Bug#579633: Confirmation

[Colin Turner]

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Hi Evgeni,

Thanks for this report. I can confirm this happened for me, but I was
using firmware-b43-installer?

For anyone else out there, once the package is installed, if you have
this problem, become root and edit

/var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst

to change the || to && as Evgeni as shown, then

dpkg --configure -a

will run the modified postinst and successfully extract firmware.

CT.
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Bug#487154: toshset claims to need kernel module, man page says otherwise

[Colin Turner]

Package: toshset
Version: 1.73-2
Severity: important


I installed Debian Lenny with beta 2 installer on a Toshiba Portege 
R500. toshset is installed, when I run it I get:

required kernel toshiba support not enabled.

The manpage explicitly says no special module is required. It's not 
clear what config option would produce it. I have subsequently 
recompiled the kernel using a patch from noodles to enable bluetooth 
support, but I'd like backlight support and so on if possible.

I see the package is non-maintained, so maybe this is a dead end?

CT.

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
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  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages toshset depends on:
ii  libc6  2.7-10GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc11:4.3.0-5 GCC support library
ii  libpci31:3.0.0-4 Linux PCI Utilities (shared librar
ii  libstdc++6 4.3.0-5   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

toshset recommends no packages.

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Bug#487154: toshset claims to need kernel module, man page says otherwise

[Colin Turner]

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Hi Roberto,

Thanks for your reply,

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> I am the former maintainer.  I orphaned the package because I no longer
> have a Toshiba notebook.  I would recommend asking on debian-user or
> debian-laptop to see if someone can help.  I will look into it and see
> what I can come up with, but it may not be much.  If you can create and
> test a patch (or have someone else do so), I would gladly performa QA
> upload of the package.
> 
> Another possibility might be to contact upstream.

Thanks, I will do that tomorrow, In the mean time I'll add some simple
research I did so far for the benefit of the log.

* Upstream explicitly says that the R500 transreflective display is
supported, as is AMD64, so the machine should be supported I guess.

* The program is bailing out in kernelinterface.c, it first checks if it
can access TOSH_PROC, which I can't see where it is set, but is set to
/proc/toshiba; neither this nor /dev/toshiba exist on the machine.

void
detAccessMode()
{
 accessMode=ACCESS_DIRECT;
 if ( 0==access(TOSH_PROC, R_OK) )
   accessMode=ACCESS_KERNEL;
 else if ( 0==access("/proc/acpi",R_OK) ) {
   fprintf(stderr,"required kernel toshiba support not enabled.\n");
   exit(1);
 }
} /* detAccessMode */

* so then it bails since we can access /proc/acpi since toshiba_acpi is
loaded we have /proc/acpi/toshiba/.

* if I force a return of ACCESS_DIRECT I get "toshset: unable to get
BIOS version"

* if I force a return of ACCESS_KERNEL I get "toshset: unable to get
machine identification"

This bug seems to be known to Ubuntu.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/toshset/+bug/181374

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Bug#487154: Workaround

[Colin Turner]

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Hi,

I found details of a fix for this problem:

http://www.flurble.org/computers/toshset.pl

I used this patch

http://memebeam.org/free-software/toshiba_acpi/toshiba_acpi-dev_toshiba_test5-linux_2.6.21.patch

on the kernel and now toshset works as advertised. Unfortunately this is
incompatible with the patch from Jonathan McDowell (noodles) I mentioned
earlier

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/21/141

but at least the transreflective display can now be used correctly.

Thanks,

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Bug#218365: gnome-control-center: metacity installed - theme manager still crashes

[Colin Turner]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:2.4.0-4
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #218365

Hi Folks,

I have this problem here. It seems to be partially due to the upgrade path, 
and doesn't affect all users (root for example).

I can change the theme using gconf-editor also.

I installed metacity, and I have changed to using it as the default window
manager (for this user too). It still doesn't fix the bug.

I found there was no key under

/apps/metacity/general  - theme

and created it. Still no fix.

CT.


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Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.21
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  gnome-desktop-data  2.4.1-6  Common files for GNOME 2 desktop a
ii  gnome-session   2.4.2-1  The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  libart-2.0-22.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1  The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0   0.2.3-4  The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo2-02.4.3-1  Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0  2.4.3-2  The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6   2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2   2.4.1-2  Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1  2.2.1-16 generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype62.1.7-2  FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgail-common  1.4.1-1  GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17   1.4.1-1  GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-4GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1  1.1.12-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0 2.0.1-6  Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-02.2.3-1  The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2  2.4.1-6  Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0 2.4.0-4  The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0   2.4.0-1  A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-02.4.0.1-5The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0  2.4.1-5  The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common 2.4.1-5  The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7  0.8.12-5 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0 2.2.4-3  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62   6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libmetacity01:2.6.3-2Common library of lightweight GTK2
ii  libnautilus2-2  2.4.2-2  libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2   1:2.8.3-2libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0   1.2.5-2.1Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt01.7-4lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification00.5-4library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-0  0.1.2-1  Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxft2 2.1.2-5  FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxml2 2.6.6-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1 0.8.3-5  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper0.3.14-5 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs   4.2.1-14 X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.1-4compression library - runtime

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