Re: Creating a DVD from .avi movies?
On 25. October 2005 at 9:11PM -0700, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:47:46 +0200 Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody recommend me a working solution to easily make DVDs from normal avi movies (DivX5, XviD with AC3 or mp3, the usual stuff...)? http://tovid.sourceforge.net tovid works happily for avi to dvd, better than others that I've tried - uses mplayer + ffmpeg. basic functionality $ tovid -ntsc -dvd -in a_movie.avi out a_movie.mpeg then take the mpeg file and run dvdauthor against it. It that is all it does, I'd recommend avidemux. It even has a GUI which allow you to do simple video editing tasks like cutting out the commercials from a recorded broadcast. It also appears to have a built-in tool for adding and converting subtitles. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ The only problem I've had with the program is maintaining audio-to-video synchronization when I attempt to create an mpeg out of an avi with an nonstandard frame rate of, say, 15 fps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Spellchecking fails in OpenOffice 2
After building the Debian source for over 10 hours on my AMD Sempron 2500+ and using up nearly 10GB of hard disk space, I now have OpenOffice 2 up and running. The only problem is that spellchecking no longer works (i.e., it used to work under OpenOffice 1.X). I have the following spellchecking-related packages installed: myspell-en-us, libmyspell3c2, openoffice.org-hunspell and hunspell. Surprisingly, I could access the OpenOffice thesaurus. Moreover, spellchecking does work under Emacs and the various Gnome and KDE applications I have, including AbiWord and Konqueror. However, running hunspell (which is maintained by the Debian OpenOffice Team) returns the following error: Can't open affix or dictionary files. The hunspell man page point to two files that are absent from my system: /usr/share/default.aff /usr/share/default.dic What other package may I be I missing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ready to join the club..
On 23. October 2005 at 7:53PM -0700, Andy Streich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] AFAIK, there is not a single vendor of PC's that provides a robust system out of the box that includes a ready-to-go backup/recovery procedure. It's always something left to the user. It's like selling a car without a spare and a jack. Well, if the data's critical enough, it's more like selling a car without airbags and seatbelts. A person with a flat tire can just step out of a car and take a taxi. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SATA DVD not recognized
On 20. October 2005 at 6:43PM +0100, marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Perhaps what we need is a more streamlined kernel building process. The current fallback is roll your own kernel. I would agree that this mentality has to go at some point. To me the important thing is that the source is out there (under th GPL or better). If you can't blame the user, then blame the distro (I'm not saying we should). The kernel people just write the kernel. It's not their job to make sure it gets shipped as part of the latest Debian stable release. That I guess is one of the pitfalls of calling Linux simply as Linux and not, say, Debian GNU/Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone know how to do a timed program with mplayer?
On 17. October 2005 at 5:03PM +0100, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can listen to a continuously ogg-streaming radio station with this command: mplayer http://engine.collegemedia.vt.edu:8000/wuvt.ogg and I've successfully recorded (using scripts and at) fixed-duration RealPlayer radio shows to .wav to listen to them later. But I'd like to record a specific show tonight from the continuous live ogg stream. I suppose I could set up an at job to start recording at 18:30 and another to killall mplayer at 20:00, but I think that might cause problems (and it's hideously inelegant). Is there a better way? I think it's better to kill elegantly with killall -3 mplayer. You could also try mencoder -oac copy -endpos mm:ss, although if I recall correctly mencoder doesn't or pure audio well (since after all the m is supposed to stand for movie.). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Archive (or package) signing
I've built a small (3GB) archive for (internal) use in my mixed testing/unstable system (since it tends to be more stable that way). The new version of apt that drifted into testing keeps giving me warnings about my packages. Could somebody give me a link on how to (a how-to would be nice) build signed packages or archives for people who maintain their private archive of Debian packages? Also, while aptitude or apt-get install complains about binary packages coming from an untrusted or unauthenticated source, there doesn't seem to be a similar warning mechanism to handle source packages download via apt-get source. Is this by design or is there something broken in my apt set-up? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Building Tuxmath with KDevelop
On 10. October 2005 at 5:20PM -0400, David Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, please let me know if another list would be better. I'm using Sid and want to modify TuxMath to make it more configurable for my young daughter. My programming skills are clearly in the amateur level, but over the last several years I have written some things for BeOS and more recently KDE/Qt to keep myself amused (a MineSweeper clone, a Tetris clone, a chess GUI-frontend, and the like). I know C and C++ syntax and basic programming OK, but unless I have an IDE that just works, the building part is a dark art to me. I am using the KDevelop in Sid (3.2.2). I installed the source package for TuxMath using the source option for apt-get, and also grabbed libsdl-dev. I tried the Import Existing Project option in KDevelop. When I try to build the project, it fails (see below). I think the problem may be that I need to tell it where to find the SDL libs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [...] Just wondering: did you try to test for build dependencies with apt-get build-dep tuxmath? If it still fails, it's probably time to file a bug report against the Debian source package -- unless you heavily modified the source. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian vs ubuntu and knoppix
On 11. October 2005 at 9:08PM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the major differences among the latest debian, ubuntu, and knoppix distros? Ubuntu (Live) and Knoppix are obviously more user-friendly than Debian proper (since both doesn't require the new user to go through the hoops installing the OS). Between the two I find Ubuntu to be the more user-friendly LiveCD. Knoppix (especially the DVD edition!) has loads more software goodies than Ubuntu Live. But if I really want to go on a free software testing binge, I'd install a full-blown Debian system and just aptitude install package (followed by aptitude purge ;). Sadly, Knoppix failed to recognize several important pieces of hardware during my last three downloads of different versions (including the 3 GB DVD iso), while Ubuntu managed to get from boot screen to Gnome without barfing on my USB keyboard and mouse and a friend's DSL modem. If not for Ubuntu, I would have failed miserably in my first attempt to demo GNU/Linux for a friend: a rather basic test involving web browsing (Firefox), instant messaging (Gaim) and file copying (from a vfat partition). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building gcc-4.0 source package under i386
Could a developer subscribed to the list explain the following anomaly to me? I had always assumed that amd64 was a separate architecture. With the amd64 libs installed, the gcc-4.0 source package fails to build on my machine. alpha:~# uname -m i686 alpha:~# apt-get build-dep gcc-4.0 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libc6-dev-amd64 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source The following NEW packages will be installed: amd64-libs amd64-libs-dev lib64gcc1 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. E: Package libc6-dev-amd64 has no installation candidate E: Failed to process build dependencies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital Voice Recorders/iRiver T30
On 15. September 2005 at 9:14PM -0400, Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A report and a request for advice: After doing some research, I decided to buy an iRiver T30 for use as a small digital voice recorder for meetings, interviews, and so on. It's a very cool little device and the sound quality is also amazing. However, as far as I can tell, it doesn't work at all under linux. It shows up in /proc/bus/usb/devices: T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=03 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 12 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=4102 ProdID=1119 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=iriver Limited S: Product=iriver T30 S: SerialNumber= but doesn't load any usb drivers. The website (and the brain-dead user support person) says it works only under Windows XP. Connecting it to a Windows box shows it as an MTP Media Player, suggesting that it is not in fact in UMS mode where it would work as mass storage. [...] Have you tried using a userland program or library to do the job? I remember from my informal research into Linux-compatible audio players that the iRivers work in one of two modes, using either generic UMS support or its own proprietary protocol. The UMS support is, last time I read, a bit iffy. For example, here's the description of the Debian libifp package: Package: libifp4 [...] Description: communicate with iRiver iFP audio devices libifp allows you to communicate with iRiver iFP audio devices. It provides a high-level interface to upload and download files to and from the device, as well as other functions like battery status and firmware updating. My mind is now set on a Samsung digital audio player. Like the iRiver, the latest Samsung Yepp flash players can handle Ogg Vorbis and, moreover, double as flash drives. Helped no doubt by Samsung's status as the number one manufacturer of flash memory, they're also cheaper than similar offerings by iRiver or even Apple (with its brain-damaged iPod Shuffle). Product manuals in pdf format can be downloaded, so you can check their capabilities for yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Compatable UPS?
On 21. September 2005 at 12:22AM -0500, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:21 +, Pollywog wrote: On 09/20/2005 04:16 pm, John Hasler wrote: Josh Battles writes: [snip] I would have bought a UPS for my computer but I don't know of any low cost UPS units that are compatible with Linux. How low is low? Anything not manufactured by APC should be low-cost and good enough for any home user (My Computer) who backs up regularly. Compatibility might be a problem. But I once managed to get my computer to shut down while connected to a dumb UPS using powstatd, which I uninstalled after I lost my serial port (hardware problem). $ uname -a Linux haggis 2.6.13n #1 Tue Sep 20 17:30:23 CDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux $ /sbin/apcaccess status APC : 001,034,0839 DATE : Wed Sep 21 00:21:03 CDT 2005 HOSTNAME : haggis RELEASE : 3.10.18 VERSION : 3.10.18 (21 July 2005) debian UPSNAME : XS1500 CABLE: Custom Cable Smart MODEL: Back-UPS RS 1500 [...] APC's offerings tend to be at least twice as expensive as the next brand. I've heard and read lots of FUD from APC that buying a cheap UPS is playing Russian roulette with your data. So I compensate for my no-name UPS by installing a separate surge suppressor. So I have two levels of protection. The surge suppressor takes care of the power surges, while the UPS catches the fluctuations. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recover data from a hd
On 21. September 2005 at 8:32AM -0400, Mitchell Laks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I try not to use maxtor - i have switched to western digital after too many crashes. I buy only Maxtor drives. I bought one bad Maxtor drive that started spouting read errors the first time I tried to format it. Instead of availing of the warranty or having the drive replaced outright, I formatted around the read errors and ran the drive for three years before I finally gave up on it. If a bad Maxtor drive could last that long, a good Maxtor drive should last ages. I've never had the chance to test this theory though, since I upgrade to a higher-capacity drive in as little as two years. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCI modem suggestions
On 4. September 2005 at 2:01PM -0700, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: [...] Perhaps the original poster should explain his motivation for requiring an internal PCI modem? Dave. All I want it for is callerid on a sarge based myth system. The reason I wanted a PCI modem was because I just got done buying a serial IR reciever to be used with lirc. I don't think I should have to recompile a kernel or get things like setserial to remove the kernel modules that control the serial port so I can load different serial modules. That just goes against everything I've ever known about serial. So after giving up and going back to normal i2c based IR recievers I kind of decided I didn't want to deal with all the problems of linux and serial devices. [...] My solution to the problem was to buy a serial modem and a USB serial converter. Actually this combination solved two problems for me: the crappy serial port of my mobo and the horror stories I heard about most USB modems being (allegedly) winmodems in disguise. The serial port always called for a reboot after a power fluctuation that would barely trip the alarm on my UPS. With the serial modem connected to the USB port, I could reset the modem simply by replugging the USB serial converter. (I do remember, when USB serial support first became available for Linux, I had some issues with having to kill my pppd pppd connection before I unplugged.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lame not in the debian package repository?
On 17. August 2005 at 10:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 08:57 am, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: On 8/13/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in the debian package repository? Thanks to BMG Music, all MP3 encoders are non-free. Try a patent-unencumbered format like Ogg Vorbis instead. How about flac? Is there any comparisson between flac and Ogg in terms of compresion and sound quality? Well, FLAC aims to be lossless, so I would estimate compression to be practically nil (I could be wrong; don't know about FLAC). Haven't heard or seen comparisons between the two formats. My real life tests tell me FLAC compresses to better than 50% of a .wav ripped from a digitally recorded (DDD) classical music CD. That is, the file size is effectively halved. The ratio can get as good as 1/3 of the file. Remastered analog recordings (AAD or ADD) fare slightly worse. Not as good as Vorbis or MP3, where you typically get 1/10th compression. But for archiving my audio CDs, there's simply no substitute. It's a different matter if I'm looking to have the music available in a portable format. Then I settle for Ogg Vorbis. I do know the odds of finding a portable Ogg Vorbis player is slightly better than that of finding a portable FLAC player, though. More like orders of magnitude better. I now see Ogg Vorbis players from non-niche manufacturers like Samsung (which manufactures everything from TVs to washing machines). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing Bitstream Vera
On 18. August 2005 at 11:42AM -0400, Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked at Bitstream Vera and have found it to be a very pleasing font. I have just one question: Is it possible for a user to tune the font -- actually it is only one letter I want to change, the lower-case l. There's a packaged called fontforge, described as a Font Editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts FontForge (formerly PfaEdit) allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts. You can create new ones or modify old ones. It is also a font format converter and can convert among PostScript (ASCII binary Type 1, some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and OpenType (Type2). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD file copying problem with kernel 2.6
On 17. August 2005 at 12:22AM -0400, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 06:55:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dual boot this computer to Debian 3.1 Sarge with kernel 2.6 and Windows 2000. Some time ago I created some VCDs on the Windows 2000, using Nero, on a Sony CDRW. Now I tried to copy the video file, named avseq01.dat, from the VCD, and it fails every time. I can copy the file easily to Windows 2000, but with Debian Sarge it fails. Does anybody have a solution for this problem. I don't think it's a CD hardware problem, because I can copy the files from the CD using Windows 2000. This Debian Sarge, as I said, has kernel 2.6, and it uses ide-cd, the latest. Also, I can copy relatively small files from the VCD to linux, but as soon as I try the big ones, say 400 mb, it fails. Maybe there is a timeout or a buffer setting somewhere that I could tweak to get this to work. Anybody know? See below. Hrmmm... what are you using to copy the file under Linux, and what kinds of failures is it giving? Rather than relying on standard OS utilities the OP should use a specialized application like vcdimager (vcdxrip) mplayer (option -dumpstream) or vlc to extract the mpeg data. Cdrdao and CDRecord (readcd) can clone the VCD itself. I don't know what sort of trickery Windows uses, but I believe VCDs contain mostly raw data streams similar to the ones found in audio CDs (which can be made to appear as files by a clever file browser or burn application). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD+R writing problems
On 17. August 2005 at 11:55AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj wrote (Sunday 14 August 2005 10:38 pm): Brendon Lloyd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or so tries so far (many with different discs, all from the same manufacturer), only 4 have been successful. You should try blanks from a different manufacturer then. I may well do that, but isn't it weird that the same drive can burn to those same discs fine in Windows but not Debian? Not at all. Most free software available for GNU/Linux is reverse-engineered. [...] Have you tried burning your DVD+Rs at the slowest available speed? Yes, it makes no difference at all. In my case, speed=1 helps. Allowing the drive to determine the burn speed results in discs which are partly unreadable in non-writer units. But then I don't have a dual-layer drive. I must have missed something. But do the failurs occur with dual-layer, single-layer or both types of DVD blanks? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lame not in the debian package repository?
On 17. August 2005 at 6:04PM +0200, Hans du Plooy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ogg (Vorbis audio) is a much more recent technology than mp3, twenty or so years if I'm not mistaken. mp3 has been around a lot longer than it has been popular, mostly because PCs only became strong enough to play back mp3s smoothly around the time of the 386/486. And of course saving audio was a drag in those days because of space :-) If that's the case the patent on mp3 should have expired by now. If I'm not mistaken (and I'm also shooting in the dark here) patents are good for 15 years. Unless of course Fraunhofer took its sweet time applying for their mp3 patent. [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD+R writing problems
On 10. August 2005 at 10:50AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I upgraded my disc burner to a LiteOn SOHW-1693S Dual Format Double Layer DVD burner. I've been trying it out but I've run into problems trying to burn DVD+R discs. Of the 50 or so tries so far (many with different discs, all from the same manufacturer), only 4 have been successful. You should try blanks from a different manufacturer then. When I try to burn a DVD+R the drive spins up, slows down, spins up again, slows down, and cycles like this, without burning any data, for about a minute before I get the error: growisofs: 5.21 growisofs --- Executing 'builtin_dd if=/home/brendon/debarchives.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0' /dev/hdc: Current Write Speed is 8.2x1385KBps. [...] Have you tried burning your DVD+Rs at the slowest available speed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Illegal instruction on Gimp startup
On 16. July 2005 at 9:05PM +0200, strawks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Gimp 2.2.8 on a Pentium 2 and when it starts, just after initializing script-fu, it says : (script-fu:24106): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error Illegal instruction Apparently this has been fixed in the unstable version (2.2.8-5). This appears to afflict older i586 and i686 computers (mine's a Duron). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: type= parameter missing from linux-2.6.12 tuner module
On 17. July 2005 at 5:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There appears to be significant differences between the tuner module in linux 2.6.12 and the same module under linux 2.6.11. In particular the type paramater is missing from linux 2.6.12.3, as shown by a comparison of the truncated modinfo output appended at the end of this email. I absolutely *need* the type= paramater, since my tuner card is misrecognized as PAL (our broadcast system is NTSC). The tuner module of linux 2.6.12 appears to load fine *without* any parameters (using insmod /path/to/tuner.ko). But it fails with modprobe tuner, which reads the options I set in /etc/modprobe.d/01_local_directives: options bttv card=34 radio=1 options tuner type=8 debug=1 Changing the above lines to the following should fix the problem: options bttv card=34 tuner=8 radio=1 # options tuner type=8 debug=1 Apparently the tuner option is now handled by the bttv module. [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question about growisofs
On 31. August 2004 at 9:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember being able to overwrite the contents of a dvd+rw by using the -Z option. That was from 6 or 8 months ago, and using woody rather than sarge. And, I distinctly remember that such a use of -Z was explained and recommended in the growisofs man page. But now it isn't mentioned, and it doesn't work. What is the way for wiping out and overwriting now? I have tried burning a dvd+rw on my dvd+/- unit. But I've used dvd+rw-format -blank on a dvd-rw. This minimally blanks the dvd (there's also an option for -blank=full). I don't know if such a procedure shortens the life of the dvd or if it's even necessary. Maybe you can also force DAO using -dvd-compat -dvd-compat (the 2x is not a typo). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Copying Text from a command prompt...No GUI Involved, and then X-windows issue
On 2. September 2004 at 1:19PM +, Will Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an X-Windows configuration issue, and it was suggested on IRC that I post the error log onto the mailing list for others to look at, and perhaps to solve my problem. The question is how do I do this on a strictly command prompt basis? Remember I have NO GUI, so I cannot do the normal highlight with the mouse and paste into window deal. Any advice? TIA!! Install gpm. Highlight with the mouse, open your text editor in another in another tty (ALT+F#) and paste. This will only work if the error message isn't too long. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Modems for Linux?
On 27. August 2004 at 10:13AM +0800, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: My existing dialup modem does not have linux drivers (its one of those winmodems), and so am planning on buying a new modem for my machine. I checked around the net for a list of modems that are known to work with linux (hardware modems preferred, if not winmodems that do have drivers for linux) ... but couldn't find anything concrete. Any ideas where I can find such info? Any external will do. Including USB modems? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi emulation deprecated
On 26. August 2004 at 1:26PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 12:52:05AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: Rob Benton wrote: OK I may be slow, but I just noticed in my boot messages the other day that in the 2.6 kernels ide-scsi emulation is deprecated. Unfortunately the version of cdrecord I have (from testing) doesn't agree. Has anybody had any success getting cdrecord to work with an IDE target like, dev=/dev/hdc ? should work, but it is better to write cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 etc cdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0 etc gets you dma. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: alternative to cdrecord?
On 23. August 2004 at 3:06PM -0700, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 04:44:15PM -0400, Brian Pack wrote: I've been hit with the issues between cdrecord and the 2.6.8 kernel. The issues... what issues? Pretty well-known issues;-) 2.6.8.x breaks current versions of at least two of the most popular optical media writing tools, cdrecord and growisofs. Search the cdwrite list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for details. Watch out for the rants of the author of cdrecord. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] GNU/Linux livecd for oldworld macs
Does anybody know of a Knoppix or Bootable Business Card-type GNU/Linux distro that runs on an OldWorld Mac? I've found isos for NewWorld macs (e.g. knoppix-MiB-PPC-alpha-2e.iso) but none for OldWorld Macs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord
On 8. August 2004 at 2:19PM -0400, Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otto Wyss([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs (forever). It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C does not kill it). Use cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI and then burn it with the gotten numbers cdrecord dev=ATAPI:x,x,x I had a problem using dev=ATAPI:x,x,x when I first switched to the 2.6.x kernel and dropping ide-scsi. I finally settled on dev=/dev/hdc. So I just tried the above to see if something had changed, since I am now running kernel 2.6.7. The better way to burn a cd's under the new interface is cdrecord dev=ATA:x,x,x where x,x,x is returned by: cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATA I myself am confused over the difference between dev=ATA and dev=ATAPI. AFAIK dev=ATA:x,x,x gives you DMA, while dev=ATAPI,x,x,x doesn't. This is with the unstable version of cdrecord. dev=ATA is probably equivalent to dev=/dev/hdX. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libxine1 or xserver-xfree86 bug? (Was: on sarge xine crashes X)
On 2. August 2004 at 3:16PM +0200, Fabio Marzocca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem (X crashes on xine.) If I run xine -V XShm it works fine, so the problem is related to XVideo of my ATI Rage Pro card. XFree86 4.3 ATI driver does not support XVideo. I should try installing gatos drivers, but it could be a mess when XFree updates... Over a year ago I had a Rage card of some sort (I suspect it was a Pro). I didn't use the ATI driver that came with the Debian XFree86 package. I used the special mach64 driver, which got me OpenGL in addition to XVideo support. I got mine from the second of the three links below. The third link appears to be the home page for the driver. http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-mach64/ http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-mach64-sid/ http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/index.html ftp://ftp.retinalburn.net/pub/mach64/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: root file system has unknown type
On 2. August 2004 at 10:05PM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone knows whats causing the root file system to be displayed as unknown? Filesystem corruption most likely. What sort of filesystem corruption are we looking at? I'm also having the problem on a desktop system: ~ $ df -hT | grep unknown /dev/hda6 unknown274M 88M 173M 34% / ~ $ cat /etc/fstab | grep hda6 /dev/hda6 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 whether this is scheduled to be fixed at some point in the future? I can't answer that. Grab your PDA and find out when you've made time to reinstall. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?
On 31. July 2004 at 11:49AM -0400, Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You only need a rescue CD if you screw something up. (Which I've certainly done, yes, so keep that CD in your back pocket. :) Make sure it stays flat: sed s/back/shirt/ ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav
On 30. July 2004 at 5:02AM +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:15:16AM +0800, csj wrote: On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create an audio cd image on disk? I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, burn, mp3burn and a bunch of other console tools, and it seems that there is no problem to write audio directly to cd from wav/mp3/ogg and create data iso images on disk, but I couldn't seem to find anything that can write an audio-cd image to disk. cdrdao? As far as I can tell if I copy a cd, I can use --keep-image to keep the image on disk, but there doesn't seem a way to just create the image without burning it (somehow I don't thing /dev/null will work here, as it is looking for a scsi device, but maybe, will try that idea tomorrow). Anyway, it requires an image already on disk or cd, I only have a bunch of mp3 files. Not a solution: Since cdrecord can burn cd-compatible wav files on the fly, why not just create the wav files in one directory, making sure the files are arranged in track order, say track01.wav, track02.wav? If you need special options like cd text put it in a script, so you can simply type something like my_audio_burn.sh ./Track_Directory/*wav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Convert Real video to MPEG4 or QTime
On 30. July 2004 at 1:12PM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to do a one time massive conversion of video materials currently in Real's .rm files to MPEG4 and/or QTime (switching from RealServer to the open source Darwin Streaming Server). Can anybody recommend a free converter for Linux (or Mac OS X for that matter)? mplayer. I don't know how stable its OSX port is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bittorent on dialup
On 28. July 2004 at 6:13PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-07-26, csj penned: [...] Does this mean the bittorrent upload rate equals the download rate? This doesn't look good. A look at my ppp stats shows that for the 159MB I downloaded this day, I sent out 4MB. This is while downloading (ftp and http) two linux isos, a 27MB video clip (mplayer), surfing (w3m text-mode), and sending out a few emails (no attachments). Not necessarily. I've had extremely imbalanced rates in both directions. Also, many clients allow you to restrict your upload rate so that you don't saturate your connection. Is bittornado one of those many clients? 'apt-cache search' turns up only two Debian-packaged clients. Also, would restricting the upload rate limit the download rate? Without having delved into the bittorrent source or documentation to any real degree, I believe that the absolute rates you see are more a function of supply vs. demand. It seems to me that your ability to contribute by simultaneously uploading a torrent only matters when there's more demand than supply -- in that case, those who are contributing the most get the best results. It seems to me that, in cases where there is enough supply to go around, you won't get choked. But I have no hard evidence to back this belief up, and maybe someone who knows the facts will correct me. If I get a large file through bittorrent, I generally leave the client open long enough to upload at least as much as I've leeched; it seems like the right thing to do. I don't think it's right to suck up the bandwidth of the (dialup) ISP's other users more than is necessary to download what I have to download. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xsane Segfaults, xscanimage not.
On 28. July 2004 at 10:33PM +0200, Chrissie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Anybody has the same Problem?? Any Ideas how to fix this? I really like xsane, and will continue using it. Maybe you can try something like: mv ~/.sane/xsane/ ~/xsane-old Then fire up xsane. You can delete ~/xsane-old if things go right. I believe xsane's config changed between versions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: svg support under Linux
On 28. July 2004 at 8:20AM -0400, John Taber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) do any of the browsers support SVG or support the Adobe plug-in ? Amaya should support SVG. After all it's from the same organization that made SVG. 2) do either gtk or Qt have a canvas that will display SVG ? There are a number of programs that can read svg, e.g. inkscape and the gimp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto make root commands available to any user
On 29. July 2004 at 2:19AM -0700, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Otto Wyss wrote: On my desktop system I'd like to make certain commands requiring root (i.e. halt) available to ordinary users. What choices do are there? If you can stand Gnome or KDE that shouldn't be a problem Are there already any script which makes a desktop linux system more user friendly? click the login gui ... - it allows anybody to shutdown/halt/reboot gdm, kdm? probably there are workalikes with similar features with library dependencies. - if those commands are not executable ... - fix your /etc/sudoers file ( add the priviledged commands you want jane to run ( and she still uses command line or the gui to shutdown - 3-finger salute should always work from any console for anybody - anybody that hits the power or reset switch should be shot on the spot :-) But as another poster said the buttons could be remapped to initiate a graceful shutdown. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav
On 29. July 2004 at 3:06PM +0300, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create an audio cd image on disk? I tried looking into xcdroast (which I normally use), cdrecord, burn, mp3burn and a bunch of other console tools, and it seems that there is no problem to write audio directly to cd from wav/mp3/ogg and create data iso images on disk, but I couldn't seem to find anything that can write an audio-cd image to disk. cdrdao? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AnyOne got Rekall working on Debian
On 29. July 2004 at 1:06PM -0500, John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get Rekall 2.0 to compile on Debian sid. It seems to crap out saying that there are no headers or libs installed. I have qt3-mt installed, am wondering if the 'mt' is the problem. I ran into a similar issue a while ago with perl-mt on another application. The non 'mt' version of qt3 is currently broken in sid as well as kdelibs4 which is also needed to compile this application. Any thoughts or experiences. BTW 'Rekall is a KDE database frontend similar to ms Access in function, but it currently has no Debian developer--anyone interested??? I think it's necessary to specify the library path. It seems that to KDE developers Debian's qt is installed in a nonstandard location. Try something like: ./configure --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning a VCD with xcdroast
On 27. July 2004 at 11:35AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, if this is not really a Debian question, but I am getting really frustrated trying to figure this out. I have created an mpg file (MPEG1) and authored it for vcd. After authoring it, a second mpg file was created along with a xml file. Now originally I thought I just had to burn my first mpg file to a disk and pop it in my DVD player (which does support vcd files). However, it complained that the data was incorrect. Someone stated that I needed to probably author the mpg file and another person said that instead of creating a vcd I probably just created a data cd. The few times I created VCDs, I used the following tools: avidemux, mjpegtools, vcdimager and cdrdao. So my question is this: I am using xcdroast. I think I have correctly authored the mpg file. So now do I just burn the 2 files to a disk or is there some special way I need to burn it? For example, maybe I need to create an iso or I've seen a lot of mention of cue and bin files. To create a VCD from an mpeg file, you have to multiplex it properly (mjpegtools), create the cue file (vcdimager), and burn the cue file (cdrdao, modern cdrtools can probably be used as well). VCD's AFAIK contain only a minimal ISO file system only useful for Windows to play the VCD. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bittorent on dialup
On 27. July 2004 at 5:19AM +1000, bob parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:30, Katipo wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users with underutilized bandwidth. But I'm on dialup. My bandwidth gets saturated with a simple wget -c linux.iso (a 52K modem that feels more like 45K). So are there any disadvantages to using bittorent with a plain dialup line? You will never finish the download. Your connection is too slow. I understand that bittornado is better than torrent? So these apps provide no advantage over conventional dial-up download speeds? Thanks for any advice. The advantage of bittorent is that it takes the load off the server. The only way it might help the downloader is by potentially keeping the d/l speed up to the full capability of the connection rather than being throttled by a busy server. But what's its disadvantage to the dialup user? The documents I've read all indicate that some uploading will be done by the bittorrent client. How does the uploading affect the download speed? What's the upload to download ratio for dialup users? But every last byte of the original file still must be funnelled through the dialup modem or whatever. Never heard of tornado but it sounds like it is a similar method. There's a package called bittornado, described as a bittorrent client with enhanced curses interface. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bittorent on dialup
On 26. July 2004 at 12:10AM -0400, Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users with underutilized bandwidth. But I'm on dialup. My bandwidth gets saturated with a simple wget -c linux.iso (a 52K modem that feels more like 45K). So are there any disadvantages to using bittorent with a plain dialup line? You will never finish the download. Your connection is too slow. I routinely finish 200M-350M bittorrent downloads over dialup plus a 700M knoppix bittorrent download once.Granted it took a while, but as long as the torrent is popular enough that it will be available for a while it is doable. Knoppix is popular enough that there are more than enough speedy (for dialup users) ftp and http mirrors to download it from. The one time I got the download wrong, I used rsync for two hours. Does bittorrent come with a guarantee that the bits I download are good? The biggest problems I've run into is that it saturates your connection much more 'effectively' than normal downloads, it sometimes dies when you lose your connection and needs to be restarted [which in turn will cause you to 'lose' a couple of megs since partial 'pieces' don't seem to resume], and your download rate will be about half that of a normal download [at best]. Does this mean the bittorrent upload rate equals the download rate? This doesn't look good. A look at my ppp stats shows that for the 159MB I downloaded this day, I sent out 4MB. This is while downloading (ftp and http) two linux isos, a 27MB video clip (mplayer), surfing (w3m text-mode), and sending out a few emails (no attachments). But if it is your only source for the file... Sadly it is (theora.org). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices
On 26. July 2004 at 12:21AM -0400, Kyle Girard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was the real device name of your cdrom (not the link) before you installed udev? /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd might be the device you need to put in /etc/fstab. Another solution would be to have udev create the link /dev/cdrom. Do this by editing /etc/udev/links.conf. It used to /dev/hdc but those devices aren't listed in /dev anymore which is probably why udev isn't creating the links... it isn't creating the devices. FYI I do have a /dev/hdc in my fstab which I used for mounting the cdrom Do I read last used as used to use? I looked through /proc and /sys and I believe that all my devices are listed in one way or another I don't _really_ know what is going on in those directories... Do you get something like: $ ls /sys/bus/ide/devices/ 0.0 1.0 1.1 The first appears to be my hard disk. The two others (1.X) my optical drives (a cd writer and a dvd writer). I'm using them with the new ide-cd driver (and not with the old ide-scsi emulation). Any way I can use that links.conf file you mentioned to get udev to create links to my cdrom? It's really just a convenience. Instead of cd /dev ; ln -s hdc cdrom you add the following to links.conf L cdrom hdc So if the actual devices aren't being created, the solution is elsewhere. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer
On 26. July 2004 at 2:32PM -0400, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some unknown reason, everything works now. Netscape prints. Konqueror prints. lp book.ps lpq lprm lp book2.pdf All working! I selected lazerjet4 driver. I know it didn't used to work. Seems rebooting the computer might possibly have something to do with fixing it??? CUPS and setting up printers via the K-menu works great. I suspect that's because rebooting restarted CUPS. There are of course less drastic ways to restart CUPS like /etc/init.d/cupsys restart (you have to be root). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bittorent on dialup
A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users with underutilized bandwidth. But I'm on dialup. My bandwidth gets saturated with a simple wget -c linux.iso (a 52K modem that feels more like 45K). So are there any disadvantages to using bittorent with a plain dialup line? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer
On 25. July 2004 at 3:11PM -0400, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found some documentation at: http://www.cups.org/documentation.php It seems cups can print postscript, even if your personal printer can't, but there are not examples of how to set it up. The Debian cups packages should do the setup for you. Cups is more like the mailman. The actual business of postscript printing is handled by ghostscript. The Debian cups packages use gs-esp as backend. The cupsys-driver-gimpprint package provides support for additional printers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: udev isn't creating links for my cdrom and dvd-rom devices
On 25. July 2004 at 2:47PM -0400, Kyle Girard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to experiment with udev, hal, dbus and gnome-volume-manager so I installed all of the above and rebooted everything seemed cool except I no longer have a /dev/cdrom link. It appears udev didn't find my cdrom and dvdrom drives and it didn't create any links for them. What was the real device name of your cdrom (not the link) before you installed udev? /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd might be the device you need to put in /etc/fstab. Another solution would be to have udev create the link /dev/cdrom. Do this by editing /etc/udev/links.conf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /cdrom vs. /media/cdrom
On 22. July 2004 at 11:32AM -0600, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: I don't have a /media, and my laptop, which I just installed Debian on, also doesn't have a /media. ??? Then you didn't install sarge using a current version of the installer. I believe the LSB puts removable media in /mnt/fd0, /mnt/scd0, etc. Debian puts the same devices in /floppy, /cdrom0, etc. LSB goes with the FHS locations in this and generally all cases, and recent FHS versions require /media. Using /mnt subdirectories has always broken stuff and has never been in the LSB or the FHS. Short of reinstalling, is there a package that will create the LSB directories and fstab entries for me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer
On 22. July 2004 at 4:12PM -0400, J F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Printing from Netscape seems to default to Postscript(tm of Adobe), but I don't have a postscript printer. But there are free software postscript emulators that will let you print as though you have a postscript printer, e.g. gs-gpl or gs-esp. Maybe that's why Netscape (on GNU/Linux) defaults to a postscript printer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: via82cxxx
On 20. July 2004 at 4:19PM +0200, Frank Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see 'snd_rawmidi' and 'snd_seq_device', so I think it should work. Any hints to make it work? You're lacking snd-seq-oss, the OSS compatibility module for the ALSA sequencer. Thank you for replying. I have now tried this: modprobe snd-seq-oss, but it gives an error: FATAL: Error inserting snd_seq_oss (/lib/modules/2.6.3-1-386/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko): Device or resource busy I dohn't know about the error. But I think you need to fire up timidity (or maybe fluidsynth) ALSA will then direct the midi events to timidity for software synthesis. I don't think the onboard sound comes with hardwarde midi capability. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Writing HOW TO
On 19. July 2004 at 6:32PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ppl, got to put a dvd rw and cd-rw working in the same computer, i have allready a cd-rw working but have no clue where to start with the dvd rw, i have install the dvdplusrw package, by the way im runing woody, but the docs are not as clear as I need them. In some places it talks about a kernel patch but in others it claims that it can be done without one. Does any one knows a good howto to go streight to the dvd rw config, I only need it to write data no video o anything else. The kernel patch isn't necessary if you'd just like the dvd writer to work like an oversized cd writer. I think you need the patch if you want to do something like cp file /mnt/dvd/. The debian package has been renamed dvd+rw-tools in testing and unstable. Works ok for me with stock 2.6 kernel. # growisofs -Z /dev/scd0/ -R -J ~/backup This also works without ide-scsi emulation (ide-cd interface): $ growisofs -Z /dev/hdd -R -J ~/backup See http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP
On 19. July 2004 at 10:46PM -0700, Mark e Plummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just read your article as best I could. I am confused, but not by you but by me. I have been using Firefox as a browser and Thunderbird as mailbox for about a week and a half now and I love them. I am thinking about dumping Windows XP because it is a pain, I was looking at Mandrake and ReHat. Debian Woody I have never heard off until five minutes ago. Is it really hard to understand. Or as I am not a programmer should I even be thinking about using it. This is a vague letter I know. What I am asking, I suppose, is would you go for it. Do I have to dump Windows before I start downloading Woody? Any help in the form of ideas would be wonderful. There's just one google search word you need to know if you want to try out GNU/Linux: knoppix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p
On 16. July 2004 at 9:59PM +0800, Duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this is a really n00bish question, but I have to ask. What is the command that limits output from a command to just a page at a time, like the /p command in DOS? command | more command | less command | pager Sometimes, you need: command | pager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software to HTMLize a text file?
On 16. July 2004 at 9:45AM -0400, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some ssytem staus reports that are generated by shell scripts and emailed to various people. Now Iwant to put these up in a wbserver. Now I know I can just stick the plain old ASCI files in a directory, or I could rewrite the scripts to add appropriate HTML formating directives. But I was wondering if there was anything like the tools that convert a plain old ASCU file to PostScript for HTML conversion? how about txt2html? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB keyboards and linux 2.6
On 8. June 2004 at 6:18PM -0400, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 05:25:22AM +0800, csj wrote: ... It seems I have all the necessary kernel bits in place. But rebooting with the USB keyboard attached causes my computer to hang (with or without my normal keyboard attached) ... USB being hot-pluggable: what if you boot without the keyboard (using a PS/2 style connector instead), and then plug the keyboard in after boot time? Use this command: sudo tail -f /var/log/messages first, and you can watch the USB system identify the new device as it's detected. Not necessary: I see the device identified by the console messages correcty as a USB keyboard. But banging at the USB keyboard adds nothing to the screen ouput (not even garbage characters). The PS/2 keyboard is okay. So is my USB mouse (under X). I have the hotplug package installed (in in its default setup). Could this be a problem? I'm thinking maybe I'm having a module loading order problem (this was certainly the case with my TV tuner card under linux 2.6). So I'm looking to clone the /etc/modules or /etc/hotplug* of someone with a successful linux 2.6 + USB keyboard setup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB keyboards and linux 2.6
Does anybody have a link to a quick howto on getting USB keyboards to work with kernel 2.6? All my google searches on the subject turn up links on kernel 2.4, which tend to list kernel modules which aren't available on 2.6. The best advice I've gotten thus far is to disable the kernel's entire USB subsystem! That is, let the BIOS handle the keyboard via legacy DOS support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bookmarks.html
On 25. May 2004 at 11:38AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-05-25, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: An open letter to Mozilla package maintainers (and a warning to those who upgrade): I have a very simple request... Please, when versions of browsers are upgraded could you PLEASE save my bookmarks.html file? I just lost ~6 weeks of bookmarks because when I upgraded mozilla-firebird the packaging system decided to install mozilla-firefox instead and in the process deleted my history files and bookmark files. Ugh! That sucks. I suspect it was just misplaced. I struggled with a similar problem for an hour or so, until I found out that mozilla-phoenix/firebird/firefox/any-other-fiery-mythical-beast changed its prefs directory between name changes. IRC at some point I had ~/.phoenix ~/.mozilla-firebird and now ~/.firefox. Perhaps a 'find -name bookmarks.html' will turn up the misplaced bookmarks file. Maybe the developers should just settle on a relatively name like Mozilla G2 or Mozilla XP (or can alphanumeric combinations now be trademarked?). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wrong characters displayed in console
Since I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel series, I noticed that extended characters like the German umlauted vowels are being displayed wrong on my framebuffer console. If I open, say in Emacs, the same file in an xconsole the characters are displayed right (so I know the problem isn't an Emacs character mapping problem). The characters also display properly when I reboot into a framebuffer console under kernel 2.4.X (leading me to suspect the problem is specific to 2.6). Does anybody have any idea what's wrong with my kernel 2.6 console setup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting wide ``dpkg -l'' output in scripts and pipes.
On 18. May 2004 at 2:03PM GMT, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 May 2004 14:50, Colin Watson wrote: Those both set the COLUMNS shell variable but fail to export it to the dpkg subprocess (you need an explicit 'export' to do that). 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l' is a special syntax that adds the variable to the environment of the dpkg subprocess without affecting the shell in which it is executed. This doesn't work in all shells packaged for Debian. I use use env (coreutils): env COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l I wasn't aware of that special syntax so it had not occurred to me to try it -- it looked like a run-on of two commands that ought to have something between them. [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem
On 14. May 2004 at 3:11PM +0200, John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: yup... anyway i discovered that to get audio etc i just had to add myself to the audio and video groups... problem solved, just one now, when i create a '/dev/sound' directory and put a link to /dev/mixer in it (gnome volume control needs this for some reason) when i reboot it disapears Do you create the /dev/sound directory via /etc/udev/links.conf? If not, maybe you can put in /etc/udev/links.conf something like: D sound L sound/mixer /dev/mixer He would be better off doing it the udev way, namely adding it to the rules file, like this: KERNEL=mixer*, NAME=sound/%k, SYMLINK=%k (add the SYMLINK statement to the rule) Or maybe by creating a custom rules file in rules.d, which can be retained across upgrades, like: /etc/udev/rules.d/mixer.rule -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6 and nvidia
On 13. May 2004 at 4:56AM -0700, welly hartanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running debian sid 2.6.5-1-686 with Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440. I'm not using the driver from NVidia web site, since I'm too lazy to search for it...;-) What I did is : - apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common - apt-get install nvidia-kernel-source and I've got my kernel source installed too. My XF86Config using nv as driver. Then you're not using the nvidia driver. And that's enough for me to have a nice smooth display on my gnome Have you installed any of the 3D games packages, like tuxracer, armagetron, gltron, chromium? [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem
On 12. May 2004 at 8:59AM +0100, Keir Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 06:22 +0800, csj wrote: On 11. May 2004 at 7:34PM +0100, Keir Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from kernel 2.4.25 to kernel 2.6.5 (im using unstable) - the upgrade went OK but now i have two problems: 1. the nvidia graphics module isnt loaded on startup (i have to do insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5-1-k7/nvidia/nvidia.ko before i can enter the xserver) 2. permission are mucked up, for both oss (/dev/dsp,/dev/mixer) alsa (/dev/snd/*), and nvidia stuff (/dev/nv*), when i change anything in /dev (creating a folder, changing permissions) the changes revert on reboot Do you have udev installed? yup... anyway i discovered that to get audio etc i just had to add myself to the audio and video groups... problem solved, just one now, when i create a '/dev/sound' directory and put a link to /dev/mixer in it (gnome volume control needs this for some reason) when i reboot it disapears Do you create the /dev/sound directory via /etc/udev/links.conf? If not, maybe you can put in /etc/udev/links.conf something like: D sound L sound/mixer /dev/mixer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to 2.6.5 problem
On 11. May 2004 at 7:34PM +0100, Keir Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded from kernel 2.4.25 to kernel 2.6.5 (im using unstable) - the upgrade went OK but now i have two problems: 1. the nvidia graphics module isnt loaded on startup (i have to do insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5-1-k7/nvidia/nvidia.ko before i can enter the xserver) 2. permission are mucked up, for both oss (/dev/dsp,/dev/mixer) alsa (/dev/snd/*), and nvidia stuff (/dev/nv*), when i change anything in /dev (creating a folder, changing permissions) the changes revert on reboot Do you have udev installed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compatible DVD Burner with Linux
On 11. May 2004 at 11:01PM +0200, Pedro M. (Morphix User) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hugo vanwoerkom escribió: David Cunningham wrote: Thank you. Yes, that post shows their GUI successfully burning a DVD under Linux. (I couldn't read the French.) I find that reassuring! There is an interesting and informative web page on the subject of MMC compliance (and non-compliance) at http://fy.chalmers.se/%7Eappro/linux/DVD%2BRW/hcn.html . This seems to a key issue when determining DVD burner behavior under Linux. The article seems to imply not all DVD burners will behave themselves well under Linux. I just stumbled on this after posting to this list. Thank you for your feedback. I don't want to pay a restocking fee if I choose the wrong DVD burner. ;) So what's your choice? I have a Lite-On LDW-851S, with which I have been able to burn both DVD+R (several) and DVD-R disks (one) with one coaster (actually some parts are readable). Surprisingly the one coaster is the branded media. To burn I use dvd+rw-tools with option -speed=1 (which for the Lite-On means 2.4X for +R and 2X for -R). H.n Yes, I want to know it to buy a similar DVD burner, Linux compatible ( or Linux Perfectworking ;)
devfs.rules vs. udev.rules
What's the relationship between /etc/udev/devfs.rules and /etc/udev/udev.rules? With the latest udev upgrade (0.024-6), I lost my video for linux devices. Before the upgrade they were in /dev/v4l/*. Sure enough I found that the rules for them had disappeared from /etc/udev/udev.rules. They're now in /etc/udev/devfs.rules. As a hack (rather than disabling udev entirely), I copied the relevant entries from /etc/udev/devfs.rules to /etc/udev/udev.rules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TV tuner misdetection in linux 2.6 v4l
The tuner of my TV card is apparently being misdetected by linux 2.6's video4linux drivers. The tail of `grep -ih 'tuner:.*type' /var/log/syslog*` makes me suspicious: Apr 18 09:15:40 chilia kernel: tuner: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles)) by bt878 #0 [sw] Apr 18 09:43:30 chilia kernel: tuner: type already set (8) The first entry above (Apr 18 09:15:40) is for my linux 2.6 boot. Here the tuner is detected as type=5 or Philips PAL_BG. This gives bad video: undersaturated colors and wrong TV channels. I suspect the PAL_BG has something to do with it. Our signal is NTSC, so I think the second entry above (Apr 18 09:43:30), when I rebooted to my trusty linux 2.4 kernel, shows the correct tuner type. Tuner type=8 is Temic NTSC (4036 FY5). This option (forced via /etc/modules.conf and friends) gives the right colors and TV channels. Is there a way to force the type=8 parameter to the 'tuner' module. Under linux 2.4 I have the following in /etc/modules.conf, which is apparently being ignored by linux 2.6: options tuner type=8 debug=1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad v4l2 colors in linux 2.6
I have a Bt878-based TV tuner card (WinFast something) that's producing satisfactory video in linux 2.4. Under 2.6 the video is under-saturated (i.e. the colors look pale). What am I missing? Are there any magic options to pass to the v4l2 (linux 2.6) drivers to get my rich v4l (linux 2.4) colors back? I'm using a variety of tv apps, including xawtv, tvtime and mplayer, with similar results: rich, saturated colors in linux 2.4 but pale, undersaturated colors in 2.6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver
On 8. April 2004 at 9:55AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's to be expected. It's the framebuffer. It exists because it works better for some people. Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. not really a 'must' but console looks better :-) Does it crash even with the radeonfb module? No crashers here (Radeon VE / 7000). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver
On 8. April 2004 at 1:02AM -0700, William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:55:20AM +0200, Frédéric Dreier wrote: Actually I though it was the way to get an higher resolution console. not really a 'must' but console looks better :-) I don't use the Framebuffer because if I'm not in X I usually want to do some serious crunching, and `yes | nl` runs several orders of magnitude faster without it, which means that some operations might actually be slowed down by how fast the console can scroll. Why not just use a pipe (e.g. to /dev/null)? It is beautiful, though. Windows is beautiful ;-)
Re: Kernel 2.6.5 and Nvidia driver
On 6. April 2004 at 10:38AM -0700, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Even Linus tells people not to use framebuffer for anything unless they have to. So how do you get the cute bootup penguin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.4/i810/AGP GART issue
On 5. April 2004 at 9:30AM -0700, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently upgraded from 2.4.25 to 2.6.4 via a source from kernel.org. I'm having the somewhat common problem with my x server. The message is: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory.) AGP GART is not available... After 10 kenel recompiles and countless searches, no progress so far. I've switched on every conceivably related module. I still cannot tell if this is a kernel-related problem or if x is simply not loading the proper module(s). Has anyone actually solved this? I may have solved it ;-). Do you have a VIA-based board? I think what's need to successfully load agpgart are the modules agpgart *and* via-agp. I'm still waiting for my next reboot to test my theory. HTH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk
On 24. March 2004 at 10:51AM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 08:44:09AM +0800, csj wrote: On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I removed drm-trunk so I can use the native 2.6 driver. But still no DRI. Since my radeonfb is a module, I tried modprobe'ing radeonfb but I get an error message like cannot reserve FB region. Does radeonfb have to be compiled in? Does it make a difference if I have only generic vesa FB support? [...] You can compile in more than one fb driver. If there is no radeon card, the radeonfb driver just won't be used. I wouldn't be surprised if this makes a difference. Well I compiled it in and it didn't make a difference. On hindsight I think it would be suprising if it did make a difference. I had radeonfb compiled as a module for both 2.4 and 2.6. And for both kernels I don't have radeonfb: loaded. Or I could unload it while X is running I just found out something suspicious with the radeon kernel module in 2.6. I could rmmod it even when X is running! Under 2.4, I get a resource busy error. Looks like X is not using dri then. Did you look for errors in /var/log/XFree86.log, or in the dmesg output ? This is the best I can come up with: $ grep -A 10 'Option dri is not used' kernel-2.6-XFree86.0.log (WW) RADEON(0): Option dri is not used (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA $ grep -A 10 'Option dri is not used' kernel-2.4-XFree86.0.log (WW) RADEON(0): Option dri is not used (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x0001 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler (II) RADEON(0): [DRI] installation complete (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Added 32 65536 byte vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Mapped 32 vertex/indirect buffers (II) RADEON(0): [drm] dma control initialized, using IRQ 11 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Initialized kernel GART heap manager, 5111808 (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM Apparently with kernel 2.6 DRI is disabled after the driver detects that DRI is not being used. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: use udev
On 24. March 2004 at 12:48PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, to summarize : . udev is dynamaic management of /dev along the lines of devfs . udev is purely userspace (no kernel module or driver) . therefore the naming scheme is defined purely in userspace, not in the kernel [...] Would installing udev have any (harmful) effect on a 2.4 system, or would is just be ignored? I'm trialing 2.6 on a regular 2.4 system (lots of unresolved hardware issues yet on 2.6 like poor tv and no lirc support). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk
On 17. March 2004 at 12:29AM +0800, csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote: For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using the debs from: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. Can somebody confirm if dri-trunk (especially from the above site) works with linux 2.6? I'm just looking for a success story to inspire me to continue wrestling with the beast. I don't know if this will help you, but it works for me on powerpc with a Radeon Mobility M6 (should be about the same as a 7000). The only difference I see is that I have radeonfb compiled in. In case it matters, I only use xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, not the drm-trunk modules (the kernel driver is up to date in 2.6). My PC with a radeon 7000 is still on 2.4 for now. Okay, I removed drm-trunk so I can use the native 2.6 driver. But still no DRI. Since my radeonfb is a module, I tried modprobe'ing radeonfb but I get an error message like cannot reserve FB region. Does radeonfb have to be compiled in? Does it make a difference if I have only generic vesa FB support? $ grep VESA /boot/config-2.6.4* CONFIG_FB_VESA=y As much as possible I like all the brand-specific (non-generic) drivers compiled as modules. I plan to use the exact same kernel on my other machine which has an nVidia card (which has working DRI/GLX using the nVidia binary drivers). Thanks! I just found out something suspicious with the radeon kernel module in 2.6. I could rmmod it even when X is running! Under 2.4, I get a resource busy error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk
On 15. March 2004 at 5:04PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:02:26PM +0800, csj wrote: For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using the debs from: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. Can somebody confirm if dri-trunk (especially from the above site) works with linux 2.6? I'm just looking for a success story to inspire me to continue wrestling with the beast. I don't know if this will help you, but it works for me on powerpc with a Radeon Mobility M6 (should be about the same as a 7000). The only difference I see is that I have radeonfb compiled in. In case it matters, I only use xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk and xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk, not the drm-trunk modules (the kernel driver is up to date in 2.6). My PC with a radeon 7000 is still on 2.4 for now. Okay, I removed drm-trunk so I can use the native 2.6 driver. But still no DRI. Since my radeonfb is a module, I tried modprobe'ing radeonfb but I get an error message like cannot reserve FB region. Does radeonfb have to be compiled in? Does it make a difference if I have only generic vesa FB support? $ grep VESA /boot/config-2.6.4* CONFIG_FB_VESA=y As much as possible I like all the brand-specific (non-generic) drivers compiled as modules. I plan to use the exact same kernel on my other machine which has an nVidia card (which has working DRI/GLX using the nVidia binary drivers). Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux 2.6.X and dri-trunk
For some reason I can't get DRI to work for my Radeon VE (7000) under linux 2.6 using the debs from: http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ The same debs work fine under any linux 2.4 version. Can somebody confirm if dri-trunk (especially from the above site) works with linux 2.6? I'm just looking for a success story to inspire me to continue wrestling with the beast. Under 2.4, I get the following: $ glxinfo | head -n5 name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 Under 2.6 I get direct rendering: No. $ find /lib/modules/ -name radeon* /lib/modules/2.4.25-k7r1-chili/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o /lib/modules/2.4.25-k7r1-chili/kernel/drivers/video/radeonfb.o /lib/modules/2.6.4-k7r1-chili/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko /lib/modules/2.6.4-k7r1-chili/kernel/drivers/video/aty/radeonfb.ko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved] Re: debuilding gcc-3.3 and doxygen
On 28. February 2004 at 11:30AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 21:02:41 +0800, csj wrote: I see a doxygen *++-related bug, but so far the version of doxygen in unstable is still the same as the one in testing. Around the time you wrote this, there was a new version of doxygen uploaded by the gcc maintainer as a non-maintainer upload; that version (1.3.6.20040222-0.1) is now in unstable; its changelog includes Fixing termination problems in 1.3.5 and 1.3.6 (closes: #232598). Ya, that fixed it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debuilding gcc-3.3 and doxygen
Am I the only one who can't build gcc-3.3 (3.3.3ds5-1)? The build appears to succeed until the point where the documentation is being built. Tail of gcc-3.3_3.3.3ds5-1_i386.build: To avoid this warning please update your configuration file using doxygen -u Warning: Tag `EXT_DOC_PATHS' at line 1074 of file /xb/build/debuild/newbuild/gcc-3.3-3.3.3ds5/build/i486-linux/libstdc++-v3/docs/doxygen/user.cfg has become obsolete. To avoid this warning please update your configuration file using doxygen -u From then there's hours of high CPU activity until I abort the build. I see a doxygen *++-related bug, but so far the version of doxygen in unstable is still the same as the one in testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
scanners under 2.6.3
It seems that CONFIG_USB_SCANNER=m which produces the scanner module, has disappeared from kernel 2.6.3. I copied my working 2.6.2 config, passed it thru make gconfig without any manual changes, and now grep -i scanner .config returns nothing. Any idea (tips, URLs) how to get scanners working in 2.6.3? I have yet to install this kernel, so I don't if my scanner will automagically work out of the box. But for kernels 2.6.3, my scanner requires the scanner module. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CLI (was Re: cdparanoia a song in negative space)
On 16. February 2004 at 5:47PM +, Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:17:15AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-16, Ken Gilmour penned: On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:38, David T-G wrote: What?!? A girl who uses the command line? That's even rarer than a guy who uses the command line (hard enough to find these days). Marry me! [Admittedly, there might be some problems with my current wife.] People don't use command line any more? Hmm. I'm more familiar with the command line version of all my PCs / servers than i am with a mouse ;) She wants my body and you know it. They're out there ... they just don't call attention to themselves because they keep getting marriage proposals rather than help when they post on venues like debian-user =P She did ask for someone to make out with her. :-P Which doesn't imply marriage... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rip DVD audio: TOC for CD?
On 14. February 2004 at 7:26AM -0800, Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I know how to rip to audio from a dvd using mplayer. Here's one way: mplayer -quiet -ao pcm -aofile a.wav -vo null -vc dummy dvd:// I have two questions: 1) I assume that there's some type of table of contents/menu in the dvd that sets the sequence the VOBs(?) are played. Is there a way I can extract out the audio in the same sequence that the dvd would play in a dvd player? I would use transcode to do the job. It can extract the audio raw. With mplayer maybe you could use the -chapter option. 2) If I extract audio into a large wav file is there a tool that would allow me to set track locations when burning the audio? In other words, anyone know of a (GUI?) tool that would make it easy to set track locations when I have a single large wav file that contains many sections/parts/chapters? I think what I need is a way to create a CUE or table of contents sheet for cdrecord. cdrdao has a gui called gcdmaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride - personal use
On 1. February 2004 at 7:53PM -0600, John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Carrington wrote: If the GPL doesn't grant usage rights, how can a user be sure they are entitled to this? Copyright law does not limit usage. Therefor the user has such rights by default. Does this mean that if A gives B an illegal copy of Windows, only A gets sued? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music maker
On 29. January 2004 at 3:05PM +0100, Stephen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should i do next? I had the same experience the three or foru times I used it. unrar is not a GNU program. IRC the argument and option ordering is stricter. You just can't stuff it anywhere like you would tar -xzvf foo.tgz or tar -f foo.tgz -xzv. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nVidia console terminals blank.
On 24. January 2004 at 6:30PM -0500, Rajesh Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, again. I have the 4496 nVidia drivers installed on my debian sid running XF86 version 4.2.1.1 After startx, all the console terms from F1..6 are just blank (well, a nice glow is there at the bottom, but blank nonetheless). Anyone had a similar problem here, and found out a fix for this? Thanks, again. Generally speaking, X has nothing to do with the console (ALT + F#). The nVidia driver has a kernel part and an X part. Are you running a self-built linux 2.6 kernel? You might want to check your frame buffer compile options. Some OPTION= names changed between 2.4 and 2.6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6 kernel and nvidia drivers
On 10. January 2004 at 2:55PM -0800, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:45:31PM -0500, Stephen Touset wrote: I have yet to find out if the Debian-provided nvidia-kernel drivers work correctly with the 2.6 kernel, and I'd really like to know before I dive headlong into the new kernel version. Anyone know? There is not a Debian-specific way to do this. http://www.minion.de/ There is: http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/ (which of course references minion.de). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fax, voice, and data answering
On 10. January 2004 at 8:10PM -0700, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Christian Schnobrich: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 17:32, D. Clarke wrote: I'd like to be able to have a voicemail box, fax, and possibly (although not required) ppp dialup. First, you need something to pick up the line and distinguish wether it is voice, fax or data, and then call the appropriate service. IIRC vgetty is your friend here. I thought mgetty would be. However, looking for a smaller solution, I came across mgetty and sendfax -- but, I had no luck at all with it. I can't quite remember I've heard good things about efax. I've used efax ;-). It mostly works with one page faxes. With multipage faxes, I sometimes find I have to fax manually page by page (something to do with flow control?). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-kernel-common/source + kernel 2.6 configuration question
On 9. January 2004 at 2:14AM -0500, Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after trouble with nvidia and my old kernel I am hoping to update to 2.6.0, but am a bit stuck. when I installed one ofthe nvidia packages -- I think nvidia-kernel-common -- I was asked a debconf qusiton about installing the 2.4 or the 2.6 version of the package; I chose 2.4 (the actual question was something more specific which I can't remember). Now I'm hoping to upgrade to 2.6, but can't figure out how to get the debconf question pack. I've tried dpkg-reconfigure -plow nvidia-kernel-surce and nvidia-kernel-common, but neither one gives me any questions. any suggestions? dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emergency: Openoffice, Fonts, what a mess
On 7. January 2004 at 1:26PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I installed 1.1.0 today after removing the old backport. Initially only two fonts were aviailable (charter and courier, I believe). I then installed msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfont-conf (ignoring the message about adding FontPath entires to XF86Config-4) and now seem to have lots of fonts available. In my experience adding the FontPath made quite a number of fonts available to legacy GTK1 (as against GTK2) apps. [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 56K Modems
On 2. January 2004 at 6:46PM -0600, Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] perhaps I need to stop looking for USB externals (that are still non-winmodems) and get a plain serial external. Because I need my mobo's lone serial port for my UPS, I got a usb-serial converter (modules usbserial and pl2303) to connect my serial modem to (dev/ttyUSB0). I get respectable 46K speeds and the coolness of USB. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X refuses to load nVidia module
On 31. December 2003 at 4:50AM -0400, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 29, 2003 10:59 pm, Bradley Alexander wrote: When I tried to load the module under 2.6.0, I got the message FATAL: Error inserting nvidia (/lib/modules/2.6.0/nvidia/nvidia.ko): Invalid module format Starting with about test7 and onwards I had to us modprobe -f nvidia to get the module to load and then after that X would start. Using make-kpkg, the nvidia-graphics-drivers package, linux 2.6 final and the linux 2.6 hacks, I remember needing to do dpkg-reconfigure nvidia-glx and enabling something called TLS support (threaded local storage?). Of course I doubt if this applies in this case. I've not have any problems loading the kernel part of the nvidia driver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting the penguin on linux 2.6
On 28. December 2003 at 1:29PM -0800, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:16:56AM +0800, csj wrote: Any pointers? Don't sweat the chrome if it otherwise just works. Well, I just found out that the names of some linux 2.4 .config OPTIONS= changed a little in 2.6 so that they weren't automagically reinserted by make *config, e.g.: 2.4 -- CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y 2.6 -- CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y Otherwise it just works. Moral of the story: don't just blindly stick in your old .config when configuring a new kernel release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Getting the penguin on linux 2.6
After three days of browsing various leads posted here[1], I managed to get my spare computer running on linux 2.6 and nVidia's binary-only video drivers (installed with the help of the non-free nvidia-graphics-drivers packages). Everything seems to be functional, including chromium, tuxracer and armagetron. My only remaining problem is getting the framebuffer console to work. I can get the console to work if I don't enable framebuffer at boot time, i.e. if I boot without the penguin mascot;-). Any pointers? FWIW I built my 2.6 kernel using a framebuffer-capable /boot/config-2.4* saved (with no user-addled changes) thru make gconfig. [1]e.g. http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/nvidia-2.6-Debian/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: QuickTime for Linux?
On 20. December 2003 at 12:56AM -0800, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks. MPlayer installed fine. Now I need to figure out how to install additional codecs for it. Also, for some odd reason, the only way I can seem to run mplayer is by clicking on the KDE Start Button and selecting Run Command, and entering mplayer. I tried making an mplayer shortcut on the desktop, but it doesn't work. Any hints as to what I need to do to get the link to work? Try running gmplayer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switcher's guide for 2.6? [Re: Should I upgrade from 2.4.22 to 2.6.0-test11?]
On 18. December 2003 at 7:19AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:49:10 -0700, Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] AFAIK, 2.6 is still being tested. It's not a production release, ..the truth just changed: ;-) finger @finger.kernel.org [zeus-pub.kernel.org] The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.0 Just confirmed the rumor on slashdot;-). Would this stable version be as stable as the unstable early days of the 2.4 release? I fear that releasing 2.6 as stable would only encourage freesoft developers and the occasional company (e.g. nVidia and its binary-only 3D drivers) to stop supporting 2.4. My main concerns revolve around video and optical storage. I've read many horror stories about the ide-scsi stuff being broken in 2.6. Is this true? I've also read that devfs is now deprecated. In favor of what? Is there a definitive switcher's howto or readme (URI) I should consult? I'd usually use google for this. But as the issue's still new, I expect to get lots of false positives (including flamewar threads on the direction of kernel development). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran
On 14. December 2003 at 4:16PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped: grub menu entries, etc] Given the above, how can I get Debian to boot? cd into the Debain / (while running Libranet) and run lilo? Modify in some unknown to me way the above grub entry? Grub and lilo are two different ways of booting. In general you either run grub or run lilo. (There are ways to make the two coexist peacefully, but that's another matter.) I'm a bit confused why you'd mention in the same paragraph running lilo and then modifying your grub menu. What are you running as boot manager? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minicom vs pon
I have a serial modem connected via a usb serial converter. I noticed that if I turn the modem off then on, I can no longer connect via pon (ppp) *unless* I reset the modem or serial link by other means, like disconnecting and reconnecting the usb serial converter or invoking /etc/init.d/hotplug restart. OTOH I can instantly dial out with minicom or even efax. Somewhat surprising is that after I use either program, I can already connect via pon. I must assume that minicom and efax issue commands to prep the modem. Does anybody know how these two programs differ from pon in the way they interact with the modem? I need to place something in my crontab so I can use pon without user intervention. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a modest proposal (was: Linux is not for consumers!)
On 11. December 2003 at 5:28PM -0600, Lucas Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] This may be true of some; but even reasonably intelligent users with quite a lot of experience can come unstuck in those areas with which they are not familiar, simply because the documentation is often so poor. I have an idea, then, for people at the level you're speaking of. Specifically, I'm talking about people between hacker level and Aunt Tilley, those who can use Debian but frequently struggle with the lack of documentation. Aunt Tilley probably doesn't want documentation but help files. I consider a man page or info doc that documents all possible --options as good documentation already (although I can recall one recent instance where I had trouble finding the right man page: the documentation I was looking for was in man Z rather than man X!). But there are users who would think anything short of tooltips or balloon help is poor documentation. Should they be the consumers of a documentation project? [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kppp [was Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]
On 8. December 2003 at 7:17PM +0100,
Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On 7. December 2003 at 10:52PM +0100,
Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can of course use predefined connections with pon/poff if
you are in the dip group, and you can create your own ones for
use with kppp /without/ kppp being suid root, if you are in the
dialout group.
It's the predefined part that's the problem. Let's say I'm on
vacation and my friend borrows my computer. He reads about a
promo from Dirt-Cheap-ISP and decides to subscribe. How is he
going to enter his login details, without going root, to connect
to Dirt-Cheap-ISP? It seems his only choice is kppp, which needs
to be suid root to make it user configurable.
No, again: kppp /does/ /not/ have to be suid root. I use kppp to dial in
using login and passwort defined within kppp, and it is not suid root:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll /usr/bin/kppp
-rwxr-sr--1 root dip 405k 11. Sep 13:48 /usr/bin/kppp
I am member of the dip and dialout groups, and it works.
Yes, it seems it's now setgid. When I last used it, I had to
resort to the setuid hack.
But I can't get it to work out of the box (or out of the package
;-). To be sure, I never bothered doing any root-level
configuration (inasmuch as I see the goal of Gnome and KDE to be
idiot friendliness). All I inputed are my login name and
password. kppp doesn't even get to the point where the modem
starts making its signature noise. I assume I have the right
permissions, since I can use minicom, efax and pon and friends
without any problems.
Are you sure you didn't modify anything under /etc/{ppp,chatscripts}?
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Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change
On 7. December 2003 at 10:52PM +0100, Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 7. December 2003 at 1:32PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] I hardly think it necessary to install the Mega-size KDE libs to use kppp, but what is the reason pon/poff won't do? Although admittedly that is no solution to your problem ;-) I used to have this exact same problem on my machine (except with /dev/ttyLT0, since it is a Lucent winmodem). But I don't know that there is a solution. Especially since I think that kppp would need to be suid root (not a good idea) to get past this problem. I've always wondered why it should require root-level access (or its equivalent in the case of kppp) to set even the safer config options in ppp and friends, e.g. the dialup number and login password. Couldn't there be a ppp group so that even Friend X, sharing the dorm computer, could log-in to the ISP of his choice without waking up the admin? You can of course use predefined connections with pon/poff if you are in the dip group, and you can create your own ones for use with kppp /without/ kppp being suid root, if you are in the dialout group. It's the predefined part that's the problem. Let's say I'm on vacation and my friend borrows my computer. He reads about a promo from Dirt-Cheap-ISP and decides to subscribe. How is he going to enter his login details, without going root, to connect to Dirt-Cheap-ISP? It seems his only choice is kppp, which needs to be suid root to make it user configurable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change
On 7. December 2003 at 1:32PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [...] I hardly think it necessary to install the Mega-size KDE libs to use kppp, but what is the reason pon/poff won't do? Although admittedly that is no solution to your problem ;-) I used to have this exact same problem on my machine (except with /dev/ttyLT0, since it is a Lucent winmodem). But I don't know that there is a solution. Especially since I think that kppp would need to be suid root (not a good idea) to get past this problem. I've always wondered why it should require root-level access (or its equivalent in the case of kppp) to set even the safer config options in ppp and friends, e.g. the dialup number and login password. Couldn't there be a ppp group so that even Friend X, sharing the dorm computer, could log-in to the ISP of his choice without waking up the admin? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
