Re: K3b cannot burn iso image to dvd
Yves Grenier wrote: I have not tested 2.6.8. I was trying to upgrade to 2.6.9 because of a gamma problem with chipset 855GM. For K3B, 2.6.7 works OK, but 2.6.9 fails. This bug sounds somewhat similar to what problems you are having. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270151 I know its somewhat confusing to look through bug reports to find something similar. Also when you tired to burn the files did you use growisofs by hand, after all K3b is just a gui, try to use growisofs by hand. Here is some good urls for learning about growisofs: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:lwmxIKqlJjwJ:applications.linux.com/print.pl%3Fsid%3D04/11/16/1555246+growisofs+%2B+bin/cuehl=en http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
From: Ben Bettin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Yesterday 21:52:38 I took everyone's advice and am giving k3b a try. I picked up a few DVD+R and DVD+RW discs (my drive supports both + and - protocols). I installed k3b with aptitude (I'm running Sarge). I started it up, and it's giving me an error/warning message which I'm not sure how to fix. It says the following: Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package. According to aptitude I have dvd+rw-tools installed. I checked /usr/bin and I see dvd+rw-format listed. I started up K3bSetup2 and checked, /usr/bin is in the search path, yet it still can't find dvd+rw-format. I tried added /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format to the search path, still no luck. I tried searching through some of the past archived post from this group but didn't have much luck. I've only been receiving this list for a week or so, so I apologize if there is a known fix for this that everyone but me knows. :) Does anyone have any suggestions for me to get k3b full working? If I'm doomed and must use the console to burn cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-r, and dvd-rw's, does anyone have some linkage to a nice tutorial describing how to do it? Thanks so much for your thoughts. Ben Looking at the bug report for K3b it looks like you have found a new bug, might be just how it was packaged. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkgdata=k3barchive=no While I was looking up something similar, I came across some good urls that might be helpful to you. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:lwmxIKqlJjwJ:applications.linux.com/print.pl%3Fsid%3D04/11/16/1555246+growisofs+%2B+bin/cuehl=en http://crashrecovery.org/oss-dvd/HOWTO-ossdvd.html The first one seems to be very in depth and somewhat official, as other links seem to point to it. For example the last url lists the first url as a resource. As far as I know one of the uses of dvd+rw-tools that K3b employes is that to erase a dvd+-rw disc. To get by this problem just use the dvd+rw-format on the cmd line to erase the disk. As stated early in this thread K3b uses growisofs, so a little cmd line should not hurt anyone. I must admit the dd method is very slick, but what I really need is something that can join two bin/cue files, or more, to fit on a dvd+-rw media disk, and be played in a stand alone dvd player. Anyway you might want to file a bug report against K3b for the problem you encountered. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
snip Rodney D. Myers wrote: 2.6.8 have known problems with writing cd's, so I would assume it would aslo have problems writing dvd's. Either upgrade to 2.6.9 or downgrade to 2.6.7, and try to burn the dvd's. Just installed K3b as a test, came up with the same bug, K3b does not detect dvd+rw-tools, then used dpkg --purge to purge dvd+rw-tools and reinstalled it, same problem. Seems like K3b is buggy, will wait to file bug report, in case first poster wants to. Kernel version 2.6.7. :uname -a Linux Raiz-mpx 2.6.7-mpx #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 09:58:16 CDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux kernel compiled from debian source. From K3b, Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable K3b uses dvd+rw-format to format DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/bin$ whereis dvd+rw-format dvd+rw-format: /usr/bin/dvd+rw-format Looks like everything else can find it except K3b. As stated else where, I do not thing the problem is burning the files, but it is erasing the disc if its a dvd+-rw with K3b, I seem to remember having similar problems with K3b some time ago might of been an early version maybe a year ago. I think I know what it was, it totally screwed up my /etc/fstab file, once I fixed it by hand, and did not let K3b setup use it again, still could not detect my cdrw right, even though I used the other options in K3b. Rthoreau
Re: Suggestions for DVD/CD writing software?
major snip Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wrote Which version of K3b are you using? The other day, I installed the version from Sid (K3b 0.11.17). It found everything, including dvd+rw-format with no problem. The version I tested this with is with Sarge, K3b 0.11.12 Using KDE 3.2.3 which is supposed to be the stable version. If .x.x.17 is more stable then maybe they need to upload it into testing, aka Sarge. I only use three KDE programs, Konqueror, Kmail, now K3b. My window manager is xfce4. I like Konqueror for its file properities, its nice to see a man page in html, I use Kmail as its one of the best all in one mail apps. I just hate all the bloat, that kde and gnome have, I really like small window managers. Who knows maybe I will give that new nautilus-cd-burner a shot they say its drag n drop. Description: CD Burning front-end for Nautilus Lets you burn CDs and DVDs easily with GNOME, by drag-and-dropping files in the GNOME file manager. Depends: dbus-1 (= 0.22), libart-2.0-2 (= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (= 1.7.2), libaudiofile0 (= 0.2.3-4), libbonobo2-0 (= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0 (= 2.5.4), libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libeel2-2 (= 2.8.2), libesd0 (= 0.2.29-1) | libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.29-1), libgail-common (= 1.6.6), libgail17 (= 1.6.6), libgconf2-4 (= 2.8.1), libgcrypt11, libglade2-0 (= 1:2.3.6), libglib2.0-0 (= 2.4.7), libgnome-keyring0 (= 0.4.0), libgnome2-0 (= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (= 2.6.0), libgnomeui-0 (= 2.8.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (= 2.8.0), libgnutls11 (= 1.0.16), libgpg-error0 (= 1.0), libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.4.4), libhal0 (= 0.2.93), libice6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libjpeg62, libnautilus-burn0 (= 2.8.3), libnautilus2-2 (= 2.7.1), liborbit2 (= 1:2.10.0), libpango1.0-0 (= 1.6.0), libpopt0 (= 1.7), libsm6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libtasn1-2 (= 0.2.8), libx11-6 | xlibs ( 4.1.0), libxml2 (= 2.6.11), zlib1g (= 1:1.2.1), mkisofs, cdrecord, nautilus Dang thats a lot of depends, maybe I will ponder that one for a while. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Permission problem with XMMS!
After doing some basic investigating I seem to have a problem with permissions with xmms and a usb dvdrw drive. I have the drive mounted on sr0 which points to scd0, which points to /media/usb. I have changed the permissions to allow access to cdrom group. This link seems to have the same problem. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=threadm=2WYU3-7VB-33 %40gated-at.bofh.itrnum=5prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26q%3Dxmms%2B %252B%2Bpermission%2B%252B%2Bdebian%26btnG%3DSearch I can play a music cd as root, but as a user of cdrom group I get no sound. Every other device I use has access to sound but the usb dvdrw drive, unless I am root. Permission is same for all drives, right now I am running xmms with root permissions, not a big deal since I am the only user on this machine at home, I start xmms on the cmd line with root permission as a background process, then change user, or close xterm window. I would like to fix this problem if it is fixable, also I do not use any other mp3, or wav player, as xmms does all that for me. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Going to install testing: should I use sarge or woody installer?
major snip From: Kevin Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, if you installed with Woody and afterwards change sources list to testing, everything would go mad. So just use sarge to install if that's what finally you like to use. It should not be a problem to use dist upgrade, you will replace most if not all the packages, but it should work. If it doesn't then post with your error messages, and file bug reports against those that fail. Of course using a Sarge iso will also work, but it really depends on your needs. It also depends on your hardware, if you have new hardware then I would use the Sarge iso. It also depends on if your system is a production system, if your system must be 99.999% uptime and reliable, then woody would work. If this system is used at home or not a critical system then Sarge should be fine, in fact some people think Sarge is 99.998% ready for production. If your job depended on it I would stick to woody, otherwise use Sarge. As far as I know testing is the same as Sarge, untill testing is frozen, and Sarge is released. When Sarge is released after a little while the new testing or etch, will begin anew. So if you already have Sarge in your source list you won't need to worry. That is unless you want to follow testing, then it will be some time yet. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rar issue
Jule Slootbeek wrote: Hey all, Lately i've been noticing something strange with unrar, once in a while i'll get some rarred archives, and when i try to unrar then using unrar. every file fails to extract. When i unrar the same archive on a windows machine it works fine. Are there any unrar substitutes? thx -JSS -- What version of unrar are you using? Have you tried to use the t option to test the rar files for problems? Like this; unrar t /some/file/name. You could always use rar, make sure its a new version. Are these files on floppy, or downloaded to hard drive? Also are any par2, or par files with the archive? That way you can rebuild the archive with the par files, and any corruption that did happen will be able to be solved. In general if your using rar files of all sorts you really should be using par files as a general backup, against corruption. Unless you make a backup copy of the rar files, or keep good back ups. Most people that I find do not do this, they assume that their archive will be intact, and forget to backup. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian java howto for sarge?
From: Wim De Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Today 02:14:17 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 05:34:57 +0200, Christian Leimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The debian java howto is very old. Is there one for sarge in wotk? I try to setup an IBM-Java2-ppc-142(which is only avaiable as tar.gz or rpm file) SDK kit for my old powerpc.I installed it to /opt/IBM-Java2-ppc-142/ So how do I setup it correct, that other packages which need java2 do not install kaffe or something else. I followed: http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php Though that one is probably written for the sun howto. There used to be debian packages available from blackdown.org, but they kinda stopped updating them. If you have an rpm you can try running the alien program on it, though you'll probably have to symlink the java executables yourself. (or kid around abit with update-alternatives) And how do I get .jar files to work by doubleklickind under kde 3.2.3? Are there maybe some security problems? There's probably some sort of configuration dialog in KDE to establish a relationship between filetypes and programs. Find it and add jar to it. The command to be executed should probably be java -jar greets, Wim Another good site to check out installing java would be this one; http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/DEV/Java+on+Debian I used this guide on Sarge, even though it tells you to dist upgrade, which some people might do, and end up with unstable. They make a good point in remembering to use the documents, and dummy packages, might be worth a check out. As far as helping under KDE, if you make an icon you can choose the application associated with that file. So every time you open the file it will use that application. Check the control center see if you can set it globally, if not then set it per application. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chronyc Stratum 2 ntp servers access denied.
After setting up Chrony, and reading the docs, I am still unable to get Chrony to update my time. So I decided to use Chronyc with the accheck url command, and I am getting 209 Access denied commands on all the Stratum 2 servers I am trying to contact. Yes I have inputed my Chronyc passwd like the docs says, with Chronyc password. According to http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2b.html, these are supposed to be Stratum 2 servers with public access. There is a note on some of the listings that suggest to drop them a notification if you use their servers. I would like to use accheck to verify the server is talking to Chronyd, I would also like to find the closest ntp server that is working. But so far no luck, I have the default .conf file using the pool.ntp.org addresses, like this. The only thing I changed was the online from offline, because I use DSL, and my computer is always on. server pool.ntp.org online server pool.ntp.org online server pool.ntp.org online Also in my daemon.log file I am getting these remarks. Sep 21 22:15:59 localhost chronyd[3413]: Unrecognized subcommand at line 14 Sep 21 22:15:59 localhost chronyd[3413]: Unrecognized subcommand at line 15 Sep 21 22:15:59 localhost chronyd[3413]: Unrecognized subcommand at line 16 Which correspond to the ntp server lines in the chrony.conf file. Also if I ping some of the servers on the stratum2 lists, and even the pool.ntp.org I get 100% packet loss. In the FAQ it did mention that if you are behind a firewall you might have to open some ports. Why would this affect ping? I can ping, and traceroute any other address, but why not the ntp servers addresses? Also if I use chronyc and activity, and sourcestats all are empty. chronyc activity 200 OK 0 sources online 0 sources offline 0 sources doing burst (return to online) 0 sources doing burst (return to offline) chronyc sourcestats 210 Number of sources = 0 Name/IP AddressNP NR Span Frequency Freq Skew Std Dev chronyc sourcestats -v 210 Number of sources = 0 .- Number of sample points in measurement set. /.- Number of residual runs with same sign. |/.- Length of measurement set (time). | |/ .- Est. clock freq error (ppm). | | | /.- Est error in freq. | | | |/.- On the | | | | |/ samples. | | | | | | Name/IP AddressNP NR Span Frequency Freq Skew Std Dev Yes I have restarted chronyd a few times, using init.d chronyd restart, I even went to init 1 to make double sure everything would startup fresh. I know some of you might just suggest using my ISP DNS servers. I might have to, but I would like to get this NTP server thing a fair shake. Yes I have waited a few hours just in case the cron jobs did not update chronyd. Oh I am using Debian Testing/Sarge with current updates. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lcd4linux ./configure and make problem.
Dear: Fellow Debian Users; I am having problems trying to get ./configure to generate a make file for Lcd4linux. Below is the output for the program. It stops with an error message configure: error: X11 headers or libraries not available: X11 driver disabled. This of course is taken from the last line of the below information. I will also include the document configure.in as an attachment; which the INSTALL readme says to adjust for making the make file. I have no idea as to what I need to change in the file to make it work. If you want to check the source its available at, http://lcd4linux.sourceforge.net/. Thanks; Rthoreau - ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake-1.4... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... missing checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx... no checking for cc++... no checking for cl... no checking for FCC... no checking for KCC... no checking for RCC... no checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no checking whether g++ accepts -g... no checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for log in -lm... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E configure: checking location of ncurses.h file... Found ncurses on /usr/include/ncurses.h checking for ncurses version... 5.4 checking for X... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking gd/gd.h usability... no checking gd/gd.h presence... no checking for gd/gd.h... no checking gd.h usability... no checking gd.h presence... no checking for gd.h... no checking which drivers to compile... done configure: WARNING: gd.h not found: PNG driver disabled configure: WARNING: gd.h not found: PNG driver disabled configure: error: X11 headers or libraries not available: X11 driver disabled # -*- Autoconf -*- # Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. AC_PREREQ(2.57) AC_INIT([LCD4Linux],[0.9.11],[EMAIL PROTECTED]) AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([lcd4linux.c]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(lcd4linux,0.9.11) AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) # Checks for programs. AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_CXX AC_PROG_AWK # Using `AC_PROG_RANLIB' is rendered # obsolete by `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' :-( AC_PROG_RANLIB # Deactivating libtool for the moment until # we find a way this beast works cleanly... #AC_PROG_LIBTOOL #AM_PROG_LIBTOOL # Checks for libraries. AC_CHECK_LIB(m, log) # curses sinclude(curses.m4) AC_CHECK_CURSES # Checks for X11 AC_PATH_XTRA # check for gd.h AC_CHECK_HEADERS(gd/gd.h gd.h, [has_gd=true], [has_gd=false]) # drivers AC_MSG_CHECKING([which drivers to compile]) AC_ARG_WITH( drivers, [ --with-drivers=list compile driver for displays in list,] [drivers may be separated with commas,] ['all' (default) compiles all available drivers,] [drivers may be excluded with 'all,!driver',] [(try 'all,\!driver' if your shell complains...)] [possible drivers are:] [BeckmannEgle, CrystalFontz, Cwlinux, HD44780,] [M50530, T6963, USBLCD, MatrixOrbital, PalmPilot] [PNG, PPM, X11, Text], drivers=$withval, drivers=all ) drivers=`echo $drivers|sed 's/,/ /g'` for driver in $drivers; do case $driver in !*) val=no driver=`echo $driver|cut -c 2-` ;; *) val=yes ;; esac case $driver in all) BECKMANNEGLE=yes CRYSTALFONTZ=yes CWLINUX=yes HD44780=yes M50530=yes T6963=yes USBLCD=yes MATRIXORBITAL=yes PALMPILOT=yes PNG=yes
Solved Re: Lcd4linux ./configure and make problem.
Stefan O'Rear [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip Wrote: Note that this info was found by the 'dlocate' program on the computer of a programmer who uses Woody. If you use Sarge, Sid, Potato, or any other Debian version, you may need different packages. Search packages.debian.org for your version and: /usr/include/gd.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h /usr/bin/autoconf Build-essential has the same name everywhere, it is a dep package that pulls in C, C++ (which this program actually needs) and a bunch of unobvious stuff you'll often need to compile programs. I just followed your suggestion and installed everything, I am using sarge and the names are the same. build-essential (mandatory) xlibs-dev (mandatory) autoconf, automake (optional) libgd2-dev (mandatory) I did not know I needed all these packages, as I do compile my own kernel, I thought I had all the needed packages for compile time. Guess you learn something everyday, maybe I will down the road make a debian package out of it, so it will be installed with dpkg. Seems like my CrystalFontz 634 is picky about what client it likes. lcd4linux, lcdproc are problem childs on this setup. I guess I need to hit the mailing lists and see what I can dig up, so far its not looking good. I did find another 634 user with simillar problems as me but no solution. Thanks; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone getting debian forged headers in Email?
I got this in one of my spam accounts, and thought it was a little weird. Here is the full headers. - Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Received:(qmail 2491 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2004 19:30:28 - Received:from unknown (HELO prdmx8.nwk.iwon.com) ([10.50.30.74]) (envelope-sender [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 30 Aug 2004 19:30:28 - Return-Path:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Received:from x8v9x9.org (pool-141-151-76-183.phil.east.verizon.net [141.151.76.183]) by prdmx8.nwk.iwon.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BC193402A for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:13:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:30:21 -0500 To: Rthoreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] From:Debian-user [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Add to Address Book | Block Address | Report as Spam ] Subject:Changes.. Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=xopocqfutjsamolnbamw X-FII-Tracking: 0.261194 --- Here is the reverse DNS info: 141.151.76.183 PTR record: pool-141-151-76-183.phil.east.verizon.net. [TTL 86400s] [A=141.151.76.183] I just wanted to warn people about forged headers, The E-mail had an vbs attachment with it, which is even more funny. Anyway be aware of forged headers, this is the first I have seen, I will keep the E-mail, is their anything I can do to help stop this. I gave up on emailing abuse as most times it does not work, or return address is wrong. Rthorea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone getting debian forged headers in Email?
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:20, Richard Lyons wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 14:17, Rthoreau wrote: I got this in one of my spam accounts, and thought it was a little weird. [...] Yes, I've had a few recently. I'd have to say the vast majority of spam I've received in the last month was actually addressed to debian-user, and not my regular address. Yea I noticed an increase, but this is the first time it happened to my spam account, which is different from my list supplied address. You think spammers would know a little bit about the addresses they forge. But then again what they do makes no sense, I guess that is what spam filters are for. I just feel bad for Debian in general, cause someone might be mistaken, and really think it is from Debian. Or heaven forbid, say a problem arose and Debian decided to email alerts and people ignored them due to forged headers. I know it in very unlikely that Debian would do this, but I just despise these tactics, and the people who are putting Debian in a bad light. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ... Search for a filename from installed packages. How is this unclear, exactly? It doesn't say, Search for a filename THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN an installed package. Why wouldn't the above include programmatically-generated configuration files? They're from the package. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com Why just use our trusty old friend find? also you have locate, whereis, and a bunch of others, I must say find can do about anything. Also whereis is a nice catch all for common files and programs. It seems that you need to use the right tool for the job, and frankly I don't see dpkg -S as a good solution. It works for packages that dpkg knows about. But then that could be said of the same for rpm -qf. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4
Date: Yesterday 14:49:47 Lo, on Sunday, August 15, Richard Cobbe did write: The computer did come with a PCI IDE controller card (the unknown mass storage controller line above) that has another two controllers on it. I haven't yet tried switching controllers to see if that helps at all; I may attempt that later this afternoon. Well, that didn't work. Moving it to the other controller should make the hard drive visible as /dev/hde, but the kernel couldn't find the root device, even when I specified `root=/dev/hde2' on the Lilo command line. The odd thing is, I've switched hard drives to this controller before, back when I was having strange trouble with the previous drive and trying to diagnose it. I don't remember exactly what incantation I had to mumble in order to get the kernel to find the partition, though, so I can't repeat the process. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Richard Your lspci listing should not contain any unknown devices, for example below is my listing for my MP 2460. 00:00.0 Host bridge Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] System Controller 11 00 00:01.0 PCI bridge Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 MP [IGD4-2P] AGP Bridge 00 00 00:07.0 ISA bridge Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] ISA 02 00 00:07.1 IDE interface Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] IDE 01 8a 00:07.3 Bridge Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] ACPI 01 00 00:07.4 USB Controller Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-766 [ViperPlus] USB 07 10 00:0a.0 USB Controller OPTi Inc. 82C861 20 10 OPTi Inc. 82C861 00:0a.1 USB Controller OPTi Inc. 82C861 20 10 OPTi Inc. 82C861 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. Ethernet 100/10 MBit 31 00 ARCHTEK TELECOM Corp 0008 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 10 00 C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] b2 00 CardExpert Technology 05de I do not remember exactly what chipset the mpx series use, but its AMD 760ish based. I would load a k7 kernel-image smp capable with apt-get and see what lspci says. Also knoppix, and other live cds are great to verify hardware setup, so you could give them a try. It might just be eaiser to just apt-get a kernel image and give it a try. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help requested: DMA, Seagate ST340014A, Kernel 2.4
Date: Today 09:04:28 Greetings, all. I'm running Debian stable, and I've been running the 2.2 kernel series for some time now, because I've never had very good luck getting DMA to work for my hard drive under the 2.4 series. However, with sarge's release appearing increasingly imminent, I need to try to get this resolved. Google has, unfortunately, completely let me down on this. The hard drive is a Seagate ST340014A, and it's plugged into the main IDE controller on my motherboard, a Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. According to the manufacturer, this uses the AMD-760 MPX chipset. As far as I can tell, I've configured my kernel correctly, but I'm still having serious problems that occasionally result in filesystem corruption. snip I would greatly appreciate any suggestions that anyone might have. Thanks much, Richard I feel you pain, but since I only have a Tyan mp 2460 our hardware is a little bit different. I am running testing with a 2.6 kernel, and am having no problems. That being said I also use a journaling file system. I have used ext3, and assume you are using ext2, what kernel parameters are you pasing to the kernel? I use the noapic and acpi=off with good results, but some people can not tell the difference. Is their a reason you have not tried a 2.6 kernel? I know you are using woody, but you might want to consider upgrading, if you decide to go to sarge. A while back I did have some weird problems with a 2.4.25 kernel, could never figure it out either, I was using a Reiserfs and got some corruption, but to be honest I believe its chipset related. Here is why, in this system I have a CrystalFontz LCD which I use to monitor different systems specs. My harddrive is on a single primary, and I have two other drives sharing another IDE, durring heavy system use, say I use unrar, burning a CD or something else, sometimes in my system logs and on screen I get, serial line busy and it shuts down my Crystal Fontz LCD. Then if I try to restart it, like normal it won't come up, I have to go to init1, even then it sometimes does not comeup, until I reboot. So it would not surprise me if the chipset is flakey, also do you use a usb mouse, or keyboard? I know for at least the mp 2460 just having this has been know to lock the system up. I would suggest trying a 2.6 kernel, if your using testing or sarge, and just apt-get the k7 smp kernel image and see how it works with your DMA settings. Also I know that some mp mpx motherboards do not like certain graphics cards, I had a Nvidia 5600 ultra, and worked in mine, but Tyan does not support the FX series on my board. http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=265196 since then I switched back to a geforce2, that I rebuilt, put that ultra in a single cpu system, which is used to play Doom3. As far as knowing a silver bullet for fixing DMA in 2.4, I am at a loss other than what I said above. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?
On Saturday 19 June 2004 09:49 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the digests, so something else must have happened. Anyone else experienced the same? Grx HdV I haven't. Based on the lack of response, probably not many others have either. Smile, you're special. -- Best, Aaron Maxwell - http://redsymbol.com Internet Joint Ventures - http://amusene.com I subscribe to debian digest and about a week ago I stoped receiving the list, this has happened a few times. I still got my other Debian mailing lists, and thought it was a little weird. Then a day ago, I all of a sudden got a list burp, about 87 or 100 debian digests from the missing time I did not receive the list. I looked at the headers, and it seems that they were sent in the last day or so, but headers can only tell so much. This has happened in the past and I wrote it off as an ISP filtering my messages thing. The funny thing is I always get a high count of spam so it seems a litter weird that my ISP would filter a mailing list, and not the spam, but such is the life of a crappy cable company. I also thought it was weird that it did not filter my other lists, so I have no clue as to what the problem is, in the past I sent emails to my ISP but it did not do any good. Heck I had a DNS ISP server problem that took them 8 months to fix, I had to use the ip address, no one local or national seemed to care. So if murphy is acting up it would explain my digest problem. But I still received my other lists. So I have no clue as to what the heck is going on, doesn't murphy serve all the mailing list's? What makes digest so special if it is murphy? Is it the collecting of the messages then posting them, ie the digest aspect? rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound system
MillTek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Before I got this e-mail from Tam, I had been investigating my system deeper and deeper. I found teh following entries in my /var/log/syslog; snip un 21 13:39:18 localhost kernel: i810: NVIDIA nForce Audio found at IO 0xdc00 and 0xd800, MEM 0x and 0x, IRQ 20 snip major snip Jim Are you using a Nvidia Nforce motherboard with Nvidia audio? It looks like you are with the above posted log file. Are you using Nvidia's audio driver? Are you part of the Audio group, is the permission set right? What does google groups have to say about your problem? Is your audio device detected, what does lspci -m show? Have you tired a livecd, like knoppix and looked at the knoppix log files like dmesg, and kern.log. I find sometimes using a livecd and comparing files helps me to get the proper drivers. What does lsmod show under knoppix, then compare this to what your says in Debian. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: intellimouse is crazy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all... I am geeting some troubles with a Intellimouse Ps2 in Debian Sarge 2.6.6. Its completely crazy in graphical interface. I know i have to modify /etc/XF86Config-4 (and I did it), but it doesnt work. Any suggestion. From now, thanks all. You might want to post your Mouse section of your XF86Config-4 file. It looks like your using the wrong protocol, most PS2 mice, even if they are Intellimouse work better if you use the ImPS/2 protocol. Give that a try, also you might want to try using gpm so you can have a mouse in a console window. If that is the case search the list, or google for gpm setup. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 problem with S3 video card
Don Jackson (AE5K) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: I used the Debian Installer TC1 ... it installs, but gdm fails. I looked at /var/log/XFree86.0.log, cannot determine what my problem is. Using Diamond Stealth SE video card with S3 Trio 732 chip, 1 MB memory. Motherboard is FIC 503VA+, CPU is K6-2. It appears it should be using the s3_drv.o driver which is present at /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/s3_drv.o The /var/log/XFree86.0.log is posted on web page: http://azark.com/xfreelog/XFree86.0.log (instead of including about 40k worth of text in this message posting!) Here are the last few lines of that log: (WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:9:22:0) found (WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:9:23:0) found (WW) s3: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:9:24:0) found (EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found Can anyone give me pointers of how to proceed? Not a total noob, but still far away from guru status ;-) Thanks, Don Did you turn off frame buffering, I have an old Nvidia card that everytime I use frame buffering it will crash with a similar message, even if the device section is correct. Also look at the obvious Device section see if your BusID is correct. Also try a regular Vesa driver, see if you get screen output, if your xserver starts with a different driver, then you know its a driver problem. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: moving to the 2.6 kernel?
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to build a new Debian machine to start expolring the 2.6 kernel what's the best way to go about this? One easy way is to install a 2.6-kernel-image, just do an apt-cache search for kernel-image 2.6 something then use apt-get install kernel-image. This will get you a kernel that you can play with, or you can install the kernel-source and build your own kernel. This assumes your using a testing, or sid install. If your on woody then you most likely will need to dist update to testing to get the files, and dependences. If your talking about a clean install of Debian Sarge, you can use these iso's to get a working system. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ just choose your arch, and follow the Readme, and the Howto. I have used RC1 of the debian-installer and everything works on my end. Just remember to fill out the installer report to give feed back to the installer team so we can get closer to a final release. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X crashing with new Geforce FX5700 card
Brad wrote: I just installed a Geforce FX5700LE video card into a Abit KG7 mobo with latest bios. At first I could not even get kdm to start but when I chaged the AGP setting in the bios from 4x to 2x I was able to get X to start, but after running for awhile it crashed, nothing in the logs says what happened. I have the latest Nvidia drivers from Debian Sid, and before this card I was using a Geforce 3 Ti4200 which ran great. Anyone have any ideas, I read in the release notes for the nvidia drivers that there is a known problem with the AMD Irongate chipset and AGP speed and that it will only work at 1x, but this does not make sense since I was running the other Geforce card without any problems for almost 2 years. TIA Brad Cramer First of all you mention that the error does not show up in the log, is that your Xfree86.log? Also after changing video cards did you change your Xfree86 config file? Most likely you will need to change the PCI Bus ID which might be different for each card. Use lspci -mv to list your devices, and see if what it mentions as the device ID. I would use the Nvidia drivers from Nvidia which should be up to version 5336, go to their website and download their installer. You might need kernel headers, or a custom kernel for a complete install, just follow the directions, in the readme. As far as the AMD Irongate chipset issue, it should not be a problem, as it was refering to only 1x graphics cards. I have a Geforce 5600 Ultra in a dual MP 1.2 system, and I can say it works great, but I am CPU limited on my graphics performance. I also tried my card in a Athlon 1.7 gig system and had the same problem. So I hope you have a good CPU in your system to take advantage of the new graphics power. Otherwise you might not notice that much of a difference. Also do you dual boot, you should not have to change bios settings it should run at 4x, you might want to see how it performs under Windows. If it works under Windows then you know its a config problem under Gnu/Linux. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ann: gpm-X guide
Kent West wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: For those who have had trouble or will have trouble in the future getting gpm and X to cooperate, I have now published a short guide on how to do it successfully. Enjoy. http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/gpm-X/ Kernel 2.6 extends this device node to include the PS/2 mouse as well. This means that if you are using a 2.6 kernel you don't need to use the gpm-as-repeater technique outlined above. Simply tell gpm to read from /dev/input/mice and tell X to read from /dev/input/mice and it will work correctly. I didn't know that; cool. Kent The only problem I have had is not setting the repeat_type=raw, I let gpmconfig set the default settings using imps2 protocol. Then setup X mouse settings to use gpmdata, but it borked my x, when I set it to repeat_type=raw it fixed the problem. Weird how did you know to use the raw value? Anyway a nice little guide, even though I really don't know that many console programs that use a mouse by default. I guess cut and paste is still pretty cool in console, but then I always use up arrow key and tab completion anyway. I also noticed that after one does a gpmconfig and chooses to test the mouse, after you press ctrl D, go back to your console your new configured mouse does not work on that screen. But if you change to a different VC you have total mouse control. Anyone notice this, yes X is not running, I was configuring gpmconfig as root, thought I had messed up the settings again. Maybe someone should file a bug report, or is this a feature? Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tools to fix broken rar archives or pdfs?
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Today 14:51:17 Pigeon wrote: I have just downloaded the schematic for a Smart-UPS 700 in the form of a rar archive from some Russian site. Unfortunately, the archive is broken. No Spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] successfully downloaded the rar file and opened it with no errors. I'd suggest that you use wget to retrieve the file and try again, unless you need the schematic mirrored somewhere. PJ What ever happened to people posting recovery volumes, or par, par2 files with rar archives? It seems that if they went to all the trouble to make a rar archive, then they should at least put some recovery volumes with it. Also whats wrong with bzip2, or tar archives? Ok Ok its a Russian site, but I thought they would prefer open source tools, to RAR. If you did have the recovery volumes you could just use the r option for repair, but as No Spam, PJ said you might have to download it again. Or maybe No spam, PJ could create some recovery files, and email them to you since he already has a working copy. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 06:52:31PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:06:28PM -0600, Michael L. Brownlow wrote: I vote to keep it the way it is on the principle of least embarassment. snip [1] Though for different reasons...the electoral college is not obligated to follow popular vote in most states, so voting in that race is more or less political masturbation. This alone should put the intelligence and foresight of the framers in serious question (and why I tend to think less of people who think the words of two-century-old dead guys actually matter today). -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system I never could figure out how all these long threads get off topic so quick, now I know! Its nothing against those who posted or anything else, just an observation. I guess we have some passionate people in here, I just hope its more toward Debian than anything else. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: passing xterm parameters
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 12:52:26PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: i have several lynx sessions that are being piped to text files, i.e., lynx www.somewebpage.com temp.txt. in order to capture the entire web page, i have found that i have to run this from an xterm session w/ the window opened to at least the row/column width of the web page of interest. i wish to have these lynx sessions run as a cron job without having to open an xterm session. i am sure there are environment variables set for the number of rows and colunms in the xterm session that are passed to lynx when lynx is called from the xterm command line. how can i pass these parameters to lynx such that the script can be started via a cron job and never have to have an xterm session open? Why not just use wget instead of lynx, you can set wget up with recursive downloading and set the depth you desire. You can also make a file to have it set to read the proper pages. Something like this: wget -r -1 2 http://your.website.com If you need more information on wget see the man page, or if that is still unclear use the gnu.org site and see the documents for wget. At one time I was thinking about making a howto about wget. But seeing the gnu docs put me off because they were that good. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Buying a new computer, questions!
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:57:27AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will it work with Linux? Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail Asus 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model P4C800-E DELUXE -RETAIL Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series, Low Latency (Twin Pack) 184 Pin 512MB(256MBx2) DDR PC-3200 - Retail (x2 = 1gig) plus a good case will be $960! woot! The other stuff will come over from my old PC. Will Linux be happy with Hyperthreading and this particular Mobo? I'm going to do some googling but I wondered if any could share experiences. Links: CPU: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-116-164catalog=343manufactory=BROWSEdepa=1 Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-464depa=1 Memory: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-145-431catalog=147manufactory=BROWSEdepa=1 I would consider another MB manufacture, as Asus has had problems with quality of as late. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13674 Ok this might effect their AMD line, but do you really trust a MB company which uses only one type of capacitors for only one line? I would much prefer you to have a long lasting computer with your hard earned cash. Also you could save a few dollars by choosing a different MB manufacture. Also do you really need a 3.2 Ghz chip, you could save a bundle on a 2.8 Ghz chip. Also make sure you get a new power supply, if it comes with the case make sure it will be big enough. Antec does a good job with PS bundles with their cases, or I like fortran which powers my dual rig. Otherwise everything looks good, if you went AMD you could save even more money, unless you went 64 which would be about the same. I don't know if the Pat extensions are coded for linux yet, but everything should be available in the newer kernels. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debain on the rise ! - However ....
an elitist attitude on this list. If I follow the list policy and post on topic posts most people are friendly and willing to help. Maybe some people won't hold every ones hand about the most basic stuff. But if they did manage to locate Debian.org, we assumed they would know how to use google. Maybe that assumption was wrong, I find that a little common sense goes a long way. Good luck with your Gentoo adventure, I wish you the best of luck. Rthoreau snip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: STOCK MARKET BULLETIN: 7-Eleven Stores looking to add QENC bottled water
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Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 09:57:40AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:44:34 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: [snip] I guess my point is we are a smart bunch of people and if we stay quiet we can have all we want and no one will bother us. That's all. I've seen bigger movements than this go down. Very elegantly put, Nano, my congratulations on your parable. My agreement, too :) -- paul It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer. -- Sun System Network Admin manual I keep hearing how Usenet is dead, and how the RIAA, MPAA has made inroads in their battle against piracy. When was the last time you looked at the alt.binaries news groups? Usenet been their from the start, and from the look of it will still be their after the P2P flavor of the month dies out. Whats funny is people think that Usenet is slow, its not I can on a regular basis get 300-350kps on most of my connections. In fact I do not dare use most P2P software, that includes bittorrent, I just can not trust who might be watching, what worms and viri I might catch. Yet I trust a paid newsserver such as are available now, they claim complete anonymous uploads, if that is what you want. I do agree the average person, who only wants to point and click is having a harder time getting his ware's. But I prefer it that way, if someone cannot or does not want to read the many Howto's and guides about Usenet then thats on them. Also if you think Usenet is not for you, you can always use IRC. Most masive downloaders I know do not use anything but Usenet, some might be part of private FTP servers, such things. But its just easier to point them to the Usenet and a paid Usenet server company. Chances are you might not have the stuff they want anyway. So why would I need to be quiet? What is at risk, I can tell you its not Usenet! Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:09:43PM -0500, Al Davis wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2004 03:44 am, Nano Nano wrote: You took. You gave nothing back. Snip Parasites. snip You took. You gave nothing back. snip Napster took. It gave nothing back. snip Smited by who? By those in power? By the people? Once upon a time there was slavery. In some parts of the world there still is. We have freedom only because of those willing to stand in the light. Once upon a time women couldn't vote in the U.S. In some parts of the world they still can't. The got the right to vote only because of those willing to stand in the light. The free software / open source movement isn't a movement that takes and gives nothing back. We share our own and give back in kind. We have no desire to take that which is not ours. The movement is growing only because of those who give back more than they take. What has SCO contributed? They take. They give nothing of value back. I admit it I am a leach, I take stuff off Usenet for my personal gain once in a while I post something of value, but overall I take more than I give. Even leaches have their usefullness, help in reducing blood clots after surgery. Most people on Usenet could be considered parasites, in the same way Robin Hood takes it from the rich and gives to the poor. None the less, they suck the blood like a parasite, give to others who might not have enough otherwise. Is this against the law probably, does it stop people or deter them from sharing probably not. Even in discussion groups a person throughs out an idea, then the community takes the idea and add's their 2 cents. Is it wrong for people to use your idea's, what if I reverse engineer your idea? What if it was my idea to start off with? How can you prove otherwise, what exactly is fair use, in China, America? What stops me from choosing my definitions of such topics? Would the world be a better place if everyone didn't have these sources? When you read a book, aren't you being a parasite by taken in the authors ideas? Are not students parasites to the teachers knowledge? What about the dynamics of Supply and Demand? Would you really want everyone to give back to OSS, I know how to code a litte, but I am sure its not up to the quality of some of you. Do you really want my buggy, dumb code infesting your hardwork? Or rather do you want me to be a parasite, and every once in a while file a bug report? As a old saying goes not everyone can be a Chief! We also live in a society of parasites, we take from mother Earth, we polute the world what have we given back? Is the world in a better situation now then 100 years ago? I think we are all parasites, some more than others. If using Usenet makes me a leach, sucking out the blood of corporate excess, and abuse then I am all for it. Is it right to deprive a person who might not have the means for the tools, to make their life better? Are the RIAA, MPAA others loosing tons of money in the process, I don't think so. Do you see Microsoft loose the shirt off their back, No. Ok I am sorry for all the rant, if I have personally insulted anyone I am sorry. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows and Printing Systems
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:07:53PM +, Marius Amado Alves wrote: I hereby promise that in a near future I will make a conceptual network of this outstanding forum publicly available (as part of my PhD reserach on adaptive hypertext). There everybody will be able to find the right archived answer by ostensive querying. In the meanwhile, please help me the old fashion way. * Window/Desktop System * I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change to a more modern system? How? I tried to install kde and gnome with apt-get but failed upon dependencies. What do I need to put in my sources.list? (I don't have CDs yet, just a cable connection.) In the meanwhile: how does one close windows in twn? * Printing/CUPS * I managed to install cupsys via apt-get and added a printer with the web interface, but this printer does not show up in the print dialog of the applications. It's an HP DeskJet on the parallell port. What am I missing? Thanks a lot. You might want to give Fluxbox a go, unless you like KDE or Gnome, Fluxbox and Rox filer is a really good combination. Even though Rox is not available in the regular channels, they do make .deb files for getting it installed. Also their are good resources available for making it really slick, I really like it. As far as printing goes you need to check out http://www.linuxprinting.org, HP makes a special driver for their printers. The best way to do it is to install HP's driver per their instructions and then have CUP's recognize the driver for best results. I know that CUP's might list your printer but it is really best to go with HP's driver. It might take a little reading of the documents to get it just right, but it will be worth the effort. I haven't had any problems at all with my MultiFunction HP printer after installing the proper Linux drivers. In fact scanning works better in Linux than in Windows. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mobo with fan controls
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 01:50:53PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Hugo Vanwoerkom: I am looking for a mobo that has controls on for all its fans so they can be turned off or down when not needed, like the laptops do. I have never understood you guys who want to do this with finesse. It's in the, what?, brain, soul, character? I play with the box as with Debian: I have now 8 Debian partitions on 2 HD's, varying from Sarge without Backstreet Ruby to Sarge with Backstreet Ruby, kernel 2.4.22 AND kernel 2.6.0, and now with Woody from the 7 CD's I downloaded. I am after perfect control and the box has to be next to me because it's dear to me (?), but it makes noise whether it needs to or not and that ought not to be... ;-) Hugo As posted earlier in this thread a good case is a must, also it all starts with good cooling. Just make sure your case fans and HSF are rated for your amps of your motherboard. Another thing is if your case fans come with mb hearders use them, otherwise when you go to check your temps, fan speeds, in the bios you won't know speeds otherwise. One of the most important is your cpu HSF you need one which is quite. If you follow the hardware sites you notice which ones are quite, also remember the bigger the fan the less noisy it is. Most good 80 mm case fans are pretty quite, usually cpu HSF are more loud then case fans. If you really feel that a knob will make things quite then by all means go for it. I like to think that if your using a case fan with a knob to make it quite, then why not get a bigger fan? Another thing you could do is go to your local whitebox builder, and ask if you could hear some of their case fans, HSF's in action. That way you will know what to expect, maybe they could give you some idea's to what has worked for them. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iiswish@lists.debian.org - anyone shed any light?
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:12:22PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: I keep getting stupid e-mails from here. Anyone have any information on it? I'll fwd the message source if anyone's interested. Joe You might want to check your headers, maybe a spammer is spoofing the headers and you think it is comming from the list. Also did you do a whois search on the recieved from IP? This is also a Debian mailing list, maybe you have subscribed, and others are getting hit by Mydoom worm, and your getting off topic mail because of it? Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netcraft Shows Debian Fastest Growing!
I thought I would spread the good news, according to a Netcraft study Debain is the fastest growing Distro which contain Debian in an Apache server header. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/28/debian_fastest_growing_linux_distribution.html From July 03 to January 04 we had a 24.6% growth, Redhat only had 17.8% growth. We are behind total servers though, Redhat has 1,451,505 Debian has 442,752 which is not bad, third in the list. Lets hope that more people will realize just how good Debian is as a server and help out the community. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - nForce, GeForce and VMWare
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:20:00PM +0530, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: Hi, I have an Asus A7vm266 ( something like that) motherboard. It uses nforce 2 chipset. had lot of problems gettin drivers to work on win98 se. made system unstable. u might be better off with XP. Win98se drivers seem problematic. spent almost like a week tryin to get it to work. about geforce, check Nvidia's site for drivers. they do have 3d acceleration support. did u download the driver from their site? u might have to do some tuning. just check the download for instructions. should be in readme file HTH, Sanjay Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: debian-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] ter.net cc: Subject: OT - nForce, GeForce and VMWare 27/01/2004 12:36 PM I'm finally giving VMWare a whirl, and am hoping someone here can help. VMWare installed okay, and I was able to set up a virtual machine with Windows-98SE. However, I am unable to get sound working, and am also having some video issues. My motherboard uses the nForce-2 chipset, with onboard sound. I was able to get the nForce Linux drivers up and running, and have sound outside of VMWare, but sound is disabled on 98SE within the VMWare virtual machine. I was hoping that just installing the 98 drivers off the CD that came with my board would do the job, but the installer claims that there is no compatible hardware installed. As for video, I am currently using the driver that comes with VMWare, VMWare SVGA-2. That enabled me to set my resolution properly (1024x768 - 32-Bit color). However, that particular driver doesn't allow realization of my video card's full potential. The card is a 256MB GeForce 5600 FX. Like with the nForce drivers, the nVidia drivers for Linux are working fine, but I can't get certain features working under Linux, specifically Direct 3D, and the Windows installer for the video card does not see the card as a compatible device. So what does it take to enable 3D features under VMWare? I'm trying the Windows version of America's Army as my test app, and it won't run because Direct 3D isn't working. Any advice on these problems? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] What are you trying to do? It sounds like you might be better off installing Windows XP, or maybe, just maybe installing Debian since this is a Debian mailing list. Also Direct 3d is a Windows only graphics layer, Whats wrong with using Nvidia Linux drivers, and OpenGL, do some research, a lot of people have gotten their Nvidia Chipsets to work in Linux. You might also want to post to a VMWare mailing list about your VMware problems. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie needs help :-)
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:23:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:57:14PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Jaume Alonso wrote: Well, today I've installed Sarge and finally all went OK (it was the third time I tryed it). But I have a problem: GNOME 2.4 does not work :-( I use GDM and when I selectioned session GNOME and my user name and password it didn't work, it says that did not find gnome-session. I went to debian website and I downloaded the gnome session. [...] Rather than going to the debian website and I download[ing] the gnome session, you might find it easier just to apt-get install gnome. -- That won't quite work on sarge yet. It should in about two days' time, -- though. -- -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is great news, so Gnome 2.4 will be a full meta package, does it include everthing? What about kde 3.1.4 will it be next? Keep up the good work, how long until a proper freeze in testing? Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for bleeding edge distro
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:37:29PM -0500, Brad Cramer wrote: Are there any Debian based distros that use KDE 3.2rc1, kernel 2.6.x, XFree4.3.0 all of that bleeding edge type stuff. I am willing to give anything a try as long as it is deb based (don't like RPM's) Thanks Brad Why do you need a distro to get the bleeding edge software you need? Whats wrong with running unstable with software from experimental? Even most Rpm based distro's do not have a release that supports the software you want. If you really need the most current version of something, you might be better off getting the source from CVS and building your own packages, or installing it yourself. In fact at the rate of kernel development a release candidate is out almost every week or so. I hope you have good backups of your software, so you know exactly what breaks your system. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Semi-Old Video Card Recommendation
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 06:46:37AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For awhile ATI was not supporting Linux. They've improved significantly as of late. I highly recommend Nvidia stuff. Excellent Linux support. Matrox is good for 2D stuff. On 20-Jan-2004 Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:41:59AM +0800, Ryan Mackay wrote: If you dont choose this chipset i would suggest sticking with nVidia none the less, they do support Linux (or Xwindows should i say) alot more/better than other companies. Hmm, I'm constantly advising people NOT to buy nVidia stuff because they are LESS Free-software friendly than other companies. They may provide Linux drivers but they are binary-only. No source code or hardware specs are available, so you're really in the same boat as you are with Windoze. For example, http://dri.sourceforge.net/dri_status.phtml lists plenty of ATI support: ATI Supported Chipsets * Mach64 (Rage Pro) * Rage 128 (Standard, Pro, Mobility) * Radeons up to R9200 are supported Important Notes * The Radeon naming scheme explained. * For Radeon PCI support see the FAQ * Rage Fury Maxx is NOT supported by the DRI. * The Mach64 (Rage Pro) is undergoing heavy development. To see if your card is supported check Leif's status page. * The Radeon seems to have problems with certain early VIA chipsets. Your best bet is to try and see if it works. Example Graphics Cards * Rage Fury * Rage Magnum * Xpert 2000 * Xpert 128 * Xpert 99 * All-in-Wonder 128 but when it comes to NVidia, all we get is: NVidia NVidia provides their own closed source, binary drivers. Hardware specs are not available to the DRI developers and NVidia cards are therefore not supported by the DRI. ATI may only release their hardware specs to developers under NDA but that's a lot better than not releasing them at all. At least we get ATI source code. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F --- Arlen Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOFH excuse #439: Hot Java has gone cold This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... As others have mentioned the battle between ATI and Nvidia has spilt over to Linux. I think you need to take into account how you use your system, your stance on Open Source Software. I know some people who will not use any thing that taints a Linux kernel. While others couldn't care less about the drivers, while still others have the idea that as long as it works department. So what it comes down to is what type of user are you, if you don't mind going that extra little bit to configure you system then Ati might be ok. If you need something that is easy to setup then Nvidia is a good choice. Lots of time to get Ati working you need to download the latest XFree86 build, go to certain sites for certain drivers other such things. While Nvidia you visit their site download their latest driver, make sure you have kernel-headers and run their script. Be that as it is, I still give Nvidia a big edge, they also support freeBSD and seem to understand that users want something that works. Yes it would be nice if both Ati and Nvidia would open up their drivers. You know what, I have never been without support of a Nvidia card, it not like they don't support their chipsets. I really doubt that Ati or Nvidia will release Open Source 3d drivers, despite as much as we would like them to. Especially with all the patents, cross licenses's that are in some of those drivers. So for now its like choosing between which is lesser of the two evils. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless router
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:11:04PM -0800, David wrote: Any reccomendations for wireless router hardware. Went to Costco today and they had both D-link router+wireless card (802.11g) as well as a netgear package. Both packages advertised being compatible with linux. Any input/advice/opinion on this? Thanks! D-link as well as some of the other manufactures usually end up buying some of the same hardware usually made by one or two companies, and putting their name on it. I have owned a Linksys, SMC and others. The Linksys I bought was the common model and had nothing but problems, the SMC I had lasted about two years, but would drop connections once in a while. I ended up getting a Zyxel Zywall with 80211.b support, and I would suggest them to anyone. They have good support you can even buy them online, mine came with a two year warranty, and has been rock steady. If your looking for say 80211.g or 80211.a I think they have a basic model out that supports it. They cater to more of the business side of things, but after my bad experience with the Linksys, I will not buy another consumer wireless product. Also some motherboard manufactures are starting to sell 80211.x hardware that will do some pretty cool stuff. Check the normal good hardware sites for more information, but I do not know how compatable they are with Linux. Just make sure the Wireless cards are Linux compatable, and have drivers for them. The wireless howto's will show lots of information about what to get and how to set it up, www.tldp.org will list some of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Promise Ultra 100 TX2 (PDC20268)
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:39:16PM +0100, Micha wrote: Hi i am new to the mailing list and hope i hope i have done everything well so far :) also i am relativly new to unix and debian ... i just want to aks if the Ultra 100 TX2 is supported by debian and if yes can you tell me which kernel (kernel-patch) or driver i need ? thank you for all advice and your help with best regards Michael Schlembach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Sarge does support your card, you will need the testing iso to install the proper kernel. Woody can be installed if you do not have your drives on the card, then you can upgrade the kernel. www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Will get you started with the testing, or Sarge information. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:46:15PM +0100, Pedro M. wrote: What about creating a debian hardware list ? . Is there any one ??. Regads. - Original Message - From: Ken Gilmour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Haytham AL Samkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: RE: Problem Replying to the message sent by Ken Gilmour on 19 Jan 2004 17:46:40 +, received at 18:30:49 on 19/01/2004. Ken Gilmour wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 16:06, Haytham AL Samkari wrote: Additional Information: The type of the printer is Ink-Jet I thought we already dealt with this for you? Google for it: http://www.google.com/searth?q=author%3A+%22Haytham+al+Samkari%22ie=I SO-8859-1hl=enmeta= Whoops... should have copied and pasted: http://www.google.com/search?q=author%3A+%22Haytham+al+Samkari%22ie=ISO -8859-1hl=enmeta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] The simple answer to your question is Debian is Gnu/linux, so what linux supports Debian will. You might ask does Linux support my hardware, their are plenty of sites that dedicate themselves to that topic. Usually if the Linux kernel will support it Debian will too, you might have to update your kernel to do it, but it usually works. If you find woody lacking you might want to try some packages from testing, or unstable, most new kernels can be found their. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IDE-SCSI lost after boot up!
users. I know I have left of some the old timers out, sorry, I haven't been around that long, going on a year, just a spring chic to some of ya. Thanks; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Sarge Grub Question!
Dear: Fellow Debian Users; First a little hardware information: Tyan 2460 Tiger Motherboard. actual order of physical devices. /dev/hdc dedicated windows XP pro harddrive 40 gig. /dev/hdd dedicated Debian Gnu/Linux harddrive 120 gig. Grub is installed in the MBR of /dev/hdd. I have /dev/hdd setup in the bios as first harddrive to boot, which now acts like this, /dev/hdd/, /dev/hdc. Grub sees this as (hd0) (hd1) which is reverse as to physical installation. If I run update-grub it writes the physical location to menu.lst I then have to change all kernel configs to the opposite of physical, in grubs case from (hd1) to (hd0). This works great and I am able to boot into Debian. But it will not boot into Windows, even if I use the proper grub root device. Windows does not boot, but will stop, and I have to physically reset the machine. Now after reading some docs I tried to use the map command like this: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) hd0) This is done at the command line in grub at first boot, then it will boot into windows like normal. I can also add the lines if I edit the windows stanza and will work within the boot sequence. But if I add it to my grub menu.lst under the Windows title it will not boot windows. Something like this, Title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Now in order to boot into windows, I have to at boot time add the map lines under the command line, then boot into windows as normal, or hit esc, then highlight the windows stanza and hit return. How can I set this up in grubs menu.lst so it is done automatically? I have also tried to use map function outside any title area as a global setting, but it does not work either. Also would this be considered a bug, and should I submit a bug report if their is no way to set map function in menu.lst. Thanks, Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Today 21:11:13 Hi all, I'm having trouble with a new Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard I just put into my Debian machine. (I took out the old card.) A bit of searching around indicates that the Santa Cruz uses the cs46xx chipset, so I selected that kernel module. Doing modprobe cs46xx gives me: cs46xx: Unable to detect valid cs46xx device then it gives me some insmod errors caused by not having a valid device. I'm guessing there's some sort of IRQ conflict or something similar going on. Has anyone run into this problem who could give me some guidance on where to look? Tracking down these problems seems to me to be something of a wild goose chase. Thanks and regards, Charles. Yea the Santa Cruz sound card can be a little tricky at times, you might want to see what lspci says, you might even have to reboot. Here is what lsmod says about my modules loaded for sound. cs46xx 58196 2 ac97_codec 13428 0 [cs46xx] soundcore3972 3 [cs46xx] Of course this is the OSS modules, and not the Alsa modules, I understand that the Alsa modules might be of better quality, so if you feel brave go ahead and give it a shot. It probably wouldn't hurt, as the new 2.6.-- are going to use Alsa, so it wouldn't hurt to get things working now. I use testing and this is somewhat of a default setup, as you know the Santa Cruz card is not 100% supported under linux. I have several games that after I play Xmms have major sound problems. Also after a reboot I have to manually adjust the volume in a mixer. You might get away with not having the ac97-codec loaded as it is not used, as lsmod has shown. I would certainly make sure soundcore module was loaded as to the 3 procs I really couldn't tell you as I am unsure exactly what the soundcore module does. Hope you get it sorted out, as the sound card is great, I just wish it was as good as under the other OS. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Workspace/desktop switching
Date: Today 01:35:32 On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:19:41AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: I've been seeing a lot of discussions about various WM's lately, and everyone seems to be extremely concerned about easy workspace switching. I'm just wondering what exactly everyone uses workspaces for? Every once in a while, if I'm doing two things at once that each require 5 windows a piece, I'll use two desktops/workspaces, but I don't think I've ever really gone over that. That leads me to believe that there's some unrealized benefit that I'm missing out on. So what do you use your workspaces for, and why are they so important? Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use exactly 2 virtual desktops and Fluxbox: Desktop 1 has 4 terminals. Â Desktop 2 has mozilla basically full-screen. Flux lets me use the mouse-wheel to alternate them. Â More than two, and it's not as efficient to flip bing-bang between them; I have to stop and think about where I want to stop. Â With 2 it's just a muscle twitch, no cerberal activity required. Sometimes other windows will float transitively above them. Â If I need an app to stay around for a while, I'll tab-dock it with one of the terminals, or tab-dock it with Moz if it needs lots of real estate. I love it. Â I keep trying fancier things but get no additional benefit. Â Like I said, more than 2, and I have to expend mental energy. It took me the longest time to really start to use more than one Workspace. I was trapped into how Windows only uses one Workspace, unless you have special programs that provide the extra Workspaces. Back then I had dual monitors so I have plenty of window real estate, but a ton of minimized windows. But in Linux I started to play with workspaces, I use 3 workspaces on a dual monitor setup. I use Workspace 3 for my Kmail and email and a browser window pointing to a whois search sites for Spam. I use Workspace 2 for terminals, like xterm or lcdproc server, and I have a browser on one screen also, I might have linux sites in this with tabbed pages. Workspace 1 is dedicated for system stats, like top, and I have a RC5-72 going in one window, with a browser that points to news sites. Or a newsreader, or a vnc session of another system. I must confess I find dual monitors much, much, much more convient then many workspaces. I would rather give up my workspaces than my monitors. But then if I had to use a single monitor I would really want workspaces. Dual monitors saves you time, and is a ton easier than having to switch between workspaces, or minimize windows. If you want to know more about dual or more monitors you might want to check this site out. http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery.asp This points to the gallery of people who sent in pictures of their systems, it might be slanted to windows but is has one of the best gallery's. Just point and clickity click. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATA Controller
Adrian at Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled on Date: Today 09:03:14 Greetings all. Â I have a second IDE controller card installed in my system and am trying to get it to work under debian. Things that may be relevant: hda - 15g HD hdb - 20g HD hdc - cdrom hdd - cdburner and on the second controller hde - 30g HD hde is reiserfs and is operational under my Mandrake 9.1 install, but not seen by my Woody install. Â It is a fresh install after all the hardware was in place, not hardware added after the install. Hardware specifics: Promise Technology, Inc. Ultra 100 TX2 ATA/100 Controller The manual says to go to www.promise.com for Linux for updates on Linux support. Â Well, I did so, but no found no love. Also tried to Google, but didn't get any results that I understood or could use. So, any suggestions? Â I can't help but think I simply need to use modprobe and install a module or such. Â I played around with that idea, but didn't hit upon anything that worked. Â Of course, since I'm not sure what I'm looking for, I was guessing. 'Thank you very much. Adrian If you are using a woody kernel, such as bf2.4.18 you will have to use a more current kernel image, because you will most likely have to have the promise driver present as a module. You should look for module promise pdc 20269 you can verify this with what lspci says about your card. Then you can see if modconf shows the module in your current kernel. If it does then go ahead and load it, look in your dmesg for the fact it loaded the module. If not you can make a custom kernel,or download a newer kernel image with the added support. You might need to change /etc/fstab to have your drives mountable. You can always check cfdisk if the drives are showing up properly. If you still can not get it to recognize the drives, try booting off a knoppix cd and looking at what modules knoppix loads by using lsmod. If you do search on google pass it along the pdc 20269 search line, it seems like some people have a love hate relationship with this card. I do have this card but my dual motherboard hates it, and is now in windows only system. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISP and DNS port scanning!
Hello: fellow Debian users I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for a while but I haven't had the time to look into it untill now. I did a basic whois on the IP address and they show that it is my ISP, the destination is a DNS server that belongs to my ISP. I sent an E-mail to abuse to see what they are going to do about it, but I am in need of some knowledge? Is this common? is the DNS server trying to collect or verify information on my system? If so why? I did do a google search on DNS port scanning and denial of service, but did not turn up anything that would explain this. That is why I am asking for your suggestions. They seem to be sending it about every 30 seconds, so in effect they are using a denial of service against me. Below is a few lines of my router log. In this format-  Time    Message Source  Destination Notes  11/18/2003 14:53:24 Firewall default policy: ICMP (W to W/ZW, type:8, code:0) 66.61.104.72    66.61.118.206   ACCESS BLOCK 14 11/18/2003 14:53:20 Firewall default policy: ICMP (W to W/ZW, type:8, code:0) 66.61.30.31 66.61.118.206   ACCESS BLOCK 15 11/18/2003 14:53:08 Firewall default policy: ICMP (W to W/ZW, type:8, code:0) 66.61.81.46 66.61.118.206   ACCESS BLOCK 16 11/18/2003 14:52:45 Firewall default policy: ICMP (W to W/ZW, type:8, code:0) 66.61.123.234   66.61.118.206   ACCESS BLOCK 17 If this is common would someone please point me to a source to get more information. Thanks; Rthoreau at iwon dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:50:02PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: Â Looks like a ping (ICMP type 8). Â Where do you get port scanning from? FWIW, I think that blocking pings via a firewall isn't recommended, but not sure why. Jon wrote: It does not provide any kind of security or protection what-so-ever, whilst removing the proper way of other people / you from elsewhere determining if your connection is working ok. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ What you have all said still does not sync, when I look at the Notes provided in my log I can see what you mean it is a type 8 icmp code 0. Or whatever you say that means, but the destination is another DNS server. This is a line taken from my my log again. 11/18/2003 14:53:24 Firewall default policy: ICMP (W to W/ZW, type:8, code:0) 66.61.104.72 Â Â Â 66.61.118.206 Â Â ACCESS BLOCK 14 Ok like I mentioned in my first post if I do a Arin Whois on address 66.61.104.72 it tells me it is a DNS block. When I do a Arin Whois on the destination 66.61.118.206 it is another DNS block, both happen to belong to my ISP but in different cities. My cable modem action light is almost always solid orange, which tells me I have a busy link even if I am not using the net. So why am I getting pinged by a DNS server? Why are all the destinations reported by my router log points to another DNS server? Even if I forwarded the ping to a DMZ or a safe machine, it would not find the machine, since I do not have any access to that network block. My Debian uses DHCP to log into my ISP through my router, my windows machine's use static IP's setup to log into my router. My router is a Zyxel ZyWall 2xw with 802.11b for wireless clients. I do not run any web, ftp, servers, and at the moment I do not have any ports forwarded to any machine. Its like a default setup with a hardware firewall and no ports open to the outside world. All passwords are changed, and wep is changed at a reasonable time frame. Everything works great, except I keep getting those recorded in my log. I could understand if the destination was my router, or a machine under the subnet but it is not. Also the source machines seem to change unlike the destination machine. That is the reason I wanted to ask all of you, I really do not know why this is happening. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another notch on Debian's belt!
It looks like Linux Journal has announced their readers award, and Debian Gnu/Linux came out on top as favorite distro. http://pr.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=785mode=threadorder=0 I was expecting Mandrake or Gentoo or something. I know that this doesn't add up to a good sample group. It just shows that most people who visit their site make good decisions, or like OSS and Debian is more inline to FSF than a lot of other distro's. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: To be safe don't use shift key...
Erik Steffl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or else the riaa might sue you. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html quote from article: Computers running Linux and older versions of the Mac operating system are unable to run the software and are able to copy the disc freely, he said. ROFL erik -Roberto wrote Is that a license for us to copy something not worth copying? Yea it sounds like we might need a license to use the shift key. http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1065755223.html Also if your in the mood for a little shopping you could also buy this on Ebay. Its a bug for those who really, really want to know. Thats right you can bid on a real dead bug. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11994 I don't know if I should laugh, or cry, or laugh myself to crying. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atapi Zip detection woes!
From: Nathan J. Malmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Yesterday 08:22:35 pm Message was signed with unknown key. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. Problem: OpenPGP plug-in was not specified. Use the 'Settings-Configure KMail-Security' dialog to specify the plug-in or ask your system administrator to do that for you. On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 04:08:21PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: Hi, AFAIK, there are 2 versions of ZIP drives, either connected to the parallel port or to an SCSI controller. Which one do you have? You need the following modules (you may have to recompile your kernel): scsi_mod, sd_mod; parallel port version only: imm, ide-scsi; SCSI version: the correct driver for your SCSI card. If it is an ATAPI zip drive, I believe the correct module is the ide-floppy module. If parallel or SCSI, see above. I don't even remember what modules my USB zip drive used (before I had to put it down) but it was something like USB mass storage or the like. snip Nathan J. Malmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNUPG ID: 8A9B426E The attachment is a digital signature. Get my key at wwwkeys.pgp.net. I decided to reread the howto's and found this link in one of them! http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue28/lg_tips28.html#atapi It basically says that if you use the ide-floppy module with an Atapi drive everything will work except the eject of the disk. It also mentions to use the scsi module only. So I decided to burn the latest copy of knoppix and see if it detects my Zip drive, which it does in dmesg as a scsi attachment along with my other ide-scsi drives. I also did a lsmod to see just what modules it loaded, and my lists are very similar to the one that knoppix uses. But I do not get any indication in my dmesg, or kern.log when I reboot with all the modules removed, and only have the scsi pointing to a zip drive device. I am at a loss as to why I do not get a message in dmesg for my zip-drive. Knoppix also see's it as a Atapi 250 iomega zip drive so something is not right with my hardware detection. With all the custom kernels I compile I should at least have it show up in dmesg. So in a way it makes sense if the kernel does not see the drive no mater what modules I try to load at boot time then I am unable to use the drive. I know that I could just install knoppix to my harddrive and be done with it, but I should not have to due this as both are based on Debian. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atapi Zip detection woes!
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 01:10 am, rthoreau wrote: Dear: fellow Debian users; I am having a problem setting up my Atapi Iomega Zip drive under Debian. I have followed the Zip disk howto, and have done all its suggestions but I am still not able to have the device work. First off I have the Zip Drive attached to a Promise Ultra 133 ATA controller card (yes according to promise it is able to load devices other than hard drives). The Bios of the card does not load due to it being a Atapi device. The drive does work under windows attached to the controler card. I have installed the promise 20269 driver and my system does see the card per dmesg, which is in parts below. // this is my kernel parameters passed at boot time. Kernel command line: ro noapic root=/dev/hdd6 hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi // I also get this error message. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 // this is a section that lists my ide devices. ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: LITE-ON LTR-32123S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: JLMS DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive hdd: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 // this section reflects my controller card. PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0b.0 PDC20269: chipset revision 2 PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1410-0x1417, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1418-0x141f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio // what is kind of weird the last few lines of dmesg show this. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)] parport0: irq 7 detected imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) // of course imm is the module name I am trying to install. Now after I have run update-modules, and depmod which I beleive is the same thing. When I try to modprobe imm I get this. Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod imm failed If I try a insmod I get this: Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_Rsmp_dc843753 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_Rsmp_75a20b73 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_Rsmp_0cffd5b6 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_Rsmp_e2338255 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_Rsmp_b88956ae Raiz-MPX:/home/rcall# modprobe imm.o Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/modules.dep modprobe: Can't locate module imm.o Which I beleive is the real problem, after googling for the above error messages I came up empty. I used the Iomega new driver as my zip drive is only a couple of years old and is a atapi 250 iomega zip drive. I have also used modconf to install the module but did not pass any parameters, which I don't know any anyway, of course it failed. Below is what /proc/pci says. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 2). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18. I/O at 0x1438 [0x143f]. I/O at 0x1430 [0x1433]. I/O at 0x1428 [0x142f]. I/O at 0x1424 [0x1427]. I/O at 0x1410 [0x141f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe0003fff]. I have also looked at syslog which does not really show much, I have a LCDproc daemon running which defaults to syslog. So maybe some of you guys could shed some light on this subject. What parameters do I need to pass when using modconf? If you want all of Dmesg, or other log files I will be more than happy to supply them. Thanks; Rthoreau I have been scouring the net for more information and still came up empty. I even recompiled my kernel to use the ppa module but it gave me an error message to use Imm module. I rmmod most modules, but still fails to load the imm module. I passed the parameters listed in /proc/pci but it still fails. I guess the next step is too change the harddrives to the card and put the zip drive on the motherboard and see what that does. It could be a promise to imm problem, but I don't know for sure. I can not find any data that anyone has my exact
Atapi Zip detection woes!
Dear: fellow Debian users; I am having a problem setting up my Atapi Iomega Zip drive under Debian. I have followed the Zip disk howto, and have done all its suggestions but I am still not able to have the device work. First off I have the Zip Drive attached to a Promise Ultra 133 ATA controller card (yes according to promise it is able to load devices other than hard drives). The Bios of the card does not load due to it being a Atapi device. The drive does work under windows attached to the controler card. I have installed the promise 20269 driver and my system does see the card per dmesg, which is in parts below. // this is my kernel parameters passed at boot time. Kernel command line: ro noapic root=/dev/hdd6 hda=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi // I also get this error message. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 // this is a section that lists my ide devices. ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: LITE-ON LTR-32123S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdb: JLMS DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive hdd: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 // this section reflects my controller card. PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0b.0 PDC20269: chipset revision 2 PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1410-0x1417, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1418-0x141f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio // what is kind of weird the last few lines of dmesg show this. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)] parport0: irq 7 detected imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0) // of course imm is the module name I am trying to install. Now after I have run update-modules, and depmod which I beleive is the same thing. When I try to modprobe imm I get this. Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/modules.dep /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: insmod imm failed If I try a insmod I get this: Using /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_Rsmp_dc843753 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_Rsmp_75a20b73 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_Rsmp_0cffd5b6 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_Rsmp_e2338255 /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/kernel/drivers/scsi/imm.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_Rsmp_b88956ae Raiz-MPX:/home/rcall# modprobe imm.o Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.22-mpx/modules.dep modprobe: Can't locate module imm.o Which I beleive is the real problem, after googling for the above error messages I came up empty. I used the Iomega new driver as my zip drive is only a couple of years old and is a atapi 250 iomega zip drive. I have also used modconf to install the module but did not pass any parameters, which I don't know any anyway, of course it failed. Below is what /proc/pci says. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20269 (rev 2). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=18. I/O at 0x1438 [0x143f]. I/O at 0x1430 [0x1433]. I/O at 0x1428 [0x142f]. I/O at 0x1424 [0x1427]. I/O at 0x1410 [0x141f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe0003fff]. I have also looked at syslog which does not really show much, I have a LCDproc daemon running which defaults to syslog. So maybe some of you guys could shed some light on this subject. What parameters do I need to pass when using modconf? If you want all of Dmesg, or other log files I will be more than happy to supply them. Thanks; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:58:17 -0400 (EDT) From: JEWELLS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unidentified subject! Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0-400893236-1063893497=:64678 HELLO, HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME, UP TIL NOW I HAVE FOUND NO HELP AT ALL. MY PROBLEM, I WAS USING PAYPAL WITH MY VISA CARD NUMBER, BUT I HAD MY VISA PAYED OUT, AND FOR SOME REASON, THE CARD WAS CLOSED. SO I TRIED TO SIGN IN WITH MY MASTERCARD FOR PAYPAL PAYMENT. I MUST HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT BECAUSE IT COMES UP, THAT NUMBER ALREADY IN USE BY ANOTHER CUSTOMER. WHICH REALLY IS ME, BUT I DONT KNOW WHO I SIGHNED IN UNDER? PLEASE CAN YOU HELP? IF SO, I CAN ADD MY NAME AND CARD NUMBERS FOR YOU TO CROSS REFERENCE. THANK YOU JULIA NICE Dear: Julia or cuddly_kitten1956 By all means please add your name and card numbers for cross reference; a phone number won't hurt either. I can only wonder what in the world this got posted, guess I will whois her butt and send in a abuse report. Maybe next time she will post her vital info so it wil be worth my time, those new AMD 64 boards look good. Anyway I get a kick out of what some people post by mistake, or is their such a thing as posting a mistake to a Mailing list? It might be nice to see what some peoples thought process is. I guess I have wasted enough time and bandwidth already. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Debian search resource!
I thought I would pass on the good news; http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/09/18/158209.shtml?tid=52 http://www.rpmseek.com/index.html Can be used to search Debain packages so if your having problems finding a package with apt-cache search, you can give this one a shot. It's good to have more than one way to search for Debian packages. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to ntl:home UK with Debian
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 01:19:51 +0100 From: Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] A friend of mine is two network cables away from being able to install a firewall for his Windoze box. I shall be setting this up, using Debian of course. He has an ntl:home broadband (150kbps) connection via a cable modem whose external interface is via coax and connects to the PC either by ethernet or USB. The connection is configured under Windoze by means of an installation CD. Raw details on the nature of the connection are conspicuous by their absence, as is any mention of Linux. Poking through Networking in his Windoze Control Panel seems to reveal TCP/IP drivers for the cable modem and no mention of PPP, so it looks to me as if we're probably not using PPPoE. He's configured to Automatically assign IP address on connection - Windoze DHCP? All his DNS settings are Disabled, so I've no idea how his DNS works. I would be quite surprised if there isn't someone on this list whose Debian box is connected to ntl:home UK, and I would be most grateful if you could let me know what kind of connection we are dealing with here. Thanks, -- Pigeon snip I use a cable modem here in the states which came with a software CD which I did not even use. I just plugged the coax cable into the back of the cable modem, and then used an ethernet cable from that to my router wan port. I also use DHCP from my ISP which has their own assigned DNS addresses. Chances are if you go to the NTL home page it might tell you the DNS IP address to use. Since I have a router I just use what is auto detected in the config section. Also if you use a router you can assign static IP addresses to your computers on your network. Even though your ISP is DHCP but I am sure you are very aware of that. My ISP does not support Linux, but I really do not have any problems with it working straight out of the box. If it is a problem it usually is with my ISP, and involve storm damage, or server maintance. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: centrino battery life ?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:23:37 +0200 From: Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: centrino battery life ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hallo! I'm planning purchasing a centrino based laptop (Acer TM 290)... but I'd like to know if the 5 hours battery life Acer announces are real in a linux world... Has any of you got a centrino based laptop? If so, could you tell me how long does the battery last? Of course I know it depends on real work, but it is going to give me an idea ;) F.i. my HP Omnibook 6000 lasted 3 hours, and my actual laptop, a HP Omnibook XT1000 lasts about 2,5 hours... and I'm not compiling the kernel ;) Thanks!!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Spain AOL quini2k, ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Dear: Joan I just bought my wife a dell 600m with the Centrino chip, even though my wife does not use linux. From reading different reports on www.tuxmobile.com I would have to suggest that the battery life under Linux is very good. But Intel has not been very good in porting drivers over to Linux you might want to read up about it on http://www.tuxmobile.com/centrino.html. Another thing that might be of concern is that if you plan on using wireless is that those chips do not support anything other than 802.11b. If you have an 802.11a network you will have to have another card. Also do you plan on using a Distributed client? I hear that the Centrino is great at Seti as well as Folding at Home. I have RC5-72 on my wifes but Intel chips do not like the RC5 clients, I have a AMD xp 1700 which gets about a third better than my wifes 1.6 Gig Pentium M Centrino. But that is only on when my wife is plugged in, and the laptop is off most of the time. catch you later; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:46:34 +0200 From: Mariano Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder? Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I remember stumbling over an article some time ago. It was on, I believe, slashdot referring to an assembly project with the goal of turning a linux box with a tv card into some sophisticated vcr, with electronic programm guide and also the ability to stream videos and to record from the tv program. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find this article again and google didn't spit out anything I found useful (maybe the wrong keywords). Any ideas? Cheers, Mariano Mariano you might want to try out www.MythTV.org, also another good example would be the sourceforge project of Freevo. Mythtv.org has a lot of Debian developers so that might be a good place to look. If you do decide to build a box make sure your tv card supports Linux, also it wouldn't hurt to search out PVR on the net, and also DVR becasue they are called different things by some people. Anyway good hunting and good luck with your project. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:47:50 -0700 (PDT), Chris de Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Volunteers needed! http://debtoo.org Arnt Karlsen[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ..* This website sucks. Toss it in http://validator.w3.org/ ;-) Thats a great site Arnt I especially like how it tells you what line is wrong. I added it too my quick links, I will keep it handy for emailing web masters. I just have one question for all you folks who like to compile every single package, what are the benefits? It seems like this site and review had Debian on top, Debian was only compiled with I386. Please excuse the long url: http://articles.linmagau.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=227page=1 Also Isn't Gentoo starting to introduce binaries of packages to ease installation? I wonder how the package manager keeps up with the added stress of keeping track of source as well as binary applications? What happens if you have the same package from source and binary? It makes me think that they are adding more complexity to the system, I wonder how that effects stability? Seems like people like the idea of compiling their own packages more than the benefit it will create. I would like to see more reviews of source distro's vs binary distro's. I would also like to see a comparison between major packages, such as KDE, Gnome 2, XFree86, compiled from source vs binary. I also know that it might be pointless because someone could compile with all the speed flags while the binary they choose might be compiled for stability, and a wider user base. Such as was in the test mentioned above. I also would like to know how source distro's handle security updates? Do you have to recompile your application with the new security patches? Seems Admins wouldn't like this idea, especially if linux becomes more mainstream, more kiddie scripters take up attacking linux systems. Wasn't it mentioned that it would be almost impossible to have a complete source release of Debian? Seems like it would be a lot of work, might as well just stick to Gentoo since they have the source release pretty much covered. If someone can show a nice chart showing the speed increase compared to stability of Gentoo vs Debian, I would be more than happy to put Gentoo on a box. But I won't hold my breath! Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need feedback concerning PVR/DVR, Home threatre setup!
Major snip You can get micro-itx systems for $200 from idot.com, complete. I don't know how they related to PVR applications. All that is needed to have a PVR is a TV tuner card that is supported by Linux, which you then can save your shows to a hard drive. Most graphics cards nowadays have support for tv out if you buy the right card. In fact most cards which has tv out will ship with software for the tv watching by S-video connection. You can get basic black cases easily enough and it may not look any more out of place than having a DVD recorder next to a VCR. I was thinking about that, but I want to do a proof of concept with the available hardware to see if its worth investing in a pvr box. Only problem I might have is I might need to buy a cheapo sound card, cause my box does not have one. In fact I might do it over this long weekend shouldn't be two hard to accomplish. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need feedback concerning PVR/DVR, Home threatre setup!
Dear: Fellow Debian users; I would like to get some feedback from those of you who have setup a Linux pvr, or used linux in their home threatre system. I have been thinking about building a dedicated pvr box for this purpose. I have visted different sites, such as Mythtv.org and also been to Freevo and have a pretty good idea of what is needed. My biggest question is how does these projects work in the real world? I followed some of the discussions looked at the hardware database and all I see is good remarks by those posting. I have looked at some of the change logs, these projects seem to be getting really good traction. I was thinking about using a micro-atx case and board probably using an AMD chip, then getting the supported hardware for the pvr. I was thinking about going the VIA mini-itx way but the cases are almost as expensive as the motherboard chip combo. I also would like to have it crunch RC5-72 in its spare time. Since I know that Mythtv.org has a dedicated following of Debian developers, that is one reason I thought to ask here. Also as you all know Debian will be the Gnu/linux of choice. I have most of the hardware on site, and could put a midtower case and a WiFi card next to the TV but my wife wouldn't want a beige case sitting next to the TV, also WiFI will be slow to move files on the network. But once again the wife does not like cables, or anything extra by the TV that looks out of place. Rthoreau - dedicated Debian mailing list lurker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rms on debian
What gets me is what does the G stand for in GNU? I get the rest of the saying GNU is Not Unix, but it still does not come up with what the G stands for. At least AFAIK no one has ever come up with a good reason for the G other than GNU. Maybe someone can explain it to me who know these things better. I also thought it was a no/no to refer to a name within a name without a definition? How can I understand RMS when I don't even understand GNU? Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless recommendations
router will last years, same with a good switch. It might be a little more expensive to do it this way but at least you will keep your network running if your wireless setup does break. What I decided to do was order a Zyxel Zywall 2xw when it comes in I will take the Linksys back for a refund. I have read good reviews about this brand, and products which seem to be industrial quality, for reasonable prices. You can check out the webpage and a few other sites that cater to Wifi. http://store.zyxel.com/usshopcat/product_info.php?cPath=24products_id=133 http://wifinetnews.com/ Good luck with your decision; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux 2.6.0-test 3 released!
Just thought I would pass the good news to those few brave souls who are testing the new kernel. Seems a lot of bugs are fixed, you can find the sourse at the normal sources. Also slashdot.org has a good thread going. Also on a side note tell us how your testing of the new kernel is getting on, I would like to hear a little more than , its faster I would like to get some fine details. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alsa Install, VIA VT8235 and ASUS A7V8X-X
Daniel Reginald Hunt wrote: Installed the 2.4.21 kernel from kernel.org source used the The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel Picked up everything from this apt-get.org backport source. deb http://prometheus.psico.unimib.it/debian/ . However this source also included a kernel source deb that I did not use. Perhaps that was a big mistake. Things did not work right out of the box, using the http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php?page=via+VT8235 instructions so I did these instructions. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=VIAcard=chip=via8235module=via82xx Still no sound this is the on screen errors from running update-modules. Snip Sounds like you need to use the deb patch that you have, or you could just use Debian Source and use apt-get to get the proper source with the patches. Also did you check to make sure you have all the proper version's of the programs listed in the changes file? I have read that guide and I find that it is not as good as this one: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Also the Debian reference has some good information about the kernel, and also append-to-version flag. I would suggest you use that flag as it will help keep compiles straight. Concerning your Unresolved symbols it most likely you did not have the proper debian patch applied. I am sure some of the developers will reply with the inn's and out of why you need the patch. If your going to be using Debian source, change your etc/apt/source.lst to include testing so you can pull in the proper software. Anyway tell us how you like the Kt400 chipset under Debian, a buddy of mine is looking for a new motherboard. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Question about SCSI IMMED flag in cdrecord!
snip Greg took time out to write! I think what the cdrecord info means is do not put a hard drive Cd/burner on the same cable. In some notebooks there are only on IDE controller so this happens, though I haven't actually seen a noebook configure this way. AFAIk having a cd reader cd-recorder on the same bus and copying from one burning to the other can cause the issue you mention. If this is the case, DMA or scsi emulation need to be used. -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux When I set up my system I have a cdrw, and a dvdrom on the same channel. Then I have my harddrives on another channel. When I was burning the ISO it was from my harddrive to my cdrw drive, also it only locks up at the end of the burn when fixating. Also it leaves the question why does it not lock up in cdrdao? Not to mention that is why I thought drives had buffers, to protect from data error, when the drive receives too much data. When I use driveropts=burnfree, at the end after it finishes, when using the -immed flag it gives me that burnfree was not used. I thought that in order to use cdrdao, or cdrecord you had to have scsi emulation enabled. Maybe it was my fault because I didn't specify what devices I had, maybe you thought I had real scsi devices. Since this happens when fixating at the end of a burn, it seems that cdrecord could use a better method to finalize a disk. To me it looks like a problem with the code of cdrecord, since other programs, ie cdrdao, do not have this problem. It seems to be a case where a software problem is blamed on the hardware. I wonder how many bug reports where filled out before they came out with the -immed flag? Since the Man page states that it might not work even if someone uses the -immed flag. Does not figure verywell in my book, I understand that this program is one of the corner stone applications of linux, but maybe we need to question some of these programs to make sure they become even better. Thanks; Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question about SCSI IMMED flag in cdrecord!
Hi fellow Debian users. I have been pulling my hair out the last three days because every time I tried to burn an ISO in cdrecord it locked my system solid. Had to do a hard reset. After pouring over the Man page, searched the net I solved my problem. I wasn't using the -immed flag when burning with cdrecord, which for some reason would use all the system bus, therefore lock up the computer solid. According to the cdrecord man page: This can be useful on broken systems with ATAPI harddisk and CD/DVD writer on the same bus or with SCSI systems that don't use disconnect/reconnect. These systems will freeze while blanking or fixating a CD/DVD or while a DVD writer is filling up a session to the minimum amount (approx. 800 MB). snip A correct solution would be to set up a correct cabling but there seem to be notebooks around that have been set up the wrong way by the manufacturer. As it is impossible to fix this problem in notebooks, the -immed option has been added. Since I built this system from scratch I know that I used the proper cables. I am also using an SMP system so system resources like cpu cycles should not be a problem. I do have cdrw, dvd on the same IDE channel. This is a little unnerving because I thought I had a good system. But according to the page I have a broken system, or the wrong cables. I also use cdrdao to burn bin/cue files and I have never had this problem. Could this be a coding problem in Cdrecord, and they using the -immed flag is a way out of the problem? Or is it like they say a bus problem? I am using a current version out of unstable seems to be a problem with all versions though. If I do change motherboards, or my cabling will this solve my problem? Or do I have to wait until a future bus is implemented? Have any of you played arround with cabling, and motherboads to solve this problem? Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re Request for Hardware Compatability Resources!
ASUS A7S333-WA with a 1800+ V.S. ASUS A7V8X-X something faster. These motherboards alone are priced around $100.00 Canadian, my spending limit. How would you compare these two for use with Debian. I have searched the archives using google, with the keywords debian and model-#. The lucky board will be very Microsoft Windows(TM) free. It has been suggested that I look at the chip sets and see if they are supported in the Debian kernel. Where do I look to find that information? Would one grep in the kernel source? The Asus A7S333-WA has a SiS745 chiip set and the Asus A7V8x-x has a VIA KT400. As far as being supported in Debian you will have to compile a new kernel with the added support for those chipsets. I think the real question is does linux support these chipsets, From doing a quick search using google for SiS 745 + linux + kernel support, or the Via KT400, chipsets I have found that they do support these chipsets. Since I am not familiar with what all these boards support such as raid and other on board support I would say that some support, and maybe not all is supported under linux. I am curious as to why you have chosen these two chipsets, because you can get a VIA KT600 for about the same price as a VIA KT 400, also SiS also has a 746, and a 748 board out as well all for under 100 dollars Canadaian. Also Nvidia has a nice single channel memory board that supports FSB 400 speeds that is under your price list. Soltek sells it, seems to be a sweet spot for price and performance if you like the new CPU's. If you like Asus would you consider an Asrock based motherboard, which is a subsidiary of Asus to compete against ECS. Because Asrock has a SIS 748 board out now that is priced very well. If you don't mind a different brand, ECS has some good boards. I have a ECS K7S5A that is running 24/7 is 1 1/2 years old, crunching RC5-72 with a lowly Athlon XP 1700 CPU. Not to put you off Asus or anything, but I find that Asus puts a premium on their boards, you might be able to find the same chipset on an Aopen or MSI for less, sometimes for as much as 20 US dollars less. Anyway search the LKML for chipset support, and also google groups for the same. But VIA does seem to be on the ball for linux support of their chipsets. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)
ThinKer softly asked, So I am sitting here looking at the screen (cfdisk 2.11n) and it is asking me to select a drive to partition with the list of /dev/hda /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. Debian can be confusing if you really do not have much experience with partitioning. I would suggest you read the partitioning HOWTO on over at the www.tldp.org, this is The Linux Documentation Project which is a good place to find stuff if your confused. Basically what this screen is telling you is what hard drive do you want to install Debian on. You mentioned you had three harddrives, under Linux harddrives are under what is called devices. Or /dev when you see /dev/hda it is most likely your first hard drive on your Primary IDE channel. Something like this: Primary IDE Master: 4.1 GB --/dev/hda Primary IDE Slave: 1.2 GB---/dev/hdc Secondary IDE Slave: 4.1 GB---/dev/hdd This could also be partitions on a specific harddrive, say you split your Primary Master into 3 or 4 partitions then it would be numbered in somewhat like manner /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdc2 /dev/hdc3. So you need to choose what harddrive you want to install Debian on, also once you have selected your harddrive it will ask you if you want to partition it. You will get a lot of opinions on the best way to partition but to keep it simple you will probably want two partitions, a swap, and a root partition. So make sure you have a swap, and a root which for the time being will have usr, home, var, boot on the same partition as well as everything else. Then later you can add more partitions if you want too. Many recommend that swap should be about twice the size as your memory, so stick with that for the time being. If you have a problem you can use google and look up fdisk, cfdisk howtos which might give you some ideas. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Solved LCDproc client problem!
On Monday 21 July 2003 16:18, Rthoreau wrote: On Wednesday 16 July 2003 14:45, Rthoreau wrote: On Saturday 12 July 2003 23:24, you wrote: I have a CrystalFontz 20x4 lcd without keypad, that I am trying to get LCDproc setup on. I am using the current stable version .0.4.3. The LCDd is working ok, I have the server screen displaying on my lcd with the main LCDd heartbeat. It is just waiting for a client to connect, when I run lcdproc and give it parameters the last thing I see is the server screen saying 1 client is connected then everything goes black. If I ctrl c out of the terminal I started lcdproc I get back the server screen. Also if I start a text, or ncurses session along with the CFonts session in LCDd I get the text showing some system specs that I specified when starting lcdproc. But the lcd screen is still black. I searched lcdproc.org archives but no one has any answers or has given any good advice about how to solve the problem. The only thing people are suggesting is use the CVS stable which is .0.4.4. After looking for the change logs on CVS .0.4.4 it doesn't look like they fixed anything else .0.4.3 doesn't cover. In my user.log file I see this: Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() This is repeated about 20 times everytime I start the LCDd or lcdproc. I did read on one of the archives that this might be normal, but I really do not know. This is my LCDd.conf CFontz driver section: [CFontz] # CrystalFontz driver # Select the output device to use [/dev/lcd] Device=/dev/ttyS1 # Select the LCD type (size) [20x4] Size=20x4 # Set the initial contrast [140] Contrast=140 # The backlight brightness settings are retrieved # from the serversection now. And can therefore be # modified from the server menu now. # Set the communication speed [9600] # possible values: 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200 Speed=19200 # Set the firmware version (New means = 2.0) [no] # if set, set Speed to 19200 NewFirmware=yes # Reinitialize the LCD's BIOS [no] # normally you shouldn't need this Reboot=yes In the server section everything is default except the CFontz drive is selected. To me it seems everything is setup right because the LCDd is showing me the server screen. I think it is a lcdproc client problem. I am using an SMP machine here is my uname -a line. Linux Raiz-MPX 2.4.21 #1 SMP Thu Jul 3 15:33:22 CDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am using a custom kernel for 2.4.21 from what I have read lcdproc does not need any special kernel options for the CystralFontz lcd screen. Since I really do not want to use CVS .0.4.4 because it would have to be installed by hand. I really would like to stick with an apt-get source. If you need anything else let me know. Just wanted to add to what I have already done, I changed the contrast and played with the config files again but to no avail. I then used netstate -a |grep 13666 and watched the port 13666 conection, which took both connections. So I decided to download another LCDproc client and ended up with netlcdclient which gave me the same problem. I was not able to see anything on my display. After watching port 13666 with the netlcdclient I also seen it connect but I still do not have any thing other than a black display on on my lcd. Is their any other ideas you guys suggest. Just wanted to say I solved my problem, I was going through my system with aptitude and upgrading some programs, purging some others. Well after aptitude finished I changed to single user mode init 1, I know it was not needed, and tidied up a bit. Then I went to regular runlevel and decided to give lcdproc a shot again, this time it worked. Gave me all the goodness I was looking for it feels good to have everything working, my white on blue lcd looks great and I really like the options. I believe it was a lcdproc update instead of using version .0.4.3 I am now using version 0.4.3-13. So if you have any problems with the lcdproc try using a newer version. This saves me from following another mailing list, and trouble shooting my lcd, or being a BETA tester for lcdproc. Anyway got to love LCD's I would reccomend them to anyone, it gives vital information at a glance instead of going through different programs like top, others. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Update LCDproc client problem!
On Saturday 12 July 2003 23:24, you wrote: I have a CrystalFontz 20x4 lcd without keypad, that I am trying to get LCDproc setup on. I am using the current stable version .0.4.3. The LCDd is working ok, I have the server screen displaying on my lcd with the main LCDd heartbeat. It is just waiting for a client to connect, when I run lcdproc and give it parameters the last thing I see is the server screen saying 1 client is connected then everything goes black. If I ctrl c out of the terminal I started lcdproc I get back the server screen. Also if I start a text, or ncurses session along with the CFonts session in LCDd I get the text showing some system specs that I specified when starting lcdproc. But the lcd screen is still black. I searched lcdproc.org archives but no one has any answers or has given any good advice about how to solve the problem. The only thing people are suggesting is use the CVS stable which is .0.4.4. After looking for the change logs on CVS .0.4.4 it doesn't look like they fixed anything else .0.4.3 doesn't cover. In my user.log file I see this: Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() This is repeated about 20 times everytime I start the LCDd or lcdproc. I did read on one of the archives that this might be normal, but I really do not know. This is my LCDd.conf CFontz driver section: [CFontz] # CrystalFontz driver # Select the output device to use [/dev/lcd] Device=/dev/ttyS1 # Select the LCD type (size) [20x4] Size=20x4 # Set the initial contrast [140] Contrast=140 # The backlight brightness settings are retrieved # from the serversection now. And can therefore be # modified from the server menu now. # Set the communication speed [9600] # possible values: 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200 Speed=19200 # Set the firmware version (New means = 2.0) [no] # if set, set Speed to 19200 NewFirmware=yes # Reinitialize the LCD's BIOS [no] # normally you shouldn't need this Reboot=yes In the server section everything is default except the CFontz drive is selected. To me it seems everything is setup right because the LCDd is showing me the server screen. I think it is a lcdproc client problem. I am using an SMP machine here is my uname -a line. Linux Raiz-MPX 2.4.21 #1 SMP Thu Jul 3 15:33:22 CDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am using a custom kernel for 2.4.21 from what I have read lcdproc does not need any special kernel options for the CystralFontz lcd screen. Since I really do not want to use CVS .0.4.4 because it would have to be installed by hand. I really would like to stick with an apt-get source. If you need anything else let me know. Just wanted to add to what I have already done, I changed the contrast and played with the config files again but to no avail. I then used netstate -a |grep 13666 and watched the port 13666 conection, which took both connections. So I decided to download another LCDproc client and ended up with netlcdclient which gave me the same problem. I was not able to see anything on my display. After watching port 13666 with the netlcdclient I also seen it connect but I still do not have any thing other than a black display on on my lcd. Is their any other ideas you guys suggest. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Konqueror- is there a way to block popup ads?
I do not know what version of Konqueror you are using, but in version 3.1.2 you can find popup blocking under JavaScript at the very bottom. It does work well, I know its in a weird place but it does work. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LCDproc client problem!
I have a CrystalFontz 20x4 lcd without keypad, that I am trying to get LCDproc setup on. I am using the current stable version .0.4.3. The LCDd is working ok, I have the server screen displaying on my lcd with the main LCDd heartbeat. It is just waiting for a client to connect, when I run lcdproc and give it parameters the last thing I see is the server screen saying 1 client is connected then everything goes black. If I ctrl c out of the terminal I started lcdproc I get back the server screen. Also if I start a text, or ncurses session along with the CFonts session in LCDd I get the text showing some system specs that I specified when starting lcdproc. But the lcd screen is still black. I searched lcdproc.org archives but no one has any answers or has given any good advice about how to solve the problem. The only thing people are suggesting is use the CVS stable which is .0.4.4. After looking for the change logs on CVS .0.4.4 it doesn't look like they fixed anything else .0.4.3 doesn't cover. In my user.log file I see this: Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() Raiz-MPX LCDd: Screen-Client List has timeout--1 Raiz-MPX LCDd: drivers_getkey() This is repeated about 20 times everytime I start the LCDd or lcdproc. I did read on one of the archives that this might be normal, but I really do not know. This is my LCDd.conf CFontz driver section: [CFontz] # CrystalFontz driver # Select the output device to use [/dev/lcd] Device=/dev/ttyS1 # Select the LCD type (size) [20x4] Size=20x4 # Set the initial contrast [140] Contrast=140 # The backlight brightness settings are retrieved # from the serversection now. And can therefore be # modified from the server menu now. # Set the communication speed [9600] # possible values: 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200 Speed=19200 # Set the firmware version (New means = 2.0) [no] # if set, set Speed to 19200 NewFirmware=yes # Reinitialize the LCD's BIOS [no] # normally you shouldn't need this Reboot=yes In the server section everything is default except the CFontz drive is selected. To me it seems everything is setup right because the LCDd is showing me the server screen. I think it is a lcdproc client problem. I am using an SMP machine here is my uname -a line. Linux Raiz-MPX 2.4.21 #1 SMP Thu Jul 3 15:33:22 CDT 2003 i686 GNU/Linux I am using a custom kernel for 2.4.21 from what I have read lcdproc does not need any special kernel options for the CystralFontz lcd screen. Since I really do not want to use CVS .0.4.4 because it would have to be installed by hand. I really would like to stick with an apt-get source. If you need anything else let me know. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re : Atapi CD-Writer!
I'm running Debian 3.0, idepci kernel, my cd-writer is a (Goldstar) LG8080 IDE/ATAPI which seems to be pretty much plain-vanilla (i.e. it needs no special drivers), on /hdb. A couple of things you need to do first in order to do what you want you will need at least three new modules. You already have the first the scsi-ide, you also need sr_mod which goes along with the scsi-ide module. Also you will need the sg module. In the howto's the first couple of scripts check your system to see if you have these modules and devices for them. But since your running the ide kernel it should be taken care of. Try lsmod as root to see what modules are listed. Then try to modprobe those which you lack to see if the modules are built. If the modules you lack are not built, or do not exist you need to recompile the kernel for their support. If you do not want to recompile the kernel do some apt-cache search for kernel images, make sure you find one that has everything you need. You are correct in editing menu.lst, you need to pass the boot prams on boot up. such as you mentioned hdb=ide-scsi and such. Check your Dmesg after bootup to see what messages you get, you should get some init sections about scsi-ide in place. Then you need to change your etc/fstab to reflect the changes. Or you can change the symlink in devices to point to the correct scsi device. Which might be /dev/sr0 - /dev/scd0 or just edit /etc/fstab for /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/cdrom. Also if you do manage to get a cdrecord -scanbus listing, you can always use K3B kde burning app to help set up your device. Its setup will even change the /etc/fstab settings for you if you want. After you do that make sure you run update-modules, and add the modules to /etc/modules so they get loaded with the others. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Performance of a binaries vs source compliation!
I have been doing some research lately about the performance difference between binary packages, and those compiled from source. From what I have learned so far their really is not a good tool to verify the difference. I keep hearing about how important a source package is over a binary. Some Gentoo fan boys swear by it. But I want to know about facts. If I compile my kernel and use binary packages such as we do here with debian. How much of a performance hit will I take? Has anyone done a source vs binary package performance test comparison? How much faster would a XFree86 source compiled be against a binary of the same package under similar compile flags? Could the average user tell the difference? How stable would the combination be? I know that their is always a trade off, between speed and stability, a lot of people can compile with speed optimizations with less stable results. The Gentoo forums are full of discussions of unstable choices used in compilation. What I would really like to see is a comparison of basic packages done with speed and stability as a base to see what holds up. Is their such a beast, or has someone done some basic research to see what the difference is? I would like to see a basic Debian package vs Gentoo Emerge package on the same system comparision. Anyway hope I haven't gone two much off topic, just curious. Rthoreau I like top posting, that is what headers are for! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does anyone use an All-in_One Printer!
I have an HP PSC500 which is old, maybe five years old and works great. HP tries to make their printer Linux compatable. Before you buy you might want to check out the Sane Home page to see if your model is supported. Also make sure that all the functions you need will work under linux. Some Fax drivers are spotty, that is if your getting an all in one with fax support. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does anyone use an All-in-One Printer!
In regards to the OT topic of faxing over a broad band connection, the answer would be is you don't need a dedicated fax machine to fax messages over the internet. I also think that many All-in-ones can recieve a fax, as a standalone fax machine without needing a computer. here is a quick link to a internet fax FAQ. www.savetz.com/fax As regarding the All-in-ones just make sure the features you need are available in linux. Also HP does a good job of linux support. I have an old PSC500 that works great. You might want to check out the sane page for scanner linux support, and other support sites that cater to linux device support. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re:Woody/SMP how to set up!
Your going to need a linux development kernel in the 2.5.x series to have hyperthreading enabled for an SMP machine. I assume you have two Xeon CPU's which you want to have Hyperthreading enabled? Or do you have a single P4 which supports Hyperthreading? Woody does support smp, so if you can live without Hyperthreading you will still have all the dual cpu goodness. That is if you are really running an smp machine. You might want to search some newsgroups, and forums, on the benefit of hyperthreading. Some tasks are faster, some are slower but under linux the information is more rare because most people use windows for the reviews. use googles linux page for a start. www.google.com/linux it gives you a little tux and is specific to linux. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please help me to edit Xconfig!
I have a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 32mb card that is also a little picky. If you do not have dual monitors I would suggest using debconf to set up the Xconfig file. One thing to remember about this card is it hates the frame buffer, so make sure when you run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 make sure you say no to frame buffer. Also make sure you edit out dri Module, GLcore, also change your driver to Nvidia instead ov NV. Also make sure you follow the README in the nvidia section on what to leave out. Because I can't remember for sure but I know that you need to not include the DRI section. If you can not unset the framebuffer you might need to rerun the base config setup again. This should get you up and running, if not give google groups a try, it has a lot of information about this. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get /sorces.list!
After running into this problem, and doing a quick search a debian guru once wisely said that the problem is with the CACHE. The easy method is to make sure you have the file /etc/apt/apt.conf in that file you will need to put this: APT::Cache-Limit 12453561; As far as I have found no one really can determine what number exactly the cache limit needs to be. What I did was add more to that limit, mine says 18951830 works fine for me. But I have a 1.9 gig swap file, and 768 MB of RAM. I am sure someone has done more research on this, but I haven't dug through the net to find it. Rthoreau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
