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Installation issues from USB key / USB CD

dummy@example.com (AnInkedSoul) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:22:49 +0000

Hmmm bit of a strange one, am wanting to update my laptop to the 64 bit persuasion to match my desktop. Have tried booting from USB key and cutting a CD, but both methods fail when trying to find the files on the CD as there is no recognised CD on the box. I've looked in /dev/disk/by-id and indeed there is nothing USB like showing there when I switch to the console in the installer.

Have just downloaded the latest image and used dd to create the USB image, but still no luck. The strange thing is I obviously managed to get this working from the USB key when I first installed Crunchbang on the laptop removing the previous Windows install which the makers had thoughtfully installed.

So my question is how do I get the installer to pickup the files on the USB key or on the USB CD ? Not too worried which version I install as will move to Wheezy as soon as anyway. The latest image reverting back to GDM suited me, so this is what I have been trying.

If the USB key or CD don't get mounted by the installer, how can I get at them ? Laptop is a Samsung 900X if that makes any odds.

Cheers

Enoch

iceweasel messy font rendering

dummy@example.com (CBizgreat!) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:00 +0000

hello guys and gals!

i've noticed a strange behavior in iceweasel: the fonts randomly get "punched out", parts of them are missing. there are no problems in conky, openbox, terminal and in thunar whatsoever.
i've tried to change the browser's default font to dejavu sans 16, and the allow sites to choose their font disabled. if i zoom in or out, different parts of the letters appear and disappear.

thoughts, anyone?

sample piccy:

edit: here's a shot of this topic

[SOLVED] CB kernel 3.2 update and VBox

dummy@example.com (byteme) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:33:18 +0000

Hey guys; I'm running CB in Virtualbox (latest 4.1.8) and updated CB's kernel to 3.2.x which borked my guest additions. Tried reinstalling them, etc, to no avail.
In the end, I just commented out the latest kernel in grub and run 2.6.x as a temporary fix; just wondering if anyone else has run into this. Normally I'd just be patient and wait for VBox to catch up with the latest kernel, but this is Debian we're talking about, lol, not exactly bleeding edge :P I figure this kernel has been out for long enough for VBox to catch up, so maybe it's just me.

Battery consumption rate & powertop

dummy@example.com (zuperkoleoptera) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:01:58 +0000

So I am not sure if this is the correct place but here it goes...

I use Debian testing in a netbook,all crunsified. I have implemented various scripts from pm-utils as well as the one suggested by hardran http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … or-debian/.

I am trying to monitor my current battery consumption in watts, but I dont see it anywhere in powertop. Does powertop report battery consumption?
I have calibrated powertop when I first used it.

If powertop does not offer this functionality, is there another application which does?

Thanks people

Patch for garbled text in tty1 when using slim.

dummy@example.com (The garage door3c) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:54:46 +0000

I found the patch here: http://developer.berlios.de/patch/download.php?id=2634
Applied and tested it on my i686 system, against #! november image and it works!

Perhaps the best way to implement this is for Corenominal to apply it to the slim package and make the new packages available in the repo?

I have PM'ed corenominal.

CPU appears stuck by The governor "performance"

dummy@example.com (Vansgo) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:40:57 +0000

I have been checking the CPU scaling feature on two different systems with cpufrequtils: The Intel Atom N270 (2.6.xx Kernel) responds to manual changes correctly

The Pentim 4 (Kernel 3.2) results below, do not respond to >> sudo cpufreq-set -c 0 -g ondemand

Just shows: The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.

I have been searching some related topics and getting nowhere - using driver: p4-clockmod "ondemand" is listed as available for the Pentium 4, but will not show as active after enabled?

Got any ideas?...

cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
driver: p4-clockmod
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0
maximum transition latency: 10.00 ms.
hardware limits: 275 MHz - 2.20 GHz
available frequency steps: 275 MHz, 550 MHz, 825 MHz, 1.10 GHz, 1.38 GHz, 1.65 GHz, 1.93 GHz, 2.20 GHz
available cpufreq governors: powersave, conservative, userspace, ondemand, performance
current policy: frequency should be within 275 MHz and 2.20 GHz.
The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency is 2.20 GHz.
cpufreq stats: 275 MHz:0.00%, 550 MHz:0.00%, 825 MHz:0.00%, 1.10 GHz:0.00%, 1.38 GHz:0.00%, 1.65 GHz:0.00%, 1.93 GHz:0.00%, 2.20 GHz:100.00%

KVM Console Fonts

dummy@example.com (SabreWolfy) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:23:46 +0000

I've been moving between the proprietary and open drivers for my NVidia card, as well as taking it out and using the on-board Intel graphics. I've started several times in recovery mode to do this and have seen various KVM console fonts. I've now returned to one of my previous setups, but the console font is different now. It's a small font, but is bolder and blocky, and I don't think I've seen it before. How do I set it to use a much finer, more "spidery" small font which looks better?

tty1

dummy@example.com (SabreWolfy) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:22:39 +0000

What's up with tty1? When I boot normally into X I can switch to a console with C-A-F2 and login. C-A-F1 for tty1 is a strange slow laggy console where I can't even type my username and password correctly. What's up with that?

[Solved] Networking at recovery console

dummy@example.com (SabreWolfy) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:20:51 +0000

I've been in and out of the recovery console for the last two days, changing video drivers, etc. At one point I had Internet (networking) access from the recovery console over eth0 (wired ethernet on desktop machine). Today I don't have any access. firmware-realtek is (still) installed and I did a dpkg-reconfigure on it. I tried to bring up networking or network-manager or ifup eth0 -- nothing worked. ifconfig did not show my local LAN address -- only localhost 127.0.0.1. Ideas?

(Solved) Atheros Ethernet Controller

dummy@example.com (Anakinholland) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:25:18 +0000

I have just bought myself a new Asus laptop, and when loading #! on to it it says It could not detect ethernet device but I have been unable to find a driver for Atheros AR813X/AR815X for linux. All responses on Google point to http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx but that is cactus.

Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi 100 Series
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1005
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at ddc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities:

05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Device 1083 (rev c0)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 1851
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
Memory at dc800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]

Can anyone please help with where to from here? Thanks in advance

Install Errors: Initramfs and VFS: unable to mount root fs

dummy@example.com (ivanovnegro) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:29:28 +0000

When I boot the CD, if I try to do the Graphic Install, then the screen just goes black and does nothing.

I tried text install, and got the following errors

Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(254,32)

and then nothing happens.

When I try to boot into the live environment or w/e I only get the first error and it still halts.

Pidgin error

dummy@example.com (ivanovnegro) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:10:32 +0000

Hello, I just recently joined CrunchBang and everything is going well but I do need some help with a couple things.

I downloaded pidgin and it seems to be working fine except when I add my facebook to it, It takes the facebook and says its connected and available but it does not show the facebook buddy list and every 45 seconds it says I disconnect and when i re-connect it, it says I am available again.

friends tell me that I am indeed online facebook through pidgin but I do not get their messages and I can not see my buddy list.

- I made sure the buddy list is available to viewing
-I got the plugins for xmpp (spelling?)

Any help to this situation will help greatly.

Thank you,

Mocp doesn't work because of ALSA

dummy@example.com (rhowaldt) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:41:40 +0000

Here is my terminal

daniel@daniel:~$ mocp
Running the server...
Trying JACK...
Trying ALSA...
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Trying OSS...

FATAL_ERROR: No valid sound driver


FATAL_ERROR: Server exited

daniel@daniel:~$

What can I do?

Can't install latest due to wireless kb and mouse

dummy@example.com (rhowaldt) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:23:54 +0000

Downloaded the latest 32-bit distro today, and once the CD boots, I can't do anything because the keyboard is not recognized. Tried a USB keyboard, and still couldn't do anything. Used an adapter for the kb port and was then able to boot the live version of the distro. Howvever, once the live version was working, only the keyboard worked. The mouse didn't work, I assume because it is wireless as well.

I'm running the pre -11/25/11 version of #! right now, and the wireless keyboard and mouse are giving me no problems. Has anyone else run into this problem? How was it solved?

Thanks in advance,

boondoc

[Solved] Can I use my kubuntu /home partition for crunchbang ?

dummy@example.com (Milozzy) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:20:33 +0000

Hi,
I wanted to install CrunchBang GNU/Linux on my netbook. Currently my netbook has Kubuntu. But the problem with Kubuntu is that KDE is very slow for a 1 GB RAM and 1.6 GHz Atom processor.
I have / and /home on a separate partition. My root is ext4 and /home is btrfs. All my files are in the /home directory. So is it possible to point the /home to the existing directory with the same username, without formating the contents in the home directory?
The home directory contains hidden kde settings which I can remove. But what are the settings that CrunchBang or OpenBox will put in the home directory so that I don't accidentally delete them?
Or is there any other preferred way of doing? Like install the whole OS into a 20 GB ext4 partition and mount the previous /home directory as a new mount point?
Thanks.