Re: which package is good for making poster
On 11/2/21 07:33, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021 at 20:46, lina wrote:
I have to prepare a poster,
Inkscape appears to be pretty powerful when one knows how to use it.
It's always added to my setups even though I barely touch it. Just
waiting for time to follow a good how-to step by step.
I just tried an "apt-cache search poster" query. Received "poster" and
"shanty" back. Mentioning in case someone knows of them or can help
test drive them for informational purposes. They appear to be command
line tools, and both have manpages for flags and such.
If you are creating a poster for a scientific conference and you know
LaTeX or another TeX derivative, you can make a poster with it. I've
used LaTeX packages sciposter and a0poster in the past. Here's the top
of a latex file I have using sciposter:
\documentclass[custom,landscape,36pt]{sciposter}
\special{papersize=96in,48in}
\usepackage[absolute]{textpos}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{hanging}
\special{ps:gsave
Resolution dup scale -1 35 translate 1 -1 scale
0.57 0.39 0.91 setrgbcolor
26 28.5 44 6 rectfill
grestore}
\definecolor{mainCol}{rgb}{0.98,0.98,0.82}
\definecolor{BoxCol}{rgb}{1.,0.87,0.0}
\definecolor{TextCol}{rgb}{0,0,0}
\definecolor{SectionCol}{rgb}{0,0,0}
\renewcommand{\columnseprule}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\sectionsize}{\Large}
\renewcommand{\subsectionsize}{\large}
\title{\textcolor{white}{Very, very interesting stuff}}
\author{\textcolor{white}{me}}
\institute{\textcolor{white}{affill}}
\email{\textcolor{white}{me@me}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\begin{multicols}{5}
%%% the poster text, etc.
text text text
%%% this won't work without some \end{X} statements.
I also have a paper96x48.cfg file in the same directory.
:> more paper96x48.cfg
% file papercustom.cfg, M.H.F. Wilkinson
% custom paper support
% for sciposter.cls v1.10 and higher
% edit pointsize, width, height, and fontsize parameters as needed
% DO ensure that values in the \special commands match!
\renewcommand{\papertype}{custom}
\renewcommand{\fontpointsize}{36pt}
\setlength{\paperwidth}{121cm}
\setlength{\paperheight}{243cm}
\renewcommand{\setpspagesize}{
\ifthenelse{\equal{\orientation}{portrait}}{
\special{papersize=121cm,243m}
}{\special{papersize=243cm,121cm}
}
}
I've also used the poster package in Debian to take the full poster and
spit it out as a bunch of 9.5x11 sheets of paper for printing and then
taping together. It has worked in a pinch for me, but it is a little
disappointing to work hard to make a nice looking poster and then it
looks pretty terrible taped up.
Good luck and enjoy. I have always enjoyed making posters.
Re: btrfs?
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 1:20 PM Steve Mynott wrote: > Is anyone running btrfs (either on bullseye or buster)? > I am using it on a laptop running buster with encryption and lvm. It seems to be working fine. I haven't really checked anything, though.
Re: Worrisome USB disk messages in 4.6.0-1, but not 4.5.0-2
On Friday, July 29, 2016 11:39 AM, Brian Flaherty wrote: > > Hello,> > On my desktop, I've been getting messages like this in dmesg connected with > an external USB hard disk. This is a block of them from this morning: [ rest deleted ] If it is worth more information, I rebooted the desktop with kernel 4.5.0-2-amd64 and I've not seen any of the messages, so it seem related to kernel 4.6.0-1.
Worrisome USB disk messages in 4.6.0-1, but not 4.5.0-2
Hello, On my desktop, I've been getting messages like this in dmesg connected with an external USB hard disk. This is a block of them from this morning: Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [descriptor] Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e5 00 Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [descriptor] Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 2c 00 da 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [descriptor] Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e5 00 Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [descriptor] Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information Jul 29 10:51:55 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: ATA command pass through(16) 85 06 2c 00 da 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 c2 00 b0 00 I've been searching on the web (duckduckgo and google), but haven't seen this exact situation anywhere. On a bug report I read (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1176355), the person mentioned that their disk worked on a previous release, so I attached my disk to a laptop that hasn't been updated in a while. It is running Debian unstable with linux 4.5.0-2. None of those messages have shown up. I'm running fsck -f on it right now to check it (on the laptop). Thus, I assume there is some change in the kernel code, but that my disk is fine. Does that sound reasonable, or has some improvement been introduced in the linux code that is picking up problems that 4.5 doesn't see? Thanks for your time and happy to include further information if it is helpful.
Re: enabling remote X Window sessions
On 08/21/2014 11:07 AM, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: Brian, Thanks. I was heading in the direction of doing something like you suggested (though I am not sure how to stop gdm and not log myself out), On my machine, when I start the sytem, I end up at a graphical login slim, like gdm. If I keypress Ctrl-Alt-F1, I am taking to tty1 for a console login. If I login there, I can stop slim (and presumably gdm) and startx from the command line. (Not a systemd complaint here.) I used to be able to type something like 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop', but I don't know if that way works anymore. but I thought there has to be a better way. Though it may be the case that I have other X communication problems, based on ps (showing the command arguments), I am sure that Xorg is still running with the argument that disables listening for TCP/IP traffic and I am sure that Xorg will behave as it is instructed. I'm far from an expert here, but I think when gdm starts, it is starting X, so if you login from gdm, I think X will be started with TCP listening disabled. I thought maybe that if you started X from a command line with startx (bypassing gdm), you could see if that allowed you to make the remote connection you wish. I don't know much about gdm, so I'm not helpful there. Good luck. Kevin Buchs Research Computer Services Phone: 507-538-5459 Mayo Clinic 200 1st. St SW Rochester, MN 55905 http://mayoclinic.org http://facebook.com/MayoClinic http://youtube.com/MayoClinic http://twitter.com/MayoClinic On 08/21/2014 12:57 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: This might not be a good lead, but can you stop gdm3 on your machine, log in to a console, start X with startx and see if it works? Maybe there are startx options to allow TCP listening? If this works, then deal with gdm. If this doesn't work, does it mean the problem is elsewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53f65de9.1010...@yahoo.com
Re: enabling remote X Window sessions
On 08/21/2014 09:58 AM, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote: I want to run X clients on a remote machines and display on my Debian 7.6 machine. I recognize the security risk. I usually run the lxde desktop. I see that gdm3 is starting the Xorg server with "-nolisten tcp" arguments. I read that this can be disabled by editing /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf to add under the [security] heading: "DisallowTCP=false". I tried this but that did not stop gdm3 from starting Xorg with the same arguments. Can anyone share any additional information on this? Thanks. This might not be a good lead, but can you stop gdm3 on your machine, log in to a console, start X with startx and see if it works? Maybe there are startx options to allow TCP listening? If this works, then deal with gdm. If this doesn't work, does it mean the problem is elsewhere? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53f63317.1080...@yahoo.com
Re: flakey wifi access
On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexico. I had used wicd for months without problems, but last spring, I was unable to get on a WPA/WPA2 access point. The password was correct. Several other devices were connected. After a few days, I was able to get a cable connection and install networkmanager. I tried it and worked without problem. Didn't have time to work out what the issue was and I'm still just using networkmanager. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53b1febe.8060...@yahoo.com
Re: Consistent mouse and scrollbar behavior in X?
On 10/12/2013 12:11 PM, Clive Standbridge wrote: You need to rebuild emacs to achieve that. This note from /usr/share/doc/emacs23-common/README.Debian.gz is the key: If you prefer the old-style, non-toolkit scrollbars, just edit debian/rules to add --without-toolkit-scrollbars where indicated and rebuild. The splendid Debian Reference has a guide to rebuilding packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_porting_a_package_to_the_stable_system - Make sure you set the deb-src line to the same release as you're using (because you're not doing a backport). - Before the build step, add the following lines in debian/rules at the appropriate places: confflags_x += --without-toolkit-scroll-bars confflags_lucid += --without-toolkit-scroll-bars Allow plenty of time for the build. My notes say 42min to build emacs23 on a 3GHz P4. Clive, I'm sorry it took me so long, but thank you very much for your reply. I finally got time to try it tonight and it wasn't even difficult. It did take a while to compile, though. I just tried it and I have working scroll bars back! I'm going to have to do the same thing on my work machine. much less make it standard across all X programs. Is this possible? Ideally scroll bar behaviour would be a window manager function, but as you've observed, it seems to be built into each application. This seems like a remarkably poor design. Did you know that xterm has the same scrollbar behaviour? Unlike every other terminal emulator that I'm aware of. I don't have scrollbars on my xterms, but I'll give it a try. Thank you again! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53117334.5030...@yahoo.com
Re: list of abandoned free software
On 02/28/2014 09:23 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: Could anybody please point me to a list of abandoned free software? This is Debian specific, but the Debian Project News includes a list of Debian packages in need of a maintainer or some other care: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/#wnpp Also, you might be able to get a list from the Debian bugs site. Brian Not like abandonia http://www.abandonia.com/ Abandonia features dos games. But something more like a semi-comprehensive list of projects that are now unmaintained. TIA for any info. dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5311721c.8080...@yahoo.com
Re: todo list software
On 02/03/2014 04:17 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software? Depending upon what sort of to do items and how you track them, remind and wyrd (or another front-end to remind) might work well for you. Remind is a calendar/appointment program, but I use it for all sorts of to do things, in addition to keeping track of meetings, etc. For example, today it reports that I'm 776 days late on something. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52f1c112.7010...@yahoo.com
Consistent mouse and scrollbar behavior in X?
Hello, Clicking on scrollbars does different things with different applications. In Emacs, the following used to be standard: - left click: one screenful down - right click: one screenful up - middle click: jump to where you clicked In emacs now (emacs-24 with gtk+), the mouse scrolling is quite poor. Left click jumps the scrollbar to the place you clicked, but the buffer text doesn't change. In evince, left and right click do exactly the same thing, jump to the point where you clicked. However, in xpdf, left click takes you down (or up) one screenful and middle click jumps to the point. I did some web searching to try to fix this. I found how to move my scrollbar in emacs back over to the left, instead of on the right (set-scroll-bar-mode 'left), but I haven't found a way to get my old mouse behavior back in emacs, much less make it standard across all X programs. Is this possible? The fact that xpdf and evince behave so differently suggests one uniform system may be difficult to achieve. BTW, I'm using the i3 window manager on Debian unstable. Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52583922.3040...@yahoo.com
Re: Help diagnosing USB disk issue?
Thank you all for your thoughts about the USB disk problems I'm having. I follow-up below. Kelly wrote: > Have you tried it on different ports? Yes and no change. > Do other USB devices (flash drives, keyboard/mouse, etc) work in the > port(s) you are trying this disk on? Yes. > What do you get from lsusb, both plugged in and not? No difference, a list of the other USB devices. sp113438 asked if I tried usbmount. I believe usbmount and pmount are both wrappers for regular users to mount removable drives. I use pmount and it cannot mount anything because the kernel doesn't see the drive. I tried to mount the device it should be, but as expected, the kernel said it couldn't find that device. Amit wrote: > Try the following: > > 1. blacklist uhci-hcd and usbhid in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. > - This forces ehci-hcd to load first. > 2. Then once the system is up, manually modprobe uhci-hcd. On my system, uhci-hcd wasn't loaded, only ehci-hcd. I tried this on one system today and when I insmod'ed uhci-hcd without ehci_hcd, I received a message that ehci_hcd has to be loaded first, and it was loaded automatically. Jude mentioned updating the usb-ids, but as another poster said, I think that just updates the information about devices, not the drivers. Pascal wrote: > If nothing shows in the kernel logs and other USB device work well, then > it looks like a hardware issue to me, maybe a lack of power. Is the disk > self-powered (with its own power adapter) or bus-powered ? The external drive in question has its own power supply. Since it works on the other computers, I assume it is getting enough power, but the laptop it isn't working on is the newest. I suppose it is possible that the newer X201 has a more sensitive USB hardware system. I have since copied the stuff I wanted to put on the drive via rsync across machines, rather than using one computer with two external drives. I suspect the drive is the problem and that the older machines are less picky about everything working right. Thank you again! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1363505874.23274.yahoomail...@web142604.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
Help diagnosing USB disk issue?
Hello, I have two laptops: - Lenovo X201 running Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-4-amd64 (also has 3.2.0-3-amd64 and 2.6.32-5-amd64) - Thinkpad X31 running an out-of-date Debian unstable, kernel 3.2.0-2-486 (haven't turned this one on in a while and consequently haven't updated packages) Also have a 600GB LaCie external hard disk. When I plug the disk's usb cable into the X201 (up-to-date), the laptop notices nothing. The disk does start doing stuff, but no acknowledgment in dmesg or lsusb. Plugged the disk in to a Mac machine, which recognized it. On the mac, I reformatted it to vfat. Plugged it into the X201, still no response on the computer. I plugged the same harddrive into my old X31 running the old kernel and it recognized it as /dev/sdb1. I ran badblocks (for hours) and it said everything was fine. I plugged it into the X201 and still nothing. A further troubleshooting attempt, I noticed that on the X31, uhci-hcd was in the list of loaded kernel modules. It wasn't on the X201. I modprobed it, but still nothing. I rebooted the X201 to an old kernel (2.6.32-5-amd64), but still nothing. Just to try again, I restarted X31, plugged in the harddrive and it was recognized right away. I noticed that the X31 list of modules had one called uas in the usb system. The module uas isn't in 3.2.0-4, but is in 3.2.0-3, so I rebooted the X201 into kernel 3.2.0-3, modprobed uas (and uhci-hcd, for good measure), but still not recognizing the disk. Last, all this time, the X201 was in a docking station. I removed it, rebooted and tried again, but still nothing from the X201 upon connecting the harddrive. Any thoughts on what the problem is or how I can diagnose it? Thanks for your time!
Tell grub-efi-ia32 to use text/non-fb graphics only?
Hello, I'm still fighting with grub-efi-ia32 on a Mac Pro. I am able to boot Debian from a supergrub CD (iso), so the install works. But when I boot from grub on the harddisk, I have video problems and the screen freezes. Can I tell grub-efi-ia32 to just use text or really simple graphics? I've played a bit with setting options in /etc/default/grub, but no luck yet. Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339720368.85617.yahoomail...@web125702.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Almost solved: Re: grub-efi configuration on old Mac Pro
It has taken many hours, but my Mac Pro (model MacPro1,1) finally
automatically booted Debian from rEFInd and the grub2 menu.
Problems/challenges:
- grub-efi[-ia32[-bin]] doesn't properly set the path to find the efi
image when installed and set-up by a package manager. I've filed a bug
report [#677280]. The upshot of this is when you select
/boot/grub/grub.efi in rEFInd, you are dropped at a grub-rescue prompt.
- When I built my own grub2 from source and followed the instructions
here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting, I could
successfully get to a grub prompt (not grub-rescue), but still no menu
of linux kernels, etc. I did not figure out what I needed to type in at
the grub prompt to get a successful boot. These instructions
specifically set a null --prefix for grub-mkimage, which may be part of
the problem?
- Today, I uninstalled my homemade grub2 (in /usr/local) to get back to
Debian's grub-efi because Debian's constructed grub.cfg was the one that
worked best from the supergrub rescue CD. I also found these
instructions: http://mennucc1.debian.net/macbook_linux_efi.html
and gave them a try. Note, these instructions explicitly set all the
paths in the /EFI partition. Specifically,
grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -o /efi/efi/grub/grub.efi \
-p /efi/grub part_gpt hfsplus fat ext2 normal \
chain boot configfile linux multiboot
I copied the grub.cfg from /boot/grub to
/{EFI partition mount point)/EFI/grub/ and rebooted. It actually
booted! I didn't have video, but the harddisk churned away. When grub
started, it said
"error no suitable mode"
"however continuing..."
This message with the little grub info stayed in a tiny box in the
middle of my screen. So, now all I need to do is understand how to get
the right video module/driver in the right place.
The instructions that worked for me above have this next for the right
video:
function load_video {
set debug=fb
insmod efi_gop
#insmod vbe
}
and then specify if you have an older Mac, maybe use efi_uga.
When I look at the files in /etc/grub.d, it looks like these modules
should be in there, but when I look at my grub.cfg, this is my
load_video function:
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
Does anyone know how I get the Debian grub2 scripts to grab and add the
right modules to my grub.cfg? I will try hand editing grub.cfg tomorrow,
but I assume those changes will be over-written the next time grub is
updated.
As another possible workaround, might it work to run grub-mkimage with
efi_uga in the modules list?
Thanks for any thoughts.
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grub-efi configuration [was: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something]
So, I've made some progress getting Debian booting on my old Mac Pro. Right now, here's the hang-up and I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm using rEFInd to choose what to boot. It finally finds my Debian installed grub efi image, however, there's something wrong in a path and it dumps me at grub-rescue. Essentially, the problem there is that the directory to the modules it needs to load is lacking a /. When I land in grub-rescue this is my prefix: (hd1,gpt1)boot/grub It complains it cannot find insmod normal to continue. If I set prefix to this: (hd1,gpt1)/boot/grub then 'insmod normal' and normal work and dump me at a grub prompt. I haven't yet succeeded in booting the system from that grub prompt either, but I'm hoping that if this prefix is corrected, maybe it'll work. I continue to boot using the supergrub cdrom, telling it to find grub.cfg, then selecting my kernel. I used to have to edit that text, but now I don't need to. Updating to grub-efi in sid seemed to fix something. Any guidance on correcting prefix or other tips to get this working would be great. Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339178231.61152.yahoomail...@web125705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something
> - Original Message - > From: Dan Hitt > To: Brian Flaherty > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 12:58 PM > Subject: Re: Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something > > Hi Brian, > > How many disks do you have in the machine? I'm just wondering > if you have a time machine disk in it that might be the source for your > hd2. I have four disks in the machine. Three 500 GB that I was using for RAID and a 1 TB drive used for backup. (Timemachine in Mac OS X.) I installed Mac OS X in a 130GB partition on one of the 500 GB drives and used Mac's Disk Utility to add partitions for linux (/boot, /, /tmp, and /var). Again, I was working from www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html and he said Mac OS X will be happier if it partitions the disks. Under linux, the system disk always shows up at /dev/sdc. > Also --- have you thought about using the OSX time machine to keep > backups for your ubuntu partition? I don't intend to use the Mac partition much at all and so I'm planning to repartition the timemachine backup to be a backup under Debian. > I'd certainly appreciate hearing how the story of your machine unfolds > (and i'm sort of surprised that you could share a disk so easily with OSX--- > but i'm assuming your machine could hold up to 4 disks). Once I get the whole thing working, I can write up and post the working configuration. I've made some more progress and would love to get this ironed out today so I can just leave the machine running Debian. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339177611.89918.yahoomail...@web125703.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Mac Pro, Debian/OS X dual boot, EFI - I'm missing something
Hello, I've been trying a while to get linux running on my Mac Pro (Intel, not powerpc). Specific model is MacPro1,1. I tried just installing Debian alone, but couldn't get it to boot alone or with rEFIt. Others have suggested keeping OS X on the system for Apple updates and now I'm trying that. I've read a lot on the web and have been mostly working from this page: www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi/index.html I have Debian stable successfully installed (I'm working from it right now!). I'm using rEFInd, an updated/maintained version of rEFIt also described on the pages above. (I'd be happy to hear if people this rEFIt is preferable for some reason.) During Debian install, it tries to run grub. I have a bios partition waiting (/dev/sdc99). By default, it tries /dev/sda and fails. I tell it /dev/sdc and it completes without error. Looking at aptitiude right now, grub-pc is what is installed. Following the steps on the page above, once linux is installed and your using protective MBR, not hybrid MBR, (The author of the page argues that protective is much safer than hybrid MBR.), you boot from a CD with grub on it (http://www.supergrubdisk.org/). When I do this, I get a list of things for grub to do and one of them is find grub.cfg and run. Well, it does find what I assume is a grub.cfg from my Debian install. It doesn't work by default, but if I edit it to boot from (hd1,gpt4) it works. For some reason, the cfg or something has (hd2,gpt4). /dev/sdc4 is my /boot partition. When I edit it to hd1, it boots and starts Debian. (I am editing this using i3 and xrandr with dual heads without a glitch!) So, I'm very happy to have gotten this far. What is the proper course forward to get it to boot automatically? I'd rather not have to boot from the supergrub CD all the time. I assume I need to switch over to grub-efi, but I tried that yesterday and lost all access to my linux partitions. Any pointers, thoughts, experiences, etc. will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your time! Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1339009613.74539.yahoomail...@web125706.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
OT: script to remove linked directories containing specific files
Good evening, I have moved away from iTunes back to organizing my own music. The main music directory contains several kinds of files: ogg, mp3, flac, aiff. I want to create a subdirectory that only contains links (I assume soft.) to the directories containing only ogg and mp3 files. For example, if this was my base directory: music/ artist1/ album1/ogg-songs / artist1/ album2/flac-songs ... etc. I'd like something like this: link-dest.dir/artist1(link)/ album1/ ogg without a link to the album2 directory because it contains flac files. I think I know how to walk through and link to each directory, but not sure how to then go through and remove links to directories with the file type I don't want. Any suggestions or thoughts welcome. Thank you. Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android
OT: i3 configuration
Hello, I like tiling window managers and I've played around with awesome and i3 mainly. I prefer the manual layout of i3 to the dynamic layout of awesome. However, I like that awesome handles the osd notifications, let's me know dropbox is running, mounts usb drives, etc. If you use i3 and you integrate any of these services/features, how do you have it configured? I assume most people don't want to log in as root to mount a key drive, so how do you use basic usability features wit a simple window manager like i3? Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1333733200.69728.yahoomail...@web125705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: X being shutdown without warning
On 12/09/2011 09:32 AM, Michel Blankleder wrote: On Friday 09 December 2011 18:15:39 Alan Chandler wrote: On 09/12/11 17:07, Alan Chandler wrote: Anyone any ideas what could have happened here. just seen a message on debian-kde that implies it could have been libdrm-intel1 Last week I had a problem playing videos. I had a similar problem with a flash movie on a webpage, but it isn't consistent. There did seem to be a connection between the movie and moving the mouse. I had this happen a lot in Ubuntu and various window managers, which is why I switched back to Debian. I don't think it ever happened with Debian stable, but I recently moved to Sid and I think it has happened once. I haven't been able to reliably recreate it, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ee2705e.6050...@yahoo.com
gnome-commander? [was Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3]
On 12/02/2011 12:26 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: I find Icons on the desktop pretty useless - they are always hidden by windows - except when you aren't running anything. I agree. I just spent a week exploring in depth how to manage my workload in both KDE 4.7 following frustration with Gnome 3 (Not because of the new shell, which after a couple of weeks I got use to - but because of the flakeness of Nautilus FTP I don't know because I haven't tried, but midnight commander (mc) has ftp and sftp built in and I have used those in the past. Perhaps gnome-commander has the same functionality and maybe it even works? I populate the "Activity Bar" with those applications I use all the time (Web Browser, Mail, Terminal Window, Text Editor, Virtual Box, MythTV, LibreOffice writer and Freemind) and now its just a flick of the mouse to the top left corner (or hitting the "logo" key on my keyboard to shrink in the windows to the desktop and get at the Icons I wish to use. I agree here too. I switched from stable to unstable because I like gnome 3. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed93768.5090...@yahoo.com
Re: a short cut on desktop on gnome3
On 12/02/2011 03:03 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: *Hi, I am trying to be familiar with gnome 3, So I installing from debian testing the gnome 3, It seems good, but sometimes I am lost, for example, I want to put a file on the Desktop, like drag it from the usb to the screen!! as usual, it didn't work !!! another case I used to add button on the bar just by clicking on the topbar menu to add it, the right click is not working ??!! How to enable it?? is it possible?? thanks for help* My understanding is that by default, GNOME 3 desktop does not correspond to a directory as in previous GNOME and Mac (for example). But there's an option in gnome-tweak-tool to tell the file manager (nautilus, I assume) to manage the desktop. I haven't tried it, but it sounds like it should do what you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed918d6.3050...@yahoo.com
Sid, GNOME 3: Alt-F2 stopped working
For a week or so, Alt-F2 (run a command) won't run anything. If I just type a command such as "xterm", it says command not found. If I press Escape after this, the pop-up window disappears. If I type the full path to the executable (e.g., /usr/bin/xterm), the pop-up window freezes and the shading remains. The mouse still moves, keyboard input works in other windows, but the bar at the top of the screen is unresponsive. Seems like a bug, but I wanted to raise it here first and also thought maybe someone would have some ideas about what might be going wrong. I'm not sure, but I also think gnome-do stopped working around the same time unfortunately. I like those key combinations. Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed71eb8.1090...@yahoo.com
Re: GNOME 3 Alt-Tab takes two hands now
On 11/30/2011 08:46 AM, Iuri Guilherme dos Santos Martins wrote: You may configure that in the window manager Where does one do that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed71cc2.1020...@yahoo.com
Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup
On 11/21/2011 05:17 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 11/21/2011 12:33 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen locks solid, and input (mouse or keyboard) no longer has any affect. Screen updates (such as the clock) continue. I ended up trying to install gnome 3.2 from experimental, failing and reverting back to gnome 3 in sid. In the process I uninstalled and re-installed loads of stuff, and it seems to be working again. Seems to have half broken again. I was in Mail (Icedove) and got to the end of a folders worth of mail. The dialog box thrown up to ask whether I want to go on to the next folder is blank and is now left on the screen (on top). I encountered this yesterday. Gnome-shell 3.0.2-6 (unstable, not experimental) would lock with Iceweasel or Icedove, though Icedove seemed to do it without fail. If I logged in as root on a tty, I could kill iceweasel or icedove, and gnome-shell would resume. (I think I tried Epiphany too and the same thing happened.) 3.0.2-5 worked fine, so I installed that from the cache in /var and held gnome-shell in aptitude. Same thing seemed to happen today with 3.0.2-7, but I just got 3.0.2-8 and it seems to be working so far. (I'm sending this from icedove.) Well, I think I spoke too soon. Icedove is working for me, but mouse input just hung in gnome-shell when the Alt-F2 (run command) window came up and wouldn't run anything or go away when I got sick of trying. Bumping into the upper left corner didn't do anything, but keystrokes were still accepted. Ctrl-Alt-Delete let me log off and re-login. Icedove is still working, though. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ecafe24.4020...@yahoo.com
Re: Recent GNOME3 update - think notification dialog causing x lockup
On 11/21/2011 12:33 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 13:03, Alan Chandler wrote: On 20/11/11 12:10, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:35:38 +, Alan Chandler wrote: I just did my normal sid update (every few days I do one of these) and today I seem to have hit a problem. My screen locks solid, and input (mouse or keyboard) no longer has any affect. Screen updates (such as the clock) continue. I ended up trying to install gnome 3.2 from experimental, failing and reverting back to gnome 3 in sid. In the process I uninstalled and re-installed loads of stuff, and it seems to be working again. Seems to have half broken again. I was in Mail (Icedove) and got to the end of a folders worth of mail. The dialog box thrown up to ask whether I want to go on to the next folder is blank and is now left on the screen (on top). I encountered this yesterday. Gnome-shell 3.0.2-6 (unstable, not experimental) would lock with Iceweasel or Icedove, though Icedove seemed to do it without fail. If I logged in as root on a tty, I could kill iceweasel or icedove, and gnome-shell would resume. (I think I tried Epiphany too and the same thing happened.) 3.0.2-5 worked fine, so I installed that from the cache in /var and held gnome-shell in aptitude. Same thing seemed to happen today with 3.0.2-7, but I just got 3.0.2-8 and it seems to be working so far. (I'm sending this from icedove.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ecaf830.2050...@yahoo.com
Close: Mac Pro, Debian squeeze install, RAID 5, LVM, but won't boot
Hello, I think I'm almost there, but I'm puzzled. I appear to have successfully set up RAID 5 and LVM following this page: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/512 I have three 500 GB drives and they are configured like this: /dev/sda1 is ext4 /boot /dev/sd[abc]2 are RAID 5 forming the LVM for /usr, /home, /var, /tmp /dev/sd[bc]1 are RAID 1 ext4 and / (root filesystem) Maybe this configuration won't work. I tried the instructions on the Debian Admin page and had /dev/sd[abc]1 all in RAID 1, but the whole install dumped when it got to installing grub. So, I repartitioned and tried the above. My understanding is that Mac Pro is EFI, so how do I connect that to the linux boot process. When I run grub-install in a rescue mode shell, it tells me that /boot/grub does't look like an EFI partition. Is my confusion that GPT is not EFI necessarily? fdisk -l says /dev/sda1 is a GPT partition. Perhaps it won't work. Any pointers on this will be greatly appreciated. Also, I have read the Debian Wiki on installing on this machine, but that information sounds a little dated. If I can figure this part out, I may be able to add to/update it. This page http://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro says this: "Mar. 4, 2010, Debian testing on MacBookPro5,1: Installer works, but you might have to use dd to blow away the gpt tables from the BOTH the beginning and the end of your disk first, if it was once formatted by os x." I'm not sure what that means either. Thanks for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/121598.35746...@web125704.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
SSD drive use [was Re: file systems]
On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote: You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write few, read many. I assume this "read many, write few" idea applies to all SSD drives. There seems to be differing recommendations about the extent to worry about configuring SSD drives and I'm wondering what people here think and do. Some links I've found with differing opinions: http://robert.penz.name/137/no-swap-partition-journaling-filesystem-on-a-ssd/ http://opentechnow.blogspot.com/2010/02/linux-ssd-optimization-guide.html The first is from 2008, whereas the second is 2010. Are the 2008 thoughts out-of-date, and therefore go with the latter? I'm running ext3 with an SSD drive in a laptop (Debian Squeeze) with LVM and disk-encryption. Already added noatime to fstab, but haven't made other changes because I'm not sure how to balance the risks vs. gains. Thanks for any thoughts and your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db318a1.10...@yahoo.com
Disk partitioning suggestions to transition a Mac Pro to Debian
Hello, After a 7 or 8 year trial with Mac OS X, I'm back to Debian. I have one of the first generation Mac Pros (model 1,1) and I'd like to keep OS X in a dual-boot mode temporarily, to deal with opening the occasional file that linux can't (such as Mac's Pages and Numbers files). There are three 500 GB drives and one 1 TB drive. The configuration was that the first 500 GB disk holds the OS, the two other 500 GB drives are RAID 1 for all my data and work. The 1 TB disk was for Time Machine (Mac's back-up program). After backing up all my data, I moved all the files to the first 500 GB drive and the two RAID drives are open. I also don't think I need to keep the Time Machine backup, because all my work from now on will be under Debian. I have looked around for install reports and I know I have install rEFIt (or the name is close) to get the dual boot working, but I'm still uncertain about how to best organize things. Here are some of my questions: - with three identical 500 GB drives, I think I could do RAID 5. I like the security of RAID 1, but I think RAID 5 gives a performance boost with a fair amount of security. Should I consider RAID 5? Under what circumstances would it be advantageous? If I do this, I move the OS X partition to the 1 TB drive for a while. But during the Squeeze install, how do I specify RAID 5? I only saw reference to software RAID when disk partitioning came up during the Debian installer. - I have LVM on my laptop with Debian and it sounds like I'd want LVM on the desktop too, to easily incorporate the former OS X drive down the road. During the Debian install software RAID and LVM appear to be different choices. Is RAID 1|5 compatible with LVM, or does one exclude the other? Suggestions, layout recommendations, pointers to reading are quite welcome. I'm not really sure where to start with this part. Thank you for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4db07a74.3000...@yahoo.com
Reformat/salvage old LaCie drive?
Hello, I have an old LaCie 500 GB hard drive. I opened it up last night and see that it is two 250 ATA/133 hard drives: one master, one slave on a single IDE ribbon connector. (Hope my words are right.) It is connected to my laptop via USB. (recent Debian Squeeze install on a Lenovo X201) How do I reformat and test if the drive is reliable? I tried repartitioning it with fdisk /dev/sdb1 yesterday, but I bet making it one big partition was the wrong way to go. When I ran mkfs with badblocks, I got a ton and mkfs gave up. Does that mean the drives are junk or that I screwed up the partition table? I've looked on the web for awhile, but haven't found an explanation of what I need to do. (I assume that is because I don't have the right words.) When I connect the drive, only one USB device shows up: [10936.030963] usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 [10936.102777] usb 1-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [10936.278360] usb 1-1.1: device descriptor read/64, error -32 [10936.398277] hub 1-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 [10948.543604] usb 1-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13 [10948.640561] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=059f, idProduct=0421 [10948.640567] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [10948.640570] usb 1-1.1: Product: USB 2.0 LaCie Big Disk [10948.640574] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: LaCie [10948.640576] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 19A00E00078F6C2D [10948.640723] usb 1-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [10948.659536] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [10948.659806] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [10948.659948] usb-storage: device found at 13 [10948.659952] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [10948.659969] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [10948.659975] USB Mass Storage support registered. [10953.649766] usb-storage: device scan complete [10953.650698] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access LaCieBig Disk G467 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [10953.651471] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [10953.652483] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 980469503 512-byte logical blocks: (502 GB/467 GiB) [10953.653102] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [10953.653107] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00 [10953.653110] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [10953.668446] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [10953.668452] sdb: sdb1 [10953.688016] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [10953.688021] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk and sdparm shows one device: sdparm -6 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: LaCie Big Disk G467 Thanks for your time and any help, thoughts, etc. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dab37b2.4040...@yahoo.com
