installing grub-pc
Hello, list. I have attempted to install the new grub-pc on to my lappy, running Sid. However, what comes up during boot is the legacy grub. I assume that I need to do a grub-install hd0,1 (the boot partition is on hda1), but I want to make sure I'm right before I bork my system. There is currently an option to chainload in to grub2, but it claims that the file core.img doesn't exist, which is uttur rubbish. My search for Debian-specific documentation has been fruitless, so any aid will be much appriciated. Thanks. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
undefined symbol: xmlIsBaseCharGroup
I've got plenty of packages pertaining to libxslt1 and libxml2 -- including devs. Clearly, I'm either missing some thing; or else there is a bug. Help? Cheers. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: cable modem connection slower then dial up
On 06/11/06, Zoran Kolic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a cable modem connected to a router that connects to a Windows XP machine and my Debian linux machine.Internet on the Windows XP machine is extremely fast and the Debian machine is slower than dial up (no joke! night and day difference!)What is wrong with the Debian machine?Forgive me for jumping in like this. I have no idea what the original querier's problem is, save the quotation above. Given that, I wish to state the following: I too had this problem. I got rid of dhcp, chucked the /etc/resolv.conf file's content and let pppoeconf do the rest. This may be an over-simplification; in my defence, I cite my preamble.Perhaps that will help. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: linux-image-2.6.16 not able to purge?
On 06/11/06, Deephay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all,I found that the linux-image-2.6.16 package on etch cannot be purged:I'm using Sid and can't purge the 2.6.17 kernel, for what that's worth. I get the same error message (code 128). -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: dire difficulty with udev
On 10/09/06, Ruben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks,I'm kinda needy for help, here. I'm using debian unstable on aThinkpad T20 and after a recent aptitude upgrade udev (version0.100-1) broke my os (again...). The resulting symptoms close to what someone mentioned here:http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/136682So I decided to downgrade to the previous version and did: dpkg -P --force-depends udevIsn'tthepurgequalificationdenoted--purge?Perhapsthisispartoftheproblem.Iamnoudevexpertthough: You shall have to wait for better advice than mine. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Modem-Telephone
Good-day.I have had success in hearing a dial tone, as well as a the-phone-is-off-the-hook-hang-up message. Clearly, I can use it to call other persons (not computers). However, I don't know what software I need to be able to do this. Please do not confuse my situation with VoIP: I wish to communicate using my modem and a real telephone wire. I have tried dtmfdial, but I do not know what the output is so that dtmfdial dials on the modem (the option is --output-dev) to the modem (By the bye, the driver being used to hear the things mentioned above is an alsa atiixp-snd-modem. Perhaps that's the module (as well)). The questions:1: What is the--output-devthatIneed?Notethat/dev/dspdoesnotexistunlessIuseaoss.2: Is there an other programme which I could / should be using?I thank you most kindly. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.
On 05/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, install strace, and run strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot /mnt/hda3 and check the results of the log.Put it up for download somewhere, and we can take a look at it. http://pastebin.ca/115013 It's failing after executing /bin/bash, during bash startup. This makes sense as when I boot in to that partition, it stops and drops me to an ash cli. At what point?Aftercheckingabit,Idon'tthinkit'sash.Ithinkitisbash.Thepointisrightafteritthefsck.xfsquitswitherroreight(Ithinkeight). However,Ihavecheckedthefilesystemanditisclean.Idon'tevenknowhowitispossiblefor fsck.xfstoquitewithanerrorseeingasitlitterallydoesn'tdoanythingatall. If the chrooted system is broken in some way, that's where you shouldlook first.chroot(8) on the host Debian system is working correctly,so what you need to do next is discover the cause of the FPE on thechrooted system. Iagree.Thereisclearlysomethingverywrongonthehda3partition. You may need to install the debugging versions of the libs bash uses(including libc6-dbg) and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug.You canthen use strace, ltrace and gdb to further investigate what istriggering this problem. Beforedoingthis,Iwishtorecountalargedevelopment.Itriedthismorningtodo_anything_inwhatIthoughttobetheashcli.ThisiswhyIthinkitisbash:Itrieddpkg--configure-aanditsaid_bash_couldn'tfindsomefolderorothersinceitwasn'tin$PATH.Iputthefolder in to $PATH and aha! dpkg had error. This must stem from the problem. If you recall (I had better have mentioned this. If not, I'm a real dolt), this all started when I was trying to apt-get dist-upgrade my system, as usuall, but right after I fixed the recent xfs bug. As I was doing this, my system froze utterly and I had to do a hard reboot. Well, now dpkg --configure -a is giving this: Setting up [x] ...dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format errordpkg: error processing [x] (--configure)Subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 . I googled a bit and came accross a posing on some thread saying that when this happens, go for a --dpkg --purge (or --force-depends, if need be) [x]. So I did for those ten packages that were'nt fully installed. Heyho! I got rid of them and reinstalled them, save one, libsnmp9, but it doesn't really matter any way. Now, I can boot in to the system. I can also startx; but only if, from single-user mode I give the root password and then startx. If I let the boot-up process complete, even if after I have used X, it starts x, promisingly, I see the X cursor then the normal black cursor... then it drops me back to tty1, I can't access tty7 via the normal ctrl+alt+F7 and, strangest of all, I can't _stay_ logged in. If I log in as root or user, once the standard login text has been written, it asks me to login again, thus indicating that I've been logged out. That is odd; I've never even heard of that before. That is why I tried the single-user mode login and startx, which works. So, there you have it. Now what? The chroot command itself completed successfully, as you can see.Please try mounting procfs on /proc inside the chroot location and see if this makes any difference. I don't believe I know how to do what you wish me to do. Is this it: mount -t proc /dev/hda3/proc /mnt/hda3 ?No.Try # mount -t proc proc /mnt/hda3/proc(after you have mounted /dev/hda3 on /mnt/hda3) Regards,Roger--.''`.Roger Leigh : :' :Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/ ~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge .net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please sign and encrypt your mail. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.
Roger Leigh wrote: So, there you have it. Now what?So some part of the filesystem is knackered, and we can't know theextent of the damage for sure.Since it happened suring adist-upgrade, it's most likely some part of the packages upgraded at that time.I would suggest something like:# for pkg in $(dpkg --get-selections | sed -e 's/^\([^[:space:]]*\)[[:space:]]*.*$/\1/'); do sudo apt-get --reinstall install $pkg; doneYou can probably speed this up with xargs if you like.This will reinstall every package on the system, so if any files are corrupt,they will get replaced with a good copy.If you have the option, a clean reinstall might be better, then youknown you won't run into additional problems if any files not replaced by the above turn out to be corrupted as well.Hm.Ithoughtasmuch.IwasreallyhopingIwouldbewrong,butyouhaveconfirmedmyfears.I'mnoticingthatthingsjustaren'tastheyshouldbe:dbusdidn'tstart,forexample.Well,Iguessanewinstallationwon't be that bad. Alas! I really liked this install. Alright. Thanks much for all of the help you have offered me. I'll get out the old Sarge cd and do it again. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
chroot doesn't work, among other things.
Hello vaunted list:I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells meFloatingPointException.apt-getisnowbustedafterItriedtoinstallntp(Ididmanagetogetntpdate)andforcinginvariousways(installinganduninstalling)is doing exactly nothing. Generally, my computer is falling apart, the irc gives no help (use sarge, not sid) and I'm getting mad so pardon me, please, if I don't seem my usual, cordial and eccentric self.Any help will be appreciated, so long as it is useful. Thanks very much indeed. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.
On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after mount /dev/ hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Exception. Please post an exact transcript, so we can see what happens.script(1) can do this.Notsurewhatscriptissupposedtodo, nor how to use it.IcanjustcopyandpastewhatItype: # chroot /mnt/hda3Floating point exception Also, install strace, and run strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot/mnt/hda3 and check the results of the log.Put it up for downloadsomewhere, and we can take a look at it. http://pastebin.ca/115013Thanks much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: chroot doesn't work, among other things.
On 04/08/06, Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try reading the manual page?Just type script and run theprogram.Ah.Alright.I'mrunningit.Nowyou'llbeabletoseeallofthepermutationsandsillythingsI'mdoing!:0) Also, install strace, and run strace -f -F -o /tmp/log chroot /mnt/hda3 and check the results of the log.Put it up for download somewhere, and we can take a look at it. http://pastebin.ca/115013It's failing after executing /bin/bash, during bash startup.ThismakessenseaswhenIbootintothatpartition,itstopsanddropsmetoanashcli. Thechroot command itself completed successfully, as you can see.Pleasetry mounting procfs on /proc inside the chroot location and see ifthis makes any difference.Idon'tbelieveIknow how to do what you wish me to do. Is this it: mount -t proc /dev/hda3/proc /mnt/hda3 ? Also, please provide the details about the hardware you are using.Toshibalaptopwith3.06gHzintel p4 hyperthreading 80 gb hd 1024 mbramkernel2.6.17(.7)fromdebiansidrepository. 3 partitions, /boot ext2 on hda1, / xfs on hda3 and / jfs on hda2. The xfs is clean (I made sure of that, what with the recent bug). If you need more, just ask. Thanks for your time and experise.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Is the latest kernel image in Unstable 2.6.17.7 or greater?
Hello list. I'm wondering two things. One: Is the latest kernel in Sid the 2.6.17.7? Two: Why doesn't it say that some where so that I wouldn't need to ask the list? I ask because I use XFS with has the flaw on kernels before the one mentioned. And, in stead of compiling and what not a new one, I'm just waiting (and degrading) for the afore-mentioned, when I will run the repair thing as perscribed in various FAQs. Alright. Thanks much. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Audio Player for FLAC
On 23/07/06, Tony Terlecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 3: amaroK and kaffeine: Both of these don't have a problem withinterruptions between tracks but I am unable to seek within a track.Reading through a few posts about the problems it seems to have something to do with the interaction between them and Xine. Are there any othersound engines that can be used with these players?AmarokcanalsousetheHelixenginewhich,Idobelieve,providesgaplessplaybackwithFLAC.Furthermore,theNMMenginecan beused,ifyoucancompileit.Thisisanearlynon-maintainedengine,sobewaryiftryingitout.Itriedandfailed(thoughIdidn'ttryveryhard,Imustadmit).-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
[OT] How do I make my computer act like a telephone?
Preamble:Hello list. This is rather not Debian related, but I simply can't find the correct forum. If this can be suplied, I'd be grateful.Now then: I want to make my computer act like a telephone: Literaly, plug in the telephone wire to a jack and dial (and receive) a phone call. I _believe_ I've got the driver installed for my modem which I'm _pretty_sure_ is capable of this. (The modem is an ATI IXP AC'97 Modem according to KInfoCentre, in case some one can verify that this is indeed a telephony-capable modem). The question: What software do I need and how do I set it up? (The latter can be answered by way of a howto or the like). Thanks much and I appologise for the broadness of this querie.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?
I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently downloaded two large files via BitTorrent. As I wanted to have them as quickly as I could, I decided to leave my laptop on until they were fully downloaded, rebooting only for upgrades.Inoticednorealdifferenceinperformance(maybeAzureuswashoggingabitmorememoryafterafewdays). The question is this: Why should I ever turn off my laptop on a normal occasion (normal being every-day, standard, stationary usage)? If I don't want it on, I can suspend it in some way: Waking-up is faster than booting-up. I'm keen to hear your opinions, O members.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Adjusting Memory on Shared ATI Radeon Mobility 9100 IGP
Greetings, list.I have a shared memore ATI Radeon Mobility 9100 IGP video card. I should like to know how to increase the shared memory with out ussage of the BIOS, as this latter does not support changing the memory settings for my video card. I had previously suspected that this could be done in Xorg.conf, but have since convinced myself that any change there will only tell X what the card should have: The card itself shan't change.I have Sid and the latest software associated with Sid.Perhaps my query might be answered by the installation of the ATI proprietary driver and accompanying console. I tried this and it claimes it has no support for a FireGL card, which I do not possess. Perhaps this is indeed the answer and I've done some thing wrong? Thanks much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Ksynaptics
On 13/06/06, Modestas Vainius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0.14.4-5 is fine. You should avoid = 0.14.5-1 at all costs if you want to useksynaptics, which is currently in debian. Seehttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372498 Ijustinstalledksynaptics.DespitethefactthatIhavexserver-xorg-input-synaptics, it insisted on installing the xfree86 synaptics driver. Why is this?-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Important note*: grub suffers the same limits as the BIOS does. Soif your disk is large, you will need to create your boot partition *and*the Linux root partition near the beginning of the disk. Ithankyoukindlyforbothposts.Theyhavebeenmostinformative.My question is regarding the first post (see above for context of question). My HD is 80GB. I assume this is large and therefore I must have the new intallation of XFS with seperate /boot at the begining of the drive. Why is this? What is the limitation GRUB and the BIOS suffer from? Thanks much indeed.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
On 13/06/06, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a while since I've dealt with these, so memory is a bit rusty.You may want to follow up with a Wikipedia or general web search, formore detailed data.I tried 'BIOS disk size limit', and one of the sites (http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/bios.html) provided this bit:snipIamindebtedtoyou.Youhavegreatlyenlightenedmeonthistopic.InowhaveconfidenceinhowIshallexecutemymanoeuvres. I only hope that GRUB is mended soon that such feats will be rendered obsolete. Perhaps, though, we shall have to wait for GRUB2. I would use it, but, I am too scared to have a disk that I can't boot in to. Though I could save it with Knoppix and friends, I'd rather not. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
On 11/06/06, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/06/06, Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:23 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: Is it true that this has been fixed in GRUB 0.97? I think I read that some where.I don't know. I use sarge, which use GRUB 0.95...Hmm.Alright.I'llaskthelist.Inthemeanwhile,Inowhaveahdthatlooksthus:halfisext3,theotherhalfext2.BothuseDebian.CanIturntheotherhalfintoXFS, take a little bit of that partition and turn it in to an ext2 /boot and still have GRUB work? If that is not clear, I mean this:|-|---|-| | ext2,/andboot|XFS,/|/bo| --ext2| ||ot| |-|---|-| I would install GRUB to the MBR, as usual. When booting in to ext2, I would use that. When booting in to XFS, I would boot in to /boot? Or, should I just try it and see what happens? I'll still be able to boot in to ext2 no matter what, right? Thanks much. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
I'm again posting out of context, due to many god posts.I think I'm going to stick with the standard ext3.XFS,thoughI'msureanexcellentfs,seemstobenotascrash-resilientasext3.AstothesuggestedlvmandCryptoFS,Idon'tthinkIneedthem.Itseemsthatitmaybethewayofthefuture,butforFS, I do want stability.Concerning the partitioner, I prefer gui to non, though I am comfortable with command-line. So, I guess qt / g parted is the way to go.Finally, the swap. I'm not too sure what these swap-files are, but it seems to me that a swap partiton is quite acceptable as a just-in-case. I'm simply unsure as to how large I should make it. As an aside, Mr. Johnson noted that hyperthreading can slow my computer down. In relation to the research that I did when I was wondering which kernel to use (a long time ago), I found out that hyper threading simply tells the processor to use it's free time to execute more activities. I failed to see (and still do) how this can slow my computer down. And what are examples of threaded programmes? I could not find a list. I thank you kindly, O List.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
I think I'm going to stick with the standard ext3.XFS,thoughI'msureanexcellentfs,seemstobenotascrash-resilientasext3.I'vejusthadathought:SinceIalreadyhaveapartitionedharddrive,whydon'tItrybothandseewhichisbetter?WouldGRUBbehappy withonepartitionbeingext3andtheotherbeingxfs,bothrunningdebian?-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
On 10/06/06, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally, the swap. I'm not too sure what these swap-files are, but it seems to me that a swap partiton is quite acceptable as a just-in-case. I'm simply unsure as to how large I should make it. A swap *file* does the same thing a swap *partition* does.Amazing, no?Iunderstandthatpart.Idonotunderstandwhyonewouldbebetterthananother.Nor have you indicated what guidelines I can use for determining an appropriate size. As an aside, Mr. Johnson noted that hyperthreading can slow my computer down. In relation to the research that I did when I was wondering which kernel to use (a long time ago), I found out that hyper threading simply tells the processor to use it's free time to execute more activities. I failed to see (and still do) how this can slow my computer down.Read more.tells the processor to use it's free time to execute moreactivities That's what *every* multi-tasking OS has done for the past 30 years.HT makes the CPU look, to the OS, look like 2 CPUs.Good in somecircumstances, bad in most.Thisisofparticularinteresttome.InwhatwaysisHTbadismost[ways]? -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Tor
On 10/06/06, Jiann-Ming Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grateful for any information.Tor is amazingly easy to set up in Debian.Install it and privoxywith apt-get.Then follow steps 2-4 at http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en.Thissoftwarelooksveryinterestingtome.Asyouseemtobefamiliarwithit,howwouldyousayitaffectsspeed?Isthereadrasticreduction?Would I be able to use a p2p file-sharing or bit torrent programme, or would these simply be too much to handle? I am a simple computer user whom doesn't like the way the internet is headed. Hence the questions I posed.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
Let me start thus: I've gotten so much valuable feed-back that it is illogical to do my normal shuffle-post. Hopefully what I write shan't be woefully out of context. Here goes.I appologise that I neglected to give you the specs of my system, dolt that I am.Thelaptophasa 3.06GHzMobileP4with(newlyupgraded!)1024MBRAM (minus the shared video ram which I can't adjust, for some reasdon But, that is neither hither, nor yon.). It is capable of hyper-threading, so I use smp. Fiinally, the hard-drive hasaround80GBofstorage. It seems to me, still, that though XFS is faster (en general! Don't lop off my head for making a blanket statement!) and may become the standard at some point, ext3 is currently the most stable and reliable. I'm still not clear over the controvesy of having an ext2 /boot partition and an XFS / partition: Why shouldn't I do this (if I choose to use XFS) given that I do use GrUB? However, I am inclined, in this realm, to go with stability (shocking for those who know me: I'm a compulsive up-grader and have become one who uses svn / cvs for my most-used applications. Logical, eh? I love the Bleeding edge). In the past, this poor computer of mine has gone through a lot of turmoil. I've rebooted (both properly and using The Button) enough that I worry a bit over how much damage I've done to it (what is this non-contiguous business that I see when fsck is run? It was once .somthing and is now 5.9% I think.). Since I've heard good things about crash restoration (this laptop does crash) for ext3 and... not so good for XFS, I think the former is safer.The swap business. To partition or to have... files? What are the pros and cons (feel free to link to a howto or tell me to do so)? Indeed, should I even _bother_ with a swap? Will it make that much of a difference? I haven't got one currenlty (not of my choice), but I don't know if there has been a decline in performance due to this. Finally, I know that there can be no absolutely correct choice. I'm simply trying to get the best for my computer. I do _listen_ to a lot of music (an increasing amount in flac). But, I do not edit much. So, big files? Eh The biggest would be the music and an ocasional film / T. V. series (which I plan to watch more on my laptop, actually.) I hope this helps. I know certainly that your comments are making this much easier for me.Cheers.P. S.: Partitioner-wise: My friend reccomended I stick GParted on to a CD and use that. Is this the best programme / way? Any comments? Cheers again.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
Hallo friendly list:I've decided that windows has to go and a swap has to come. So, I'm a gonna clear the hard drive of my Toshiba satellite A70 laptop and give myself a new start on life. Now, I've been looking about some. It seems that ext3 or xfs are the best filesystems, with /boot being on a seperate ext2 partition using xfs (do I need to do this?). Is this true? Is it true of a laptop which I use for every day desktop purposes? I hear also that xfs is a pain to deal with if the system crashes. Is this true? How so? Finally, I've heard of zfs. Is this worth looking in to more? I know that this is A: been done to death and D: really... shall we say, open ended But, I should dearly like to have the lists opinions on this.Thanks much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Set shared video memory in xorg.conf
Hello, list.I recently acquired a 512 MB of ram to bring my laptop to a grand total of 1024. With this amount, I would like to increase the memory of my shared video card form 128 to 256, the max, in order to speed up graphics et cetera. Since I have edited the xorg.conf file, I ran the suggested dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. Then, running dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, I input the amount of memory I wanted shared in kB. Well, it didn't work; xorg.conf was not updated.So, what do I have to put in to the file to get 256 mB of ram for my shared video card?Thanks much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade
On 27/05/06, kruton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After the regualar apt-get update and upgradeyesterday, the aRts sound server crashes on KDEstartup.snipThe problem is with libasound2. To quote Linas Žvirblis:If you do not use aptitude (I highly recommend it), you can do it manually: 1. Download libasound2_1.0.11-4_ARCH_NAME-HERE.deb from [1];2. Remove the package by running... dpkg -r --force-all libasound2 ...as root;3. Install previously downloaded deb by running... dpkg -i DEB_NAME_NAME ...as root.[1] http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/alsa-lib/That should take care of it. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: arts/ALSA problem after unstable upgrade
On 27/05/06, Adam Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I'm trying to use aptitude to downgrade, but it only shows oneversion (1.0.11-5) available for the libasound2 package.Logical:You(mostprobably)haveonlyonerepositoryforSid(don'tseewhyyou'dneedmore)andthisonehasbutoneversionofeach package.Therefore,youmaywishtousethemanualsolution:Ifounditveryeasy.Don'tbealarmedbythestatementsthatvariousotherpackageswon'twork:youareinstallinganotherversionofthatwhichyoutakeout. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Set video memory allocation (Was: Set shared video memory in xorg.conf)
On 27/05/06, David R. Litwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, what do I have to put in to the file to get 256 mB of ram for my shared video card?Thanks much.Well,itseemsthatthisonlycontrolshowmuchxorgthinksthevideocardhas;itdoesn'tchangethevalueonthecarditself.So,new question(andnewthread):HowdoIchangethevalueonthecard?Ican'tfromtheBIOSasitgivesnottheopportunitytodoso.Thanks much and good-morning, -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On 15/04/06, Hodgins Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why do people in Greece put a γ in colour?That is, in fact, a lower-case letter gamma. The word is dialogue in Greek, dialogos from (approximately) dia, two and logos, knowledge. Please don't top-post. If you are un-aware of what that is, google it or search the debian archive. It makes it much easier to follow a conversation if you either bottom post or interleaf (add you comments durectly after the comment-worthy text.) Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: unstable XORG upgrade ..
On 13/04/06, alan bonard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wish to confirm reports of teething problems by recent posters.I'm running unstable and carried out my usual upgrade and dist-upgrade,noticing xserver would be removed and many xorg modules installed. On reboot, I had no xserver - big problem with key documents on AbiWord.On ' apt-get install xserver-org' I had X up again but cannot open any X based apps(AbiW, Epiphany) and it is unstable with gnome terminals from other workspaces continually cycling through whichever one I have selected. Out of curiosity, are you running KDE? Are these applications you speak of using GTK? I know that I had problems with GTK in KDE. Once I upgraded to the latest xserver-xorg-core package, the problem resolved itself. If indeed this is the case for you, you aren't the only one. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Xorg upgrade troubles
Raju: Finally, to all those people, who keep referring unstable for newbies - situations like this should be kept in mind. Mark Crean: Don't worry. With the kind ofattitude on display among some of the regular Debian-fanciers who post here, I should imagine these newbies will beheading for Ubuntu; don't you think so? It's quite revealing that the new DPLhas suggested cleaned-up releases of testing from time to time, which kind of suggests that the more practical-minded folks know full well that in practicemany desktop users will be heading for unstable or testing. Repeating themantra of stable, stable when it quite obviously isn't credible to a sizeable chunk of your users is really a waste of time.Thank The Light! some one finally had the moxie to say this (and very well too).I will refrain from saying more. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: X error : Major opcode: 151
On 12/04/06, Laura Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just used aptitude to upgrade my debian/unstable box (the previousfull update was on 2006-03-19), and then several graphical programsare now having one same error. For some it is fatal, for some it onlyprints an error report. These errors don't happen _at all_ when I launch windowmaker insteadof kde, and I absolutely don't know if this problem is specific to mybox, or due to a bug in a package (and then which package..)Just in case it could be hardware-related, my video card is a nvidia GeForce2 with 32MB RAM, and my screen is set to 1680x1050 (16bpp), I'musing latest xorg server, with nv driver.Here are the reports from a few various programs, hoping someone mightpoint me in the right direction : --firefoxand thunderbird : crashes on launch with :The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.This probably reflects a bug in the program.The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 418 error_code 1 request_code 151 minor_code 23)(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)-- gqview : crashes on launch,The program 'gqview' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.(Details: serial 143 error_code 1 request_code 151 minor_code 23)etc.-- gimp --verbose starts OK, until I click open then crashes The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.(Details: serial 19546 error_code 1 request_code 151 minor_code 23)- knode : reports errors, works normallyX Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 Major opcode:151Minor opcode:23Resource id:0x3e4it seems all KDE apps work (printing a few of those reports along theway), as overall my kde desktop and usual kde apps appear unaffected. I had the same trouble. Upgrading to the latest xserver-xorg-core solves this (well, it did for me). I do not know how to link to my thread; You shall have to search the archive if you wish to find it. The thread is Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???
On 12/04/06, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???No, there isn't. If you'd like, you could volunteer.Ofcourse,thatcouldhavebeenNO,THEREISN'T.IFYOU'DLIKE,YOUCOULDVOLUNTEER. But, since I'm not one to flamify, I won't do that.Cheers. On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:12 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different dialect.Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't switch spellings mid-text.--thanks,Any time. tom arnallnorth spit, ca-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what therest of the world thinks of English measure.A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not 1000, dammit!Really?Thereisametricbyte-system?I'veneverheardofsuchathing. I even live in Canada and use the metric system!Whichinandofitselfisinteresting:ItallcomesfromtheFrenchRevolution ( which means it is a metre, not a meter (that's the inversion of re and er, by the bye.).).Infact,EnglishisaquarterFrench (due tothebattleof Hastings in 1066 when the French invaded and took over, as the English did to Normandy (Brettagne in French, Britain being Grand Brettagne)),anotherquarterGerman(sincetheAngles(anyonehereanAnglo?)wereGermans)andathirdquarterLatin ( since they ruled the known world ).TherestismostlyGreekwithother languages(Japanese(Tsunami))mixedin.IliketothinkIknowabitaboutlinguistics:It'sapassionofmine.Finally, lay is the past tense of the verb to lie. There fore, it is impossible, lest you are a time traveler, to tell some one to lay one's their bed. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate a lot of mail...snipofthewellwrittentextwhichpraisesDebian'spackagersAndhereismymail.IupgradedXto7.0; it didn't start. I didn't loose faith. After peering about my brain, I decide to install xorg. This package, I know, doesn't exist. Instead, it points me to the ones I need. Well, surprise!, it now is a package. It installs xserver-xorg (which had been removed, oddly enough...) and all is well. Expect for gtk.All things that use gtk (Firefox, Synaptic and Gnome itself) do not run. Firefox fails thus:$ firefoxThe program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 183 error_code 1 request_code 152 minor_code 23) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Yummy. Synaptic:# synapticX Error: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) 1 Major opcode: 152 Minor opcode: 23 Resource id: 0x2a00041The program 'synaptic' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program.The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'. (Details: serial 330 error_code 1 request_code 152 minor_code 23) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Lovely.What the devil do I do? I use KDE so this is not critical. But, it is a pain having to use Opera (better engine, worse usage) and the infinitely inferior KPackage. Any assistance will be nice indeed. In case it should matter, I also use the package which asks gtk applications to draw using Qt (gtk2-engines-gtk-qt is its name, I think.). Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link
Expect for gtk.All things that use gtk (Firefox, Synaptic and Gnome itself) do not run. News: This problem is fixed with the new xserver-xorg-core update.What went wrong the first time round? And why in the world did it remove xserver-xorg in the first place so that I had to install xorg? -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Firefox Reloads Due to KDesktop Change?!
A while back, I had mailed the list concerning a problem with Firefox: Every now and again, it would refresh the page. This entailed the programme freezing, the page part (under the tab bar) turning grey and the page, when it un-froze, returning to the top, regardless of where it had been prior to the freeze. Well, I've figured out what causes this. I have set my desktop wall-paper to change every half-hour to a new, randomly-selected photograph from a particular folder in which I keep pictures downloaded from Webshots. When this changing occurs, the Firefox problem arises. I discovered this when I made my task-bar completely translucent. Now, the question is, why does it do this and how can I make it stop.Thanks much and so on.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Problem w/ NetworkManager and wpasupplicant
I'm using using wpasupplicant and networkmanager (both latest versions)on Debian/Sid. wpasupplicant -iath0 -Dmadwifi -c/etc/wpasupplicant.confI notice that you use madwifi. Which version? I ask since wpa_suppllicant refuses to work with the newest madwifi-ng (as of a month or less ago.). Thanks. I appologise if I am butting in.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: turn capture [on] on usb audio.
Hi,I have a Dazzle DVC90, which is a video capture device. (It captures audio video in fact)Are you saying that you can capture video via usb? From what device? How?Thanks very much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: 2.6.16-1-686 header problem?
Hi. Up to date Sid, which included 2.6.16 this morning. I have two packages that I have to build from source, MadWiFi and nVidia kernel drivers. The MadWiFi driver build system uses something called modules-assistant, and running it against linux-kernel-headers-2.6.16-1-686 causes an error message several times that the source doesn't seem to have been configured. The module then fails to run. Same with the nVidia driver, trying to build it gets a slew of errors and fails. Anyone else having this problem? I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I'd like to mention it any way. I appologise if I'm intruding.I use Madwifi-ng which I get from their sourceforge page. When I updated the kernel, it rather went daft. It refuses to connect to my home wireless router; nor, indeed, the other one which I seem to be able to get every now and again. I recompiled it twice, as I amn't sure that it is working at all. Has any one else seen this sort of behaviour? Is it to do with the Dreaded Kernel Upgrade (DKU)? Thanks. And, again, I appologise if I've intruded.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
New Madwifi-ng doesn't work
I'm using the 2.6.16-smp kernel on Sid (Please, I beg of you not to go in to the Sid bit. I have heard all of the pros and cons already. Thank you kindly.). I recently upgraded to this kernel and, in so doing, chose to upgrade my madwifi-ng driver. Doing so has rendered it busted (some how). Well, that some how is the problem. I've tried every trick I know, have re-read howtos, have re-compiled and rebooted and am remaining in a busted state.I use ifplugd with wpa_supplicant to connect to my wireless network which is secured with wpa. Before I upgraded the driver and after I upgraded the kernel, I had it working (that is, I compiled the modules of the old madwifi-ng driver using the new 2.6.16 kernel.). So, the problem lies in the driver. I upgraded it via svn update.Any help will be much appreciated.Good-evening.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba
On 16/03/06, Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (15/03/06 19:53), David R. Litwin wrote: I'm trying to print to my printer from Debian. The printer (an HP DeskJet 842C) is connected to the main computer which uses Windows XP Pro.I downloaded and installed the HPIJS driver from the HP sourceforge web-site. I now go to http://localhost:631 so that I can set up the printer and use it. I think the probem is less the error I got (*Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds*...*)* and more I don't know what the URI of the printer is. Or that I'm just a fool. Here is what I did to set up the printer. It asks for the name, location and description. I filled out HPDeskJet842C, Kitchen and HPDeskJet842C respectively. Next, it asks for the device. I choose the option Windows Printer via SAMBA. It then asks for the device URI. Here, I bellieve is the trouble. What is it? The Workgroup is WORKGROUP The main computer's name is LITWIN and the printer is HPDeskJet842C. So, I put in smb://LITWIN/HPDeskJet842C. I then select the make and model. That's it. I clicky then on Print Test Page. It says Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. *Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...*Have you tried putting up files for sharing on the XP system and checkedwhether you can see them? I've got smbclient and smbfs installed and mount file shares within/etc/fstabThat was the first thing I tried. Using the programme SAMBA on KDE, I did see them. But, doing so with fstab would be infinitely more preferabe. How does one do this? I also have the cifs module installedThe what? Perhaps this is the problem? lsmod makes no mention of CIFS. Your printer setup via cups looks OK.Well, that's good. The printer's address is also correct? Thank you kindly.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Error connecting to printer via Samba
This post is long.I have:# smbclient configuration//zeus/cma /smb/cma cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=07700 0
//zeus/clive /smb/clive cifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=07700 0//zeus/misc /smb/misccifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=07700 0//zeus/tamewolf /smb/tamewolfcifs credentials=/home/clive/.smb_pass,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=07700 0
I assume that that is the relevant bit of fstab. How do I go about finding my SAMBA server's name? If it is in /etc/samba/smb.conf, I'm afraid I can't find it. Here is my smb.conf:[global]
## Browsing/Identification Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part ofworkgroup = WORKGROUP# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description fieldserver string = %h server (Samba %v)
# Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:# WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server; wins support = no# WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client
# Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both; wins server = w.x.y.z# If we receive WINS server info from DHCP, override the options above.include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
# This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS.dns proxy = no# What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names# to IP addresses; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast
Debugging/Accounting # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine# that connectslog file = /var/log/samba/log.%m# Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb).
max log size = 1000# If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following# parameter to 'yes'.; syslog ># We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything
# should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log# through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher.syslog = 0# Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace
panic action = "" %d### Authentication security = user is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ServerType.html in the samba-doc# package for details.; security = user# You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on# 'encrypt passwords' in the
smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.encrypt passwords = true# If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what# password database type you are using.passdb backend = tdbsam guest
obey pam restrictions = yes; guest account = nobodyinvalid users = root# This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix# password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the
# passdb is changed.; unix password sync = no# For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following# parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for# sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Potato).passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %upasswd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
# This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes# when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in# 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'.; pam password change = no
## Printing ### If you want to automatically load your printer list rather# than setting them up individually then you'll need this; load printers = yes# lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the
# printcap file; printing = bsd; printcap name = /etc/printcap# CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the# cupsys-client package.; printing = cups; printcap name = cups
# When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer admin', but you can# also give this right to other users to add drivers and set printer# properties; printer admin = @ntadmin File sharing
# Name mangling options; preserve case = yes; short preserve case = yes Misc # Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration# on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name
# of the machine that is connecting; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m# Most people will find that this option gives better performance.# See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/speed.html
# for details# You may want to add the following on a Linux system:# SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192socket options = TCP_NODELAY security = sharerestrict anonymous = nodomain master = no
preferred master = nomax protocol = NTldap ssl = Noserver signing = Auto# The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package# installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are
# working to ease installation and configuration of
Error connecting to printer via Samba
I'm trying to print to my printer from Debian. The printer (an HP DeskJet 842C) is connected to the main computer which uses Windows XP Pro. I downloaded and installed the HPIJS driver from the HP sourceforge web-site. I now go to http://localhost:631 so that I can set up the printer and use it.I think the probem is less the error I got (Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds ...) and more I don't know what the URI of the printer is. Or that I'm just a fool.Here is what I did to set up the printer.It asks for the name, location and description. I filled out HPDeskJet842C, Kitchen and HPDeskJet842C respectively. Next, it asks for the device. I choose the option Windows Printer via SAMBA.It then asks for the device URI. Here, I bellieve is the trouble. What is it? The Workgroup is WORKGROUP The main computer's name is LITWIN and the printer is HPDeskJet842C. So, I put in smb://LITWIN/HPDeskJet842C. I then select the make and model. That's it.I clicky then on Print Test Page.It says Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds...What have I done wrong?Thanks kindly.Post Scriptum: I've googled a plenty and for many months. I still can't figure out how to do this. It seems to be some thing that is highly difficult for some reason. Ta.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: PPPOE CHAP authentication failed
Hi All,I have problems with PPPOE.snip It's my /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file:# Secrets for authentication using CHAP# client server secret IP addressesmy_login * my_passwordI think I had that message too, many moons ago. The problem? I mixed up the username and password. Try flipping them. How did you set up your connection? I used pppoecof.It isn't much, but it is a start. --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Drive Issue
When I issue the command line of: apt-get install gcc kernel-package kernel-source-2.4.18 libc6-dev tk8.3 libncurses5-dev fakeroot How do I know the exact names for the available packages for this project? Are these names aliases that point somewhere to the precise package?Firstly, under the new naming system, kernel-source is now linux-source. But, I think I've already written that.Secondly, by typing apt-get install linux-source without any specification, you will be asked to choose which version you want. Depending on what repositories are active in your sources.list, it will give you options respective to those repositories. If, say, you are using stable or testing and want an unstable kernel from debian (2.6.15), you must either stick the unstable repository address in to your sources.list or you must download the package from http://pdo.debian.net/#search_packages.Or, if you know the name, input that.I hope that that is clear: I find it very hard to write good E-Mails. Have fun.Post Scriptum: Please send your responses to the mailing list and not th individual. That way, every one can benefit from the illuminatuions contained there-in (to put it humbly ;-) ). -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Drive Issue
On topic with that, does anyone have a link for recompiling the kernel in Debian, preferably as a step-by-step? I *need* the SMP support, and I'd like a highly secure (read: REAL CURRENT) kernel. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.htmlIt is a tad old, but you can simply replace the old kernel-source naming-system with the newer linux-source namimng system. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: splashy in sid
This also didn't give me boot splash. Any body with sid got working splashy? I do indeed hsve Splashy working with Sid. Please post your GRUB menu.list (or the LILO equivalent). We'll start there and see what we can do.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: splashy in sid
The only difference I can spot is the 'splash' which I don't haveInitially I also didn't have it. As it didn't work, I saw in ubuntu forums with this addition to kernel option. Hence I added it.Even then no use.When you boot in to Debian, what exactly do you see? Is there any comment made with the word splashy in it? Also, given you're kernel name, I assume that you have compiled it yourself. Are you sure that you have done it in such a way as to allow a boot splash? (I'm not sure what you would need to compile in to a kernel for splashy as I've not yet compiled a kernel myself. It also seems to me that if you do indeed compile your own, you may wish to use bootsplash itself as it gives you many more themes in addition to a picture in the background of your virtual console.) Finally, what is the size of your monitor and what is the resolution your generally use? By the way, after going through my archive, I noted that you had posted that splashy did work for you, minus the progress bar. What happened? Did it simply die one day? Have you changed the configuration files in the /etc/splashy folder? Hopefully we can get your situation fixed once and for all.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Strange systray behaviour in kde 3.5.1
I've been seeing some weird KDE Systray behaviour as of 3.5.1 (since two days, more or less): the icons for eg klaptopdaemon or knemo end up on top of my screen, instead down in the systray where they're supposed to be. Restarting said services helpts to fix the problem, but it's rather weird. Anyone else seeing this?I've had this problem as well since upgrading to 3.5.1 with KNemo and the keyboard lay-out flag (to change from, say, English to French keyboard).I should this this is a bug. Has any one any information along those lines? --—A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: [OT] debianhelp.co.uk steals my words?
Perhaps you could add a copyright notice to your sig for posts? Underthe GNU FDL, verbatim and derived works must credit the original author: That is quite an idea I must look in to. Thank you kindly. Copyright (c) 2006 YourNamePermission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this documentwith no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover texts and with noBack-Cover Texts under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or any later version, published by the Free SoftwareFoundation. A copy of the license can be found athttp://www.fsf.org/copyleft/fdl.html. I sent an E-Mail to the web-site in question. They resonded thus:[...W]e are going to put a statement in that page menctioning as this list is from debian users mailing list.We will take care from next time we will menctioned the source from.I thank you for all of your opinions. I realise that I take this rather too seriously. It is a fault of mine. I believe (perhaps to the point of proselytising?) that even the smallest citation should be, well, cited. Perhaps it has to do with my up-bringing? Who knows: I blame the Puritans, one way or the other. (Fascinating group of people they were. Their culture is the North-American culture of to-day. (Why in the World have I brought this up?)). Alrighty. Thanks again and have a pleasant cup of your favourite tea.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Problem with X.org in Sid (sis card)
On 26/01/06, Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My X freezes up every now and then, forcing me to power-cycle. I'msuspecting a problem with X, but I'm not sure.Hardware: % lspci|grep VGA :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter It doesn't really happen regularly. I don't keep my computer on always,usually I turn it on and sit for a while then turning it off when I'mdone. It usually happens once per session. Sometimes twice. It's happened three times for the first time today.My X.org config for the card: Section Device IdentifierCard Driversis BusID PCI:1:0:0 OptionHWCursor onEndSectionAny suggestions on how to solve it?/MI may be butting in. If so, I apologise. Might I ask if you use a PC or laptop, the kernel version Debian version, Desktop environment and, if a laptop, if you use madwifi?The reason I ask (aside from helping others diagnose the problem) is that I think I have the same problem. My computer will suddenly start to think a lot, rendering every thing un-usable (I can BARELY switch to a new console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and reboot: usually (and I mean every time save the last)), I have to hit the button. I too thought it was X. Now, I think it might be madwifi.Toshiba A70 laptop, linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp, Sid, madwifi-ng, Xorg and KDE 3.5.Thank you!-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Roaming Ethernet/Wireless Configureation Options
What it doesn't do: It doesn't notice that it's been associated (maybe?) and it does not acquire an IP address. I need to kick in dhclient in there or something maybe? This part isn't quite figured out yet.I had much the same situation. I found this web-site: http://www.vollink.com/gary/deb_wifi.htmlwhich, after following precisely what it said, configured every thing properly. Subsequently, when I boot up, I am connected to my home wireless network (WPA-PSK AEC) automatically. I have a madwifi-ng driver so I had to compile wpa_supplicant manually (which took a LONG time to figure out due to the famous scarce documentation). Note that the menu boxes are there for you to choose your situation (I. E., I changed the wlan0 to ath0). Finally, I added a script thus: #!/bin/bash/usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta # -- to bring up the ath0 interface due to the madwifi-ng driver./sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 0 # -- to change to scan mode (in lieu of set to a, b or g). /usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf # -- to bring up the wpa_supplicant script./sbin/iwconfig ath0 rate 54M # -- to set the rate at 54 mega bits. I'm not sure that this should be in this script (as opposed wpa_supplicant.conf) since this probably only applies to my home network and not, say, my school's network. exit 0I saved this script as madwifi, stuck it in /etc/network, made it executable and put the line pre-up /etc/network/./madwifiin to /etc/network/interfaces:# Wireless... pre-up /etc/network/./madwifi # -- the line.allow-hotplug ath0 # -- from the web-page I linked.iface ath0 inet dhcp # -- ibid.That should work for every thing, though I must admit, I have yet to try it at, say, my school. Still, it should help you continue on the path to perfection. Good skill in your endevours.David R. Litwin. Doug Miller(That was a very nice post, Mr. Miller. It was informative and, as you say, did just tell the reader what to do.)-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.P. S.: Sorry Doug: I did not mean to send it only to you.
Re: problem with pppoeconf: not starting at boot time.
On 24/01/06, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I use Etch, up to date, and I have a pppoe internet connection. the problem is though I answer OK to tell I want the connection to be launched at boot, it does not launch itself at boot. It only launches when I run pppoeconf. After running pppoeconf, poff and pon dsl-provider are efficient. If I just reboot then launch pon dsl-provider (because the connection is not up), nothing happen to the network settings. If I try invoke-rc.d networking restart, nothing too. When running pppoeconf, the internet connection is on ppp0, and the modem is on the eth1. eth0 is used for the LAN, for me. I believe I also had this problem. Seehttp://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg00115.htmlto possibly help. I hope that works.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
[OT] debianhelp.co.uk steals my words?
In a bid to help a fellow Debian user, I wanted to link to a thread I had been involved in (concerning internet connexions). I googled some words in it and found the post in the Debian mailing list archives, which is normal. I also found a tiny piece of it at this site:http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/commonproblems1.htmSearch forit was creating two connections: PPP0 (the right to find some of the post.I would normally have no problem with this EXCEPT:1: It makes no mention of my name. Sorry to say but what ever I write is mine and I expect to be credited (I am a would-be amateur-author). 2: The page has exactly one and a half sentences of my post (plus what they call the answer). Indeed, it cuts off that half sentence at a comma (comma splice any one?) and is subsequently out of context (unless you call the sentence and a half context). 3: This was done not only with out my consent but indeed with out my knowledge.I'm writing this because I wish to know the thoughts of other Debian Users and because I wish to know if any one else is familiar with this site or has also been put upon it (possibly with out their knowledge.) I shall also try to send a copy of this E-Mail to the author of the site. Maybe I'm taking this too far, but I feel rather strongly about plagiarism and the like. Lastly, I wish to apologies to those among you feel that this is not the right forum in which to bring up such a case; I have put an off topic sing before the subject heading in the hopes of warding off any anger. I thank you for your time and am eager to hear your thoughts.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Render acceleration ATI Radeon Mobile 9100
I have a Toshiba A70 laptop with Mobile P4 H-T, ATI Radeon Mobile RS300M AGP 9100IGP, KDE 3.5, Sid, kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp.How do I enable the render acceleration on my card? I wish to use the Translucency effects offered by KDE. Doing so currently makes every thing un-usably slow. In addition, how can a card be both AGP and IGP? This comes from KInfoCentre.Thank you kindly in advance.Some relevant bits from xorg.conf: Section Module Load bitmap Load dbe Load ddc Load dri Load evdev Load extmod Load freetype Load glx Load int10 Load record Load type1 Load v4l Load vbe EndSectionSection Device Identifier ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP Driver atiEndSectionSection DRI Mode 0666EndSection Section ExtensionsOption Composite EnableEndSection-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
(Solved) Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)
The file /var/dpkg/available became corrupted. debconf, dpkg, apt-get and synaptic could not work. The fix: My suggestion, rather than messing around with editing and such, would be to do:dpkg --clear-avail: to clear the available list, then do:apt-get update: to repopulate it. Ta.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)
Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken.An update: # dpkg-reconfigure debconfdpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui': field name `/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installedBut, when I apt-get install debconfdebconf is already the newest version.What do you make of this?-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)
# dpkg-reconfigure debconfdpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui': field name `/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: debconf is not installedBut, when I apt-get install debconfdebconf is already the newest version. fsck? I ran fsck. It is still corrupt. Your /var/lib/dpkg/available is corrupt. You might have to removethe offending lines. Just remember to save a copy somewhere beforemaking changes.The file available.old has an uncorrupted copy. Shall I simply copy the good lines in to the file available and save it? The reason I've not yet done so is that it says it is a binary file and saving (or is it altering?) could do some bad things. But, if you think it is alright, I'll fix it. Thank you kindly.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)
Trying to upgrade in synaptic givesdpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui':field name `E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)Looking at the said file, at around the line mentioned, the normal text becomes corrupted: It is a lot of boxes, numbers and letters with neither pattern nor order. I looked at the folder mentioned: There is available and abailable.old. The latter is uncorreupted. But, it is a binary file, so I did not wish to alter it.How should I proceed?Sid, 2.6.15-686-smp Toshiba laptop P4 H-T KDE 3.5.Thanks much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Can't use dpkg (and thus apt-get et al.)
Are you able to run apt-get update? Yes. The problem is with dpkg or debconf. When using synaptic, it said that debconf was broken. David R. Litwin wrote: Trying to upgrade in synaptic gives dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 359695 package `dcgui':field name ` E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
(Solved) dpkg-reconfigure debconf
okay okay I get it. you can't reconfigure debconf because reconfigure wants to use KDE... well per man debconf, there is more info in debconf(7) part of debconf-doc. apt-get install debconf-doc; man 7 debconf; found this:passing --frontend= to dpkg-reconfigure will specify the frontend to use. so try the options are dialog, readline, etc etc.sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf --frontend=dialogshould do the trick.Indeed it did. When I had tried it the first time, I wrote dialogue in lieu of dialog. Thanks much.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: My Wireless Troubles
David your will have repositorioes (in the sources.list ) for kde 3.5 and gnome?I have gotten KDE 3.5 from the standard Sid repository (http://http.us.debian.org/sid et cetera).Perhaps I misunderstood your question.? -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Fwd: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
Didn't one come with the camcorder? Sony, willingly give up the chance to sell some thing to some one and make a pretty buck? I'm surprised that they supplied a USB wire. But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim.Good luck.Tell us if you get it working...I'll need some good skill and a bit of luck. But, I'll see what I can do Cheers. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
snipSee January 2006 Linux Journal for quite an interesting article about this sort of thing. Where can I find this?Ta.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark them down when next it happens and let you know. http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/leadersparties/leaders/bio_otherleaders.html and another yester-eve when I was signing up for a new account. It was an https, so now we know that this refresh is a Firefox-in-general problem and not a Firefox-by-the-page problem. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
David,Am I mistaken or did I see a recent post from you about some sortof flakiness in your wireless internet connection?Could a lost connection be causing firefox to reload the page?You know, I never considered that. I some how don't think that is it, but it is an interesting theory. The reason I don't think that that is the cause is two-fold. One, I'm connected when it happens (I can recall going about my business) and two, Firefox does not seem to be reloading; only refreshing (the difference being the former takes information from the web-site, the latter, well, doesn't.) Still, when next it happens, I will pay special attention to my connection status.Thanks for the lead.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
dpkg-reconfigure debconf
During a normal Sid upgrade to the latest xorg, some thing went wrong and it didn't work. When it rebooted and dropped me straight to a terminal, I said, no problem; I'll apt-get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to reinstall it. It needs debconf and friends. Well, I had set dpkg-reconfigure debconf to use KDE-style dialogues. That's very nice, but now I need to use it with out X so that I can get X. So, the question is: How do I reconfigure debconf to use dialogue (or which ever the option it is not to use KDE or Gnome style dialogues)?Thanks kindly in advance.(And yes, I know removing X wasn't so smart. I admitt, I gaffed a bit. Please don't boil me in a cauldron ;) ) -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf
ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root.dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog.If only it were that simplex!I changed the dialogue to KDE which means it needs X which I un-installed. It won't let me reconfigure any thing.Does that make sense? It's not obvious what the problem is, I know. Bear with me. Thanks.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
I should like to be able to see the live video from my Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder on my Sid 2.6.14-686-smp KDE Pentium 4 Hyper-Threading Toshiba laptop machine (I hope that tells you what I'm running) using USB 2.0. I know it can do this: I've done it in windows. But, I need a driver for Linux. Any help would be thanked. I've googled my eyes out and haven't found a definitive answer. Thank you kindly in advance.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Live Video via USB 2.0 from Sony DCR-TRV33 Camcorder
P4 HT is irrelevant.I thought so, but, once I got going, I'd figure I'd supply it all. ;-) No one has written a driver, I think.Firewire is the the technologyof choice for those people writing video transport drivers and apps. Kino is what to look for.It is packaged in Debian.No driver? Huh. I did apt-get Kino, though. It seems to only provides Firewire usage. Since this is a Sony camcorder, it must have an i.Link port on it,no?Or is it that the Toshiba doesn't have a Firewire port?They both do; and I shall be getting a FireWire some day. But, I would like to have the USB working in the interim. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Possible Firefox Bug?
Every now and again, Firefox refreshes. When this occurs, the Firefox window (just the web-page, mind) briefly blanks and, when it re-appears, the web-page is back at the top.Is this a bug? How do I stop it? I dislike having to scroll back to where I was; especially on a long page. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
My Wireless Troubles
I'm using a Toshiba Satellite A70 laptop, Atheros (built-in AR5212 wireless card), madwifi-ng (I do not know when the CVS is from), 2.6.14-686-smp, Pentium 4 H-T, Sid, KDE 3.5. Problem 1: Every now and again, I am disconnected -- in some way. I do not know how. I do know that if I type in iwconfig ath0 essid My_ESSID, it works. I should like to give you more information, but I know not where to find it. Problem 2: Every time I boot in to Linux, I must execute the following command: wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta. Now, according to http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian, I can make a script, namely #!/bin/bash/usr/local/bin/wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta/sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3exit 0 which then is to be placed as /etc/network/madwifi, made executable. Finally, the following lines are to be added to the /etc/network/interfaces iface ath0 inet static...pre-up /etc/network/madwifi all of which I did. It doesn't work. I still have to execute the command to get an ath0 device. Problem 3: I use KWiFiManager to connect. To do so, I must enter the module Wireless Network in the Control Centre (via KWiFiManager). I have saved the configuration (namely, the ESSID, the Operation Mode, the Speed, the script to execute upon connection and the WEP-Key.) and ticked the box that says Load preset configuration on startup. Well, that certainly doesn't work. I have to manually bring up the ath0 (via that there command) and, unless I hit the activate button in the Wireless Network module, ifconfig claims that ath0 is not up. In addition, hitting Scan for Networks in the KWiFiManager shows me networks. But, when I try to switch to one with a WEP, it says that it is Aborting network switching due to invalid WEP key specification. This network is my own, fo which I have provided a valid WEP key specification in the Wireless Network Control Centre Module. That's basically it. How do I solve these problems? I thank you kindly in advance for any assistance. Cheers. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
-What version of Firefox is this?Firefox 1.5. -What kind of package (original website, Debian package, etc.)?From Debian Sid repository, Firefox (not Mozilla-Firefox). -What extensions do you have?All-In-One Gestures, Download Statusbar, Translate Page, MR Tech About:About, WebmailCompose,SearchPluginsHacks, DOM Inspector, Web Developer, Tabbrowser Preferences and PDF Download. (less important, probably, but...)-Can you provide some standard system specs. (what version of Debian, type of machine, etc.)Toshiba Satellite A70 Laptop, P4 H-T, 2.6.14-686-smp Sid and KDE 3.5.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Possible Firefox Bug?
Does this just happen on any webpage? Can you also give some example URLs? As I was writing the response to the previous E-Mail in this thread (I use GMail (online)), it did it. It blanked for a few seconds and went to the top of the page. I can't think of any others at the moment. I shall mark them down when next it happens and let you know. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Simple question
What's the command to stop a service like gdm?Killall. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: How do I get my Kernel Back?
Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image. How do I get it back?in knoppix, you first have to mount all your debian partitions tosoewhere, e.g.:/ to /mnt/debian/usr to /mnt/debian/usr/home to /mnt/debian/home etc. etc.though I exoet you did that anyway. then you'll have to (I think) bind /dev and /proc:# mount --bind /dev /mnt/debian/dev# mount --bind /proc /mnt/debian/procthen chroot# chroot /mnt/debianand install the kernel with apt-get as usual.It certainly did help. Thanks very much. The trick was the binding which you mentioned. For my own education, what does this do? Again, much thanks.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: screen resolution in GUI
On 15/12/05, Dan Sheffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep trying to get Debian to load a GUI to 1280X1024 resolution. I run the install and select the correct driver for my video card. Then when it asks about my monitor I select the medium option and select 1280X1024 @ 75. I know this resolution is supported for this monitor but I continue to get to the GUI and only supports 800X600 and 640X480 are available. Any suggestions on how to fix this? It is necessary to add certain elements to xorg.conf or xfree86.conf (or whatever it is for XFree86) which can be found at /etc/X11. First, follow the directions at the top of the file. They will tell you how to edit it (if you just edit, it won't update properly). Under configured screen (I'm not too sure what the sub-heading is: look for 800x600 640x480), add 1280x1024. That should do the trick. If not, post the contents of the .conf file and we'll try to help you more.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: screen resolution in GUI
On 16/12/05, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Litwin wrote on Dec, 16: I keep trying to get Debian to load a GUI to 1280X1024 resolution.I run the install and select the correct driver for my video card.Then when it asks about my monitor I select the medium option and select 1280X1024 @ 75. I know this resolution is supported for this monitor but I continue to get to the GUI and only supports 800X600 and 640X480 are available.Any suggestions on how to fix this? Here is my xorg.conf. If you have a wide-screen 15.4 inch laptop, these are the settings. I have removed all of the un-necesary bits.Cheers.# xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file) ## This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using# values from the debconf database.## Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf manual page.# (Type man xorg.conf at the shell prompt.)## This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg# package.## If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following commands as root:## cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.custom# md5sum /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/lib/xfree86/xorg.conf.md5sum# dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Section Device Identifier ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP Driver atiEndSectionSection Monitor Identifier WXGA Wide-Screen Option DPMS HorizSync 30-90 VertRefresh 31.5-79EndSectionSection Screen Identifier Default Screen Device ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP Monitor WXGA Wide-Screen DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 1 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1280x800 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSectionEndSection Section ServerLayout Identifier Default Layout Screen Default Screen InputDevice Generic Keyboard InputDevice Configured Mouse InputDevice Synaptics TouchpadEndSection-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
How do I get my Kernel Back?
Do to the recent problems with yaird and the new Kernel Image (suffice it to say), I have... removed my one and only kernel image.How do I get it back?I tried to do this from Knoppix but it doesn't seem to work. I will try again soon and give more details. Unless some one can point out an obvious reason why this wouldn't work. That would be great. Well, thanks much.Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: kernel 2.6.14-5
On 15/12/05, ochnap2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, yesterday I installed the linux-image-2.6.15-5-386 and had some problems.The computer is a old box with a PC-Chips M598LMRT motherboard, a AMD K6400Mhz CPU, 96 MB of RAM, and using the onboard vga card. The problems are:- no fb console: I'm using vga=773 in the kernel command. I had this problembefore with previous 2.6.14-x iterations, but I thought that it was solved.It seems not, ins't it?- HD not found: After switching to vga=normal, I saw that the new kernel does not boot because it can't find my HD. I get this message:/bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: No such file or directory.a few times and thenDevice /sys/block/hda/dev seems to be down.But the HD is ok, the other installed kernel ( 2.6.12) boots without problems.Finally a shell prompt opens, where I don't know what to do.Thanks in advance for any hint,OchI also had this problem. Please look at the thread After Upgrade No Bootup. The problem seems to be with the unstable version of yaird. It must be purged and the testing version used. The links provided in the thread I mentioned should solve the problem. Cheers.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Where is the script update-grub located?
I have the same problem, and there allready is a thread about it, butwithout any hopes. I didn't try update-grub because i don't think this is the problem, but if you find something please post ...Which thread is this? I should like to read it.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Where is the script update-grub located?
I should like to know where the actual script is so that I can run it from windows.When I upgraded my kernel-image last-night, I did not reboot the computer until after a few minutes (I had started a game of spider which was looking promising). Now, linux will no longer boot saying some thing to the effect that /sys/boot/hda5/dev can not be found (I'll give you the exact wording if I need to). I beleive that this can be solved with update-grub, but I do not know where it is so that I can run it from Windows. I thank you kindly in advance.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Where is the script update-grub located?
On 12/12/05, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:05 -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: I should like to know where the actual script is so that I can run it from windows.$ dpkg -L grubI'm afraid that that doesn't work from Windows $ locate update-grubThis says it doesn't exist Now what?(Bloody Windows!)-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Where is the script update-grub located?
In any case, I think anyway that update-grub could not work fromWindows, since it's a Linux program, right? I was wondering about that myself. I thought it best to at least try it, though. Not much success since I can't even find it, though You should be able to do anything you need from the Grub prompt,though.That's one of the main benefits of grub, I though.My thoughts as well. The problem is that I do not know what to run. I tried c and then tab to see my options: nothing looks terribly promising. I did write down what it says after I boot in to Linux and directly after it says unloading kernel:bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/dev: no such file or directoryThen it says some thing like waiting for 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 seconds (it does all four in that order) for file to appear. It goes on to say that it couldn't find it and that this is a debugging opportunity: I have but to type ^D. It then says on the next line some thing about terminating jobs (some thing to that effect) gives a # on the next line and a blinking cursor which I took to be where I should enter ^D. Nothing happens. It appears rather stuck, though the cursor continues to blink. What do you make of this? Is it worthy of a new thread?Thanks.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: WIFI Card DWL-G510 (Atheros chipset) installation problems
I' using a Toshiba A70 with a built-in Atheros card (5121 I believe).I seem to have it working fairly well from the instruction I got from http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo and http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian. I mean, by this, that I looked at both and followed bothh pages. In addition to what they write, it is essential that you have the oproper kernel-headers file. apt-get install (e. g. what I use) linux-headers-2.6.14-2-686-smpAside from this, these two pages will get your Atheros card to work, I should think.Any way, thisd is one solution.Cheers. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Firefox Opens Only As Root.
This is a little odd. My Firefox (which had been working perfectly) now only opens as root.Trying to open it in a console as a normal user provokes the Mozilla Bug Report thingy in to action and gives this mysterious message:
$ ./firefox./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6335 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+$@}I'd love to have my Firefox back: any help is still help.Thanks much.
-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: touchpad don't work at startup
Hi!I've added psmouse.proto=imps in my grub's menu.lst file for the kernel I boot, and everything works fine.edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add psmouse.proto=imps on the linecorresponding to your kernel If I can jump in, the only way that my touchpad works is if I disable USB Legacy in the BIOS. Surely there must be a better way of getting it to work with out having to do thisr, yes? I have Sid, Xorg and the latest udev (which has replaced (some how) hotplug). I also use the package which adds a modules to the Control Centre in KDE (3.4.2), so I don't have the XFree86-Synaptic-Touchpad-Driver. I amn't too sure what driver I have; I think evdev. If you need any other information, please ask me and I will try to tell you. Thanks much. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Firefox Opens Only As Root.
Which version of firefox are you using?
Firefox 1.5 RC3. To my credit, though, it had been working perfectly
before my system started to crash a lot. Then, briefly, I could only
sign in under Root. I solved that and Firefox hasn't worked under the
normal user since. Well, it did briefly, actually. I also noted that I
could no longer update; only the Root could.
If it is the debian version, I'ma bit curious why would you write ./firefox to start it! If it is a
nightly or an official version from mozilla itself, make a new profileand use that.$ ./firefox -P
I don't really want to make a new profile, though. I've set up Firefox
nicely as it is. If I need to make a new profile, I'll probably scrap
the whole thing and start again. However, when I tested to see if this
would work, it did. So, at least we know that Firefox CAN run under the
normal user; save that I can not update. That is still only from root.
I think the reboots screwed it up and I shall have to start afresh.
Do you know what the message I'm getting means?
$ ./firefox
/home/david/.gtk_qt_engine_rc:549: error: unexpected end of file, expected character `{'
./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6028 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+$@}
Don't mind the /home/david line: I think that that is my GTK-QT-Engine mucking about. This is not causing the problem.
Thanks much.
-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Checking to See if this List Got My Firefox E-Mail
Hello all.I sent an E-Mail concerning my troubles with Firefox. However, it was spammified by that new Brazilian thingy asking for approval and what not (aren't I specific!). I was just wondering if it got through for I do not see it. If not, I'll send it again.If it did, I apologise for clogging the list with trivialities.Happy curling.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Firefox won't open with normal user; only root.
This is begin to sound like a patternMy firefox, which I compile myself from their website, will not open with under the normal user. When I try to do so from a console (to se the message), it has this to say:
$ ./firefox./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 6179 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+$@}Although, a while ago, it said not 6179 but 5454. It also sends reports to Mozilla when it crashes.
Now, I am using the 1.5 RC2. But, it was working a few days ago. It was working yester-day.I suppose the obvious thing to do is change the permissions. But on what folder or file? What do I change them to? How do I check them in the first place (yes, I admit; I don't recall).
I thank you kindly in advance.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root
# ls -ld /tmp/.ICE-unix/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2005-11-13 23:04 /tmp/.ICE-unix/ There is a difference in the last thing. Note after the root you have 1024 and I 4096. Could this be doing it?Probably not. But to make sure, just delete the file, and let it berecreated the next time you try to start X. Then check the perms again. It is a whole Folder, though. Do you still recommend deleting the folder, or the two files in it (5202 and dcop5180-1131945432)?-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
[Solved] Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root
I could not start KDE from normal user; only root. Logging in via console under normal user, I tried to cd to /etc/X11. It would not let me. So, I changed the permissions via chmod 755 X11 (while in /etc) then fired it up and it worked. Yay. Thank you kindly to all that helped. You inspired me. (My but that sounds like I'm accepting an Award. I HATE Award-shows. So I take it all back.)-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels. —[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: [Solved] Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4
I suspect, if you're running Sid, that you've run into a fairly commonissue of /tmp/.ICE-unix file not belonging to root. chmod -R root.root/tmp/.ICE-unix should fix this is this is the problem.I looked at the files in that folder and the folder itself. They all belong to root. If KDM is running when you try to startx, you'll need to specifystartx -- :1 or something similar, or stop KDM first to do a normalstartx.That didn't work: I'm now getting a new message. /etc/X11/X isn't executable. Perhaps, since this is so different, I should start a new thread? Yes, probably.Then I will.Nice sights, by the bye. ;-)-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root
When I try to log in to KDE using KDM through my normal user, the screen goes black, then returns to KDM. This is indicative of X having crashed, since I told KDM to re-appear if that should happen. Loging in through a consle tells me that /etc/X11/X is not executable. I checked: It is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/X11/Xorg. I tried to copy that file directly to /etc/X11 and then rename it X, but it said some thing about not being able to read it and some thing to do with a symbolic link. So, I'm assuming there needs to be one and that some thing has happened so that the root can access it but not a normal user. Perhaps I need to change the permission on it?I thank you kindly in advance.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4
I have an interesting update. I normally use my laptop in my room, which I like to keep between 11 and 15 degrees centigrade. However, in the kitchen, where I am currently, it is around 22 degrees centigrade. After three or so hours of usage, it has yet to freeze. Could it be that the temperature is freezing it literally? It says the operating temperature is a minimum of 5 degrees with a gradient of 15 per hour. Could this possibly be the problem?-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils. —My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
[Solved] Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4
AFAIKWhat does that mean? Nonetheless, thank you for that information. It's nice to know that it won't break in the cold. I've actually solved the mystery. It was the programme Azureus. My computer is very allergic to it. It froze every time. At least that is solved.There is another problem, though. KDE does not start under my normal user. When I try from KDM, X crashes because it brings me right back to the sign in screen (KDM). When I try to log in via console and do a startx (or startkde), it gives a list of things things which I wrote down but don't currently have. Essentially, it can't find display . I would think that, some how, my normal user is lacking an X server start file. But, I don't really know. Perhaps, since this is so different, I should start a new thread?I thank you kindly.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
Re: Freezing, SMP Kernel and P4
Are you using ATI or nVidia proprietary kernel modules?If so, get rid ofthem and see if the crash goes away.If it does, you know where to direct your complains.If you are rederening to what is currently in my kernel, I am using the standard linux-image from the Debian repository and, subsequently, I do not know. I do, however, intend to build my own soon. If, however, you are refering to X, I asked it to use ATI for my monitor since this laptop's monitor is indeed ATI. But, I'm not quite sure what you mean. -- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.
