Re: Automatic removing of unneeded .deb files?
Matej Cepl wrote (Tue 2005-Nov-22 18:25:08 -0500): > aptitude clean (deletes everything; too much, I want to have .deb files for > all currently installed programs on my notebook -- I have not always ideal > connection to the Internet -- read dial-up) or aptitude autoclean (leaves > anything which is download*able*). I would love to have something in > between -- something less aggressive than clean and more aggressive than > autoclean... Summing up: You want to keep the .deb files for all installed packages, but no other .deb files. "autoclean" can do one half of this (keeping .deb files for installed packages), if called with "APT::Clean-Installed" turned off (by either passing "APT::Clean-Installed=off" as an option to apt-get or adding "APT::Clean-Installed off;" to apt.conf). The other half (removing all other packages) can be done by using "autoclean" while temporarily removing the contents of sources.list. What I am doing manually every once in a while is: cd /etc/apt mv sources.list sources.list_gone touch sources.list apt-get -o"APT::Clean-Installed=off" autoclean mv sources.list_gone sources.list (Though I do have "APT::Clean-Installed off;" set in apt.conf, so I am actually only issuing an "apt-get autoclean" command.) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.6.19 + Cisco 350 Wireless adapter needs manual config:SOLVED
Mauro Darida wrote (Sun 2007-Jan-21 22:05:36 +0100): > On Friday 19 January 2007 10:38, Florian Kulzer wrote: .. > > I did not say that you should reinstall hotplug, I suggested that you > > should reinstall all currently installed packages which are supposed to > > have files in /etc/hotplug. You stated in an earlier email that you had > The directory /etc/hotplug is present only with hotplug installed... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /etc/hotplug kcontrol, libgphoto2-2, alsa-base: /etc/hotplug Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to bind special button to ifup/ifdown
Andrew McMillan wrote (Wed 2007-Mar-07 00:07:52 +): > When I re-enable the wifi I need to "modprobe ipw3945" which also > manages to restart the daemon (there must be some special magic there > somewhere, but I haven't investigated much further. $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d install ipw3945 modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 && /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-start remove ipw3945 /etc/init.d/ipw3945d modprobe-stop && modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945 $ dpkg -S /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d ipw3945d: /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945d Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No tap-and-drag with gpm and Synaptics touchpad
Hello everyone! Recently I got myself a new laptop computer, a Thinkpad T60. Everything's looking fine so far (well, as good as a modern ATI card with proprietary drivers gets...), but the Synaptics touchpad is causing a little trouble: I can't use tap-and-drag with gpm. X.org is working great with the touchpad, using the "synaptics" driver. Tap-to-click is working with gpm, double- and triple-tap-to-click is working as well. Clicking with any of the buttons is working, button-click-and-drag is working. Choosing a different protocol in gpm's config doesn't make a difference. Having X running or not running doesn't make a difference. The only thing unsual that I can see is that tpconfig seems not to be able to read or change the "tapmode". Since tap-to-click is working, tapmode should be set to 1. # tpconfig -i Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Sensor type: unknown (0). Geometry: rectangular/landscape/up. Packets: absolute, 80 packets per second. Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. Edge motion: none. Z threshold: 6 of 7. 2 button mode; corner tap is right button click. # tpconfig --tapmode=0 Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. # tpconfig --tapmode=1 Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. # tpconfig --tapmode=2 Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. # tpconfig --tapmode=3 Found Synaptics Touchpad. Firmware: 8.96 (multiple-byte mode). Corner taps disabled; no tap gestures. Anybody got a hint? Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best notebook
Michelle Konzack wrote (Tue 2007-Apr-10 17:48:49 +0200): > Am 2007-04-04 17:00:25, schrieb Christoph Kling: .. > > I plan to buy a notebook to use with Debian. I wonder if some of you > > might have a few tips which manufacturer or which models in general > > are notably known to cause only few problems with Linux and Debian > > concerning hardware support and so on. > > IBM/Lenovo, any! Just make sure to avoid ATI graphics cards if you plan on running open source only and don't really need all fancy acceleration. You can find almost all Thinkpad models with an Intel graphics card for a reasonable surcharge, if you just dig deep enough into the Lenovo website. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.8 ibm function keys
Kfir Lavi wrote (Tue 2004-Sep-28 13:10:25 +0200): > i have just upgraded to the newest 2.6.8 kernel, from the last 2.6.8 kernel. > now the fn blue key on my ibm 570 tp don't work. > what should i check? Debian bugs #272177 and #273474. -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko
Juraj Ziegler wrote (Wed 2004-Oct-06 10:33:26 +0200):
> >- IN TEXT MODE: gpm works only with
> >device=/dev/[psaux|input/mice|input/event0], type=imps2|autops2,
> >losing tap functionality, third button, ecc. If I try with
> >type=syn|synps2 and enable debugging (-D) and error printing (-e), I
> >see a lot of "error read()ing: couldn't find file" messages.
> >
> >Anyone can help?
>
> Try adding "psmouse.proto=imps" parameter to the kernel...
Oh, what a glorious day! Thanks for that hint.
For the record and those people using "psmouse" as a module: Try
unloading the module ("modprobe -r psmouse"), then load it with
the parameter suggested ("modprobe psmouse proto=imps"). My gpm
is reading from "/dev/psaux" with "-t imps2" and now works again
just like it did back in the good old days using a kernel
<2.6.1.
The cleanest way to permanently change this setting would
probably be a change to some file below "/etc/modutils" -- can
anyone help? Adding a line "psmouse proto=imps" to
"/etc/modules" would be a simple way to start with.
Cheers,
Marcus
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Re: K3B CD-burning Dell 700m laptop, Only burns while root
Robert Goley wrote (Mon 2004-Dec-20 09:31:43 -0500): > wrapper script using sudo. An example script is below. .. > sudo cdrecord $@ I strongly suggest using "$@" instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] "$@" is equivalent to "$1" "$2" "$3"... while $@ is equivalent to $1 $2 $3... See "man bash" for details, look for "Special Parameters". Cheers, Marcus P.S.: Lots of tofu around here lately... -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firewall and Laptop
Derek Broughton wrote (Fri 2004-Dec-31 11:37:04 -0400): > ... It's not reflexive > though - I don't know of a firewall tool that can take a firewall script as > _input_, so once you modify the script, you can't use the GUI tool any more > without losing the hand edited changes. If anyone does know such a tool I'd > be willing to give it a try. I do like the way iptables is used in woody: You create your chains and rules any way you like and once you're done, you tell it to save the current state (by executing "/etc/init.d/iptables save active"). You can easily make copies of the dump for backup purposes. Also, if a change turns out to break something, running "/etc/init.d/iptables start" before a "save" will simply revert the changes. Much to my regret, this feature has been removed without replacement in sarge. However, the scripts from woody are kept during an upgrade and are fully functional. Out of curiosity: What features are expected from a config tool? On a laptop computer, you'd seldom need a lot more than to allow outgoing, related or established traffic plus incoming SSH, wouldn't you? Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
devfs (was: Re: sound structure on a Dell inspiron 8600)
Anders Breindahl wrote (Sat 2005-Jan-08 04:42:56 +0100): > By the way: Isn't the MAKEDEV script obsolete with devfs, or am I mistaken? We did have a related discussion exactly(!) one year ago. Have a look at this article: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2004/01/msg00080.html and its follow-up: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2004/01/msg00082.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: switching between wlan and ethernet
Micha Feigin wrote (Wed 2005-Jan-19 13:03:51 +0200): > ... (may need a bit of tweeking to bring > the wlan interface down when eth is connected). How about "pre-up ifdown wlan0" within the "eth0" stanza in "/etc/network/interfaces"? Possibly "ifdown wlan0 || true", I didn't test it. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipw2200 on Dell M60
Koen Vermeer wrote (Fri 2005-Jan-21 09:32:38 +0100): > > I've no idea what error 16 is. And I don't see a wlan0 device there. > > Normally, you wouldn't get a wlan0 device, but a 'normal' ethX device. That sort of depends... Run "modinfo ipw2200" and watch out for the "parm:" lines. One of them should read "ifname:network device name (default wlan%d)" or similar. So if you load the module without specifying anything different, you should get an interface name as described. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Awakening from suspend-to-mem
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote (Wed 2005-May-11 23:31:10 +0530): > Alexander A. Vlasov wrote: .. > > laptop can be suspended-to-ram by `echo mem > /sys/power/state' (and > > suspending works fine -- led blinks slowly, display shutting down and so > > on), but it can't awake from this state. Opening lid or pressing the > > power button leads laptop to shutdown, not to resuming to normal state. .. > Try booting the kernel with the "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" option. As far as I can remember, the explanation for the "shutdown after resume" phenomenon has been given as being an error in some Debian script, see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/02/msg00213.html (Ritesh, it looks like you were involved in that thread. Was the information given by Andrew incorrect?) On this list, the suggestion of using "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" usually seems to be given in reply to somebody stating that his laptop computer doesn't fully resume but gets stuck somehow. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dells TrueMobile doesnt work
Hi! Jeff wrote (Wed 2002-Nov-06 02:05:33 -0800): > Goran Ristic, 2002-Nov-06 10:46 +0100: > > In my 8200 is a Mini-PCI Card (usually knwon as TrueMobile) build-in. .. > > lspci says: > > 02:03.0 Network controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4301 (rev > > 01) .. > If that's the TrueMobile 1150, that's a Lucent Orinoco Wireless LAN > card. That's not a PCMCIA card. There should be a hermes or orinoco > module that will work. This might be useless information, but in my Latitude C400, the TrueMobile 1150 is in fact hard wired to PCMCIA slot 1 and not some sort of (mini) PCI card: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "Dell", "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card", "Version 01.01", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network) Goran, what your "lspci" shows might not be the WLAN card but e.g. a modem. See what "cardctl ident" shows. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Temperatur weirdnes
Hello, martin f krafft wrote (Tue 2002-Nov-26 23:17:09 +0100): > ... i8kctl from the > i8kutils package reports a temperature of 85 degrees Celsius, which > just can't be. Whenever this phenomenon happens, it's at 85C though, > so I am wondering what's broke. Same thing with my Dell Latitude C400. I've heard of other people having the same problem, too. Personally, I don't mind the fan that much as I can simply turn it off using i8kctl or i8kfan (while true ; do i8kfan 0 0 ; sleep 0.3 ; done). However, the CPU itself either believes or is told that it is running at a temperature of 85°C so performance is down to something like 25%. For me, it only happens after a resume from suspend-to-RAM, but I have not been able to find any way to reproduce the behaviour. It seems to happen less often it A/C is plugged in after suspend and plugged out before resume. And it happens more often if the machine is suspended for a longer time. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Temperatur weirdnes
Hi! Jens Christian Gram schrieb (Wed 2002-Nov-27 01:08:05 +0100): > My Inspiron 4150 also monitors 85 degrees sometimes. > I read somewhere that pressing Fn + z should solve the problem, but I've > not had a chance to try it myself yet. Wow, that did it! I have been fighting with that for half a year now. Thanks! I'm using a Latitude C400 with BIOS version A06 and need to press Fn+Y (German keyboard). Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)
Hi! Tim Connors wrote (Sun 2002-Dec-01 17:44:58 +1100): > bogmips tells me 650 when in high speed mode. This corresponds with its > clock freq of 650 (interestingly, since the bogomips count at bootup is > twice the clock-speed). When in low speed mode, it tells me 110! Just to avoid confusion: When looking at the speed of your CPU, remember to look at the A/C state. I get these values: A/C off A/C on high 662 858 low 150 194 Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: fritz!card pcmcia with woody
Hello! Frank Thesen wrote (Thu 2002-Dec-26 14:32:33 +0100): > Since I have a fritz!card pcmcia (which sould be compatible to avm b1 pcmcia) > and no b1 pcmcia, is it possible, that this is the source of my trouble? > > Since I got no errero, warning or info messages, I guess that something is > missing, probably my kernel-configuratgion is wrong, or I need further > configuration for the pcmcia regognition. This article might contain a solution: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200209/msg00333.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Dell Latitude C840 doesn't exit from suspend correctly
Hi! François TOURDE wrote (Sat 2003-Jan-18 11:41:31 +0100): > I'm installing "sid" on a Dell C840, and I've some problems. From text mode > system, I use Fn+ESC (suspend to RAM) and all works good, but when the > system wakeup, FANs running non-stop, and CPU stay in low mode. Have a look at this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200212/msg00260.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Sendmail doing reverse lookups in various networks
Hi! I am running Sendmail on my notebook computer, currently using the version from the Debian package with the version number "8.12.3-6.3" which is the latest stable/security package. When a mail is submitted by calling "/usr/sbin/sendmail", the following happens: Sendmail does a reverse lookup and uses the returned hostname to change the envelope and mail header addresses from addresses consisting of only a username (like "marcus") to ones like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". For one thing, I don't like any programm fiddling around in my mail headers, but the worse thing is that my notebook computer won't accept the mail right afterwards because it is not configured to receive mail for any possible "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" recipient. This is very annoying since e.g. cron job outputs will not be cleanly delivered. Can anyone give me a hint? TIA, Marcus -- http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,243562,00.html Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Sendmail doing reverse lookups in various networks
Hi! Blars Blarson wrote (Tue 2003-Apr-15 13:07:41 -0700): > If you don't want the domain appended on local email, remove the > > FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl > > line. That would be my favorite solution. However, I can't find the line to remove: lilith:/etc/mail# grep -ir always.add * sendmail.cf:# Common code to add local domain name (only if always-add-domain) sendmail.cf.old:# Common code to add local domain name (only if always-add-domain) submit.cf:# Common code to add local domain name (only if always-add-domain) ? :-( Cheers, Marcus -- http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,243562,00.html Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: No fsck in battery mode
Hello,
Slaven Peles wrote (Sun 2003-Sep-07 14:58:19 -0400):
> > An ext3 fs should not really run fsck, it looks at the journals to make
> > sure everything is order and moves on. A minute or so, tops.
>
> But it does by default. Apparently some configuration option has to be
> changed, but I have no idea which one :-(. Could you explain in more detail
> what you've said above?
If you've been using ext2 and want to change over to ext3, try
following these steps:
1. Make sure your kernel supports ext3
("cat /proc/filesystems"), especially if it's the root
partition's file system you are about to change.
2. Run "tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx" to create a (preliminary) journal
in the ext2 filesystem on partition "/dev/hdxx".
3. Edit "/etc/fstab", pick the correct line, and change the
filesystem parameter from "ext2" to "ext3".
4. You can immediately try
"umount /dev/hdxx && mount /dev/hdxx". It will complain if
the filesystem is in use; in that case rebooting is probably
the easiest way to find out if it all worked. :-)
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Re: Apt-get problem
Hi! Ben wrote (Mon 2003-Sep-22 14:36:15 +1000): > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room Increase the amount of memory reserved by apt; the default size is 6MB. You can do this by adding a line such as: APT::Cache-Limit 12582912; to "/etc/apt/apt.conf" or to a file in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" such as "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local". Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Boot Loader
Hi! cyn wrote (Mon 2002-Apr-29 07:19:19 -0400): > 3) I don't see what a boot loader has to do with hibernation - resuming Don't know if this is what "RS" is faced with, but recent Dell computers come with a weird mode of suspend-to-disk: They save the contents of RAM to a special partition, remove the "bootable" flag from the currently marked partition and set it on the suspend-partition. They're assuming one's using a DOS boot loader or something equivalent which is looking for the "bootable" flag to decide on which partition to boot from. To deal with this, I have a "fdisk /mbr" created MBR and a lilo at the beginning of the partition which is usually marked as "bootable". More on <http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/LatC400-linux.html>. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/kontakt.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i830m not detected by agpgart module
Hello! I've finally started trying to get my i830m in a Dell Latitude C400 to display more than 256 colours at 1024x768. Currently I'm using fbdev which is working fine. When I tried to run XFree86 (version 4.2.0) configured to use the "i810" driver I was told to make sure /dev/agpgart was available. So I compiled the "agpgart" module (did that with both a 2.4.18 and a 2.4.19 kernel) with "Intel ... /I830M/ ... support" and "Intel .../I830M (on-board) support" turned on. However, when trying to load the module, I am told via syslog: Aug 22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Aug 22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 438M Aug 22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found. Any idea what might be missing? TIA, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: i830m not detected by agpgart module
Hello! I wrote (Thu 2002-Aug-22 20:25:31 +0200): > Aug 22 19:49:16 lilith kernel: agpgart: no supported devices found. The problem where files in "/usr/src/linux/include/config" left from the previous configuration (without AGP support) and not being created correctly after a "make menuconfig"; don't know why. Anyway, a clean compilation did the job. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: i830 chipset problems
Hi! David Owen Kritzberg wrote (Fri 2002-Sep-06 13:15:07 -0600): > ... Has anyone got the 830 > graphics working in Debian? I've never used debian, but I'd like to. I'm using a recent XFree (4.2.0-0pre1v4) deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/ and all I had to do was exchange the file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/i810_drv.o for Jon Gans' patched version (available for download somewhere on http://www.jongans.com), include agpgart support in my 2.4.19 kernel and use the "i830-16bit.C" program by Jon Gans. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: PCMCIA_WirelessMessages
Hi! ThomasRatliffDDS wrote (Wed 2002-Sep-18 19:05:59 -0700): > eth1 is wireless orinoco_cs module .. > eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt! > eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt! With a (pre?)2.4.18 kernel, this is a known bug which usually occurs if the wireless card is sharing interrupts which are pulled by the other hardware. To get rid of that, uncomment line 1141 in "orinoco.c". :-) It's fixed in 2.4.19 (the line is commented out there). > eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=012E) Don't know about that one. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: AVM A1
Hi! Fredo Strüber wrote (Wed 2002-Sep-18 21:54:14 +0200): > ich hab da ein kleines Problem. Ich bekomme eine Fritz PCMCIA KArte > nicht unter Debian 3.0 zum laufen . Die Card Servises sagen mir immer > unsupported Card... If you add a file called "whatever-you-like.conf" to "/etc/pcmcia/" containing something like this: avma1.conf device "avma1_cs" class "avma1" module "avma1_cs" card "AVM A1 PCMCIA" version "AVM", "ISDN A" bind "avma1_cs" it will work fine after a restart of PCMCIA services. If you then add an executable file to "/etc/pcmcia/" with the same name as the "class" attribute above, this will be executed upon insertion or removal of the card. It could look like this: avma1 #!/bin/sh case "$1" in 'start') /etc/init.d/isdnutils start ;; 'check') ;; 'stop') ;; 'cksum') exit 1 ;; 'suspend'|'resume') ;; *) echo "What?" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 === > .. this system lacks PPP Kernel Support ??? Don't worry, it's probably not true. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Boot Loader
Hi! cyn wrote (Mon 2002-Apr-29 07:19:19 -0400): > 3) I don't see what a boot loader has to do with hibernation - resuming Don't know if this is what "RS" is faced with, but recent Dell computers come with a weird mode of suspend-to-disk: They save the contents of RAM to a special partition, remove the "bootable" flag from the currently marked partition and set it on the suspend-partition. They're assuming one's using a DOS boot loader or something equivalent which is looking for the "bootable" flag to decide on which partition to boot from. To deal with this, I have a "fdisk /mbr" created MBR and a lilo at the beginning of the partition which is usually marked as "bootable". More on <http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/LatC400-linux.html>. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/kontakt.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA_WirelessMessages
Hi! ThomasRatliffDDS wrote (Wed 2002-Sep-18 19:05:59 -0700): > eth1 is wireless orinoco_cs module .. > eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt! > eth1: Null event in orinoco_interrupt! With a (pre?)2.4.18 kernel, this is a known bug which usually occurs if the wireless card is sharing interrupts which are pulled by the other hardware. To get rid of that, uncomment line 1141 in "orinoco.c". :-) It's fixed in 2.4.19 (the line is commented out there). > eth1: Tx error, status 4 (FID=012E) Don't know about that one. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AVM A1
Hi! Fredo Strüber wrote (Wed 2002-Sep-18 21:54:14 +0200): > ich hab da ein kleines Problem. Ich bekomme eine Fritz PCMCIA KArte > nicht unter Debian 3.0 zum laufen . Die Card Servises sagen mir immer > unsupported Card... If you add a file called "whatever-you-like.conf" to "/etc/pcmcia/" containing something like this: avma1.conf device "avma1_cs" class "avma1" module "avma1_cs" card "AVM A1 PCMCIA" version "AVM", "ISDN A" bind "avma1_cs" it will work fine after a restart of PCMCIA services. If you then add an executable file to "/etc/pcmcia/" with the same name as the "class" attribute above, this will be executed upon insertion or removal of the card. It could look like this: avma1 #!/bin/sh case "$1" in 'start') /etc/init.d/isdnutils start ;; 'check') ;; 'stop') ;; 'cksum') exit 1 ;; 'suspend'|'resume') ;; *) echo "What?" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 === > .. this system lacks PPP Kernel Support ??? Don't worry, it's probably not true. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dells TrueMobile doesnt work
Hi! Jeff wrote (Wed 2002-Nov-06 02:05:33 -0800): > Goran Ristic, 2002-Nov-06 10:46 +0100: > > In my 8200 is a Mini-PCI Card (usually knwon as TrueMobile) build-in. .. > > lspci says: > > 02:03.0 Network controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4301 (rev > > 01) .. > If that's the TrueMobile 1150, that's a Lucent Orinoco Wireless LAN > card. That's not a PCMCIA card. There should be a hermes or orinoco > module that will work. This might be useless information, but in my Latitude C400, the TrueMobile 1150 is in fact hard wired to PCMCIA slot 1 and not some sort of (mini) PCI card: mcg@lilith:~$ cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "Dell", "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card", "Version 01.01", "" manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002 function: 6 (network) Goran, what your "lspci" shows might not be the WLAN card but e.g. a modem. See what "cardctl ident" shows. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Temperatur weirdnes
Hello, martin f krafft wrote (Tue 2002-Nov-26 23:17:09 +0100): > ... i8kctl from the > i8kutils package reports a temperature of 85 degrees Celsius, which > just can't be. Whenever this phenomenon happens, it's at 85C though, > so I am wondering what's broke. Same thing with my Dell Latitude C400. I've heard of other people having the same problem, too. Personally, I don't mind the fan that much as I can simply turn it off using i8kctl or i8kfan (while true ; do i8kfan 0 0 ; sleep 0.3 ; done). However, the CPU itself either believes or is told that it is running at a temperature of 85°C so performance is down to something like 25%. For me, it only happens after a resume from suspend-to-RAM, but I have not been able to find any way to reproduce the behaviour. It seems to happen less often it A/C is plugged in after suspend and plugged out before resume. And it happens more often if the machine is suspended for a longer time. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Temperatur weirdnes
Hi! Jens Christian Gram schrieb (Wed 2002-Nov-27 01:08:05 +0100): > My Inspiron 4150 also monitors 85 degrees sometimes. > I read somewhere that pressing Fn + z should solve the problem, but I've > not had a chance to try it myself yet. Wow, that did it! I have been fighting with that for half a year now. Thanks! I'm using a Latitude C400 with BIOS version A06 and need to press Fn+Y (German keyboard). Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell cpu speed toggle (was: Temperatur weirdnes)
Hi! Tim Connors wrote (Sun 2002-Dec-01 17:44:58 +1100): > bogmips tells me 650 when in high speed mode. This corresponds with its > clock freq of 650 (interestingly, since the bogomips count at bootup is > twice the clock-speed). When in low speed mode, it tells me 110! Just to avoid confusion: When looking at the speed of your CPU, remember to look at the A/C state. I get these values: A/C off A/C on high 662 858 low 150 194 Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fritz!card pcmcia with woody
Hello! Frank Thesen wrote (Thu 2002-Dec-26 14:32:33 +0100): > Since I have a fritz!card pcmcia (which sould be compatible to avm b1 pcmcia) and no >b1 pcmcia, is it possible, that this is the source of my trouble? > > Since I got no errero, warning or info messages, I guess that something is missing, >probably my kernel-configuratgion is wrong, or I need further configuration for the >pcmcia regognition. This article might contain a solution: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200209/msg00333.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell Latitude C840 doesn't exit from suspend correctly
Hi! François TOURDE wrote (Sat 2003-Jan-18 11:41:31 +0100): > I'm installing "sid" on a Dell C840, and I've some problems. From text mode > system, I use Fn+ESC (suspend to RAM) and all works good, but when the > system wakeup, FANs running non-stop, and CPU stay in low mode. Have a look at this post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2002/debian-laptop-200212/msg00260.html Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No fsck in battery mode
Hello,
Slaven Peles wrote (Sun 2003-Sep-07 14:58:19 -0400):
> > An ext3 fs should not really run fsck, it looks at the journals to make
> > sure everything is order and moves on. A minute or so, tops.
>
> But it does by default. Apparently some configuration option has to be
> changed, but I have no idea which one :-(. Could you explain in more detail
> what you've said above?
If you've been using ext2 and want to change over to ext3, try
following these steps:
1. Make sure your kernel supports ext3
("cat /proc/filesystems"), especially if it's the root
partition's file system you are about to change.
2. Run "tune2fs -j /dev/hdxx" to create a (preliminary) journal
in the ext2 filesystem on partition "/dev/hdxx".
3. Edit "/etc/fstab", pick the correct line, and change the
filesystem parameter from "ext2" to "ext3".
4. You can immediately try
"umount /dev/hdxx && mount /dev/hdxx". It will complain if
the filesystem is in use; in that case rebooting is probably
the easiest way to find out if it all worked. :-)
Cheers, Marcus
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Re: Apt-get problem
Hi! Ben wrote (Mon 2003-Sep-22 14:36:15 +1000): > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room Increase the amount of memory reserved by apt; the default size is 6MB. You can do this by adding a line such as: APT::Cache-Limit 12582912; to "/etc/apt/apt.conf" or to a file in "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/" such as "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local". Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: custom install
Hi! Brett Ryland wrote (Tue 2003-Oct-14 01:17:02 +1300): > ... just copied everything over with cp -rp (except /proc of course) (careful of > /dev, used mc to copy this). You've got to be careful with this. If you've really only used "cp -rp", you probably lost all your links... Quite a good choice is to use "cp -rpd" which is equivalent to "cp -a" = "cp --archive". Another solution -- which I have first seen in the software RAID HOWTO -- is: find SOURCEDIR -xdev | cpio -pm TARGETDIR This has definitely proven to be a very clean way of copying a whole filesystem's contents. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
devfs (was: Re: Vaio Can't reboot after kernel upgrade)
Andrew Perrin wrote (Tue 2004-Jan-06 22:19:13 -0500): > ... for others who may have > rushed headlong into upgrading into devfs ... And for those who may be planning to do so: rethink your plans. The devfs idea didn't quite work out. In 2.6 devfs is only present with its basic features, and it's going to be removed completely. If you do need it, you could think about mounting it at a different position (e.g. "/devfs"). This way, you don't have to change the config of any program already running fine. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote (Sat 2004-Feb-07 11:16:53 +0100): > On Saturday 07 February 2004 05:05, Filipe Santa-Clara wrote: .. > > I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.1 an then to 2.6.2. Although the mouse > > (touchpad) works fine, the tapping and tap'n'drag part is non existent. .. > Here is what I have (using kernel 2.6.0). .. > CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=Y > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=Y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=Y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=Y I've got the same problem as Mr. Santa-Clara and I suppose that for him everything works fine unter 2.6.0 -- as it does for me. 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 don't have a "SYNAPTICS" option anymore. They detect and display lots of details about the touchpad at boot time. Problem is that tapping does not work anymore until the next cold(!) restart after a 2.6.1 or a 2.6.2 have been analyzing the hardware... Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Filipe Santa-Clara wrote (Sat 2004-Feb-07 12:22:46 -): > > 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 don't have a "SYNAPTICS" option anymore. They > > detect and display lots of details about the touchpad at boot > > time. Problem is that tapping does not work anymore until the > > next cold(!) restart after a 2.6.1 or a 2.6.2 have been > > analyzing the hardware... > > What do you mean by "until the next cold(!) restart" ??? ... If after a start of Linux 2.6.1 or 2.6.2 I let my notebook perform a warm restart, it does not matter which Linux is booting next: tapping still won't work. I need to turn it off and on again (and then use Linux <= 2.6.0). > ... And have you solved > the problem?? No. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Filipe Santa-Clara wrote (Sat 2004-Feb-07 16:59:58 -): > Well, i8042.nomux did nothing! Maybe the problem is elsewhere. I find it > strange that, in kernel configuration they speak of the driver psmouse, but > in XF86Config-4 file, in Section InputDevice, on the Driver field I find > "mouse"... To avoid confusion: The problem has got nothing to do with X or X configuration. GPM listening on /dev/psaux doesn't see any tapping either. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Paul Bettinger wrote (Sun 2004-Feb-08 14:31:52 +0100): > but then I changed the XF86Config for the Synaptics TP form the IMPS/2 > protocol to the event protocol. > you can find out which device it is with looking at > /proc/bus/input/devices > for me event1 > So I changed the Device to /dev/input/event1 > and everything works fine so far. Not for me. :-( I'm usually not running X, so gpm is what I'm after. Running 2.6.0, I can have gpm listen on /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice, using imps2 or ps2 just fine. Running 2.6.1 or 2.6.2, I don't get any tapping from the touchpad. Moving the cursor around works as always, using the buttons works, too. Using the eventX devices didn't really work at all. While I can "cat" them and see something going on, they don't seem to like gpm. :-) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: custom install
Hi! Brett Ryland wrote (Tue 2003-Oct-14 01:17:02 +1300): > ... just copied everything over with cp -rp (except /proc of course) (careful > of /dev, used mc to copy this). You've got to be careful with this. If you've really only used "cp -rp", you probably lost all your links... Quite a good choice is to use "cp -rpd" which is equivalent to "cp -a" = "cp --archive". Another solution -- which I have first seen in the software RAID HOWTO -- is: find SOURCEDIR -xdev | cpio -pm TARGETDIR This has definitely proven to be a very clean way of copying a whole filesystem's contents. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Synaptics Touchpad (again!...) X ok / console ko
Juraj Ziegler wrote (Wed 2004-Oct-06 10:33:26 +0200):
> >- IN TEXT MODE: gpm works only with
> >device=/dev/[psaux|input/mice|input/event0], type=imps2|autops2,
> >losing tap functionality, third button, ecc. If I try with
> >type=syn|synps2 and enable debugging (-D) and error printing (-e), I
> >see a lot of "error read()ing: couldn't find file" messages.
> >
> >Anyone can help?
>
> Try adding "psmouse.proto=imps" parameter to the kernel...
Oh, what a glorious day! Thanks for that hint.
For the record and those people using "psmouse" as a module: Try
unloading the module ("modprobe -r psmouse"), then load it with
the parameter suggested ("modprobe psmouse proto=imps"). My gpm
is reading from "/dev/psaux" with "-t imps2" and now works again
just like it did back in the good old days using a kernel
<2.6.1.
The cleanest way to permanently change this setting would
probably be a change to some file below "/etc/modutils" -- can
anyone help? Adding a line "psmouse proto=imps" to
"/etc/modules" would be a simple way to start with.
Cheers,
Marcus
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devfs (was: Re: Vaio Can't reboot after kernel upgrade)
Andrew Perrin wrote (Tue 2004-Jan-06 22:19:13 -0500): > ... for others who may have > rushed headlong into upgrading into devfs ... And for those who may be planning to do so: rethink your plans. The devfs idea didn't quite work out. In 2.6 devfs is only present with its basic features, and it's going to be removed completely. If you do need it, you could think about mounting it at a different position (e.g. "/devfs"). This way, you don't have to change the config of any program already running fine. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Anders Ellenshøj Andersen wrote (Sat 2004-Feb-07 11:16:53 +0100): > On Saturday 07 February 2004 05:05, Filipe Santa-Clara wrote: .. > > I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.1 an then to 2.6.2. Although the mouse > > (touchpad) works fine, the tapping and tap'n'drag part is non existent. .. > Here is what I have (using kernel 2.6.0). .. > CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=Y > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=Y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=Y > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=Y I've got the same problem as Mr. Santa-Clara and I suppose that for him everything works fine unter 2.6.0 -- as it does for me. 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 don't have a "SYNAPTICS" option anymore. They detect and display lots of details about the touchpad at boot time. Problem is that tapping does not work anymore until the next cold(!) restart after a 2.6.1 or a 2.6.2 have been analyzing the hardware... Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Filipe Santa-Clara wrote (Sat 2004-Feb-07 12:22:46 -): > > 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 don't have a "SYNAPTICS" option anymore. They > > detect and display lots of details about the touchpad at boot > > time. Problem is that tapping does not work anymore until the > > next cold(!) restart after a 2.6.1 or a 2.6.2 have been > > analyzing the hardware... > > What do you mean by "until the next cold(!) restart" ??? ... If after a start of Linux 2.6.1 or 2.6.2 I let my notebook perform a warm restart, it does not matter which Linux is booting next: tapping still won't work. I need to turn it off and on again (and then use Linux <= 2.6.0). > ... And have you solved > the problem?? No. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Filipe Santa-Clara wrote (Sat 2004-Feb-07 16:59:58 -): > Well, i8042.nomux did nothing! Maybe the problem is elsewhere. I find it > strange that, in kernel configuration they speak of the driver psmouse, but > in XF86Config-4 file, in Section InputDevice, on the Driver field I find > "mouse"... To avoid confusion: The problem has got nothing to do with X or X configuration. GPM listening on /dev/psaux doesn't see any tapping either. Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: Synaptics in 2.6.X
Paul Bettinger wrote (Sun 2004-Feb-08 14:31:52 +0100): > but then I changed the XF86Config for the Synaptics TP form the IMPS/2 > protocol to the event protocol. > you can find out which device it is with looking at > /proc/bus/input/devices > for me event1 > So I changed the Device to /dev/input/event1 > and everything works fine so far. Not for me. :-( I'm usually not running X, so gpm is what I'm after. Running 2.6.0, I can have gpm listen on /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice, using imps2 or ps2 just fine. Running 2.6.1 or 2.6.2, I don't get any tapping from the touchpad. Moving the cursor around works as always, using the buttons works, too. Using the eventX devices didn't really work at all. While I can "cat" them and see something going on, they don't seem to like gpm. :-) Cheers, Marcus -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
Re: 2.6.8 ibm function keys
Kfir Lavi wrote (Tue 2004-Sep-28 13:10:25 +0200): > i have just upgraded to the newest 2.6.8 kernel, from the last 2.6.8 kernel. > now the fn blue key on my ibm 570 tp don't work. > what should i check? Debian bugs #272177 and #273474. -- Marcus C. Gottwald · http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~gottwald/
