Problem with my DELL (cdrom)
Dear all, I have a debian sarge (2.6.12-1-686) on my DELL Inspiron 6000, but i have a little problem with the cdrom. In fstab file, cdrom is /dev/hdc, but when i put a cd into cdrom and try to mount it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom) display "mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist". Someone knows the way in order to resolve the problem? thanks to all __ TISCALI ADSL Solo con Tiscali Adsl navighi senza limiti e telefoni senza canone Telecom a partire da 19,95 Euro/mese. Attivala subito, I PRIMI DUE MESI SONO GRATIS! CLICCA QUI: http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/sa/1e25flat_tc/
Re: Problem with my DELL (cdrom)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have a debian sarge (2.6.12-1-686) on my DELL Inspiron 6000, but i have a little problem with the cdrom. In fstab file, cdrom is /dev/hdc, but when i put a cd into cdrom and try to mount it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom) display "mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist". Someone knows the way in order to resolve the problem? thanks to all __ TISCALI ADSL Solo con Tiscali Adsl navighi senza limiti e telefoni senza canone Telecom a partire da 19,95 Euro/mese. Attivala subito, I PRIMI DUE MESI SONO GRATIS! CLICCA QUI: http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/sa/1e25flat_tc/ Sometimes the CD-ROM is emulated as a SCSI device (especially with 2.4 kernels). hence the file should be more like: /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0 Also sometimes the CDROM is placed in /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 Try them to see if any work. Ogi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my DELL (cdrom)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In fstab file, cdrom is /dev/hdc, but when i put a cd into cdrom and > try to mount it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom) display > "mount: special > device /dev/hdc does not exist". Someone knows the way in order to > resolve the problem? Take a look here: http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/inspiron6000.php Looks like [1] the DELL Inspiron 6000 (like my ThinkPad T43) got a PIIX SATA bridge via which the ATAPI cdrom is connected. I guess the same solution therefore could be applied to get everything to work, so take a look at [2]. HTH, Gina Häussge [1] : http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/inspiron6000.php [2] : http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p_cdrw_dvdrw_multi_burner -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDjbnmMiMw/6TM234RAuSJAKCgA247oGG+Cdh5hpDO/PBxV85DdACfazGS 3v0hYNiQKMDtzzjV6+ZV4D4= =4EAI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my DELL (cdrom)
> Dear all, > I have a debian sarge (2.6.12-1-686) on my DELL Inspiron 6000, but i have > a little problem with the cdrom. > In fstab file, cdrom is /dev/hdc, but when i put a cd into cdrom and try > to mount it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom) display "mount: special > > device /dev/hdc does not exist". > Someone knows the way in order to resolve the problem? Special files are created at bootup, I have found (maybe someone on the list can fill in important details on this point?), and quite often this problem affects USB device files - the solution usually is to reboot with a USB device attached to one of the USB ports. I am surprised to hear you have this problem with an IDE device. Try to reboot and see if the device file is created If not created, then create it yourself, with mknod. Below is my output of ls -l for /dev/hdc, which is a DVD-writer on my desktop: brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-11-30 23:02 /dev/hdc So, using the following for mknod would I think do the trick for you (as root): mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 Good luck, Gernot Hassenpflug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: My netcard doesn't do it..
Mike Jankowski wrote:
Hi,
ehm, my lspci output.
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556B Hurricane CardBus (rev 20)
Googling for your Ethernet controller ("3Com Corporation 3c556B linux")
one of the first results is:
http://www.svenstedt.se/linux/T22.html
ACPI
There is a major problem with ACPI enabled in the kernel. The ethernet
controller shuts down when booting and there is no way to enabled it again but
to disable ACPI. This is a known bug. ACPI also disables the possibility to use
suspend mode.
So my suggestion is:
a) try to disable acpi on boot
b) try to install a 2.6 kernel (if you have the default 2.4 kernel).
Maybe the issue is resolved in 2.6.
On another website
http://www.trustx.net/tp/thinkpad_x20.html
a similar netcard is reported working on a debian woody system.
Johannes
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Re: Trying Debian?
Freedomand non-propriety being the primary ones. (yes, I'm aware of the X.orgissue in ubuntu, but it's a minor compromise I'm willing to make) -CHi, i've already succesfully installed Kubuntu on my laptop (got a bit tired of fedora). Xorg.conf was, indeed, the key: I changed driver from ATI to VESA (which caused some progression, but the screen still remained black in the end), and booted up with the vga=771 parameter (which worked). Now i need still to reinstall xorg, and the ati driver. The sound actually works now ;-) Now I need to find out how to implement the apic and lapic in my kernel. BTW: None of the distributions had a working pcmcia (or apic or how it's called).Is there an easy way to 'downgrade' (pardon my french) from KDE to GNOME? Is Xfree still 'in', or is it a thing of the past?Cheers (and thanks!), Johan
Re: Re: ATI Radeon IGP 345M graphics card
Please need upgrade for Radeon IGP 345M. will you kindly help me. Thank you. Mike Cochran
Re: Re: ATI Radeon IGP 345M graphics card
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stereo component from laptop?
Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to figure out which audio player to use and, more generally, how to configure the interface for maximum efficiency and ease of use by my (non-technical) family members. Here's a few considerations: KERNEL: I want to support my PCMCIA wireless card, the suspend2 kernel patches from suspend2.net, and hopefully ACPI, so I think I will go with a recent 2.6 kernel and udev. I know this is a significant strain on the limited CPU/RAM resources, but I hope it's not fatal. GUI: When I had a little more RAM in this machine I used XFCE4, but I'm wondering if I should switch to something even more stripped down. Because security is of limited importance now (I'd want anyone to be able to just start the thing up) I would also be interested in dropping WDM and just starting X directly (I used to do that at one point; don't really remember how, but am sure I can dredge it back up). My only requirements are that it be pretty to look at and relatively intuitive for a Windows user (so, window behaviour should be pretty similar to 'doze). PLAYER: The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing. My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows. Also there's no built-in playlist manager, which confuses them. I've lately taken to using Amarok on my desktop, which I find a pretty satisfying experience (though occacionally buggy, e.g. crashes when it encounters a radio stream it doesn't like). But I hesitate to install something that depends so heavily on the kde environment to work. Haven't used Rhythmbox for a while, but it used to crash on my all the time when I did use it. BMP is easier to look at than xmms is, but it still doesn't have a playlist manager (far as I can tell). [by playlist manager I mean a usable GUI that lets you choose among playlist you've created. Not sure this is the right term...] So none of the options with which I'm familiar seem perfect. Does anyone have any suggestions? Like, can amarok work without loading hundreds of megs of kde/qt stuff into memory? Is there a playlist manager plugin for bmp? It would be great if all of this worked well enough for a 10-year-old to be able to use it. SOUND DAEMON: I'm used to using esd , seems to work ifne, thought I'd stick with it unless there are other suggestions... Thanks much fory our help! Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with my DELL (cdrom)
Gina Haeussge wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In fstab file, cdrom is /dev/hdc, but when i put a cd into cdrom and >> try to mount it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom) display >> "mount: special >> device /dev/hdc does not exist". Someone knows the way in order to >> resolve the problem? > > Take a look here: http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/inspiron6000.php > > Looks like [1] the DELL Inspiron 6000 (like my ThinkPad T43) got a PIIX > SATA bridge via which the ATAPI cdrom is connected. I guess the same > solution therefore could be applied to get everything to work, so take a > look at [2]. As Gina says, it's NOT on /dev/hdc. Whatever made you think it is? Mine is /dev/scd0, and I can't imagine any reason yours would be different. If you must mount via /etc/fstab, then: /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 But it's so much easier to use hal / pmount / udev (don't know if that's available in Sarge - I'm using Ubuntu) to handle it all pretty much transparently. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stereo component from laptop?
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:17:56 -0500 Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd > player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo > component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a > pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to > figure out which audio player to use and, more generally, how to > configure the interface for maximum efficiency and ease of use by my > (non-technical) family members. > > Here's a few considerations: > > KERNEL: > I want to support my PCMCIA wireless card, the suspend2 kernel patches > from suspend2.net, and hopefully ACPI, so I think I will go with a > recent 2.6 kernel and udev. I know this is a significant strain on > the limited CPU/RAM resources, but I hope it's not fatal. > > GUI: > When I had a little more RAM in this machine I used XFCE4, but I'm > wondering if I should switch to something even more stripped down. > Because security is of limited importance now (I'd want anyone to be > able to just start the thing up) I would also be interested in > dropping WDM and just starting X directly (I used to do that at one > point; don't really remember how, but am sure I can dredge it back > up). My only requirements are that it be pretty to look at and > relatively intuitive for a Windows user (so, window behaviour should > be pretty similar to 'doze). > > PLAYER: > The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing. > > My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little > disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows. Also > there's no built-in playlist manager, which confuses them. > > I've lately taken to using Amarok on my desktop, which I find a pretty > satisfying experience (though occacionally buggy, e.g. crashes when it > encounters a radio stream it doesn't like). But I hesitate to install > something that depends so heavily on the kde environment to work. > Haven't used Rhythmbox for a while, but it used to crash on my all the > time when I did use it. BMP is easier to look at than xmms is, but it > still doesn't have a playlist manager (far as I can tell). [by > playlist manager I mean a usable GUI that lets you choose among > playlist you've created. Not sure this is the right term...] > > So none of the options with which I'm familiar seem perfect. Does > anyone have any suggestions? Like, can amarok work without loading > hundreds of megs of kde/qt stuff into memory? Is there a playlist > manager plugin for bmp? > > It would be great if all of this worked well enough for a 10-year-old > to be able to use it. > > SOUND DAEMON: > I'm used to using esd , seems to work ifne, thought I'd stick with it > unless there are other suggestions... > > Thanks much fory our help! > > Matt Hi Matt Maybe it is wise to see what a normal desktop install of Debian 3.1 (Sarge) or Ubuntu 5.10 can do for you. I think it meets your requirements. On a side note: Totem is my favourite media player, but that is of course just an opinion. Linux can be tweaked and fine tuned to your desires, it is just a matter of doing it. For example suspend; downloading one of the latest kernel (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.13.4.tar.bz2 ) and the acpi patch (e.g. http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.6.13/acpi-20050902-2.6.13.diff.bz2 ) did the job on for me; that is suspend to memory and disk using acpi :) (forget apm in such case) Rob de Graaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stereo component from laptop?
Heh, I'm in the process of a OSS project to build a standalone mp3/AAC/mp4/ogg/CD-Audio player, and its coming along nicely (well, it plays music - just need to sort out the LCD display + keypad, and I have not had much time to work on it lately). But that isn't done yet, so I can't recommend you use it just yet ;-) Currently (until the project is finished) what I did was to build an embedded system using the ESounD Daemon. Basically its an old 75Mhz laptop, with 8 mb ram, a pcmcia wifi card (atheros chipset) and a 16 bit soundcard. The custom distro initialises the sound and wifi card, connects to my wireless network and sets up a sound server. I can connect to it from any PC on the network and stream it music. This way me (and the rest of my family) can use their own computers (and the players they know) and stream music to the server, which is permanently connected to the HI-FI. Actually I was surprised how easy it was, and am considering making a few more of these to connect to other stereos, that way I can pick from my laptop where I want the music to emerge. Oh, and the distro fits on a 16mb CF card (it can fit in less, i'm saying about 4 meg, but I dont have a smaller CF card). If you want I can send you the .img file for my sound server (but just to tell you, some work will be required for configuration, probably changing the ESSID/IP Addr of the network, and possibly a kernel recompile for your wifi-card). If on the other hand, you want to use a standard distro, have a look at the ESD webpage (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html). It hasn't been updated in a while, but the program has so far worked flawlessly. Just install that on your base distro and configure it - you will need a client-side plugin for it though, Most linux audio software supports it (i know there is a plugin for xmms) and i believe (but cannot confirm) that there exists a winamp plugin for it as well. Hope this reply was of any use :-) Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to figure out which audio player to use and, more generally, how to configure the interface for maximum efficiency and ease of use by my (non-technical) family members. Here's a few considerations: KERNEL: I want to support my PCMCIA wireless card, the suspend2 kernel patches from suspend2.net, and hopefully ACPI, so I think I will go with a recent 2.6 kernel and udev. I know this is a significant strain on the limited CPU/RAM resources, but I hope it's not fatal. GUI: When I had a little more RAM in this machine I used XFCE4, but I'm wondering if I should switch to something even more stripped down. Because security is of limited importance now (I'd want anyone to be able to just start the thing up) I would also be interested in dropping WDM and just starting X directly (I used to do that at one point; don't really remember how, but am sure I can dredge it back up). My only requirements are that it be pretty to look at and relatively intuitive for a Windows user (so, window behaviour should be pretty similar to 'doze). PLAYER: The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing. My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows. Also there's no built-in playlist manager, which confuses them. I've lately taken to using Amarok on my desktop, which I find a pretty satisfying experience (though occacionally buggy, e.g. crashes when it encounters a radio stream it doesn't like). But I hesitate to install something that depends so heavily on the kde environment to work. Haven't used Rhythmbox for a while, but it used to crash on my all the time when I did use it. BMP is easier to look at than xmms is, but it still doesn't have a playlist manager (far as I can tell). [by playlist manager I mean a usable GUI that lets you choose among playlist you've created. Not sure this is the right term...] So none of the options with which I'm familiar seem perfect. Does anyone have any suggestions? Like, can amarok work without loading hundreds of megs of kde/qt stuff into memory? Is there a playlist manager plugin for bmp? It would be great if all of this worked well enough for a 10-year-old to be able to use it. SOUND DAEMON: I'm used to using esd , seems to work ifne, thought I'd stick with it unless there are other suggestions... Thanks much fory our help! Matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATI Radeon IGP 345M graphics card
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:48:20 +0200 "TMC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please need upgrade for Radeon IGP 345M. will you kindly help me. > Thank you. > Mike Cochran Hi Mike, I think you have to specify more information on the problem and what you are trying to accomplish. For example; your screen is blank after startup of X, or you are now using generic video driver, etc...) Regards, Rob de Graaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stereo component from laptop?
On 11/30/05, Ognjen Bezanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, I'm in the process of a OSS project to build a standalone > mp3/AAC/mp4/ogg/CD-Audio player, and its coming along nicely (well, it > plays music - just need to sort out the LCD display + keypad, and I have > not had much time to work on it lately). > > But that isn't done yet, so I can't recommend you use it just yet ;-) > > Currently (until the project is finished) what I did was to build an > embedded system using the ESounD Daemon. > > Basically its an old 75Mhz laptop, with 8 mb ram, a pcmcia wifi card > (atheros chipset) and a 16 bit soundcard. The custom distro initialises > the sound and wifi card, connects to my wireless network > and sets up a sound server. I can connect to it from any PC on the > network and stream it music. This way me (and the rest of my family) can > use their own computers (and the players they know) and stream music to > the server, which is permanently connected to the HI-FI. huh, this is very interesting. I would love to get the .img file -- not exactly sure what a .img file is, but I have used files with this extension to start up qemu so I assumethis is some kind of disk image... At the least itwould be something to referto as Im building this up. The laptop I m looking at is considerably more powerful & the system I was thinking of is somewhat less ambitious -- the streaming probably isnt so important, though it would be lots of fun to implement. But Id like very much to seewhat youve done! > > Oh, and the distro fits on a 16mb CF card (it can fit in less, i'm > saying about 4 meg, but I dont have a smaller CF card). > > If you want I can send you the .img file for my sound server (but just > to tell you, some work will be required for configuration, probably > changing the ESSID/IP Addr of the network, and possibly a kernel > recompile for your wifi-card). shouldnt be so hard, from the sound of it. > > If on the other hand, you want to use a standard distro, have a look at > the ESD webpage > (http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html). It hasn't been updated in a > while, but the program has so far worked flawlessly. Just install that > on your base distro and configure it - you will need a client-side > plugin for it though, Most linux audio software supports it (i know > there is a plugin for xmms) and i believe (but cannot confirm) that > there exists a winamp plugin for it as well. > I think I wiill veyr likely use esd, thanks! > Hope this reply was of any use :-) > very interesting in any case! matt
Re: stereo component from laptop?
On 11/30/05, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > as a result of various events, I have an extra laptop and no cd > player, so I would like to convert the laptop into a stereo > component. It's an HP Omnibook 4100, PII MMX 266, with 96 megs RAM, a > pretty big hard drive (30 megs) and a CD-ROM (no DVD). I'm trying to ^ er, thats 30 gigs, sorry!
