Wireless networking in Debian

2012-02-23 Thread George
I have a Compaq CQ60 laptop running squeeze, and I have never gotten wireless networking to work. My chipset appears to be supported, however wicd never detects any networks in the area (even though there are several) and nm-tool reports "State: unavailable" for the network adapter. I know that I'

Re: pulseaudio /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

2012-02-23 Thread Seb
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:15:28 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Since the installation in Sid on 2012-02-19 of pulseaudio 1.1-3 I get > the following message from audio tools. This is easily easily > reproduced with 'play'. > $ play sound.wav ALSA lib conf.c:1220:(parse_def) show is not a > compound

pulseaudio /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf

2012-02-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Since the installation in Sid on 2012-02-19 of pulseaudio 1.1-3 I get the following message from audio tools. This is easily easily reproduced with 'play'. $ play sound.wav ALSA lib conf.c:1220:(parse_def) show is not a compound ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:24:26:Unexp

bug report request for advice

2012-02-23 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting states: "If you are unable to determine which package your bug report should be filed against, please send e-mail to the Debian user mailing list asking for advice." I have downloaded this document: http://www.ridgid.com/ASSETS/8E8B3ED

xtables-addons ipp2p problem in debian

2012-02-23 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello, I have installed xtables-addons-common in debian squeeze box. Then tried ti execute #iptables -A FORWARD -m ipp2p --bit -j DROP and it throws error `` iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. ``` Could anyone suggest what is wrong where ? -- To UN

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Arun Khan
Thanks for your respective responses. Right now I am on a different desktop. I will try the suggestions and also provide the output requested in your posts later when I am on the Debian/Wheezy laptop. -- Arun Khan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Removing hardware identifiers from an existing installation (esp. Grub2)

2012-02-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 22 February 2012 09:43, Jason Heeris wrote: >> On 21 February 2012 21:07, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> For filesystem UUIDs, I wouldn't use "GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID="true"". >>> I'd change the new flash card's UUIDs with tune2fs and mkswap to mat

notify stop working

2012-02-23 Thread J. Bakshi
Hello, I did a upgrade yesterday and among the other the osd was been upgraded too. Since then the osd stops working. I have also tested by notify-send "hello" But not notification at all. Presently the notification packages I have `` dpkg -l | grep notify ii gir1.2-notify-0.7

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote: >> Supplementary Information: >> >> # nm-tool >> >> NetworkManager Tool >> >> State: disconnected >> >> - Device: eth0 >> -

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 16:40 +, Curt wrote: > On 2012-02-23, Arun Khan wrote: > > Through Kmix gui, I have boosted the Mic to 40dB. 40dB? Is this a typo? > You must set the microphone as the capture device; if that's already > been done, then I'm stumped. File bug against ALSA or KDE or puls

Re: live usb automatic boot parameters

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 03:00:42PM -0800, alvaro rincon wrote: > i need to set automatic these two boot parameters"live" "persistent" because > i have to write it every time i boot my live usb > You can edit the appropriate syslinux file. I think it's menu.cfg or live.cfg and is located in /live

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

2012-02-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:47 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > > Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default > > sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's > > something to do with modprobe. R

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

2012-02-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 12:25 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > On 02/23/2012 12:10 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default > > sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's > > something to do with modprobe. Removing th

Relavant mailing list - Debian Live CD????

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Owlett
In the past month I'm certain that I saw a reference to a "Live CD" mailing list. IIRC it was in a sig. I don't see it at http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ Its evidently not an "official" list ;) Guidance please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Problem Installing libc6 (eglibc) from netboot image

2012-02-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what are you using libc6-i386 for on your amd64 > > machine? > > To run 32-bit apps. When I need to build a 32-bit app I just switch to a > 32-bit machine or VM. I've had to support several 32-bit apps in the past > and present includ

Re: CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 07:40 PM 2/23/2012, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:01:45 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > rosenberg:/var/log/cups# cat error_log > E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "hpgltops" not found. > E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "pstoraster" not found. > E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500]

Re: Problem Installing libc6 (eglibc) from netboot image

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Feb 23, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> That's because you're running i386 arch. I was on an amd64 machine. > > That makes a large difference! > > Out of curiosity, what are you using libc6-i386 for on your amd64 > machine? To run 32-bit apps. When I need to build a 32-bit app I just

Re: CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:01:45 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > rosenberg:/var/log/cups# cat error_log > E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "hpgltops" not found. > E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "pstoraster" not found. > E [22/Feb/2012:08:02:10 -0500] Filter "oopstops" not found. None of

Re: live usb automatic boot parameters

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 15:00:42 -0800, alvaro rincon wrote: > i need to set automatic these two boot parameters"live" "persistent" > because i have to write it every time i boot my live usb GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub is the place. Do 'update -grub' afterwards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

live usb automatic boot parameters

2012-02-23 Thread alvaro rincon
i need to set automatic these two boot parameters"live" "persistent" because i have to write it every time i boot my live usb thanks

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote: > Supplementary Information: > > # nm-tool > > NetworkManager Tool > > State: disconnected > > - Device: eth0 > - > Type: Wired > Driver:tg3 > Stat

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieb Hans Vogelsberger: > >> So please anyone here: Never ever reply to spam on list. > >> Never ever. > >> Please only respond on list if you absolutely have to. > > In future as in the past and as right now this will be entirely my own > decision and nobody el

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Don deJuan: > > Debian list is a cesspool of spam. This email is only used for > > Debian and only been used for debians list and yet daily I get at > > least 10 spam messages sent to the list. I think they should give a > > major overhaul t

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hi guys, thank you for the clear explanations. I was able to fix the issue now. Thank you Joao On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:06 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Maximilien Noal writes: > > > On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> Recently my xfce started behaving w

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 17:11:51 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > Debian Wheezy AMD 64 weekly build 13/Feb/2012 > KDE 4.6.5 (default) desktop > Kernel 3.2.0 (stock from the weekly build) > on Toshiba C640 laptop. > > alsamixergui shows - audio device is shown as Intel Conexant CX20590. > I can hear sound

Re: Problem Installing libc6 (eglibc) from netboot image

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Hiestand
On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Hiestand wrote: >> It seems that during a preseeded installation today my squeeze VM >> installed a proposed update when it shouldn't have: > > Or did you simply catch an archive in the middle of being updated? > That shouldn't happen but d

Re: Problem Installing libc6 (eglibc) from netboot image

2012-02-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Hiestand wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Chris Hiestand wrote: > >> It seems that during a preseeded installation today my squeeze VM > >> installed a proposed update when it shouldn't have: > > > > Or did you simply catch an archive in the middle of being updated? > > That shouldn't happen b

Re: NAS no longer mounting at boot

2012-02-23 Thread Frank Lanitz
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:55:10 + Russell Gadd wrote: > I have this in /etc/fstab > //nasbox/dataNAS /mnt/dataNAS cifs > rw,user,exec,iocharset=utf8,user=xyz,password=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000 > > Up to recently it used to mount at boot time but doesn't any more. I > assume some update changed thin

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Don deJuan: > > Debian list is a cesspool of spam. This email is only used for > Debian and only been used for debians list and yet daily I get at > least 10 spam messages sent to the list. I think they should give a > major overhaul to the spam filters, or even requiring > re-registration would be

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Julien Claassen
Hi chaps! Yes, I can definitely say, that there are spam problems on other lists. Less perhaps - visible tothe user at least -, but they do exist andI still think, it'snot that bad, considering, how open this list is to users. Good job you folks! Byebye Julien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Don deJuan wrote: On 02/23/2012 11:50 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Hans, Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie: michel_le_gran...@yahoo.fr wrote: Bonjour, . . . . Meilleurs Salutations ! D O S T O P Y O U R I M P E R T I N E N T M O L E S T A T I O N S FROM WHATEVER ADDRES

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/23/2012 10:16 AM, Julien Groselle wrote: > Now i'm sure that is a must have. > Since 4 years to last year, we just had Hardware RAID, so we didn't need to > do any actions on HDD... > Now with md RAID we need ! :) RAID 0 arrays are not fault tolerant, so there is nothing the controller can d

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Don deJuan, Am 2012-02-23 12:05:11, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Debian list is a cesspool of spam. This email is only used for > Debian and only been used for debians list and yet daily I get at > least 10 spam messages sent to the list. I think they should give a > major overhaul to t

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread richard
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:05:11 -0800 Don deJuan wrote: > On 02/23/2012 11:50 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > > > Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie: > >> michel_le_gran...@yahoo.fr wrote: > >>> Bonjour, > >>> . . . . > >>> Meilleurs Salutations > >> > >> ! > >> > >> D

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Maximilien Noal writes: > On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me >> unable to use it. >> >> I can login to xfce, but... >> >> I notice 2 major problems: >> >> 1) the windows have no frame, no minimi

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Don deJuan
On 02/23/2012 11:50 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Hans, Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie: michel_le_gran...@yahoo.fr wrote: Bonjour, . . . . Meilleurs Salutations ! D O S T O P Y O U R I M P E R T I N E N T M O L E S T A T I O N S FROM WHATEVER ADDRESS YOU SAUCILY U

Re: CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 11:34 AM 2/23/2012, Brian wrote: On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 10:46:03 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > As I understand, the newest version of CUPS is buggy. I cannot print > from my Okidata 10ex. What can I do? This bugginess - is it a reference to the two reported Severity: grave bugs? If you co

how to deal with spam (was: Re: Petites annonces gratuites)

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Hans, Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie: > michel_le_gran...@yahoo.fr wrote: > > Bonjour, > > . . . . > > Meilleurs Salutations > > ! > > D O S T O P Y O U R I M P E R T I N E N T M O L E S T A T I O N S > > FROM WHATEVER ADDRESS YOU SAUCILY USE > > ! Please never e

Re: Petites annonces gratuites

2012-02-23 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
michel_le_gran...@yahoo.fr wrote: Bonjour, . . . . Meilleurs Salutations ! D O S T O P Y O U R I M P E R T I N E N T M O L E S T A T I O N S FROM WHATEVER ADDRESS YOU SAUCILY USE ! h.v. -- Dieser Account aktzeptiert nur Mails, die an von mir abonnierte Listen gerichtet sind. -

NAS no longer mounting at boot

2012-02-23 Thread Russell Gadd
I have this in /etc/fstab //nasbox/dataNAS /mnt/dataNAS cifs rw,user,exec,iocharset=utf8,user=xyz,password=xxx,uid=1000,gid=1000 Up to recently it used to mount at boot time but doesn't any more. I assume some update changed things. Unfortunately I only use this system once or twice a week and I n

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Maximilien Noal
On 02/23/2012 06:47 PM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me unable to use it. I can login to xfce, but... I notice 2 major problems: 1) the windows have no frame, no minimize, maximize and close buttons; so I can not close t

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
On 24 Feb, 2012, at 1:42, richard wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:27:37 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> which updated packages: >> >> libnetcdf6 >> libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 >> libhdf5-7 >> libnetcdfc6 >> libnetcdff5 >> libnetcdfc++5 >> libcf0 >> login >> man-db >> login >> foomatic-db-compressed-ppds >>

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
On 24 Feb, 2012, at 1:48, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:27, lina wrote: >> which updated packages: > > > >> I don't know whether some of them related to it. > > No, none of those really relate to NM or WiFi > (the stuff with "net" in it is for science packages) Thanks, I'

Re: very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread lina
On 24 Feb, 2012, at 1:47, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello all, > > Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me > unable to use it. > > I can login to xfce, but... > > I notice 2 major problems: > > 1) the windows have no frame, no minimize, maximize and close button

very weird xfce behavior... please help

2012-02-23 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, Recently my xfce started behaving with strange issues that make me unable to use it. I can login to xfce, but... I notice 2 major problems: 1) the windows have no frame, no minimize, maximize and close buttons; so I can not close them, minimize them, nor move them; each new window I

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:27, lina wrote: > which updated packages: > I don't know whether some of them related to it. No, none of those really relate to NM or WiFi (the stuff with "net" in it is for science packages) > Thanks and I really have no clue about how to start to examine and > sol

Re: unresponsive keyboard

2012-02-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:44:39PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 feb 12, 10:23:54, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > > This is on a desktop. Thanks for the attempt. > > It makes sense to try it anyway (it's not obvious from your answer if > you already did). You're right, of course. That'

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread richard
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:27:37 +0800 lina wrote: > which updated packages: > > libnetcdf6 > libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 > libhdf5-7 > libnetcdfc6 > libnetcdff5 > libnetcdfc++5 > libcf0 > login > man-db > login > foomatic-db-compressed-ppds > foomatic-filters > lib32asound2-dev > lib32asound2 > libasound2

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
which updated packages: libnetcdf6 libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 libhdf5-7 libnetcdfc6 libnetcdff5 libnetcdfc++5 libcf0 login man-db login foomatic-db-compressed-ppds foomatic-filters lib32asound2-dev lib32asound2 libasound2-dev libasound2 libustr-1.0-1 man-db libustr-1.0-1 libsemanage-common libsemanage1

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
I do update some package today, might that reason? How do I quick check the package I updated today, /var/log/dpkg.log? too detailed, are there some other ways, Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 10:46:03 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > As I understand, the newest version of CUPS is buggy. I cannot print > from my Okidata 10ex. What can I do? This bugginess - is it a reference to the two reported Severity: grave bugs? If you could print before (you don't say) the

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-23 Thread Al Eridani
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 23/02/12 03:54, David Christensen wrote: > Of course: > > ~$ python -c "print (' '.join([str.capitalize(x) for x in 'NELSON ARISPE, > EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD'.split(' ')]).replace('And','and'))" > Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Roja

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-23, Arun Khan wrote: > Debian Wheezy AMD 64 weekly build 13/Feb/2012 > KDE 4.6.5 (default) desktop > Kernel 3.2.0 (stock from the weekly build) > on Toshiba C640 laptop. > > alsamixergui shows - audio device is shown as Intel Conexant CX20590. > I can hear sound from the built in speake

Re: wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
Supplementary Information: # nm-tool NetworkManager Tool State: disconnected - Device: eth0 - Type: Wired Driver:tg3 State: unmanaged Default: no HW Address:C8:2A:14

wireless is disabled

2012-02-23 Thread lina
Hi, the network manage showed me: Wired network device not managed Wireless network wireless is disabled I reboot and also tried /etc/initi.d/network-manage restart not work It used to work, but this afternoon I guess I disabled the wireless when chose to use cable, but now stuck how to get it

Re: debian squeeze / lynx / m.facebook.com

2012-02-23 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-19, Frederic Robert wrote: > Hello, > > I can't use lynx to go to http://m.facebook.com. Is it a compatibility > problem? > I tried and lynx asked me to accept four cookies, which I did, but upon acceptance of The Fourth Cookie (sounds like a title for one of those Hollywood thrillers

Re: Question about HotPlug and cciss hp storage

2012-02-23 Thread Julien Groselle
Hi everybody, > You're welcome Julien. Sorry I didn't mention it sooner. It took me a > little while to figure out exactly what your problem was, due to > entering the thread so late. No problem, and thank you again. > I'm kinda surprised you didn't already know about this tool. It's a > must

CUPS

2012-02-23 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
Dear list - As I understand, the newest version of CUPS is buggy. I cannot print from my Okidata 10ex. What can I do? Thanks. Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Laptop Battery problem

2012-02-23 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:08:28 +0100, Lorenzo wrote in message <4f42b64c.3010...@gmail.com>: > On 18/02/2012 22:36, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > I've read about the freezer thing wonder if it works. > ..every time this far, but dragging along a freezer to boot up a laptop, sort of defeats the laptop c

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

2012-02-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Feb 2012 at 11:42:59 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default > sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's > something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then > entering the C

Re: Flash plugin not producing sound

2012-02-23 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 02/19/2012 03:20 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 14:07:02 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: That all looks OK; the problem with flashplayer is that it blindly uses alsa card 0 to play its sound, regardless of how you configured your desktop environment and/or pulseaudio. This

Re: Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

2012-02-23 Thread Sian Mountbatten
On 02/23/2012 12:10 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the CA0106 module as card 0. Do

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Arun Khan
Hello Julien, On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello Arun! >  Sometimes in laptops, the microphone might be coupled with line-in. Have Good point. The laptop has two separate ports one for headphone and the other shows the "Mic" symbol. I take it means a microphone as

Re: Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Julien Claassen
Hello Arun! Sometimes in laptops, the microphone might be coupled with line-in. Have you had any mic luck under Linux with this laptop? You might have a look in alsamixer or alsamixergui for line-in settings as well and you might test it, by plugging in an external mic, or if it's switched, y

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Miles Bader wrote: Richard Owlett writes: Back in the 70's DEC had an enclosure for the LSI-11 irreverently dubbed the "Hitachi". Five sides were cast aluminum with large fins o get rid of ~100 watts of heat. The sixth side was a heavily gasketed piece of cast aluminum. Are you sure it wasn't

Two sound cards. How to make the CA0106 the default.

2012-02-23 Thread Sian Mountbatten
Does anybody know how I can make the CA0106 card on my m/c the default sound card? At the moment, card 0 is the Intel ICH5. I know it's something to do with modprobe. Removing the two kernel modules and then entering the CA0106 module as card 0. Does anybody know the details? -- Sian Mountbatt

Microphone not picking any sound -- Debian Testing/Wheezy (KDE 4.6.5)

2012-02-23 Thread Arun Khan
Debian Wheezy AMD 64 weekly build 13/Feb/2012 KDE 4.6.5 (default) desktop Kernel 3.2.0 (stock from the weekly build) on Toshiba C640 laptop. alsamixergui shows - audio device is shown as Intel Conexant CX20590. I can hear sound from the built in speakers as well as from the head phone jack. Throug

Re: [OT] how to change the first character into upper case

2012-02-23 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 23/02/12 03:54, David Christensen wrote: On 02/22/2012 05:18 AM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: ~$ python -c "print (' '.join([str.capitalize(x) for x in 'NELSON ARISPE, EDUARDO ROJAS, AND HARVEY B. POLLARD'.split(' ')]))" Nelson Arispe, Eduardo Rojas, And Harvey B. Pollard

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-23 Thread Miles Bader
Curt Howland writes: > The only thing I did for "Linux compatibility" was to not get on-board > graphics. I bought an Nvidia-based graphics card that was not > "bleeding edge", even though it's got 3D acceleration. The card has > it's own RAM, so system RAM is not shared, which is a very good thin

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-23 Thread Miles Bader
Richard Owlett writes: > Back in the 70's DEC had an enclosure for the LSI-11 irreverently dubbed > the "Hitachi". > Five sides were cast aluminum with large fins o get rid of ~100 watts of > heat. The sixth side was a heavily gasketed piece of cast > aluminum. Are you sure it wasn't "The Hibachi

Re: rm -rf is too slow on large files and directory structure(Around 30000)

2012-02-23 Thread Miles Bader
Bilal mk writes: > I am using xfs filesystem and also did the fsck. DMA is enabled. > Also perfomed xfs defragmentation( xfs_fsr). But still an issue not only rm > -rf but also cp command Traditionally XFS is super slow when deleting lots of little files -- much, _much_, slower than ext3, for ins