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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1881

Today's Topics: 

  Re: weird aptitude behavior           [ "Matt Miller"  ]
  Re: backports                         [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Re: weird aptitude behavior           [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  Rosegarden claims there is no driver  [ Cassiano Bertol Leal  ]
  Re: Packages who requires restart co  [ Josep 

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:11:48 -0400


From: "Matt Miller" <matt@matthewmiller.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: weird aptitude behavior

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On 7/2/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> Run aptitude interactively (no parameters) and choose options.  It
> sounds like you have the default aptitude behaviour of assuming that
> 'recommends' are hard dependancies.  I always turn that off.

I turned off recommends as dependencies with
Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";


in /etc/apt/apt.conf


and when I aptitude -s install mediawiki I still get x11-common and
other unneeded x libs wanting to install...
I think there's a difference between the packages 'mediawiki' and
'mediawiki1.7' which seems weird to me as the dependencies for
mediawiki are lised as mediawiki1.7 and mediawiki1.7-math.
I wonder why all those other packages?



# aptitude -s install mediawiki


Reading package lists... Done


Building dependency tree... Done


Reading extended state information


Initializing package states... Done


Reading task descriptions... Done


Building tag database... Done


The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  perl-doc


The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common defoma
file fontconfig-config


  gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts imagemagick libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1
libaprutil1 libexpat1


  libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libice6 libjasper-1.701-1 libjpeg62
libkpathsea4 liblcms1


  libmagic1 libmagick9 libmysqlclient15off libpaper1 libpng12-0
libpoppler0c2 libpq4 libsm6


  libsqlite3-0 libt1-5 libtiff4 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7
libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml2


  libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 mediawiki1.7 mediawiki1.7-math mime-support
mysql-common php5 php5-cli


  php5-common php5-mysql tetex-base tetex-bin tex-common ttf-dejavu
ucf x11-common


The following packages have been kept back:
  libkrb53


The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common defoma
file fontconfig-config


  gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts imagemagick libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1
libaprutil1 libexpat1


  libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libice6 libjasper-1.701-1 libjpeg62
libkpathsea4 liblcms1


  libmagic1 libmagick9 libmysqlclient15off libpaper1 libpng12-0
libpoppler0c2 libpq4 libsm6


  libsqlite3-0 libt1-5 libtiff4 libx11-6 libx11-data libxau6 libxaw7
libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxml2


  libxmu6 libxpm4 libxt6 mediawiki mediawiki1.7 mediawiki1.7-math
mime-support mysql-common


  php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-mysql tetex-base tetex-bin tex-common
ttf-dejavu ucf


  x11-common


The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  debconf-utils latex-cjk-all libft-perl libpaper-utils
libxml-parser-perl mysql-server


  mysql-server-5.0 perl-tk psfontmgr psutils tetex-doc tetex-extra xml-core
0 packages upgraded, 58 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 61.5MB of archives. After unpacking 170MB will be used.


-- 
A-la peanut butter sandwiches!
           - the Amazing Mumford


Date:  Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:11:18 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject:  Re: rock solid
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:


> 
> its almost boring...
> 

May be true for stable; Neverthless Sid makes it all interesting!

raju



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:58:37 -0300
From: "Bruno Schneider" <boschneider@gmail.com>
To: "Debian Users" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: using python-gdata
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Hello. I'm trying to install and use upload2picasa [1] in Debian
Lenny. It uses the Google Data APIs that were packaged into
python-gdata, available at official Debian repositories.

However it seems that Google API in the package is not quite the same
available from Google since upload2picasa won't run. At first I tried
to replace what seems renamed in the Debian version, but can't keep
from running into all sorts of errors.

I don't know Python, but the script seems quite simple. Could a Python
programmer please take a look and have it run with python-gdata?

[1] http://code.google.com/p/upload2picasa/

Note: I have contacted the package maintainer, but received no reply.

-- 
Bruno Schneider
http://www.dcc.ufla.br/~bruno/

Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:58:52 +0200
From: Morten Gulbrandsen <Morten.Gulbrandsen@rwth-Aachen.de>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: changing the type of the partition
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I have   up and running two versions of  Debian.

like this  main OS   AMD64

AMD64_Debian_Etch_4.0_dev_sda1.png
http://666kb.com/i/appx8zyc7y0uwlkd5.png

With swap partition.

AMD64_Debian_Etch_4.0_dev_sda5.png
http://666kb.com/i/appxavb8nhi5q8swp.png



Then after one version was up and running I
decided or I had planned to append another version.

second OS as 32 bit.

i386_Debian_Etch_4.0_dev_sda3.png
http://666kb.com/i/appxbx8zcfzaxcs49.png

With swap partition. 
# is this necessary, I use GRUB Boot manager and the OS are selected
during boot.
# Why can't I simply use only one single swap partition assigned to both
OS versions, please?

i386_Debian_Etch_4.0_dev_sda4.png
http://666kb.com/i/appxclggdnfhk2v6h.png


Here is my problem,

Free_space_not_partitioned.png

http://666kb.com/i/appxdhnannw04kz15.png


I'd like to append 32 bit  fedora,  solaris 10 64 bit,   Win XP 32 bit.

Why is that impossible?

What can I do to change it?


I had no success with knoppix,    I have downloaded
gparted-livecd-0.3.4-8.iso

The manual said it is better to use gparted from within a running OS,

gparted is according to my understanding meant to _resize_ a partition 
or _copy_ data from one partition to another.

To put it clear,  that is not what I want.


Both versions of debian etch 4.0 runs perfectly.

I think simply changing the type of the partition
could permit more OS to be installed in the existing
unusable free space.


Here is some details.


http://pastebin.ca/600147


Best regards

Morten



Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:14:34 +0200
From: Shams Fantar <sfantar@snurf.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Problem with sendmail, error code 67.
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Shams Fantar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have used Google to have the answers at my problem, but  I did not 
> find anything.
>
> The problem is that I can't use the function mail() of php.
>
> If I make 'sendmail -s testing sfantar@localhost', the prompt doesn't 
> come back and there is no message. But if I make 'mail -s testing 
> sfantar@localhost', I have an error message : Can't send mail: 
> sendmail process failed with error code 67
>
> My php.ini for mail() : sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
>
> If I want to use mail(), I can't !
>
> There is nothing in the logs.
>
> Have you ideas ? Solutions ?
>
> Sendmail's version is 8.13.
>
> Thank you,
>


No idea ?

-- 
Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info)



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:08:34 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: backports
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:35:19 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:

[ snip: discussion about how to check keys for unofficial repositories ]


> This works fine for backports.org and debian-multimedia.org. Unfortunately, the
> keyring from debian-unofficial.org is not signed in the same way:
> 
> $ gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-unofficial-archive-keyring.gpg --list-sigs /usr/share/keyrings/debian-unofficial-archive-keyring.gpg
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> pub   1024D/24C52AC3 2007-01-24 [expires: 2008-02-01]
> uid                  Debian Unofficial Archive Automatic Signing Key (2007)
> sig 3        24C52AC3 2007-01-24  Debian Unofficial Archive Automatic Signing Key (2007)
> sig          4B2B2B9E 2007-01-24  [User ID not found]
> 
> There is no such sig as 4B2B2B9E on the debian-keyring
> 
> $ gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg --check-sig 4B2B2B9E
> gpg: error reading key: public key not found


Yes, it is strange that his key is not on the Debian keyring.


> or on a public keyserver
> 
> $ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --list-key 4B2B2B9E
> gpg: error reading key: public key not found


That is a really annoying "feature" of gnupg: Neither "--list-key(s)"
nor "--search-key(s)" work reliably with key IDs (in my experience at
least); you have to use "--recv-key(s)":

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4B2B2B9E
gpg: requesting key 4B2B2B9E from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: key 4B2B2B9E: public key "Daniel Baumann <email address>" imported
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   1  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1  valid:   1  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 1m, 0f, 0u
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1

The key is added to your normal user's keyring directly.
 

> I think that the best one can do in this case is to take Daniel Baumann's name
> from the debian-unofficial website[1] and check that he has an entry in the
> Debian developer database[2].
> 
> [1] http://www.debian-unofficial.org/
> [2] http://db.debian.org


I would still check the signature on the Debian Unofficial key after you
have obtained Daniel Baumann's key. (You can get the 4B2B2B9E key from a
keyserver as shown above, or you can click on the fingerprint link in
the database [2] to download the key and use "gpg --import" on the
file.) Once the key is on your keyring you can run:

$ gpg --keyring ./debian-unofficial-archive-keyring.gpg --check-sigs 24C52AC3
pub   1024D/24C52AC3 2007-01-24 [expires: 2008-02-01]
uid                  Debian Unofficial Archive Automatic Signing Key (2007)
sig!3        24C52AC3 2007-01-24  Debian Unofficial Archive Automatic Signing Key (2007)
sig!         4B2B2B9E 2007-01-24  Daniel Baumann

However, since I obtained the 4B2B2B9E key from an untrusted source I
also want to check the signatures of other Debian developers on this
key:

$ gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg --check-sigs 4B2B2B9E

[ snip: a lot of output ]

The signatures of more than 30 other Debian developers can be verified,
therefore it seems reasonable to trust this key and the archive signing
key.

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |



Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:46:45 -0500
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box
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On 06/27/07 11:34, Orestes leal wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> I want that some of the members of the group comments something
> about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration
> I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like
> Doom3, etc in linux with a performance closely like win32 and DirectX.
> 
> NOTE: CPU, VGA, MEMORY, etc.


Doom plays very well on Red Hat 4.2 and a 486DX2 with 16MB RAM and a 
Tseng Labs ET4000/w23i.

Nethack plays just dandy on a VAX 11/750, as long as a VT102 is 
connected to it.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:29:07 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: weird aptitude behavior
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 14:11:48 -0400, Matt Miller wrote:

[...]


> I turned off recommends as dependencies with
> Aptitude::Recommends-Important "false";
> in /etc/apt/apt.conf
> and when I aptitude -s install mediawiki I still get x11-common and
> other unneeded x libs wanting to install...
> I think there's a difference between the packages 'mediawiki' and
> 'mediawiki1.7' which seems weird to me as the dependencies for
> mediawiki are lised as mediawiki1.7 and mediawiki1.7-math.
> I wonder why all those other packages?


mediawiki1.7-math depends on imagemagick
imagemagick depends on libx11-6
libx11-6 depends on libx11-data
libx11-data pre-depends on x11-common

Add a few more such chains of dependencies and a lot of packages are
pulled in by mediawiki1.7-math.

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |



Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:52:26 -0500
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: cmdline tool to search through pdf files?
Message-ID: <4689496A.9050809@cox.net>
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On 06/21/07 13:44, Tod Detre wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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> 
> Most pdf's are mainly text. You should be able to use standard tools
> like grep and perl.


But PDF is compressed.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!


Do you need more help?X

Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:35:28 -0300
From: Cassiano Bertol Leal <cassianoleal@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Rosegarden claims there is no driver for the sequencer
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Hi

I have been trying to set up a DAW (digital audio workstation) out of my
lenny/sid box for basic midi/audio sequencing and editing, so that I can
get rid of windoze for good.

I have gone through many steps to improve responsiveness and to get
better latencies. I am currently using jackd, which works flawlessly for
most of my applications, for both midi and audio.

The only problem I have faced so far is with Rosegarden. I can
successfully use ardour-gtk, wired, audacity and other things like
standalone synths, hydrogen (which is an amazing drum machine, btw) and
others.

THe only app that's still bugging me (and which is the one that I want
to turn into the center of my daw) is Rosegarden.

It used to work fine in etch (I might try to downgrade it to etch's when
I get home). When I first upgraded my system to lenny (about the time
when etch was released), it wouldn't even open, popping out a crash
information window. Since then, it started to open fine, but if when
enter the configuration screen and click on 'Sequencer', it says 'No
driver'. When I click the button next to it ('More Info', I think), it
will crash again.

I have checked with lsmod, and I do have all the snd-seq modules loaded,
as well as my sound card's module (audio works fine, and as I said
before other apps do work just fine).

Has any body had any similar experience with Rosegarden?

Obs: I use a GNOME desktop, so kde libs and stuff are only installed as
dependencies so that Rosegarden and Kopete can run. I am using a custom
2.6.21 kernel, but have also tried the latest stock one (2.6.18, if I'm
not wrong).

I would appreciate any suggestions.

Cheers,
Cassiano Leal

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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:41:08 +0200
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Error trying to run apt-get
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[ Please stop top-posting. ]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 14:16:11 -0000, Adam wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> That doesn't work either, everything I do first tries to upgrade
> debianutils, which fails on this passwd package the same way.
> Originally I was attempting to upgrade the kernel when I got this
> error.
> 
> (Reading database ... 38049 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Preparing to replace debianutils 2.8.4 (using .../debianutils_2.21_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.21_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell', which is also in package passwd
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.21_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> # cat /etc/debian_version
> lenny/sid


[...]


> > > # uname -a
> > > Linux xena 2.6.7-1-386 #1 Thu Jul 8 05:08:04 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux


It seems like you want to upgrade from Sarge to Lenny in one fell swoop,
skipping Etch. I would go to Etch first, after reading the release notes
carefully. Otherwise you are in for a memorable, but possibly
unpleasant, learning experience.

-- 
Regards,            | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
          Florian   |



Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:59:38 -0400
From: Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Continuing saga of xorg restarts
Message-ID: <20070702185938.GA23108@nitpicking.com>
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xOn Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:33:43PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > I tried switching to VLC.  I was resetting the hotkeys, clicked Save, and
> > xorg restarted.
> 
> how are you start X? 


xdm


> have you looked in .Xsession-errors? 


No relevant messages.  
 

> anything showing in the VT from which X was started (usually VT-1 if
> using *dm).


No.  I'll manually start X from a vt when/if this happens again and use
script(1) to record all messages.


> .Xsession-errors gets re-written when you log in so, don't log back
> in. instead switch to a VT and see what you can find. 


Oh.  Didn't know that.


> or start X with startx so you can keep it from re-starting (you'll
> just drop back to the shell when X dies). Then you can examine the
> onscreen messages and the logs. you might want to use tee with your
> startx to capture stuff that might otherwise scroll off the screen
> during your session.


I'll give that a try, as mentioned above.


> > I'm utterly unfamiliar with the internals of X.  What would VLC have been
> > doing when I clicked Save that would cause a xorg restart?
> 
> who knows, but I've seen it happen a few times in sid with various
> things. Usually there is some kind of trail in the logs.


Thanks for the tip.  I do appreciate it.
-- 
Carl Fink                                   nitpicking@nitpicking.com 

Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com.  Reviews!  Observations!
Stupid mistakes you can correct!



Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:07:28 +0200
From: Josep <mylinuxmaillists-2007@yahoo.es>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Packages who requires restart computer
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Hello Ron.

I would like know if checkrestart will detect a kernel and libc update,
I was writing an script today for my home server and this is the only
issue that I don't  know and is difficult test.

If not I will put inmy scitp that detects when kernel and libc will be
updated.

Thanks for all the answers.
Josep




El lun, 02-07-2007 a las 12:09 -0500, Ron Johnson escribi=C3=B3:

> On 07/02/07 11:47, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:42:15AM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> >> On Mon July 2 2007 09:25:50 am Josep wrote:
> >>> Hello.
> >>>
> >>> I use etch and would like know what packages will require a full
> >>> restart of the computer, if there is any tool for do this
> >>> automatically, and if not, I will do an script for do this myself.
> >> The kernel. When the kernel is updated you need to restart your box =

to

> >> get the new kernel up and running. All the services on your box can =

be

> >> stopped or restarted from /etc/init.d/whatever as needed.
> >=20
> > What about libc? I have seen anomolies when some programs are using t=

he

> > new version and some are still using the old.
>=20
> /usr/sbin/checkrestart in package debian-goodies will list out for=20
> you all the currently-running PIDs that are using "old" files, and=20
> give you a list of commands that will fix most of the problems.
>=20
> The rest of the issues are left as an exercise for the reader.  But=20
> if I can figure out which pids to kill and jobs to restart, so can you.
>=20
> So, installing a new kernel really is the only reason you ever need=20
> to reboot.
>=20
> --=20
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
>=20
> Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
> Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
>=20
>=20

Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:06:25 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: rock solid
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 02:11:18PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:

> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>=20
> >=20
> > its almost boring...
> >=20
> May be true for stable; Neverthless Sid makes it all interesting!


my home server here runs etch with xen and 3 vm's (at the moment). I
find myself looking for reasons to work on the darn thing because if
can't make up reasons, then there's nothing to do...

right now, the single most exciting thing that happens (other than the
very rare package updates) is a nightly problem with my mail
server. Its memory-bound and I don't any spare sticks lying around at
the moment. So when its running cron-jobs late at night, it will
sometimes time-out while trying to swap in either clamd or spamd and throw =
an error into
/var/log/exim4/paniclog. I diligently check every day to see that its
the same thing... yawn.

A

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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:20:30 -0700
From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, andy wrote:

> Hey folks
>=20
> I'm lazy and want to call the mencoder routine from mplayer into a bash=

=20

> script I'm writing to automatically convert different video files into=20
> dvd format *.mpg files.
>=20
> Anybody know how to call in just the routine without any unnecessary=20
> mplayer stuff?


ummm.... mencoder is a command-line program. just figure out your
options and use it like any other cli tool. it should "just work"



>=20
> Thanks
>=20
> A

  ^
  --- me too.


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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:06:11 -0400
From: Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: can't center X display
Message-Id: <200707022006.QAA02422@syrano.acb.uc.edu>

On my Etch machine, I've tested the centering of the desktop under three
conditions: running fvwm, gnome, or a VMware virtual machine in full-screen
mode.  If I set up xorg.conf for 1600x1200, any of the displays is centered
correctly (by luck, I guess).  If I set it up for 1280x1024, each is offset
to the right.  I haven't figured out how to fix this but have tried a few
things.

I called xvidtune, which promptly said that my video wasn't tunable.  Turns
out that my Etch install had left me running the "vesa" video driver.  I
changed xorg.conf to list the "i810" driver, which should be better for the
Intel 82946GZ chipset on my onboard graphics card.  After that, xvidtune gave
its usual display, but if I hit "Apply", even without changing any of the
paremeters, it complained:

  "You have requested a mode-line
   That is not possible, or not supported by your configuration".

I also tried adding a ModeLine to xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
        ...
        ModeLine     "1280x1024" 157.50 1280 1344 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072

This didn't cause any errors, even in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.  However, changing
the HSyncStart and HSyncEnd values in the ModeLine had no effect.  (I
restarted X after each change.)

I have not tried installing the i810 driver from Intel.  The instructions at

  http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html

suggest that I might need some other modules (i810, drm, agpgart) loaded into
into the kernel.  Lsmod showed none of those.  I tried loading them with
insmod.  The first two loaded OK; the last complained that there was no
/dev/agpgart.  Before proceeding any farther I decided to post the question.

Any idea how to get the display centered at 1280x1024, with or without
xvidtune?  Thanks.

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