Power Mgt on Laptop
Lately, I've been working on making my laptop as efficient on power as possible. Dell Latitude C610, BIOS version A16, Testing release. There is a lot of information out there on this subject and I've accomplished quite a bit on the system: 1. I mount my EXT3 partitions with noatime 2. I have /tmp mounting in memory with tmpfs 3. I adjusted syslog-ng logging with the sync() option to buffer 5 lines before writing to file 4. I do not use swap since I have enough memory to handle all my needs But, in spite of this I simply cannot get the HDD to spin down with KDE running. If I exit to KDM, it works just fine. With KDE running, I've tried stopping all the daemons I can and still no joy. I've tried to see what was accessing files/dirs using the following script: #!/bin/bash echo echo "Finding new files and dirs 5 minutes old." echo echo "Files..." find / -mount -type f -amin -5 find /usr -mount -type f -amin -5 find /home -mount -type f -amin -5 echo echo "Directories..." find / -mount -amin -5 find /usr -mount -amin -5 find /home -mount -amin -5 I can get KDE to a point where nothing KDE-related shows up, but still no joy. I've also found that noflushd doesn't work by testing it against hdparm -S, which does work. So I'm using hdparm now. I'm thinking now that it's hopeless with KDE running, that I won't be able to read email or other doc's offline without the HDD spinning and burning battery. If anyone has idea's or suggestions to help me out, I'd really appreciate it. thanks, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: Power Mgt on Laptop
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:10:29 -0800 Jeff Coppock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lately, I've been working on making my laptop as efficient on power as > possible. > > Dell Latitude C610, BIOS version A16, Testing release. > > There is a lot of information out there on this subject and I've > accomplished quite a bit on the system: > > 1. I mount my EXT3 partitions with noatime > 2. I have /tmp mounting in memory with tmpfs > 3. I adjusted syslog-ng logging with the sync() option to buffer 5 > lines before writing to file > 4. I do not use swap since I have enough memory to handle all my > needs > > But, in spite of this I simply cannot get the HDD to spin down with > KDE running. If I exit to KDM, it works just fine. With KDE > running, I've tried stopping all the daemons I can and still no joy. > > I've tried to see what was accessing files/dirs using the following > script: > > #!/bin/bash > echo > echo "Finding new files and dirs 5 minutes old." > echo > echo "Files..." > find / -mount -type f -amin -5 > find /usr -mount -type f -amin -5 > find /home -mount -type f -amin -5 > echo > echo "Directories..." > find / -mount -amin -5 > find /usr -mount -amin -5 > find /home -mount -amin -5 > > I can get KDE to a point where nothing KDE-related shows up, but still > no joy. > > I've also found that noflushd doesn't work by testing it against > hdparm-S, which does work. So I'm using hdparm now. > > I'm thinking now that it's hopeless with KDE running, that I won't be > able to read email or other doc's offline without the HDD spinning and > burning battery. If anyone has idea's or suggestions to help me out, > I'd really appreciate it. I forgot to mention my kernel information. I'm running a self-compile 2.4.21 kernel, which is configured properly for what I need/want. I'm stuck at this version for an application I need that won't run on newer kernels yet. I looked into laptop_mode, but I'm not convince it will buy me anything compared to what I have so far. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: Power Mgt on Laptop
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 00:25:43 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 03 April 2004 00:10, Jeff Coppock wrote: > > I've tried to see what was accessing files/dirs using the following > > script: > > > > I can get KDE to a point where nothing KDE-related shows up, but > > still no joy. > > > I suspect FAM may be the culprit. Try using lsof (as root) to see what > files are open and by what processes. Sorry, I forgot to mention that I don't run FAM. Here is a list of current KDE processes: kdeinit:Running... kdeinit:dcopserver kdeinit:klauncher kdeinit:kded kdeinit:kaccess kdeinit:knotify kdeinit:ksmserver kdeinit:kwin kdeinit:kdesktop kdeinit:kicker kdeinit:klipper kdeinit:konqueror kdeinit:konqueror kdeinit:kio_pop3 kdeinit:kio_file kdeinit:konsole jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: does kmail in kde 3.2 fully support procmail?
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 18:44:41 +0200 Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Saturday 03 April 2004 12:00 schrieb Mauro Darida: > > I was a fan of kmail but left it for mutt since it does not work > > well with procmail Just outta curiosity, what do you need from Procmail that the Kmail fitering can't provide? thanks, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin, User and Advocate
Re: Help..
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:53:22 +0100 Leafy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I made a mess, and destroy everything.. > now I can't using anything through apt-get install, > and the sound is not working.. > Donno what to do, the error message just like the following: > while I do "apt-get -f install" > > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > kdelibs3 mozilla-xft > 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not > upgraded. > 24 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/6795kB of archives. After unpacking 24.6MB will be > used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... > dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `kdelibs3' missing, > assuming package has no files currently installed. > 121229 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace kdelibs3 4:2.2.2-13.woody.9 (using > .../kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.2-13.woody.9_i386.deb) ... > mv: cannot stat `/usr/lib/kde2/kio_https.*': No such file or directory Try creating this file so the script can delete it. Just do # touch /usr/lib/kde2/kio_https > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.2-13.woody.9_i386.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/default': No such file or > directory Same thing here. Do.. # touch /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/default That should allow kdelibs3 to install. > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 > Preparing to replace mozilla-xft 2:1.3.1-2 (using > .../mozilla-xft_2%3a1.4.1-0jds1_i386.deb) ... > Leaving `diversion of /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgfx_gtk.so to > /usr/lib/mozilla/components/libgfx_gtk.so.pure by mozilla-xft' > Unpacking replacement mozilla-xft ... > Updating mozilla chrome registry...mv: invalid option -- r > Try `mv --help' for more information. Looks like the script is using the wrong case "r" for a recursive move. Perhaps you can edit the script, if you can find it. I don't know where to look for it either...sorry. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Mystery Icon on Panel
I have this icon, kind-of, on my panel. It's the pale box between the Korganizer and Kopete icons in the attached jpg file. I can't figure out what it is. It doesn't respond to any mouse actions. Can some help me figure out what it is and how to either activate or remove it? The system is running Testing. thanks, jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User <>
Re: Mystery Icon on Panel
On Wed, 12 May 2004 14:25:29 -0700 Jeff Coppock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this icon, kind-of, on my panel. It's the pale box between the > Korganizer and Kopete icons in the attached jpg file. I can't figure > out what it is. It doesn't respond to any mouse actions. Can some > help me figure out what it is and how to either activate or remove it? > > The system is running Testing. I figured it out. It was Knotes. It must have gotten messed up from one of my recent upgrades. I killed "knotes -session..." process which removed the mystery icon, and then started it from the menu. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
KPhone audio
I'm trying to get KPhone to work on my system. The problem is that I can hear the person I called, but they can't hear me. Linphone works perfectly, so I believe the problem is in KPhone. I've been googling and I haven't found anything yet that can help me. Any help is appreciated...jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: KPhone audio
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:14:28 +0100 "Guest, Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 Jul 2004 00:58, Jeff Coppock wrote: > > I'm trying to get KPhone to work on my system. The problem is that > > I can hear the person I called, but they can't hear me. Linphone > > works perfectly, so I believe the problem is in KPhone. I've been > > googling and I haven't found anything yet that can help me. > > I'm using KPhone from sid, version 1:4.0.2-1, with Debian stock kernel > > 2.6.5-1-686. It works fine. > > You may need ALSA rather than OSS sound drivers if you're using a 2.4 > kernel. (At least, I did; maybe because I was using integrated sound > on the motherboard, rather than some more capable sound card. Anyway, > OSS didn't support full duplex on my hardware.) I'm already running ALSA rather than OSS sound drivers. I updated to the unstable KPhone and I'm having the same results. I've tried messing around with the Arts config, but it appears that KPhone goes directly to the sound device since I get the same results whether Arts is running or not. I've tried different codecs and changing the symetric signalling settings, but nothing has helped. It's strange to me, I call my cellphone to test it and when I speak into the cellphone, I hear my voice on the PC headset. And, when I speak into the PC headset, I hear my voice on the PC headset. The really strange thing is that it works using LinPhone. But I want to use Kphone since I like the interface better, and Kphone successfully registers with my companies SIP Proxy server where LinPhone can't due to message 484 (Address Incomplete). jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: KPhone audio
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:27:48 -0700 Jeff Coppock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:14:28 +0100 > "Guest, Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 01 Jul 2004 00:58, Jeff Coppock wrote: > > > I'm trying to get KPhone to work on my system. The problem is > > > that I can hear the person I called, but they can't hear me. > > > Linphone works perfectly, so I believe the problem is in KPhone. > > > I've been googling and I haven't found anything yet that can help > > > me. > > > > I'm using KPhone from sid, version 1:4.0.2-1, with Debian stock > > kernel > > > > 2.6.5-1-686. It works fine. > > > > You may need ALSA rather than OSS sound drivers if you're using a > > 2.4 kernel. (At least, I did; maybe because I was using integrated > > sound on the motherboard, rather than some more capable sound card. > > Anyway, OSS didn't support full duplex on my hardware.) > > I'm already running ALSA rather than OSS sound drivers. I updated to > the unstable KPhone and I'm having the same results. I've tried > messing around with the Arts config, but it appears that KPhone goes > directly to the sound device since I get the same results whether Arts > is running or not. > > I've tried different codecs and changing the symetric signalling > settings, but nothing has helped. > > It's strange to me, I call my cellphone to test it and when I speak > into the cellphone, I hear my voice on the PC headset. And, when I > speak into the PC headset, I hear my voice on the PC headset. > > The really strange thing is that it works using LinPhone. But I want > to use Kphone since I like the interface better, and Kphone > successfully registers with my companies SIP Proxy server where > LinPhone can't due to message 484 (Address Incomplete). Well, I don't know what changed, but KPhone works fine now. I can't explain it. Oh well, I probably made some obscure config change and don't realize what it was. :-\ jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: KPhone audio
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:39:34 +0200 Hervé Piedvache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for my stupid question ... I'm a beginner with kphone ... I have > tried to register to different server found at > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/servers.html > > But each time the resgistration time out ... > > Any idea ?? > > Thanks ... Run KPhone from a terminal window so you can see the the messages going back and forth. Post any errors you see. Other than that, make sure you have the proper registration info associated with the server. Some of those servers require that you create a new user id. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: KPhone audio
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:55:30 +0200 Hervé Piedvache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le vendredi 9 Juillet 2004 00:16, Jeff Coppock a écrit : > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:39:34 +0200 > > > > Hervé Piedvache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry for my stupid question ... I'm a beginner with kphone ... I > > > have tried to register to different server found at > > > http://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/servers.html > > > > > > But each time the resgistration time out ... > > > > > > Any idea ?? > > > > > > Thanks ... > > > > Run KPhone from a terminal window so you can see the the messages > > going back and forth. Post any errors you see. Other than that, > > make sure you have the proper registration info associated with the > > server. Some of those servers require that you create a new user > > id. > > I get soemthing like this : > > SipClient: Sending: 00:54:30.771 Are you not getting any "SipClient: Recieve ..." messages? > MessageSocket::setHostname(): gethostbyname() failed: Succès This makes me think your PC doesn't have a properly configured hostname and DNS setup. Check these out using the hostname command and the --fqdn option. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: Tutorial for kphone?
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:55:08 +0200 Hauke Goos-Habermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > is there documentation or a tutorial about kphone, that shows proper > configuration etc.? > > Cu Hauke The closest thing I've found is here: http://graphics.cs.uni-sb.de/VoIP/en/config.html I'm also writing my own based on my use on a particular SIP Proxy server (from Nortel Networks). I only just started it, so it'll be awhile forward I could call it complete. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: KDE 3.3: gpg-agent broken, can't sign emails. How to fix?
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:45:06 -0600 Doug Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2004 5:53 pm, Doug Holland wrote: > > Did the trick for me too, thanks. > > > > Doug > > Except for one thing - I think my signatures are getting borked when > kmail sends my mail - view source on this message or my last one. > > If I look at my same messages in Sent Mail, the signatures are fine. > > Doug > My check on your signature checks out fine. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
Re: half duplex
Lei Yu wrote: I think the hub does support full duplex. It is netgear dual speed hub model DS104. These "dual-speed" hubs are still hubs. They simply provide a single switch (bridge) between the 10Mbps and the 100Mbps segments. Essentially, it combines a 10Mbps hub and a 100Mbps hub into a single unit and then a switch circuit connects the two. So, being a hub (repeater), only half duplex is supported. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: half duplex
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 02 August 2005 01:45 pm, Jeff Coppock wrote: Lei Yu wrote: I think the hub does support full duplex. It is netgear dual speed hub model DS104. These "dual-speed" hubs are still hubs. They simply provide a single switch (bridge) between the 10Mbps and the 100Mbps segments. Essentially, it combines a 10Mbps hub and a 100Mbps hub into a single unit and then a switch circuit connects the two. Aren't home-user oriented dual-speed ethernet devices typically implemented in the form of a switch? Not from what I see. But both are available, you're just gonna pay more for a "switch" than for a "hub" since there is more circuitry in the switch. If the dual-speed ethernet device says "hub", each unit has a built-in self-learning bridge which provides the communications link between the 10 and 100 Mbps network devices. The intelligent bridge automatically manages network traffic such that 100 Mbps traffic does not unnecessarily crowd the 10 Mbps network segment and 10 Mbps traffic does not crowd the 100 Mbps segment. If the dual-speed ethernet device says "switch", then each port is bridged individually, so each port supports both HD and FD. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Korganizer New Event Window Size
This is more of an annoyance than a problem. Whenever I go to enter a new event in the calendar, whether I click on the Toolbar button or select some timeslots on the day/week view, the New Event window that pops up always covers the entire width of the screen. I'm running version 3.5. Does anyone have any ideas on how this might be fixed? thanks, jc -- .--. |@_@ | | \_/ | Jeff Coppock / / \ \Network Engineer ( || ) Diggin' Debian / ' \_ _/ ` \ \___)=(___/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Korganizer New Event Window Size
-Original Message- > From: Jeff Coppock > Sent: Friday 11 August 2006 09:08 > To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org > Subject: Korganizer New Event Window Size > > > This is more of an annoyance than a problem. Whenever I go to enter a new > event in the calendar, whether I click on the Toolbar button or select > some timeslots on the day/week view, the New Event window that pops > up always covers the entire width of the screen. I'm running version 3.5. > Does anyone have any ideas on how this might be fixed? Well, I couldn't find anything on this, but I discovered the "Special Window Settings" capability in the "Advanced" window menu. I set the window size to "Remember" and it's doing what I want. jc -- .--. |@_@ | | \_/ | Jeff Coppock / / \ \Network Engineer ( | | ) Diggin' Debian / ' \_ _/ ` \ \___)=(___/ -- Jeff Coppock Sales Engineer http://www.nortel.com Main: 925 867 2005 ESN 433 2005 Cell: 925 548 0741 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kwavecontrol - can't restart as root
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I need to try... For some reason I can no longer restart kwavecontrol as root. It starts fine, and then when I try, and enter my root password, it fails stating "Incorrect password" even though the password is correct. I purged and reinstalled, but it still doesn't work. I don't see any bugs relating to this yet, but I'm still looking. Does anyone have any ideas on this? thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Network Engineer Diggin' Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kwavecontrol - can't restart as root
Upon further investigation, I find that I've run into Bug #393041. gksu works fine, so I'll just use that till the bug is fixed. jc -Original Message----- From: Jeff Coppock Sent: Monday 23 October 2006 15:20 To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Kwavecontrol - can't restart as root I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I need to try... For some reason I can no longer restart kwavecontrol as root. It starts fine, and then when I try, and enter my root password, it fails stating "Incorrect password" even though the password is correct. I purged and reinstalled, but it still doesn't work. I don't see any bugs relating to this yet, but I'm still looking. Does anyone have any ideas on this? thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Network Engineer Diggin' Debian -- Jeff Coppock Network Engineer Diggin' Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kwavecontrol - can't restart as root
System is "Testing", version of kwavecontrol is 0.4.2-2. jc -Original Message----- From: Jeff Coppock Sent: Monday 23 October 2006 15:20 To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Kwavecontrol - can't restart as root I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I need to try... For some reason I can no longer restart kwavecontrol as root. It starts fine, and then when I try, and enter my root password, it fails stating "Incorrect password" even though the password is correct. I purged and reinstalled, but it still doesn't work. I don't see any bugs relating to this yet, but I'm still looking. Does anyone have any ideas on this? thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Network Engineer Diggin' Debian -- Jeff Coppock Sales Engineer http://www.nortel.com Main: 925 867 2005 ESN 433 2005 Cell: 925 548 0741 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
