Re: Debian Etch and half
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:15:50AM -0800, jeffry killen wrote: > > I got Etch 4.0 r5 for 32 bit (i386) system. Perhaps I should have gotten > the 64 bit version? shouldn't matter > I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed on the machine at present. Is it possible > to get a driver designation and feed it to the Debian installer? depends on CDD/DVDD type - anyway try all possibilities: check /proc/cmdline for any hint on special boot params, as described in Documentation/ide/ide.txt and Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd in kernel src tree. check dmesg output Note that that might depend on kernel is use, ubuntu's might have loaded/ compile-in an specific IDE driver that allows for drive recognition. To get details on your drive: for USB you'd use lsusb(1), then lsusb -d -v for SCSI (usually includes USB storage), lsscsi(1): lsscsi -cv for *IDE/ATA* try hdparm(8), hdparm -i /dev/ but cdrecord(1) should yield enough info, try 1st: % cdrecord -scanbus % cdrecord dev=ATA: -scanbus and see what devices you get, and which devID your drive is assigned, then % cdrecord dev= -inq % cdrecord dev= -prcap % cdrecord dev= -atip HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: battery performance lower then..
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:56:59PM +0100, "J.Ke?ler" wrote: > > So my question is, what can I do to improve the working time and what > can I check if something is not working as it should. > eg. if there is some "special-debian-power" package or some general > power saving settings which I'm not aware of. try laptop-mode-tools -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fujitsu Lifebook B-2131 : touchscreen doesen't work
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 08:11:50PM +0100, Kim B.Christensen wrote: > > AFAIK, the support for the touchscreen ought to be included in the kernel: > originally the proper software could be found on www.conan.de, but he claims > that from 2.6.13 the code is merged with the kernel, so no extra modules are > needed. not enough infos: you need to know which kernel driver he's talking about, check it's compiled and installed for your current kernel. Then check it gets loaded, and that it actually finds the hw it's supposed to drive. So you need: - to know which kernel config option must be enabled - check you have such option/module enabled/installed - check it's loaded with lsmod, or manually load it via modprobe / modconf - check dmesg output for hints, telling you the modules has found the hw, providing hooks for apps (eg xorg) to do something useful with it - check you've got the related xorg's input module installed, if avail - and tell xorg to load it in xorg.conf (your's is pretty standard) check docs/man pages for details, perhaps you need to do some other step or ignore some of the above, or both. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Madwifi resume not resuming
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:39:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > NetworkManager is a little slow to recover if I don't remember to > > disable networking first. MadWifi itself doesn't seem to want to resume > > if I don't remember to disable networking in NetworkManager first. > > I've kind of worked around the problem with a shell script, though I man hibernate.conf - check 'OnSuspend' and 'OnResume' facilities in /etc/hibernate/common.conf and /etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: pcmcia wifi card not recognised
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 01:39:30AM +, Jim Burton wrote: > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > wireless-essid home I wouldn't mix wireless- and wpa-, drop wireless-essid and set wpa-ssid home > wpa-psk passphrase withaspaceinit > wpa-driver wext try also setting (depending on your ap config) eg: wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK wpa-scan-ssid 0 wpa-ap-scan 1 > but I get "No DHCPOFFERS received". I thought perhaps the space in the > passphrase the net-setup script should handle it - from /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz: NOTE: the 'wpa-psk' value is only valid if: 1) It is a plaintext (ascii) string between 8 and 63 characters in length 2) It is a hexadecimal string of 64 characters but, in case, check wpa_passphrase(8). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Load_Cycle_Count: Is 600000 bad?
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:13:18AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > In contrast to the doomsayers I am not convinced that this single item > is a great predictor of hard drive failure. It is just one metric of FWIW, mine shows: $ smartctl -A /dev/hda|\ $ egrep 'Start_Stop_Count|Load_Cycle_Count|Power_Cycle_Count'|tr -s ' ' 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 69538 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 685 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 3812616 # smartctl -H /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Please note the following marginal Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 001 001 050Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 56725 222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 022 022 050Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 31454 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 070Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 3812632 count already increased ;) it's an Model Number: TOSHIBA MK2017GAP Firmware Revision: A5.04 H on a BIOS Information Block Vendor ACER Version V3.0 R01-A05-EN Release 12/15/99 with uptimes of months (always on, till it crashes/hangs ;) ) since - hm - 2002. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does KDM need a password?
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 09:30:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > My laptop password-protects the harddrive, to unlock it I must enter a > password before the BIOS starts the OS. Is it thus redundant to have a > password at the KDM logon screen? I am the only user of this laptop, that'd mean you are sure you always use your laptop like: 1. on, active session, you in front of kyb/scr 2. off / suspend to disk anything in between would benefit from some protection other than bios/disk. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Does KDM need a password?
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:32:10PM +0200, Bogdan wrote: > > BIOS password can be reset after gaining access to the laptop's mainboard (or > maybe even easier). yep, there are bios-pwd crackers on the 'net; but if HDD is also protected, with it's own pwd, and bios just asks for HDD pwd, things are a bit harder, since access attempts may result in data wipe out, depending on HDD sec setting. > However, if you are not using filesystem encryption then KDM (login) pass > doesn't add much in terms of data security. zero, indeed, once you've access to hardware. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: plugin flash player AMD64
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:42:23PM +, javier melendez wrote: >(flashplayerplugin.so) in very paths (/root/.mozilla/plugins ugh... this doesn not mean you're running FF as root, right? right?!? >/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins >/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins) but this doesn't work. stock FF installs wherever you put it; if you put it in /opt/firefox, then you'd symlink plugins into /opt/firefox/plugins/, for a system-wide plug-ins availability, else, you'd symlink into user's FF plugins directory, which might/should be something like ~/.mozilla/firefox//plugins/ HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: plugin flash player AMD64
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:37:22AM +, javier melendez wrote: [pls reply to list not my address] > > hi paolo >dont work my plugin of firefox. >my firefox is in spanish version and my pluginfirefox is in english >version. can it be a problem? no (should not, afaikt). Try to run FF from terminal, see if you get some diagnostics. Also, check with "about:plugins" in URL box to see if it is listed. >> > (flashplayerplugin.so) in very paths (/root/.mozilla/plugins however, I don't have such .so, I have /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so whatever you have, try to see if ldd(1) resolves all lib dependencies, eg: ldd /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb7716000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7704000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb75fd000) ... you'd get a lot such lines, check you don't have 'not found' lines. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: plugin flash player AMD64
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:38:53AM +, javier melendez wrote: [pls reply to list not my address] > >umm and i run my firefox like root. Is it a problem? yeah, it's a BadThing(SM). You're running your Linux box like an MS-DOS thing; you're giving FF - hence whatever weird stuff on the 'net that it might stumble upon, that could possibly exploit a bug - SuperCow power on your system. Never do that, use root for admin stuff only, define a normal user and do the normal stuff like that user. root is there to only to make (or brake) your system. You'd better check the basic docs/tutorial/guides/faq/h-t on the matter - I think the Debian-install guide should be a nice starting point. http://www.debian.org/security/ is also highly recommended reading. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: problem to send email with postfix
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:17:26PM +0500, Gerard Robin wrote: >(host [3]smtp.free.fr[212.27.48.4] refused to talk to me: 554 5.7.1 >: Client host rejected: Access denied) your IP [41.212.157.172] from [telecomplus,Mauritius] is likely a dynamic IP so smtp.free.fr refused to serve requests from it; likely smtp.free.fr only allows IP in it's domain and trusted static IP. It's not a problem with the ML, just the usual min anti-spam measure at smtp level. Perhaps smtp.free.fr would accpet your IP if you do and auth IMPA/POP access from it. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian-based system not booting on Dell Inspiron laptop
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 06:34:13PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have a two-week old Kubuntu 8.04 installation that is now failing > > > to boot. ... > IIRC, in a "normal" boot process, / is initially mounted read-only then > remounted rw. > > Follows the mounting of other partitions defined in /etc/fstab .. which > should include /home. else, likely you've messed up lilo.conf, grub's list or whatever bootloader you have, to mount on / something else than the intended root partition. Or your HDD is failing, errors have been detected and only / is mounted, and stays ro. Try booting from a (Live)CD or a rescue FD/USB disk and check the HDD and bootloader config. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Phone recording software
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:22:33PM -0700, Richard Werst wrote: > Not to rub any one the wrong way, but these folks have some software > that will record phone conversations: > > http://www.nch.com.au/trx/index.html check pkg transcriber for similar functions. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Phone recording software
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:50:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I wouldn't necessarily expect a laptop to have a voice modem. Can you ... > How could I check that? What program can I use to dial? what about checking you pc's manual? anyway, you can use setup/config programs in some modem-apps pkgs, like mgetty as already suggested (good for inbound and outbound data/fax/voice calls) or hylafax-server (whose modem knowledge-base is fairly large). But you can go straight with minicom talking directly to the modem, eg OK ati3 EFM560 VER 4.02 V.90 (VER 1.14 TBR21 V.2) OK at+fclass=? 0,1,2,8 which shows that mine is a EMF560... brand/serial/etc (ati3 command) and a data (0) fax (class 1,2) and voice (8) modem (at+fclass=? cmd). > > A quick and dirty way to do this might be to use a bridging plug (two RJ yep, should always work on POTS, provided you use the right line-adapter. A quickest & dirtiest approach is, put a normal phone in parallel on the line, stick mic - connected to your pc - on it, and there you go; use your favourite audio app to record the mic signal. Can be done even with a w.less handset, like a dect - handy when your phonr plug is away from your bunker ;) For a more stable/reusable setup, go to a telephone shop and ask for an audio phone-line adapter, one of those suitable for eg plain old analog recorders or phone-secretary. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Phone recording software
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:51:21PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: ... > > talking directly to the modem, eg > > > > OK > > ati3 > > EFM560 VER 4.02 V.90 (VER 1.14 TBR21 V.2) > > > > OK > > at+fclass=? > > 0,1,2,8 > > > > > Not since my C128 have I seen the OK prompt! But I cannot seem to get > a CLI from minicom, I will have to google it tomorrow. This is quite > different than that machine that I barely remember from ~20 years ago. sorry, have cut away the initial 'atz'; anyway, minicom runs from terminal, it's a text app. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Xorg failure
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 02:02:52PM -0700, Baz wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Don't post as HTML please. Also, just quote the important of the @Baz: why do you insist to pollute the ML with HTML? can't you send plain text? mailer's limits? Also, would you pls bother - as asked - to quote 'just enough' for your replies? > > > >> Please help... > > > > Please ask question properly yep, the smarter & more documented the question, the better (the chance of a) good answer; if anybody has already one, that is. Else you need to wait, or try to figure out by yourself & contribute back to the community. > > > I take it you can't use a system that's going to fail at any given keep/revert-to the working system. Use a Live-CD to test the new one from time to time, & upgrade when you're satisfied. Anyway, there's plenty of alternatives out there to try - eg Ubuntu as you mentioned; you know that Debian's pkg aren't as updated as other distros. Perhaps checking whether distro X version y.z get it right, and reporting to the ML would be more helpful than just blaming Debian. > I was asking the guy who responded, not you or anyone in general. Learn this is a public ML: 'you' in such context usually means Debian's devs; to avoid misundertanding, pls use the usual form '@name:'. > plain English. Maybe if your much celebrated development cycle was as good > as it claims, then this wouldn't have happened. Quit trying to shift the > blame. It worked with etch, it doesn't work now. Debian devs don't have all the hw on the market avail for testing - nor they'd have the time to do the testing anyway. Also, they mostly depend on upstream. All get feedback from the userbase, which hopely helps to improve things. Sadly your way to make feedback doesn't help much. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny with Atheros AR522/AR5213 Chipset
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:55:45PM -0600, Richard Werst wrote: ... > The behavior is rather strange, as it will connect (with a reading of > 100% when I am in my office next to the router), and after a short time > the network manager (Gnome) will drop to 0%. ... > Are there some setting I can check? post a chunk of syslog recorded while these events occur (link ok, data flow, link lost, link ok, ... etc). Perhaps even better if you manage to enable ath5k debug. As a basic visible monitor, in a terminal keep a ping(1) to some stable node beyond the AP (or the AP itself) running; check 'time' param fluctuations. If it's the hw going to sleep if no data flows, then the ping could keep it up. > Searching for answers have only led me to people suggesting that ATH5K > be blacklisted, and that the Madwifi driver be used (it worked very well try that, if you can. That'd tell (likely) whether it's ath5k's or some (net) daemon's issue. Note, I don't use Gnome's NM, so can't provide hints there - I'm sure other will chime in. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:47:09PM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/build M=`pwd` > > I merely receive the following (error?) message: > > bash: make: command not found > > Frankly, this is the first time I've ever used any version of Linux, and the you need to install the development stuff - I think installing module-assistant should do the trick, since it depends on build-essential. Then you'd get enough docs to tackle the task - man module-assistant after installing. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 06:25:33PM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > ...Can anyone tell me where I might be able to download a pre-built > installer for this driver? First of all, I only have the first 6 disks for madwifi? try www.madwifi.org > lenny. Secondly, Aptitude just pretty much screwed up Linux when I tried to > install everything that I thought I needed to build it. My courses start > tomorrow, and I really don't have the time to fiddle around with my computer you might want to try a LiveCd then http://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:04:43PM -0700, John Wesley Cooper wrote: > > bash: ndiswrapper: command not found > > I'm guessing that this means I need another software package... but which > one? $dpkg --search ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26.8-toi3.0rc7-dm-sa-nb-pm.8 ndiswrapper-source ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 check what's missing in your system - note that ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26.8... is specific to my system. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:59:40AM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: ... > as root, do: > > nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > or more quickly: $ sed -i /^Reading/d /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (w/out '$' in col 1, of course) -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:09:46AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > - statement like "URGENT" and "I really need a solution right away!" > get you problem solved quicker (unless you paid for gold support ;) ^ won't -- p -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:25:27PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > > I'm in Thailand. I don't have the inclination to fly over and teach sed > right now. many, though not living in Thailand, would agree anyway ;) But that'd just be an easy way to do the job. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: file recovery - urgent
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:06:42PM +0100, Florian Reitmeir wrote: ... > - if you can, make a backup of your harddisc with dd to an other one.. (like > a USB HD) or via (W)LAN > > e2undel - Undelete utility for the ext2 file system > magicrescue - recovers files by looking for magic bytes > recover - Undelete files on ext2 partitions of these, only magicrescue seems really an option, as the other 2 won't work on ext3. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file recovery - urgent
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:39:42PM +0100, Micha wrote: > > I'll see if i can find magicrescue on knoppix 5.1 dvd it's in Etch, anyway. > until tomorrow it seems, low bandwidth since the meanwhile you may want to read about it: http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/ > or maybe i'll find a suitable recovery cd, i'll start check http://www.linux-live.org/ for recue CD/USB as small as ~40MB. > I still hope to find a tool which can recover a > complete folder hierarchy, but honestly, i doubt it... eh, you're out of luck, indeed: Quoting the Ext3 FAQ: "Q: How can I recover (undelete) deleted files from my ext3 partition? A: Actually, you can't! This is what one of the developers, Andreas Dilger, said about it: In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks he inode as 'deleted' and leaves the block pointers alone. Your only hope is to 'grep' for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best." > on my PC, a backup is no problem at all. > Hmpf... what a statement, right now :| lol ... we all wake up when we get kicked in the ... ;) and that's just matter of time. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file recovery - urgent
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:46:15AM +0100, Micha wrote: > > http://www.linux-live.org/ for recue CD/USB as small as ~40MB. > Needs a working environment (remember i can't boot the laptop again, sorry, wrong link (though slax is really cool); all sort of livecd are listed (also) here: http://www.livecdlist.com/ > I found this entry in an archive dated 2004-10-14, with a link to a > mail of Andreas dating Jan 07, 2003. I'm praying it's outdated ! hm, no ext3 still works that way, afaikt. > I am just discovering http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/tools.php: that can help, perhaps you can crop up a suitable 'command' for magicrescue using those tools. > > > on my PC, backup is no problem at all. > > > Hmpf... what a statement, right now :| > > > > lol ... we all wake up when we get kicked in the ... ;) > > exactly. well, your data are still there, only messed a bit ... don't know how long it'll take you to recover them, or whether they're worth the big effort at all, but if you're going for it I think that it'll deserve a stanza in the ext3-HOWTO/FAQ! - hope you'll want to write up about your findings :) . -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using whole LCD area on toshiba satellite 2800-s202
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:18:19AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > I don't know the terms for this, so I couldn't properly look under the > web for it, :(. On this toshiba, the console covers kind of a 70% of maybe 'fullscreen mode on WGA ...' or some such ? > the whole LCD screen, meaning there are some borders left unused in > all directions. When running X that's not the case. I'm wondering if > there's a way to make use of the whole LCD area even under the console that's usually a BIOS setting. Check the manual. If it boots up widescreen than shrink to normal (ie BIOS boot msgs are on widescreen, then SO msgs are on normal width) then there's likely room for playing with the console mode set by the bootloader (LILO, grub, ...). Else (always shrinked) it's all BIOS biz. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:31:28PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > see as a conflict in configuration. The router reports that it has an > encryption key, but that the security mode is open. I find that pretty > strange. ... > > Encryption key:5848-6332-43 Security mode:open that's the authentication. 'open' is better - see eg.: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_q_and_a_item09186a00805e8297.shtml -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broadcom wireless, "Access Point: Invalid"
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:56:08AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Second, How do you get to your conclusion from what is said on that > page? Cisco recommends that a person never use open authentication. > From the page you linked to: you may need to read it more carefully: >of the WLAN can access the network. Cisco does not recommend that >you deploy wireless LANs without WEP encryption." ^^ also check next points on SKA. Reg. your other post about how to secure WiFi, pls check www.linux-wireless.org for plenty of refs. and tutorials on the matter. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to bind special button to ifup/ifdown
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:24:10PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > In case anyone is interested, I stuck that ACPI stuff in on my own > laptop and the key does not generate either keyboard *or* ACPI events. check rfswitch.sf.net HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file recovery - urgent
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:18:11PM +0100, Michael wrote: > > i would be happy to be able to do but after sleuthkit/autopsy couldn't help ... > Anyway, ext3 clearly is difficult to recover. eh, seems that's the sad truth with j-fs - btw anybody has had such experience (I mean, full delete then (try to) recovery) with other j-fs, eg reiserfs, jfs, xfs ... ? > And please spare to ask me to send the image, ... > there's sensible personal data too. well, guess it'd be very easy for anybody to try and replicate your 'experiment' ;) - no need to throw around xxGB. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with fan after resume
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 05:16:02PM +0100, Dot Deb wrote: > When resumed after suspend-to-ram, my laptop comes up with fan > always "on". This makes working quite hard without gloves. While do you have the acpi-support pkg installed? -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems with fan after resume
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:52:36PM +0100, Dot Deb wrote: > >do you have the acpi-support pkg installed? > Yes, I do. > But I'm not sure it is used because I also installed > kpowersave/powersaved/uswsusp > and I think that this overrides the use of acpi-support. Am I > correct? dunno, maybe not: acpi-support is a set of scripts triggered by acpi events. other pwmgnt pkg may intercept the event though. I'd rather remove all pwmgnt pkgs but acpi-support and use acpitool to check what's going on. Once you got the bare minimum working, try to add some more fancy pkg and if/what breaks. Also, I'd rather (try and) use suspend2 instead of stock suspend - though you'd need to patch and custom-compile the K. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Probleme de dsdt
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:20:25AM -0500, dave wrote: > > you can do away with atapi. hm, so that machine comes with a SATA DVD(RW) as well? cool ... -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bugs
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:56:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I note this bugs on my toshiba a110-232: > -the sistem time is ever one hour less than the correct time. set it to the correct time ;) > > -with the touchpad the movement of the cursor is very short. check your X/windowmanager configuration, check xset, maybe try/install gxset. > > -I have a cordless mouse (logitech multimedia cordless mouse) the indicator of no clues - maybe the remote batt.status is unsupported by the driver. > > Why not thinking at one project for a cd live installation with a tool for a check http://live.debian.net > Why not installing default either gnome and kde in the same installation > option > like suse and thinking at the open office 2.1? not all would be happy - I for one wouldn't install either one. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian clash when I try install - Serio: i8042
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:09:13PM -0300, Geilson Melo wrote: > I??ve been trying install Debian 3.1 r5 on my laptop, but it always > freeze in this line. check kernel docs for kernel boot params reg. i8042: i8042.direct[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controlled can only read data from keyboard and can not control its state (Don't attempt to blink the leds) i8042.noaux [HW] Don't check for auxiliary (== mouse) port i8042.nokbd [HW] Don't check/create keyboard port i8042.nomux [HW] Don't check presence of an active multiplexing controller i8042.nopnp [HW] Don't use ACPIPnP / PnPBIOS to discover KBD/AUX controllers i8042.panicblink= [HW] Frequency with which keyboard LEDs should blink when kernel panics (default is 0.5 sec) i8042.reset [HW] Reset the controller during init and cleanup i8042.unlock[HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock try any of them, some may not make sense in your case, but it shouldn't take long to figure out which - if any - makes the trick for you. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acpi / suspend
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:33:45PM +0300, Erik Bruecken wrote: > I have upgraded recently to kernel 2.6.20.4 from 2.6.15.7 and now I have seems that 2.6.20.4 broke ss2 - check the ss2 ML, others are having troubles with .20 and .21-rc?. If aren't willing/able to help out to chase the bug, I suggest you stay with any of latest .17 .18 or .19. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg server error on init
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:38:47PM -0300, Nicolas Garimaldi wrote: > but im using debian and y try to upgrade my navigator, and the > aptitude upgrade me ALL the system . . . so i dont think this will you have some lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list pointing to 'stable' instead of 'sarge' - on 08/04 stable=etch and ... boom! > > i have a old compaq presario > and a kernel 2.6.8 > debian sarge or debian version 4.0 either you get back to sarge, or go on upgrading to etch, in which case you need to move on to a more recent kernel too - ie 2.6.18-* -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xorg server error on init
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:59:31AM +0700, Sandi Sufiandi wrote: > conflict dependencies, then run dexconf, It works. and the I load the kernel you need X up and running before running dexconf ... > module for all hardware driver. but I got new problem. > How to set LC_ALL= % dpkg-rconfigure localeconf or the like, iirc. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gateway MT6451 - function keys
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:48:10PM -0300, Andre Novelli wrote: > I have another thing to make work: the function keys ... > is there some specific module to make it work ? look for pkgs xbindkeys, hotkeys and related kernel-modules (often off-tree eg acerhk) -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: T60 and i8xx_tco
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:22:55PM +0200, moke1809 wrote: > > FATAL: Error inserting i8xx_tco no such device ... > Can I do this in any other way than recompiling the kernel? either - just ignore the error msg, if that's the only thing of concern - check with modconf if the module is explicitly listed to load - go the rough way: delete the module from /lib/modules/2.6.18.4/... HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dual screen and Macbook
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:33:42PM +0200, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > > Backtrace: > 0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c20e4] > 1: [0xb7f45420] > 2: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//i810_drv.so [0xb7b8fec0] ... > Fatal server error: > Caught signal 11. Server aborting seems i810_drv is b0rked - you may want to file a bugrep on bugs.debian.org. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filtering an existing mbox with procmail
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:02:45PM +0200, Klaus Wacker wrote: > > In clear, I want be able to make something like: > > procmail .procmail/debian-list.rc Mail/inbox > > > > where debian-list;rc is the filter rule and inbox the inbox on which to > > apply the filter. > > > > Is that even possible using procmail? If yes, what options do I have to use? > > > > Thats what formail is for. You probably want something like `formail -s > procmail for each individual message. that'd use ~/.procmailrc if any; if you want procmail to deliver as if msgs were from fetchmail, that's fine - though I'd rather set -Y: % formail -s procmail -Y .procmail/debian-list.rc < Mail/inbox assuming Mail/inbox is in mbox format, of course; if the *.rc is a generic filtering recipes set, you may want to use the -m flag instead: % formail -s procmail -m -Y .procmail/debian-list.rc < Mail/inbox but me careful that debian-list.rc doesn't have a rule that delivers to Mail/inbox ;) -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Filtering an existing mbox with procmail
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:47:58AM +0200, Alexandre Neubert wrote: > formail -s procmail -Y .procmail/debian-list.rc < Mail/inbox >I get: >Error when trying to write msg xxx to "" >for each message he tries to move (same error when replacing the -Y >with -m). well, that all depends on what .procmail/debian-list.rc does ... >I switched to formail -s procmail < Mail/inbox >This works, but is awfully slow and seems never to end (it launches a yes, as I said, that uses the default .procmailrc which likely writes to Mail/inbox too, so you'd end in a loop. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Turn off PCMCIA
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:57:47PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > and system is very slow. Older computers boot faster... I don't know > what the problem is, but I'd like to disable pcmcia that I enabled try to post post-boot dmesg > during installation. Problem is that I cannot figure out how to do it. > Even if I add nopcmcia and acpi=off to the grub boot it loads pcmcia. likely you've got discover(1) installed or yenta/whatever-pcmcia-related module in /etc/modules. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP pavilion and ACPI fan
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 12:17:06PM +0200, Dot Deb wrote: > > I tried to check for a reason and I found that the HP warms > much more (10 degrees) than the Toshiba laptop. I guess this is > a cooling design problem and has nothing to do with software, if you have original MS-whatever installed, compare what happens when running with the shipped OS. Also, check there what the pm utils knows about the fan. > although the absence of any feature under /proc/acpi/fan sounds > strange, I think. depends, if the BIOS was designed to offer standard hooks to the OS; if it was designed to talk to a proprietary pm util only, you're out of luck - or in the need to disassemble and dig into the code of such util. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 10:27:49AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > We are noticing that a new Vaio laptop is extremely slow to boot check that you're running a kernel that knows about you cpu and its pm and cpufreq features; check that you have 'performance' as default cpufreq governor; put some bogomips(1) and/or % cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freqtest in key rc-scripts just to get trace of cpu state as boot goes on. Perhaps the CPU didn't notice you've done power-on and keeps on sleeping ;) -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipw2200 on Gateway 4522 running etch
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 02:04:49AM +0300, Eddy Petri??or wrote: > > file is extracted and the ipw2200-1.1.0 is made and installed. Then the > > ipw2200 fw 3.0 is unzipped and the four files are placed in > > the/lib/firmware folder. shouldn't the install procedure put the fw files in the right folder on it's own? you shouldn't need to tinker with file placement by hand; if that's the case, file a bugrep against the relevant ipw2200 pkg. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended Maintenance Laptop (IBM/Lenovo)
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:32:51AM +0200, Michael wrote: > > 11) Maybe under 1200 Euro > > Ridiculous :) but if you have good friends. ... let us know ;) -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP pavilion and ACPI fan
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:22:05AM +0200, Dot Deb wrote: > > So sorry to have completely removed any MS stuff! :) ... > disassambling *thing drives me crazy. Is there any shortcut, just > to diagnose this problem? unfortunatly, when a notebook comes with an OS preinstalled, it's a bad idea to remove it altogether, at least before 1st checking everything works as expected. Things to check are boot up logs (dmesg) and specific log traces, if any, when acpi* modules get removed/inserted. But got a pair of nb myself which showed nothing at all onder /proc/acpi/fan and in logs. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:21:05AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > was to install the 486 kernel image and not the 686. > > Anybody knows why? Is it a bug in the 2.6.18 kernel? what's exactly the CPU in that Vaio? -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:23:19AM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: > > pentium M 740 1.73GHz seems it's supposed to work with -686; but since -486 works, it might be an issue with cpufreq driver; look in dmesg for cpufreq msgs; seems that Debian's -686 is compiled for M686 (Pentium Pro) which might not be right for 'true' PM; possibly, compile a custom kernel for just PentiumM and just the HW you have. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sony or Toshiba? (corrected)
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:18:28PM -0300, Carlos Felipe S. Pinheiro wrote: > $599.99. wow > *** Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527 * looks the best deal to me. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gateway NX-860X
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:30:32PM -0400, John S. Robertson wrote: > > The wireless card (IPW3945) was a pain to get running. Once I broke the > code as it were, networking was fine. care to file a bugrep? > Anyone with this machine is welcome to drop me a line if he/she has any > problems with the Debian install/configuration. perhaps write up some notes on that and put a link up onto www.tuxmobile.com/mylaptops.html? -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:59:12PM +, javier melendez wrote: > > I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i > restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 down > and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old debian > (sarge kernel 2.4) and all very good but in my new linux etch i have this > problem. check with dmesg(1) and top(1) what's going on - likely top will show some process / kernel thread stealing ~99% CPU. If so, file a bugrep against the rt2500. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:01:25PM +, javier melendez wrote: > > no, I have typed top and my load over memory or cpu don't have problem. boot without inserting module; check all is fine, then keeping an eye on syslog (or just run dmesg in terminal) modprobe the rt2500; check dmesg again; ifconfig ra0 up , check dmesg again. See if there's any clue there. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP pavilion and ACPI fan
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 02:44:43PM +0200, Dot Deb wrote: > - temperaure and fan speed are connected (directly bi BIOS or by > linux ACPI management? how to check it out? BIOS, likely. Linux might steer just CPU. > - high temperature are unlikely related to reduced fan > functionality (-> design issue? Core 2 Duo is too demanding?) unlikely; missing undocumented/proprietry hook for Linux-ACPI. BTW, I could reach and check via net an Acer TM382, a PackardBell (NEC) E4000, a Gericom *3000, a Toshiba EQUIUM A110: all have /proc/acpi/fan/ clean, KVERs is between 2.6.17.14 and 2.6.19.x. So, seems the acpi-fan stuff is the worst documented, if reachable at all. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Noob question re Kernel update and iptables
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 11:06:03AM -0700, Frank Parker wrote: >I got an update notice to update my kernel >I updated it. to which version? (try 'uname -r') >Now i get the error: >iptables v1.3.6 can't initialize iptables table 'nat' etc.. you need to provide more infos, eg report a few msg lines before and after such msg - copy-paste as they are; that 'etc...' might tell something more. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Noob question re Kernel update and iptables
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 06:57:45PM -0700, Frank Parker wrote: > Kernel 2.6.18-4-686 > 1. Is there a good link on compiling the kernel? > 2. What is a module? > 3. How do you compile it with iptables? > 4. Is that what I need to do is recompile the kernel? 1. pls don't top-post 2. seems you need to read up most of docs from eg. http://www.debian.org/support but you may want to check in your local /usr/share/doc and/or http://localhost/dwww/ if you have installed docs/how-to pkgs and dwww > > error: > iptables v1.3.6: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Permission denied > (you must be root) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > iptables v1.3.6: can't initialize iptables table `nat': Permission denied > (you must be root) > Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. > > I am in root.. So what is the problem? what's the command you're try to run which yields such error? if that's from the boot up sequence, pls post a few lines before and after these. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU fan control
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 07:35:55PM +0200, bebertii wrote: > > Hi, > I have the same laptop (nx6310) but i can't achieve your command : > [code]sudo echo "105:100:100:78:70:60:50" > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ0/trip_points > bash: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ0/trip_points: Permission non perhaps you'r just missing the redirect operator '>': # sudo echo "105:100:100:78:70:60:50" > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ0/trip_points ^^^ assuming, of course, that you're running as a user who has permisson to run sudo -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPU fan control
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:24:34AM +1000, Sam Couter wrote: > What you want is something more like this: > > sudo sh -c "echo '105:100:100:78:70:60:50' > > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ0/trip_points" yep, correct. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm font size
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:13:22PM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > >might make it bigger). Is there a way to tell what font my xterm is check /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm > xterm -fn -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > > where 14 is your size. once you find one you can create ~/.Xresources with > this: > xterm*font: -*-fixed-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* you can also (pre)set xterm's font menu resources - here's mine (labels in IT, good for my 800x600): #--[/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm] ... *fontMenu.Label: VT Fonts *fontMenu*menuLabel.font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-80-*-*-*-*-iso8859- * *fontMenu*font: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-80-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *fontMenu.menuLabel.foreground: deepskyblue1 *fontMenu*fontdefault*Label:Predefinito *VT100*font:7x13euro *fontMenu*font1*Label: Illeggibile *VT100*font1: nil2 *IconFont: nil2 *fontMenu*font2*Label: Micro *VT100*font2: 5x7 *fontMenu*font3*Label: Piccolo *VT100*font3: 6x12 *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medio *VT100*font4: fixed *fontMenu*font5*Label: Grande *VT100*font5: 8x16 *fontMenu*font6*Label: Esagerato... *VT100*font6: 9x15 *fontMenu*fontescape*Label: Sequenza Escape *fontMenu*fontsel*Label:Selezione !fontescape and fontsel overridden by application *fontMenu*font-doublesize*Label: Ingrossa caratteri *fontMenu*font-loadable*Label: VT220 Soft Fonts ... -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: file recovery - urgent
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:11:02PM +0200, Micha wrote: > Hello, > > Please excuse this is not strictly debian or laptop related, > but i'm in urgent trouble. > I accidently deleted a folder with 3500 files on my laptop, late replay, but might come handy for anybody in similar situation. I had the problem to recover photos from an SD trashed by Linux/MacOSX usb-storage brokeness, by chance - reading up the badblocks-HowTo - I went to 'photorec' website: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec It turned out that photorec claims to knows about and search for a long list file types, on several types of partitions and fs. photorec was very effective to recover my stuff out of the image-file image of the 0.5G SD (I selected JPG, MOV, DSC). That might have been a rel. easy task though, as jpg+mov have been recorded sequentially and were likely well ordered, so YMMV a lot. But worth a try for sure. Thanks to Chritophe. Check also links to dfrws.org. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4 "Indeed, it does come with warranty: it *will* fail." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend and Hibernate in Etch not working on Asus L3400Tp laptop
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:09:10PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > And of course gnome-power-manager is fundamentally flawed because the issues > it tries to deal with are at least as much system-wide as they are specific > to a given Gnome session: when I have several users logged in, I don't want > each one of their gnome-power-manager to react to ACPI events. g-p-m is basically a tool for single-user systems, like laptops (usually are). On multi-user systems you're better off not installing it if possile, or disable such acpi-related functions (and likely the ability to shutdown as well), again if possible (never used it). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireles network issue
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 07:58:59PM +0100, Mark Sayer wrote: > I found an extremely useful forum thread when setting up my securified > wifi at home. However, I don't know how Debian feels about certain > other distributions [fork?] so won't paste the link. It covers "WPA1, > WPA2, LEAP, etc.". eh? nobody's going to censor or [bf]lame anything that may turn out useful - let alone 'extremely useful' - to people here or anywhere else, even links to MS ;) pls post such link you found, it might be of help to others. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireles network issue
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:09:59AM +0100, Mark Sayer wrote: > > pls post such link you found, it might be of help to others. > > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834&highlight=HOWTO%3A+Wireless+Security+-WPA1%2C+WPA2 handy indeed; note though that they say madwifi doesn't support WPA2/AES, which is wrong. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend to disk?
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 05:08:45AM -0400, Zach wrote: > 2.6.18 is considered ancient? LOL~ > well ... I reported a bug for 2.6.19.7 on bugs.kernel.org, it was deemd 'prehistoric' - go figure ... > Maybe if he said 2.2.x :-) eh? what's 2.2.x ? ;) -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your mail
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:52:59PM -0400, Cavan Mejias wrote: >Setting up bcm43xx-fwcutter (005-2) ... >--12:11:39-- [1]http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o ... >12:11:54 ERROR 404: Not Found. ... >Is it a temporary problem? Googling doesn't mention it and I can't see that's not google's biz, rather a matter for bugs.debian.org. Seems that links for such wl_apsta.o are a bit volatile. Try with the XP driver that came with the card. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: power management problems
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:16:58AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > While I'm using 2.6.22 with HI-RES Timers, I hardly get around 5-10 minutes did you enable 'Tickless System' as well? tried with normal timer+ticks? -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: power management problems
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:24:27PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > But "Dynticks" were introduced recently. Most people, even without dynticks, > have had good battery backup. it might not be your case - I'd give it a try with old, 'normal' options. possibly, try also an older kernel, say 2.6.18 I, for one, have not managed to get any 2.6.22.* to even boot on a few laptops, yet. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Battery
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:35:16PM +0200, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > inspired by the powermanagement thread I realized that there is no entry > for my battery in /proc/acpi/battery ... > How can I fix this? check early dmesg lines; check dmesg lines relevant to acpi modules loading; check kernel docs wrt acpi boot options to try to play with. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Battery
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:55:05PM +0200, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > > ok. Well this is the output of dmesg | grep ACPI: > http://nopaste.info/eec471c041.html > I can find only one battery reference here and this is to the obviously > missing battery slot 1, which is correct but nothing reg. BAT0. anything in the log for 'modprobe battery'? anyway, I think you refer to ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.BAT0._STA] (Node c147b414), AE_NOT_EXIST ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.AC__._INI] (Node c147ec34), AE_NOT_EXIST do you see the /proc/acpi/ac_adapter stuff? hm, if that's a recent kernel you might want file a bugrep on kernel.org. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fatal error
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 11:32:54PM +0330, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Detecting hardware...FATAL: Error inserting i8xx_tco > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/kernel/drivers/char/watchdog/i8xx_tco.ko): No > such device nothing to worry about: as it says, your pc doesn't have such device - the hw detection tries to load the driver as part of the detection strategy. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lcd luminosity keys disabled
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:45:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > Interesting; on my Acer Aspire 3690, the Fn key isn't seen at all by X, > AFAICT; it doesn't show up in xev, either by itself or in combination not all keys on keyboards are 'keys': some might just flag the kb controller internally to switch between symbol sets. In other words, they're not designed to send kb-events. That's the usual case for . Some Fn-* combination translate to kb events, others (combinations or special keys alone) don't - you need ad-hoc driver/sw (or via ACPI/APM/IPC/...) to catch (and make use of) them. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lcd luminosity keys disabled
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 09:38:15AM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > May it also modify the contrast, > > I believe you cannot modify the contrast on an LCD display. yes, you can - indeed, brightness + contrast are the usual LCD (actually mostly any type of screen) controls. White point + gamma are those exotic knobs avail only in perhaps newest / high end / for graph.profs / whatever machines (as hard/soft machine knobs, that is, besides sw-only adjustment like xgamma you mentioned). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get Acer 5570z?s modem working?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:55:02PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > 06:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader > > Controller (rev 01) > Anyone know anything about this? also in Toshiba's iirc - ENE doesn't/won't support Linux; neither Tosh/ENE would even release tech.specs. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sn9c102 webcam
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:24:21AM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Hi all, > > I got an old, cheap Qware EasyCam webcam. I have no idea what is the did you check if USB vendor:product of such webcam is supported by other drivers? > no way to get: 320x240 JPEG (JFIF) > movie writer initialisation failed ov511, ov51x-jpeg comes to mind. I had a webcam which the kernel wanted to deal with with sn9c102, but the right driver was actually ov51x-jpeg. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sn9c102 webcam
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:05:23AM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > I had compiled module ov511, and I tried simple: > > rmmod sn9c102 > insmod ov511.ko :( - try http://www.rastageeks.org/ov51x-jpeg/index.php/Main_Page then. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sn9c102 webcam [SOLVED]
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > driver spca5xx. I installed the module gspca-source, and now everything yep, that's the other one to try - gald you got it working :) -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list file for sarge
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:45:42AM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > deb ftp://ftp.mx.kernel.org/debian/ sarge main contrib besides, note that for some non-official archive you may need to write 'oldstable' in place of 'sarge', as not all maintain the aliases name<-->*stable. So if an url fails, check directly with eg lynx(1). And, of course, keep an eye on Debian release announcements: when current stable -> oldstable, you suddenly see *lots* of upgrades would happen, which might not be what you wanted (at that time) ;). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sources.list file for sarge
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:49:46AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > 'oldstable' in place of 'sarge', as not all maintain the aliases > > name<-->*stable. So if an url fails, check directly with eg lynx(1). > > Most archives and mirrors do support the named release tracks though. eg debian multimedia (and mirrors) is one of those where 'sarge' disappeared some months ago. > automatic attempt to do a major upgrade. It would be great to be able > to do an automatic upgrade across major versions. But so much changes > that some hand-holding through the process has been required. yes, and I'd like a feature to apt-get/dselect/aptitude/whatever to set the limit of acceptable upgrades/deletes at once. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot load toshiba.ko (was Re: Lenny: not able to control fan and hd spin on Toschiba laptop)
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:31:37PM +0100, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > > msb01:/usr/src# modprobe toshiba > FATAL: Error inserting toshiba > (/lib/modules/2.6.22-2-686/kernel/drivers/char/toshiba.ko): No such device ..^^ means just that: your hw doesn't have the kind of device toshiba.ko is supposed to talk to. iirc toshiba.ko is for old models only. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A105 (and related) success
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 07:09:38PM +0800, Nickel Cobalt wrote: > > > > I am running a Toshiba A105-S2101 laptop with a mixture of Testing and ... > > also my internal modem currently doesn't work, so has anyone figured out . look for pkg slmodem . check http://linmodems.technion.ac.il . check http://www.linmodems.org and linked sites HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange hard disk problem
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:36:31PM +0100, Andrea Ferraresi wrote: > out-of-the-box, but partman doesn't recognize the partition on my hard drive, > but it have 6 partition (2 for recovery, 1 for windows and 3 for linux) and try fdisk/cfdisk/sfdisk. Recovery partitions are often specially setup to (try to) hide from part.man. prgs to avoid deletion. afaict Acer's nbooks often show such 'feature' as well. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bluetooth on Dell Inspiron E1505 / 6400
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 07:15:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I run KDE on my Inspiron E1505/6400 lappy. Is there a program for > transferring files to/from a cellphone via bluetooth? Also, can I use check for pkgs/apps gammu, wammu > a bluetooth headset for skype? likely you can use any audio de6vice that's recognised by BT drivers for any video/audio app. So the point is to find such a compatible headset (sorry, never used one, nor ever used skype). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: postinstallation: drive_cmd: seek complete error
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:17:19PM +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > > > Can you boot in single-user mode ? > > yes, but problem remains > > > What graphic adapter do have (Intel or Nvidia) ? > > $ lspci -nn | grep -E "(VGA|Display)" > > all these commands are not possible because after this error messages my > system does not respond anymore. load just the bare kernel, then look around: - pass these options as boot params: root= ro init=/bin/sh - then if you get a shell: - mount / -o remount,rw - mount /proc - mount - run above commands, try to load modules 1-by-1 - eg. acpi, agp, ... see if/when/what breaks HTH -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fsck problem
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:11:35PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > hda10 LogicalLinux ext3 [Production_home]38000,80 > > e2fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) too old - try to backport newer e2fsprogs from stable/testing. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Not working on T61
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:20:11PM -0800, Jos Collin wrote: ... > to play audio files using mplayer/ xmms. But the sound is coming try some simpler apps from terminal, eg % play /your/(sample)sound/file and/or % mpg321 /your/(sample)sound/file.mp3 also try mplayer from terminal, check it's output log - 1st close all xmms and mixer app(lets) instances. Try rexima(1) as a minimal text-mode mixed, and/or alsamixer(1). Check for settings (on some boards you need to disable it to hear from spks). If that weirdness is mplayer's only, check its ~/.mplayer/config and /etc/mplayer/input.conf. HTH -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x1D5A11A4 - 04FC 8EB9 51A1 5158 1425 BC12 EA57 3382 1D5A 11A4 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2"5 HDD's for continious operations
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:45:20PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have killed again a 2"5 drive from a Raid-5 (3Ware) and > want to ask you, WHICH 2"5 HDD's are made for 24/7 use. check http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ and their ML, I bet you can have good advices there. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compaq nx6120
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:04:13PM +, Beny Spira wrote: > 1) My mouse very often dies and dmesg gives the following message: > > uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: host controller process error, something bad happened! > uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: host controller halted, very bad! ... > It is interesting that this usually happens when i slightly move the > laptop on the table. Moving the mouse or its cable does not cause it hw failure - likely a defective soldering on the motherboard. Get it serviced/replaced. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:07:12PM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > (A205-S5809). installing Debian was quick and far easier than i hadt ... > can anyone help with this? so far dmesg doesn't show any wlan devices 1. lspci -vvv 2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website 3. check www.realtek.com.tw 4. check the *mobile*linux* sites for other's experiences Realtek's wifi chips are not listed in pci_ids in kernel, and they're used to provide blob good only for some ref. kernel version they used to compile it. Very likely your better option will be ndiswrapper. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB WLAN
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:49:42AM +0100, Andre Lorenz wrote: > but now my question. > > where can i find a good manual / howto to configure this stick > (assining ip, using wep-key .) http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.html HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HD problems
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:26:50AM +, Zach wrote: ... > both cannot be read. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this > happening before (the HD is god but cannot be read due to fault in the > system's hardware)? I hope whatever is wrong didn't damage the data on yes, chipset/controllers/power-supply can fail just like any other hw. On the data-loss side, depends on the kind of failure. Your's sounds like a failure on the 'power' side, so perhaps the HD could not get enough power to do the right - and then hopely nor the wrong - things. > Do you know something I could buy that would connect to my small > laptop hard drive and allow me to mount it as an external hard disk? I look for pcmcia adapters - check if your nb can boot from a pccard drive, but that's not essential as long as your nb have a CDD (does it have it?). On a very old 586 nb I could manage to boot from an external HDD which replaced the CDD of the external PCMCIA kit. Of course, YMMV (a lot). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xrandr laptop monitor flickering
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:34:01PM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > once per 10-15 seconds. The same xrandr configuration was working a > month ago, obviously something happened after some update. not on sw side neecessarily. Try to downgrade to sw releases you were using when it worked, if it still works try to pin point the upgrade step that broke; else, you might have hw problems. -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xrandr laptop monitor flickering
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:02:46PM +0100, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > That I would try from the beginning if I knew what was the version I was > using at that time, but I don't. I am even not even sure precisely when > I tried xrandr for the last time. check /var/log/dpkg.log > Both monitors are working fine when working alone. Isn't that enough of > a proof that there is no hardware problem? 'hw' includes 'video card/chip' -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need to lower shared graphics memory
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:07:15PM +, P Theodorou wrote: > > (WW) intel(0): VideoRam configuration found, which is no longer recommended. > (II) intel(0): Continuing with default 262144kB VideoRam instead of 131072 kB. ... > bios options are not available , so what do you suggest me to do ? that's a hint that you likely can't control that feature, it's been hard-wired by the manufacturer. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thanks for the great system / installation successfull report
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 04:26:17PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > The point is (was?) also that some hardware vendors argue that the > software is part of the product they sell. This was particularly true the (vendor's) point is the warranty: the hw warranty is voided by the use of an OS not officially approved by them. Thus, hw+os is what you buy, like for a cellphone (they say). > that by opening it you agreed to the EULA, so you could get a refund > for the bundle (software + hardware), not keep the laptop and throw yep, moreover, in IT, if u go in the shop & buy a pc, then go home and check the licence splashscreen, refute the terms, close & pack it all back in orig. pkg, go back to the shop to ask for refund, you get a bitter surprise, that you've NOT the right for a refund for such cases. The shop MIGHT agree to get it back and give you a credit to spend in same shop for anything else you want. You have the full refund right also in such cases (but not for just the part you dislike), ONLY if you buy on-line (ie via e-shop/e-comm). Cool eh? so here in IT you're better off buying on-line. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus f3ja and timeout on ata2.01
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:24:25PM +0100, Paride Desimone wrote: > Hi, > I have an asus f3ja notebook. I use debian lenny. When start my notebook > say to me: > > Jan 14 22:44:02 rivendel vmunix: ata2.01: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0) > Jan 14 22:44:02 rivendel vmunix: ata2.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 ... > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA > IDE Controller (rev 02) I've seen same stuff on a pc, but Athlon XP + VIA chipset, and 2.6.22 kernel. It might happen just on bootup, thence the SATA drives won't appear in the dev list, or under heavy i/o on that drive. I suspect either a kernel bug or hw failure. Unfortunatly I couldn't check for the latter so far (need physical access to the pc), while a possible kernel bug (reported, boot problem on suh CPU) prevents me to test a more recent kernel. Sadly, I've a feeling it's hw failure though. If you can, try 2.6.24.3 or even latest .25-rc*. HTH -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE45 - B5F9 AAA0 44BD 2B63 81E0 971F C6C0 0B87 3A47 DE45 - 9/11: the outrageous deception and ongoing coverup: http://911review.org - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compaq F750US AMD64 Debian4.0 - Fails at Ethernet "8139too"
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:38:11PM -0400, APBulletins wrote: > >When it gets to trying to find my Ethernet device - to which I have an >active plug connected - I get "No Ethernet card was detected." pls post output from: $ lspci $ lsmod >When I scroll the list and choose "8139too: RealTek RTL-8139 Fast so you know you (should) have an 8139? >Ethernet", the screen just keeps refreshing to the list of Ethernet >cards. perhaps defective CDD/DVD - unlikely such basic modules are scattered on -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
