in user land.
> 
> Does "now" encompass all the output that you posted in your last
> message?

Yes.

> Does the keyboard work in Xorg if you boot from a Debian Lenny live CD
> (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/)? 

Running debian 5.0.0 live amd64 gnome ISO image, all seems to be
working just fine.

Thanks again for your help Florian. It is particularly useful, though
we haven't solved it yet.

Regards,
Graham


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Re: Bug#525071: 2.2.4-1+b1 automatically rebuilt against libcrypto++8 segfaults on start

[Stanislav Maslovski]

On Втр, 2009-04-21 at 23:50 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> + Stanislav Maslovski (Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:37:09 +0400):
> 
> > Package: amule
> > Version: 2.2.4-1+b1
> > Severity: normal
> 
> > For your information: after todays upgrade to automatically rebuilt
> > amule 2.2.4-1+b1 it segfaults on start. The problem seems to be related
> > with libcrypto++8, as returning back to 2.2.4-1 built with libcrypto++7
> > solves the problem. 
> 
> I’ve been running 2.2.4-1+b1 myself since available for several days,
> and in fact I did built amule locally against libcrypto++8 before the
> libcrypto++ maintainer uploaded the new version to unstable. However,
> I’m on amd64 and not i386.
> 
> I’m CC'ing debian-user in case there are people with i386/unstable/amule
> who can confirm or deny the segfault. Please CC 525...@bugs.debian.org
> if you do so.
> 
> Also, do you get any kind of backtrace, or can obtain one?

Not sure that it helps, but here is it:

% gdb amule
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show
copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/amule 
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
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(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
---Type  to continue, or q  to quit---
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
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---Type  to continue, or q  to quit---
(no debugging symbols found)
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(no debugging symbols found)
[New Thread 0xb6761970 (LWP 17354)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb6761970 (LWP 17354)]
0x36f51a11 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x36f51a11 in ?? ()
#1  0xccbc1c43 in ?? ()
#2  0x1220 in ?? ()
#3  0xb7da6836 in CryptoPP::IteratedHashBase::TruncatedFinal () from /usr/lib/libcrypto
++.so.8
#4  0xb7dd5c88 in CryptoPP::RandomPool::IncorporateEntropy ()
   from /usr/lib/libcrypto++.so.8
#5  0xb7dc94ba in CryptoPP::AutoSeededRandomPool::Reseed ()
   from /usr/lib/libcrypto++.so.8
#6  0x0823645c in ?? ()
#7  0x082c1f1d in ?? ()
#8  0x08080f34 in wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemPtrData ()
#9  0x083fa364 in ?? ()
#10 0xbfb418e8 in ?? ()
#11 0x0807e5c0 in _init ()
Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC
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Re: where to download sid?

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want 
>> newer upstream versions of one or more packages.  If that happens, you can 
>> migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Sid without reinstalling or you can 
>> run a mixed system, pulling in just a few packages from Squeeze or Sid.
> 
> Initially only a few packages, then you just can not resist upgrading
> all packages according to my experience..

And then there is the time of Debian's next release... And suddenly you
enjoy the silence setting in, even when you 'aptitude update' the
system. No more texlive updates... Peace... Quite...

Debian is just fantastic!

;-)

Cheers,
Johannes


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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Jeff Chimene wrote:
>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond
> to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave
> all right, and the permissions are the > same. The only difference is
> the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The
> thing looks mysterious to me.
> 
>>  Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?
> 
> ISTR that PDF files can be locked against printing. Perhaps that's the
> case?

That illness can be fixed by unchecking kpdf's "Obey DRM limitations"
option. 8-)

... as long as you don't require proprietary plugins to view the pdf...

Cheers,
Johannes


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Re: Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Jeff Chimene]

> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond 
to the `lp' command. All others pdf files in the same directory behave 
all right, and the permissions are the > same. The only difference is 
the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older. The 
thing looks mysterious to me.



 Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?


ISTR that PDF files can be locked against printing. Perhaps that's the case?




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Re: where to download sid?

[Zhengquan Zhang]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want 
> newer upstream versions of one or more packages.  If that happens, you can 
> migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Sid without reinstalling or you can 
> run a mixed system, pulling in just a few packages from Squeeze or Sid.

Initially only a few packages, then you just can not resist upgrading
all packages according to my experience..

-- 
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Re: Bug#525071: 2.2.4-1+b1 automatically rebuilt against libcrypto++8 segfaults on start

[Adeodato Simó]

+ Stanislav Maslovski (Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:37:09 +0400):

> Package: amule
> Version: 2.2.4-1+b1
> Severity: normal

> For your information: after todays upgrade to automatically rebuilt
> amule 2.2.4-1+b1 it segfaults on start. The problem seems to be related
> with libcrypto++8, as returning back to 2.2.4-1 built with libcrypto++7
> solves the problem. 

I’ve been running 2.2.4-1+b1 myself since available for several days,
and in fact I did built amule locally against libcrypto++8 before the
libcrypto++ maintainer uploaded the new version to unstable. However,
I’m on amd64 and not i386.

I’m CC'ing debian-user in case there are people with i386/unstable/amule
who can confirm or deny the segfault. Please CC 525...@bugs.debian.org
if you do so.

Also, do you get any kind of backtrace, or can obtain one?

Cheers,

-- 
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- Always.
-- Rory and Lorelai


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Re: where to download sid?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <20090421211641.gl4...@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote:
>Don Raikes:
>> I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from?
>
>There are none. You can use the lenny installer to install sid or
>install lenny and upgrade to sid afterwards. But you will probably not
>be very happy with it if you don't know Debian (or even Linux). If you
>want try out Debian, use lenny.

Then *after* you are comfortable with Debian, you might find that you want 
newer upstream versions of one or more packages.  If that happens, you can 
migrate the whole system to Squeeze or Sid without reinstalling or you can 
run a mixed system, pulling in just a few packages from Squeeze or Sid.
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Re: where to download sid?

[Jochen Schulz]

Don Raikes:
> 
> I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from?

There are none. You can use the lenny installer to install sid or
install lenny and upgrade to sid afterwards. But you will probably not
be very happy with it if you don't know Debian (or even Linux). If you
want try out Debian, use lenny.

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where to download sid?

[Don Raikes]

Hi,

I am very new to the debian world, but someone suggested  I try out sid.

I am wondering where I can download the sid cd isos from?

I found the lenny cd's but not sid.

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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Steve Kreyer]

Hi Andrei,

first, thanks for your quick reply.

Yes it is a self-compiled kernel. But if I install the kernel from the 
Debian repository Iam faced up with the same problem. Debian 
kernel-version is:

$ uname -a
Linux euklid 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27 04:02:59 UTC 2009 x86_64 
GNU/Linux


The same setup:
* no framebuffer driver loaded
* only nvidia binary driver running.

The grub entry for the Debian kernel is:
 titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64
 root(hd0,0)
 kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64 root=/dev/hdb1 ro
 initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64

The grub entry for the self compiled kernel is:
 titleDebian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.27.4
 root(hd0,0)
 kernel/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.19 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet 
init=/sbin/bootchartd resume=/dev/sda6 resume2=/dev/sda6



Thanks,
Steve

Andrei Popescu wrote:

On Tue,21.Apr.09, 21:54:53, Steve Kreyer wrote:

  
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44. My kernel config (concerning framebuffer  
related configuration) looks as followed:



Are you compiling your own kernel? Try the stock kernel first.

Regards,
Andrei
  



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Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

[javier]

El lun, 20-04-2009 a las 23:19 -0400, Bogdan escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ?
> I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run 
> minefield I get:
> 
> ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file
> 

Try ./firefox , this works for my.

Close all processes related to firefox, mozilla or iceweasel.

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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Andrei Popescu]

On Tue,21.Apr.09, 21:54:53, Steve Kreyer wrote:

> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44. My kernel config (concerning framebuffer  
> related configuration) looks as followed:

Are you compiling your own kernel? Try the stock kernel first.

Regards,
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Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:19:58PM -0400, Bogdan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ?
> I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run  
> minefield I get:
>
>./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file

file firefox-bin
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Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Steve Kreyer]

Hi all,

I have a problem using my TTYs in conjunction with the nvidia binary 
driver: When I want to switch to any tty using Ctrl+Alt+FX, the graphic 
card doesn't want to output anything, and my monitor turns off.


I've done a lot of research concerning this issue, but haven't found a 
solution yet. Most solutions that came up have something to do with the 
FB driver (vesafb vs. vga16fb vs. fbcon), but unfortunately not even one 
of them is loaded in my setup. My setup consists just of the pure nvidia 
driver and "console output". Also there is no vga mode configured at the 
grub boot prompt.


Iam running an amd64 platform (processor and kernel). The kernel version 
is 2.6.29.1, the version of my graphic driver is 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.44. My kernel config (concerning framebuffer 
related configuration) looks as followed:


$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep FB
CONFIG_FB=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=m
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=m
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_VGA16=m

lsmod gives me:
$ lsmod | grep "\(fb\|nvidia\)"

When I start my computer the console output is fine until the X-Server 
is started. After that I get a blank screen when trying to switch to 
ttyX. Also I noticed that if the x-server doesn't start (so that nvidia 
module does not load) the TTYs just work as expected.


Does anyone came up with the same problem? Maybe the nvidia driver 
version is buggy?


Any help on this issue would be very appreciated since a Linux 
installation without working tty's probably drives me mad :-)


Kind Regards,
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[Solved, Thanks!] Re: question about term

[Zhengquan Zhang]

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Re: question about term

[Zhengquan Zhang]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:33:44AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Alternatively, you can set it in your shell's initialization files,
> e.g. in ~/.profile?:
> 
> if [ "$TERM" = "mlterm" ]; then TERM=xterm; fi
> 
> You can do this on your local system or on each server you connect to.

Thanks, Sven!

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Re: question about term

[Zhengquan Zhang]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:01:44AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Because the server does not "know" your terminal (terminfo and/or 
> termcap).
> 
> > Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work.
> 
> Because terminal emulators are *mostly* compatible to xterm.

Great, Now I understand! Thanks Andrei!

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Re: question about term

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:08:48AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> And thus you can use:
> 
>   $HOME/.terminfo/m/mletrm
>   /etc/terminfo/m/mletrm
>   /lib/terminfo/m/mletrm

Thanks, Tzafrir!

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Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

[Kelly Clowers]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:47, Bogdan  wrote:
> Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 20:19, Bogdan  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE
>>> ?
>>> I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run minefield
>>> I
>>> get:
>>>
>>>  ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file
>>>
>>
>> I run FF 3.6 and SeaMonkey 2.0b1pre (both on gecko trunk), and I haven't
>> had any problems.
>>
>> Have you checked your permissions?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kelly Clowers
>>
>>
>>
>
> Hello,
>
> These are the permissions:
>          -rwxr-xr-x 1 bogdan bogdan     3888 2009-04-20 09:02 firefox
>      -rwxr-xr-x 1 bogdan bogdan    65744 2009-04-20 09:02 firefox-bin
>
> Maybe I need to install gtk or smth?

The download from Mozilla is self-contained  AFAIK. And anyway I would
expect gtk to be installed unless you have been extraordinarily selective
in installing apps and watching what gets installed as a depends or
recommends.

You aren't on x86-64 or some other arch are you? What does line 143
of run-mozilla.sh say?


Cheers,
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Re: OT: Hijack: EEE PC 10"

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:01:45PM +, Lancelot du Lac wrote:

> I'd recommend you follow the instructions from the now inactive debian
> eeepc project: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC My netbook works

If you want a Debian-ish installation, I can recommend eeebuntu from
personal experience with the Eee PC 701. It has its share of warts
(relatively slow startup, no fan control without additional packages,
and some limitions on controlling CPU scaling) but it seems
fully-functional.

The 701 seemed like a bit of a toy with Xandros installed. With
eeebuntu, it's almost like a real computer. :)

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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Try
> 
> $ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf

Sorry: please first try

$ pdftk your-funny.pdf output trytofix.pdf

The burst option is to split it in single pages, in case there is only
one problematic page.

Then one should also use a placeholder for automatic numbering:

$ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output trytofix%02d.pdf

(assuming your pdf has less than 100 pages ;-)  )

$ man pdftk

should list all the different options.

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Re: firefox 3.6 alpha

[Bogdan]

Kelly Clowers wrote:

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 20:19, Bogdan  wrote:
  

Hello,

Has any of you installed the Firefox 3.6 Alpha pre on a Debian Sid / KDE ?
I downloaded the archive and unpacked it, but when I try to run minefield I
get:

  ./run-mozilla.sh: line 143: ./firefox-bin: cannot execute binary file



I run FF 3.6 and SeaMonkey 2.0b1pre (both on gecko trunk), and I haven't
had any problems.

Have you checked your permissions?


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


  

Hello,

These are the permissions:
 
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 bogdan bogdan 3888 2009-04-20 09:02 firefox

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 bogdan bogdan65744 2009-04-20 09:02 firefox-bin

Maybe I need to install gtk or smth?

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Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

[Bob]

T o n g wrote:

Hi,

Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux?

Most people would recommend Partimage, but I think it is practically 
useless since the source/dest partition size has to be exactly the same. 
http://www.partimage.org/Partimage-

FAQ#Can_I_restore_it_to_a_smaller_or_bigger_partition_.3F

Please help.

thanks
  


Use dd to copy the Master boot record and the partition table
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1
changing bs to 446 will copy the MBR but not the partition table.

Use ntfsclone to mirror the NTFS partition
ntfsclone -s -o - /dev/sdX1 | ntfsclone -r -O /dev/sdX1 -

If you're trying to shrink your windows system you can resize the 
filesystem with ntfsresize and then resize the partition with fdisk, if 
you're trying to grow it reverse the order, remember to togal bootable 
"a" and set the part id to 7 "t"


The trick is to use a command like
ntfsresize -nvi /dev/sdX1
to calculate the minimum size of the file system, round UP that number 
to at least the nearest gig then use a command like

ntfsresize -nv -s 7G /dev/sdX1
to test your decision where 7G is the desired size then remove the n 
from -nv to actually perform the filesystem resize, then use fdisk to 
delete and recreate the partition at the desired size (in the above 
example you'd use +7G instead of an end cylinder in fdisk)


if you're trying to increase the size just make your partition whatever 
size you want, mirror the data over and use a command like

ntfsresize -v /dev/sdX1
to make the filesystem fill the partition.

I do this all the time with no problems.


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Re: Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

[s. keeling]

Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato :
> 
>  I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine
>  but it hangs at partitioning. Why ?

I don't know.  It had no trouble installing on my AMD64.

>  I need some help here.

I need some more details to be able to help.  I can suggest you use
SystemRescueCD (www.sysresccd.org/Download) to partition; it includes
a few partitioners, including partimage and command line fdisk (my
favourite).

Then, boot into the Lenny installer and tell it how to use the new ptns.


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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Michael Pobega]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote:
>  
> > Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older
> > fellow in particular is going gang-busters!  I would like to expand
> > the site to include any of you that can muster up an hour a week or
> > so to write tutorials or articles germain to new or relatively new
> > Linux (Debian) users.
> 
> I'd rather not spread resources all over the net. If I'd have time to
> write new stuff I'd put it on wiki.debian.org (or help maintain
> existing content).
> 

I completely agree - I think one of the main problems with GNU/Linux
documentation (and Debian in particular) is that it's so spread among
different places;

[0] the Debian Wiki (http://wiki.debian.org)
[1] Debian Documentation (http://debian.org/doc/)
[2] Debian Help (http://www.debianhelp.org/)
[3] Debian Forums (recently deceased, http://forums.debian.net)
[4] Debian Administration (http://www.debian-administration.org/)

Do we really need another source of "information"?

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Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd:

> I believe Sven was correcting me and explaining that this is
> absolutely normal.
> 
> srcpkgcache.bin is not directly related to deb-src lines.  It will
> have contents if you have any remote sources.

Ok now I got it: it is normal and so should be.


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Re: Problems when audio capturing with headset

[Florian Kulzer]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:10:46 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 April 2009 21:53:51 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > Earlier, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> 
> > > > > I'm trying to test the operation of my headset in Debian
> > > > > GNU/Linux Squeeze to be able to use it with a softphone.
> > > > > Although the sound works with the rest of the applications with
> > > > > the headphone, in order to listen what I say I must put
> > > > > practically the microphone grazing the mouth :-S
>  
> > [...]
>  
> > > # amixer scontrols | cut -d\' -f2 | grep -i mic | while read N; do amixer 
> > > sget "$N"; done
> > > Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0
> > >   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
> > >   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> > >   Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> > >   Mono:
> > >   Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
> > >   Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
> > > Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
> > >   Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
> > >   Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> > >   Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> > >   Mono:
> > >   Front Left: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
> > >   Front Right: Playback 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
>  
> > I find it strange that it does not list any capture capabilities or
> > channels for either microphone. What output do you get for this:
> > 
> > cat /proc/asound/{pcm,devices}
> 
> This is the output that I've obtained:
> 
> # cat /proc/asound/{pcm,devices}
> 00-01: ALC662 Digital : ALC662 Digital : playback 1 : capture 1
> 00-00: ALC662 Analog : ALC662 Analog : playback 1 : capture 1
>   0: [ 0]   : control
>  16: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
>  17: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
>  24: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
>  25: [ 0- 1]: digital audio capture
>  33:: timer

OK, the capture channels for this chipset are listed, but it is not
clear to me what their associated alsa mixer channels are called. Can
you paste the complete output of

amixer

on http://debian.pastebin.com/ (or a similar site) and post the link
here?

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Re: TP-Link wireless usb (zd1211)

[Nuno Magalhães]

2009/4/21 Dimitris :
> The TPLink zd1211 stick has a strange RF chip and it is not detected
> correctly in the debian's kernel (2.6.26). In 2.6.29 it works
> perfectly, try installing that kernel

Thank you very much :) it Just Works™ now. Except for the connecting
part, but that's msot likely my screwing up configurations.

Thanks agian,
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Re: FIXED: can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal

[Paul Scott]

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:

Paul Scott wrote:
I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal.  Anything I try to 
do to Hal gives me something like the following.  I found there might 
have been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to 
upgrade it doesn't make a difference.  I have reloaded all the 
packages in limbo without any change. 

>
Preparing to replace hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 (using 
.../archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb) ...
* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer 
hald 
[ OK ]

invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
...
This is a Splasy problem, see bug #522104. Move 
/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh to some temporary file, then updating hal 
should work.


Thanks!!  I saw the bug but still didn't know how to fix it.  It's fixed 
now.


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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[H.S.]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina  writes:
> 
 In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
 `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right,
 and the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation
 date, which is today wheras the other files are older.

 The thing looks mysterious to me.

 Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?
> 
> 
> 
> "Douglas A. Tutty"  writes:
> 
>>> 1.  Are you sure that it is a .pdf file?  run file on it.
>>
>> Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 2.  Did she put that file there?
>> Yes, she did.
>>
>>
>>
>>> 4.  If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
>>> print from the viewer?
>>
>> It won't be printed either!
> 
> 
> 
> Norbert Zeh  writes:
> 
>> What paper format does the file use?  I've had printers refuse to print
>> files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files).  If the
>> paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size,
>> even though I don't remember how.
> 
> 
> 
> With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally.
> 
> Rodolfo
> 
> 

Well, you could try saving it as a PS file first, opening that PS file
in a gv (or any other PS file viewer) and see if you get the right
looking document. If yes, try printing from there. If no, then perhaps
it is a font problem.

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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 13:58:13 machiner wrote:
> I seek recommendations for improving the site as well as new authors,
> whether one article or many.  Please consider it.  The site does very well
> in the search engines and it could use some new blood.  I would be
> thrilled, as would the site's readers, if one, or a bunch of you could
> submit something.  All I ask is that your writings are original and
> helpful.  Any topic related to Debian is fine.

If you are seeking help, it might be worth supplying a URL.  The truth of your 
assertion that the site does well in teh search engines was certainly 
substantaiated, but I hnearly didn't bother.

You have clearly put lot of effort in, and the result is quite impressive, but 
if and when I finally reach the stage of feeling that I have something of 
this nature to contribute, I like Andrei might prefer to post on the Debian 
official wiki.

And I'm afraid that I do agree with some other respondees that I dislike all 
animation.  My cursor flashing I am at least accustomed to, but my reaction 
to other flashing things is to try and turn them off, and I tend to go away 
if I can't, and my reaction to requests that I should register, is in general 
to run a mile.

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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Lisi Reisz]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009 18:16:10 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Rodolfo Medina  writes:
> >>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to
> >>> the `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave
> >>> all right, and the permissions are the same.  The only difference is
> >>> the creation date, which is today wheras the other files are older.
> >>>
> >>> The thing looks mysterious to me.
> >>>
> >>> Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?
>
> "Douglas A. Tutty"  writes:
> >> 1. Are you sure that it is a .pdf file?  run file on it.
> >
> > Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf.
> >
> >> 2. Did she put that file there?
> >
> > Yes, she did.
> >
> >> 4. If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
> >>print from the viewer?
> >
> > It won't be printed either!
>
> Norbert Zeh  writes:
> > What paper format does the file use?  I've had printers refuse to print
> > files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files).  If the
> > paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size,
> > even though I don't remember how.
>
> With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally.
>
> Rodolfo

In Acroread in Linux, when "print" is chosen, before clicking OK, is page 
scaling set to "fit to printable area",  and "choose paper source by pdf page 
size" unticked (unchecked)?

If not, it might be worth trying to print with those two set like that.

HTH
Lisi


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Re: Question about get-selections

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In , J.M.Roth wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.  iguanasuicide.net> writes:
>> aptitude search '~i~M' | awk '{print $3}' > auto_installed_packages
>
>I'd rather do
>aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages
>Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A'
>(note the space)

Actually, it only works in that case.  Of course, because of the search 
terms, all the packages will have status 'i A'.

Still, your command saves a fork, which makes it better in my book.
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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Norbert Zeh wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
 In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
 `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right,
 and the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation 
 date,
 which is today wheras the other files are older.

 The thing looks mysterious to me.

 Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?

Try

$ pdftk your-funny.pdf burst output testfix.pdf

which will try to 'repair' any errors of the file.

Another thing to try is to convert it to postscript and try to print that.

$ pdftops in.pdf

How was the pdf created (which program)? What (if any) messages do the
above commands yield?

> What paper format does the file use?  I've had printers refuse to print
> files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files).  If the
> paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size,

Or A4, if you don't happen to live in one of the rare countries that
won't use ISO standards.

Cheers,
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Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:

hce wrote:

Hi,

I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see
from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the
man to display it?

ii  stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML



Yes. Man pages are in the 'libstdc++-4.3-doc' package.



However, where is the API documentation?
I cannot find it in this package...

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Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:

hce wrote:

Hi,

I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see
from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the
man to display it?

ii  stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML



Yes. Man pages are in the 'libstdc++-4.3-doc' package.




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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina  writes:

>>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
>>> `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right,
>>> and the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation
>>> date, which is today wheras the other files are older.
>>> 
>>> The thing looks mysterious to me.
>>> 
>>> Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?



"Douglas A. Tutty"  writes:

>> 1.   Are you sure that it is a .pdf file?  run file on it.
>
>
> Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf.
>
>
>
>> 2.   Did she put that file there?
>
> Yes, she did.
>
>
>
>> 4.   If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
>>  print from the viewer?
>
>
> It won't be printed either!



Norbert Zeh  writes:

> What paper format does the file use?  I've had printers refuse to print
> files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files).  If the
> paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size,
> even though I don't remember how.



With the same printer, MS Windows Adobe Reader prints the file normally.

Rodolfo


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Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <49ed872c.1e048e0a.6abf.b...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote:
>Thank You for Your time and answer, Sven:
>> Not really, there is a misunderstanding here.  Although its name
>> suggests it, srcpkgcache.bin is _not_ a cache for source packages but
>> rather a cache for packages from remote sources, see apt-cache(8).
>I've read the manual but did not understand Your saying "a cache for
>packages from remote sources". If You would, please explain in other
>words.

man 8 apt-cache
/OPTIONS

pkgcache.bin is the default value for the "-p" option.
srcpkgcache.bin is the default value for the "-s" option.
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Re: Question about get-selections

[J . M . Roth]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.  iguanasuicide.net> writes:

> 
> On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:09:28 Paul E Condon wrote:
> >Your suggestion does raise in interesting issue: given a set of
> >installed packages in a --get-selections file, and given that the
> >dependency information is available in the packages, what is the
> >minimum set of install commands to aptitude that will reconsturct the
> >installation from scratch? 

That issue still interests me, as far as a final and official
solution is concerned.

> To save the state of the Debian packages installed:
> dpkg --get-selections | \
>   awk '$2 = "install"' > installed_package_selections
> aptitude search '~i~M' | awk '{print $3}' > auto_installed_packages

I'd rather do 
aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages
Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A'
(note the space)

And as I said: please keep me posted on this :)


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Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

In <49ed872c.1e048e0a.6abf.b...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote:
>I've checked the dir. w/
>
>ls | grep Source
>
>it returned empty string. Still, after yesterday's update, I see both
>
>pkgcache.bin
>srcpkgcache.bin
>
>are updated and almost of the same size: 14553423 and 14503826
>respectively.

I believe Sven was correcting me and explaining that this is absolutely 
normal.

srcpkgcache.bin is not directly related to deb-src lines.  It will have 
contents if you have any remote sources.
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video group permission and webcam apps

[Seb]

Hi,

I've my user to the video group, and don't have problems using a webcam
from Skype, Kopete (video quality sucks here though, and no way of
adjusting it).  On Ekiga, however, I get this permissions error:


------
Error while opening video device /dev/video0

A moving logo will be transmitted during calls. Notice that you can always 
transmit a given image or the moving logo by choosing "Picture" as video plugin 
and "MovingLogo" or "StaticPicture" as device.

There was an error while opening the device. Please check your permissions and 
make sure that the appropriate driver is loaded.
------

I assume it's a permissions error because running ekiga as root can open
the webcam ok.  Any ideas what may be going on?  Thanks.


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Re: wwwoffle sometimes doesn't start - Address family for hostname not supported

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

Hello,

On 07.04.09 09:42, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> after upgrading to lenny, I found out that wwwoffle sometimes does not start
> at boot. It reports the error:
> 
> Apr  7 08:36:55 localhost wwwoffled[3271]: Unknown host '0.0.0.0' for server
> [Address family for hostname not supported].
> Apr  7 08:36:55 localhost wwwoffled[3271]: Cannot create HTTP IPv4 server
> socket.
> 
> Is this an error of wwwoffle or of boot process?

I have looked at the bboot process, and I see:

Apr 20 08:39:05 localhost wwwoffled[3275]: WWWOFFLE Demon Version 2.9d (with 
ipv6,with zlib,with gnutls) started.
Apr 20 08:39:05 localhost wwwoffled[3275]: Unknown host '0.0.0.0' for server 
[Address family for hostname not supported].
Apr 20 08:39:05 localhost wwwoffled[3275]: Cannot create HTTP IPv4 server 
socket.

Apr 20 08:39:06 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 8
Apr 20 08:39:06 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 10.128.1.3
Apr 20 08:39:06 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 
67

So the wwwoffle was started before network got set up. This is my
laptop, and because I connect it on two (or more) different places I decided
not to ask for environment, but find out itself. I've been using ifplugd
until sarge, hotplug since etch.

My /etc/network/interfaces contains following:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

The eth0 is builtin on my motherboard, Should I better skip the hotplug
part? Should I switch back to ifplugd for cases I unplug the online system
and re-plug in different network?

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Re: Japanese write

[Neal Hogan]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Osamu Aoki  wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking
>> around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old
>> and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I apologize if I've overlooked
>> something obvious.
>>
>> My wife is Japanese and would like to be able to not only read but
>> write in Japanese. I only read English. Ideally, what I want is to be
>> able to toggle between English and Japanese, so she could just run a
>> script that would temporarily enable Japanese writing abilities.
>>
>> I'm using 5.0.1 w/KDE.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> # aptitude install scim-anthy ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho 
> ttf-vlgothic
>
> Then read scim and im-switch doc.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#anexampleforjapanese

Perfect! Thanks!

ありがとう　ございます!

>
> Cheers,
>
> Osamu
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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Norbert Zeh]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> 
> >> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
> >> `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right,
> >> and the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation 
> >> date,
> >> which is today wheras the other files are older.
> >> 
> >> The thing looks mysterious to me.
> >> 
> >> Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?

What paper format does the file use?  I've had printers refuse to print
files that used odd page sizes (such as Springer online files).  If the
paper size is odd, there should be a way to scale it to letter size,
even though I don't remember how.

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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Dotan Cohen]

> In a way the OP is spamming the list, but really ...
> Is is etiquette to be so nasty about it?
>

No, it is not etiquette to be nasty. I was helpful and gave him my
suggestions, and further refined ideas with the OP off list. But I do
not want other list members to say "hey, Brian got away with it so why
not me too?". What you call nasty, I call stern.



> He is clearly a private citizen with a desire to comtribute. That his
> attempts fall short of your standards, merely indicates that his request
> is justified.

Fall short of my standards? The OP asked for suggestions and I gave
them. I was being critical only in the constructive sense.



> Concerns about his privacy policy really can't be addressed by insisting
> that he state it on his web site. How do we know he is not a manufactured
> entity designed by  Al Qaeda ? Would a stated privacy
> policy protect you from "the evil one"? As that great urban philosopher,
> Rodney King, once said, "Can't we all just get along?"
>

I did not insist. I let him know that it would prevent me from signing
up. I do not trust that my information would not be abused or
compromised anyway, but at least lie to me and tell me that the
information is safe.



> Peace.
>

I wish for it every day, my friend. You have no idea.



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Re: Japanese write

[Osamu Aoki]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
> I'm new to Debian (not to the *nix community) and have been looking
> around for answers to my question. The stuff I've found a years old
> and not doesn't seem to fit my needs. I apologize if I've overlooked
> something obvious.
> 
> My wife is Japanese and would like to be able to not only read but
> write in Japanese. I only read English. Ideally, what I want is to be
> able to toggle between English and Japanese, so she could just run a
> script that would temporarily enable Japanese writing abilities.
> 
> I'm using 5.0.1 w/KDE.
> 
> What do you think?

# aptitude install scim-anthy ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-sazanami-mincho 
ttf-vlgothic

Then read scim and im-switch doc.

http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch09.en.html#anexampleforjapanese

Cheers,

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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Paul E Condon]

In a way the OP is spamming the list, but really ...
Is is etiquette to be so nasty about it? 

He is clearly a private citizen with a desire to comtribute. That his
attempts fall short of your standards, merely indicates that his request
is justified. I also find a dynamically changing clock a visual toxin.
For me, the blinking of my cursor is enough animation on my computer
screen.

Concerns about his privacy policy really can't be addressed by insisting
that he state it on his web site. How do we know he is not a manufactured
entity designed by  Al Qaeda ? Would a stated privacy
policy protect you from "the evil one"? As that great urban philosopher,
Rodney King, once said, "Can't we all just get along?"

Peace.

On 2009-04-21_16:22:09, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I seek recommendations for improving the site
> 
> 1) Under the site name there is not one, but _two_ corny taglines. Get
> rid of them until you find a single tagline that is witty and on
> topic.
> 
> 2) "Maybe I should have the site translated to Australian"? What is
> that? Maybe you should, but I as a visitor am not interested. Why
> don't you translate to Hebrew, a language that I understand? In other
> words, list the languages that you do have translations for, and not
> those that are in Maybe status. And if this line was a joke, then it's
> not the place for jokes.
> 
> 3) Remove the clock javascript. It gives nothing of value to the page.
> Either the user has a system clock, or he disabled it because he does
> not need it.
> 
> 4) Signup/Login? Why? Give the user a reason to do that, clearly and
> in few words.
> 
> 5) No privacy policy? I'm not signing up!
> 
> 6) The images of the desktop logos should be links.
> 
> 7) "This site appears disheveled in Internet Explorer, horrible". That
> should probably read "Internet Explorer renders this page
> incorrectly". Put the blame on IE where it belongs, not on your
> website.
> 
> 8) "Recent Windows Visitors" What value does this give to the user? If
> the answer is close to 0, then get rid of it.
> 
> 9) "Just how bad is it?" Just how bad is what? No,  will not click to
> find out what. There is too much decption on the web as it is, I don't
> trust you. Give me _informative_ link text, not _speculative_ link
> text.
> 
> 
> 
> > Thank you for your time and I'm sorry if any of you consider this spam. ?? 
> > I just
> > figured this was the best place to put feelers out.
> >
> 
> While I do not consider this isolated message spam, I will consider it
> spam if this becomes a phenomenon. Let's not let that happen. I am
> serious, and I have access to automatic weapons.
> 
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Re: mysterious pdf file won't be printed, all others will!

[Rodolfo Medina]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
>> `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right,
>> and the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation date,
>> which is today wheras the other files are older.
>> 
>> The thing looks mysterious to me.
>> 
>> Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?



"Douglas A. Tutty"  writes:

> 1.Are you sure that it is a .pdf file?  run file on it.


Yes, `file' says it is, and besides it can be viewed by xpdf.



> 2.Did she put that file there?

Yes, she did.



> 4.If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
>   print from the viewer?


It won't be printed either!

Thanks
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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

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Reply to: andreimpope...@gmail.com
Original Message Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45:43 +0300
RE: Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood   [See Original Message 
Below]

Fair enough.  Thank you for your reply.

--machiner

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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:45:43 +0300  andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:

>On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote:
> 
>> Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in
>> particular is going gang-busters!  I would like to expand the site to 
>> include any
>> of you that can muster up an hour a week or so to write tutorials or articles
>> germain to new or relatively new Linux (Debian) users.
>
>I'd rather not spread resources all over the net. If I'd have time to 
>write new stuff I'd put it on wiki.debian.org (or help maintain existing 
>content).
>
>Regards,
>Andrei






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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

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On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote:
 
> Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in 
> particular
> is going gang-busters!  I would like to expand the site to include any of you 
> that
> can muster up an hour a week or so to write tutorials or articles germain to 
> new or
> relatively new Linux (Debian) users.

I'd rather not spread resources all over the net. If I'd have time to 
write new stuff I'd put it on wiki.debian.org (or help maintain existing 
content).

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Lenny 5.0 AMD64 install hangs

[Luiz Guilherme Regis Emediato]

Hi,

I am trying to install Debian 5.0 Lenny on AMD64 machine
but it hangs at partitioning. Why ?

I need some help here.

I appreciate.

Thanks
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Re: possible printer replacements

[Anthony Campbell]

On 21 Apr 2009, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Dave Thayer wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote:
> >> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have  
> >> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available  
> >> at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother  
> >> hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten  
> >> these printers to work under Linux? According to the requirements lists  
> >> software is available for windows products and Macs but nothing for 
> >> Linux.
> >>
> > 
> > Have a look at . According
> > to this database these models all work "mostly" under linux.
> 
> I'll go ahead and mention right now I have a harder time setting up my
> HL-2170W in Windows than I do in Linux... the driver installation is not
> entirely intuitive in Windows, but all you need is the PPD in Linux.
> 

Perhaps a bit OT, but I've just bought a Samsung 2571N laser printer.
With the ppd file downloaded from the above site I could print text
files OK but not graphics or pdf. This was using lprng, not cups; I
don't know if that makes a difference. Anyhow, I went to my trusty
standby, magicfilter, and everything works perfectly. I'm using the
laserjet-filter which is not intended for this printer but seems to have
no problems with it.

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Re: File won't be printed, all others will!

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
> `lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, 
> and
> the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation date, which
> is today wheras the other files are older.
> 
> The thing looks mysterious to me.
> 
> Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?

1.  Are you sure that it is a .pdf file?  run file on it.

2.  Did she put that file there?

3.  If you are unsure of the file, use a sacrificial user (i.e.
create a new user named e.g. goat), have her email that file to
goat, then log in as goat, run mutt, save the file to its home
(or ~/uldl) directory, then start x, and try to open the file
with a pdf viewer (xpdf, kpdf, whatever).  

4.  If the file opens with a pdf viewer, what happens if you try to
print from the viewer?

Doug.


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Re: debian with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on notebook?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:39:38PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> since my ThinkPad T400 has two 250GB HD, i considered to install debian 
> testing with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on it.
> 
> Has anyone experience with that kind of setup?
> 
> Any significant reasons against my plan?

Sounds like a good idea.  I think that the installer has that
out-of-the-box as one of the guided-partitioning options.  If not, you
can certainly do it manually.

This came up not that long ago.  It was suggested that having /
encrypted can prevent someone trojaning executables on / (e.g. /bin/ls).
However, since you need an unencrypted /boot, then someone could trojan
the kernel or the initrd itself (perhaps to email the attacker the
password you enter to decrypt the filesystem), who knows?

I suppose that you could have /boot on a USB stick so that without the
stick, the laptop won't boot and there won't be any unencrypted data on
the laptop.  There's good LUKS documentation: read it.

I'm sure that this has been (and is being) looked at by people with a
particular interest in laptop security.  Just don't assume that
raid1+crypsetup+lvm will make your laptop absoulutly secure.

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existing blender is broken after building a new one from source code

[明覺]

I installed blender by apt-get install blender and it worked very
well, but after I built a new blender from its source code, the
fine-work one is broken, and the built one also doesn't work, here is
the error message:
-
minjue:~/workspace/Blender/Blender-svn/blender# blender
Compiled with Python version 2.5.4.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_WindowX11.cpp:177: X11 glxChooseVisual()
failed for OpenGL, verify working openGL system!
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
 Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
 Resource id in failed request:  0xb8626930
 Serial number of failed request:  20
 Current serial number in output stream:  21
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how could I fix it? thanks

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Re: CUPS in Lenny prints from some apps but not all

[Ken Heard]

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 22:20:44 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
>> 1. CUPS in Lenny will *not* print:

By changing the boolian value for in the following line in Icedoves's
prefs.js file: print.postscript.cups.enabled from "false" (as was set on
installation of Icedove) to "true", the following additional option
appeared in the "Printer Name" window: CUPS/HP2P.  The original option
(Postscript/default) remained, but CUPS/HP2P was the one to appear in
the window when printing was invoked.

With this change I was able to print Icedove e-mails.  I still cannot
however print from Dosemu applications.

Regards, Ken Heard
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Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[Dotan Cohen]

> I seek recommendations for improving the site

1) Under the site name there is not one, but _two_ corny taglines. Get
rid of them until you find a single tagline that is witty and on
topic.

2) "Maybe I should have the site translated to Australian"? What is
that? Maybe you should, but I as a visitor am not interested. Why
don't you translate to Hebrew, a language that I understand? In other
words, list the languages that you do have translations for, and not
those that are in Maybe status. And if this line was a joke, then it's
not the place for jokes.

3) Remove the clock javascript. It gives nothing of value to the page.
Either the user has a system clock, or he disabled it because he does
not need it.

4) Signup/Login? Why? Give the user a reason to do that, clearly and
in few words.

5) No privacy policy? I'm not signing up!

6) The images of the desktop logos should be links.

7) "This site appears disheveled in Internet Explorer, horrible". That
should probably read "Internet Explorer renders this page
incorrectly". Put the blame on IE where it belongs, not on your
website.

8) "Recent Windows Visitors" What value does this give to the user? If
the answer is close to 0, then get rid of it.

9) "Just how bad is it?" Just how bad is what? No,  will not click to
find out what. There is too much decption on the web as it is, I don't
trust you. Give me _informative_ link text, not _speculative_ link
text.



> Thank you for your time and I'm sorry if any of you consider this spam.   I 
> just
> figured this was the best place to put feelers out.
>

While I do not consider this isolated message spam, I will consider it
spam if this becomes a phenomenon. Let's not let that happen. I am
serious, and I have access to automatic weapons.

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File won't be printed, all others will!

[Rodolfo Medina]

In my sister's home directory there is a pdf file that won't respond to the
`lp' command.  All others pdf files in the same directory behave all right, and
the permissions are the same.  The only difference is the creation date, which
is today wheras the other files are older.

The thing looks mysterious to me.

Can anybody suggest any explanation/remedy?

Thanks for any help
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debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

[machiner]

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:42:02 -0400
RE: 

Hi,

Some of you are familiar with my little tutorial site as I have seen references 
from
some of you to articles on the site in my logs. (Thank you for the confidence)

Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in 
particular
is going gang-busters!  I would like to expand the site to include any of you 
that
can muster up an hour a week or so to write tutorials or articles germain to 
new or
relatively new Linux (Debian) users.

I know you're busy.

The focus is not on advanced Linux users, but people running Linux account for 
~60%
of visitors, so some intermediate tutorials are welcome.

My site is totally free and I accept no advertising, nor will I.  Nor will I 
pay for
submissions.  It just doesn't make any sense.

Linux uptake is growing exponentially and  I feel that Debian is the best Linux
flavor for about everyone.

I seek recommendations for improving the site as well as new authors, whether 
one
article or many.  Please consider it.  The site does very well in the search 
engines
and it could use some new blood.  I would be thrilled, as would the site's 
readers,
if one, or a bunch of you could submit something.  All I ask is that your 
writings
are original and helpful.  Any topic related to Debian is fine.

Thank you for your time and I'm sorry if any of you consider this spam.   I just
figured this was the best place to put feelers out.


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Re: problems installing lenny on dell laptop

[Thorny]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:48:55 -0700, Don Raikes posted:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display
> without a problem onto my gateway desktop system.
> 
> However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600
> laptop, it is not recognizing the usb connection to either my external
> keyboard or braille display until well into the install process.
> 
> Since the usb is not recognized, the installer does not give me a choice
> of a text-only install it only has the graphhical install.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> BTW: I had created a livecd from my lenny install on the desktop and it
> boots up fine with usb support at the appropriate point on the laptop.
> 
> The remastersys-installer doesn't allow me to select the laptop's hard
> drive so I can't install from there.

On my D600 there is a BIOS option for USB emulation (USB keyboard, USB
mouse and USB floppy drive), on the BIOS setup which is reached by
pressing F2 while the laptop boots, it's on page 4 of the setup.

It might be worth trying to change that option and see if it makes a
difference. I can't say because I've never tried the D600 with a USB
keyboard, I installed with the laptop keyboard.



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Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

[M. Henne]

Thank you Stephen for your configuration. I'll try that (at the 
weekend I guess) and I will report if it helped me here for KDE4.


Martin


Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> Anyway, here's the sections from my xorg.conf:
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier  "TwinView"
> Screen  0   "Default Screen (TwinView)"
> Option  "Xinerama"  "off"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier  "Default Screen (TwinView)"
> Device  "nVidia 7800 GTX (TwinView)"
> DefaultDepth24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth   24
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth   8
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
> Identifier  "nVidia 7800 GTX (TwinView)"
> Driver  "nvidia"
> Option  "NoLogo"
> Option  "RandRRotation" "on"
> Option  "ConstantDPI"   "off"
> Option  "TwinView"  "on"
> Option  "TwinViewOrientation"   "DFP-0 RightOf DFP-1"
> Option  "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1200, DFP-1:
> 1280x1024; DFP-0: 640x480"
> BusID   "PCI:2:0:0"
> EndSection

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Re: CUPS in Lenny prints from some apps but not all

[Ken Heard]

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 22:20:44 -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
>> 1. CUPS in Lenny will *not* print:
>>
>> 1.1 An icedove e-mail.  The print window gives only one option:
>> PostScript/default.  It will not print to printer (no job appears in the
>> spool), nor will it print to file.
>>
>> 1.2 Files from dosemu applications, e.g. WordPerfect 5.1
> 
> Please post the output of:
> 
> dpkg -l {lib,}cups\* | awk '/^ii/{print$2,$3}'

cups 1.3.8-1lenny5
cups-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny5
cups-client 1.3.8-1lenny5
cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny5
cups-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4
cups-pdf 2.4.8-3
cupsddk 1.2.3-5
cupsddk-drivers 1.2.3-5
cupsys 1.3.8-1lenny5
cupsys-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny5
cupsys-client 1.3.8-1lenny5
cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.2-4
libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny5
libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny5
libcupsys2 1.3.8-1lenny5

Regards, Ken Heard

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debian with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on notebook?

[Peter Jordan]

Hello,

since my ThinkPad T400 has two 250GB HD, i considered to install debian 
testing with raid1+cryptsetup+lvm on it.


Has anyone experience with that kind of setup?

Any significant reasons against my plan?

thanks

PJ


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Re: can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal

[Sjoerd Hardeman]

Paul Scott wrote:
I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal.  Anything I try to do 
to Hal gives me something like the following.  I found there might have 
been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to upgrade it 
doesn't make a difference.  I have reloaded all the packages in limbo 
without any change. 

>
Preparing to replace hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 (using 
.../archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb) ...
* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer 
hald 
[ OK ]

invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
...
This is a Splasy problem, see bug #522104. Move /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh 
to some temporary file, then updating hal should work.


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Re: possible printer replacements

[Paul Johnson]

John Lindsay wrote:
> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have
> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available
> at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother
> hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten
> these printers to work under Linux? According to the requirements lists
> software is available for windows products and Macs but nothing for Linux.

I have the HL-2170W running on my wireless network right now, works fine
right out of the box.  Get yourself an extra print cartridge right out,
the one that comes in the box is only half full.  See
http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Brother-HL-2170W for
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configuring dns server

[kura batok]

hello,

i've installed dns server on my woody. i use this command:

apt-get install bind9

then, i added this lines in named.conf

---
zone "ayel-blog.org"
{
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.aye";
}
---

then i created a file named db.aye which contains:

---
;
; BIND data file for local loopback interface
;
STTL
@ IN SOA ayel-blog.org root.ayel-blog.org
(
  1; serial
  604800; refresh
  86400; retry
  2419200; expire
  604800); negative cache TTL
;
 IN NS   ayel-blog-org.
ns1IN A  172.28.14.1
172.28.14.1   INPTR  ns1
www IN   CNAME  ns1
---

then i call this command:

/etc/init.d/bind9 restart

the problem is: i can't ping to www.ayel-blog.org

anybody can help me?

sincerely,
kura batok
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Re: possible printer replacements

[Paul Johnson]

Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02:13PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote:
>> I have a HP 990C working just fine under debian (lenny) however I have  
>> seen at a local liquidation store the following laser printers available  
>> at a very good price and it may be time to upgrade. They are the Brother  
>> hl-2170, Brother hl-2140 and the Samsung scx-4300. Has anyone gotten  
>> these printers to work under Linux? According to the requirements lists  
>> software is available for windows products and Macs but nothing for 
>> Linux.
>>
> 
> Have a look at . According
> to this database these models all work "mostly" under linux.

I'll go ahead and mention right now I have a harder time setting up my
HL-2170W in Windows than I do in Linux... the driver installation is not
entirely intuitive in Windows, but all you need is the PPD in Linux.



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Chillispot for Stable

[Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]]

Hello Debian Users,

I found that chillispot is not available in Stable Repos, it's there
in Oldstable and Unstable though. How can I install it on my stable
system? Is there any option, other than manually downloading .deb file
from http://packages.debian.org and installing using "dpkg -i" ?

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can't upgrade, reinstall or remove hal

[Paul Scott]

I'm currently in an upgrade loop related to Hal.  Anything I try to do 
to Hal gives me something like the following.  I found there might have 
been a problem with Splashy that was just fixed but trying to upgrade it 
doesn't make a difference.  I have reloaded all the packages in limbo 
without any change.


TIA for any help!

Paul Scott


Preparing to replace hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 (using 
.../archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb) ...
* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer 
hald 
[ OK ]

invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
* Stopping Hardware abstraction layer 
hald 
[ OK ]

invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb 
(--unpack):

subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
* Starting Hardware abstraction layer 
hald 
[ OK ]

invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/hal_0.5.11-8_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
hal


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problems installing lenny on dell laptop

[Don Raikes]

Hi all,

I am a blind user of lenny. I installed lenny using my braille display without 
a problem onto my gateway desktop system.

However, when I boot the lenny dvd or cd on my dell latitude d600 laptop, it is 
not recognizing the usb connection to either my external keyboard or braille 
display until well into the install process.

Since the usb is not recognized, the installer does not give me a choice of a 
text-only install it only has the graphhical install.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

BTW: I had created a livecd from my lenny install on the desktop and it boots 
up fine with usb support at the appropriate point on the laptop.

The remastersys-installer doesn't allow me to select the laptop's hard drive so 
I can't install from there.

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Debian & LSISAS1064E B1 & LSISAS1068

[Alexis de BRUYN]

Hello Everybody,

I have some troubles to install a Debian Lenny 501 amd64 on an Intel®
Server Board S5000PSL with an Integrated RAID SAS controller LSISAS1064E
B1 on which I have 2 SAS HDD in RAID1 mode.

lspci -vnn: 04:00.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios
Logic Unknown device [1000:0057] (rev 02)

I have the same issue with the Intel® RAID Controller SRCSAS144E (LSI
Logic* LSISAS1068) with a RAID5 virtual disk, which is also plugged on
my server board.

The installer cannot see my RAID volumes. Does anybody have ever success
to install Debian on this server board thanks for example, with
compiling the drivers provided on the LSI or Intel website?

For LSISAS1068, I tried to install the megasr driver
(http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/
m/megasr/megasr_09.21.0914.2007-1.dsc), but modprobe megasr hangs...

Thanks for your help,

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Re: How to remove source packages updating on apt-get update?

[Sthu Deus]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Sven:

> Not really, there is a misunderstanding here.  Although its name
> suggests it, srcpkgcache.bin is _not_ a cache for source packages but
> rather a cache for packages from remote sources, see apt-cache(8).

I've read the manual but did not understand Your saying "a cache for
packages from remote sources". If You would, please explain in other
words.

> To get rid of remnants for old deb-src entries in sources.list, remove
> /var/lib/apt/lists/*Sources* instead.

I've checked the dir. w/

ls | grep Source

it returned empty string. Still, after yesterday's update, I see both

pkgcache.bin
srcpkgcache.bin

are updated and almost of the same size: 14553423 and 14503826
respectively.


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Re: liste de diffusion sous postfix - authentification ldap

[oneman]

Hi Franck,


Cette liste est en anglais, la plupart des lecteurs ne sera pas en  
mesure de lire votre message ou vous aider.  Il ya une liste en  
français: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/




Good luck,


Peter


On 21 apr 2009, at 08:36, franck Dufau wrote:


Bonjour,

J’ai installé un serveur samba avec backend ldap…openldap sert pour  
l’authentification de l’ensemble des services (messagerie, ftp,  
proxy).

Configuration samba http://damstux.free.fr
Postfix est en vmail avec maildir,
Tout marche à merveille sauf que j’ai tenté de créer une liste de  
diffusion en modifiant /etc/aliases… :

Testdiffusion : us...@domain.com, us...@domaine.com

Puis postalias /etc/aliases…

Cependant sans succès…. Aliases servant à priori uniquement pour les  
comptes locaux !!


D’où ma question, comment mettre en place une liste de diffusion  
dans ce type de configuration ?

Dois-je modifier ldap ?
Avez-vous un retour d’expérience à ce sujet ?
Une documentation ?

Malgrés mes recherches je n’arrive pas a trouver mon bonheur.

Cordialement

Re: Problem compiling custom kernel on debian

[Jochen Schulz]

Divick Kishore:
> 
> make-kpkg clean
> 
> I get error that file system is read only. Somehow just before running
> this command, the file system wasn´t readonly but after running this,
> my file system has become read  only.

Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take
a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find
messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have trouble
interpreting them.

Posting the output of 'smartctl -a /dev/hda' (from smartmontools, insert
your hard drive device name) might help as well.

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