This system started out as lenny in 2009 and I just upgraded
to squeeze. Most of the system is fine but I have lost both
CDROM's which used to be /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1. I
didn't help anything when I accidently left a usb drive
installed so it looks like the thing to do is clean ou
non-free
This does not seem to get it. Is there a line in sources.list to
get firmware drivers?
Thank you.
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> On Sat, 05 May 2012 22:00:18 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
>
> > This system started out as lenny in 2009 and I just upgraded to squeeze.
> > Most of the system is fine but I have lost both CDROM's which used to be
> > /m
): New device added (hal udi is
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1608_f_V33151901_0_if0_serial_usb_1').
Where else might I find the driver and where should it be
installed to bring the converter back to life?
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w junk the at job with atrm job#.
I have done this before when cron jobs ran manually but didn't
run under cron and at least the environment reminds you what it
should have to work correctly.
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> ar x linux-firmware_1.79_all.deb
> tar xf data.tar.gz
> cp -rv lib/firmware/edgeport/ /lib/firmware/
I take it that would not break later Debian updates? If
so, that sounds like a plan.
Thanks!
Martin
> "computer.enthusiastic" writes:
>There are other possible solutions.
>One solution is to install the linux-firmware package from the ubuntu
>repository (note that thereafter you can't anymore install the
>firmware packages from debian repositories due to conflicts). For
>example, you could type
for
sound cards.
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was mentioned in this
message but it is definitely misconfigured as mailers should
never send error messages to a mailing list. Mailing list
software is often-times set to recognize error messages and
ignore them, but sometimes one gets through.
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ly, what is the
best way to end up with workable firmware in the
/lib/firmware/sb tree?
Do the correct files exist somewhere in the old backup
or do I need to do a make on a certain directory to produce
compiled modules that can be copied in to /lib/firmware?
Thank you.
Martin McC
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came back to life and is as good as ever. During the time when
the SB16 was acting as the primary sound card, a listing of
/proc/asound showed a SB16 as the one and only sound card.
Any ideas as to what I am still missing?
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Ryan Frederick writes:
> Martin,
>
> I don't recall what you've already tried, but you might try adding the
> snd-sbawe kernel module to your /etc/modules file. You may have to
> specify additional options such as the port address and irq.
That may be it. Now that you mention it, I have seen that
The udev way to have two sound cards is actually much less
trouble than ever before as long as you clean up all the old
configuration files from before the upgrade from lenny to
squeeze.
You can get rid of /etc/soundprobe.conf. That was needed
to try to force the correct device to always b
Probably nobody else noticed this but I posted the
following in the last message:
> List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
> card 0: S16 [Sound Blaster 16], device 0: SB16 DSP [DSP v4.16]
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
> card 1: CS4237B [CS4237B], device 0: WSS [CS
the aplay -l command and fails to produce any
audio.
I ran strace -e trace=open,close,read,write and the good
trace wasn't all that much different from the bad trace.
Any idea as to what to look at next?
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Chris Bannister writes:
> Does it work for another user? Temporarily create one to find out.
Good suggestion.
> Dont like the look of "/usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf may be old or
> corrupted: consider to remove or fix it"
That looks bad all right until root runs the same command,
accesses the
Getting much closer!
Chris Bannister writes:
> Was the netinst ISO a daily-build? There was some talk of one of the
> daily-build ISO's being faulty, I don't know in which way the fault
> would manifest itself though, and I don't know which one.
It was Daily Build 6 or 7 but read on.
> Have you
We have set up a backup server and the samba share
accounts we have on the system need to be in a file system that
is very large so I modified /etc/adduser.conf to put them in as
follows:
# The DHOME variable specifies the directory containing users' home
# directories.
DHOME=/srv/backups
Peter Wiersig writes:
> What result is printed on "getent passwd testuser"?
# getent passwd testuser
testuser:x:28000:28000:a b c,,,:/srv/backups/testuser:/bin/bash
> what's the result of "ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups /srv /"?
# ls -ld ~testuser /srv/backups/testuser
drwxr-xr-x 2 testuser testu
d tht
boot image as one of the files at the top of the tree which is
not what the original disk has in mind.
Basically, I am cloning that CDRW to a CDR.
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boot image as one of the files at the top of the tree which is
not what the original disk has in mind.
Basically, I am cloning that CDRW to a CDR.
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Sch=F6nhaber?= writes:
> If you don't want to use the CD copy function of one of the GUI burning
> programs, you can, for example, do the following:
> insert the CDRW into the drive and do
> dd if=/dev/cdrom of=vinux.iso
> (replace "/dev/cdrom" with the device node for your dr
William Hopkins writes:
> $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc
>
> then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.)
This worked perfectly. Thank you.
Interestingly, I tried the dd command with the
parameters above and without and got the same bytes in
It used to be that one got the installation program to
run through a serial port by a command like
linux console=ttySx,9600n8p
I downloaded the new Debian 6 iso image from Debian.org
and am trying to install it over a serial console which is one
of the things that computer users w
Scott Ferguson writes:
> It's possible you are having problems because of the gui install screen
> - you can disable it so that it will take cli parameters by arrow down
> OR
> Hit esc during the initial boot - before the gui splash screen loads.
Things have changed! When I boot, the CD sp
I am at work, now, but will have a go of all the things
you suggest and see how it goes.
What I will be accessing from is a command-line system
that has speech output so I can ssh, telnet or serial via Kermit
to the target system. I have a DHCP server running on a Linux
P.C. so I w
I just did a Google search on Debian Squeeze and
pre-seed files and found a document describing what all can be
placed in to such a file. What I did not see yet is a mechanical
description of how to introduce the file to the installation
process. I think it can be introduced on a USB stick
I downloaded the following image:
debian-6.0.2.1-kfreebsd-i386-CD-1.iso
I am still a bit confused as to whether one can use a pre-seed
file with that CD without remastering it or having to arrow
down. It is not that those steps are a big problem, but if one
is going to do a headless insta
for any suggestions. The on-board chips come
right back when the AWE64 is removed.
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I want to send two output streams from a code module I wrote to
two pipes so that other programs can read the streams.
The rest of the module works but I am doing something
wrong when writing to a pipe.
The way I understand pipes, you write to one end. A
small buffer fills and th
Ivan Jager writes:
> Rather than using fwrite() you could just use write(), which takes a
> file descriptor. Alternately, if you really want to use fwrite or
> other stdio functions rather than the *nix syscalls, you could
> use fdopen() to get a FILE* corresponding to the pipe's fd.
>
> If you ch
lee writes:
> And leftchannel_pipe is supposed to be an array? Without seeing more of
> your program, we're left in the dark ...
Now that I got it working, here it is. All this does is
to give you an 8-bit 8000 sample per second audio feed from both
the left and right channels of the soun
eing put on the new drive can not
find grub or something along those lines because /boot and the
kernel are there. It really looks like it should work, but
doesn't.
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plan. Many thanks.
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Ivan Shmakov writes:
> It's possible to dd(1) just the filesystem (partition) instead
> of the whole disk.
>
> Moreover, the filesystem can be downsized prior to that with
> resize2fs(8), thus the destination partition may be smaller than
> the source one.
Ivan Shmakov writes:
> resize2fs(8) after dd(1) on the destination partition ? it'll
> make the additional space available to the filesystem.
That may be the easiest approach to not get wrong if
that is the case. The old drive is the master boot drive on
/dev/hda. The new d
After using dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=10M, I got a copy of a
boot drive's image on what will eventually be the new boot
drive. The new drive is about half again as big as the old drive
and research plus several previous answers from this list has
lead me to try the following strategy:
Use fdis
ubuntu9.10 and, when running gnome and
orca, the system would freeze at times.
Ubuntu10.10 and everything after that are totally broken
for sound on this particular hardware, anyway.
I would certainly like to help fix it, but it is very
hard to use the interface that is broken to trouble
You write:
> I'm not sure in what stage of the migration are you right now (I did not
> follow the full thread), but have you tried to boot from a LiveCD and
> work from there?
I have been avoiding that. I don't know if this is
peculiar to Dell mother boards, but every so often, my CMOS
bo
you write:
> Have you tried with "gparted" or "cfdisk"? The first it's a GUI based
> tool which usually manages very well these situations and the latter is a
> more convenient tool (text based) when it comes to manage partitions from
> command line.
I haven't tried cfdisk yet so I will give it a
flash drives can stand
the journalling file system easier than can USB drives so this
is kind of an experiment. So far, so good.
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expect the secondary drive to be awake all the time since the
journal would write every five seconds or so.
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es shifted by a couple of spaces. I can easily fix that,
but it got me to thinking.
If I can do all of this within one language, including
the RS-232 coms, that will be great.
Thanks for any suggestions.
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Axel Freyn writes:
> I would give python a try, maybe together with the pySerial-module from
> http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/
> While pyserial simplifies the access to rs232 and cares about all platform
> dependence, it's not really standard I think.
>
> If your program shall work on all Unix sy
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes:
> If I were in your situation, I would convert your C programs to C++
> (changing .c to .cpp) and use Qt. I use it many places just
> for
> its string manipulation and Qt has great documentation.
>
>
> Just install libqt4-dev, qt4-dev-tools, qt4-qmake and qt4-doc.
>
>
>
any thanks for any suggestions or explanations as to
why this does not seem to work.
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Cesar Garcia writes:
> Perhaps, try with this:
>
> for MAGFILE in `ls $MAGDIR/*.[Zz][Ii][Pp]`; do
That worked. Thank you.
As soon as I saw the example, I realized that in the
script, there was no way for it to know where these files were
that I was looking for. Also my thanks to
atement if it is not 0 and false if it is?
Thanks for any constructive answers.
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Jangita writes:
> Not a question for this list but
Sorry.
>
> 1. Is there any statement in the while loop that changes NEXTSYS? (or
> better still, send any statement that has NEXTSYS in it while inside the
> loop)
Yes! I didn't even think about that but there is a test inside
that loop whose re
Jangita writes:
> Not a question for this list but
Sorry.
>
> 1. Is there any statement in the while loop that changes NEXTSYS? (or
> better still, send any statement that has NEXTSYS in it while inside the
> loop)
Yes! I didn't even think about that but there is a test inside
that loop whose re
*/
return;
} /*Receive incoming serial data.*/
I would like it to be able to time out if serial comm is
lost, but completely reset everything so it is waiting for new
data. Currently, the port is open for reception and transmission
Must one completely close the receiver down
Sorry. It looks like I type like I program. in the last message,
I put the signature line between the last two lines of the
message body.
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only the
changed files and have it remove those files that exist on the
copy but no longer exist on the master?
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Joao Ferreira gmail writes:
> that is exactly what --delete does. I've been using it for some time and
> it works just fine for me.
Problem is solved. If you have the b flag as one of your flags
as in "backup," it apparently insures that once a file is there,
it does not go away. This could be ver
ll se if I am not grouping flags together in
some way as to negate --delete. Thanks very much.
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fdefs.h. */
I'm fresh out of popt's and still getting that fatal error.
This is a sarge distribution.
Any ideas?
Thank you very much.
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> >On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 22:13 -0600, Mark Rages wrote:
>
> >> Just a guess: You need to install libdl-dev and libpthread-
this directory doesn't list if
one is in it but does list if one is either root or doing ls from
outside the bin directory.
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Thank you even if I am a bit red in the face.
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ion we have never seen before and the archives don't always get
close enough to answer our questions so everybody should remember that
one of these days, they will have a mess on their hands and not know
why and need help.
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for your help. It is working normally
until I get the time to give it a rebuild.
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now what words I say when it does
happen.
Any ideas are appreciated.
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is no mention of it in
your boot sequence, then chances are it's just soaking up a few
milliamps from your power supply and doing nothing useful at all
because the BIOS doesn't know about it or the drivers aren't in your
kernel or something like that.
Good luck.
Martin
he radio from your computer,
but you certainly can use at and cron jobs to start and stop your
recording on a schedule. Read the HOWTO's about Linux audio for more
good information.
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e awk call, but
that changed nothing.
Is there any way to get one value per iteration?
Thanks for any good ideas.
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esn't look like a
normal loop.
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Simo Kauppi writes:
>Not sure if I understood the problem correctly, but how about:
>
>#! /bin/sh
>filechop () {
> #This function takes one file at a time and removes the bottom 6 lines.
> #Get a single numerical value stating how many lines are in the file.
> zlength=`wc -l $zonename|awk '{pri
t weeks pay for a decent hour's
work, I truly appreciate this.:-)
A thousand thanks to all Linux Developers and to those on this
list who answer our questions when we get stuck. Let's not forget to
do the same when we see somebody else stuck on something we know about.
Martin McCor
else isn't
working because of the missing libraries.
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>You need the "libncurses5-dev" package.
Thank you. It looks like things are more healthy now.
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