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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 1900

Today's Topics: 

  Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues            [ Mike Robinson  ]
  Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged  [ "Thomas Hoppeer"  ]
  Re: Playing SMIL File                 [ Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nch ]
  Re: after a reboot it's gone! was Re  [ 2g  ]
  Re: Playing SMIL File                 [ Sam Leon  ]
  Re: aptitude wants to remove these.   [ Daniel Burrows  ]
  Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues            [ Jonathan Kaye  ]

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:57:31 -0400
From: Mike Robinson <mike@robinsonhome.org> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues 

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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> Since Etch hasn't been stable for a year and a half, we need some
> basics:
>
> contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list
> contents of /etc/debian_version
>
> When last you did a successful update/upgrade cycle and what package
> manager you use.

I use "apt-get" from the command line as a package manager. I never do "upgrade"...I simply do "apt-get update; apt-get install <package name>"   whenever I need to upgrade a package. I'm probably updating individual packages at a rate of about once a month.

$ cat /etc/debian_version
testing/unstable

Do you need help?X

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list 

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especially
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.
deb 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org testing/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian testing main contrib non-free restricted
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

Thanks for the quick response.

-Mike

Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:00:30 +0900 (JST) From: 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: installing a font for VT
Message-ID: <20070706010030.20068.qmail@web3105.mail.kcd.yahoo.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp

thanx to those who replyed!
don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some reply when searching the www

did a:
consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz
and now my VT looks a bit cool
tested a lot of those in
/usr/share/consolefonts
but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one

  • 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> have started going CUI with Debian(stable)
> in Slackware it gave me a chance to choose
> sc.fnt.gz as my VT's font at the insallation process
> i love this font so much so would love to have it in Debian too
>
> does somebody know what this font is called in Debian community?
> does simply aptitude intall-ing it will change the look of the
> terminal
> automatically?
>
> 2g---
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>
> --------------------------------------
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Do you need more help?X

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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:06:08 +1000
From: "Thomas Hoppeer" <thoppeer@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged? 

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To verify data on your dvd you can also use star and readcd: http://www.linuxconfig.org/Create_and_burn_ISO_images_with_mkisofs_%26_cdrecord#Verify_data

hope this helps

On 7/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 03:01:16PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to do
> > may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn my
> > data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content into a hard
> > disk I got I/O errors and some directories could not be copied.
> >
> > The problem disappeared when I changed the DVD with a brand new one, but now I
> > feel not sure: how can I know when my actual backup DVD should in case be
> > damaged as well? Is there any tool for that?
> >

>

> Look at cdck.
>

> The procedure I use is to verify the burn (I happen to use K3B which has
> a verify option) which calculates the md5sum of the image file and the
> CD/DVD and compares them. Then I use cdck to do finer-grained testing.
>

> Here's the readme for cdck:
>
>

> CD/DVD check tools
> ==================
>

> Actually cdck is a simple program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known
> fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors
> having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future.
>

> To get an idea about disc cdck reads it sector by sector, keeping all
> reading timings and then tells you its verdict. Optionally it can write
> timing table into text file usable by gnuplot(1) program, so you can draw
> some graphs out of it.
>
>
>

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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:15:51 +0900 (JST) From: 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: after a reboot it's gone! was Re: installing a font for VT Message-ID: <20070706011551.18688.qmail@web3114.mail.kcd.yahoo.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp

Can we help you?X

i thought i got it but
when i go back with re-boot
it's gone...

  • 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> thanx to those who replyed!
> don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some
> reply
> when searching the www
>
> did a:
> consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz
> and now my VT looks a bit cool
> tested a lot of those in
> /usr/share/consolefonts
> but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one

2g---
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Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/

Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:38:20 -0400
From: Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nchez?= <roberto@connexer.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Playing SMIL File
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On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the=20
> audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia=20
> format I think.

>=20
Have you tried xine? Do you have the win32 codecs installed?

Can't find what you're looking for?X

Also, please don't hijack threads.

Regards,

-Roberto

--=20
Roberto C. S=E1nchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:31:50 +0900 (JST) From: 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: after a reboot it's gone! was Re: installing a font for VT Message-ID: <20070706013150.47402.qmail@web3115.mail.kcd.yahoo.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp

excuse me for posting too much

as someone said
it was simply
/etc/console-tool/config
that i should have edited

thanx

  • 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

> i thought i got it but
> when i go back with re-boot
> it's gone...
>
> --- 2g <linux_thangs@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>
> > thanx to those who replyed!
> > don't know why but missed your mail but found out that i got some
> > reply
> > when searching the www
> >
> > did a:
> > consolechars -f grfixed,psf.gz
> > and now my VT looks a bit cool
> > tested a lot of those in
> > /usr/share/consolefonts
> > but mmm... couldn't even find a single silly looking one
>
>
> 2g---
> http://micro.ispretty.com
>
> --------------------------------------
> Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar
> http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/
>
>
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:51:23 -0500
From: Sam Leon <leon.mailinglist.36@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Playing SMIL File
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Confused? Frustrated?X

On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:38, Roberto C. S=C3=A1nchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the
> > audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia
> > format I think.

>

> Have you tried xine? Do you have the win32 codecs installed?
>

> Also, please don't hijack threads.
>

> Regards,

>
> -Roberto

Yes I have those installed. I am going to try Helix-player when I get a=20 chance. I was warned about "thread jacking" already. I never knew what it= =20
was until then. It was not intentional.

Thank you,
Sam

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:22:57 -0400
From: Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> To: TLUG <tlug@ss.org>
Cc: Debian-user <Debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'? Message-Id: <1183692177.14209.79.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-25qGNiINZmOuEJITGIEt"

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hi,

gearing up for a very long car trip this summer and ripping all of our harry potter books-on-cd to mp3 for use on our ipod, whose collection i currently manage from amarok (1.4.6). everything is fine except that, with ca. 20 cd's per book, 20 tracks per cd, harry potter now makes up about 20 percent of my music collection. When i put the ipod on 'shuffle', i get harry every fifth song, which is ANNYING, to say the least. i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music but audiobooks (whatever that really means). =20

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does anyone know how to do this? if it can be done from amarok that's great, otherwise i can use whatever music player is required. =20

thanks very much, as always!

matt

--=20
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History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price@utoronto.ca

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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:12:09 -0700
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> To: "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: aptitude wants to remove these. Do I need them? 

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:34:16PM -0400, "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >>When I try to upgrade my Debian Testing machine, aptitude wants to remove
> >>these packages (been happening for some days now; I have been putting off
> >>upgrading in the hope that the problem would be resolved with newer
> >>versions of packages):
> >>dbus-1-utils [1.0.2-1]
> >>libssp0
> >
> > Looks to me like dbus-1-utils has been folded into the dbus package.
> >libssp0 is only available in experimental -- it's been removed from
> >stable and testing. Probably it's obsolete and not needed any more?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> >
>
> Thanks everyone. I have proceeded with upgrading dbus. Hopefully nothing
> will go amiss (main concerns are auto-mounting removable devices).

  I should add that my conclusions regarding dbus-1-utils are based on the fact that dbus conflicts/provides/replaces it, which means that it's the upgrade path for dbus-1-utils.

  Daniel

Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:23:03 -0700
From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove 

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> was heard to say:
> BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new
> trick, the "why/why-not" command:
>
> $ aptitude why-not digikamimageplugins
> i kde-extras Recommends digikam
> p digikam Conflicts digikamimageplugins
>
> This is really useful to figure out what is going on with complicated
> dependency issues. It is currently only available to Sid users, though
> (aptitude version 0.4.5.3 or higher).

  You should also be able to get this info from the install Y/n prompt by typing "w <package>". The resolver prompt doesn't have this feature yet because it should probably produce slightly different information.

Can we help you?X

  You can thank this list for the feature, I got the idea when I noticed that something like 99% of the questions people have about apt(itude) are of the form "WTF is this package being installed/removed/not installed?" Because of how complicated the dependency tree is, it can be hard to "see" what's happening, but the algorithm you need to compute the answer is pretty trivial. [0]

  Daniel

  [0] I'm lying, this is only true if you want the sort of answer "why"

      produces, but those answers are REALLY EASY to calculate!!

Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:36:36 +0530
From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Can not change Screen Resolution 

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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:05:19PM -0700, yong lee wrote:
> Hi,
> I was using 1280x768. But after a reboot, my scrren
> changed to 640x480. Then, I went to Desktop |
> preference | Screen Resolution and tried to change the
> resolution back. But the drop down box did not work.
> The entry just stayed blue and did not show the rest
> of selections for the screen resolution. I was not
> able to change it back.
> Any idea?

How about sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg, and ensuring that the resolution(s) you desired are checked in the debconf configs?

Can't find what you're looking for?X

Kumar 

-- 
Kumar Appaiah
462, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai - 600036

Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:50:19 +0200 From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues Message-ID: <f6khmq$8q2$1@sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Mike Robinson wrote:
> My system has been quite stable for the past year and half. I've
> recently upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.18-4-k7. I'm running an
> AMD 64 Athlon 3200+ (yes with a 32-bit kernel). I attempted to install
> the modules for nVidia, IVTV, and LIRC. LIRC didn't go so well, so I
> tried to back it out...but I'm still seeing messages for it during boot
> time.
>
> But first things first...here's the first error message I see during boot:
>
> kobject_add failed for audio with -EEXIST, don't try to register things
> with the same name in the same directory.
> [<c01b90ce>] kobject_add+0x146/0x16c
> [<c0213d8a>] class_device_add+0x9d/0x3b2
> [<c01b8e5d>] kobject_get+0xf/0x13
> [<c0214128>] class_device_create+0x79/0x99
> [<f888b0ac>] oss_init+0xac/0x12a [sound]
> [<c0135c67>] sys_init_module+0x1732/0x18b5
> [<c0102c57>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>
>
> Here's a link to my entire dmesg output:
>
> http://robinsonhome.org/dmesg.txt
>
> I'm new to kernel upgrades so any ideas explaining the error messages is
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Mike
Hi Mike, FWIW, I have the same chip, AMD64 Athlon 3200+. I use the K8 kernel image when running a 64bit kernel but I have always used a 686 kernel image for 32 bit so I use 2.6.18-4-686 and not 2.6.18-4-k7. The description of the K7 kernel is: "2.6.18 on 32bit AMD Duron/Athlon/AthlonXP machines." but you are using a 64bit chip (albeit in 32bit mode). Maybe trying the 2.6.18-4-686 linux-image package will solve your problems. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #1900 ************************************************** Received on Fri Jul 6 03:29:32 2007

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