Re: Icedove calendar not syncing to google calendar

[Tom Ashley]

On 01/08/2017 03:59 AM, didier gaumet wrote:

Hello, I do not know for Stretch and Sid, but the Jessie version of the
calendar-google-provider package is not the last stable from upstream.
In my case, deinstalling the debian package and installing the upstream
thunderbird extension solves the problem. YMMV...



If you haven't already tried it, you may want to install the "Provider 
for Google Calendar" extension from Icedove Tools->Add-ons->Extensions.  
This worked for me to solve a similar problem.


HTH

Tom Ashley

Re: Adobe Flash

[Tom Ashley]

On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:


On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:

Hi,

Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't
subscribe the debian-user list.)

To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install
youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl

Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel,

That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed every
new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a bunch of
them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04  on it but there is
nothing for it to download.  So quit advertising that it works and just
let flash die the horrible security hole ridden death it deserves.


or watch with
Google Chrome.

Can you stop it from calling home?  Tcpdump and wireshark are quite
educational tools.


I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those
do.  I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most
days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if there
has been a new newsflash on an important story.  Think of the
disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time!

So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click thru 2
or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which it promises
to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet.


Cheers, Gene Heskett 


The package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash works very well for 
me on iceweasel.


Tom Ashley

Re: Adobe Flash

[Tom Ashley]

On 11/18/2015 06:55 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote:


On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote:

Hi,

Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't
subscribe the debian-user list.)

To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install
youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl

Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel,

That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed
every new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a
bunch of them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04  on it
but there is nothing for it to download.  So quit advertising that
it works and just let flash die the horrible security hole ridden
death it deserves.


or watch with
Google Chrome.

Can you stop it from calling home?  Tcpdump and wireshark are quite
educational tools.


I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those
do.  I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most
days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if
there has been a new newsflash on an important story.  Think of the
disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time!

So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click
thru 2 or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which
it promises to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet.




Cheers, Gene Heskett

The package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash works very well for
me on iceweasel.

Tom Ashley

And what repo has that?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett

$ apt-cache policy browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash:
  Installed: 0.3.2-1+b1
  Candidate: 0.3.2-1+b1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3.2-1+b1 0
900 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/contrib amd64 Packages
600 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/contrib amd64 Packages

Tom Ashley

Re: Nova Desktop

[Tom Ashley]

On 06/18/2015 07:55 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Thursday 18 June 2015 11:37:18 rob wrote:

On 18/06/15 10:43, Lisi Reisz wrote:

On Thursday 18 June 2015 00:04:12 Jose Martinez wrote:

Anyone know anything about the Nova Desktop application.  I have it
installed and set it up, but it doesn't seem to affect my desktop
background.  I have several .jpg images that I had wanted to cycle
through the desktop background, and it seemed that Nova was just the
ticket

I have found references to Android and references to Ubuntu.  Are you
sure that it works on Debian?

Which DE are you trying to use it on and why is the DE's own
background manager not adequate?

Lisi

Debian package desktopnova

Thanks, Rob.  But:

Which DE are you (the OP) trying to use it on and why is the DE's own
background manager not adequate?

Lisi


I have no experience with the package but noticed the following in the 
description supplied by aptitude: There is at least one module needed. 
Without a module this package will not work as expected! See packages  
desktopnova-module-*. 


HTH,

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Gnome 3.14 keyboard shortcut question

[Tom Ashley]

Greetings,

System: up to date Debian Testing, 64 bit, Gnome 3.14

I'm trying Gnome again after several years of using Fluxbox and need
some help with creating a custom keyboard shortcut.  I'm using 8
workspaces and successfully created keyboard shortcuts for workspaces
1-4 using Settings- Keyboard-Shortcuts.  Shortcuts for workspaces
5-8 require custom shortcuts.  What is the command to use in creating
these?  I've had no luck finding the answer in the Gnome Help Guides,
by using Google search, or by posting to the Gnome mailing list.  

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Gnome 3.14 keyboard shortcut question (Clarification)

[Tom Ashley]

Greetings,

This is to clarify my original request for help.  The shortcuts I'm
trying to make are to switch to workspaces 5-8.  Sorry for the
confusion.

System: up to date
Debian Testing, 64 bit, Gnome 3.14

I'm trying Gnome again after several years of using Fluxbox and need
some help with creating a custom keyboard shortcut.  I'm using 8
workspaces and successfully created keyboard shortcuts for
switching to workspaces 1-4 using Settings- Keyboard-Shortcuts.
Shortcuts for switching to workspaces 5-8 require custom shortcuts.
What is the command to use in creating these?  I've had no luck finding
the answer in the Gnome Help Guides, by using Google search, or by
posting to the Gnome mailing list.  

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Re: Gnome 3.14 keyboard shortcut question--Solved

[Tom Ashley]

Thanks much.

Tom
On Sep 29, 2014 8:46 AM, Michael Ott mich...@king-coder.de wrote:

 Hi Tom!

  System: up to date Debian Testing, 64 bit, Gnome 3.14
 
  I'm trying Gnome again after several years of using Fluxbox and need
  some help with creating a custom keyboard shortcut.  I'm using 8
  workspaces and successfully created keyboard shortcuts for workspaces
  1-4 using Settings- Keyboard-Shortcuts.  Shortcuts for workspaces
  5-8 require custom shortcuts.  What is the command to use in creating
  these?  I've had no luck finding the answer in the Gnome Help Guides,
  by using Google search, or by posting to the Gnome mailing list.
 
  Thanks in advance for any help.
 You can use the dconf-editor to change this setting.
 Path: org - gnome - desktop - wm - keybindings

 CU

   Michael Ott

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Re: [SOLVED!! Hopefully] Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...REVISITED

[Tom Ashley]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:43:31 +0900
Man_Without_Clue love.cha...@gmail.com wrote:


 Now, it Works!!!
 
 Actually, I have done this before.
 I don't know why it worked now, did not before
 
 Thank you!
 Thank you Thank you!
 
 
 

You're welcome.


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Re: Skype - no microphone input sound...REVISITED

[Tom Ashley]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:24:06 -0400
Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote:

 On 7/16/2014 8:41 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote:
  
  On 07/15/2014 11:34 PM, Curt wrote:
  On 2014-07-15, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote:
  How about this:  After moving your own ~/.Skype/ somewhere
  temporarily, copy your wife's ~/.Skype/ to your machine.
  I thought it was the same machine, different accounts (marital
  bliss).
 
 
  Right.
  Same machine, same debian. Different user's account.
  I don't know where should I be looking into...
  
  
 
 You're learning - when a woman is around, a man can't get a word in
 edgewise :)
 
 Jerry
 
 

I haven't been following the conversation too closely, so please
forgive me if this has already been tried and/or dismissed.

I had the same problem on my wife's PC and spent 2-3 hours this
afternoon trying to resolve it.  The following link finally worked for
me:
http://borninbronx.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/skype-4-and-pulseaudio-microphone-not-working-speaker-output-is-sent-back-instead/
 .

Hope this helps.

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Re: No sound with new install

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:57:57 +0100
Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk wrote:

 On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
  This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a
  fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new
  board?
 
 Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be.
 
  Please also add output of:
 
 'aplay -l' output:
  List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC887-VD Analog [ALC887-VD
 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC887-VD Digital [ALC887-VD
 Digital] Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 
 'aplay -L' output:
 null
 Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
 default:CARD=PCH
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 Default Audio Device
 front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 Front speakers
 surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
 surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
 surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
 surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
 surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Analog
 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer
 speakers iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
 HDA Intel PCH, ALC887-VD Digital
 IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
 
 'cat /proc/asound/cards' output:
  0 [PCH]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
   HDA Intel PCH at 0xf7d0 irq 41
 
 

I spent the last 2 days trying to resolve this same issue on a new
motherboard.  The alternative method from http://wiki.debian.org/ALSA
worked for me.

HTH

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Re: take screen shot error

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:31:32 -0500
Tony Baldwin tonybald...@gmx.com wrote:

 You won't have one unless you use openbox or LXDE.
 Somewhere in your XFCE prefs or configs there is a graphical program
 that will allow you to add keybindings.
 I do not recall where it is.  I have played with XFCE, but have never
 used it regularly.

 ./tony
 
 

The graphical on my system is located at
ApplicationsMenu-Settings-Keyboard-ApplicationsShortcuts.  There
also is a config file at
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts.xml
that may be useful.

HTH

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Re: gnome 3 refugee: obstructive panel in xfce

[Tom Ashley]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:52:46 + (UTC)
Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote:

 
 
 The screen savers are pretty, but would it be possible to have them
 just go blank and save power when the laptop in not plugged in?

Settings-Screensaver
Change mode to Blank Screen Only 

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Re: Screenshots on Fluxbox?

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 14:26:18 +0300
Rares Aioanei rares.aioa...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 Hi all, 
 
 Don't know if this is a bug or PEBKAC or what is the package to
 report bugs against. The idea is xfce4-screenshooter and
 gnome-screenshot-tool segfault on Fluxbox (testing/unstable machine,
 up-to-date), while working ok on LXDE. Does anyone have some
 experience or insight on this?
 
 Thanks in advance, 

Hi,

I'm running Fluxbox without a dm on an up-to-date AMD64
testing/unstable box and use xfce4-screenshooter without any problems.
My ~/.fluxbox/keys entry is
Print :ExecCommand /usr/bin/xfce4-screenshooter.

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Re: XFCE and debian menu?

[Tom Ashley]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:31:44 -0800
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote:

 I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox, and I
 just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu.  Does
 anybody know how to add that menu into the XFCE menu?  I did some web
 searching and found some hints that it can be done, but nothing about
 how to do it.
 
 Thanks for any ideas.

This worked for me: add new menu applet to panel and point it
to /var/lib/menu-xdg/menus/debian-menu.menu, change the name and icon.

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Re: postfix dovecot- IMAP/Maildir format not working

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:00:45 -0500
Paul Cartwright deb...@pcartwright.com wrote:

 On 11/08/2010 02:49 AM, Camaleón wrote: pre wrap=
  Maybe because fetchyahoo is by-passing Postfix (Procmail) and
  directly storing e-mails under the specified location.
 could very well be, I didn't read any of the fetchyahoo code, just the
 config file.
 
 
  Another question... why not using Fetchmail for Yahoo account? :-?
 
 that IS the reason I use fetchyahoo, because without it, you can't get
 yahoo via POP3 without a paid account, you only get the web access.
 

Actually you can get yahoo via POP3 or IMAP without a paid account by
designating the Yahoo! Asia server in account settings for regional
site.  There is no charge for the service in Asia.

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Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

[Tom Ashley]

 On 08/04/2010 02:13 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
  Hi;
  I could use some suggestions. I seem to collect a lot of snippets of
  information scribbled on pieces of paper, old napkins, etc.
  Examples are notes on harware, sources for stuff, notes on possible
  projects, book that I might want to buy in the future and on and
  on. This has generated numerous scraps of paper and sticky notes
  with the result that chaos reigns. I recently tried knotes which
  helped a lot but didn't cover tasks. I have now switched to
  Kontact. This takes care of scheduling things, projects and short
  term notes. I still am not sure what to do about those notes that
  could be around for a long time like maybe a note on the proton
  boron fusion reaction energy . I may never use it but would like
  to be able to find the information if need be. I guess I need a
  repository for disparate information (how's that for fuzzy). I hope
  this makes some sense.
 
  Any suggestions.

I find Gnote useful for keeping notes and use Orage for scheduling tasks/events.


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Re: Resources for learning Linux

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:30:27 +0200
James Stuckey jhstuc...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,
 
 I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm
 no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little
 reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of
 the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the
 things that might be taught in a university-linux/UNIX course. I'm
 sure that there is a lot of stuff that I've missed by just going at
 it with trial and error. Perhaps there are some online courses posted
 to youtube, or a few books that someone might like to recommend? I
 would be interested to know what types of things one must learn to
 get linux-certification (I presume there is such a thing).
 
 Regards,
 James

I found rutebook beneficial.  It is available in the debian
repositories as well as online.

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Re: GNOME settings on start up

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 16:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
 On 2009-08-17 15:28, AG wrote:
 [snip]
  
  Considered doing that, but without some switch magik, apt wants to 
  remove the whole kit and kaboodle of GNOME, which is not what I wanted.
  
  So, although the most obvious solution, it won't work.
 
 That's odd...
 
 # apt-get -s purge gnome-screensaver
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following packages were automatically installed and are no 
 longer required:
rss-glx
 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-screensaver*
 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 151 not upgraded.
 Purg gnome-screensaver [2.26.1-2]
 
 
 But then, I don't have gdm or the meta-packages gnome and 
 gnome-desktop-environment installed, either.
 
 -- 
 Featuring GRATUITOUS ALIEN NUDITY
 
 

Based on my experiences with this, gnome-desktop-environment requires
gnome-screensaver; however, you can remove remove the DE and
gnome-screensaver and continue to use gnome.  Simply reinstall any
desired packages that are removed with the DE.

HTH

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Re: qemu slowness

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 22:48 -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote:
 hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix watch instantly videos.
 it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos.
 said program is only supported under the w and mac os.
 
 so i figured this would be a nice time to setup a virtual machine. so
 ive been poking around with qemu. so far i have a windows machine
 running but its is massively slow. loading up an IE window takes for
 ever. i know there is some crazy emulation voodoo going on but is
 there anything i can do to speed it up?
 
 also it has not audio!
 
 step by step that i used to setup the machine
 http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Running_Microsoft_Windows_inside_Debian_qemu
 
 

http://wiki.debian.org/QEMU and man qemu may help.

Good luck,

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Re: Debian menu with metacity

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:56 +0200, Gilles Filippini wrote:
 Hi,
 
 [please CC me in your reply since I'm not subscribed to the list. tia]
 
 I can't find a way to have the Debian menu in metacity.
 My box is a squeeze mostly up to date with a default gnome desktop config.
 Of course, I have the package menu installed.
 And I've ran update-menus several times. But still the Debian menu
 doesn't appear into the main gnome menu.
 
 Google didn't help me on that topic.
 
 Thanks in advance for any tip!
 
 _Gilles.
 
 

The following steps worked for me:

1. Select Edit Menus by either right clicking the Main Menu icon on
the tool bar or by going to the Main Menu link in the  Control Center.

2. Highlight Applications, find Debian under the Items column and enter
tic mark.

HTH

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Re: new ekiga: taking too much cpu

[Tom Ashley]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 22:58 -0400, H.S. wrote:
 Hello,
 
 After a recent upgrade we got new Ekiga in Testing (Ekiga
 3.2.1~git20090515.9d0263-1). Wonderful, since the last version of
 segfaulting (due to ptlib I think). But now this new version is keeping
 the CPU busy and the audio is broken. It used to work wonderfully in the
 earlier version.
 

I also had trouble with the audio after the upgrade and discovered that
the audio had been set to silent in the configuration.  Rerunning the
config tool corrected the problem.

HTH

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Re: DVD Region Codes and Debian multimedia software

[Tom Ashley]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 13:15 -0400, Frank wrote:
 On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
  Bret Busby:
   
   Apparently, multimedia applications, such as Totem MPlayer, in Debian  
   can play movies that are recorded on DVD's.
   
   Are these movie players able to read and play DVD's from any and all  
   Region Codes, or, are they limited to particular region codes?
  
  The region code is not tied to software, but to your hardware. DVD
  players (either stand-alone or for computers) have one code set when
  leaving the factory and change it when you insert a DVD with another
  region code. The stupidity is that they (generally) only allow a few of
  these changes (say, five). After that, they refuse to play anything else
  than the region code they switched to the last time.
  
  J.
 
   Googling shows there are firmware hacks available to allow unlimited
 changes on **certain** DVD playersbut I doubt he wants to get into
 this :)
 
 
 
I've had good luck in setting the player code to play DVDs from All
Regions on a JVC player with info from this site:
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks .

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Unable to mount NFS shares

[Tom Ashley]

Hi,

I have a new problem that surfaced after my ISP corrected a connection
problem and apparently changed the assigned IP addresses for each box on
my home network.  I corrected the IP addresses and succeeded in
reestablishing ssh, remote desktop, remote printer connections for all
machines and nfs shares on all machines but one; I am unable to mount
nfs shares on my Ubuntu 8.10 box.

Home Network:

Debian Sid, 686 desktop, wired connection
Ubuntu 8.10, 686 desktop, wireless connection
Debian 5.0, laptop, wireless connection

Each is configured as both nfs server and client.

The following files appear to be correct for all:

/etc/hosts
/etc/export
/etc/fstab

Again, I am unable to mount the shares from the Debian Sid box on the
Ubuntu box.  The process simply hangs without any output, connection or
termination (until I manually terminate the action).  I cannot find any
problems in the log files.  Strace output is at the end of this message.
I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks,

Tom Ashley

lo...@loren-desktop:~$ sudo strace mount -t nfs tom:/home /mnt/tom 
execve(/bin/mount, [mount, -t, nfs, tom:/home, /mnt/tom],
[/* 16 vars */]) = 0
brk(0)  = 0x9194000
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7fa5000
access(/etc/ld.so.preload, R_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY)  = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=55630, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 55630, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f97000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/lib/libselinux.so.1, O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0pA\0\000...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=99972, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 105276, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xb7f7d000
mmap2(0xb7f95000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x17) = 0xb7f95000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/lib/libsepol.so.1, O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P6\0\000...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=214716, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 219072, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xb7f47000
mmap2(0xb7f7b000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x33) = 0xb7f7b000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340g\1...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1425800, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7f46000
mmap2(NULL, 1431152, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xb7de8000
mmap2(0xb7f4, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x158) = 0xb7f4
mmap2(0xb7f43000, 9840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f43000
close(3)= 0
access(/etc/ld.so.nohwcap, F_OK)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 \n\0\000...,
512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9676, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 12408, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0)
= 0xb7de4000
mmap2(0xb7de6000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|
MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xb7de6000
close(3)= 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7de3000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 - 6, base_addr:0xb7de3700,
limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0,
limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb7de6000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
mprotect(0xb7f4, 8192, PROT_READ)   = 0
mprotect(0xb7f7b000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
mprotect(0xb7f95000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
mprotect(0x805e000, 4096, PROT_READ)= 0
mprotect(0xb7fc2000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
munmap(0xb7f97000, 55630)   = 0
brk(0)  = 0x9194000
brk(0x91b5000)  = 0x91b5000
open(/etc/selinux/config, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
statfs64(/selinux, 84, 0xbfec36f0)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/proc/mounts, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7fa4000
read(3, rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0\nnone /sys..., 1024) = 1024
read(3, untaddr

Re: Software for creating web page

[Tom Ashley]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:56 -0800, Cahaya Lilin wrote:
 Hello all..
  
 is there any one know what is a good software for creating web in
 linux like dreamweaver in windows ??
  
 Thanx..

I've never used them but
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalent_to_Windows_software
 lists the following as similar linux software: OOWeb, NVU, KompoZer (fork of 
NVU 1.0), Quanta Plus, Mozilla, Screem, Bluefish, Amaya.

Good luck.

Tom Ashley



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Re: gnome-screensaver slideshow

[Tom Ashley]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 00:06 -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
 Yuwen Dai wrote:
  Dear all,
  
  I'd like to slideshow some pictures when gnome-screensaver is invoked.  
  There is a picture fold in gnome-screen-preferences.  However, there' 
  no settings for this fold.  Do you know where the picture fold is?
  
  I use Debian etch, gnome 2.14.3.
  
  Best regards,
  Yuwen
 
 
 This doesn't directly answer your question, but I am not at a Debian 
 workstation at the moment to check my knowledge.  Consider updating 
 GNOME a bit after the release of Lenny.  2.20 and 2.22 will help a bit.
 
 http://www.gnome.org/
 
 Mark Allums
 
 

The Pictures Folder on gnome 2.22 refers
to /home/username/Pictures/; I assume the location is the same for the
version you're using.  Either move or link the images you want to use in
the screeensaver to that folder.

HTH.

Tom Ashley


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Re: How do I make my normal account (not root) have administrative (root) privileges?

[Tom Ashley]

 Brendan West wrote:
  I am using gnome.  The problem I am having with user privileges,
  though, is only on the gui.  I can easily use the root privileges on
  the terminal.  I am trying to use AVG 7.5, but it says that I don't
  have the privileges to access the executable.


Perhaps gksu will accomplish what you want.

Regards,

Tom Ashley


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Confusion about legality of Linux

[Tom Ashley]

This link was recently posted to the Ubuntu Users list and I thought you
might find it worth reading. 

http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/linux-stop-holding-our-kids-back.html

Tom Ashley


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Re: [FIXED] Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

[Tom Ashley]

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 20:29 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
 On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Nick Lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Kelly Clowers wrote:
 
  On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  wrote:
 
  -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
  Hash: SHA1
 
  On 07/20/08 14:01, Kelly Clowers wrote:
  [snip]
 
  Personally, I prefer Adobe's Flash 10 beta. It seems to have smoother
  playback and some report lower cpu usage.
 
  How stable is it?
 
 
  I have been running it for at least a month with fairly high usage
  (sites that use
  flash for UI, youtube, nico nico douga, other video sites), and I
  haven't had any
  crashes, freezes or other problems with it. This is with SeaMonkey 2.0
  alpha
  (Gecko 1.9) and PulseAudio on Sid. Of course, your results may vary ;-)
 
  I just installed it on Sid's Iceweasel. But still no luck watching (you also
  need user agent plugin for IE spoofing) any online show at ABC's site:
  http://abc.go.com/player/
 
  Still complains about needing Flash 8!
 
 Oh yeah, I encountered that on one site. I think they must be testing
 the first digit or something. It wasn't a site I normally used, so I had
 forgotten about it.
 
 
 Cheers,
 Kelly Clowers
 
 
I was having the same problem (demand for flash 8) but am now able to
access the videos after installing flashplayer-mozilla and
mozilla-flash-player7-binary.

Tom Ashley


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Re: No sound with video--Solved

[Tom Ashley]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 10:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 16:32:46 -0500, Tom Ashley wrote:

  Hi John,
  
  Thanks for the response.  I can play the mp3s withouth any problem.  My
  problem appears to be limited to flash audio.
 
 The default configuration for iceweasel is ICEWEASEL_DSP=none which
 means it will try to play audio by accessing the ALSA /dev/snd/* devices
 directly. (You can change this setting in /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc, as
 Andrei has already pointed out.)
 

 If I run iceweasel in this default configuration and play a youtube
 video (with sound, of course) then I see this:
 
 $ lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp'
 npviewer. 9886  florian  mem  CHR 116,16  7092 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
 npviewer. 9886  florian  63r  CHR 116,33  7000 /dev/snd/timer
 npviewer. 9886  florian  64u  CHR 116,16  7092 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
 
 (I edited the output above to trim excessive whitespace.)
 
 This means that iceweasel's flash plugin cannot play sound if some other
 process is blocking these devices. If you are using KDE or Gnome then
 the devices are probably under the control of a sound daemon (artsd or
 esd, respectively). Run the lsof -w | egrep 'snd|dsp' command before
 you start iceweasel to see which process is blocking the device(s). The
 first quick test is to kill the blocking process and check if this
 allows iceweasel to play sound in flash movies.
 
 If a sound daemon is indeed responsible for locking the devices then you
 can either tell it to share the device (this is possible in KDE, I don't
 know about Gnome's esd) or you can try to configure iceweasel for
 playing audio via the sound daemon by putting one of these into
 /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc:
 
 ICEWEASEL_DSP=artsdsp  # for KDE's artsd
 
 or
 
 ICEWEASEL_DSP=esddsp  # for Gnome's esd
 
 Iceweasel has to be restarted after changing the settings. I took these
 options from man iceweasel but I never tried them myself. (I told my
 artsd not to hog the ALSA devices and this works fine with iceweasel's
 default DSP=none setting.)
 
 -- 
 Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
   Florian   |
 
Hi Florian,

Using the clues from your reference to /dev/snd, I discovered I had
no /dev/snd/ and esd was not being loaded.  Unable to determine why by
Googling, I decided to remove all ALSA and ESD related packages and to
reinstall.  In doing so, /dev/snd/ was created and ESD is now active.

Thanks to all for your patience and help.

Tom





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Re: No sound with flash videos iceweasel [was: Re: No sound with video]

[Tom Ashley]

Sorry--I failed to respond to list.  Tom

 Forwarded Message 
 From: Tom Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: No sound with flash videos  iceweasel [was: Re: No sound
 with video]
 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:05:07 -0500
 
 On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 17:55 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote:
  On 11/15/2007 04:29 PM, Tom Ashley wrote:
  
   Hi Ralph,
   
   Thanks for the response.  I had seen your posts previously and tried the
   proposed solutions but none worked.  Nevertheless, I reveiwed them again
   just to be sure--still no luck.
  
  But you get Credits for having done the research!
  
   Which players work/don't work?  Sound with flash running thru a browser
   is different from sound from an mpeg4 file playing on mplayer.
  
   Totem, xmms, soundjuicer, rythmbox all work without any problems.
   
  
   My problem appears to be limited to the audio portion of flash videos; I
   use Iceweasel with the flash plugin.
  
  OK, problem isolated.  Flash does not play well with others, the player
  grabs ALSA, so maybe something is using it when flash tries to play
  audio.  (For me with my old pnp sound card, the dmix plugin was the answer.)
  
  Just a thought, my cat /dev/sndstat  output includes:
  Installed drivers:
  Type 10: ALSA emulation
  
  Does yours?
  
 Mine shows:
 
 $ cat /dev/sndstat
 Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.12rc1 emulation code)
 Kernel: Linux tomshome 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Oct 3 00:12:50 UTC 2007
 i686
 Config options: 0
 
 Installed drivers:
 Type 10: ALSA emulation
 
 Card config:
 C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 (model 55) at 0xd000, irq 5
 MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
 
 Audio devices:
 0: C-Media PCI DAC/ADC (DUPLEX)
 
 Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
 
 Midi devices:
 1: MPU-401 UART MIDI
 
 Timers:
 7: system timer
 
 Mixers:
 0: CMedia PCI
 1: mixer10
 
  There is a command something like lsof /dev/dsp, but not that, to
  report what's using the sound driver or device.  Uh.. time to turn it
  over to the experts.
  
 Thanks for your help. Perhaps others may have ideas.


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Re: No sound with video

[Tom Ashley]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 05:34 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:28:07PM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote:
  On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: 
   On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote:
I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with
video.  I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound
with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.).  I've searched the list
archives and Google for the past 3 days finding similar problems but
none of the solutions help in my situation.
   
   If sound works with other stuff then it is an application problem. How 
   do you open these streams?
  
  I open the videos with the Iceweasel Flash plugin.
 
 Check /etc/iceweasel/iceweaselrc On my etch install it's set to 'none'
 Try 'auto' or 'alsa' instead.

I tried each of the options.  Neither made worked.

Thanks

Tom


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No sound with video

[Tom Ashley]

I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with
video.  I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound
with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.).  I've searched the list
archives and Google for the past 3 days finding similar problems but
none of the solutions help in my situation.

I'm running Debian Etch on a P4 with 2GB RAM; sound card is C-Media
Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10).

cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [CMI8738MC6 ]: CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6
  C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 (model 55) at 0xd000, irq
5

The permissions are okay; my user name is in the audio group.

If I understand correctly, ALSA is correctly configured and activated.
Per cat /proc/modules:

snd_cmipci 31456 1 - Live 0xf8b15000
snd_pcm_oss 38368 0 - Live 0xf8b27000
snd_mixer_oss 15200 2 snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf8a0e000
snd_pcm 68676 2 snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss, Live 0xf8ae5000
snd_page_alloc 9640 1 snd_pcm, Live 0xf8a0a000
snd_opl3_lib 9920 1 snd_cmipci, Live 0xf889f000
snd_hwdep 8836 1 snd_opl3_lib, Live 0xf8967000
snd_mpu401_uart 8064 1 snd_cmipci, Live 0xf895b000
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0 - Live 0xf8917000
snd_seq_oss 28768 0 - Live 0xf8a15000
snd_seq_midi 8192 0 - Live 0xf8958000
snd_seq_midi_event 7008 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi, Live 0xf88b1000
snd_seq 45680 6
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event, Live
0xf8a29000
snd_timer 20996 3 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq, Live 0xf8971000
snd_rawmidi 22560 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi, Live 0xf896
snd_seq_device 7820 6
snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,
Live 0xf8877000
snd 47012 12
snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,
 Live 0xf89d1000
soundcore 9248 2 snd, Live 0xf891d000

I'd appreciate if anyone can offer a solution or point me in the right
direction.

Thanks in advance.

Tom Ashley


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Re: No sound with video

[Tom Ashley]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 12:02 -0700, John Schmidt wrote:
 On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ralph Katz wrote:
  On 11/15/2007 11:50 AM, Tom Ashley wrote:
   I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with
   video.  I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound
   with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.).  I've searched the list
   archives and Google for the past 3 days finding similar problems but
   none of the solutions help in my situation.
  

 Hi,
 
 If you are using xine as your engine, and trying to play mp3s,   If you 
 are 
 using other engines, this fix shouldn't resolve your problem.
 
 John
 
Hi John,

Thanks for the response.  I can play the mp3s withouth any problem.  My
problem appears to be limited to flash audio.

Tom


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Re: No sound with video

[Tom Ashley]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 13:53 -0500, Ralph Katz wrote:
 On 11/15/2007 11:50 AM, Tom Ashley wrote:
  I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with
  video.  I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound
  with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.).  I've searched the list
  archives and Google for the past 3 days finding similar problems but
  none of the solutions help in my situation.
  
  I'm running Debian Etch on a P4 with 2GB RAM; sound card is C-Media
  Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10).
 
  
  The permissions are okay; my user name is in the audio group.
  
  If I understand correctly, ALSA is correctly configured and activated.
  Per cat /proc/modules:
 
 
  I'd appreciate if anyone can offer a solution or point me in the right
  direction.
  
  Thanks in advance.
 
 Hi Tom -- Yes, it's frustrating.  Search for my posts here in 2007 for
 my struggles and solutions with sound on etch.
 
Hi Ralph,

Thanks for the response.  I had seen your posts previously and tried the
proposed solutions but none worked.  Nevertheless, I reveiwed them again
just to be sure--still no luck.

 You have sound, you say.  But not with video.
 
 Which players work/don't work?  Sound with flash running thru a browser
 is different from sound from an mpeg4 file playing on mplayer.
 
Totem, xmms, soundjuicer, rythmbox all work without any problems.

 If you use mplayer, what's in .mplayer/config?

mplayer is installed but I've never used it.  The config file is empty.
 
 This list is the right place.  Just provide some more detail, and the
 experts will jump in after we mere mortals swing and miss. :-P
 
My problem appears to be limited to the audio portion of flash videos; I
use Iceweasel with the flash plugin.

Thanks,

Tom



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Re: No sound with video

[Tom Ashley]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 20:45 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: 
 On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:50:44AM -0500, Tom Ashley wrote:
  I'm stumped and need help with configuring my computer for sound with
  video.  I can play CD's and listen to audio streams but get no sound
  with video feeds (CNN, MSNBC, You Tube, etc.).  I've searched the list
  archives and Google for the past 3 days finding similar problems but
  none of the solutions help in my situation.
 
 If sound works with other stuff then it is an application problem. How 
 do you open these streams?
 
 Regards,
 Andrei

Andrei,

I open the videos with the Iceweasel Flash plugin.

Tom


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Re: Xsane does not recognize scanner--Solved

[Tom Ashley]

Thanks to Andrew and Brad for your responses.

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:00 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: 
 On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:21:35 -0400
 Tom Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Hello Tom,
 
  is a USB connected Epson Perfection 1260. It worked perfectly under
  Mandriva Linux; however, Xsane under Debian shows no devices
  available.
 
 Before going to deep, make sure the user trying to access the scanner
 is actually a member of the scanner group.
 I recall having similar problems (scanner was recognised, but couldn't
 use it) and that it was rectified as above.
 

Scanner now works after taking the following steps:

Added user tom to scanner group.
Modified /etc/sane.d/epson.conf to add product and device IDs.
Attempted to scan as user tom; scanner not recognized by
Xscan.
Successful scan as root from the command line.
Reboot.
Successfull scan as user tom.

Thanks much for your help.

Tom


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Xsane does not recognize scanner

[Tom Ashley]

I'm running Debian Etch (uname: 2.6.18-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 17:54:59
UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux) on a Pentium 4 desktop.  My scanner is a USB
connected Epson Perfection 1260. It worked perfectly under Mandriva
Linux; however, Xsane under Debian shows no devices available.

lshw recognizes the scanner but shows the usb as unclaimed:

 *-usb:0
 description: USB Controller
 product: VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
 vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
 physical id: 10
 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10.0
 version: 80
 width: 32 bits
 clock: 33MHz
 capabilities: uhci bus_master cap_list
 configuration: driver=uhci_hcd latency=32
 resources: ioport:d400-d41f irq:11
   *-usbhost
product: UHCI Host Controller
vendor: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 uhci_hcd
physical id: 1
bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
logical name: usb1
version: 2.06
capabilities: usb-1.10
configuration: driver=hub maxpower=0mA slots=2
speed=12.0MB/s
  *-usb UNCLAIMED
   description: Generic USB device
   product: EPSON Scanner
   vendor: EPSON
   physical id: 1
   bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1
   version: 1.00
   capabilities: usb-1.10
   configuration: maxpower=2mA speed=12.0MB/s

lsusb also lists the scanner: 

tomshome:/var/log# lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID :
Bus 003 Device 001: ID :
Bus 002 Device 001: ID :
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04b8:011d Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 1260 Photo
Bus 001 Device 001: ID :

syslog does not mention the scanner.

I have not been able to find the answer through google or the Debian
User list archives and will appreciate any help you can provide.

Thanks much,

Tom Ashley


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Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]--Solved

[Tom Ashley]

Bob Proulx wrote:
 
  To get the ipw2200 module working the easiest thing to do is to use
  the Debian supplied kernel driver with the non-free firmware blobs.
  
  Visit this page:
  
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
  
  Read the license agreement and understand why it is not shipped with
  Debian.  Download the firmware v3.0 bundle of files (which will be
  called ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz).  Untar that and copy all three of the
  firmware files to /lib/firmware.
  
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
  
  That should be all that you need.  You should not need to recompile
  any drivers.  Since there is no need to compile a new driver this
  should avoid the problem you are having at trying to do so.
  

Thanks much.  I'll try it.

  Bob
  
  
It worked.  Thanks again for your help.

Tom


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[Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]

[Tom Ashley]

Sorry if this is a duplicate. I sent the first message from the wrong
email account and wanted to make sure it goes through.

Tom
 Forwarded Message 
 From: Tom Ashley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Subject: dh_gencontrol error
 Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:57:15 +0800
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm a new Debian user with limited Linux command line experience.  I've
 used Mandrake/Mandriva for the past 5 years or so but have depended
 primarily on GUI tools.
 
 I'm attempting to configure my laptop (custom build on ASUS) for WIFI
 using Debian Etch.  The ethernet card is Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG.  The
 Wiki-Debian How-To Manual provides instructions, but I'm having
 problems.  When attempting to build ieee80211, the following error
 message appears:
 
   dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
   make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
   make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
   make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
 
 I'd appreciate any help you can offer.  The full text output from my
 attempt appears at the end of this message.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Tom Ashley
 
 
 
 Tom:~# module-assistant -t build ieee80211-source
 Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/ieee80211.tar.bz2, please
 wait...
 
 dpatch  deapply-all
 rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
 dh_testdir
 #dh_testroot
 rm -f build-arch-stamp build-indep-stamp
 # Cleaning package
 /usr/bin/make clean
 make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o *.ko .*.cmd .*.flags *.lst *~ .#*
 rm -rf /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/tmp .tmp_versions
 for file in *.{c,h} net/*.h; do \
 if [ -e $file ]; then \
 sed -i -e s:\ *$::g -e s:\t*$::g $file; \
 fi \
 done
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.ko-* debian/*postrm debian/*preinst
 dh_clean
 /usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules clean
 make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 dpatch  deapply-all
 rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
 dh_testdir
 #dh_testroot
 rm -f build-arch-stamp build-indep-stamp
 # Cleaning package
 /usr/bin/make clean
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o *.ko .*.cmd .*.flags *.lst *~ .#*
 rm -rf /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/tmp .tmp_versions
 for file in *.{c,h} net/*.h; do \
 if [ -e $file ]; then \
 sed -i -e s:\ *$::g -e s:\t*$::g $file; \
 fi \
 done
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.ko-* debian/*postrm debian/*preinst
 dh_clean
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 /usr/bin/make  -f debian/rules kdist_clean kdist_config binary-modules
 make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 dpatch  deapply-all
 rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
 dh_testdir
 #dh_testroot
 rm -f build-arch-stamp build-indep-stamp
 # Cleaning package
 /usr/bin/make clean
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o *.ko .*.cmd .*.flags *.lst *~ .#*
 rm -rf /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/tmp .tmp_versions
 for file in *.{c,h} net/*.h; do \
 if [ -e $file ]; then \
 sed -i -e s:\ *$::g -e s:\t*$::g $file; \
 fi \
 done
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.ko-* debian/*postrm debian/*preinst
 dh_clean
 /usr/bin/make -w -f debian/rules clean
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 dpatch  deapply-all
 rm -rf patch-stamp patch-stampT debian/patched
 dh_testdir
 #dh_testroot
 rm -f build-arch-stamp build-indep-stamp
 # Cleaning package
 /usr/bin/make clean
 make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o *.ko .*.cmd .*.flags *.lst *~ .#*
 rm -rf /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/tmp .tmp_versions
 for file in *.{c,h} net/*.h; do \
 if [ -e $file ]; then \
 sed -i -e s:\ *$::g -e s:\t*$::g $file; \
 fi \
 done
 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 rm -f *.ko-* debian/*postrm debian/*preinst
 dh_clean
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 make[1]: Nothing to be done for `kdist_config'.
 dh_testroot
 dh_clean -k
 dh_installdirs
 # Build the module
 /usr/bin/make modules KERNEL_DIR=/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build
 KVERS=2.6.18-4-686
 make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build
 M=/usr/src/modules/ieee80211 modules
 make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686'
   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.o
 CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.o
   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.o
   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.o
   CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/ieee80211_geo.o
   LD [M]  /usr/src/modules/ieee80211/ieee80211.o

Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]

[Tom Ashley]

Thanks for the response Bob.

On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:30 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
 Tom Ashley wrote:
  I'm a new Debian user with limited Linux command line experience.  I've
  used Mandrake/Mandriva for the past 5 years or so but have depended
  primarily on GUI tools.
 
 Hmm...  I see a pattern.  Did that experience condition you to always
 recompile from source?  

This is my first attempt at recompiling from source.  I tried it since
all other efforts at establishing a WIFI connection have failed.  BTW, I
still have Windows XP and Mandriva 2007 on the laptop and have to rely
on them for wireless connections when traveling.

 In this case I think if you simply use the
 Debian supplied driver that you will be fine.  Often people don't
 trust the distro files and feel that they need to compile their own
 and that is fine.  But since the distro files are precompiled and do
 work if your goal is simply a working driver then stop there.  If you
 want to tinker with the driver then by all means feel free to tinker.
 
  I'm attempting to configure my laptop (custom build on ASUS) for WIFI
  using Debian Etch.  The ethernet card is Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG.
 
 Mine too.
 
  The Wiki-Debian How-To Manual provides instructions, but I'm having
  problems.
 
 To what page are you referring?  I looked briefly on the Debian wiki
 (http://wiki.debian.org/) but could not find any relevant pages.  The
 only thing I could locate there was the NDIS wrappers and that is not
 what you want.

http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-c1c659c5a4ea5e35ff427f456f79cdcdb8c6772b;
 
 
  When attempting to build ieee80211, the following error
  message appears:
  
  dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
  make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
  
  I'd appreciate any help you can offer.  The full text output from my
  attempt appears at the end of this message.
 
 Are you trying to get the ipw2200bg driver working or are you trying
 to do something else?
 
 To get the ipw2200 module working the easiest thing to do is to use
 the Debian supplied kernel driver with the non-free firmware blobs.
 
 Visit this page:
 
   http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
 
 Read the license agreement and understand why it is not shipped with
 Debian.  Download the firmware v3.0 bundle of files (which will be
 called ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz).  Untar that and copy all three of the
 firmware files to /lib/firmware.
 
   /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
   /lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
   /lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
 
 That should be all that you need.  You should not need to recompile
 any drivers.  Since there is no need to compile a new driver this
 should avoid the problem you are having at trying to do so.
 
 Bob
 
 


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Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]

[Tom Ashley]

I hit the send key before finishing the message.

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 13:48 +0800, Tom Ashley wrote:
 Thanks for the response Bob.
 
 On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:30 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
  Tom Ashley wrote:
   I'm a new Debian user with limited Linux command line experience.  I've
   used Mandrake/Mandriva for the past 5 years or so but have depended
   primarily on GUI tools.
  
  Hmm...  I see a pattern.  Did that experience condition you to always
  recompile from source?  
 
 This is my first attempt at recompiling from source.  I tried it since
 all other efforts at establishing a WIFI connection have failed.  BTW, I
 still have Windows XP and Mandriva 2007 on the laptop and have to rely
 on them for wireless connections when traveling.
 
  In this case I think if you simply use the
  Debian supplied driver that you will be fine.  Often people don't
  trust the distro files and feel that they need to compile their own
  and that is fine.  But since the distro files are precompiled and do
  work if your goal is simply a working driver then stop there.  If you
  want to tinker with the driver then by all means feel free to tinker.
  
   I'm attempting to configure my laptop (custom build on ASUS) for WIFI
   using Debian Etch.  The ethernet card is Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG.
  
  Mine too.
  
   The Wiki-Debian How-To Manual provides instructions, but I'm having
   problems.
  
  To what page are you referring?  I looked briefly on the Debian wiki
  (http://wiki.debian.org/) but could not find any relevant pages.  The
  only thing I could locate there was the NDIS wrappers and that is not
  what you want.
 
 http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-c1c659c5a4ea5e35ff427f456f79cdcdb8c6772b;
  

The specific section is titled Intel ipw2200 wireless card.

  
   When attempting to build ieee80211, the following error
   message appears:
   
 dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
   make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
 make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
   
   I'd appreciate any help you can offer.  The full text output from my
   attempt appears at the end of this message.
  
  Are you trying to get the ipw2200bg driver working or are you trying
  to do something else?
  
  To get the ipw2200 module working the easiest thing to do is to use
  the Debian supplied kernel driver with the non-free firmware blobs.
  
  Visit this page:
  
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
  
  Read the license agreement and understand why it is not shipped with
  Debian.  Download the firmware v3.0 bundle of files (which will be
  called ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz).  Untar that and copy all three of the
  firmware files to /lib/firmware.
  
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
/lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
  
  That should be all that you need.  You should not need to recompile
  any drivers.  Since there is no need to compile a new driver this
  should avoid the problem you are having at trying to do so.
  

Thanks much.  I'll try it.

  Bob
  
  


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