debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2997

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2997

Today's Topics:

  Re: Files/directories dated 2012?     [ Raj Kiran Grandhi  ]
  DVD support question                  [ Jude DaShiell  ]
  Streaming video                       [ Keith Bates  ]
  Re: Recording PCM output to file      [ Kumar Appaiah  ]
  Re: debian dvd setup question         [ Jonathan Kaye  ]
  Re: debian dvd setup question         [ Daniel Dickinson  ]

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:52:55 +0530
From: Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Files/directories dated 2012?

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Robert Bond wrote:
> I ran apt-get update on my etch system yesterday. It has been a while so 40+
> packages showed up to be upgraded. I installed them... Most of it appeared
> to be Open Office upgrades. The upgrade blew up. I tracked the problem down
> to the fact that many files and directories on my system had a modification
> date of 12/12/2012! I fixed most of them with some "touch" scripts and got
> the upgrades to work.

Where did those files come from? If they belong to some debian package, you might want to check the timestamps of the files in that package with:

dpkg --contents file.deb

--
Raj Kiran

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:24:15 +0000 From: Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour Message-ID: <476097CF.6080708@glimmer.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various failure situations, which is unhelpful, to say the least. For example: Although it helpfully returns 1 if you tell it nonsense ... # aptitude hshshsh Unknown command "hshshsh" aptitude 0.2.15.9 ==> exit status 1 ... and 'aptitude update' as non-root fails with 255 ... $ aptitude update E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? ==> exit status 255 ... if you're behind a proxy firewall (such as inside my employer's network) then various kinds of failure all exit with 0 ... Here's 'aptitude update' as root but with the required firewall proxy not specified in /etc/apt/apt.conf : # aptitude update Err http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ftp.de.debian.org' Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg Could not resolve 'security.debian.org' Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Err http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages Could not resolve 'ftp.de.debian.org' Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Could not resolve 'security.debian.org' Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Could not resolve 'security.debian.org' Reading package lists... ==> exit status 0 Here's 'aptitude update' with the firewall proxy specified but an incorrect username/password : # aptitude update Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Err http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages 403 Forbidden Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages 403 Forbidden Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages 403 Forbidden Reading package lists... Done ==> exit status 0 Here's "aptitude update" with the firewall proxy specified but the previously valid password has expired : # aptitude update Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release.gpg Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Err http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/main Packages 407 Proxy Authentication Required Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages 407 Proxy Authentication Required Err http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages 407 Proxy Authentication Required Reading package lists... Done ==> exit status 0 At least that's what happens with my company's firewall. Surely 'aptitude' should be able to do better than that ? I did a quick test with 'apt-get' on Sarge, and found it returns exit status 100 in at least some of these situations (I didn't test all of them), so there seems to have been some regression here : # apt-get update Err http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages 407 Proxy Authentication Required Err http://de.samba.org sarge/samba Packages 407 Proxy Authentication Required [...] Failed to fetch http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/Debian/dists /sarge/samba/binary-i386/Packages.gz 407 Proxy Authentication Required Reading Package Lists... E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ==> exit status 100 I found 3 related bug reports against aptitude, all apparently still open : http://bugs.debian.org/233129 [wishlist; from Feb.2004; aptitude exits with zero on dialup connection failure] http://bugs.debian.org/282408 [minor; from Nov.2004; aptitude exits with zero if installation fails or is cancelled by the user after downloading packages] http://bugs.debian.org/445035 [important: from Oct.2007; aptitude exits with zero if installation fails because nonexistent package requested] Does anyone think another bug report is called for ? It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list. And is there a better list to post this to ? A check shows only debian-dpkg(-bugs) or debian-qa(-packages) as being likely. Any comments welcome. Cheers, Nick Boyce

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:05:23 -0800 From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour Message-ID: <20071213040523.GI3266@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ" Content-Disposition: inline --mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +0000, Nick Boyce wrote:
> In the course of scripting some aptitude upgrade activity I've found
> that (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum
> behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various
> failure situations, which is unhelpful, to say the least.
I think it's sort of a tricky problem. Just because a particular host couldn't be resolved, or some other problem doesn't necessarily mean that aptitude itself has failed. Granted, it makes scripting difficult if you can't check the exit status. I'm curious to know if it produces error codes when there are actual packaging problems (like a dpkg error).=20 snip some aptitude error output. >=20
> I did a quick test with 'apt-get' on Sarge, and found it returns exit
> status 100 in at least some of these situations (I didn't test all of
> them), so there seems to have been some regression here :
apt-get is a different program. There's not a regression unless the lack of error codes appears in apt-get in etch and later. =2E..snip apt-get output >=20
> I found 3 related bug reports against aptitude, all apparently still open=
: >=20
> http://bugs.debian.org/233129
> [wishlist; from Feb.2004; aptitude exits with zero on dialup connection
> failure]
>=20
> http://bugs.debian.org/282408
> [minor; from Nov.2004; aptitude exits with zero if installation fails or
> is cancelled by the user after downloading packages]
>=20
> http://bugs.debian.org/445035
> [important: from Oct.2007; aptitude exits with zero if installation
> fails because nonexistent package requested]
>=20 >=20
> Does anyone think another bug report is called for ?
without reading them, no. It may be that some discussion on those bugs, or a ping, is in order, but not necessarily. see below.
> It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour
> needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list.
>=20
> And is there a better list to post this to ? A check shows only
> debian-dpkg(-bugs) or debian-qa(-packages) as being likely.
well, the developer of aptitude is known to read this list and respond to aptitude issues, so he'll likely see this.=20 Like any of these projects, it's a volunteer thing and if it's not a priority for the devs, then it won't get done. If you can provide patches, I'm sure you'll get attention.=20 It can, I know, be frustrating, especially if you are relying on a package and don't have the resources to contribute yourself. But sometimes, all it takes is a willingness to discuss the issue rationally and calmly with the dev and see what's what. It may be that he doesn't fully understand that people want this feature. Likewise, he may have good reasons to *not* implement what you're looking for.=20 A --mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYK+DaIeIEqwil4YRAuUdAKDPawkUMcJtI+UyTOV5DQkKrQmfEgCg4AiJ Lw0JydZWqAW0wQkBeYDwZ4U= =Fguf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mXDO3udm/xYWQeMQ--

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:18:47 -0800 From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lost sources.list file during atempted upgrade Message-id: <20071213041847.GB31859@alpaca> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:51:00PM -0500, Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> was heard to say:
> Hello,
> Thanks for your reply. I've included my sources.list file below. I am
> getting this error with the file, any suggestions on what to do with it?
> I've run the apt-get update many times each with the same msg.
> Check me on this, comment out the stable lines and uncomment the testing
> lines. Then run apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade and that'll take
> care of it?
Yes, that should do it. (I'm confused: I thought this was a zero-length file?)
> W: GPG error: http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Release: The following
> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
> NO_PUBKEY F1D53D8C4F368D5D
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Normally this means you have a problem with your apt keys, but it looks like you only get it with non-us. In that case it may be a symptom of non-us being no longer necessary, according to this page: http://www.debian.org/mirror/list-non-US Daniel

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:17:26 -0600 (CST) From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: debian dvd setup question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0712122213210.25687@freire2.furyyjbeyq.arg> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's directory structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on ubuntu machine all file structure seems present and correct. However as soon as that DVD gets put into the Debian box, the machine fails to detect any media in the drive. This is latest unstable debian where this is happening. do I need to make a device for the DVD on the debian box, if so what should the code be to do that?

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:36:07 -0800 From: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour Message-id: <20071213043607.GA31938@alpaca> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +0000, Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
> Does anyone think another bug report is called for ?
> It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour
> needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list.
I'm currently busy working on other parts of the program. If you want this in a hurry your best bet is to either send a working patch to a bug report or (if such a patch already exists) to harass me via email until I apply it. :-) Preferably all such harassment should be conducted via emails sent to bug reports so that it gets archived with the bug and filtered into my debbugs folder.
> And is there a better list to post this to ? A check shows only
> debian-dpkg(-bugs) or debian-qa(-packages) as being likely.
The most appropriate list would be aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org. deity@lists.debian.org would be the closest alternative. Daniel

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:25:19 +0800 From: Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way Message-ID: <4760D04F.8080407@homeurl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Bob wrote:
>
>> Bob wrote: >> >>> Is there such a thing? >>> >>> When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address >>> from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. >>> >>> >> Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a >> preferred work around for this? >> >
> How does your firewall get its IP address?
>
> If it is by PPP then you can scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d to start
> and stop the ntp daemon. This should get triggered when a new IP address
> is negotiated.
>
Via DHCP, the ADSL 'modem' (D-link DSL-320T) passes it's wan IP address onto the client, and when it doesn't have one it gives you 192.168.1.2 with a 30 second lease so you get connected within that time when the link coming up, and if the link doesn't come up then your logs fill up instead.
> Check the man page for pppd(8) and search for ip-up to see the details
> of how it's used, but just dropping scripts in those directories should
> be sufficient.
>
I wonder if it's possible to persuade the dhcp client to run a script? Thanks for you response.

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:28:33 -0600 (CST) From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: DVD support question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.64.0712130025350.29686@freire2.furyyjbeyq.arg> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Does debian have support for the external mad dog dvd burners available? If this one won't work I should have a phillips as a replacement next week. This one can't be mounted yet because of a missing helper application according to the mount utility.

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:36:01 +0800 From: Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: Turion64 motherboard? Message-ID: <4760D2D1.7040403@homeurl.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit koffiejunkie wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> My Turion64 notebook's motherboard is dying, and since replacing it
> costs more than another notebook (which I already bought...), I'm
> hoping to use the CPU in a little media-center/file-server box.
>
> Does anyone have experience of using Turion64 CPUs on desktop boards?
> I'd prefer Mini-ATX or smaller. From what I've read it's just a E6
> stepping Socket-754 processor, so any board that supports that
> *should* work, but I'm not finding any boards that list support for
> Turion64 CPUs?
Here in a list http://angelfall.s39.xrea.com/area2ch/turion-e.html while http://www.silentpcreview.com/article300-page1.html and http://www.silentpcreview.com/article313-page1.html go into some detail on this topic. I think you can even use ECC ram which would be good for a server. Good luck.

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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:44:30 +1100 From: Keith Bates <keith@new-life.org.au> To: Debian List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Streaming video Message-ID: <20071213174430.6ada9a79@yariknow.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For some reason I have problems downloading video clips from most mainstream news providers. For example on the front page of www.smh.com.au there is a picture at the moment of a mouse fearlessly staring down a cat. This picture links to a Windows Media clip. When i clikc on the picture (using either Iceweasel or Opera 9.5) the following happens 1. It opens the video page which helpfully tells me "Detecting video settings" 2. The gxine browser plug-in starts. 3. It flashes up the URL of the clip, but pressing the play button doesn't do anything. 4. If I copy the URL into the "Open MRL" dialog, nothing happens. I've had similar results on other news sites such as bbc.co.uk as well as the other video clips at smh.com.au Would some knowledgeable person be able to tell me how to configure the browsers/ plugins to make this work properly? Thanks -- God bless you, Keith Bates 4 Mooloobar St Narrabri NSW 2390 Phone: 02 67924890 Fax: 02 67925418 www.new-life.org.au If you don't have a reason to live JESUS IS THE ANSWER! Ask him into your life today... He really does make a difference.

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:13:06 +0530 From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Recording PCM output to file Message-ID: <20071213074305.GB21096@debian.akumar.iitm.ac.in> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="oC1+HKm2/end4ao3" Content-Disposition: inline --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 06:05:43PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> Are you sure that you have tried all possible configurations for setting
> the capture controls? Post the output of the "amixer" command.
Yes, I am sure. Here's the amixer output, if it helps. Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Mono: Front Left: Playback [on] Front Right: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 255 Mono: Front Left: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Front Right: Playback 255 [100%] [0.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Front',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Front Left: Playback 46 [72%] [-18.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 46 [72%] [-18.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Front Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65 [100%] [30.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 65 [100%] [30.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'Surround',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Front Left: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Center',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'LFE',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 64 Mono: Playback 64 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Line',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 65 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'CD',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65 Mono: Front Left: Playback 65 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 65 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Mic',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65 Mono: Front Left: Playback 0 [0%] [-35.00dB] [off] Front Right: Playback 0 [0%] [-35.00dB] [off] Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 65 Mono: Front Left: Playback 63 [97%] [28.00dB] [on] Front Right: Playback 63 [97%] [28.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 35 Front Left: Capture 35 [100%] [35.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 35 [100%] [35.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Capture',1 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 35 Front Left: Capture 35 [100%] [35.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 35 [100%] [35.00dB] [on] Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0 Capabilities: enum Items: '2ch' '6ch' Item0: '2ch' Simple mixer control 'Digital',0 Capabilities: cvolume Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 120 Front Left: Capture 120 [100%] [30.00dB] Front Right: Capture 120 [100%] [30.00dB] Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Line' Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1 Capabilities: cenum Items: 'Mic' 'Front Mic' 'Line' 'CD' Item0: 'Line' Thanks. Kumar --=20 Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHYOKJSd75awtatOcRAkxkAJ9eQj1waXHhEHDBbAm8gorBDCMY9ACfRqDS GQj0PGbPb4M2zsCPG9F9nIs= =13Hk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oC1+HKm2/end4ao3--

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:35:19 +0100 From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: debian dvd setup question Message-ID: <fjqnbs$qnp$3@ger.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read
> dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's directory
> structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on ubuntu machine
> all file structure seems present and correct. However as soon as that DVD
> gets put into the Debian box, the machine fails to detect any media in the
> drive. This is latest unstable debian where this is happening. do I need
> to make a device for the DVD on the debian box, if so what should the code
> be to do that?
Hi Jude, Did you burn an iso image or simply copy the files. The first works the 2nd doesn't. On K3b it's under the Tools menu and it's called, "Burn DVD ISO image...". Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:44:40 -0500 From: Daniel Dickinson <cshore@wightman.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: debian dvd setup question Message-Id: <200712130244.49818.cshore@wightman.ca> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1486397.jioudLXnFS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1486397.jioudLXnFS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 13 December 2007 02:35, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > I have a combo drive on this machine that's supposed to be able to read
> > dvd's. I made a dvd using wodim on ubuntu and checked the dvd's
> > directory structure after that was done and so far as I can tell on
> > ubuntu machine all file structure seems present and correct. However as
> > soon as that DVD gets put into the Debian box, the machine fails to
> > detect any media in the drive. This is latest unstable debian where th=
is
> > is happening. do I need to make a device for the DVD on the debian box,
> > if so what should the code be to do that?
Also, are you using dual layer media and if so is the dvd-rom able to read = it,=20 or dvd+ or dvd- in a dvd-rom that only handles one or the other? Regards, Daniel =2D-=20 And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early,=20 now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or=20 strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com --nextPart1486397.jioudLXnFS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHYOLxhvWBpdQuHxwRAos+AKC1ZYTrtA7UijO86XbTUkoEZab5FACfTKCc 65M3oTP5xZcL+1y4G1mJ8hI= =6pD9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1486397.jioudLXnFS--

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:12:16 +0100 From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Streaming video Message-ID: <fjqph6$2q5$1@ger.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Keith Bates wrote:
> For some reason I have problems downloading video clips from most
> mainstream news providers.
>
> For example on the front page of www.smh.com.au there is a picture at
> the moment of a mouse fearlessly staring down a cat. This picture links
> to a Windows Media clip.
>
> When i clikc on the picture (using either Iceweasel or Opera 9.5) the
> following happens
>
> 1. It opens the video page which helpfully tells me "Detecting video
> settings"
>
> 2. The gxine browser plug-in starts.
>
> 3. It flashes up the URL of the clip, but pressing the play button
> doesn't do anything.
>
> 4. If I copy the URL into the "Open MRL" dialog, nothing happens.
>
> I've had similar results on other news sites such as bbc.co.uk as well
> as the other video clips at smh.com.au
>
> Would some knowledgeable person be able to tell me how to configure the
> browsers/ plugins to make this work properly?
>
>
> Thanks
>
Hi Keith, First question: 32 or 64 bit system? If the latter, I don't know. Using FFx 2.0.0.11 on Debian Lenny I can watch the mouse video. On your Iceweasel type about:plugins in the navigation bar. You should see something like this: Windows Media Player Plugin File name: mplayerplug-in-wmp.so mplayerplug-in 2007/1/7 followed by a long table of Mime Types. The site you mention is slow so you'll have to wait a while. If you don't see what I've given above then you'll need to install a Windows Media Player Plugin on your Iceweasel. I assume if it works in Firefox it should work in Iceweasel since only the logo and name are different, right? Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2997 ************************************************** Received on Thu Dec 13 05:59:28 2007

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