From father to mother?
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From father to mother?
Is there a way to say, dist-upgrade from siduction to Mother?
I currently have a production siduction box where I suppose I could re-image to mother, but since I push the envelope (and it's SID) I think I should be able to dist-upgrade the mother, given the appropriate sources.list (or sources.list.d). Is there a place this is located?
And for bonus points, is there a script (like #! has) that can reset the desktop to a "default" state, like when you do a squeaky-clean install?
Thanks for any info.
-Hinto
I currently have a production siduction box where I suppose I could re-image to mother, but since I push the envelope (and it's SID) I think I should be able to dist-upgrade the mother, given the appropriate sources.list (or sources.list.d). Is there a place this is located?
And for bonus points, is there a script (like #! has) that can reset the desktop to a "default" state, like when you do a squeaky-clean install?
Thanks for any info.
-Hinto
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Re: From father to mother?
Yes, nearly and nearby :)
A dist-upgrade to another desktop flavour is fixed by metapackages from the linuxbbq repos. They are in the making, right now there's only a Kielbasa metapackage (meta, artwork and themes) for the users that come from a netinstall/Base. The complete metapackage archive is planned to be up on the server by early 2013 (ETA first week of January), so you will have to be a bit patient. But it's high on the agenda. FWIW the repo entry for /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bbq.list is
deb http://linuxbbq.org/repos/apt/debian sid main
I'm in the middle of populating the repos, there's not much to see yet.
As for the script, I don't know how #! handles it. To get the desktop back to the default state, you simply copy the /etc/skel (as it is) to /home/$USER/ or create a completely new user. Is this answer good enough? :)
A dist-upgrade to another desktop flavour is fixed by metapackages from the linuxbbq repos. They are in the making, right now there's only a Kielbasa metapackage (meta, artwork and themes) for the users that come from a netinstall/Base. The complete metapackage archive is planned to be up on the server by early 2013 (ETA first week of January), so you will have to be a bit patient. But it's high on the agenda. FWIW the repo entry for /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bbq.list is
deb http://linuxbbq.org/repos/apt/debian sid main
I'm in the middle of populating the repos, there's not much to see yet.
As for the script, I don't know how #! handles it. To get the desktop back to the default state, you simply copy the /etc/skel (as it is) to /home/$USER/ or create a completely new user. Is this answer good enough? :)
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Re: From father to mother?
^ that's pretty much how it does it... tho, does dist-upgrade overwrite /etc/skel?
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Re: From father to mother?
No, not the skel. Certain scripts overwrite the /etc/ files (/etc/issue being one of them every now and then, or /etc/bash - guess it depends on major version changes or serious issues), but I can't remember a situation that skel was overwritten. Would be quite an uncomfortable situation :)
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Re: From father to mother?
Right... so I'd need a way to snag the distro defaults, after a dist-upgrade.
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Sounds like a distro-defaults-bbq package then. I'll look into it tomorrow ;)
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Hey...
I just booted up mother on my laptop, but I get no sound from my Flash (in my browser). I know I have both digital and analog audio on my laptop, but I saw only one device in the mixer.
I'm ready to install, but I want to make sure I haven't missed something obvious.
-Hinto
I just booted up mother on my laptop, but I get no sound from my Flash (in my browser). I know I have both digital and analog audio on my laptop, but I saw only one device in the mixer.
I'm ready to install, but I want to make sure I haven't missed something obvious.
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Hi hinto,
please open a terminal and run 'alsamixer' then press F5 to display all channels, and/or F6 to select the other sound card.
Another idea is: run 'fixsnd' in terminal (passwrd: bbq)
please open a terminal and run 'alsamixer' then press F5 to display all channels, and/or F6 to select the other sound card.
Another idea is: run 'fixsnd' in terminal (passwrd: bbq)
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nice... I installing on the laptop...
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Still stuggling a bit with wireless, after a dist-upgrade.
I re-installed the broadcom stuff (as mentioned in the other thread) and the modules rebuilt for the new kernel... and now NetworkManager won't see the wireless:
here's my /etc/network/interfaces.
I suppose I need to add wlan0?
I re-installed the broadcom stuff (as mentioned in the other thread) and the modules rebuilt for the new kernel... and now NetworkManager won't see the wireless:
here's my /etc/network/interfaces.
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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet
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Ah, the 43227, right...
Honestly, no idea for now. My guess is that the other modules are not removed. Can you try and blacklist b43, brcmsmac and bcma to prevent them from blocking wl? (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive ... en_drivers)
also try killing the killswitch:
rfkill list
rfkill unblock all
wrt to the "missing" entry in /e/n/i: no, wlan should not be put in there if you use network-manager.
Honestly, no idea for now. My guess is that the other modules are not removed. Can you try and blacklist b43, brcmsmac and bcma to prevent them from blocking wl? (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive ... en_drivers)
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echo "blacklist drivername" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
rfkill list
rfkill unblock all
wrt to the "missing" entry in /e/n/i: no, wlan should not be put in there if you use network-manager.
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Re: From father to mother?
No luck.
As a side note, I did sucessfully get wireless when using the liveUSB (after installing the drive mentioned on the other thread)
-Hinto
As a side note, I did sucessfully get wireless when using the liveUSB (after installing the drive mentioned on the other thread)
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Re: From father to mother?
my wireless (that I'm have trouble with):
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lspci -nnk |grep net
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe [14e4:16b5] (rev 10)
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I'm really not much of a help when it comes to Broadcom. Is there a finding for
find /lib/modules/* |grep wl.ko
You should have the previous kernel, can you boot in there and see if wifi works?
Edit: saw your lspci, thanks. Writing you in a moment
find /lib/modules/* |grep wl.ko
You should have the previous kernel, can you boot in there and see if wifi works?
Edit: saw your lspci, thanks. Writing you in a moment
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hinto,
that's the output for the Ethernet adapter. Can you grep for Broadcom? Then you should get another result along with the ethernet.
that's the output for the Ethernet adapter. Can you grep for Broadcom? Then you should get another result along with the ethernet.
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Re: From father to mother?
find /lib/modules/* |grep wl.ko
/lib/modules/3.7-1.towo-siduction-amd64/updates/dkms/wl.ko
/lib/modules/3.7-1.towo-siduction-amd64/updates/dkms/wl.ko
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Re: From father to mother?
OK...
Now back from Christmas and New Years....
Still wanting to update my siduction to linuxBBQ.
I had marginal success on the Acer laptop install... but Desktops are more willing to accept a new roast.
-Hinto
Now back from Christmas and New Years....
Still wanting to update my siduction to linuxBBQ.
I had marginal success on the Acer laptop install... but Desktops are more willing to accept a new roast.
-Hinto
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Re: From father to mother?
Welcome back hinto.
You're not forgotten, I just have my (sorry) ass full of work in all four dimensions, also in real life :)
Happy 2013! Keep on rolling!
You're not forgotten, I just have my (sorry) ass full of work in all four dimensions, also in real life :)
Happy 2013! Keep on rolling!
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Re: From father to mother?
No worries...
I took the opportunity to hop my laptop to Fuduntu.
After wrestling with the grub editor (it occasionally lost it's caret and edit point) I was finally able to install the ATI graphics (I couldn't run the GUI until I did) and used jockey for the wireless.....
The bottom line is that once the hop was made (after ubiquity on another distro toasted a previous ext4 partition), I'm comfortable hopping on the laptop. It is a different beast than the desktop.
-Hinto
I took the opportunity to hop my laptop to Fuduntu.
After wrestling with the grub editor (it occasionally lost it's caret and edit point) I was finally able to install the ATI graphics (I couldn't run the GUI until I did) and used jockey for the wireless.....
The bottom line is that once the hop was made (after ubiquity on another distro toasted a previous ext4 partition), I'm comfortable hopping on the laptop. It is a different beast than the desktop.
-Hinto
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