Re: KWorld TV878 TV Tuner problem

[Santanu Chatterjee]

Thanks Daniel and Bruno for replying. I was beginning
to think that no one was going to reply.

On 6/28/06, Daniel wrote:


> Now the problem is that tvtime only shows me the last channel I viewed
> under WindowsXP. Other than that no other frequency is detected.



If you can see the picture, then your card is configured. Have you tried
scanning for channels?


Yes, I have. But one thing I forgot to mention in my previous post is that
if I boot into windows, watch a channel, then reboot into linux,  I can see
the channel last viewed under windows (but no other channel, and tvtime-scanner
detects no other channel). However, if I cold boot into linux,
tvtime-scanner detects
no channel and no picture is displayed.


On 6/28/06, Bruno Buys wrote:


Try playing with the tuner value in that modprobe line. Are you sure 5
is good? Did you see this http://www.bttv-gallery.de/ ?
Remember to rmmod before each modprobe trial.


According to http://www.bttv-gallery.de/ my card number is 78,
and tuner=5
-
chips: 25878-13,
Tuner:  TN  5V TNF-9831-B/DFF  BG+DK checked
pcb: 878TV REV:D
sticker on backside: VS-TV878RF Made in Taiwan 04111260162

bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :02:0c.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xef00
bttv0: using: Jetway TV/Capture JW-TV878-FBK, Kworld KW-TV878RF
[card=78,insmod option]
bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=003f [init]
bttv0: using tuner=5
--


The KWorld card I have mentions "VS-TV878RF" on the box. Yesterday,
after some googling, I found out about the btspy windows utility. So I
used it to get info about the card. I found that the guy who mentioned it
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=160271)
got exactly the same values as my run of btspy gave me.

So I tried his modprobe line (after rmmod bttv):
--
modprobe bttv card=78 radio=1 tuner=38 pll=1 gbuffers=4 gpiomask=0x1c0007 \
audiomux=0x08,0x01,0x08,0x08,0x01
--
But still no progress.

I thought my tuner must be a different one.
So, I booted into windows, copied the frequencies of some
working tv channels and went to linux (cold boot) and created a custom
stationlist.xml with those channels. After that I tried this:
-
for i in `seq 0 45`; do
   rmmod bttv;
   modprobe bttv card=78 radio=1 pll=1 tuner=$i;
   sleep 1;
   tvtime --frequencies=custom --norm=PAL;
done
--
None of the 45 tuners worked, i.e. tvtime could not
show any of those channels :-(

I am getting out of ideas and google is not giving out any new
information. Please suggest if I should try anything else.

Regards,
Santanu


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fujitsu siemens amilo pro v3205

[Lubos Vrbka]

hi guys,

does anyone have this notebook with debian installed? i am planning to 
buy a new notebook that is as small as possible, however i am rather 
limited with price. this one seems reasonable.


would you recommend buying it for use with linux? it is built on 
intel/centrino so i presume there should be no problems with hw in 
debian/linux. i checked the linux notebook page - this model is not 
there, unfortunately...


any recommendations are welcome.

with best regards,

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Re: Debian server support

[ZeroUno]

Kevin Mark ha scritto:


more modern CPU (maybe a dual cpu) and such. If you are not monitoring
your useage, it would be a good way to determine if you need a new
machine.


The current server actually satisfies our current needs, it's not 
overloaded. But we are in one of those times when the company IT 
machinery goes through a general upgrade: we're upgrading clients, 
changing some things in our network structure... and why not take the 
opportunity to freshen up the server, too? After all, the probability of 
hardware failures increases with age... and this is no good thing when 
the server is a standard PC without redundant power supply etc... (yes, 
backups are regularly done, just in case you're wondering ;)).

The current server might be reused as a good client, so nothing gets wasted.


If you are not going to use/need 'offical support' (where YOU are the
one doing it) then Red Hat or such certified is not valid for you.


I'm not much interested in support from software vendors, but rather 
from hardware ones: e.g. if a proprietary driver is needed to fully 
exploit some useful hardware feature.



If they have linux support, then this is good, but make sure than it
doesnt REQUIRE binary only drivers for any of the hardware. (or be
prepare to replace the hardware). IBM or similar corporate hardware


That's why I'm here.
Being sure about this, based only on vendor and official web site 
informations, is not possible. They simply tell you that they are sure 
their stuff works fine with RH etc., and that they have no idea how it 
will work with Debian. And searching the web for such info is not easy. 
So I asked here, hoping that some experienced Debian user had already 
used some braded servers and could give me some suggestions.


Thank you all for your answers, they will make my choice easier.

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Why date command don't use my time zone ?

[KLEIN Stéphane]

Hello,

I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris.

I've logout/login and call date command :

date
Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006

date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris.

How can I fix that ?

Thanks for your help
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Re: Debian package of the day

[Aaron Maxwell]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 04:17 pm, Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060623 16:49]:
> > Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :)  I could stand to learn
> I second the request for an RSS feed.  That's pretty much the only
> way I ever read websites any more.

A feed is definitely on the todo list.  I want to put in a couple of 
features first, such as some basic filtering (do we *really* need to 
know about package kde-i18n-cy?).  Good to see interest here.

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Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

[John Miller]

KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris.
>
> I've logout/login and call date command :
>
> date
> Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006
>
> date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris.
>
> How can I fix that ?
>
> Thanks for your help
> --Stéphane
>
>
Hi Stéphane.

The man pages for tzconfig mention that tzconfig changes /etc/timezone. 
Does

cat /etc/timezone

return Europe/Paris, or does it say something else?  Might be a good
diagnostic tool to let you know if tzconfig is working as you expect.

A long shot: if

date

is an alias for

date -u,

then that would account for your problem.

Good luck!

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Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:27:25 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris.
>
>I've logout/login and call date command :
>
>date
>Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006
>
>date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris.
>
>How can I fix that ?

What's your locale set to? (I suppose LC_TIME is especially
interesting.)

On my machine:

  % locale
  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_GB:en
  LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=
  % date
  Wed Jun 28 09:55:16 BST 2006

/M

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Re: Debian server support

[Anthony Walters]

Thanks, this brings some relief.
The problem is that, when searching for info about a server machine 
offered by the reseller, I'm a bit scared to find out that only binary 
downloads for a restricted range of operating systems are available... 
this happened with an IBM machine, and now I'm looking for an Intel 
server board... it's advertised as having "Intel® Server Management 8" 
software, but will I be able to use it on Debian? Will I really need it? 
Can I live without it or is it an essential component? I'm having a hard 
way finding answers to these questions...




I'd always go with a server class machine with a RAID controller + raid 
5 if I want it to do anything important - while a well put together PC 
would offer the same performance. You miss out on things like hot 
swapable drives, and dual power supplies with a PC class machine. You 
also don't have to worry about the airflow or cooling for the server. 
It's already designed for multiple disks. Support contracts you get from 
the supplier are are also useful.


Anthony


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Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

[Willie Wonka]

Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 04:22:08PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:

> Stop! You need to read documentation on apt-get and aptitude before you go 
> any further in changing your system. There are situations in which following
> piecemeal advice, as you are getting in prior post, will break your system.

Hi Paul, and all the others who've taken time to reply ;-)
I'm been very busy with my Day job (non-computer related).
 
> Your system seems to be working now. I believe this because you are able 
> to post messages and read messages on this list. 

Yes it is indeed! and yes I can.

> So, what is it about your
> system that you want to change and why? 

I would like to use the latest version of 'hdparm' -- because it has some
recent changes that may help me debug... specifically the bugs/update for the
-I option.

viewing the LSM file yields the changelogs;
===
Begin4
Title:  hdparm
Version:6.6
Entered-date:   2006-03-07
Description:hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters for Linux IDE drives.
v6.6 fix build on Redhat/Fedora
v6.5 fix -I bugs introduced in v6.4
v6.4 major update for -I, bug fix for -C
v6.3 report ATA revisions > 7
v6.2 major rework of ATA Security Commands
v6.1 bug fix for BLKGETSIZE
[...]
===


> I detect a lot of faulty 'knowledge'
> in you[r] post.

I certainly hope not "a lot". There's certainly some confusion (especially on
my part)

>  Read the doc.s. In particular read man pages to learn why you
> need both update and upgrade. Do not rely on /etc/debian_version to tell you
> what version of debian you are running. It is a user controlled file. Once
> it is installed in the initial install, it is not changed by the apt-get
> system. 

Ok -- I still presume that "apt-get upgrade" will bring me up to 3.1r2? Perhaps
I'm mistaken?

For this install -- I *did* use CD #1(of 14) from the 3.1r1 release; everything
there-after has been d/l from the Internet -- NO "testing" entries were in any
files, _prior_to_yesterday_ , so if/when reviewing the relevant entries in
/etc/apt/preferences and /etc/apt/sources.list (upthread), just disregard the
"testing"...(disregard anything related to 'testing'), up until this point.

I did however perform the 1st "upgrade" ever, on this install, early yesterday
morning using this one entry for "testing";

~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences 
 Package: * 
 Pin: release a=testing 
 Pin-Priority: 50 

I used the -s option (before the actual upgrade) in 'apt-get', to view the
differences that would've occured... and it *seems* the entry above made no
difference (or only an extrememly minor diff). I am so concerned with not being
understood now, that I can't really recall.

> If your sources.list points to sarge or stable, you are running the current
> stable, which is sarge.

Yep ;-)

>  The r-number in the version is not really important
> to the user of a functioning stable system.

Trust me, I know -- I've broken many-a-'Stable'-system in the past (my own) --
and no, I'm not trolling, and I'm not a sadist -- I like to play with things, I
like to (try to) understand them. But please don't let that info keep anyone
from telling me how to upgrade an application.

>  You get the latest version of
> whatever package you want by downloading from a repository on the web. The
> r-number tells you what revision level a debian CD was written at. If you
> have web access, which I think you do, you stop using your install CDs as
> soon as you have functioning web access. 

I did...
I have broadband access, and have always used the inet for 'updates'. Until
yesterday, I have not performed any 'upgrades'.

> Are you now running stable or testing or what? 

Stable!, Stable!, ala horses --  ;-)

> This matters as to what advice
> you should be given, and it's not clear which you are running, although I
> suspect you are running stable, because r-numbers are not assigned to testing
> or unstable. 

You are corr-ect sir! (spoken like Ed McMahon, on "The Tonight Show" 'with
Johnny Carson' saying that)

> Next, what do you want to be running? 

Stable (with a sprinkling of "Testing").

> Why do you want to change?

Because certain Application bugs have been worked out, and the misinformation
given from certain hardware utilities will go a long way in helping decipher
what's actually occuring with my hardware. Debugging my "Stable" install, for
one, and then later building my own Kernel.

> Giving good advice requires that one knows what you want. From what
> I've read so far, your desire for change is driven only by a
> misunderstanding of what the r-number means.

I would say that you are misunderstanding what I am asking for - I could care
less what the 'r' (Release) number is - I'm much more concerned on how to "Pin"
appropriatelybut

Re: apt-get pinning ? - Sarge / Stable - only install certain/specific packages from "testing"

[Willie Wonka]

Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> Þann 2006-06-27, 02:38:46 (-0700) skrifaði Willie Wonka:

> > So obviously I'm still at v6.1, rather than 6.6 (the one I want)

> Yes, I misunderstood you in your original posting, I thought you were
> using the testing distribution in your sources.list file but you are
> still using the stable one which only has v6.1.
> If you want to install a package from testing follow the instructions
> here:
>
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-default-version
> 
> In fact it would do you a lot of good to read that whole document, it
> would clear up a few things about how the packaging system in debian
> works and how to use apt-get to manipulate your packages.

Thanks - and I will read the entire doc (in due time)
I also found this which I'm reading;

 
> HTH

Yes indeed -- thank you

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Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

[Angel L. Mateo]

El mar, 27-06-2006 a las 18:01 +0300, David Baron escribió:
> > 1.  Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running together,
> > or are there some other really interesting uses?
> 
> Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You can run one version of linux or such 
> inside your installed version. Useful for testing the new version out, 
> running things in a protected environment. I am no expert but I do not 
> believe "sharing" is going on.
> 
> Less advanced, easy to set up and use is qemu (using the kqemu accelerator 
> kernel module).
> 
> Both run off disk images, not real file systems.
> 
This is not true. I don't qemu well, but I think it could use a real
filesystem. And I am sure that xen can use it. It could you the
filesystem type you want (a file, a real filesystem in a partition, a
filesystem in a logical volumen, an iscsi disk, etc.). All you need is
that your kernel support it.

There is a real very interesting use: the use of virtualization to
consolidate servers. One of the problems of organizations is the number
of infraused (is this the english word?) servers. With virtualization
you can use one physical servers to deploy several virtual servers (one
server as email server, another for web, another...). For this kind of
use, xen is a good solution. Another (non-free) solution could be vmware
esx. qemu is not a solution. In fact, there are service providers that
offers virtual servers for renting.

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Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

[KLEIN Stéphane]

Magnus Therning a écrit :

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:27:25 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
  

Hello,

I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris.

I've logout/login and call date command :

date
Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006

date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris.

How can I fix that ?



What's your locale set to? (I suppose LC_TIME is especially
interesting.)

On my machine:

  % locale
  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_GB:en
  LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
  LC_ALL=
  % date
  Wed Jun 28 09:55:16 BST 2006

/M

  

Thanks.

I restart dpkg-reconfigure locales and select [EMAIL PROTECTED] UTF-8 
default locale.


But when I start % locale I've :

LANG=
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

Where can I set my default locale ?

--Stéphane


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Re: Partitioning an FTP server

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 26.06.06 13:03, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote:
> I tend to do this... this is assuming that users will have their home
> folders in /home ;)
> 
> / --> 512 MB
> /boot --> 256 MB
> /usr  --> 2 GB
> /var  --> 2 GB
> /var/log  --> 2 GB
> /tmp  --> 1 GB
> /home --> what is left

I do not think there's any need to have separate prtition for /boot (unless
your BIOS can't boot from larger partitions), /usr, /var/log (unless you
have very MUCH logs) and /tmp. I mount tmpfs on /tmp (siz=128m).

I probably would use this schema:

/   2GB
swap1GB
/var4GB
/home   the rest

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Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

[Chris Bannister]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:31:21PM -0400, Bill Jones wrote:
> On 6/25/06, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:39:13AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> HTH
> >> --
> >> WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
> 
> >Hmmm gmail does do proper sigs, sometimes. Weird.
> >
> >--
> >Chris.
> >==
> 
> Is that client specific?  I mean even my CUI terminal knows about URLs  =)

No I mean the space has not been stripped off the --
delimiter of the sig. Whether it is client specific I don't know.

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Re: Why date command don't use my time zone ?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:21:51 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
>Magnus Therning a écrit :
>>On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:27:25 +0200, KLEIN Stéphane wrote:
>>  
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I used tzconfig to set my time zone on Europe/Paris.
>>>
>>>I've logout/login and call date command :
>>>
>>>date
>>>Wed Jun 28 08:26:19 UTC 2006
>>>
>>>date command use UTC time zone and not Europe/Paris.
>>>
>>>How can I fix that ?
>>>
>>
>>What's your locale set to? (I suppose LC_TIME is especially
>>interesting.)
>>
>>On my machine:
>>
>>  % locale
>>  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>>  LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_GB:en
>>  LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
>>  LC_ALL=
>>  % date
>>  Wed Jun 28 09:55:16 BST 2006
>>
>>/M
>>
>>  
>Thanks.
>
>I restart dpkg-reconfigure locales and select [EMAIL PROTECTED] UTF-8
>default locale.
>
>But when I start % locale I've :
>
>LANG=
>LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
>LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
>LC_TIME="POSIX"
>LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
>LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
>LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
>LC_PAPER="POSIX"
>LC_NAME="POSIX"
>LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
>LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
>LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
>LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
>LC_ALL=
>
>Where can I set my default locale ?

(The following is based on my experience. I hope I'm not entirely wrong
in my understanding of how this works. :-)

If you log in on a regular terminal (i.e. not in X at all) then
/etc/environmentis used. Mine looks like this:

  LANGUAGE="en_GB:en_GB:en"
  LANG=en_GB.UTF-8

The dpkg-reconfigure you did should have affected that file. However,
I'm not sure whether it'll take effect without a reboot.

If you log in using a display manager (GDM, KDM, ...) then it might set
the locale itself (I know GDM does). AFAIK you have to log out, change
the locale, then log in again in order to change it.

/M

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Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

[Jörg-Volker Peetz]

How about
  aptitude search ~iapt
showing all installed packages with substring "apt" in their name?

Regards,
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Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

[S Scharf]

I had always installed the NVIDIA driver by downloading from NVIDIA.Thinking it would be easier to maintain to use the .deb package I found the Testing package requires the 2.6.16 kernel, but the currenttesting kernel is 
2.6.15?Am I missing something?

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

[Stephen]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:23:30PM +0200 or thereabouts, Jörg-Volker Peetz 
wrote:
> How about
>   aptitude search ~iapt
> showing all installed packages with substring "apt" in their name?

Now that is way cool. Thanks !

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Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

[Linas Žvirblis]

S Scharf wrote:

> I had always installed the NVIDIA driver by downloading from NVIDIA.
> 
> Thinking it would be easier to maintain to use the .deb package I
> found the Testing package requires the 2.6.16 kernel, but the current
> testing kernel is 2.6.15?
> 
> Am I missing something?

There does not seem to be NVIDIA driver package in Testing. Both NVIDIA
drivers and appropriate kernels are found in Unstable.

Maybe you are using a mixed system or your package list is not up-to-date?


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Re: strange kde behaviour... bad use of backports?

[Gilberto Villani Brito]

Hi Bruno;
Do you want make a downgrade in your control center???
Deinstall this package, remove backports in your sources and reinstall control 
center.

Gilberto



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> Hi,
> This is debian sarge.
> I added backports to my sources, then i apt-updated, and then i 
> installed backported koffice. After that, kde changed its overall look 
> and feel and control center reports version 3.5.0, instead of the 
> previous 3.2.x (i guess it was 3.2.2).
> The strange thing is that everything works ok, except that control 
> center has only one icon inside, 'peripherals', and 'digital camera' 
> inside it. Nothing more.
> I had no idea installing koffice would upgrade my kde.
> 
> So, is there a simple way to have my 3.3.2 back? (this is not critical, 
> though...)
> 
> Can control center display all those config icons, as usual?
> 
> Is it safe now to apt-get upgrade? I won't post the entire list of 
> upgrades, but the last lines are:
> 
> 358 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 762 not upgraded.
> Need to get 327MB of archives.
> After unpacking 214MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[David Baron]

>> Are they "better" or equivalent?  Probably updated with Xorg changes, etc. 
>> which is better. However, the manufacturer must also know what they are 
>> doing?

>Files inside are exactly the same, except maybe cases where certain
>modifications are needed to make them work in Debian.

OK. Folks were complaining about these with googeearth not working. Works fine 
for me so I thought they were different.

>The driver needs to overwrite a couple of files that belong to xorg, so
>if you use the installer, the files will be overwritten without Debian
>package management system knowing that. This will lead to them being
>overwritten again by xorg on next upgrade, and you will have to
>reinstall NVIDIA drivers.

This explains the bug I filed about freeglut producing an error after recent 
Xorg upgrades. Reinstalling that driver fixed it.

>The packages make the package management system remember they were
>overwritten and preserves them on upgrades. They will also be updated
>once NVIDIA releases a patch, which you would have to apply manually
>otherwise.

>You will get the same either way. Proprietary drivers are still
>proprietary drivers no matter how you install them.

OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card? 
( compile my own kernels so the 2.6 kernel meta-stuff is probably not 
appropriate since I always have full source. Still leaves a lot of different 
packages.)


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Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

[David Baron]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:48, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
> El mar, 27-06-2006 a las 18:01 +0300, David Baron escribió:
> > > 1.  Is Xen mainly for sharing multiple operating systems running
> > > together, or are there some other really interesting uses?
> >
> > Xen is an advanced virtual machine. You can run one version of linux or
> > such inside your installed version. Useful for testing the new version
> > out, running things in a protected environment. I am no expert but I do
> > not believe "sharing" is going on.
> >
> > Less advanced, easy to set up and use is qemu (using the kqemu
> > accelerator kernel module).
> >
> > Both run off disk images, not real file systems.
>
>   This is not true. I don't qemu well, but I think it could use a real
> filesystem. And I am sure that xen can use it. It could you the
> filesystem type you want (a file, a real filesystem in a partition, a
> filesystem in a logical volumen, an iscsi disk, etc.). All you need is
> that your kernel support it.

Qemu is a fairly simple virtualizer. Since a virtual machine sport differing 
"hardware" (emulated) than the real one, running off a real filesystem is 
kind of dangerous. Feeding qemu the real thing is rejected. It will play off 
diskettes and live CDs.

Xen (which I have not tried and do not fully understand) is a much more 
complex and capable virtualizer. I have read that it will not do Windows. 
There are a bunch of linux kernel images around which it will play. Whether 
they correspond to "unstable" as such I do not know.

A vritualizer that runs the actual hardware, playing traffic cop between the 
real session and the virtual sessions?? Real native speed and effective 
multimedia? (I have reasons for wanting to run a Windows session off the real 
hardware for music production. Qemu and such will not cut it here, though 
Windows, Knoppix CDs (not running the KDE), and Dynebolic run very nicely 
with it.)

>
>   There is a real very interesting use: the use of virtualization to
> consolidate servers. One of the problems of organizations is the number
> of infraused (is this the english word?) servers. With virtualization
> you can use one physical servers to deploy several virtual servers (one
> server as email server, another for web, another...). For this kind of
> use, xen is a good solution. Another (non-free) solution could be vmware
> esx. qemu is not a solution. In fact, there are service providers that
> offers virtual servers for renting.

This is what I have seen suggested in various bulletins. Speed is not a 
significant problem and the internet runs just fine.

Re: creating custom binary packages?

[Kit Peters]

Checkinstall doesn't really seem to be what I'm looking for.  However, I did have good luck with this article that Monsieur Pilon linked: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336
On 6/27/06, Roberto Sanchez <
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> use precompiled stuff when I can.  How do I create a custom .deb from a> precompiled package, a la firefox or MySQL?  I've looked at the New> Maintainer's Guide (though perhaps not as in depth as I ought) and I
> didn't see anything there.  Can anyone give me some pointers?>> Kit PetersIf your package does not require pre- or post-install steps (or if youcan do them by hand), then check out checkinstall.
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Re: Gimp: No Printer in File Menu - Thanks

[Thomas H. George]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:22:00PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> 2006. június 27. 20:30,
> "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,:
> > Gimp 2.2 has forgotten that I have a printer.  Actually I have two both
> > defined in Cups and working from a console, from Xsane and from Openoffice.
> >
> > Tom George
> Hi Tom!
> 
> Have you got the 'gimp-print' package installed?
> 
> Daniel

Thanks Daniel,

gimp-print was missing.  I suppose I must have had it in the past as,
when installed, the print command included two long dead and gone
printers with no way to delete them.  It also recognized the new
printers so the derelitics are not a problem.

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Re: creating custom binary packages?

[Kit Peters]

A brief note about what I'm doing - I'm installing Debian on a couple of boxes and putting them into "kiosk mode" via Jim Massey's twm-kiosk package (http://kiosk.mozdev.org/twm-kiosk.html
).  Originally, I had wanted to wrap up my "kiosk mode" Firefox in a deb, and probably do the same for twm-kiosk, but I decided instead to use as many stock debs as possible, and only roll my changes into debs.  And I ended up writing simple Makefiles for everything, and building the debs that way.
On 6/28/06, Kit Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Checkinstall doesn't really seem to be what I'm looking for.  However, I did have good luck with this article that Monsieur Pilon linked: 
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336
On 6/27/06, Roberto Sanchez <

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> didn't see anything there.  Can anyone give me some pointers?>> Kit PetersIf your package does not require pree- or post-install steps (or if youcan do them by hand), then check out checkinstall.
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Re: HP Printer and Pre-Rendering

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:23:13AM -0500, Mike McCarty
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
 My girlfriend uses Debian (on my recommendation, though I
 use Fedora Core), and we've hit a little snag. It turns
 out that for some of the applications, her HP printer
 prints raw PostScript.

Which applications / which files? I posted about a similar problem
("man -t problem") on this list a few days ago. This was due,
apparently, to a (probably recent) bug in the "file" program,
which some printer drivers (input filters) use to detect the file
type. See also http://bugs.debian.org/file.

I my case the following worked: edit /etc/magic as root and add
the lines

 # PostScript, updated by Daniel Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 0   string  %!  PostScript document text
 >2  string  PS-Adobe-   conforming
 >>11string  >\0 at level %.3s
 >>>15   string  EPS - type %s
 >>>15   string  Query   - type %s
 >>>15   string  ExitServer  - type %s

My print driver (Brother HL2030) uses "file". I do not know if
hpijs does. If it does not, the above solution will not work, of
course. But it may be worth a try.

Regards, Jan





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Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

[S Scharf]

On 6/28/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
S Scharf wrote:> I had always installed the NVIDIA driver by downloading from NVIDIA.>> Thinking it would be easier to maintain to use the .deb package I> found the Testing package requires the 
2.6.16 kernel, but the current> testing kernel is 2.6.15?>> Am I missing something?There does not seem to be NVIDIA driver package in Testing. Both NVIDIAdrivers and appropriate kernels are found in Unstable.
Maybe you are using a mixed system or your package list is not up-to-date?From :
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=nvidia&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=allPackage nvidia-kernel-2.6.16-2-686
testing (x11): NVIDIA binary kernel module for Linux 2.6.16-2-686   [non-free]
1.0.8762+1: i386

force stable package if avail

[Jean-Sebastien Pilon]

Hello all, 

Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing
is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... 

Example: 

I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable

I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if possible

Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and
unstable when package not in stable ???



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Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On Tuesday 27 June 2006 05:01, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le mardi 27 juin 2006 à 10:42 +0200, Arnau a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> >I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to
> > install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although
> > it's usable, now I'd like to use something ligther. Which desktop would
> > you recommend me?
>
> That's a usual flame-starting question, ain't it?
>
> You have many choices, I liked IceWM, FVWM2 is also a good choice.
>
> I use Ion2 which is lightweight. It's a tabbed window manager where (by
> default) all windows are fullscreen with a tab to select the window. It
> can completely be controlled from the keyboard. (It also fully supports
> the mouse as well as usual floating windows.)


The one thing that ion lacks by default is alt+tab mapping to switch between 
windows.

Another little annoyance is the prompts for passwords etc., are also shown in 
full screen. For example, when I open kmail, it prompts for a passoword to 
kwallet, even this password prompt takes up a lot of screen.

Other than these two points, ion is an excellent window manager. But they were 
good enough to make me go back to my old WM.


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Re: HP Printer and Pre-Rendering

[Mike McCarty]

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:

Mike McCarty wrote:


My girlfriend uses Debian (on my recommendation, though I
use Fedora Core), and we've hit a little snag. It turns
out that for some of the applications, her HP printer
prints raw PostScript.


Which applications / which files? I posted about a similar problem


We haven't made an extensive search. What she wanted to do was
print some "digital photographs" (JPEG format files created by
a "digital camera"), but crop them first. So she tried using the
GIMPS image editor to do the cropping, which worked ok, but then
when she tried to print it the raw PostScript came out.

Our solution was to save the cropped image, and then use Mozilla
(the web browser) to open the file and print it. That worked.


("man -t problem") on this list a few days ago. This was due,
apparently, to a (probably recent) bug in the "file" program,
which some printer drivers (input filters) use to detect the file
type. See also http://bugs.debian.org/file.


Ok, I'll have a look.


I my case the following worked: edit /etc/magic as root and add
the lines


[snip]



My print driver (Brother HL2030) uses "file". I do not know if
hpijs does. If it does not, the above solution will not work, of
course. But it may be worth a try.



Thanks for that. I'll shoot her a copy of this and we'll give it
a try. I'll also get back here to let all know whether this
resolved the problem.

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Gnome Application menu oddity

[DePriest, Jason R.]

I have two laptops with Etch installed on them.

One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed
using the Beta 1 net install.

They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then.

On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off
of the 'Application' menu in Gnome.  I thought this was just a design
decision to have to have it removed.  I looked around through the
available packages and couldn't find anything promising.  Various
'tweak' apps also turned up nothing.  I moved on.

When I built the other laptop with Beta 2, I was astonished to see
that it had the 'Debian' menu.

My question is: how can I get this menu menu back on the other system?
I really miss it.

Thank you!

-Jason


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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[Linas Žvirblis]

David Baron wrote:

> OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card?

Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages.

> ( compile my own kernels so the 2.6 kernel meta-stuff is probably not 
> appropriate since I always have full source. Still leaves a lot of different 
> packages.)

Please read . Especially
the "Build manually, with a custom kernel" section.


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Re: force stable package if avail

[Albert Dengg]

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> Hello all, 
> 
> Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing
> is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... 
> 
> Example: 
> 
> I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable
> 
> I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if possible
> 
> Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and
> unstable when package not in stable ???
> 
> 
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Hi

well use pinning (as for example used and described with backports.org
that way you can force apt to only use specific packages from
unstable/testing/backports/etc...

for more information about pinning see also
man apt_preferences

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Re: marillat

[W Paul Mills]

Marty wrote:

Ron Johnson wrote:

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Francesco Pietra wrote:

Is

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed


It's changed to
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main


Has anyone gotten demirror to work with it?  I am using the following 
command:


  debmirror -d sarge -a i386 -e http \
  --ignore-release-gpg --ignore-missing-release --ignore-small-errors \
  -h www.debian-multimedia.org /mirror/debian-multimedia/

I get a bunch of errors like:

Ignoring missing Release file for dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz
dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz needs fetch
Getting: dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz... 
dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz failed 404 Not Found

dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz failed md5sum check, removing

It eventually fails with no files downloaded.




Similar problems with aptitude. Email to Marillat got back answer of 
"Not my problem." Not very helpfull.


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Re: force stable package if avail

[Dimitar Vukman]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:23:47 -0400
"Jean-Sebastien Pilon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and
> unstable when package not in stable ???


Just an add-on to previous post, some info on apt pinning:
http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Apt-Pinning_on_Debian .


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RE: force stable package if avail

[Jean-Sebastien Pilon]

Sorry did not see previous post about this.

That means a good bet would be: !?

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 700

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 600

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 500



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> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:23:47 -0400
> "Jean-Sebastien Pilon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and
> > unstable when package not in stable ???
> 
> 
> Just an add-on to previous post, some info on apt pinning:
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Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

[Karl E. Jorgensen]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> I have two laptops with Etch installed on them.
> 
> One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed
> using the Beta 1 net install.
> 
> They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then.

Are you sure? Paranoia dictates that you diff the output of 
$ dpkg -l | sort -k2
between the two machines :-)

> On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off
> of the 'Application' menu in Gnome.  I thought this was just a design
> decision to have to have it removed.  I looked around through the
> available packages and couldn't find anything promising.  Various
> 'tweak' apps also turned up nothing.  I moved on.
> 
> When I built the other laptop with Beta 2, I was astonished to see
> that it had the 'Debian' menu.
> 
> My question is: how can I get this menu menu back on the other system?
> I really miss it.

Running update-menus(1) (either as root and/or mortal) and logging
off/on *might* help. I don't fully understand it, so YMMV...

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Grub question?

[Ishwar Rattan]

I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6
(on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition:

will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)?

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Re: force stable package if avail

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On 6/28/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon <> wrote:

Hello all,

Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing
is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible...

Example:

I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable

I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if possible

Is there a way I can tell apt to use stable and only testing and
unstable when package not in stable ???



I force 'testing' versions of everything so I understand what you are asking.

I would put a line in my /etc/apt/apt.conf that looks like this:
APT::Default-Release "stable";
or maybe "Sarge";
whichever works.

And when you go to install sun-java5-jdk, install it thusly:
# apt-get install sun-java5-jdk/unstable

Of course, your sources.list will actually have to have an 'unstable'
repository.

You may get lots of dependency complaints as the propery versions of
things aren't found in stable.  You can try manually entering them on
the command line and forcing the 'testing' version or if you have to
the 'unstable' version.

Basically, if it isn't in stable, you are going to have to tell
apt-get to get it anyway.

It takes a few extra steps but it keeps you from accidentally
installing a super-unstable version of something that you didn't mean
to install.

-Jason


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Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> I have two laptops with Etch installed on them.
> 
> One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed
> using the Beta 1 net install.
> 
> They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then.
> 
> On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off
> of the 'Application' menu in Gnome.  I thought this was just a design
> decision to have to have it removed.  I looked around through the
> available packages and couldn't find anything promising.  Various
> 'tweak' apps also turned up nothing.  I moved on.
> 
> When I built the other laptop with Beta 2, I was astonished to see
> that it had the 'Debian' menu.
> 
> My question is: how can I get this menu menu back on the other system?
> I really miss it.

I think you need the package menu-xdg. some change happened to that
package or some dependency related to it so that it is not installed
automatically.

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Re: Grub question?

[Lothar Braun]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:11 -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote:
> I am thinking of installing debian on partition /dev/sda6
> (on a SATA hard disk). Grub menu entry for root partition:
> 
> will/should it be (hd0,5) or (sd0,5)?

It is (hd0,5). Grub uses hd for all hard drives.

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Re: Debian package of the day

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:52:51AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 June 2006 04:17 pm, Lance Simmons wrote:
> > * Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060623 16:49]:
> > > Looks cool...how about an RSS feed? :)  I could stand to learn
> > I second the request for an RSS feed.  That's pretty much the only
> > way I ever read websites any more.
> 
> A feed is definitely on the todo list.  I want to put in a couple of 
> features first, such as some basic filtering (do we *really* need to 
> know about package kde-i18n-cy?).  Good to see interest here.

you could probably, IMHO, ignore just about any i18n package. Likewise
you could probably ignore any lib* package as well. Or even better,
you could set-up a couple versions of the potd. One for desktop users
that focuses only on apps, one for dev's that includes libs, maybe one
for cli junkies that greps for no X11 dependencies and so forth. just
a thought.

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Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On 6/28/06, Andrew Sackville-West <> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> I have two laptops with Etch installed on them.
>
> One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed
> using the Beta 1 net install.
>
> They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then.
>
> On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off
> of the 'Application' menu in Gnome.  I thought this was just a design
> decision to have to have it removed.  I looked around through the
> available packages and couldn't find anything promising.  Various
> 'tweak' apps also turned up nothing.  I moved on.
>
> When I built the other laptop with Beta 2, I was astonished to see
> that it had the 'Debian' menu.
>
> My question is: how can I get this menu menu back on the other system?
> I really miss it.

I think you need the package menu-xdg. some change happened to that
package or some dependency related to it so that it is not installed
automatically.

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The simple solutions are always the best ones.  Andrew, you were
exactly correct.  I installed that package and rebooted and the Debian
menu is back.

Awesome.

You have my gratitude.

-Jason


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Re: cannot install aptitude: Broken packages

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:59:29PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:11:51AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote:
> > On 6/27/06, Chase James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Hello. I'm trying to upgrade a debian woody box to sarge according to the
> > >release notes. When attempting to install aptitude, I get the following
> > >error:
> > >
> > ># apt-get install aptitude

did you change your sources.list before attempting to install
aptitude? that may cause problems. I haven't read the release notes,
so can't say, but if it recommends using aptitude, you'd want that
installed before you do anything else. 

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Gnome Application menu oddity

[DePriest, Jason R.]

I have two laptops with Etch installed on them.

One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed
using the Beta 1 net install.

They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then.

On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off
of the 'Application' menu in Gnome.  I thought this was just a design
decision to have to have it removed.  I looked around through the
available packages and couldn't find anything promising.  Various
'tweak' apps also turned up nothing.  I moved on.

When I built the other laptop with Beta 2, I was astonished to see
that it had the 'Debian' menu.

My question is: how can I get this menu menu back on the other system?
I really miss it.

Thank you!

-Jason


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Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

[Linas Žvirblis]

I see.

The legacy drivers actually are in Testing. These are meant for older
(legacy) cards, and may not work with new ones. This is a sort of
transitional driver, as a new version (already released, but not yet in
Debian) does not work with anything but legacy cards by design.

The pre-built modules of normal driver are also in Testing, as they are
built from different source. They are, however, useless without user
space components, such as "nvidia-glx".

You may want to try getting the driver and the kernel from Unstable.
Although you should check for release critical bugs first.


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Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:04:22AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> the admins can catch it before it gets out of hand and kill the
> offending process(es).  Please allow me to illustrate:
> 

thanks for a great little explanation of swapping and what it means.

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Re: Slow Konsole GUI

[Florian Kulzer]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 20:06:43 +0100, David wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm running Etch AMD64 with KDE.
> 
> Recently my Konsole has started to run very slowly when anything to do
> with the GUI is concerned eg. when openning a new konsole (about 15
> seconds), openning a new shell within konsole (about ten seconds),
> changing between shells within konsole (3 seconds), resizing (about
> six seconds) and moving (about three seconds).
> 
> All other applications are running fine and the problems with Konsole
> are very recent. I suspect the problem arises from a system update I
> made last week when I ran update for the the first time in many months
> (Konsole was fine prior to that). The update was pretty big and I had
> some trouble configuring the updated xorg.  I suspect onsoles problems
> come from a sub optimal configuration file somewhere but I don't know
> how to go about diagnosing this.
> 
> A google search has not shone any light on how I might try to
> reconfigure Konsole so that it can recover it's former speed.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to proceed would be warmly welcomed.

You could try to run

grep ^konsole ~/.xsession-errors

to see if there are any konsole-related error messages.

If you suspect that the problem has something to do with the state of
your xorg, you can check the xorg log for warnings and errors:

egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

[S Scharf]

On 6/28/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...The pre-built modules of normal driver are also in Testing, as they arebuilt from different source. They are, however, useless without user
space components, such as "nvidia-glx".Which gets me back to my origional question. The NVIDIA driver in Testingrequires a different kernel version than the one in testing !?  Is the system
broken?

Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

[Linas Žvirblis]

David Baron wrote:

> Qemu is a fairly simple virtualizer. Since a virtual machine sport differing 
> "hardware" (emulated) than the real one, running off a real filesystem is 
> kind of dangerous. Feeding qemu the real thing is rejected. It will play off 
> diskettes and live CDs.

QEMU can run of real file systems just fine - just point it to a device
file instead of disk image. Of course, you should not expect it to run
an OS that was not installed trough QEMU itself.

By the way, QEMU is an emulator, not virtualizer. The OS inside QEMU is
almost totally isolated from your real hardware.

> A vritualizer that runs the actual hardware, playing traffic cop between the 
> real session and the virtual sessions?? Real native speed and effective 
> multimedia?

Xen runs at native performance, QEMU does not.
QEMU can run any OS, Xen cannot.


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Re: Is the Etch NVIDIA driver wrong?

[Linas Žvirblis]

S Scharf wrote:

> The pre-built modules of normal driver are also in Testing, as they are
>> built from different source. They are, however, useless without user
>> space components, such as "nvidia-glx".
>
> Which gets me back to my origional question. The NVIDIA driver in Testing
> requires a different kernel version than the one in testing !?  Is the
> system broken?

If "no driver" == "broken", then yes, it is. And no, I do not know how
or why packages with unsatisfied dependencies got into Testing.


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Is apt-file working in Testing ?

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

Hello,

Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no
output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no
answer.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Best regards,
Sergio

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Re: KWorld TV878 TV Tuner problem

[Bruno Buys]

It might sound strange, but bttv is a little stupid when guessing what card/chip is installed. If 5 is definately good, maybe card=78 isn´t. My card is =37, and even so, when I tweak it to other values, some functionality still works. There are values that don´t change much, actually. Try to test other values for card=, but keeping 5 for the tuner. I´d do it manually, instead of scripting, but that´s just me.
I´ll check further and see what I can find.good luck,brunoOn 6/28/06, Santanu Chatterjee <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Thanks Daniel and Bruno for replying. I was beginning
to think that no one was going to reply.On 6/28/06, Daniel wrote:> > Now the problem is that tvtime only shows me the last channel I viewed> > under WindowsXP. Other than that no other frequency is detected.
> If you can see the picture, then your card is configured. Have you tried> scanning for channels?Yes, I have. But one thing I forgot to mention in my previous post is thatif I boot into windows, watch a channel, then reboot into linux,  I can see
the channel last viewed under windows (but no other channel, and tvtime-scannerdetects no other channel). However, if I cold boot into linux,tvtime-scanner detectsno channel and no picture is displayed.
On 6/28/06, Bruno Buys wrote:>Try playing with the tuner value in that modprobe line. Are you sure 5>is good? Did you see this http://www.bttv-gallery.de/
 ?>Remember to rmmod before each modprobe trial.According to http://www.bttv-gallery.de/ my card number is 78,and tuner=5-
chips: 25878-13,Tuner:  TN  5V TNF-9831-B/DFF  BG+DK checkedpcb: 878TV REV:Dsticker on backside: VS-TV878RF Made in Taiwan 04111260162bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at :02:0c.0, irq: 11, latency: 32, mmio: 0xef00
bttv0: using: Jetway TV/Capture JW-TV878-FBK, Kworld KW-TV878RF[card=78,insmod option]bttv0: gpio: en=, out= in=003f [init]bttv0: using tuner=5--
The KWorld card I have mentions "VS-TV878RF" on the box. Yesterday,after some googling, I found out about the btspy windows utility. So Iused it to get info about the card. I found that the guy who mentioned it
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=160271)got exactly the same values as my run of btspy gave me.So I tried his modprobe line (after rmmod bttv):
--modprobe bttv card=78 radio=1 tuner=38 pll=1 gbuffers=4 gpiomask=0x1c0007 \audiomux=0x08,0x01,0x08,0x08,0x01--
But still no progress.I thought my tuner must be a different one.So, I booted into windows, copied the frequencies of someworking tv channels and went to linux (cold boot) and created a customstationlist.xml
 with those channels. After that I tried this:-for i in `seq 0 45`; dormmod bttv;modprobe bttv card=78 radio=1 pll=1 tuner=$i;sleep 1;tvtime --frequencies=custom --norm=PAL;
done--None of the 45 tuners worked, i.e. tvtime could notshow any of those channels :-(I am getting out of ideas and google is not giving out any new
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X default fonts

[Derek Martin]

Hi Folks,

What I did:

I'm using the debian installer to do an automated install of a bunch
of workstations.  We have various users who speak non-English
languages, so I installed every font package I could.

Problem:

I myself speak Korean (albeit badly).  After installing all the fonts,
two undesirable effects have occured:

1. When I bring up Gnome's font configuration dialog, the fonts that
are displayed in it are some kind of cursive script font.

2. Whenever I view Korean characters, the Korean font which is chosen
to display the fonts is also some kind of hand-written script.  

These hand-written fonts are really hard to read, except at fairly
large sizes.  When I read English texts, the fonts that are displayed
are not what I would prefer, but they're perfectly suitable.

In the font configurator, I've left the fonts configured as the
defaults, "Sans", "Serif", and "Monospace".  So the questions are, why
does Debian choose these horrible fonts as the defaults, and how do I
change it?

I'll be more than happy to provide other information about my install,
if it will help.

Thanks!

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Re: X default fonts

[Cameron Matheson]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:46:45PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> I'm using the debian installer to do an automated install of a bunch
> of workstations.  We have various users who speak non-English
> languages, so I installed every font package I could.
> 
> Problem:
> 
> I myself speak Korean (albeit badly).  After installing all the fonts,
> two undesirable effects have occured:
> 
> 1. When I bring up Gnome's font configuration dialog, the fonts that
> are displayed in it are some kind of cursive script font.
> 
> 2. Whenever I view Korean characters, the Korean font which is chosen
> to display the fonts is also some kind of hand-written script.  
> 
> These hand-written fonts are really hard to read, except at fairly
> large sizes.  When I read English texts, the fonts that are displayed
> are not what I would prefer, but they're perfectly suitable.
> 
> In the font configurator, I've left the fonts configured as the
> defaults, "Sans", "Serif", and "Monospace".  So the questions are, why
> does Debian choose these horrible fonts as the defaults, and how do I
> change it?

This is a really un-optimal solution, but if you edit your
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf, you can change the order that fonts are preferred
(just search for the  tags).  Move the fonts that are more
readable nearer to the top.  Unfortunately, fonts.conf is a file that
shouldn't be changed... it would be better to edit local.conf, but I
don't know enough about how fontconfig works to do that.

Good luck,
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gnome difficulties

[edwardsa]

A few days ago the gnome panel and nautilus lost significant 
functionality. I'm running AMD64 debian. When I log in, the gnome pane 
appears, but does not become populated with icons. It blinks several 
times and then I get a variety of similar behaviors. Either:


1. I get a message the nautilus has died and the gnome-panel has died
2. I get a message the the gnome-settings-daemon has tried to start too 
many times


After I click close on each of the buttons, the panel does become 
populated with icons, but I have no control over the theme.


I have started filing a bug report with gnome, but the behavior on crash 
is complicated enough that I have had to start over a couple of times. 
I'm wondering whether Debian plays a role.


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xmgrace partly broken under debian

[edwardsa]

I'm running amd64 debian. Xmgrace does not allow me to enter text in the 
Filter area of the Read sets window. This is true under both KDE and 
gnome. Because I have not updated xmgrace in a very long time, and 
because it has been working well for as long as I have had it (many 
years), this seems to be a Debian issue.


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Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:05:33PM +0300, Linas ??virblis wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
> 
> > Qemu is a fairly simple virtualizer. Since a virtual machine sport 
> > differing 
> > "hardware" (emulated) than the real one, running off a real filesystem is 
> > kind of dangerous. Feeding qemu the real thing is rejected. It will play 
> > off 
> > diskettes and live CDs.
> 
> QEMU can run of real file systems just fine - just point it to a device
> file instead of disk image. Of course, you should not expect it to run
> an OS that was not installed trough QEMU itself.

I've followed this thread a bit and maybe you all can help me. I've
got a winxp partition that I have to boot into only occaisionally to
get some archived data from an old quickbooks file. Can I
use one of these solutions to do that? or am I better waiting for wine
to support quickbooks (not yet afaik).


performance is not an issue, just like to avoid reboots and then
printing or saving to a common partition and the like.

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OT : need advice on bluebottle

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

The online bluebottle forum ( http://forums.bluebottle.com/ ) requires me to 
register for a bluebottle address before posting anything. However, I do not 
want to register with their service without knowing answers to some 
questions.

Can we subscribe to mailing lists like debian-user using bluebottle's service? 
Will it create any problems in the future? If you are a bluebottle user could 
you throw some advice on advantages/disadvantages of using their service?

Before someone says it, I know that CR systems have their own disadvantages. 
However, my current gmail address is being bombarded with spam emails (of the 
order of 100 everyday) as the address is archived on internet. I have tried 
various things besides reporting the spam emails to www.spamcop.net and the 
matters have become worse since then.

So finally, I am considering discarding the gmail's service and getting a free 
account on bluebottle. Any advice in this regard is highly appreciated.

thanks
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Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:24, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no
> output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no
> answer.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Have you tried running

sudo apt-file update

before doing the search?

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Re: xmgrace partly broken under debian

[edwardsa]

Thanks for the response. Here is the output of the command

   >ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xmgrace
   libXmHTML.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXmHTML.so.1 (0x2ada3731d000)
   libXm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXm.so.2 (0x2ada374b2000)
   libXpm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x2ada3773b000)
   libXp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXp.so.6 (0x2ada37851000)
   libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x2ada37959000)
   libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x2ada37abb000)
   libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x2ada37bcc000)
   libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x2ada37da9000)
   libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x2ada37eb4000)
   libnetcdf.so.3 => /usr/lib/libnetcdf.so.3 (0x2ada37fcf000)
   libfftw.so.2 => /usr/lib/libfftw.so.2 (0x2ada3810a000)
   libt1.so.5 => /usr/lib/libt1.so.5 (0x2ada38244000)
   libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x2ada3839f000)
   libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x2ada384c1000)
   libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x2ada385e6000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x2ada386fc000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2ada38882000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2ada38986000)
   libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x2ada38bc5000)
   libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x2ada38cd9000)
   libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x2ada38de3000)
   libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x2ada38ee5000)
   /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2ada37205000)
   libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 
(0x2ada38feb000)

   libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x2ada3912b000)
   libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x2ada392a5000)


Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote:

ldd xmgrace

could be a library lost...

On 6/28/06, *edwardsa* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


I'm running amd64 debian. Xmgrace does not allow me to enter text
in the
Filter area of the Read sets window. This is true under both KDE and
gnome. Because I have not updated xmgrace in a very long time, and
because it has been working well for as long as I have had it (many
years), this seems to be a Debian issue.

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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[Wulfy]

Linas Žvirblis wrote:

David Baron wrote:

  

OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card?



Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages.
Are there debs for the *legacy* driver?  I couldn't find one when I was 
looking.  I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2 card.  I've been using the 
.run file from nVidia and am having problems with the latest updated 
2.6.8(-3-686) (sarge) kernel.  It won't seem to compile for it and wants 
to remove the driver so from the 2.6.8-2-686 modules.


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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

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> David Baron wrote:
> > OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card?
>
> Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages.
>
> > ( compile my own kernels so the 2.6 kernel meta-stuff is probably not
> > appropriate since I always have full source. Still leaves a lot of
> > different packages.)
>
> Please read . Especially
> the "Build manually, with a custom kernel" section

A very informative article. So I tried it.

Step one worked just fine with the m-a.

Then installed the nvidia-glx.

Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the 
xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is updated. 
Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile.

(If I really cannot find them, I guess I file a bug.) 


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Problem reconginzing package...

[Sunburned Surveyor]

I'm having some trouble installing a package. I think I might be
totally missing something here, but I can't figure it out. I thought
I'd ask for some help.

I'm trying to get Subclipse to work in Eclipse with a local
repository. To do this I need to have the latest version of the
libsvn-javahl Debian package installed. The Subclipse team is no
longer preparing this package, but someone else has put together an
alternate package that does the trick.

The original deb is named "libsvn-javahl_1.2.3dfsg1-3_i386.deb", and
it is currently installed.

The alternate package is named
"libsvn-javahl_1.2.0-1.ggtools.1_i386.deb". I placed this deb on my
local hard drive, and then ran dpkg-scanpackages.

However, the alternate package is not showing up in Synaptic. When I
try to use apt to install it tells me the version of libsvn-javahl is
already current.

I think the problem may be with the similarity in the package names.
Is this correct? Do I need to uninstall the original package before I
can install the alternate?

Thanks,

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Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

[Sergio Cuéllar Valdés]

On 6/28/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Have you tried running

sudo apt-file update

before doing the search?


Yes


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Re: Debian server support

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 08:00:27AM +, ZeroUno wrote:
> Kevin Mark ha scritto:
 
> That's why I'm here.
> Being sure about this, based only on vendor and official web site 
> informations, is not possible. They simply tell you that they are sure 
> their stuff works fine with RH etc., and that they have no idea how it 
> will work with Debian. And searching the web for such info is not easy. 
> So I asked here, hoping that some experienced Debian user had already 
> used some braded servers and could give me some suggestions.
> 
> Thank you all for your answers, they will make my choice easier.
> 
Hi again,
I just remembered there are other mailing lists --- debian-isp comes to
mind. They probably have more 'real data' then our list which is for
'users'. Check out lists.debian.org for other options.
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Customizing Key-strokes for Flightgear

[David Baron]

Ones defaulted are not convenient. All for controlling the flight and the view 
should be single keystrokes on one hand, leaving the other free for the mouse 
(stick).

Shifted, alted, etc., should only be for switch things.

Is there a way I can set up my own?


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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[James Westby]

On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote:
> Then installed the nvidia-glx.
> 
> Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the 
> xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is updated. 
> Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile.

dpkg -L nvidia-glx

should help.

You need matching versions of nvidia-glx and kernel modules for X to
run. That's the 8192 or whatever.

James

> 
> (If I really cannot find them, I guess I file a bug.) 
> 

Yes, but I guess they are there somewhere, it would be rare for a
package to be uploaded containing no files.

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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[Linas Žvirblis]

James Westby wrote:

>> Then installed the nvidia-glx.

Did the package install cleanly or were there any errors?

>> Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the 
>> xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is 
>> updated. 
>> Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile.

[...]

> Yes, but I guess they are there somewhere, it would be rare for a
> package to be uploaded containing no files.

It is possible that on uninstall NVIDIA installer removed something it
should not. Try reinstalling "xserver-xorg-core" and maybe GL (mesa) and
GLUT libs after removing the driver.


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Re: Is Xen for Stable/Unstable distro a good idea?

[Linas Žvirblis]

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> I've followed this thread a bit and maybe you all can help me. I've
> got a winxp partition that I have to boot into only occaisionally to
> get some archived data from an old quickbooks file. Can I
> use one of these solutions to do that?

QEMU can run WinXP, although the performance will be quite poor, unless
you install a proprietary accelerator module (it cannot be distributed
with Debian, so you will have to do it manually).

As I have already mentioned, QEMU can run of real file systems, but an
operating system must be able to deal with hardware changes. WinXP is
not really good at that, so it may or may not work. A thing to remember
is that you should run it in snapshot mode (changes to a file system are
not written onto a disk), in case something goes wrong.

The best thing to do would be to install the OS onto a disk image (or to
a real partition, if you really want to) trough QEMU. You can install
from a real CD, or from a CD image. It is really as easy as it sounds.

QEMU offers a lot of options for sharing data between host and guest OS.
For example you can set up SMB network, use a directory as a drive etc.

Some GUI front-ends also exist, if you are not familiar with QEMU
command line options. None of them are in Debian yet, but here is the list:

KDE:
 http://kqemu.sourceforge.net/
 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kqemu/kqemu-0.3Alpha.tgz?download

GTK+:
 https://gna.org/projects/qemulaunch
 http://svn.gna.org/daily/qemulaunch-snapshot.tar.gz

> or am I better waiting for wine to support quickbooks (not yet afaik).

Are you sure? I checked Wine AppDB and it does contain it. Does not mean
that it does run, but at least it is a known application. You could also
 try running it from real WinXP partition, if it does not work stand-alone.


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Re: trouble installing tomcat - javac cannot compile [SOLVED]

[Bill Jones]

On 6/28/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


The following packages solved my problem.


I am happy for you  =)


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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[Linas Žvirblis]

Wulfy wrote:

> Are there debs for the *legacy* driver? 

Only for 7174.

> I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2 card.  I've been using the
> .run file from nVidia and am having problems with the latest updated
> 2.6.8(-3-686) (sarge) kernel.  It won't seem to compile for it and wants
> to remove the driver so from the 2.6.8-2-686 modules.

Two days ago NVIDIA released an updated 7182 legacy driver, but it is
not in Debian yet.


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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[Katipo]

Linas Žvirblis wrote:


Wulfy wrote:

 

Are there debs for the *legacy* driver? 
   



Only for 7174.

 


I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2 card.  I've been using the
.run file from nVidia and am having problems with the latest updated
2.6.8(-3-686) (sarge) kernel.  It won't seem to compile for it and wants
to remove the driver so from the 2.6.8-2-686 modules.
   



Two days ago NVIDIA released an updated 7182 legacy driver, but it is
not in Debian yet.


 


That's the one for all the TNT2 cards, Riva or other derivatives.
Revised, with substantial improvements.
Regards,


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How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

[Søren Christensen]

Hi,

On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster
soundcard.

I have run alsaconf several times, chosing the snd-ca0106 drivermodule.

Alsaconf has found these cards:
hda-intel   Intel Corporation 8210G
ca0106  Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
legacy  Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips

When I use ca0106 and a 7.1 speaker-system I get no sound-output.

When I use hda-intel and plug a simple 2.0 speaker into the onboard
soundcard it works.

But I bougth the extra soundcard and speakerset to get better sound, can
anyone help getting this to work.

The speaker set works, it is possible to plug in an external
sound-source (i.e. a laptop).

I hope it is just to set the soundcard up in the right way.

/severino


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Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

[David Baron]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 22:34, James Westby wrote:
> On (28/06/06 21:48), David Baron wrote:
> > Then installed the nvidia-glx.
> >
> > Did not work. The libglx.so, etc were not installed anywhere I (or the
> > xorg.conf) could find them. I will check again when the locate db is
> > updated. Reinstalled the nvidia run meanwhile.
>
> dpkg -L nvidia-glx
>
> should help.
>
> You need matching versions of nvidia-glx and kernel modules for X to
> run. That's the 8192 or whatever.

Found them. There is whole bunch of stuff in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/ which I 
guess was not really being accessed. Put it in the extensions subdirectory.

I guess I will need to add /usr/lib/xorg/modules to xorg.conf MODULEPATHs. And 
just think, xorg upgrades want to get rid of all MODULEPATHs


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coreldraw for linux

[Han]

Hi

Is a coreldraw package for debian or is there anything close enough to 
it in Linux, please dont say Gimp because the two are very different.


Please help


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Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

[Liam O'Toole]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:24:39 -0500
"Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no
> output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no
> answer.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> 
> Best regards,
> Sergio
> 

The "Contents" files are not being maintained. See

http://ftp.debian.org/dists/etch/Contents-i386.gz

for example. Ditto with unstable. apt-file needs those files to build
its cache of package contents.

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[Fwd: WAN+LAN+WLAN configuration?]

[Svante Signell]

 Forwarded Message 
> From: Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: WAN+LAN+WLAN configuration?
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:39:46 +0200
> 
> Dear Debian-users
> 
> I'm hoping for some pointers or help on how to set up a combined WAN and
> LAN+WLAN network. The situation is as follows:
> 
> A Linux box with two interfaces eth0 and eth1, used as a gateway. eth0
> is connected to the WAN ISP with DHCP using an ADSL modem. The second
> interface eth1 for LAN is connected to an 8 port switch, static
> interface 192.168.0.x. All connected computers to ehh1 are statically
> defined. Now I have connected one of the ports of the switch to a
> Wireless router configured for an ip-address of 192.168.1.1 netnask
> 255.255.255.0. The WLAN router has in addition to the wireless
> interface, one upstream and four RJ45 connections.
> 
> The WLAN router internet settings are:
> Static IP address, 192.168.0.y, same subnet mask as above. Gateway is
> the Linux box, 192.168.0.x, and DNS addresses are supplied by the WAN
> ISP.
> 
> With this setting I can connect (both to the gateway and internet) using
> the wireless or one of the wireline interfaces from e.g. a laptop with
> DHCP supplied by the WLAN router. The resolv.conf contains 'nameserver
> 192.168.1.1' and this works for both laptop interfaces. Addresses
> assigned are 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254.
> 
> Some problems still arise:
> - I cannot connect from the Linux box to the computers connected via the
> switch to the router. How to accomplish that?
> 
> - Another solution is to connect the upstream port of the router
> directly to eth0 and obtain dynamic addresses to the LAN and WLAN
> computers from the router. I think the problem still remains: How to
> connect from the gateway to the router LAN/WLAN boxes and the shitch LAN
> boxes?
> 
> Please Cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list.
> 
> Alt1: Linux box: eth0:WAN, eth1:LAN switch + WLAN router 
> Alt2: Linux box: eth0:WAN, eth1:WLAN router+ LAN switch
> 
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Re: coreldraw for linux

[Linas Žvirblis]

Han wrote:

> Is a coreldraw package for debian or is there anything close enough to
> it in Linux, please dont say Gimp because the two are very different.

Try inkscape, skencil, sodipodi, synfig.


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Re: OT : need advice on bluebottle

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:25:01PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> The online bluebottle forum ( http://forums.bluebottle.com/ ) requires me to 
> register for a bluebottle address before posting anything. However, I do not 
> want to register with their service without knowing answers to some 
> questions.
> 
> Can we subscribe to mailing lists like debian-user using bluebottle's 
> service? 
> Will it create any problems in the future? If you are a bluebottle user could 
> you throw some advice on advantages/disadvantages of using their service?
> 
> Before someone says it, I know that CR systems have their own disadvantages. 
> However, my current gmail address is being bombarded with spam emails (of the 
> order of 100 everyday) as the address is archived on internet. I have tried 
> various things besides reporting the spam emails to www.spamcop.net and the 
> matters have become worse since then.
Hi raju,
I think since you are getting lots of spam with the google BETA gmail
service, you should give them 'a few words' of what is lacking in their
service as a beta tester. We have the BTS, and our users. Google should
know what its users want, tell them.
just my 2 euro-centimes.
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Re: Problem reconginzing package...

[Kevin Mark]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:28:18AM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> I'm having some trouble installing a package. I think I might be
> totally missing something here, but I can't figure it out. I thought
> I'd ask for some help.
> 
> I'm trying to get Subclipse to work in Eclipse with a local
> repository. To do this I need to have the latest version of the
> libsvn-javahl Debian package installed. The Subclipse team is no
> longer preparing this package, but someone else has put together an
> alternate package that does the trick.
> 
> The original deb is named "libsvn-javahl_1.2.3dfsg1-3_i386.deb", and
> it is currently installed.
> 
> The alternate package is named
> "libsvn-javahl_1.2.0-1.ggtools.1_i386.deb". I placed this deb on my
> local hard drive, and then ran dpkg-scanpackages.
> 
> However, the alternate package is not showing up in Synaptic. When I
> try to use apt to install it tells me the version of libsvn-javahl is
> already current.
> 
> I think the problem may be with the similarity in the package names.
> Is this correct? Do I need to uninstall the original package before I
> can install the alternate?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> The Sunburned Surveyor
you can certainly do that. also have you tried 'dpkg -i ...'
cheers,
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Re: OT : need advice on bluebottle

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 16:58, Kevin Mark wrote:

> Hi raju,
> I think since you are getting lots of spam with the google BETA gmail
> service, you should give them 'a few words' of what is lacking in their
> service as a beta tester. We have the BTS, and our users. Google should
> know what its users want, tell them.
> just my 2 euro-centimes.
> kev

Hi Kevin,

Google's approach so far is that they just filter out the spam email and put 
them in a folder/label called spam. The trouble with this approach is that 
there are usually some false positives and it takes a lot of time to go 
through all the spam looking for false positives. Sometimes couple of spam 
emails end up in the Inbox itself.

The forums for gmail have not helped either. Their support system is not as 
open as BTS. All you can do is report it and then forget it. They will not 
tell what kind of actions they are taking regarding all the suggestions, 
bugs, complaints. I have sent a lot of suggestions before and realized that 
it is pointless. All you get is one standard automated reply back.

raju

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Re: Server REALLY slow after console messages

[Simon]

Kernel 2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp

On 6/28/06, Hemlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:07:02 +1200, Simon wrote
> Hi There,
>
> Can anyone have a look at this screenshot and give me a glimmer of
> what is going on here?
>
> This server is responding to pings, but all services are 'stuck', i
> can login, but it times out after 60 seconds and typing is REALLY
> slow...
>
> http://gremin.orcon.net.nz/mx.JPG
>
> Thanks for any input

Running a 2.6.15 kernel?


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hw_random module cannot be loaded

[Malcolm E. Jordan]

I cannot load the hw-random module. Can anyone give me advice on what to do. 
Thanks

I am running a standalone desktop Debian system ,version 2.4.27-2-386,
stable 3.1 release (Sarge) on the following machine:

Intel Pentium 4 CPU 1500Hz stepping 07
Intell corp 82850 850 (Tehama) chipset
500 MB ram memory

On boot I get the following messages lines.  These lines were not
included in the _dmesg_ or _syslog_ files but were hand copied to
include in this e-mail. The entire dmesg is included as an attachment.


Begin lines:
hw_random:misc device register failed
insmod:/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o:init_module:
Device or resource busy
insmod:Hint:insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
You may find more information is syslog or the output from dmesg
insmod:/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o:init_module:insmod
hw_random:can't be loaded
missing kernel or user mode driver hw_random
End lines:



stovepipe-alpha:0:# modprobe -v hw_random

/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o
Using /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o
Symbol version prefix ''

/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o: init_module:
Device or resource busy
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

  You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.o: insmod
hw_random failed





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Re: marillat

[W Paul Mills]

W Paul Mills wrote:

Marty wrote:

Ron Johnson wrote:

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Francesco Pietra wrote:

Is

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch main

broken? From about ten days it could not be accessed


It's changed to
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main


Has anyone gotten demirror to work with it?  I am using the following 
command:


  debmirror -d sarge -a i386 -e http \
  --ignore-release-gpg --ignore-missing-release --ignore-small-errors \
  -h www.debian-multimedia.org /mirror/debian-multimedia/

I get a bunch of errors like:

Ignoring missing Release file for dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz
dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz needs fetch
Getting: dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz... 
dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz failed 404 Not Found

dists/sarge/main/source/Sources.gz failed md5sum check, removing

It eventually fails with no files downloaded.




Similar problems with aptitude. Email to Marillat got back answer of 
"Not my problem." Not very helpfull.


Paul


In my case, it appears to not like going through my squid proxy. Go 
around it, and it works fine. ARGH! Have to "open" up my firewall every 
time I want to update.


Paul
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Re: marillat

[Marty]

W Paul Mills wrote:

Similar problems with aptitude. Email to Marillat got back answer of 
"Not my problem." Not very helpfull.


Paul


I eventually solved the problem and posted the resolution in
another thread::

From - Sat Jun 24 23:48:26 2006
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Marty wrote:

>> Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a
>> satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to 
offer

>> anonymous rsync or ftp, and wget and debmirror don't work as I expect them 
to.


Replying to my own posting, I have found what appears to be a suitable method
using lftp, which can do http transfers.  I still don't know why it only works
when I mirror the pool and dist subdirectories separately:


   lftp -c 'open http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool; mirror -x .*-powerpc.*\
   -x .*-mips.* -x .*-arm.* -x .*m68k.* -x .*sparc.* -x .*amd64.* -x .*ia64.* \
   -x .*-alpha.* -x .*_alpha.* -x .*hppa.*  --verbose=3 --delete . \
   /mirror/debian-multimedia/pool'

   lftp -c 'open http://www.debian-multimedia.org/dists; mirror -x .*-powerpc.*\
   -x .*-mips.* -x .*-arm.* -x .*m68k.* -x .*sparc.* -x .*amd64.* -x .*ia64.* \
   -x .*-alpha.* -x .*_alpha.* -x .*hppa.*  --verbose=3 --delete . \
   /mirror/debian-multimedia/dists'


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keyboard preference freezing gnome

[Bernard Fay]

Hello,

Since an upgrade a little while ago, everytime I try to make a
modification in the keyboard preferences, gnome freezes.  So far, I have
no clue why and I have to constantly change my keyboard layout to switch
between English and French for my work.

There is only one thing I have found and is probably not a big
discovery.  Before I could log back with my user, I have to go remove
the file %gconf.xml in ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd.

My system is Debian Etch.

Does someone know why and how to fix it? 

Thanks in advance,
Bernard




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Why Debian3.1 is slower so much than FreeBSD6.1 in our test?

[Leo Huang]

Hi,

I benchmarked MySQL 4.1.18 on FreeBSD 6.1 and Debian 3.1 using Super
Smack 1.3 some days ago.

The benchmark table  is
CREATE TABLE `Account` (
`aid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` char(20) NOT NULL default '',
`flag` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`uidcount` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`balance` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`point` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`blocktm` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`ipnum` int(10) unsigned default NULL,
`newdate` datetime default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY  (`aid`),
UNIQUE KEY `name` (`name`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

And it has 1,000,000 rows.

The SQL statement is
update Account set balance= balance + 1 where aid=?;

The result is followed:
OS  ClientsResult(queries per
second)  TPS(got from iostat)
FreeBSD6.1(disk write cache enable)50   516.1
  about 2000
Debian3.1(disk write cache enable) 50   49.8
  about 200

FreeBSD6.1(disk write cache disable)5   50
  about 200
Debian3.1(disk write cache disable) 50  28
  about 110

The result is surprise me. The MySQL Performance on FreeBSD6.1 is
about 10 times of on Debian3.1 when the disk write cache is enabled.

I know that MySQL uses fsync() to flush both the data and log files at
default when using innodb
engine(http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/innodb-parameters.html).
Our evaluating computer only has a 1RPM SCSI hard disk. I think it
can do about 200 sequential fsync() calls per second if the fsync() is
real.

Why the TPS is so low when the disk write cache is enabled? And why
the TPS is only 110 when when the disk write cache is disabled(I think
it can be about 166 because the disk is 1RPM)?

Any comment is welcome!

PS:
1. Our evaluating computer is DELL PowerEdge 1650。Its hardware
configuration is followed:
  CPU: 2 * Intel Pentium III 1.33GHz 512KB Level 2 Cache(smp)
  Memory: 1024MB ECC SDRAM
  HD: SEAGATE ST336706LC（36GB Ultra160 SCSI 1RPM）
  NIC : Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection

2. Some important parameters in MySQL configuration file are here:
  log-bin
  sync_binlog=1
  innodb_safe_binlog
  innodb_buffer_pool_size = 384M
  innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 20M
  innodb_log_file_size = 100M
  innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
  innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
  innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

3. on FreeBSD6.1 the /etc/fstab is followed:
  # DeviceMountpoint  FStype  Options
DumpPass#
  /dev/da0s1g /home   ufs rw  2   2
 and the outputs of tunefs is:
 mysql-test-4# tunefs -p /home
 tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled
 tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)   disabled
 tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled
 tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e)  2048
 tunefs: average file size: (-f)16384
 tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s)   64
 tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 8%
 tunefs: optimization preference: (-o)  time
 tunefs: volume label: (-L)

4. on Debian3.1 the /etc/fstab is followed:
 #
 /dev/sda9   /home   ext3defaults0   2


regards,
Leo Huang

Re: Partitioning an FTP server

[charles norwood]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:28 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 26.06.06 13:03, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote:
> > I tend to do this... this is assuming that users will have their home
> > folders in /home ;)
> > 
> > /   --> 512 MB
> > /boot   --> 256 MB
> > /usr--> 2 GB
> > /var--> 2 GB
> > /var/log--> 2 GB
> > /tmp--> 1 GB
> > /home   --> what is left
> 
> I do not think there's any need to have separate prtition for /boot (unless
> your BIOS can't boot from larger partitions), /usr, /var/log (unless you
> have very MUCH logs) and /tmp. I mount tmpfs on /tmp (siz=128m).
> 
> I probably would use this schema:
> 
> / 2GB
> swap  1GB
> /var  4GB
> /home the rest
> 
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I agree.  You cannot be too rich, too thin, or have too big a /var


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Re: Installation: Use SPACEBAR to select "Desktop Environment", not just the enter key.

[charles norwood]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 21:23 +0100, James Westby wrote:
> On (26/06/06 10:52), Chuck Pergiel wrote:
> > June 26, 2006
> > When you get to the package selection screen, it appears that once again
> > there is a "select one item from a list", and the default selection is
> > highlighted. Nowhere does it say anything about pressing the spacebar.
> 
> http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=658&slide=21
> 
> I think the terminology could be improved slightly, but when I used the
> installer the other day it did say this.
> 
> Have you got a suggestion for what the information at the bottom should
> say? If so I suggest that you pass it on.
> 
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s01.html.en
> 
> is a little more explicit about how the system works.
> 
> James
> 
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> 
My first linux distro was Redhat 5.2.
It used tab to change fields and spacebar to select in the early part of
the install.
At that epoch Windows used tab and spacebar in the same way
for selections if the mouse was not detected, or if the windows were
too big.
This convention was established by Adam (or Eve.)
C.


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setting camera parameters from Linux

[H.S.]

Hello,

I have been digikam recently to grab photos from Canon A520 and it has 
been working wonderfully. This is on Debian Etch.


I was wondering, is there any application in Linux that will allow me to 
set parameters in a digital camera? e.g. owner name, date and time, etc.


Thanks,
->HS


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Enable smtp mail server

[T]

Hi, 

Why my postfix smtp server is not receiving connections?

$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

How can I enable it?

Details:

I installed my postfix using the option "Internet site using smarthost".
the postfix server is up and running:

root 31693 1  0 23:26 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master
postfix  31695 31693  0 23:26 ?00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u -c
postfix  31696 31693  0 23:26 ?00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u -c

please help.

thanks




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Re: Enable smtp mail server

[Mihira Fernando]

T wrote:
Hi, 


Why my postfix smtp server is not receiving connections?

$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

How can I enable it?
Check your Syslog and mail.log. They'll tell you why postfix isnt up and 
running.



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Re: How do I configure Audigy LS Soundcard? ALSA, Etch, 7.1 speaker

[steef]

Søren Christensen wrote:


Hi,

On my new computer I'm trying to set up my Audigy LS SoundBlaster
soundcard.

I have run alsaconf several times, chosing the snd-ca0106 drivermodule.

Alsaconf has found these cards:
hda-intel   Intel Corporation 8210G
ca0106  Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
legacy  Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips

When I use ca0106 and a 7.1 speaker-system I get no sound-output.

When I use hda-intel and plug a simple 2.0 speaker into the onboard
soundcard it works.

But I bougth the extra soundcard and speakerset to get better sound, can
anyone help getting this to work.

The speaker set works, it is possible to plug in an external
sound-source (i.e. a laptop).

I hope it is just to set the soundcard up in the right way.

/severino


 

you could try to turn your intel_sound_chip off; somewhere in the bios 
of your machine. that did the trick for me on my machine, working on 
sarge 2.6.8_kernel with a soundblaster card working with the ca0106 
chip. install -of course- alsamixer to be able to put surrounding sounds 
a.o. on.


but: nota bene: the older versions of the ca0106 chip were bugged: see 
the alsa_webpage. so you possibly have to compile a newer driver 
(1.0.11) from /usr/src/alsa into your kernel.


hope this helps somewhat,

kind regards,

steef


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TV application

[Rocky Ou]

Hey List,

Can any of you recommend some good TV applications for my Debian Sid
Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop please? I have a broad band internet access
with the averager rate of 250 KB/s . I can get a long list by doing
apt-cache search TV but before I trying any of them I would like to
hear what you think for you might have tried some awesome
applications.

Thanks,
Rocky


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Re: Debian package of the day

[Aaron Maxwell]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 09:30 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> you could probably, IMHO, ignore just about any i18n package.
> Likewise you could probably ignore any lib* package as well. Or even

Yeah, I'm going to set it to ignore all i18n packages, as well as 
all -dbg, -dev, -doc, etc.  I'm kind of on the line about libraries; I 
think I will filter them out though.

> better, you could set-up a couple versions of the potd. One for
> desktop users that focuses only on apps, one for dev's that includes
> libs, maybe one for cli junkies that greps for no X11 dependencies
> and so forth. just a thought.

I thought of that, and it's a good idea, but I doubt I will.  I want it 
to be simple.  Maybe eventually I'll allow customization/prefs that 
will add or remove categories of packages.

-- 
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Re: TV application

[Paul Dwerryhouse]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:31:46PM +0800, Rocky Ou wrote:
> Can any of you recommend some good TV applications for my Debian Sid
> Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop please? 

tvtime is probably the best of the TV applications that I've tested.

Cheers,

Paul.

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