ATI Graphics Radeon HD 5470

2012-10-18 Thread Sean Gregory
Hi I am having an HP Laptop DV3 - 4170ee It has a ATI Graphics card Radeon HD 5470 . I am having trouble with the open source driver that comes with debian sqeeze. It doesnt detect it fine. By the way I tried the open source driver with Ubuntu 12.04.1 and Linux Mint maya and it detects and act

Re: ATI Graphics Radeon HD 5470

2012-10-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 18 oct 12, 10:21:08, Sean Gregory wrote: > Hi > > I am having an HP Laptop DV3 - 4170ee > > It has a ATI Graphics card Radeon HD 5470 . > > I am having trouble with the open source driver that comes with debian > sqeeze. It doesnt detect it fine. > > By the way I tried the open source dr

start-stop-daemon qemu-nbd

2012-10-18 Thread shawn wilson
start-stop-daemon works as root, but not when sudo with qemu-nbd my definition of works vs doesn't - i can connect to both (assuming a qcow2 vm): start-stop-daemon --start -b --exec /usr/bin/qemu-nbd -- nocache template.qcow2 nbd-client localhost 1024 /dev/nbd0 fdisk -l /dev/nbd0 #WORKS sudo star

Re: DVD-RAM, Raspberry Pi and other toys - Was: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-18 Thread Dom
On 17/10/12 22:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Apologize Pierre, it wasn't intended to capture your thread. On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:56 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: Raspberry Pi is cool (not my cup of tea, but cool nonetheless). It looks like it is selling for 35 USD, which is what I always heard quote

Re: 32bit binaries on 64bit system?

2012-10-18 Thread Jon Dowland
What libraries does your binary require? try using ldd to find out. You may have missed a particular 32 bit library dependency. If you are prepared to upgrade to wheezy, multiarch might make this a bit easier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 17 Oct 2012 at 21:05:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 17 oct 12, 12:22:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines displayed are: > > sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell > > root@localhost:~# > > > > At this point I'm allowed

Re: DVD-RAM, Raspberry Pi and other toys - Was: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 09:31 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 17/10/12 22:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Apologize Pierre, it wasn't intended to capture your thread. > > > > On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:56 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> > >> Raspberry Pi is cool (not my cup of tea, but cool nonetheless). It > >> l

Debian Wheezy Architecture

2012-10-18 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Debian 6.0.5 (64 bit)/KDE 4.4.5 I have just migrated to Debian and would like to implement Multiarch. According to the Debian Wiki it is present in dkpg since 1.16.2. However, the version in my installation is 1.15.8.3. When I try to update the Synaptic Package Manager I get some error messages t

Re: Debian Wheezy Architecture

2012-10-18 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:46:19AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Debian 6.0.5 (64 bit)/KDE 4.4.5 > > I have just migrated to Debian and would like to implement Multiarch. > According to the Debian Wiki it is present in dkpg since 1.16.2. > However, the version in my installation is 1.15.8.3.

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-18 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Charlie wrote: > > Naturally I would have checked that the CD/DVD player was working, and > in that case it doesn't matter if it can play CD's or DVD's I don't > think? > > If I had been able to mount it, I would have known the extension the > tracks/files have. [T

Re: Debian Wheezy Architecture

2012-10-18 Thread David Seira
Hi Stephen, I had the same problem a few month ago. Finally, after look for a lot of webs, the problem was in our firewall (fortinet). I think you should look the internet connectivity in your firewall for this machine. Are you change the server on another place? Regards, David 2012/10/18 Stephe

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-18 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I experienced two "things" as problematic with Linux. CD-RAM and independent from the CD-RAM issue, UDF too. I can't help, but I'll watch this thread ;). Up to now, this thread became redirected to DVD-RAM and Raspberry, but fortunately, I found th

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Lisi writes: > On Monday 15 October 2012 20:11:06 Wally Lepore wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Dom wrote: >> > You might need to install the os-prober package first. Grub2 uses that to >> > identify other OSes on your system. >> >> I haven't installed any pkgs. yet. But will consider

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Wally Lepore writes: > I know I can go to the menu in terminal under.Terminal-->Reset and > Clear and it will just give me a terminal window with a blinking > cursor. Yeah remember msods; IIRC there was the "clear" command to clear the screen (or was that "cls"?). You can also type that in

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Wally Lepore writes: > For example, when I read helpful suggestions such as: > > Type this > > 1 | su root > 2 | gedit > > I don't understand. What is the 1 and the 2 for? Do I have to type > that in as well? No, don't type the numbers, you'll probably be told "command not found" :) It's very m

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Jon Dowland writes: > failings. The mails you are receiving will have a proper List-Id > header. They are CCs and, of course, don't have a List-Id header. Even if they had one: If your filtering puts mails addressed to you through a CC header somewhere else just because it contains a List-Id h

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Wally Lepore writes: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 9:12 AM, lee wrote: >> >> Do you really need LVM? > > I have partitioned drives n the past (using windows). Not a big deal. > Easy enough for sure. LVM intrigued me and I wanted to learn. The > logical volumes can be size adjusted (if need be) all w

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Wally Lepore writes: > In fact, its very time consuming to have to structure emails in that > fashion and its not something I look forward to. A decent MUA would make things a lot easier for you. Gnus is said to work well with gmail. > I read all your posts in this thread and to be honest I be

Re: Wally Lepore - last words.

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Wally Lepore writes: > feeling. I only replied to two email addresses: Lisi and the user-list > (reply-all). That is exactly what Lisi doesn't want you to do. She wants you to reply to the list only and *not* to her address. -- Debian testing iad96 brokenarch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Lisi writes: > It is getting beyond a joke. I can certainly say that I emphatically do not > want a _personal_ copy in addition to the mailing list one. This is a > problem that I have never met before, hope never to meet again, and it is > ridiculous. It happens from time to time on variou

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it > contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on > any "From_" lines in mails. Using mbox to store mails seems prone to corruption by design, not to mention other dis

Re: Wally Lepore

2012-10-18 Thread lee
Lisi writes: > considerable lengths to try and get him there. I have even been told that I > should be ashamed of myself for telling him to just grab the bull by the > horns and do it. That is a misunderstanding. What I've been trying to say is that there's someone who's trying to actually d

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Tom Rausner wrote: >Hi Folks. >I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. >It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) >to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. >I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to >replace it. BUT most of the

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Wed 17 Oct 2012 at 21:05:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 17 oct 12, 12:22:48, Richard Owlett wrote: When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines displayed are: sulogin: root account is locked, starting shell root@localhost:~# At this point I'm allowed to do "a

Re: Debian Etch(Kernel 2.6.24) Can't insatll on Ivy bridge platform

2012-10-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/17/2012 8:18 AM, richie.jf@foxconn.com wrote: First off, I own a couple of your socket AM3 M61PMP-K motherboards. The CPU temp doesn't report correctly, which is not critical. Besides that they work great and I'm pleased with them. > When we install Debian Etch(Kernel 2.6.24) on Intel

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 18 Oct 2012 at 11:32:49 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Wed 17 Oct 2012 at 21:05:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >>On Mi, 17 oct 12, 12:22:48, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> > >>>When rebooting into "Rescue Mode", the last two lines displayed are: > >>>sulogin: root acc

Re: 32bit binaries on 64bit system?

2012-10-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/2012 10:56 PM, Curt Howland wrote: Dear Debian-user, newly installed AMD64 Squeeze. I've decided to try installing Debian in 64bit for the first time, and restoring my home files has exposed a 32bit legacy. "wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32" So I installed all the ia32libs, but the error i

Re: Debian Wheezy Architecture

2012-10-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 18 oct 12, 09:46:19, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > What I really need is a pointer towards a really basic discussion of > Synaptic an apt. Debian Reference, also available as package debian-reference. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://l

Re: Newbie password problem(s)

2012-10-18 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote in previous post: The sudo package is installed and the user added to group sudo. If >"apt-get install gdm3" installed gd3 this is either a misobservetion >or the discovery of a massive security problem. I'm beginning to suspect "massive security problem." I'm going have to create

Re: Listen to audio..........

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 08:39 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > And where is this Windows program "Arcade" from? I cannot find it anywhere... Goggle does find it, e.g. http://www.softwaregeek.com/acer-arcade-multimedia-player-freeware/p1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: can't create an UDF file system on a CD-RW

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 18:11 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > /usr/share/doc/udftools/README.Debian.gz Thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Evolution: A warning about mbox data corruptions

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 18:18 +0200, lee wrote: > Christoph Anton Mitterer writes: > > > This is intended as a warning on all users of the Evolution MUA that it > > contains a bug since years that leads to irrecoverably corruptions on > > any "From_" lines in mails. > > Using mbox to store mails s

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Tom Rausner wrote: > >Hi Folks. > >I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. > >It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) > >to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. > >I think some pathways in

Thinkpad W510 trackpoint

2012-10-18 Thread ol
Hi. I've got some problems with the thinkpads trackpoint buttons. None of the 3 buttons are working, and nothing is registered when checking with xve, the trackpoint itself is working without issues. The trackpad is disabled in bios, but its buttons was working when enabled. I'm at the moment on de

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Ralf Mardorf writes: > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Tom Rausner wrote: >> >Hi Folks. >> >I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. >> >It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) >> >to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Wally Lepore
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Tom Rausner wrote: > >Hi Folks. > >I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. > >It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) > >to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. > >I think some pathways in

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-10-18 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 18 October 2012 20:43:05 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:29 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Tom Rausner wrote: > >> >Hi Folks. > >> >I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. > >> >It is unable to pass data from one place (say the

multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

2012-10-18 Thread Vincent Lefevre
My Debian laptop has several ways to have network connection: Ethernet, wifi and USB (the latter is used together with my Nokia N900, which has a DHCP server). I have the following problem, when doing: 1. Connect via wifi, using DHCP (as usual). /etc/resolv.conf is modified accordingly, as expe

isci module is missing in the latest Debian testing amd64 iso

2012-10-18 Thread rick
Hi All, I'm trying to install the latest Debian testing version (iso dated 2012-10-15) on a new quad socket romley system. The system only has Intel SAS ports for drives, which use the isci driver. It seems the isci driver is completely missing from the latest iso. I haven't tried any older ver

Plus '+' character when building kernel

2012-10-18 Thread Amit
Hello, On a debian wheezy system, I am building upstream kernel using the following command: fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 3.6.0 --append-to-version -0-amd64 --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers The resulting package is: linux-image-3.6.0-0-amd64+_3.6.0_amd64.deb Notice the '+' character. How

OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

2012-10-18 Thread T Elcor
Hi, Am trying to reflash my cellphone from wheezy using "reflash" program and am getting a weird "No such file or directory" error for libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0. I had tried adding "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" to the PATH but got the same error message. Any ideas? Thanks $ ./reflash ./reflash: e

Re: AMD/ATI video drivers in Squeeze

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
32-bit PAE kernels only enable access to more RAM than 3.75GB, while 64-bit kernels can use a 64-bit bus for all the IO work. So since you seemingly are not comfortable with the FLOSS driver's 3D acceleration, it might be, that for your needs, 64-bit will be faster. The driver not only need to fit

Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
# ldconfig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1350614002.1112.131.camel@localhost.localdomain

Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

2012-10-18 Thread T Elcor
- Original Message - > From: Ralf Mardorf > > # ldconfig # ldconfig -v | grep -i libgtk-x11-2 ldconfig: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once     libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 -> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2400.10 I'm beginn

Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

2012-10-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 19:51 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > - Original Message - > > > From: Ralf Mardorf > > > > # ldconfig > > # ldconfig -v | grep -i libgtk-x11-2 > ldconfig: Path `/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once > ldconfig: Path `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' given more than once >

Re: OT: Wheezy: Error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

2012-10-18 Thread T Elcor
- Original Message - >> I'm beginning to suspect "reflash" is a 32-bit program. Could > this be the reason?  Thanks > > I guess you're right. > > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=730884 Yes, it is a 32-bit app,  "# aptitude install lib32ncurses5 libgtk2.0-0 ia32-libs-g

Re: Plus '+' character when building kernel

2012-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Amit wrote: > > On a debian wheezy system, I am building upstream kernel using the > following command: > > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 3.6.0 --append-to-version -0-amd64 --initrd > kernel_image kernel_headers > > The resulting package is: > > linux-image-3.6.0-0

Re: multiple DHCP servers and /etc/resolv.conf

2012-10-18 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > My Debian laptop has several ways to have network connection: Ethernet, > wifi and USB (the latter is used together with my Nokia N900, which has > a DHCP server). I have the following problem, when doing: > > 1. Connect via wifi, using D