Re: SATA Installing Problem

2005-11-25 Thread Basajaun
are inserted at boot time (search this list for Basajaun and SATA for some posts on the subject). [snip] If this is not the place to post my question I humbly apologize. If this were not the place to post such questions, WE should apologize. Many thanx in advance, [snip] You're welcome

Re: Alternative to Microcal Origin?

2005-11-24 Thread Basajaun
Bruno Buys wrote: Is there any free software alternative to Origin, the chart plotting software, with deb packages? I´m looking for suggestions, and trying to figure which one people seem to like more. Thanks! I would suggest GNUPlot and, specially, Xmgrace. Basajaun

Re: Basic questions

2005-11-22 Thread Basajaun
questions ... And I hope we have many more answers... Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2

2005-11-18 Thread Basajaun
made, and not some other weird thing that prevents such a kernel version from booting in your specific machine. , and 3) take advantage of the APT packaging system that is an important part of the reasons one uses Debian in first place. HTH, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-04 Thread Basajaun
is, or if there's any at all. I hope anyone in the list is more enlightened than me, and can make, for example, a brief comparison of Debian Etch and Solaris 10. _That_ would be way more usefull than just calling you naïve. Basajaun

Re: Sound, xmms and Xfce

2005-11-03 Thread Basajaun
Keith Bates wrote: I've just started trying out Xfce and immediately discovered that I can't run xmms. I get the error message Couldn't open audio- Please check that your sound card is configured correctly You can run xmms, but what you can't do is play(hear) anything, right? Maybe do ctrl-p

Re: help: Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

2005-10-24 Thread Basajaun
. With 2.6 kernels SATA devices are labeled /dev/sdX. HTH, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-21 Thread Basajaun
special feature that makes it troublesome... whichever the case might be, I already fixed it, thanks! Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SOLVED]: Slow response of X

2005-10-21 Thread Basajaun
Basajaun wrote: Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: Hi all, I have a weird problem with the response time inside X. I am running Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.12-1-686-smp on a P4 3.4GHz HT with a SATA drive and 1GB RAM. Whenever I start X (XFCE

Re: Installing to SATA drives (was Re: SATA DVD not recognized)

2005-10-21 Thread Basajaun
Bruno Buys wrote: Basajaun wrote: [snip] Yes, the 2.4 does fine. Since SATA is seen as IDE by 2.4, the ide-* modules are loaded, then the IDE devices are seen. The problem under 2.6 is to have some SCSI modules loaded _first_, so they get hold of the ide[01] channels, and actual IDE devices

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
Olle Eriksson wrote: On Wednesday 19 October 2005 18.12, Basajaun wrote: Somewhere else a guy with similar problems got a response asking if DMA was enabled, but my dmesg | grep -i dma shows: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xFFA0

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
... IMHO. Aggg, sorry for the rant. Basajaun

Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
as on oldstile ide disks? I think so. IIRC, that's exactly what I did on mine. BTW, I have the idea that cfdisk is better than fdisk, although I am so accustomed to fdisk that I always use it. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Slow response of X

2005-10-20 Thread Basajaun
Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:12 -0700, Basajaun wrote: Hi all, I have a weird problem with the response time inside X. I am running Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.12-1-686-smp on a P4 3.4GHz HT with a SATA drive and 1GB RAM. Whenever I start X (XFCE 4.2.2), I experience

Slow response of X

2005-10-19 Thread Basajaun
irq 14 ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 398297088 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 is it fine? I am presently quite lost, and would appreciate any clues on how to fix it, or at least what info I need to provide to get the right diagnosis. TIA, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-12 Thread Basajaun
Basajaun wrote: [snip] I intend to upload my epic odyssey to my Linux trick page, and I might post a link, if I don't find it too lame :^) [snip] Here you are: http://makeashorterlink.com/?O532317FB That page, and those following the [Linux stuff] link at the bottom, could be helpfull

Re: cdrom mount directory w/ kernel upgrade

2005-10-11 Thread Basajaun
could see is having missing _device_ files (say, /dev/hdc) when upgrading the kernel (I wrote to another thread on the subject), but not missing dirs... Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Basajaun
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Oct 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 10 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: I have a similar problem here, and sysfs won't help. My /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info file is empty (contains the drive name:... entries, but w/o a value). Also my /sys/bus/ide/devices/ dir

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom -UPDATE

2005-10-11 Thread Basajaun
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 11 Oct 2005, Basajaun wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] I've just fetched the vanilla 2.6.13.3. It compiles correctly and recognizes my CD drives. So it looks as if the problem has been recognized and fixed in the most recent versions. Anthony

Re: 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 won't access cdrom

2005-10-10 Thread Basajaun
was running hotplug... Can someone help? Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install under a SATA disk?

2005-10-03 Thread Basajaun
as /dev/sda by the 2.6, while the /etc/fstab read /dev/hda1 and so on. Seems that 2.6 regards SATA as SCSI instead of IDE. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting up environment variables

2005-09-23 Thread Basajaun
probably resides), you could always move the current /tmp folder to somewhere else (another partition with lots of free space), then create a soft link: ln -s /newdir /tmp. This way, the settings of the system will stay unchanged. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Want to set apt pin-priority lower for none debian sites

2005-09-22 Thread Basajaun
the 4th and 5th lines of your /etc/apt/sources.list... why not just comment them out? Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fstab mount at boot

2005-09-21 Thread Basajaun
for my trouble is fsck gets stuck at boot and makes you hit control+d to continue. [snip] Maybe it is silly, but... what is the order of the lines in your fstab? Are you, by chance, trying to mount /mnt/data _before_ / is mounted, for example? Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How do you move to testing/etch?

2005-09-20 Thread Basajaun
, and you get the Etch package. However, if you had the 1.2 version installed, and aptitude gave the 1.1 Etch version a penalty of -400 points because it is older than the one already installed, then the 1.3 Sid would win 200 vs. 100 (The figures are completely made up by me). HTH, Basajaun

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-19 Thread Basajaun
mcop global references. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem whith fluxbox

2005-09-16 Thread Basajaun
if my english is not correct, I´m spanish. See us. Otro hispanohablante aquí. ¿De dónde eres?. Yo de Donosti. I can't really give you a solution, but I would first try Sarge (if you want Debian Stable), and see if the problem persists... Basajaun

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Basajaun
might (will) come across... you can ask them here! HTH, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: to not apt-get upgrade certain packages

2005-09-15 Thread Basajaun
in the repositories, else dpkg -i the .deb in /var/cache/apt/archives/). HTH, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-listbugs and pinning

2005-09-15 Thread Basajaun
Basajaun wrote: Hi all, I am following the Etch release, and use apt-listbugs as a way to prevent installation of buggy packages. I have came across a problem a previous poster asked about, on July 25th (http://makeashorterlink.com/?D23453BCB), but got no definitive answer. [snip] Come

Re: Where is everyone?

2005-09-15 Thread Basajaun
I posted a question yesterday, and again today, but I got no answer... maybe people is not seing my question, or I am not seing people's answers... Or my question is too silly for anyone to answer :^) Maybe you are experiencing something similar... Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-listbugs and pinning

2005-09-15 Thread Basajaun
Thanks, Maurits. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-listbugs and pinning

2005-09-14 Thread Basajaun
. Is there a way to fix apt-listbugs to do what I want it to do, instead of what it presently does? Is there any flaw in my view of how the pinning/forbiding should be done? TIA, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Basajaun
the modem not to produce its annoying noises with pon? With kppp there is an option somewhere with the Modem Volume or something, but I have perused the pon conf files (some shared with kppp, I believe) to no avail. RTFMs kindly accepted, as answers would be :^) Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Top posting

2005-06-14 Thread Basajaun
a set of rules is merely a step to apply a new set, not to promote anarchy. And then, supporting the new set of rules would invariantly be considered close minded again by some. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Basajaun
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 10 June 2005 03:05 am, Basajaun wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Thursday 09 June 2005 05:26 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 22:06 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: [snip] As long as people follow your rules, they are open minded. People who

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread Basajaun
for everyone! Just my 2 euro cents, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how many bugs in 3.1r0?

2005-06-09 Thread Basajaun
for a very nice paradox: since the README comes with a Stable release, it is out of place. But since it is out of place, its presence is a bug, therefore making its claim true, and consequently it is _not_ a bug... thus it is not out of place in a Stable release :^) Basajaun

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-09 Thread Basajaun
Luis Finotti wrote: Dear Basajaun and all, Basajaun wrote: [snip] Well, you could try the old link trick. First of all locate the biggest directory(ies) residing in /, e.g. du -sh /* then, move that directory and all of its contents to a bigger partition, where space

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-09 Thread Basajaun
(or not), take a look at man apt_preferences. Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
properly (say, when reinstalling the whole system). HTH, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dist-upgrade and sources.list

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
apt-get know it has to upgrade me to Etch, and not Sid? It always upgrades stepwise (stable - testing - etch)? TIA, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dist-upgrade and sources.list

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:55:47AM -0700, Basajaun wrote: My impression (correct me if I'm wrong) is that whatever sources you put in sources.list have nothing to do with the version of Debian you are running. Those lines only tell apt-get where to look

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-08 Thread Basajaun
Obviously, the following line: cp -R /big_dir /scratch/ should read: mv /big_dir /scratch/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

amaroK 1.2 crashing too often

2005-05-31 Thread Basajaun
help to either fix this problem or suggest a replacement. Right now I am using JuK, but I like amaroK better... if it just didn't crash so much... Thanks in advance, Basajaun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]