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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2260

Today's Topics: 

  Re: help identifying a USB data stic  [ Christoph Fink  ]
  icon editor                           [ Lorenzo Bettini  ]
  Re: icon editor                       [ Lorenzo Bettini  ]
  Re: possible to "apt-get -b source e  [ Kevin Mark  ]
  Re: which videcard for dual-monitor   [ Stephen Cormier  ]
  Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E       [ Tim Day 
  Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a   [ cls@truffula.sj.ca.us ]
  gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passp  [ Giorgos Pallas <gpall@ccf.auth.gr> ]



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:19:07 +0200


From: Christoph Fink <buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: help identifying a USB data stick

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Robert Cates wrote:

> buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've got debian etch running as a server (no GUI at all) and I'd like to
>>> use my USB data stick to transfer files, but I cannot seem to find it
>>> under /dev .  Do I need to, or should I, install an auto-mount package,
>>> i.e. would it make access easier?  Are there more than one auto-mount
>>> type of packages available?  I found am-utils, which was one result of
>>> 1314 for "auto" when I searched the available packages.
>>>
>>> Also, dmesg | grep usb gives me:
>>>
>>> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
>>> usbcore: registered new driver hub
>>> usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Do you need help?X

>>> usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>> usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
>>> usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>>> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
>>> usb-storage: device found at 2
>>> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>>> usb-storage: device scan complete
>>>
>>> but I don't know how to translate this into a /dev/.. device.?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
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>>>     
>>
>> Try to do a "dmesg | tail" after a few seconds when you plugged in the
>> USB
>> Device. You should see something like:
>>
>> sdc: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
>> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>> SCSI device sdc: 2055290 512-byte hdwr sectors (1052 MB)
>> sdc: Write Protect is off
>> sdc: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
>> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>>  sdc: sdc1
>> sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
>> sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
>> usb-storage: device scan complete
>>
>> And there you can see what device it is. This should be betwwen the 2
>> last
>> lines in your post but as you grepped for "usb" you didn't see them.
>>
>> Greets
>> buffoon
>>
>>
>>   


> Thanks for the tip/info.  My dmesg shows:
> 
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> usb-storage: device found at 2
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>  Vendor:           Model: MediBase          Rev: 1100
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> 
> but unlike yours, it does not say - usb-storage: device scan complete
> Now, what's the best way to get this mounted and usable?  Should I
> install am-utils for example?  I've tried various ways of using the
> mount command, but I'm not getting it right (mounted).
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> 

well, it says "device scan complete" but just in another place that i
told you... I'm sorry about that.


Do you need more help?X

In your case th device is atached as "/dev/sda" and the partition is
"/dev/sda1". To mount it try the command:



mount /dev/sda1 /media/stick



but get sure that /media/stick exists before you execute that command.
The device should be mounted then. Don't forget to do a



umuount /media/stick



and wait until this command is done before you unplug the device. Good Luck



greets


buffoon

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:22:46 +0200


From: tolecnal@tolecnal.net (Jostein Elvaker Haande)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: help identifying a USB data stick

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Can we help you?X

Robert Cates wrote this at Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:49:16PM +0200

> Thanks for the tip/info.  My dmesg shows:
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>  Vendor:           Model: MediBase          Rev: 1100
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> SCSI device sda: 8125440 512-byte hdwr sectors (4160 MB)

              ^^^


As you can see, you're device is mapped to /dev/sda so to mount it you
would issue something like this (first partition, assumes FAT32).



mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 -o rw,umask=3D0000,user,exec



Make sure you have a folder named =ABsda1=BB in /mnt. Good luck!



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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:27:02 +0530


From: "Sridhar M.A." <mas@mylug.org>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: SATA vs PATA


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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:30:53PM +0000, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

   >=20
   > SATA-I gives 150 MB/s, SATA-II gives 300 MB/s, PATA 133 MB/s.
   >=20

Don't know where to look next?X




How does one measure the speeds of these drives? For the PATA drives, I
used hdparm -tT /dev/hda to get the numbers. The sdparm utility does
not seem to have a testing mode.



Here are the details of my drive:



# sdparm --inquiry /dev/sda


    /dev/sda: ATA       ST3250310AS       3.AA
Device identification VPD page:


  Addressed logical unit:


    designator type: vendor specific [0x0],  code set: ASCII

 00     20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 39 52 59 30   9RY0
 10     33 36 59 57                                        36YW           =


=20


    designator type: T10 vendor identification,  code set: ASCII

      vendor id: ATA    =20
      vendor specific: ST3250310AS                        9RY036YW


I tried the hdparm on my sata disk and got these figures.


Confused? Frustrated?X

# hdparm -tT /dev/sda



/dev/sda:


 Timing cached reads:   1498 MB in  2.00 seconds =3D 749.55 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  244 MB in  3.01 seconds =3D  81.06 MB/sec



Regards,



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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:43:07 +0200


From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>
To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: icon editor

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Hi



any suggestion for an icon editor, please?



I tried KIcon but it does not seem to save in gif format...



thanks in advance


        Lorenzo


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http://doublecpp.sourceforge.net

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:26:37 +0100 (BST)
From: "Richard Lyons" <richard@the-place.net>
To: "debian-user " <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: LVM partition full (was:what is /command  directory?)
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On Mon, August 27, 2007 13:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:34:15AM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:

>> On Mon, August 27, 2007 01:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
>> > Here there be dragons.  Remember that your initrd will be set up to
>> > start your LVM system so that it can find the root device for the
>> > kernel.  Since I've never had to tweak an initramfs it could get
>> > interesting.  So with / on LVM, lvm will be started before init even
>> > gets a chance to run anything in /etc/rc*.d.
>> >
>>
>> You are right of course.  I'll have to re-install from scratch in
>> order to get a working initrd.  And then copy back the /home and /usr
>> partitions and most of the / partition...
>>
>> Or just maybe there is a rescue boot on the netinstall disk which
>> just maybe will allow me to create a new initrd...
>

> The post-inst script of the kernel packages (and perhaps other packages=

)

> rebuilds the initrd.  Once you get things moved over to a non-lvm setup
> (on your spare drive), you could chroot to it from your working LVM
> setup, use aptitude to remove all the LVM packages, fix fstab, etc.
> Then run dpkg-reconfigure [kernel package name] and perhaps it would
> regenerate the initrd.  You could then add this non-lvm setup to the
> grub menu of the LVM setup.  This way you can test the new setup withou=

t

> killing the old one.

>
[...]
>

> Once you have a working non-LVM installation on the spare drive (which
> shouldn't take too long), go ahead an try the LVM resizing stuff.  Then
> decide which way you want to go and remove the one you don't want.

>

Good plan.  Thanks for clearing my head about that.  It is so much
easier when someone else lays it out...



> For moving files from the old install to the new one, I've always had
> great luck with mc (midnight commander).  I used to do this a lot befor=

e

> I switched to LVM, what with hard disks dying, needing to change which
> drive was in which box, etc. (drives are cheap but I'm cheaper).


Yes, I like mc, but usually use good old cp -a or rsync for this kind
of exercise.

--=20
richard


Do you need help?X

Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:03:14 +0530
From: Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: how to interpret last log
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Hi,

 Saw this last log and got confused on my Etch

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
bcv      pts/0        :0.0             Mon Aug 27 22:00   still logged
in   
bcv      tty2                          Mon Aug 27 21:58   still logged
in   
bcv      tty1                          Mon Aug 27 21:57   still logged
in   
reboot   system boot  2.6.21.1-bcv     Mon Aug 27 21:56 - 22:00
(00:04)    
bcv      tty1                          Mon Aug 27 11:52 - down
(00:06)    
reboot   system boot  2.6.21.1-bcv     Mon Aug 27 11:52 - 11:59
(00:07)    
bcv      pts/0        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 23:18 - down
(00:00)    
bcv      pts/0        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 22:42 - 22:56
(00:13)    
bcv      pts/1        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 21:36 - 21:41
(00:04)    
bcv      pts/0        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 21:36 - 21:57
(00:20)    
bcv      pts/1        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 20:52 - 20:53
(00:00)    
bcv      pts/1        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 20:51 - 20:52
(00:00)    
bcv      pts/1        :0.0             Sun Aug 26 20:38 - 20:43
(00:04)    
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

especially 

bcv      tty1                          Mon Aug 27 11:52 - down   
reboot   system boot  2.6.21.1-bcv     Mon Aug 27 11:52 - 11:59 

a user logged-in from 11.52 to 11.59 but the system went down at 11:52 ?
how is this possible 
Rest assured that there is no ntp or something of that sort running
which can auto-sync my time to internet time.




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Registered Linux user: #306349 (counter.li.org)
The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux.



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:35:44 +0200
From: Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it>
To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: icon editor
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Richard Lyons wrote:

> On Mon, August 27, 2007 16:43, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

>> Hi
>>
>> any suggestion for an icon editor, please?
>>
>> I tried KIcon but it does not seem to save in gif format...

> 
> What is wrong with png?
> 


that's fine... I was just curious about other programs...

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:37:59 +0200
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Cs=C3=A1nyi_P=C3=A1l?= <csanyipal@csanyi-pal.info>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: icon editor
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On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 05:43:07PM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:

> Hi
> 
> any suggestion for an icon editor, please?
> 
> I tried KIcon but it does not seem to save in gif format...


gimp ?

I mad an icon this afternoon in Gimp. I saved it with "icon_48x48.xpm" 
filename.

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:52:27 -0500
From: cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: capture real audio stream
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Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it> writes:


> Hi

>

> I'd like to capture some audio stream from a web radio.  I know about
> streamripper, but it does not work for real audio.  And in particular,
> if possible, I'd like to record what is being played, without knowing
> the address of the real audio file (which I actually don't know: bbc
> radio just starts the real player plugin in the web page).

>

> any clue please?

>

> thanks in advance
> 	Lorenzo

>

> -- 


This is pretty easy if you have either mplayer or audacity installed.
If you happen to be playing from BBC 7 it is particularly easy, and all
you have to do is right click on the listen link and save the ram file
to your drive.  Then you just read it as it is plain text, and inside
you will find something like:

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0930_sun.ra?BBC-UID=34f67dd2ff9daa4baac9cd5c20f0b659244a9c75a07060437bfa8149d4698951&SSO2-UID=

All you need is the stuff up to and including ".ra" which we can use in
an mplayer command as follows:

mplayer rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/bbc7/0930_sun.ra -vo null -vc null -ao
pcm:file=0930_sun.wav

That will then stream the content live and record it directly to the
hard drive as a wav file.

If you are using some other bbc site, such as BBC 4, then you just left
click on the listen button, which will pop up a new window with a
built-in player.  On the left side is a link for "Play in standalone
Real player" or some such.  Right click on this and save the resulting
ram or rm file and continue just as above.  The BBC radio sites other
than BBC 7 just have a built in litle player window of some kind
abstracting away the ram file, but it is still available in that link.

BTW, if all of that fails for some reason then you can always open
audacity (before the audio player to make sure your sound card is
available for recording), adjust your input to volume and set the volume
levels.  Then you can open the browser and start the player, and begin
the recording in audacity.  This will record the stream as a wav as
well, though if your signal drops out you will have to clean up any
silent patches in the file.  The mplayer way is much, much better as it
will automatically correct any failures in the feed and so the resulting
file will have no blank patches in it, so I really would recommend that
way first.

Hope this helps,

Patrick



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:55:34 -0400
From: Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: possible to "apt-get -b source everything"
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On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 05:08:03PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:

> Apologies if this is not the best place to ask this question, but if 
> I've apt-get'd some packages and then later want to recompile those from 
> source (using something like apt-get -b source packagename), is that 
> possible?
> 
> And what if I want to do that for everything that I've already 
> downloaded?  That is, all of my packages are installed the "normal way" 
> (apt-get install package), and I'd like to, if possible, mass install 
> everything from source.


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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:14:10 -0300
From: Stephen Cormier <s.cormier@gmx.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: which videcard for dual-monitor setup?
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On August 27, 2007 07:38:24 am Tinus Nijmeijers wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 12:20 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:
> > > which videocard is recommended if I want a system with 2 screens
> > > attached?
> >
> > I always used nvidia video card (with vga+dvi)
> >
> > > or even 4 screens if that's at all possible.
> >
> > yep! it's possible :-)
> >
> > with 2 graphics card (vga+dvi)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Pol

>

> I always thought the dvi and analog output were the same signal; how do
> you get X to show something different on both screens?


I see you have already found a how-to for Xinerama but if you want separate=
 X=20
screens instead of the one big screen across the monitors then you can do=20
similar to my Device sections below.

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "NoLogo" "on"
        Option      "NvAgp"  "3"
        Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option      "BackingStore" "On"
        Option      "Coolbits"    "1"
        Option      "IgnoreDisplayDevices"  "TV"
        Screen       0
        VendorName  "EVGA"
        BoardName   "e-Geforce 7900 GS KO"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card1"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "NoLogo" "on"
        Option      "NvAgp"  "3"
        Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
        Option      "BackingStore" "On"
        Option      "DPI" "100x100"
        Option      "Coolbits"    "1"
        Screen      1
        Option      "IgnoreDisplayDevices"  "TV"
        VendorName  "EVGA"
        BoardName   "e-Geforce 7900 GS KO"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Then for your ServerLayout.

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "DualHead"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        Screen      1  "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

And you need to put Load "xtrap" in your Module section to have the mouse m=
ove=20
between the screens. You would want to change the LeftOf to RightOf dependi=
ng=20
on the location of the second monitor. If you want to try this with a flat=
=20
panel and a crt wanting the flat panel as the primary display then you need=
=20
something like this for the monitor sections to make the flat panel the=20
primary as the nvidia driver detects/uses a crt as the primary unless you u=
se=20
these options.

# Dell 2007WFP
Section "Monitor"
       DisplaySize      431   272     # mm
       Identifier   "Monitor0"
       VendorName   "Dell"
       ModelName    "2007WFP"
       HorizSync    30-81
       VertRefresh  56-76
       Option       "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0"       <------
       Option       "AllowDDCCI" "on"
       Option       "DPMS" "true"
       Option       "BackingStore" "On"
EndSection

# Philips 201B4
Section "Monitor"
       DisplaySize      406   305     # mm
       Identifier  "Monitor1"
       VendorName  "Philips"
       ModelName   "201B4"
       HorizSync    30-115 # DDC-probed
       VertRefresh  50-160 # DDC-probed
       Option      "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT-1"    <--------
       Option      "DPMS"  "true"
       Option      "BackingStore" "On"
EndSection

You find the DFP-0 and CRT-1 names by looking in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log fo=
r=20
the part of it where the monitors are detected. Then of course you would ne=
ed=20
a second Screen section like below.

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth  24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1680x1050"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen1"
        Device     "Card1"
        Monitor    "Monitor1"
        DefaultDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

The rest of the config sections of the xorg.conf should be usable as is to =
be=20
reused in a new xorg.conf for dual head.


> gr.
> tinus


Stephen

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:36:18 +0100
From: Tim Day <timday@bottlenose.demon.co.uk>
To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: MSI nVidia NX7600GT-T2D256E
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On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:34 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:

> I've the same problem with my nvidia geforce 5200fx, but if I use nv 
> driver my X system is ok.


I have a Nvidia FX 5200 in an Asus P4S533-E mobo (AGP) and
I've been wondering about the stability of the Nvidia drivers too.

Under Debian Sarge (which I upgraded to from woody and ran for the
entire period it was stable) with the nvidia drivers (stock kernel,
and modass-built nvidia module IIRC) it was rock steady for months on
end (I don't remember a single crash).

Since the upgrade to Etch (stock kernel and m-a built nvidia again) the
system has been remarkably flaky (becoming unresponsive to
mouse/keyboard or ping) after an uptime on the order of a few days to a
week or two.

A few days ago I reverted to the "nv" driver and so far so good (it's
still a bit early to be sure though though).  Interestingly, the
occasional APIC error I used to see in dmesg (a couple a day at most?)
seems to have dried up.

Any hints for how to get any useful debug information out of the system
when such hangs occur ?  I have an idea you can do something involving
attaching a serial cable and monitoring from another machine (any
pointers to a howto ?)

Tim



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:46:35 -0500
From: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net>
To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: OFF TOPIC--Free software based domain hosting?
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There is a recent Linux Today article:

http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007082402826OPMR

that references an opinion piece by Nicholas Petreley asking whether MS
has bought Netcraft.

That got me to thinking.  I have a couple of personal web page
collections and one of these days one or the other may need to be
moved.  I'd like to go with a hosting and registrar company that uses
exclusively Free Software.  Go Daddy is cheap, but if they are helping
MS stack the numbers for IIS, then I don't want any part of their
service.

So, is there a reasonably priced hoster/registrar based solely on Free
Software?  Or, are all of these traits mutually exclusive?

- Nate >>

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:30:57 -0700
From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?
Message-ID: <slrnfd62ih.clv.spambait@truffula.sj.ca.us>

[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.]
In article <8WMw0-5UN-7@gated-at.bofh.it>, David Baron wrote:
>

> Can also be the power supply! I had to (temporarily) disconnect one of the CD 
> drives to reduce the load. Not a single WD click-clack or DMA timeout since.


Second that.  I had a customer whose system would reboot if you set a
coffee mug down hard on the table next to it.  Hard drives see
vibration as something their servos need to correct.  It's
a little like noise cancelling headphones.  You can measure
small current pulses into a hard drive if you tap hard on the case.

Replacing his generic Chinese "300 watt" supply with a name
brand "250 watt" supply solved the problem.  I've seen generic
"400 watt" supplies that couldn't deliver 150 watts of
regulated DC.


Cameron



Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:06:54 +0300
From: Giorgos Pallas <gpall@ccf.auth.gr>
To: debian Users ENG <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: gpg in KDE, passphrase window, passphrase timeout
Message-ID: <46D312BE.2050002@ccf.auth.gr>
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I'm a little confused: I use gpg from the console and when asking for my
passphrase
, it raises a KDE window and prompts me to type it there. Why? I also
would like gpg to cache the passphrase for a certain period of time so
that I don't have to type it again and again. Any ideas?

G.

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