Locale configuration for GNOME menu

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm running "testing" with a localized GNOME 2.10.2 (de-de) and am experiencing 
some locale problems here. A while ago, an "apt-get upgrade" changed the GNOME 
menu to English: The menu itself displays "Anwendungen" (the localized 
"Applications") but all contained folders are labelled in English rather than 
German. Does anybody have any ideas which package or file is responsible for 
the displayed folder names so I can dpkg-reconfigure or edit it?

I know this is not quite a laptop-related question, but I am hoping for a 
rather quick fix.

I'd appreciate any help!

Thanks,
André
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Re: Locale configuration for GNOME menu [solved]

[André Wendt]

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running "testing" with a localized GNOME 2.10.2 (de-de) and am
> experiencing some locale problems here. A while ago, an "apt-get upgrade"
> changed the GNOME menu to English: The menu itself displays "Anwendungen"
> (the localized "Applications") but all contained folders are labelled in
> English rather than German. Does anybody have any ideas which package or
> file is responsible for the displayed folder names so I can
> dpkg-reconfigure or edit it?
>
> I know this is not quite a laptop-related question, but I am hoping for a
> rather quick fix.
>
> I'd appreciate any help!
>
> Thanks,
> André

Never mind! Obviously, a new version of the gnome-core package (?) fixed
the problem (and changed the GNOME menu big time, but at least
everything's in one language again...)

Regards,
André


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madwifi: modprobe complains about "Invalid module format"

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I've been working with madwifi on a Thinkpad T41P for over half a year now and 
have had no problems. New kernel versions needed a re-compile of the module, 
which was painless and done quickly.

With kernel 2.6.12 however, I've ran into the problem that 

# modprobe ath_pci

results inWARNING: Error inserting ath_hal 
(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_hal.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/wlan.ko): Invalid module 
format
WARNING: Error inserting ath_rate_onoe 
(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_rate_onoe.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid 
module format

WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_hal.ko): Invalid 
module format
WARNING: Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/wlan.ko): Invalid module 
format
WARNING: Error inserting ath_rate_onoe 
(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_rate_onoe.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid 
module format

I set the KERNELPATH variable correctly, and I am using a kernel that supports 
modules. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any suggestions,
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Re: madwifi: modprobe complains about "Invalid module format"

[André Wendt]

Frank schrieb:
> Could the kernel you are using have been compiled with a different compiler 
> then the modules you are trying to modprobe?
> 
> Look at $modinfo ath_pci
> There should be a line like the following:
>   vermagic:   2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 gcc-4.0
> telling you for which kernel headers and with which compiler the module was 
> compiled. This has to equal the values for the kernel.
> 
> Am Dienstag, 11. Oktober 2005 16:51 schrieb André Wendt:
> 
>>WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_hal.ko): Invalid module format WARNING: Error
>>inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/wlan.ko): Invalid module format
>>WARNING: Error inserting ath_rate_onoe
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_rate_onoe.ko): Invalid module format FATAL:
>>Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid
>>module format
>>
>>WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_hal.ko):
>>Invalid module format WARNING: Error inserting wlan
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/wlan.ko): Invalid module format WARNING: Error
>>inserting ath_rate_onoe (/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_rate_onoe.ko): Invalid
>>module format FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci
>>(/lib/modules/2.6.12/net/ath_pci.ko): Invalid module format
>>
>>I set the KERNELPATH variable correctly, and I am using a kernel that
>>supports modules. What am I doing wrong?

Oh great, I could have thought of that myself, Frank. ;-)

I compiled the kernel with gcc-3.3, but I think I might have compiled
the module with the current gcc-4.0.

Thanks, if that doesn't help, I'll post another message on the topic.

Best regards,
Andre


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Re: x.org und Probleme mit Eingabe von Accents

[André Wendt]

> Hallo zusammen,
>
> ich benutze x.org (Sid) mit KDE 3.4.2 und merke erst jetzt, dass ich
> Probleme mit der Eingabe von Accents habe. Wenn ich Accent ague (geht
> nach rechts oben) drücke komm bei mir folgendes Zeichen: '.
>
> Ich habe ein wenig an der /etc/X11/xorg.conf herumgedoktort, aber ohne
> Erfolg.
> -%<-
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier  "Generic Keyboard"
> Driver  "keyboard"
> Option  "CoreKeyboard"
> Option  "XkbRules"  "xfree86"
> Option  "XkbModel"  "pc105"
> Option  "XkbLayout" "de_DE"
> Option  "XkbVariant""nodeadkeys"
> EndSection
> %<-
>
> Also nach einigem googlen müsste das doch wunderbar stimmen!?!
>
> Vielleicht habt ihr den entscheidenden Hinweis.
>
> Grüssle, Tobi

Translation: I'm using X.org on a SID box with KDE 3.4.2 and realize only
now that accents do not work (German keyboard layout).

Tobi, please stick to English on this list. The solution is easy: Change
your keyboard layout in your xorg.conf to

  Option "XkbVariant" "deadkeys"

and you should be able work with accents. I've had the same problem.

Regards,
André


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gnome puts .trash files on network shares

[André Wendt]

Hello,

a fellow student just showed me that GNOME puts .trash-{username} files on 
network shares where I have deleted files. This might be useful for local parts 
of the filesystem, but it is NOT a smart thing to do on network shares.

Does anybody know where I can prevent GNOME from doing this?

Regards,
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Madwifi + network LED on Thinkpad T41p

[André Wendt]

Hi there,

after finally getting Madwifi to work with WPA at home (I had to recompile
a more recent snapshot of the driver), I noticed the network LED on my
T41p comes on only when wireless traffic occurs.

It used to come on when bringing up the wireless interface and only went
off when shutting it down again.

Can I change that behavior back again? Can I do so without having to
recompile the driver?

Thanks,
André


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Thinkpad + acpid: Shutting down when running low on battery

[André Wendt]

Hi again,

whenever I am on batteries, my battstat-applet in GNOME warns me if
there's only 5% of capacity left. However, that's still 10-15 minutes
which I want to use to save battery life -- I'm afraid plugging the cable
in too early is going to waste the battery (correct me if I'm wrong here).
In those 10-15 minutes I tend to forget the warning while working, so I
ended up with a blank screen twice before.

My question: Is there any possibility to tell GNOME to save the session
and shutdown when the battery runs low and thus save my work?

Thanks,
André


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Seeking wireless PCI card

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I know this isn't specifically laptop-related, but since it has to do with
wifi and WPA, I thought I'd try it here.

Can anyone of you recommend a wireless PCI card that is WPA-capable? I'm
considering a Netgear WG311, but I've also heard of driver problems b/c of
different types.

Are there alternatives you can recommend?

Thanks,
André


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OSS Sound broken

[André Wendt]

Hi,

for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing is broken, probably
due to some upgrade. No packages have been purged. /var/log/aptitude says:

[UPGRADE] libsdl1.2debian-oss 1.2.9-0.0 -> 1.2.9-0.1

I can't seem to find anything else remotely related to this. Anyone else
have the same problem?

Thanks,
André


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OSS Sound broken

[André Wendt]

Hi,

for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing is broken, probably
due to some upgrade. No packages have been purged. /var/log/aptitude says:

[UPGRADE] libsdl1.2debian-oss 1.2.9-0.0 -> 1.2.9-0.1

I can't seem to find anything else remotely related to this. Anyone else
have the same problem?

Thanks,
André


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Re: OSS Sound broken

[André Wendt]

Thanks for the hint, Clive. I didn't know OSS was deprecated. I'll try to
switch to ALSA once I get GNOME 2.12 to work...

Still, this is no satisfying solution.

Regards,
André

> On (10/02/06 15:48), André Wendt wrote:
>> for a couple of days my OSS sound on Debian/testing is broken, probably
>> due to some upgrade. No packages have been purged. /var/log/aptitude
>> says:
>>
>> [UPGRADE] libsdl1.2debian-oss 1.2.9-0.0 -> 1.2.9-0.1
>>
>> I can't seem to find anything else remotely related to this. Anyone else
>> have the same problem?
>
> I had the same problem a while ago in sid; I'd upgraded something or
> other.  I was informed OSS is now depricated and it was recommended to
> use ALSA.  Worked for me :)
>
> Regards
>
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Dependency problems with GNOME 2.12 in testing

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm trying to get GNOME 2.12 into my Debian/testing. Some 49 packages are
being held back, and upgrading results in unresolved dependencies.
Example:

# aptitude install gnome-media

wants to automatically install (among others) avahi-daemon and dbus which
will remove dbus-1. This will, however, automatically remove more than ten
gnome packages that I still use.

Does anyone have a clue which packages to install in what order to solve
those dependencies?

Thanks,
André


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Re: Dependency problems with GNOME 2.12 in testing

[André Wendt]

Hi,

thanks for the info, Adam. I was afraid so. I have managed to get the
update through without any more problems, but my laptop halts without
reason since this morning, rendering it pretty much useless after an
upgrade to X.Org 6.9 and some GNOME packages.

At first I thought it's GNOME and its mixture of 2.10/2.12 packages that I
have installed, but the problem persists even after the GNOME upgrade was
completed. After not more than 30 (sometimes 10) minutes of work, the
system halts, no keyboard/mouse input is recognized and I have to reboot.
The network interfaces are down (no reply to ping), and I can't switch to
a console.

I still wasn't able to figure out what's causing this, but the kernel
might the problem. Anyway, I have no way to find out since there's nothing
even remotely related to it in the logs.

Same problem in GNOME, GNOME safe-mode, and E-GNOME (GNOME with
Enlightenment as WM). I might try a newer kernel from kernel.org and hope
for the best.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
André

> hey
> there's an ongoing problem in testing and unstable with packages hal,
yaird and udev, as well as hte kernel.  at this point, if you try to
upgrade anything major such as gnome, you'll need a new kernel image
from unstable, and you'll need udev at the latest version.
>
> serioulsy though, i spent at least a week trying to fix this, and since
new versions of udev and hal are being released every few weeks atm, i
woudln't suggest trying to upgrade to testing until the
> problems are resolved.
>
> otherwise, first do your kernel and udev and anythign that requires, and
then do apt-get dist-upgrade and hope for hte best.  if it tells you it
is going to break or remove gnome, leave it for a week and try it again.
>
> cheers
> adam
>
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Re: Dependency problems with GNOME 2.12 in testing

[André Wendt]

I'm running a self-compiled vanilla kernel 2.6.12. I just tried 2.6.15
with the same result -- freeze in GNOME after about 6 minutes.

Funny thing is: I can't downgrade to GNOME 2.10:

# aptitude install gnome-desktop-data=2.10.2-1

tells me "Cannot find version 2.10.2-1 of package gnome-desktop-data."
Same with "=2.10.2".

Is there any way I can install a specific version of all the packages I
upgraded yesterday? I'm afraid I cleaned /var/cache/apt too regularly, but
there must be some other way to downgrade.

Thanks,
André

> which kernel are you running now?
> you can get the new one from the unstable repositories, just do
> apt-get -t unstable -r kernel-image-2.6-386 (or 2.6-686 if you have a
> newer machine)
>
> if you're wanting to keep mostly testing/stable packages and use the
> newest Gnome, in its current state its pretty much impossible, sorry
>
> adam
>
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xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

[André Wendt]

Hi,

seems like an xserver-xorg upgrade to 6.9.0 screwed up the radeon driver:
Whenever I log in, I just have to wait between 5 and 20 minutes before X
hangs. Keyboard and mouse input is ignored, nothing works except hard
reboot. I can't seem to be able to use fglrx, since fglrx-driver from
testing AND unstable depend on xserver-xorg << 6.8.99.

The package lists about a dozen bug reports related to this problem, but
no real solution.

I considered downgrading to xserver-xorg 6.8.2, but this doesn't work as
packages.d.o is down and aptitude tells me it cannot find version 6.8.2...

For me, the only way out of this dilemma is using the vesa driver which
obviously doesn't support a resolution higher than 1024x768 (and believe
me, this is not funny when working with Eclipse!).

So, I wondered if anyone would be willing to share his/her .deb of
xserver-xorg version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 by hosting it and sending the link?
(Or just telling me where to download it. I feel like I searched
everywhere.)

Thanks,
André


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Re: xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

[André Wendt]

> On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:30:30PM +0100, André Wendt wrote:
>> So, I wondered if anyone would be willing to share his/her .deb of
>> xserver-xorg version 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 by hosting it and sending the link?
>> (Or just telling me where to download it. I feel like I searched
>> everywhere.)
>
> If you have an idea of when it was on debian.org, you can easily find it
> on
> snapshot.debian.net.  It looks like January 1st will do:
>
> http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2006/01/01/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/
>

Thanks, Paul! I downgraded just this one package and am now running 34
minutes without crash. Sounds ridiculous, but I'm happy...

Regards,
André


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Re: xserver-xorg hangs with radeon / ati driver

[André Wendt]

Hi,

>   flgrx is delivered as only binary and Ati says that this binary driver
will only work for 6.8, it is not a constraint from xorg.

I don't think so. Since ATI drivers are proprietary, it is up to Debian to
classify the dependencies. And there are a couple of people out there
using the latest fglrx from ATI with X.Org 6.9 even though they don't
support it. Never mind, I don't need fglrx as everything works in X.Org
6.8.

>   I found that the xorg 6.8 locked my system (desktop) so I had to upgrde
> to 6.9 and no problems now with a Radeon X600. Are you using composite?
I > would advise to put it off in case of problems. And in case of more
> problems I would disable all accelarations just to try to debug the
> problem Option "NoAccel" in the xorg.conf.

I'm running X.Org 6.8 now and everything's fine, just like before the
upgrade. No more debugging necessary. I wasn't using composite.

>   FYI, I use 1280x1024.

I have 1400x1050 and 1280x1024 as ModeLine in my xorg.conf, but the vesa
driver ignores it. GNOME doesn't let me set the resolution to something
higher than 1024x768, either. How do you get 1280x1024?

>   As I told you before I wouldn't use 6.8 for this card.

Doesn't matter. I've been using 6.8 with this card (FireGL T2 Mobile) for
two months now and have had no problems. The upgrade to 6.9 _brought_ the
problem, so I downgraded again.

Regards,
André


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GNOME splashscreen stays until clicked since 2.12

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I know this is not quite laptop-related (and I apologize sincerely for
asking anyway), but why does the GNOME splashscreen stay on top of the
screen until I dismiss it with a mouse click? On my Debian/testing this
problem appeared after switching to GNOME 2.12.

Thanks for any hints.

Regards,
André


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USB mouse problem since upgrading to kernel 2.6.15

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm using a custom kernel 2.6.15 and X.org 6.8 on a "testing" laptop. All
of a sudden, I cannot get my USB mouse to work. I have not changed
anything in the kernel config concerning USB devices.

Symptom: When I plug in the mouse, kernel 2.6.12 reports in /var/log/syslog

Mar  5 21:50:01 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using
uhci_hcd and address 6
Mar  5 21:50:01 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft
Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye?] on usb-:00:1d.1-2

and everything works fine, whereas kernel 2.6.15 reports an additional line:

Mar  5 21:28:28 localhost kernel: usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using
uhci_hcd and address 4
Mar  5 21:28:29 localhost kernel: input: Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button
Mouse with IntelliEye? as /class/input/input6
Mar  5 21:28:29 localhost kernel: input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft
Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye?] on usb-:00:1d.1-2

and the mouse does not respond.

How can I determine what the problem is? Any hints would be greatly
appreciated...

Thanks,
André


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Re: Gnome sound system.

[André Wendt]

I'm facing this problem every time a video plug-in in firefox is loaded
and I try to fire up mplayer.

In my case, killing the firefox process helps.

Regards,
André

> I don't know the solution, but i am also facing this problem. :(
>
> On 4/8/06, Surachai Locharoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I use gnome debian version 2.12. When I enable sound in gnome control
>> panel (enable sound for user action such button click or system alert),
>> The music player program seem to be unable to play sound. It show error
>> message that "the sound device is busy"
>>
>> How could I enable sound system in
>> gnome sound and use other music player together?
>>
>> Kan
>>
>>
>>
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Qemu: network connection host => guest

[André Wendt]

Hi,

the qemu (0.8.0-3) documentation implies that the option "-redir
tcp:8080::80" permits a connection from host:8080 to guest:80. However, I
already filed a bug [1] because it doesn't work (connection timeout) --
and I'm not the only one with this problem [2]. According to [3], it
doesn't work at all.

Do you know of any other possibility to connect from the host to the Qemu
guest, e.g. accessing a running server in the emulation?

Thanks,
André

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=366847
[2] http://qemu.dad-answers.com/viewtopic.php?p=4866
[3] http://qemu.dad-answers.com/viewtopic.php?p=4915


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Re: Qemu: network connection host => guest

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I just found out that the -redir option does work in qemu when specifying
the IP instead of "localhost" [1].

Best regards and happy connecting,
André

[1] http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html#5


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Priority of network interfaces

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm using ifplugd to connect to a network. Whenever there's wireless and
wired networks available, I usually prefer the wired connection -- it's
faster and works mostly without additional setup (think WPA or VPN). But
when any wireless network is available, Debian wants to use it, no matter
if a network cable is plugged in or not. I have to manually

$ ifdown ath0

the wireless interface before I get a connection. Is there any IF priority
setting available in Debian? What I'd like to do is tell Debian to use the
wired interface when both are available.

Thanks

Best regards,
Andre


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network-manager + madwifi + wpasupplicant

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm trying to use network-manager (0.6.2-3) with madwifi (custom-built
from from madwifi-source 0.svn20060207-6) and wpasupplicant (0.4.9-1) on a
non-encrypted network. I cannot prevent network-manager to start
wpasupplicant when bringing up the wireless interface. /var/log/daemon.log
reports:

Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): IWENCODE
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): Association request to the driver
failed
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): CTRL_IFACE monitor send -
hexdump(len=40): 2f 76 61 72 2f 72 75 6e 2f 4e 65 74 77 6f 72 6b 4dJun 12
16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager: ^Iwpa_supplicant(5242):
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): EAPOL: External notification -
portControl=ForceAuthorized
[..]
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): Removed BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 from
blacklist (clear)
Jun 12 16:16:27 localhost NetworkManager:
^Iwpa_supplicant(5242): Cancelling scan request
Jun 12 16:17:38 localhost NetworkManager: ^IActivation
(ath0/wireless): association took too long (>120s), failing activation.

How can I tell network-manager to use the madwifi driver instead of wext,
if not in /etc/network/interfaces (which is empty except for IF "lo"
because network-manager should configure all interfaces)?

Has anyone gotten network-manager to work with this particular setup and
WPA-PSK?

Thanks for any hints,
André


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Best practice to setup a guest account?

[André Wendt]

Hi,

lately, I came to realize that a guest account would be perfect for my
laptop since friends use it at my place. Since Ubuntu's "Guest login
specification" [1] is far from being implemented, I wondered what's the
least painful way to set up a guest account under GNOME -- apart from the
actual addition of a user?

Moreover, Is there anything I must not forget?

Kind regards,
Andre

[1] https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/gdm-guest-login


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Re: Best practice to setup a guest account?

[André Wendt]

Andrew McMillan schrieb:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 12:43 +0200, André Wendt wrote:
>> Hi,
>> lately, I came to realize that a guest account would be perfect for my
>> laptop since friends use it at my place. Since Ubuntu's "Guest login
>> specification" [1] is far from being implemented, I wondered what's the
>> least painful way to set up a guest account under GNOME -- apart from the
>> actual addition of a user?
>
> Hi André,
>
> The actual addition of a 'guest' user seems likely to be the best way,
really, but you might want to control what that guest account looked
like...
>
> You could use pam_mkhomedir (included in the standard libpam-modules
> package) to automatically create the account's directories on each login.
> This will not remove them when the user logs out, but you could do a cron
> job that removed them periodically or something like that.

Or, I could setup that module to use /tmp/$RANDOM as homedir which purges
the directory more or less automagically... I didn't find any information
how to use that module, could you please give me a link or something?

I also found something called autodir which might be just what I am
looking for. We'll see.

Anyway, I was rather looking for a way to setup that account after adding
the user. Is there anything else I should think about? (Apart from GNOME's
lockdown manager...)

Regards,
André


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gnome-power-manager cannot find dbus

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm trying to get gnome-power-manager to work on my Debian/testing laptop.

However, when I try to start gnome-power-manager, it display the error
message "This program cannot start until you start the dbus session
service. This is usually started automatically in X or gnome startup
when you start a new session."

$ ps aux | grep dbus

gives

100 3855 0.0 0.0 2316 820 ? Ss 20:29 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

(among others), so dbus is running alright.

# gnome-power-manager --verbose

results in the following console output:

[gpm_debug_init] gpm-debug.c:130 (21:31:15): Verbose debugging enabled
*** WARNING ***
[main] gpm-main.c:217 (21:31:15): Unable to determine the address of the
message bus
GNOME Power Manager has encountered a non-critical warning.
Consult
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gnome-power-manager for
any known issues or a possible fix.
Please file a bug with this complete message if not present

Any hints?

Thanks,
André


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Suspend-to-ram and synaptics

[André Wendt]

Hi all,

I've finally got suspend-to-ram to work using /usr/sbin/hibernate
*without* Suspend2 patches in the kernel. The only problem I'm having is
the synaptics driver in X.org -- /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports:

Synaptics DeviceOff called
(II) External Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Synaptics DeviceOn called
(--) Configured Mouse auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event3
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
(--) Configured Mouse touchpad found
ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ?
SynapticsCtrl called.
SynapticsCtrl called.
Synaptics DeviceOff called
(II) External Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Synaptics DeviceOn called
Configured Mouse no synaptics event device found (checked 13 nodes)
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/event3
No such file or directory.
(WW) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device


Any ideas on how to fix the problem?

Kind regards,
André


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Re: Suspend-to-ram and synaptics

[André Wendt]

Vincent Bernat schrieb:
> OoO Lors de la soirée naissante  du jeudi 13 juillet 2006, vers 18:37,
> André Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
> 
>> I've finally got suspend-to-ram to work using /usr/sbin/hibernate
>> *without* Suspend2 patches in the kernel. The only problem I'm having is
>> the synaptics driver in X.org -- /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports:
> 
>> Synaptics DeviceOff called
>> (II) External Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
>> Synaptics DeviceOn called
>> (--) Configured Mouse auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event3
>> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
>> (--) Configured Mouse touchpad found
>> ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ?
>> SynapticsCtrl called.
>> SynapticsCtrl called.
>> Synaptics DeviceOff called
>> (II) External Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
>> Synaptics DeviceOn called
>> Configured Mouse no synaptics event device found (checked 13 nodes)
>> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/event3
>> No such file or directory.
>> (WW) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
> 
> 
>> Any ideas on how to fix the problem?
> 
> You may try  to remove psmouse then modprobe it  again. Then, you need
> to switch to VT1 (for example), then back to VT7. It works for me.

Hi Vincent,

thanks for the hint. Synaptics worked after doing that, but only until I
wanted to write this message -- my laptop froze. I deleted the line
"UnLoadModules psmouse" from hibernate.conf again...

John, I'm using a Thinkpad T41p. lspci says:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O
Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP
Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2
EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL
Mobility T2] (rev 80)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4520 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Mobile) (rev 03)
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

Regards,
André


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Re: Suspend removes /sys files needed for touchpad

[André Wendt]

John O'Hagan schrieb:
> On Thursday 03 August 2006 03:48, Mattia Dongili wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:40:49AM +1000, John O'Hagan wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> After a resume from ram, these files and devices are missing, and
>>> inserting psmouse does not create them. All other devices behave
>>> normally.
>> is a full dmesg available somewhere (after the resume from ram and after
>> re-inserting psmouse)?
> 
> I've included it at the end of this message.
> 
>>> I was trying to write a udev rule to create them, but realized that if
>>> the files are not there in /sys, that won't work.
>> yeah, and I suppose the touchpad doesn't show-up in
>> /proc/bus/input/devices, right?
> 
> That's right.
> 
> [...]
>> If all the above is correct, I'd say this is a kernel problem and you'd
>> better report it to the correct people[1] (maybe after trying the latest
>> and greatest kernel in the hope it's already fixed).
>>
>> [1]: linux-kernel? linux-acpi? linux-input? linux-pm?
>>  for full adrersses of these mailing lists see the MAINTAINERS file:
>> 
>> http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=M
>> AINTAINERS
>>
>> --
> 
> Thanks, will do.
> 
> John

Hi John,

Could you please post any solutions you find over there on this list?
I'm having a similar problem as described in my post on July 14.

Thanks,
André


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Re: Internet in Europe for Travelers

[André Wendt]

David Johnson schrieb:
> This is a follow up to a question I asked about Internet access in Europe.
> Before I get any hate mail, I must say I absolutely love Europe and am
> _very_ glad we have come, however the Internet is not nearly as accessible,
> as fast, or as reliable as it is in the US for travelers.  I impressed and
> pleased with how people can live so well here without the Internet - it's
> hard to imagine living without the Internet in the US.  I feel bad that I am
> so dependent. :(
> 
> In regards to Central Europe at least (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and
> Italy), we have arrived and I can safely say after a few months in a few
> different countries that finding the Internet is a difficult task.  Laptop
> use is relatively infrequent in general; so far I've only seen 3 people with
> their laptop in public.  There are few Internet Cafes, and they are more
> like low grade computer labs than cafes - most were a bit frightening to us.
> In addition these cafes may have just a pay for use computer as opposed to a
> WLAN or Ethernet connection.  In any case the Internet will be expensive -
> typically around $5-15/hour or $25-30/day.  
> 
> The best bet seems to stay in a place that has Internet access. However the
> definition of Internet access is not what I would expect coming from the US,
> and only about 20% of hotels have Internet access.  Numerous times hotels
> have told us they have Internet access yet reality was different.  In most
> cases Internet access means a computer in the lobby that is a pay for use
> computer and there is no WLAN or Ethernet in the rooms.  In one case,
> Internet access meant the phone had a phone jack.  When we have found WLAN,
> 80% of the time the signal was either too weak or the connection was faulty.
> We had problems in a few places because VOIP was restricted or PPTP
> protocols were restricted meaning no phone calls or VPN to my office. 

Hi David,

I feel the strong urge to add things here. Don't get me wrong, this is
not a hate mail, as I always love to hear from Americans who enjoy their
trips here. But being a German myself, I have to say the exact same
things about Internet access in the Pacific Northwest where we traveled
about a year ago. I guess it's a difference between living some place
with a decent Internet connection and traveling some place else.

During our one-month round trip in Oregon and Washington with 20 or so
stops at hotels, we have had three (3) opportunities to access the
Internet at free will, one of which included a computer in the lobby
(restricted to 30 minute usage). Free wifi connection? Forget about it!
Starbuck's was the only place to get a wireless connection in public at
all, however, they are just as expensive as you describe.

Laptops in public are not as uncommon in Germany as you may think:
Especially in Berlin, laptop usage in public has increased by great
amount -- at college, at the airports, on the train, in cafés, you name it.

> Bottom line: If you're traveling to Europe with Debian and want Internet,
> stay with someone who has it, or stay in a hotel that has a WLAN from a big
> name provider.  Expect to pay.  VOIP is possible but the quality is low - I
> recommend a prepaid cell phone and an International calling card if you need
> to call North America.

Bottom line: I guess it depends on where you go and what you expect. As
I said, I couldn't get a decent connection in Oregon or Washington
either. And this had nothing to do Debian, we had Windows with us. I
have been enjoying a pretty fast connection at my home for over four
years, so I guess that makes me dependent as well.

Regards,
André


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Re: video calling

[André Wendt]

Colin Cotter schrieb:
> Dear List,
> 
>   What is the news on using webcams with the voice-over-IP services
> (like Skype) these days with Debian? Has anybody reported any success?
> 
> all the best
> 
> --Colin


Hi Colin,

just a quick note: according to the comments on
http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2006/06/open_beta.html there is no
video support for Skype yet, no matter which distribution you use.

Regards,
André


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ISO 8859 or Unicode? And how to convert?

[André Wendt]

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Hi all,

this is not strictly laptop-specific, but I guess it's legitimate to
raise this issue here. Think mobility. Think globalization.

I keep running into more and more problems with the encoding of my name.
Whether it's e-mails, files I receive or (lately) even the unlock screen
of my screensaver: André is often encoded André which is plain ugly. I
have a file where even gedit's auto-detection mechanism has to pass.

Since I'm German, I naturally set my locale to de_DE.ISO-8859-15 when
installing Debian over a year ago and I begin to wonder if ISO was the
right choice, or if Unicode is the way to go?

I'd like to hear your opinions on ISO and Unicode. And if the future
belongs to Unicode (which I presume), what are best practices to convert
a running system?

Kind regards,
André
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Re: Loss of hardware acceleration after fglrx upgrade to 8.28.8-0.1 in sid on a Thinkpad T43

[André Wendt]

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LUK ShunTim schrieb:
> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>> For diagnosis purpose try the following
> 
> First of thanks very for the help. I tried it again; same result, ie, no
> hardware acceleration.
> 
>>   LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxgears -info -printfps
> 
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.28.8 fglrx (screen 0)
> libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so
> libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 8.28.8 fglrx (screen 0)
> drmOpenByBusid: busid is PCI:1:0:0
> drmOpenDevice: minor is 0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 4, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 4
> drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports PCI:1:0:0
> Can't open configuration file /etc/drirc: No such file or directory.
> Can't open configuration file /home/uts/.drirc: No such file or directory.
> GL_RENDERER   = MOBILITY RADEON X300 Generic
> GL_VERSION= 2.0.6011 (8.28.8)
> GL_VENDOR = ATI Technologies Inc.
> GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_ARB_multitexture GL_EXT_texture_env_add
> GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_S3_s3tc GL_ARB_depth_texture
> GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow GL_ARB_fragment_shader
> GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_point_parameters
> GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shader_objects GL_ARB_shading_language_100
> GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shadow_ambient GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp
> GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add
> GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
> GL_ARB_texture_float GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
> GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_blend GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
> GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos 
> GL_ARB_draw_buffers
> GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_element_array GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap
> GL_ATI_fragment_shader GL_ATI_map_object_buffer GL_ATI_separate_stencil
> GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_float GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once
> GL_ATI_vertex_array_object GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object
> GL_ATI_vertex_streams GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATIX_texture_env_route
> GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra
> GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_minmax
> GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_draw_range_elements
> GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
> GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_rescale_normal
> GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs
> GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texgen_reflection GL_EXT_texture3D
> GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map
> GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3
> GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias
> GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle
> GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_EXT_vertex_shader GL_HP_occlusion_test 
> GL_NV_blend_square
> GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_SGI_color_matrix
> GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp 
> GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp
> GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
> 1071 frames in 5.0 seconds = 214.110 FPS
> 1102 frames in 5.0 seconds = 219.492 FPS
> 1120 frames in 5.0 seconds = 223.824 FPS
> 1127 frames in 5.0 seconds = 225.386 FPS
> 1133 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.586 FPS
> 1132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.386 FPS
> 1130 frames in 5.0 seconds = 225.986 FPS
> 1135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.985 FPS
> 
>> assuming a bash-shell; and
>>
>>   aticonfig --list-powerstates
> 
> core/mem  [flags]
> -
>   1: 105/122 MHz  [low voltage]
>   2: 209/182 MHz  [low voltage]
> * 3: 297/230 MHz  [default state]
> 
>> Is the "atieventsd" daemon running?
> 
> "ps aux |grep atieventsd" returned nothing.
> 
>> Is the fglrx kernel module loaded? (/sbin/lsmod)
> 
> "lsmod |grep fglrx" returned
> 
> fglrx 396524  8
> agpgart29864  2 fglrx,intel_agp
> 
>> Are you using a kind of speedstep?
>> (cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor)
> 
> performance
> 
> I think CPU is running at full speed.
> 
>> Which libGL is used on your system? (ls -lF /usr/lib/libGL*)
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2006-08-20 01:03 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-09-17 16:16 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
> libGL.so.1.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 642476 2006-09-01 01:29 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 681050 2006-08-18 02:38 /usr/lib/libGLU.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-08-20 01:03 /usr/lib/libGLU.so ->
> libGLU.so.1lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-08-20 01:03 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1
> -> libGLU.so.1.3.060402
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 499216 2006-08-18 02:38 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3.060402
> 
>> Regards,
>> Jörg-Volker.
>>
> 
> Other info:
> $ uname -a
> Linux t43 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> $ fglrxinf

Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work

[André Wendt]

Hi,

after over a year with custom-compiled kernels that solved problems I
never had before :-), I switched back to Debian's stock kernel today.

After re-compiling all necessary modules, I thought I'd give hibernate
with swsusp a try (once again).

Swsusp is suspending the machine (to disk) alright, but it does not
resume -- it restarts, and later complains about something with the swap
space: /var/log/syslog says

"Unable to find swap-space signature"

Somewhere I found that the DisableWriteCacheOn may be helpful for the
particular partition, but this just resulted in a suspend-to-disk that
took over 15 minutes! Someone's gotta be kidding here...

Has *anyone* successfully got swsusp working with the hibernate package?
BTW, I'm using a Thinkpad T41p with testing, kernel package 2.6.17-2-686
and initrd.

Regards,
André


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Re: Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work

[André Wendt]

amateur schrieb:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Andr� Wendt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>  
>> Swsusp is suspending the machine (to disk) alright, but it does not
>> resume -- it restarts, and later complains about something with the swap
>> space: /var/log/syslog says
>>
>> "Unable to find swap-space signature"
>>
> 
> add 'resume=/dev/your_swap_partition' to your kernel options(in grub or lilo)

Sorry I forgot, but that option is already there! That's what I don't
get: I use Grub and I've put an option resume=/dev/hda6 (which is swap).

GNOME Power Manager also tells me that my "computer failed to suspend"
when I hit the sleep button (Fn-F4 on my machine).

What am I doing wrong that *no* suspend whatsoever puts my laptop to sleep?

Regards,
André


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Re: Getting swsusp with stock kernel to work [solved]

[André Wendt]

André Wendt schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> after over a year with custom-compiled kernels that solved problems I
> never had before :-), I switched back to Debian's stock kernel today.
> 
> After re-compiling all necessary modules, I thought I'd give hibernate
> with swsusp a try (once again).
> 
> Swsusp is suspending the machine (to disk) alright, but it does not
> resume -- it restarts, and later complains about something with the swap
> space: /var/log/syslog says
> 
> "Unable to find swap-space signature"
> 
> Somewhere I found that the DisableWriteCacheOn may be helpful for the
> particular partition, but this just resulted in a suspend-to-disk that
> took over 15 minutes! Someone's gotta be kidding here...
> 
> Has *anyone* successfully got swsusp working with the hibernate package?
> BTW, I'm using a Thinkpad T41p with testing, kernel package 2.6.17-2-686
> and initrd.

If anyone's interested:

I finally solved the problem -- I was still using initrd-tools instead
of initramfs-tools. I consider myself lucky finding that information
somewhere online. So I re-installed the linux-image package with
initramfs-tools after attempting to update-initramfs which failed.

Everything works now, but I still have trouble with gnome-power-manager
telling me that suspend failed after a successful resume.

Some things are still broken and GPM does not offer all options in their
properties dialog (which is most annoying), but suspend-to-disk and
resume finally works!

Regards,
André


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Fatal X Server in the middle of gdm session

[André Wendt]

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Hi,

I'm experiencing problems with GDM after a suspend from disk, after a
seemingly random amount of time. After several hours, gdm restarts.
After ruling out several processes I had suspected to cause this
behavior (namely, non-free software like Skype), I enabled debug logging.

/var/log/syslog reports:

21:06:40 gdm[4915]: gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
21:06:40 gdm[4915]: Handling user message: 'VERSION'
21:06:40 gdm[4915]: Handling user message: 'CONSOLE_SERVERS'
21:06:40 gdm[4915]: Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
21:06:41 gdm[4915]: Handling message: 'XPID 11351 0'
21:06:41 gdm[4915]: Got XPID == 0
21:06:41 gdm[4915]: Handling message: 'SESSPID 11351 0'
21:06:41 gdm[4915]: Got SESSPID == 0
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: slave_waitpid: done_waiting
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: Session: start_time: 1162483851 end_time: 1162498001
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: Sending SESSPID == 0 for slave 11351
21:06:41 gdm[4915]: Handling message: 'SESSPID 11351 0'
21:06:41 gdm[4915]: Got SESSPID == 0
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: gdm_slave_session_stop: andre on :0
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: Fatal X error detected.  Ignoring same during
session shut down.
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: gdm_slave_session_stop: back here from xioerror
21:06:41 gdm[11351]: gdm_slave_session_stop: Running post session script
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: gdm_auth_user_remove: Removing cookie from
/home/***/.Xauthority (0)
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: gdm_auth_purge: :0
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: Running gdm_verify_cleanup and pamh != NULL
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: Running pam_close_session
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: Running pam_setcred with PAM_DELETE_CRED
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: gdm_slave_session_start: Session ended OK (now all
finished)
21:06:42 gdm[11351]: Sending LOGGED_IN == 0 for slave 11351

The messages related to this don't stop here, but I don't want to paste
everything.

Any ideas on this? I'm completely lost and haven't tried anything. I
just noticed that there seem to be two gdm processes (PIDs 4915, 11351)
running at the same time.

Thanks,
André
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Re: make beagle index only when AC plugged in?

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Otavio Salvador schrieb:
> David Purton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> Does anyone know of an easy way to make beagle only index when the
>> laptop is plugged into AC power? It eats battery a bit too fast.
>>
>> I figure I could write my own acpi event scripts to do this, but maybe
>> someone has a pre-rolled method.
> 
> Ubuntu did it, you might check how they did and post a bug report for
> us.

There is an option called "Index data while on battery power" (under
GNOME's System/Preferences/Searching & Indexing) that I have turned off.
However, it does not seem to work: beagle is still running at full CPU
speed when on battery. Kind of annoying.

If you find out something, please let me know.

André
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Re: ATI fglrx

[André Wendt]

Micha schrieb:

I just not that fgl_glxgears FPS values depend on window size.
So how can we compare ?


Of course it depends on the window size. Just like any 3D game, it gets 
faster if you reduce the displayed resolution. If you drag another 
window on top of it, your FPS rate shoots up as well. That's just the 
way it is.


I suspect fgl_glxgears sets the window size to a constant, so if you 
don't change the window size, you can compare the values on two 
different systems.


But in general, fgl_glxgears and its FPS output is not meant to be 
benchmarks, AFAIK.


Regards,
André


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Disabling the internal microphone

[André Wendt]

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Hi,

have any of you managed to disable the internal mic on a Thinkpad? If
so, how?

During the last couple of days, the volume on the speakers is lower than
usual, and if I turn it up to the max, internal speakers and microphone
don't like each other (acoustic feedback? Please not I'm not a native
speaker).

Since I have a headset, I don't need the internal microphone. Is there
any way to disable it?

Thanks,
André
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Thinkpad: Volume buttons and GNOME's visual feedback

[André Wendt]

Hi there,

I have a Thinkpad with a hardware mixer and three volume buttons. I
configured TPB to get a visual feedback which is rather ugly.

Is there a way I can configure GNOME to show the same visual feedback
that I get when I configure a keyboard shortcut for volume control?

(I know I could just use TPB to map the volume buttons to a GNOME
keyboard shortcut, but the device has a hardware mixer -- the volume
would then be pushed up/down twice: First in the mixer, then through the
GNOME shortcut.)

Please CC me, I'm not on the list anymore.

Regards,
André


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Automount of USB hard drive and iPod broken

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I'm using lenny/testing and the automount feature of udev/HAL is broken
for over a week now. Any USB drive I plug in (HD, iPod) is recognized by
udev (through udevmonitor) and HAL (lshal -m), but not auto-mounted
anymore. Haven't tried optical devices or thumb drives. The device nodes
are created alright by udev.

gnome-volume-manager is still configured to auto-mount. /var/log/syslog
lacks the line

hald: mounted /dev/sda1 on behalf of uid 1000

that I used to get.

I can't find any relevant package changes in /var/log/aptitude. I've
attached the debug output of a foreground hal. Please see also


Relevant package versions:

$ apt-show-versions | egrep "(udev|hal|dbus)" | egrep -v
"(python|strigi)" | sort
dbus/testing uptodate 1.1.1-3
dbus-x11/testing uptodate 1.1.1-3
hal-device-manager/testing uptodate 0.5.9.1-4
hal-info/testing uptodate 20070618-1
hal/testing uptodate 0.5.9.1-4
libdbus-1-3/testing uptodate 1.1.1-3
libdbus-1-dev/testing uptodate 1.1.1-3
libdbus-glib-1-2/testing uptodate 0.74-1
libhal1/testing uptodate 0.5.9.1-4
libhal-storage1/testing uptodate 0.5.9.1-4
libndesk-dbus1.0-cil/testing uptodate 0.4.2-1
libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil/testing uptodate 0.3-2
udev/testing uptodate 0.114-2

I appreciate any debugging hints for this. Please CC me as I'm not on
the list.

Thanks,
André


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External display setup with different screen resolutions

[André Wendt]

Hi,

I know this has been asked over a thousand times before, but I can't get
an external display to work properly. I'm running an IBM T41p with
Sarge, kernel 2.6.10, XFree 4.3.0 and fglrx 8.14.13.1.

Problem is: The LCD panel has a resolution of 1400x1050, the external
TFT has only 1024x768. I have managed to get the external display
showing something, but with the LCD panel's resolution which enables
scrolling.

The more I look for information on the web, the more options I discover
I have not heard of before... I'm getting confused and don't know what
else to look for.

I'd appreciate any help!

The relevant stuff in XFreeConfig-4 looks as follows:

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card0"
Driver  "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no"

# Found this option via Google on
# https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/etc/XF86Config-4.talin-single
# Should enabled clone mode
Option "DesktopSetup"   "0x0100"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Card1"
Driver  "fglrx"

# Found this on
http://f24.parsimony.net/cgi-bin/topic-flat.cgi?Nummer=54930&Phase=Phase1&ThreadNummer=63772
# Supposed to force resolution on external display, but doesn't
Option  "MonitorLayout" "AUTO, CRT"
Option  "CloneMode" "1024x768"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "MonInt"
HorizSync   28-50
VertRefresh 43-75
Option  "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier  "MonExt"
ModelName   "Standard SVGA [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
HorizSync   30-60
VertRefresh 43-90
Option  "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "ScreenInt"
Device  "Card0"
Monitor "MonInt"
DefaultDepth24

# [ skipped a few SubSections here ]

SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes   "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier  "ScreenExt"
Device  "Card1"
Monitor "MonExt"
DefaultDepth24
SubSection "Display"
Depth   24
Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks,
André


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Re: External display setup with different screen resolutions

[André Wendt]

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Vincent Bernat schrieb:
> OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du samedi 09 juillet 2005, vers 16:30,
> André Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
> 
> 
>>The relevant stuff in XFreeConfig-4 looks as follows:
> 
> 
>>Section "Device"
> 
> [...]
> 
> The ServerLayout section is missing. This is this section that enables
> to choose what should display each screen and how.

Silly me, I simply forgot:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier  "Default Layout"
Screen  "ScreenInt"
Screen  "ScreenExt"
Option  "Clone" "on"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "External Mouse" "AlwaysCore"
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GNOME applet to display uptime for testing dist?

[André Wendt]

Hello there,

looking for an applet to display uptime on my laptop w/ Debian testing,
I found the package uptime-applet (duh!). However, it seems to be
orphaned and is only available for Woody. I'd install it anyway if it
weren't for all those dependencies...

Does anyone know of an applet with similar functionality I can use?

Thanks for any suggestions,
André

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Re: shutdown problem

[André Wendt]

I'm running Debian 3.1 Sarge on a IBM Thinkpad R51. I use kernel
2.6.8-2-686.

When i shutdown my notebook it goes down, the screen went black, and
 all
LEDs are off. But the fan still runs and doesn't want to stop. I have
got to press the powerbutton for 3 seconds to stop it.
>>
>> It's _a_ place to look, but sounds to me like he simply never completed
>> shutdown.
>>
>> What filesystems are you running?  I hope they're journalling systems
>> like
>> reiser or ext3.  Does it run the journals when you reboot?  The first
>> place
>> to look is at the last thing that showed in syslog.
>
> I had the same problem on my Thinkpad R51. The simple solution is NOT to
> use the default kernel. On any of the different, but more recent
> self-compiled kernels I tried, the problem disappeared. Seems to be a
> bug in the Bios or in the kernel source or in the packaging of 2.6.8 in
> debian.
>
> Johannes

Hi,

I've read the APIC kernel option (not ACPI) for uni-processors is the
reason for the problem after I had experienced the same issue with a T41P.
Compile your own kernel with the CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC kernel options
disabled and you should be fine. (Look at
http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/thinkpad_notes and search for
uniprocessor, that's the best hint I found for the problem.)

Have a great day,
André


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Blank boot screen with kernel 2.6.12

[André Wendt]

Hello,

I am still running a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a Thinkpad T41p, but
obviously udev-0.068-2 forces me to update to 2.6.12. As the stock
kernel linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 does not support CPU freq scaling, I had
to compile my own kernel again (with the old config).

With the new kernel, however, the screen goes blank immediately after
GRUB exits, and I do not see anything on my screen until X starts. My
kernel options are as follows:

  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12 root=/dev/hda7 ro vga=792 acpi_sleep=s3_bios

which still work fine with 2.6.10.

/var/log/syslog says nothing about radeonfb and/or vesafb which I find
quite alarming. Also, there is the line

  localhost kernel: Boot video device is :01:00.0

which has not been there before. What's going on here?

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Re: Blank boot screen with kernel 2.6.12

[André Wendt]

Paul Puschmann schrieb:
> André Wendt wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I am still running a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a Thinkpad T41p, but
>>obviously udev-0.068-2 forces me to update to 2.6.12. As the stock
>>kernel linux-image-2.6.12-1-386 does not support CPU freq scaling, I had
>>to compile my own kernel again (with the old config).
>>
>>With the new kernel, however, the screen goes blank immediately after
>>GRUB exits, and I do not see anything on my screen until X starts. My
>>kernel options are as follows:
>>
>>  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12 root=/dev/hda7 ro vga=792 acpi_sleep=s3_bios
>>
>>which still work fine with 2.6.10.
>>
>>/var/log/syslog says nothing about radeonfb and/or vesafb which I find
>>quite alarming. Also, there is the line
>>
>>  localhost kernel: Boot video device is :01:00.0
>>
>>which has not been there before. What's going on here?
>>
> 
> Try vga=normal in your grub-options. It seems framebuffer console
> doesn't work right.

Yes, but why? It worked before, it should work now...

Certainly, I either forgot to add something in the config (which I meant
to avoid by using "make oldconfig") or the kernel code has been altered
quite a bit. Either way, I don't get it.

I wonder if anyone has attempted to install the latest udev in a kernel
2.6.12 or later but is using it in an older version?

Best regards,
André


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Re: Debugging OSD

[André Wendt]

> I installed tpb (0.6.4) and osd (xosd-bin and libxosd2 2.2.14-1.2) on my
> etch system with xorg 6.8.2 and KDE 3.3.
>
> Nothing shows up when I use the volume or other keys.
>
> The nvram module is loaded, nvram device is present:
> crw-rw  1 root nvram 10, 144 2005-09-27 07:21 /dev/nvram
>
> and my user (bob) is in the nvram group
> nvram:x:106:bob
>
> How can I debug/fix this ?
>
> Thank you,
> Bob

Hi Bob,

first of all, try something like

$ osd_cat /etc/shadow

and see if OSD outputs /etc/shadow on the screen (upper left and small
font is the default here). Look for error messages on the terminal!

Regards,
André


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