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Today's Topics: 1. Re: Should I add this Repo? (Leonard Chatagnier) 2. Re: Touchpad scrolling region (kapil singh kushwah) 3. Meaning of the switches CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y und CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_BINDING=y? (Detlef Lechner) 4. Re: Should I add this Repo? (Mario Vukelic) 5. Re: Should I add this Repo? (Mario Vukelic) 6. Re: Touchpad scrolling region (Mario Vukelic) 7. Re: Touchpad scrolling region (Mario Vukelic) 8. Re: Should I add this Repo? (Mario Vukelic) 9. USB flash drive not detected on guest ubuntu OS on VBox (Nay Myo Win) 10. Re: USB flash drive not detected on guest ubuntu OS on VBox (Mario Vukelic) 11. Re: USB flash drive not detected on guest ubuntu OS on VBox (Nils Kassube) 12. Re: USB tv tuners compatible for ubuntu hardy (lanzen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Leonard Chatagnier <<a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a>> Subject: Re: Should I add this Repo? To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:177632.24090.qm@web82807.mail.mud.yahoo.com">177632.24090.qm@web82807.mail.mud.yahoo.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- On Sun, 10/26/08, Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > From: Dotan Cohen <<a href="mailto:dotancohen@gmail.com">dotancohen@gmail.com</a>> > Subject: Re: Should I add this Repo? > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> > Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 5:33 PM > 2008/10/26 Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>>: > > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 17:23 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Mixing Debian REPOS is a very bad idea, but Debian > packages, so long > >> as they install, are fine so far as I understand. > > > > OK, if they install you have a reasonable chance that > they work. No > > guarantee, though. However, I have seen too often that > packages refused > > to install and people used dpkg --force-things and > similar to male them > > install, and this can screw the APT DB even if it is > just a single > > package. > > > > Even within Ubuntu packages --force should not be applied > unless the > user _knows_ what he is doing. > Brother reqauires you to use the --force option in order to install their printer drivers on Linux/Ubuntu. They have the best Linux/Ubuntu support and I don't think they would tell you to do something that would break anything. Their drivers wont install on a 64 bit Linux system because they a 32 bit and require to install their plugin wrapper also. I'm not talking about installing a pure Debian deb file on a Ubuntu system, not that I think anything is inherently wrong with that, but am talking about installing a 32 bit driver to get it to work on a 64 bit system. So the option can't be all that bad when it is absolutely required to make my printer work on Hardy 64 bit. FWIW, no intended slur and my APT is working just fine and up-to-date. Leonard Chatagnier <a href="mailto:lenc5570@sbcglobal.net">lenc5570@sbcglobal.net</a> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:55:16 +0530 From: "kapil singh kushwah" <<a href="mailto:kapil.network@gmail.com">kapil.network@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: Touchpad scrolling region To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:bf929f6e0810262125j2ad5dd8cyeee69d35180769d6@mail.gmail.com">bf929f6e0810262125j2ad5dd8cyeee69d35180769d6@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Joris, I guess, check your mouse preferences, from System > Preferences > Mouse open the Touchpad tab and check for Enable Scrolling from here. I think it will solve your problem otherwise it's hardware Incompatibility. -- Regards Kapil singh Kushwah Linux System Administrator Hotwax Media Inc., Indore 09907514840 <a href="http://www.hotwaxmedia.com" target="_blank">www.hotwaxmedia.com</a> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:02:18 +0100 From: Detlef Lechner <<a href="mailto:Detlef.Lechner@gmx.net">Detlef.Lechner@gmx.net</a>> Subject: Meaning of the switches CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y und CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_BINDING=y? To: Mailingliste_Ubuntu_engl <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225087338.17414.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Hi, "In earlier times" (TM) there was a project /Documentation/Configur.helpwhich apparently explained the meaning ofthe switches in the config file (/boot/config-2.6.24-21-generic). What file explains today the meaning of the switches CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y und CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_BINDING=y and so on? Regards, Detlef Lechner ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:07:54 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: Should I add this Repo? To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225087674.6603.109.camel@chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 00:33 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Even within Ubuntu packages --force should not be applied unless the > user _knows_ what he is doing. True :) I'm just being very cautious when talking about mixing Debian packages with Ubuntu on the list. I think the best option in such cases is always to recompile locally. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:14:02 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: Should I add this Repo? To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225088042.6603.115.camel@chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:08 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > Brother reqauires you to use the --force option in order to install > their printer drivers on Linux/Ubuntu. They have the best Linux/Ubuntu > support Somehow the first and the second part of your sentence don't fit together. If they had "the best" linux support, their drivers would simply be in the distro's repos > So the option can't be all that bad when it is absolutely required to > make my printer work on Hardy 64 bit. Strictly speaking it is meaningless to talk about "the --force option", that's why I originally wrote "--force-things". dpkg has many --force-<thing> options, some of them more dangerous and some of them less so. I have no idea about 32 vs 64 bit as I never ran a 64 bit system, so far. But it still sounds like a badly-created package. Just for reverence, here are the --force-<thing> options: mario@chronic: ~ $ dpkg --force-help dpkg forcing options - control behaviour when problems found: warn but continue: --force-<thing>,<thing>,... stop with error: --refuse-<thing>,<thing>,... | --no-force-<thing>,... Forcing things: all [!] Set all force options downgrade [*] Replace a package with a lower version configure-any Configure any package which may help this one hold Process incidental packages even when on hold bad-path PATH is missing important programs, problems likely not-root Try to (de)install things even when not root overwrite Overwrite a file from one package with another overwrite-diverted Overwrite a diverted file with an undiverted version bad-verify Install a package even if it fails authenticity check depends-version [!] Turn dependency version problems into warnings depends [!] Turn all dependency problems into warnings confnew [!] Always use the new config files, don't prompt confold [!] Always use the old config files, don't prompt confdef [!] Use the default option for new config files if one is available, don't prompt. If no default can be found, you will be prompted unless one of the confold or confnew options is also given confmiss [!] Always install missing config files breaks [!] Install even if it would break another package conflicts [!] Allow installation of conflicting packages architecture [!] Process even packages with wrong architecture overwrite-dir [!] Overwrite one package's directory with another's file remove-reinstreq [!] Remove packages which require installation remove-essential [!] Remove an essential package WARNING - use of options marked [!] can seriously damage your installation. Forcing options marked [*] are enabled by default. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:15:14 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: Touchpad scrolling region To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225088114.6603.116.camel@chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:55 +0530, kapil singh kushwah wrote: > System > Preferences > Mouse One can enable or disable there, but not change the size of the sensitive area ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:18:47 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: Touchpad scrolling region To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225088327.6603.117.camel@chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 01:54 +0100, Joris Dobbelsteen wrote: > Does anyone know how to configure this? Not with a recipe, but you should be able to find what you need in the "synaptics" man page ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:19:47 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: Should I add this Repo? To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225088387.6603.118.camel@chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 07:14 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Just for reverence That, too. And reference :) ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:07:56 +0630 From: "Nay Myo Win" <<a href="mailto:rim.riaz@gmail.com">rim.riaz@gmail.com</a>> Subject: USB flash drive not detected on guest ubuntu OS on VBox To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:d0304a790810262337o363bc07ch283eb5daef0a1d6d@mail.gmail.com">d0304a790810262337o363bc07ch283eb5daef0a1d6d@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" i m running XP and my Ubuntu hardy is on VBOX. i can't use Flash drive on guest hardy. if it is not the right place to ask about , sorry. -- Nay Myo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20081027/89c282ff/attachment-0001.htm" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20081027/89c282ff/attachment-0001.htm</a> ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:58:20 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: USB flash drive not detected on guest ubuntu OS on VBox To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1225090700.6603.122.camel@chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:07 +0630, Nay Myo Win wrote: > i m running XP and my Ubuntu hardy is on VBOX. > i can't use Flash drive on guest hardy. I'm not sure, but I think there is a difference between the VirtualBox licensing models. IIRC the open source version of VBox does not support USB. Could this cause the problem? ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:30:36 +0100 From: Nils Kassube <<a href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net">kassube@gmx.net</a>> Subject: Re: USB flash drive not detected on guest ubuntu OS on VBox To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:200810270830.37297.kassube@gmx.net">200810270830.37297.kassube@gmx.net</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Nay Myo Win wrote: > i m running XP and my Ubuntu hardy is on VBOX. > i can't use Flash drive on guest hardy. Which VirtualBox version do you use? The GPL version coming with Ubuntu doesn't have USB support, you need the PUEL version instead. You can download it from <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org" target="_blank">www.virtualbox.org</a>. And you need the usbfs entry in /etc/fstab which looks like this: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=1002,devmode=664 0 0 Replace the 1002 with the group ID for vboxusers on your machine. You could use this command in a terminal to make the entry if you don't want to look up the vboxusers GID: echo "none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=$(grep '^vboxusers' /etc/group| cut -d: -f3),devmode=664 0 0"|sudo tee -a /etc/fstab Then enter the command sudo mount -a and restart VirtualBox. Before you assign the USB device to the guest you should umount it at the host because the host can no longer see it. Nils ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:45:30 +0100 From: lanzen <<a href="mailto:lanzenesi@gmail.com">lanzenesi@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: USB tv tuners compatible for ubuntu hardy To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <ge3rir$818$<a href="mailto:1@ger.gmane.org">1@ger.gmane.org</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Christopher Bianchi wrote: > thanks a lot !! > > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:36 +0000, Aart Koelewijn wrote: >> On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:04:53 +0100, Christopher Bianchi wrote: >> >>> hello ! >>> >>> any usb tv tuners (possibly digital and analogic together) compatible >>> 100% with hardy ? >>> >>> thanks :) >> A Hauppauge WinTV USB-stick works fine for me (DVB-T) >> >> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2040:9580 Hauppauge I have one of those (Hauppauge WinTV HVR 900) and it works fine in hardy with kaffeine, but I have to recompile the drivers at kernel change. I'm planning to test it in intrepid. Anyway, I've followed instructions at <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=4921#p37139" target="_blank">http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=4921#p37139</a> Is there any other way you know of? -- lanzen ------------------------------ -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> End of ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 50, Issue 280 ********************************************* </blockquote></div> -- Nay Myo