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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2713

Today's Topics:

  Re: Tool to configure sound           [ Florian Kulzer  ]
  apt-get failing                       [ justsimplequestions  ]
  RDP hasn't working behind shorewall   [ Thanigairajan  ]

Re: Charging iPod / Listening to mus [ "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlig ] metacity2.14.5 under etch: keyboard [ Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail. ]

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:59:14 +0100
From: Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Tool to configure sound

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On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 00:28:46 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:32:18PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> [...]
> >
> > That is indeed the normal output, so speaker-test seems to think
> > everything is OK. What do you get from running "amixer"?
>
> Florian, hello. How nice to have your help once again.
>
> Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
> Capabilities: pvolume
> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> Limits: Playback 0 - 255
> Mono:
> Front Left: Playback 230 [90%]
> Front Right: Playback 230 [90%]
> Simple mixer control 'Front',0
> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> Mono:
> Front Left: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
> Front Right: Playback 24 [77%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'Line',0
> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> Mono:
> Front Left: Playback 19 [61%] [on]
> Front Right: Playback 19 [61%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
> Capabilities: pvolume pswitch
> Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
> Limits: Playback 0 - 31
> Mono:
> Front Left: Playback 4 [13%] [off]
> Front Right: Playback 4 [13%] [off]
> Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
> Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined
> Playback channels: Mono
> Mono: Playback [off]
> Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
> Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> Limits: Capture 0 - 31
> Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [off]
> Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [off]
> Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
> Capabilities: cvolume cswitch
> Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
> Limits: Capture 0 - 31
> Front Left: Capture 0 [0%] [on]
> Front Right: Capture 0 [0%] [on]
> Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
> Capabilities: enum
> Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
> Item0: 'Mic'
> Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
> Capabilities: enum
> Items: 'Mic' 'Line'
> Item0: 'Mic'
>
> I assume this is listing the results of my last wild click-on-
> anything-to-see-if-it-helps session with alsamixergui.

I don't see anything obvious, but the names and the functions of the ALSA controls are always a bit counterintuitive to me. (Also, for added fun, they are different for every card.)

You could keep speaker-test running in one terminal while using "alsamixer" in another terminal to play with the controls until you hear sound. (Alsamixer is curses-based; the CURSOR keys move around and change volume, M toggles muting, SPACE switches values, and TAB changes between playback and capture channels.) Then it is trial-and-error time: I would start with looking at "IEC958" and switching the "Input Source" ones. Sometimes weird interactions exist, for example it is possible that one channel has to be muted for another channel to have output. This might take a while; alsamixer at least gives you direct access to all ALSA channels. (It may well be that alsamixergui also does this; I simply have never used it.)

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

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:20:36 +0100 From: Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tool to configure sound Message-ID: <20071031102032.GB16697@mulinocarletti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:10:24PM +0800, swhe wrote:
> >
> > > can u get the sound when u use a headphone?
> > >
> >
> > No, that seems silent too.
>
> what's the result of " cat /proc/asound/cards "
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xd000c000 irq 177 and, as I haven't given it before in this thread $ lspci | grep udio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04) -- richard

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:23:18 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year? Message-ID: <47285796.8040004@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/07 04:57, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 October 2007 10:33, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 10/31/07 02:11, Dan H wrote: >>> Hello list, >>> >>> it happened again (in Germany, anyway). As of Sunday, we're back >>> on winter time (CET). Except my computer ain't. And every >>> half-year I forget just what I did to set the clock right. I've >>> got the timezone set right (Europe/Berlin CET) but the clock >>> lags. Is there some accepted standard and automatic way of >>> honoring DST? Even Windows gets this right. I'm using ntpd to >>> sync my clock. Ntp itself works right -- every now and then I >>> have to erase my buggy BIOS settings, which resets the hardware >>> clock to the Nineties, but when Linux comes up the clock is >>> always correct (except that little DST issue of course). >> Automatic clock adjustment has always worked for me. >> >> What branch are you using? Etch? Sarge? >> >> What version of tzdata do you have? >> >> -- >> Ron Johnson, Jr. >> Jefferson LA USA >>
>
> Well, I did a few install of Etch lately, and I notice, for the time to be
> adjusted automaticly, that after the install is complete, I had to run
> tzconfig. This is for install either with etch only, or with dual boot. First
> at the end of each install the time given by date was OK, both UTC and local
> (France), but the time given by KDE was out. Having ntp running does not
> ajuste the time in KDE. Which would then give wrong time when you send a
> mail, say. Then I run tzconfig (which told me Europe and Paris, do you change
> it?) and re-enter the time zone, and every thing was OK, and all of the box
> adjusted the time automaticly for winter time.
Has tzconfig been removed in Sid? - -- 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHKFeWS9HxQb37XmcRApYeAJwOtcyjQDtSkQJjyToZ3PFrx30rtgCfdyhw doaBWbCBhuNF4JbUUbL4BbQ= =FE5j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:17:24 -0700 From: justsimplequestions <sigmatechnology@googlemail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: apt-get failing Message-ID: <1193825844.503029.259040@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I am trying to install some new software as well as updating my packages but apt-get install and apt-get update both fail. apt-get update fails with: Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2security.debian.org=E2 Err http://packages.dotdeb.org stable Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2packages.dotdeb.org=E2 Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2ftp.uk.debian.org=E2 Err http://download.webmin.com sarge Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2download.webmin.com=E2 Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2ftp.uk.debian.o Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/etch/updates/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2security.deb Failed to fetch http://download.webmin.com/download/repository/dists/sarge/= Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving com=E2 Failed to fetch http://packages.dotdeb.org/dists/stable/Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving =E2packages.dotdeb.or Reading package lists... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://packages.dotdeb.org stable/ all Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/packages.dotble_all_binary- i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. When I do a apt-get check, I get the following error: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://packages.dotdeb.org stable/ all Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ packages.dotdeb.org_dists_stable_all_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems My /apt/sources.list file is as follows: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all I am able to ping external websites using both ip and name, The server itself is running and functioning properly but this problem is really worrying as a client needs to install php5-curl and I am unable to do this as a result of the above problems. Any help will be most appreciated.

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:48:16 +0100 From: Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tool to configure sound Message-ID: <20071031104811.GC16697@mulinocarletti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:59:14AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> I don't see anything obvious, but the names and the functions of the
> ALSA controls are always a bit counterintuitive to me. (Also, for added
> fun, they are different for every card.)
In this case there are not too many of them, only 'PCM', 'Front', 'Line', 'Mic', 'IEC958', 'Capture', 'Capture', 'Input So', 'Input So.'
> You could keep speaker-test running in one terminal while using
> "alsamixer" in another terminal to play with the controls until you hear
> sound.
That was fun. I think I tried every permutation. PCM has only volume; Front, Line, and Mic have volume and mute; IEC958 has only mute; the two Captures have volume and <space> toggles a display of L R CAPTUR beneath, whatever that may mean (stereo on and off?); the two Input So. have only the option to be Line or Mic. Anyway, it remains steadfastly silent in every conceivable state while speaker-test continues to say Time per period = 2,986811 0 - Front Left and so on. It is not hardware, I have booted Doze a couple of times, and that gives nasty little jingles. Never mind -- I'll buy a phonograph, a soft cloth and scour the second-hand markets for vinyl... Thanks anyway. -- richard

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:07:21 +0100 From: Dan H <dunno@stoptrick.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year? Message-ID: <20071031120721.01a1cde7@kir.physnet.uni-hamburg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:57:13 +0100 Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr> wrote:
> Then I run tzconfig (which told me Europe and Paris, do you
> change it?) and re-enter the time zone, and every thing was OK, and
> all of the box adjusted the time automaticly for winter time.
Yeah, same here I now noticed. Just running tzconfig without making any changes seems to have done it. --D.

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:41:45 +0530 From: Thanigairajan <methanigai@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RDP hasn't working behind shorewall Message-ID: <ffcd2fb00710310411n1a3545bcqe38e733cbcd484f0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_7905_3340763.1193829105256" ------=_Part_7905_3340763.1193829105256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi all, My LAN has 192.168.0.0/24 behind the shorewall. I have forwarded the ports in my modem by portforwarding. i.e i have forwarded the port 3389. and I DNAT this to one of my particular machine in my LAN. But I am facing following problem, i.e. I use the RemoteDesktop through SONICWALL which has given to work. (I think the sonicwall is run the RDP @ random port numbers) The sonic wall is allowing the RDP through https & some activeX controls. can any one suggest how to solve this? -- Thanks & Regards MThanigairajan The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is To Try One More Time -- By Edison ------=_Part_7905_3340763.1193829105256 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <pre style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Hi all, My LAN has 192.168.0.0/24 behind the shorewall. I have forwarded the ports in my modem by portforwarding. i.e i have forwarded the port 3389. and I DNAT this to one of my particular machine in my LAN. But I am facing following problem, i.e. I use the RemoteDesktop through SONICWALL which has given to work. (I think the sonicwall is run the RDP @ random port numbers) The sonic wall is allowing the RDP through https & some activeX controls. can any one suggest how to solve this?</pre> -- Thanks & Regards MThanigairajan The Most Certain Way To Succeed Is To Try One More Time                                                                                  -- By Edison ------=_Part_7905_3340763.1193829105256--

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:26:04 +0000 From: michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: reverting to 'standard' etch installation Message-Id: <73B7F32B-F23D-400B-82FA-2DB57B24163D@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Folks, I made a cuckoo (mess up) - I had installed Etch from netinst and done the upgrades. That was a while ago. Last night I decided I wanted gnomad2 from unstable so amended my /etc/apt/sources.list and installed it (along with other dependencies, particularly I remember OO being removed/(re)installed). Now I seem to be having problems with gdm/X (non-responding). I think I'd prefer the stable Etch without gnomad2, but how do I easily "unroll" what I did last night? I'm happy to re-install Etch from the CD but is there a quicker way and anyway not to lose the data on the HD? Pointers to FAQs (surely I'm not the first!) are most welcome! T.I.A. Michael

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:36:07 +0100 From: Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude Message-ID: <20071031113559.GD16697@mulinocarletti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:31:12PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> was heard to say:
[...]
> > reverse direction in mid-search in aptitude. I often race past a
> > relevant match by being too quick on the "n". If only "b" for back or
> > "p" for previous or "N" or whatever switched the direction without
> > having to reenter the search using \ or page up enough times to probably
> > pass whatever it was you didn't quite see...
>
> changeset: 604:42378273c12b
> user: Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@alumni.brown.edu>
> date: Sat Mar 10 16:46:30 2007 +0000
> summary: [aptitude @ Add a keyboard command bound to 'N' that repeats the last search in the opposite direction (Closes: #414020, #397880)]
Great! I look forward to that hitting etch. -- richard

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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:31:40 -0500 From: John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: DST: Same procedure as every half-year? Message-ID: <87d4uvlb2r.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dan H writes:
> Yeah, same here I now noticed. Just running tzconfig without making any
> changes seems to have done it.
Please file a bug report if this problem is present in Lenny and/or Sid. -- John Hasler

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:41:38 -0400 From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music Message-ID: <20071031124138.GA6272@titan.hooton> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 06:14:49PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> > It works, I can listen to music again, but even if the cable is
> >pluged it does not seems to be charging...
>
> That makes sense. USB devices have to "request" how much power-draw
> they want to pull from the host. If you kill the "stuff" that talks
> to USB devices, they can't request power.
Then how does my USB light get power; surely it doesn't "request" enough power to run an LED? I can also charge my Palm with the computer off; there's nothing running to receive any "request". Doug.

Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:59:45 +0530 From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: metacity2.14.5 under etch: keyboard lockup when opening a window Message-ID: <47288349.4020309@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I use gnome+metacity in etch. I am experiencing random lockups of the display since a few hours. Opening a window seems to trigger this. So far it has happened when launching gvim, iceweasel and gnome-terminal (not everytime). What happens in such cases is that the newly opened window is left without the window-manger's borders. Keyboard locks up. Mouse responds to motion, but mouse-clicks do not work. I am able to ssh from a remote machine and kill metacity which seems to bring everything back to normal. There does not seem to be any bug filed against metacity at bugs.debian.org, so I am not sure if it related to metacity. The only change I have made to the system today is to upgrade icedove to the testing release and install qemu. Has anybody experienced a similar problem? Is there something I might have done that is causing this? Thanks, Raj Kiran PS: Recent packages in last 2 days as reported by dpkg-www Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version +++-==============================-====================== ii bochsbios 2.3-2etch1 ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 ii dash 0.5.3-7 ii debmirror 20060907.1 rc glabels 2.1.3-1 ii gtk2-engines-pixbuf 2.12.1-1 ii icedove 2.0.0.6-1 ii icedove-gnome-support 2.0.0.6-1 ii iceweasel 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1 ii iceweasel-gnome-support 2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1 ii initrd-tools 0.1.84.2 ii libcupsys2 1.3.2-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-common 2.12.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-dev 2.12.1-1 ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1 ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 ii libwxbase2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-1 ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.3.2.2-1 ii libxdamage-dev 1.1.1-3 ii libxdamage1 1.1.1-3 ii openhackware 0.4.1-2 rc openoffice.org-base 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-calc 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-common 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-core 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-gcj 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-impress 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-math 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 rc openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 2.0.4~rc1-3 rc openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4.dfsg.2-7etch1 ii proll 18-2 ii python-wxgtk2.6 2.6.3.2.2-1 ii qemu 0.8.2-4etch1 ii systemimager-doc 3.6.3dfsg1-3 ii vgabios 0.6a-1 ii x11proto-damage-dev 1.1.0-2 38 packages End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2713 ************************************************** Received on Wed Oct 31 10:03:00 2007

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