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“port is slow to respond” on computer with SATA disk

January 25, 2007 Leave a comment

Seems that it look for sata 2 even if none is present. A patch is ready and a kernel (2.6.18-9) is closed to be uploaded:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel%40lists.debian.org/msg23269.html

http://people.debian.org/~nobse/kernel/linux-2.6/i386/

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UTC (or not) on debian

January 25, 2007 Leave a comment

Most of the time server hardware clock are set to UTC and a localtime is computed by the system. It is possible to have a hardware clock set to localtime by setting the UTC variable in /etc/default/rcS.

To make it work you must ensure that /etc/init.d/hwclock*.sh script are good. You may need to add this to ensure that the call to hwclock work properly:

HWCLOCKPARS=--directisa

Categories: Debian

CTRL+ALT+F1 in vmplayer

January 25, 2007 Leave a comment

By default CTRL+ALT leave the vmware machine so it’s not possible to do go to tty1. A workaround is to edit the preferences file (~/.vmware/preferences on linux, preferences.ini somewhere in Document and Settings on Windows) and add this line:

pref.hotkey.shift = "true"</

Even if vmplayer still display CTRL+ALT at the bottom of the window, the new "leave vmplayer" hotkey become CTRL+ALT+SHIFT.

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Why is there no 2.6.19 in sid

January 25, 2007 Leave a comment

A short answer is given by the maintener of klibc.

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What dpkg-reconfigure locales become in ubuntu

January 25, 2007 Leave a comment

On debian:
dpkg-reconfigure locales

On ubuntu:
cat /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED | grep fr > /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
dpkg-reconfigure locales
update-locale LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8

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Create Java3d package

January 10, 2007 Leave a comment

Here is how to create a java3d Debian package in one line

checkinstall --requires=sun-java5-jre --install=no \
--pkgsource=https://java3d.dev.java.net/ -D \
--pkgname=java3d --pkgversion=1.5.0 --pkgrelease=1 \
--maintainer=xxxxx@xxxx.xx --pkglicense=BSD \
--nodoc ~/java3d-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
Categories: Debian

Time over http (new version)

January 9, 2007 Leave a comment

A new version of my time over http script (previous version here was ).

#! /bin/sh

myTime= \
     `wget -O - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=195 \
     | grep "Current time" | cut -d \" -f 21 | cut -d " " -f 6-7 \
     | cut -d \< -f 1`
echo current date is `date`
date `date -d "$myTime" +%m%d%H%M.%S`
hwclock --systohc --directisa
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ASUSTek LNA Tiger Hybrid 1043:4871

January 4, 2007 1 comment

My new HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7682.fr contains a tuner card which support both analog and digital reception.

I tried with Linux 2.6.18.5 and a v4l-db Mercury repository clone (2006-12-29). In both case, I get a very crackled sound: crackle.ogg.
Note that I need to run arecord -D hw:1,0 -r 32000 -c 2 -f S16_LE | aplay as I didn’t found how to automatically hear TV using mixers.

Read more…

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a new computer

January 4, 2007 Leave a comment

I bought a new computer. It’s an
HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7682.fr
hp-m7682.fr

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