kde, startx on debian

**johnyjj2** · 10-30-2009

I added it as postscript no.2 in my previous post but you answered in the meantime so I move it here

:

"lspci" says that "command not found". And "mount -t fat16 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/pendrive" says that "fat16 is unknown filesystem", the same for fat32 and fat. (Mandriva can see pendrive but cannot write to it).

**reed9** · 10-30-2009

Try it as

Code:

/sbin/lspci

It's mount -t vfat etc.

**johnyjj2** · 10-30-2009

Thanks!

'/sbin/lspci' says 'no such file or directory'. I mounted pendrive properly and copied those files which I need to compile from pendrive to disk.

However, when I follow the tutorial, there is unexpected thing. I gunzipped it properly but I cannot use 'configure', it says that doesn't recognize this command. In the tutorial it was required to do three following things 'cd SphinxTrain', 'configure', 'make'. I enter directory SphinxTrain after ungzipping it from tar.gz. I checked by 'ls' and I see there is such a thing as configure inside this directory. I guess it is rather problem with Debian than with SphinxTrain. This tutorial is here: ht tp:/ /w ww.speech.cs.cmu.ed u/sphinx/tutorial.h tml (remove spacebars from URL).

Greetings

!

**reed9** · 10-30-2009

Hmm, if you're missing lspci, sounds like some core tools didn't get installed either. You need the package pciutils to provide lspci. Which means you likely don't have the wireless-tools package either. You can check with

Code:

dpkg -l | grep pciutils
dpkg -l | grep wireless-tools

If it returns nothing, you don't have them installed.

The make/configure thing requires extra software as well. You need the build-essential package. This is not part of most normal installs.

I think I would recommend just reinstalling at this point.

If you choose to stick with Debian, here is a nice guide.
The Perfect Desktop - Debian Lenny | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

I would ignore most of the stuff after the basic install. The writer suggests installing a whole lot of reduntant and useless stuff in my opinion. For example, he has you installing realplayer, mplayer, vlc, gxine, and banshee, all of which are media players - a little excessive.

**johnyjj2** · 10-30-2009

Thanks!

I'm downloading ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (689,97MB). I guess there won't be any problem if I'm going to burn it on DVD, not CD. Am I right?

And about players - I noticed (in Windows, however) that one player can handle one avi, the other can play the other avi but there is no player which can play all of them

. Even if I install codecs.

Greetings

!

**reed9** · 10-30-2009

No, there shouldn't be a problem burning it to DVD instead of a CD.

And about players - I noticed (in Windows, however) that one player can handle one avi, the other can play the other avi but there is no player which can play all of them . Even if I install codecs.

Yeah, this can happen in linux too. I guess it depends on what sort of video files you're watching. I use gnome-mplayer or smplayer for everything and I can't think of a file those won't play. There are 3 main backends that various linux players use - mplayer, xine, and gstreamer. And then there are a few that are kind of their own thing, like VLC. KDE players, like Dragon, tend to default to xine, though with some apps you can choose which backend to use in the config settings. GNOME players, like Totem or Banshee, usually use gstreamer.

**johnyjj2** · 10-30-2009

OK, I installed Ubuntu and I must say that it looks really great

. However I need to have connection to wireless network in my Acer Aspire 5100. On Acer webpage there are drivers only for Windows. Is it good idea to install these drivers ht tp://en.opensuse.o rg/Atheros_madwifi -> ht tp://madwifi-project.or g/suse/11.1/i586/ ? Which of those files? And can I use .rpm in Ubuntu? How to use repository in Ubuntu?
Greetings

!

**reed9** · 10-30-2009

Now post the output of

Code:

lspci -vnn
lsmod

so we can get a handle on the wireless card.

Short answer, no, you can't use rpms with Ubuntu. (Someone will now pop up and explain that you can, but there is almost no circumstance you need to or should, and it would take extra fiddling.)

I think Ubuntu now defaults to enabling their non-free repositories off the bat, so you probably do not need to mess with the defaults.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Assuming you want to play commercial DVDs and non-free multimedia, once you get your internet connection up, do the following

Code:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

**johnyjj2** · 10-31-2009

Result of those commands is included with this post.
Greetings

**reed9** · 10-31-2009

Code:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Device [1468:0428]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at 84000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k

This is your card. It is showing a driver in use, the ath5k. I assume you're not seeing your wireless network through the network manager?

What is the output of

Code:

iwconfig
dmesg | grep ath5k

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