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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2696

Today's Topics:

  Re: Tool to configure sound           [ Bruno Costacurta  ]
  Re: Tool to configure sound           [ Bruno Costacurta  ]
  Re: Contacts printing                 [ "Douglas A. Tutty"  ]
  Is there diffrnece between flex and   [ Jabka Atu  ]
  Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?     [ Joe  ]
  Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007   [ "Tim"  ]
  Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles -  [ Wayne Topa  ]
  Re: Contacts printing                 [ John Hasler  ]

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:35:43 +0100
From: Bruno Costacurta <brucosta@pt.lu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tool to configure sound
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On Sunday 28 October 2007 18:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:21:52PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all.
> > Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing
> > some setup.
>
> there are several possible things:
>
> 1. you aren't in the audio group (adduser <you> audio, log out and
> back in).

Already fine for user in group audio.

>
> 2. your mixer is set to 0 volume. run alsamixer and review all the
> settings.

Same. Volume was set.

>
> 3. despite the apparently correct modules being inserted, sometimes it
> just doesn't work out of the box. If the above things don't work,
> you could try modprobe -r all the sound modules, then do a
> udevtrigger to reload them and see what happens.
Followed these instructions. Fine to remove all module snd_xxx or soundcore with 'modprobe -r' but following 'udevtrigger --verbose' seems to give no useful info.

Do you need help?

>
> if none of the above help, post back up as there are several people
> who are very adept at solving sound issues here.
>
> A

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:55:02 +0100
From: Bruno Costacurta <brucosta@pt.lu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tool to configure sound

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On Sunday 28 October 2007 18:56, Chris Lale wrote:
> Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed Debian Etch but have no sound at all.
> > Previous Fedora installation gave sounds so probably my Etch is missing
> > some setup.
> > Drivers looks correctly installed as 'lsmod' shows following drivers :
> > ..
> > snd_hda_intel 17332 3
> > snd_hda_codec 137856 1 snd_hda_intel
> > snd_pcm_oss 38368 0
> > snd_mixer_oss 15200 1 snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_pcm 68676 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> > snd_timer 20996 2 snd_pcm
> > ..
> >
> > Is there tool (ie. like system-config-sound) to setup and check sound
> > setup ? Thanks for any help.
>
> Check that levels are set in alsamixer or alsamixergui. Check that you are
> configuring the sound card you have attached the speakers to (some
> motherboards have built-in sound too). The name of the sound card appears
> at the top of the mixer. Check sound works by running speaker-test.
>
> $ speaker-test
>
> More details on the NewbieDOC wiki [1].
>
> [1] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux
>
> --
> Chris.

Hi,

I followed instructions at the here previous indicated URL and run 'alsaconf' which indeed completed and corrected the configuration of my sound card.
Now everything is fine. All tests are OK. Many thanks for help.

Bye,
Bruno

Do you need more help?

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:22:10 -0400
From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Contacts printing

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On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:56:02PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> I managed to sync my mobile phone to the PC with opensync, so I copied the
> Contacts into the file system.
>
> Then I fetched them with Evolution, but I don't like the way it prints them
> out, and it doesn't seem to be customizable.
>
> If anyone out there has experience with the matter, I wish a way to print the
> Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file.
> Thunderbird does not seem to work: it can't import them.
>

One contact record per file??? Sounds like something windows would do.

I think you just need to write a script in your favorite language to parse the files and format it to your liking then just print it out.

In what languages can you program? (bash, python, perl, ada, C, Fortran...)?

Doug.

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:41:23 +0000
From: Pantor <pantor@painter-decorator.eu> To: Pantor <pantor@painter-decorator.eu> Cc: "H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Open Office 2.0 Writer craks

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Can we help you?

After reinstallation works OK.
Andrius

Pantor wrote:
> Sorry, of course, I'm not.
>
> H.S. wrote:
>> Pantor wrote:
>>> Installed strace and the same shit:
>>>> 89-125-103-244:/home/andrius# Gtk-Message: Failed to load module
>>>> "atk-bridge": libatk-bridge.so: cannot open shared object file: No
>>>> such file or directory
>>>> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
>>
>> Did you answer the question Davide asked you (see below)?
>>
>>
>>>> Anyway, apt-file shows that this libatk-bridge.so is included in
>>>> package at-spi. Is it installed?
>>>>
>>>> And by the way, you're not really running ooffice as root, are you?
>>>>
>>>> Davide
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:28:15 -0400
From: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: When will libswt-gtk (libswt-gtk-3.2) will get a new version in testing (AMD64)

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Jabka Atu wrote:
>
> Since there is a bug with libswt-gtk-3.2 (448021 it is azureus bug but
> it is couse of this package).
>
> i got an answer from one Debian Developer that i should wait for wait
> for 3.2.2-2 to transition to testing, or for 3.3.1-1 to be accepted
> from the NEW queue.
>
>
> The question is there a way to make it faster or How can i help in it
> if i can ?
>

One practical way of solving this problem is to just add unstable repositories in your sources.list and then install the required packages from unstable. Once you are successful, you can remove the entries corresponding to unstable from the sources.list, if you wish so. Not very elegant, but works often and is the quickest solution.

Now coming back to the original question, the source package corresponding to libswt-gtk-3.2 is swt-gtk. I was looking in the build logs (buildd.debian.org) as to why swt-gtk 3.2.2-2 did not enter testing and I found a build failure on powerpc architecture http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=swt-gtk&ver=3.2.2-2&arch=powerpc&stamp=1192511850&file=log

I don't know much about java, swt-gtk to figure out the cause of this issue. You should try to either fix that problem or inform someone on debian-release if it is a random toolchain issue.

Can't find what you're looking for?

On other architectures swt-gtk failed to build because all the dependencies are not there yet. Here your options are limited. Track down which dependency is stopping the build and try to fix that problem. If not let the maintainers of the dependent package fix that problem. After that swt-gtk will be rebuilt automatically.

The whole thing might take anywhere from days to months to sort out. This is the problem with testing branch. Normally it does not break. But if it breaks, it takes a long time for it to get fixed. Been there, experienced that!

hth
raju

-- 
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:13:37 +0100 From: Andraz Sraka <a@aufbix.org> To: Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller Message-Id: <1193613217.4685.4.camel@localhost> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; boundary="=-Pn43kW+CUiyIjqL7uv9q" --=-Pn43kW+CUiyIjqL7uv9q Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable re On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 10:49 +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> afaapps_2.6-3_i386.deb from http://www.brandl.net/pe2550/ works for me
> on the etch kernel. Also, the kernel logs any problems that appear, so
> logcheck will do for healh monitoring.
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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:08:36 +0200 From: Jabka Atu <mashrom.head@gmail.com> To: ML Debian-User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Is there diffrnece between flex and AIX lex output ? Message-ID: <47251674.4060007@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,.. I started today Lex course and we was told that we can't use FOSS solution since there is diffrence between flex and lex output. since i don't belive so much to me T.A anymore (http://bsh83.blogspot.com/search/label/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%9D Hebrew ) I ask you . maybe they are wrong and flex gives the same output as lex on AIX ? P.s. The compilers are cc and gcc . Thnx in advance. - -- - -- Could you at least use man ? Jabka Atu (aka mha13/Mashrom Head) || bsh83.blogspot.com - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQIVAwUBRyUWdG9p6JnF9I1qAQKrmQ//ZUgy+SUTyNyJlL8PtwgMaflocNmPLiDT 8RtgL1aCCPwzHJcyDoVJEXQ+bBLwBI/WS7asl3ViK94OeNPpHiETFa02MC8pZIuj 27j72X+z1tC6v8ZuoDUfyECd07IhUbIIycmx5AKuWaue/iLOqHCCo7V+8EZyfckd o/68JvFJhjQ2m9KUQJ76lMTmioVFGYO4XfV5NEUfJJJkVR8FRMHfSOsG+2tPL0Op uMm328JqA0IZKGk9xHkqTL/HYl8wGs/xW0TzGgifTeqhS/ElSeGuvmyvp7Wt0FMb CZ5j3e1DnLu/nPv+Aa3Ccem/Ex9TVlDqS7EBe8ICKWPngeCgS+Hf9Pqr+WvhhSzX 8g0Y+gCsG0RIriYIjC6SRP45GGI4O0h9A1X6DKsMhYR9KKduyAHl+R+SzHJf21wM 3zhudkPd5ZV3aW0b2JsKGsHEH5h6asvU5dQsD+/Gj8XB2wZHoax0pYFvW6AZm2YL bGuMEKORFQqAsa4QM5C68++nfSZEKsmu//jsD5XFE/ukN2rufbd0TksqEUy4CPEr vQz6NZ5lKIjYcwZCIH/x4YTDuKBCYfi40w+5rBjSA/Hc4+kVMhqclnkIopxbY07N gejaVF8eSbBLcz2n0ujrK45tM7ZqHmOlHik+1y+OHMtxYlXSm9sqL7GS1qmJrsMx O/p9+9jGzqA= =OWuS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:08:06 +0000 From: Joe <joe@jretrading.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Silly question: Where's eth0? Message-ID: <fg2tnv$jte$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> anyway, I didn't mean to offend, and I apologise.
>
No offence taken, no apology necessary. If you can't talk straight on Usenet, where can you? There's a fairly broad line between robust discussion and deliberate insult, which isn't often crossed here. Joe

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:09:23 +0000 From: "Tim" <lockpicker1357@bellsouth.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2695 Message-Id: <102820072309.7393.472516A3000397CB00001CE122216128369B0A02D2089B9A019C04040A0DBF970A900797089B0103079B@att.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_7393_1193612963_0" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_7393_1193612963_0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable please delete me from your email list. -------------- Original message from debian-user-digest-request@lists.deb= ian.org: --------------=20 --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_7393_1193612963_0 Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html>  <head></head> <body>  <DIV></DIV> <P>please delete me from your email list.</P> <P> </P> <P><BR> </P> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1= 010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from debian-user-digest-= request@lists.debian.org: -------------- <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>  </body> </html> --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_7393_1193612963_0--

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:17:29 -0400 From: "Frederick N. Brier" <fbrier@multideck.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Switching kernel config from x86_64 to i686 Message-ID: <47251889.6000506@multideck.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I made the mistake of taking a default or selecting the wrong kernel (my machine is an AMD X2). So I now have a 64 bit kernel (x86_64), which I have read is "transitional". Since so many packages are only 32 bit, my life has gotten complex trying to make everything work and with contemplations of 32 bit UMLs (which apparently have their own issues). So... I would like to switch my system to a plain old i686 optimized 32 bit version of Debian. What is the easiest way to do this? I really do not want to reinstall. I setup a software RAID, have installed a large number of packages, copied a bunch of data onto the drives, done a fair bit of configuration, even built 64 bit versions of the Digium drivers. I am guessing I need to rebuild the kernel as 32 bit (any URLs to doc on how to do this would be wonderful). Do I need to do anything else to install 32 bit versions of all the packages? Or am I screwed? I have primarily used aptitude for package management, except for Asterisk, which I checked out of Subversion and built. Is there an easy way to install 32 bit versions of all the packages? Or make sure that a 32 bit compatible version is installed? Thank you for any help. Frederick N. Brier

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:33:32 +0100 From: Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Contacts printing Message-ID: <873avulsqb.fsf@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:56:02PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> I managed to sync my mobile phone to the PC with opensync, so I copied the
>> Contacts into the file system.
>>
>> Then I fetched them with Evolution, but I don't like the way it prints them
>> out, and it doesn't seem to be customizable.
>>
>> If anyone out there has experience with the matter, I wish a way to print the
>> Contacts (about 300) that I have stored in a directory, one per file.
>> Thunderbird does not seem to work: it can't import them.
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> One contact record per file??? Sounds like something windows would do.
It's just the way opensync works when using the file-sync plugin.
> I think you just need to write a script in your favorite language to
> parse the files and format it to your liking then just print it out.
>
> In what languages can you program? (bash, python, perl, ada, C,
> Fortran...)?
Every file is like this: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:;Oliver Hardy ;;; TEL;CELL:3391234567 TEL;VOICE;HOME:081123567 FN:Oliver Hardy END:VCARD , so the major problem would be sorting: how to sort whole items like that? *Is* it possible, and any idea of how? Thanks Rodolfo

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:51:30 +0800 From: Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives Message-ID: <47252082.3080908@homeurl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:27:50AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:46:08PM +0800, Bob wrote:
>>
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/25/07 01:19, Bob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a faster source or random or pseudo-random numbers because at
>>>>> 4MB/s it'll take a loooong time to blank a 60GB drive let alone a 500GB
>>>>> job?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What other options are there?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Why roll your own when there are *MANY* disk wipers out there.
>>>> Everything from srm & sfill in the secure-delete package, to wipe,
>>>> to dban.sourceforge.net.
>>>>
>>> Thank you, reading up on them now. I was just wondering if there was
>>> another standard device I could use on all systems.
>>>
>>
>>
>> OpenSSL has rand
>>
>> If you have another source of data the size of your drive, run openssl
>> enc on the raw partition. It all depends on the non-repeat-length you
>> need.
>>
>
> you could do this.
>
> modprobe dm-crypt
> head -c 64 /dev/urandom |cryptsetup create tempcrypt /dev/to/be/wiped
> dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/tempcrypt
>
> this would fill the disk with encryption which while not strictly
> random, does at least look like encrypted data. I'm not sure how
> secure this is, but it does run pretty fast. I get between 25 and 30
> MB/s
>
Thanks everyone, I'm experimenting with the various options now. I may even see if I can do some sort of bench-test at some point. If I do I'll update the list.

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:58:07 -0400 From: Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad T20 wireless troubles - revisited Message-ID: <20071028235807.GB10413@buddy.mtntop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sjoerd Hiemstra(shiems146@kpnplanet.nl) is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Sjoerd Hiemstra(shiems146@kpnplanet.nl) is reported to have said:
> > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 Chris Brotherton wrote:
<--<snip>--> originsg description
> >
> > You don't give enough information to really help troubleshooting these
> > problems. ie Gome or KDE or standard wireless setup. Any useful
> > answer depends, at least, on knowing which you are using to connect to
> > your AP.
>
> When I purchased the T30, it came with Windows XP pre-installed. Before
> I wiped that, I took a look at the way its wireless connections work.
> My router is set to WPA-PSK encryption by default, and after entering
> the WPA-PSK key the connection was OK. Then again, the laptop had a
> label saying 'Designed for Windows XP'. I wonder if the manufacturer
> violated standards while adapting to XP.
OK, I understand. Now we need even more info. Did you use the orinoco card to do the install or was it eth1? I suspect eth1 might be an IBM internal Wireless interface.
> The Lenny installer only knows WEP encryption, as far as I could see.
> So I configured the router to WEP, the installer detected the
> connection automatically, and installation from the internet went well.
>
> The installer saw three connection systems in the laptop:
> - wireless connection with interface wifi0
> - wireless connection with interface eth0
> - ethernet connection with interface eth1.
> Odd enough, only eth0 worked, not wifi0 as one would expect.
At a console prompt do lspci -v Be sure the orinoco in plugged in when you run that. That will tell us what the Network interfaces are. They work in windows so we have to find out what they are. We need the lines like these from my T40. 0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04) 0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BD PRO/100 VE (MOB) Ethernet Controller (rev 81) 0000:07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
>
> After booting the first time, the connection was lost.
> Wireless is new to me, and I understand from your words that I'd better
> make a study of standard wireless setup, and possibly try to get the
> wired connection working in order to do an 'aptitude install kde' and
> explore the possibilities that KDE offers.
> Until now, I've only used Gnome's tools to try to re-establish the
> connection.
Most (all) IBM interfaces will work in Linux so you need to know what modules have to be loaded before bringing the interfaces up. As I said, I don't use Gnome or KDE, so I can't help you there. If we can get the network working without them, _they_ should just fall into line. I hope. Install the debian-reference package. Chapter 10 is the section you need to read through. Another thing to check. Make sure you have the dhcp3-client package installed in both the etch and testing installs.
> > As I only use /etc/network/interfaces and dhclient to connect to an
> > AP, all I can offer is, let us see what that file look like.
>
> Contents of /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> | # The loopback network interface
> | auto lo
> | iface lo inet loopback
> |
> | # The primary network interface
> | allow-hotplug wifi0
> | iface wifi0 inet dhcp
> | network 81.207.239.0
> | broadcast 81.207.239.255
> | # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
> | wireless-mode managed
> | wireless-essid SX551559148
> | wireless-key1 s:1234567890abccba0987654321
> | # dns-* options are mplemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
> | dns-nameservers 195.121.1.34 195.121.1.66
> | dns-search sh
> | wireless-key s:1234567890abccba0987654321
> |
> | iface eth0 inet dhcp
> | wireless-essid SX551559148
> | wireless-key dde1fefdtc007b83e6ada40098
> |
> | auto wifi0
Wayne -- A hacker does for love what others would not do for money. _______________________________________________________

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:55:11 -0500 From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Contacts printing Message-ID: <87lk9mokv4.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> , so the major problem would be sorting: how to sort whole items like
> that?
What are the filenames?
> *Is* it possible, and any idea of how?
Of course it is possible. I'd put them in a database. -- John Hasler End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2696 ************************************************** Received on Sun Oct 28 20:51:01 2007

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