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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2519

Today's Topics:

  Re: Trying to find a realtime patche  [ Nigel Henry  ]
  Re: How do you turn on and off a pro  [ Ralph Katz  ]
  Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configurati  [ Martin Waller  ]

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:59:32 +0200
From: Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

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On Sunday 30 September 2007 21:39, David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
>
> wrote:
> > realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's,
> > and have been googling a bit, and found this.
> >
> > http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html
> >
> > It says to add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list, but after running
> > apt-get update, and opening synaptic, I can't find a source pkg for the
> > 2.6.21 kernel.
> >
> > deb http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main
> >
> > The only 2.6.21 kernel there appears to be a realtime patched one, but is
> > a k7 one. As my machine uses a 1.3GHz celeron, I don't suppose this is
> > going to work, is it?
> > linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7rt8
> >
> > Anyone any suggestions to get realtime working, if the above kernel is a
> > no goer?
> >
> > The problem I have is that when starting jackd there are loads of xruns
> > showing in it's messages, and when playing a music app, horgand for
> > example, I am getting static like noise every so often when playing
> > notes.
> >
> > Any help/suggestions appreciated.
>
> Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./
>
> After apt-get update, you will see various 2.6.21 rt patched kernels,
> modules and sources (as well as most recent Ardour and Rosegarden to use
> them.
>
> This repository is slow mollasis, however.

Thanks for that David. Slow is no problemo, as I'm on dialup.

With the help that's been offered, I'll get realtime working on Etch, and Lenny, one way or the other.

Do you need help?

Nigel.

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:17:29 -0400
From: Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@rcn.com>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

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On 09/28/2007 05:21 PM, Peter Smerdon wrote:
> Sid Arth <sidster802@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the
>> system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at
>> other times.
>
> You can probably use use `cron' to achieve this.

This may help to start:
$ man at
and perhaps a script could be run to kill it as well, but I wouldn't know about graceful exits with that.

Regards,
Ralph

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:00:27 +0100
From: Martin Waller <martinej.waller@ntlworld.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?]

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Do you need more help?

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 09:10:08PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks for yours and other's input to my irritating problem :)
>>
>
> Did you try dexconf?
>

I did now. It just did nothing - no error message, no output of any kind, nothing.

Changed nothing. Thanks for suggestion,. but given the above, and without wishing to cast doubt on the quality of dexconf, something don't work somewhere!

Man page for it gave no clues either.

Is it just me or was it easier when stuff wasn't dumbed down to 'attract windows users'? I was never very quick, bit when I had to find out I could - I mean at least the docs were up to date so RTFM was actually a useful suggestion....if only I could find it (or an uptodate version)!

> Regards,
> Andrei
>

Mine to,

Martin

Can we help you?

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:07:18 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 'manual' x configuration - where's xf86config?

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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote:
> My x freezes on start after I installed etch and I want to use
> xf86config to reconfigure it. What happened to that utlitlty? I cannot
> work out what package its in.

As you see, "The Debian Way" is to use dpkg-reconfigure.

Often, Xorg will at least start by not using an xorg.conf file at all.

If dpkg-reconfigure doesn't give you a functioning X, you could try, as root:

# xorg -configure

This should generate a basic config file that you can edit or at least get some info to then plug into your dpkg-reconfigure answers.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Doug.

Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:07:31 -0400
From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>
To: ndemou@gmail.com
Cc: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300
ndemou@gmail.com wrote:

> On 9/30/07, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400
> > Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > Sid Arth <sidster802@gmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the
> > > > system to turn the program off at certain times, and turn it back on at
> > > > other times.
> > >
> > > You can probably use use `cron' to achieve this.
> >
> > I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without
> > success. I believe that cron does not work, since (at least some)
> > ncurses apps insist on being run from a terminal.
>
>
> usually such problems have to do with the differences of the
> environment (bash variables) - you can customize the env. of cron to
> overcome this problem

I don't currently have rtorrent installed, but can you give a bit more explanation or a pointer for future reference? What differences in the environment do you mean? Which variables have to be modified, and to what values?

Celejar

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