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David | 1 Jan 2006 01:05
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sound - reinstalling software?

I've been fiddling for ages trying to get a sound card to work. I suspect 
the problem in the first place was that the card was post-installed.

Question:
If I do something like 

sudo apt-get remove linux-sound-base

and then re-install, is there any possibility that everything will nicely 
detect when I re-install? If so, what packages so I need remove/reinstall?

I've made so many changes trying to get the card to work that I doubt I 
could get everything back how it was, so re-installation of the sound 
software seems like the best option to me, but sound seem to be a black 
art.

regards

David.
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Daniel Robitaille | 1 Jan 2006 01:32
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Re: wireless on either eth1 or eth2

> > I have a Dell laptop using Dapper with both an internal wired card and
> > a wireless card.  While the wired card always shows up as eth0, the
> > wireless card shows up as either eth1 and eth2.  Which one of eth1 or
> > eth2 it uses seems to change at nearly every reboot.
> >
> > While it's not really impacting the functionally of my laptop (except
> > for the gnome-network applet; I currently keeps two in my panel, one
> > or eth1 and one for eth2 to be sure I always have one that works by
> > default), I find this curious, and I don't remember this happening in
> > Breezy or earlier in the Dapper cycle.  I also uses netapplet, which
> > may or may not be related to this.  Anyone has any insight of why my
> > laptop is acting that way?
>
> While this hasn't personally happened to me, I've seen a couple of other
> cases where it happened after udev upgrades.  You should be able to write a
> udev rule to force it to eth1.

yes I could create a udev rule; and I could play with ifrename.  But
part of me still think that if you have a laptop with 2 ethernet
cards, you should only get by default eth0 and eth1, and not oscillate
between eth0 and one of eth1 or eth2 between reboots.  Now that I
think more about it, I think it started doing this after I installed
Flight 2 from scratch on this laptop; while hoary/breezy/flight1 was
always the eth0/eth1.  I wonder if something changed in udev between
Flight 1 and Flight 2.

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Todd Slater | 1 Jan 2006 02:09
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Re: vobcopy on breezy

On 12/31/05, 'Forum Post <ulist <at> gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
>
> XDVDshrink probably does the trick for a DVD9 but I'm focused on
> getting one good DVD5 end-to-end copy, and for now I found neroLINUX
> easiest way to go. NeroLinux is 30-day demo version so may have to look
> again in February.

IIRC xdvdshrink gives you the option of shrinking or not, so you could
have just used it from the start. But then, you wouldn't have learned
as much, right?

Todd

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René | 1 Jan 2006 02:13
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Virtual Printer (PDF Printer)


hello
what do you use for creating PDFs?
okay, in OpenOffice it is implemented. and i can also choose to print a  
JPG to a PDF in gThumb.
but, what do i do if i want to print a PDF from Firefox?
so, today i downloaded the program 'cups-pdf 1.7.1'. Firefox tells me he  
knows a default printer and no other printer is available in the drop-down.
when going to the printer-manager i also do not see a virtual printer (PDF  
printer) available. if i add a printer there, the manager shows me the PDF  
Printer, but if i go further i should provide the name of the company and  
the model type. that's nonsens in that case, right?
oh, i also tested in the console 'ps2pdf' which does PDFs from PS  
(PostScripts) because the browser lets ,me create PS. unfortunately text  
is never there in the PDF created in such way, eventhough the pictures are  
well.
best thanks for helping on that.
regards,
René
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Mark Menzies | 1 Jan 2006 02:21
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Re: Ubuntu Screen Res Issues

I have my laptop running at 1024x768 and my monitor (when docked) can run at 1280x1024.

The graphics on my laptop is :
Intel 82852/82855GM/GME Graphics controller

But when the laptop is docked, I cannot have a higher res than 1024x768.  Even if I have to manually change the res every time I dock and undock it I will do that, but at the moment, I don`t even have that option.

Can anyone help?

Ta.
Kind regards -- Mark Menzies Lumison Ltd.

Charles Yao wrote:


On 12/31/05, Mark Menzies <mark.menzies <at> lumison.net> wrote:
Hi all

I have a laptop running ubuntu which runs great undocked, but when I
dock the laptop, it doesn`t detect the new monitor nor the bigger screen
res that its capable of.

I have the laptop dual booting with XP, and XP detects the new monitor
and changes the screen res depending on whether or not I am docked etc.
I have to use windows for some of the apps that I need to access but I
prefer to run linux as a normal desktop, so any assistance would be
great here.

The laptop is a dell lattitude 505.

ta in advance.

Mark
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Hi Mark,

I had the same problem before with my inspiron 700m. Is the laptop and the monitor running the same resolution? I fixed mine with 855crt, but I had to run the same resolution between laptop and external monitor. I dont know if it will work with your laptop though since I dont know what videocard the Latitude 505 is running.

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I have my laptop running at 1024x768 and my monitor (when docked) can
run at 1280x1024.<br><br>
The graphics on my laptop is :<br>
Intel 82852/82855GM/GME Graphics controller<br><br>
But when the laptop is docked, I cannot have a higher res than
1024x768.&nbsp; Even if I have to manually change the res every time I dock
and undock it I will do that, but at the moment, I don`t even have that
option.<br><br>
Can anyone help?<br><br>
Ta.<br>Kind regards
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all<br><br>
I have a laptop running ubuntu which runs great undocked, but when I<br>
dock the laptop, it doesn`t detect the new monitor nor the bigger screen<br>
res that its capable of.<br><br>
I have the laptop dual booting with XP, and XP detects the new monitor
    <br>
and changes the screen res depending on whether or not I am docked etc.<br>
I have to use windows for some of the apps that I need to access but I<br>
prefer to run linux as a normal desktop, so any assistance would be<br>
great here.<br><br>
The laptop is a dell lattitude 505.<br><br>
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Hi Mark,<br><br>
I had the same problem before with my inspiron 700m. Is the laptop and
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I had to run the same resolution between laptop and external monitor. I
dont know if it will work with your laptop though since I dont know
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Phillip Susi | 1 Jan 2006 02:22
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Re: RAID

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> 
> You are correct though that LVM2 and device-mapper is the same thing.
> 
> 

They are not the same thing really.  LVM uses device mapper, but LVM 
encompases a host of user mode utilities and on disk meta data 
structures that the device mapper is not at all aware of.  The point of 
device mapper is to allow things like raid volume detection, disk 
partition detection, and other things to be moved out of kernel space to 
user mode management utilities where they belong, and keep the kernel 
simple.

> 
> The hardware fakeraids are mostly a waste of time and effort. dmraid
> may be able to manipulate them, but IMO (and I have such a card) you'd
> be better off disabling the fakeraid and using MD.
> 

Hardware fakeraid has several advantages over md including:

1) Can dual boot with windows
2) Can boot directly from the raid, rather than have a seperate boot 
partition
3) Can boot from volume types other than raid1 ( i.e. raid0 )
4) In the event that the primary drive in a mirror fails, the system 
still boots using the second drive rather than hang trying to read the 
first.

I very much enjoy booting up from a stripe of two 10,000 rpm 36 gig sata 
WD raptors which give a combined sustained read throughput of very 
nearly 100 MB/s, and it's nice to have a copy of windows on there too 
for the occasional game fest.
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Tab Gilbert | 1 Jan 2006 02:44
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Re: Backing up DVD movies

>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>

http://wiki.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
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Ed Fletcher | 1 Jan 2006 02:52
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Re: [Breezy] Incorrect Report by df -h


Mike Bird wrote:
| On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 13:10, Ed Fletcher wrote:
|
|>root:/mnt # df -h  (other partitions not shown)
|>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
|>/dev/sdb7             9.2G   33M  8.7G   1% /temp
|>/dev/sda2              55G   33M   52G   1% /mnt
|>root:/mnt #
|>
|>The numbers don't add up.
|>
|>I know that they are empty.
|
|
| In addition to your lost+found blocks, there are blocks used
| for superblocks, bitmaps, group descriptors, inodes, journal,
| indirect blocks, and probably others too.
|
| As a test I just created an empty 32MB ext3 filesystem:
|
| # mke2fs -j /dev/VG0/test
|
| It has 14% used:
|
| Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
| /dev/mapper/VG0-test     31729      4127     25964  14% /test
|
| --Mike Bird
|
|
|
Thanks Mike.  And also thanks to Tim Frost, Vram and Jim Richardson.

Your replies got me looking at the effects of a journaled filesystem.  I
looked at the man page for fsck, which led me to the man page for
fsck.ext3, which led me to the man page for debugfs.

So I ran debugfs on /dev/sda2 (after unmounting it) and learned that
sda2 was indeed originally made with a journaling filesystem.  There are
720816 reserved blocks (5% of the total) and each block is 4096 bytes.
So there is my three gigabyte discrepancy.  And the same 5% ratio holds
true for sdb7.

Thanks again to all of you.  I learned something new today.  I've never
used debugfs before, but it's a powerful tool.  (And hopefully, not
needed very often.)

I like having a mystery solved.

Ed
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Ray Thompson | 1 Jan 2006 03:16

Re: Wine on Ubuntu AMD64

Well, based on all I've read about it in these and other sources, I
don't see a screaming need for me to go to 64-bit just now.  

(Panic not, people--just one old man's opinion, a rather self-satisfied
one, I must say; since I'm just now getting things running on 32-bit the
way I want them to. Hey, I started in this silly business when the
widest data/address path was EIGHT bits! [[gg]])
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Matt Price | 1 Jan 2006 03:21
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audio out on a Hauppauge pvr-350

hi folks,

trying to get audio out to work on a hauppauge pvr-350.  This is on a
dell optiplex gx1, running ubuntu breezy's mythtv packages (18.1-5).
I have an xserver running on the tv-out, working fine, and I have
tried the dd test :
dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
which successfully produced audio and video.  

howver when I run mythtv I get no sound output, despite having checked
the "use pvr-350' audio" in the mythfrontend setup utility.  video is
also slightly off, with the edges of the screen vanishing (very
frustrating when I'm doing the settings!).  bur for now I'm
concentrating on the lack of audio, which is crippling b/c the onboard
sound card does not seem to be recognized by ubuntu (apparently I'm
not the only one with this problem, see
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=388581 ).  

Can someone direct me to some info on this?  I've googled around but
am getting worn out after many defeats.  I tried this solution: 

http://jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=590

adding the following to /etc/modules.d/ivtv

alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias char-major-81 videodev 
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv 
options ivtv ivtv_std=2 tda9887=0 ivtv_debug=1 
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 
options tuner pal=1 
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400;
/sbin/modprobe saa7115; \
  /sbin/modprobe saa7127; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; \
  /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa; /sbin/modprobe
lirc_i2c; \
  /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; \ /usr/local/bin/ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0
-noglobalalpha -localalpha

but no luck, no change.  

can anyone offer some advice?  hanks,

matt

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