[PATCH v3 part1 0/4] Fix SG_IO ambiguity between READ SUBCHANNEL and UNMAP (and other similar cases)

The SG_IO ioctl's command whitelist is designed for MMC devices (roughly, "play/burn CDs without requiring root") but some opcodes overlap across SCSI device classes and have different meanings for different classes. To fix this, use ...

Message posted on the May 23rd, 2013 - 10:10 AM ET

[gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

Hello, Gentoo. I've just removed pulseaudio from my main Gentoo system. Why? Several reasons: (i) It's a "sound server", a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of ...

Message posted on the April 18th, 2013 - 03:40 pm ET

[PATCH v2 00/14] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542)

This series regards the whitelist that is used for the SG_IO ioctl. This whitelist has three problems: * the bitmap of allowed commands is designed for MMC devices (roughly, "play/burn CDs without requiring root") but some opcodes ...

Message posted on the February 06th, 2013 - 10:20 am ET

[PATCH 00/13] Corrections and customization of the SG_IO command whitelist (CVE-2012-4542)

This series regards the whitelist that is used for the SG_IO ioctl. This whitelist has three problems: * the bitmap of allowed commands is designed for MMC devices (roughly, "play/burn CDs without requiring root") but some opcodes ...

Message posted on the January 24th, 2013 - 10:10 am ET

Bug#694670: pseudo reproducible

Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 moreinfo Hi! Well, first of all, this bug (694670) it's about kscd not playing music. Let's use 694796 for the crash. I've tried with my PC and I can play CDs with just the first one one of my two ...

Message posted on the December 02nd, 2012 - 10:10 am ET

EFI BoF at DebConf

[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, Here's a summary of what we discussed in the EFI BoF [1] last week (9th July). Thanks to the awesome efforts of the DebConf video team, the video of the session is already online [2] in case ...

Message posted on the July 20th, 2012 - 06:40 pm ET

Testing multiple distros on one drive

I'd like to temporarily install and play with a few distros on my box, in addition to my current production distro. I know I shouldn't just point them all to my current /home/user, as each distro may modify config files in ~/ in ways the production ...

Message posted on the July 17th, 2012 - 12:39 pm ET

Installing Optiarc drive

For a long time I've been unable to get an Optiarc AD-7240S drive to play CDs or DVDs and dmesg does not indicate any driver interface file is loaded. I found the Optiarc driver web site by searching for "Debian Optiarc Driver." Sure ...

Message posted on the June 28th, 2012 - 04:37 pm ET

Bug#673254: dh-autoreconf: Please support --sourcedirectory/-D

Package: dh-autoreconf Version: 6 Severity: wishlist I'm working on a package that has all the sources in a subdirectory, so I'm using the --sourcedirectory option recognised by the dh_auto_* tools to make them play nice, and put their files in the ...

Message posted on the May 17th, 2012 - 06:40 am ET

Banshee 2.2.1 doesn't always play .m4a

Is this the correct newsgroup to post this? I had XP, but just installed Ubuntu 11.10 a few weeks ago (my first non-window OS since CPM and DOS). I also bought The Official Ubuntu book 6th ed. I installed Banshee 2.2.1, and imported a few audio ...

Message posted on the April 06th, 2012 - 04:07 pm ET

[gentoo-user] mdev: sound is only working some of the time.

Hi, all. Got a problem with my system running under mdev. When I try to play CDs (with aqualung feeding into PulseAudio), no sound comes out. However, when I listen to an audio section from a newspaper page such as www.tagesschau.de (no idea what ...

Message posted on the March 20th, 2012 - 05:40 pm ET

locating an analog audio cable

I need one of those simple wires that runs from a CD drive to the sound card in order to play CD audio disks. I understand that the CD drive output is analog and so not sent to the digital bus, and a direct wire is needed. I find these analog wires ...

Message posted on the December 06th, 2011 - 01:24 pm ET

CD Static

I have two CDRoms. Recently I started getting intermittent static during playback of music CDs. I took my box to a very good tech because I suspected a loose connection somewhere. But he found nothing amiss with the connections. Notes: 1. It ...

Message posted on the October 21st, 2011 - 08:32 am ET

Problems with d-i on self-made (debian-cd/easy-build.sh) Debian images

Good morning As I still play with self-made and preseeded Debian images I've some new problem where I hope you can help me or give me the right hint. Of course before I wrote this email I googled (the error message), read the debian-cd ...

Message posted on the October 13th, 2011 - 10:20 am ET

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