[Testing] alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Hi all, I had a perfectly(well, almost) working debian testing installation. before deciding to play with it :-( I'm not going in the details, but it ended up with not having module-init-tools installed anymore. Then I installed the one in the sarge CD, then updated it via internet with the one

Re: [Testing] alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device - SOLVED

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
I'm replying to myself to add that doing apt-get update alsa-base happily solved my sound-related problems. Ciao --- FB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Testing] alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device

2006-03-12 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Il Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:10:16 +0100, Florian Kulzer ha scritto: Francesco Bochicchio wrote: Hi all, ... Maybe some more things to check: ... Thanks for your answer. It turned out that an update of the alsa-base package fixed my problem, although I'm not sure how. My gess

Re: alsaconf successful. No sound!

2006-03-07 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Il Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:50:14 +0100, Felix Karpfen ha scritto: I ran alsaconf on my recently-updated Debian 3.1r1. It worked like a charm and ended with the following messages: Running update-modules... Loading driver... Setting default volumes...

savage card, X.org, DRI, Mesa

2005-10-15 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Hi all, I'm trying to make DRI work on my laptop, which has a debian stable installed (maybe with remnants of the old testing), and the recent x.org backport fetched from backports.org (Debian 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7bpo1). This is what lspci says about my grafic card: :01:00.0 VGA compatible

Re: NAT forwarding : only partial connections

2004-11-28 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 08:08:36PM +0200, Black Dew wrote: Francesco Bochicchio wrote: What I do is this: On the PC : iptables -t NAT -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE AFAIK it should be -t nat (lowercase). Upcase NAT gives the following error on my system: Yes. I wrongly

NAT forwarding : only partial connections

2004-11-27 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Hi all, I have a laptop with installed Sarge and a PC with installed Sid. I would like to implement this schema: Laptop -wireless- PC+ADSL Modem phone lines Provider..Internet I had it working in the past, but after a reinstallation of SID on the PC, something broke. All the connections

Re: reply in lista

2001-05-05 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:40:32AM +0200, Davide wrote: come si fa affinch? mutt, quando premo rispondi a un messaggio di questa lista, risponda effettivamente a debian-italian@lists.debian.org e non all'autore del messaggio? sulle altre liste funziona, con questa no, anche se ho messo

Re: email

2000-11-15 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:13:07AM -, debian wrote: Thanks for that but i am still a little confused. What is the findutils package and which file in root/bin do I past in the line you gave. do the findutils package will get you the updatedb function, it is updated 'nightly' by the

Re: Debian 2.2 crashes with Netscape..help

2000-11-12 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 02:18:27PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: This isn't a crash, it's a system slowdown. The 'VM' messages seem to hint to Virtual Memory problems, however. I've read that the latest 2.2.x kernels have some VM problems. Almost certainly resulting from insufficient

Re: sound problem with via82cxxx

2000-11-12 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:52:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I have a KinetiZ7T mainbord with build in VT82C686A use Debian potato and am trying to get sound. modprobe ac97_codec works modprobe via82cxxx fails Had the same problem, so I switched to ALSA. I

Re: Got KDE packages, what to do next

2000-11-11 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:51:07PM +, kentsin wrote: I have the KDE packages to my debian box. It has many packages, how could I make them aware to dselect? I do something like this: - put packages in a directory, say /usr/local/packages/potato/kde - cd /usr/local/packages - create an

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-10 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:07:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: you can do that in netscape as well... Before switching I tried to do it. I wanted the mail of each list in a different folder. I thought of filtering by 'From', but in debian lists 'From' is the author and 'Resent from' is the

Re: info su installazione di Debian

2000-11-09 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Pietro Greco wrote: potrei ricevere possibilmente in italiano le isrtuzzioni per l' installazione di debian poichè ho grossi problemi grazie e arrivederci Cosa ti serve in particolare? Rispondi a me, in questa lista si parla sopratutto inglese. Oppure

Re: Question and goodbye...

2000-11-09 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:42:52AM +1100, Damien wrote: it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic isn't that hard to deal with - maybe ten minutes a day, if you've got a good mailer. Yep. It was the amount on trafic on debian-user which forced me to abandon

Re: gnome-ppp

2000-11-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 12:00:43PM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: Hi Folks; Have Debian 2.2 running on a Pentium 166MMX, 2 hard drives, only one containing Debian. After configuring Gnome-ppp and attempt to dial out get the following error The pppd died unexpectedly. So tried the Help menu

Re: Help needed on Gimp imlib error

2000-11-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:46:10PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Hi, I don't know what is going on. I have a pretty vanilla system runnng 2.2, E, and a strict minimum of mainly console apps. Gimp was working fine. I loaded and off-loaded a couple things and now I find that when I open a file

Re: another name

2000-11-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:14:27PM -0200, Flavio Alberto wrote: I'm have one Debian box 2.2 with name dragon.theserverone.com and like another other name eg.: tiger1.theserverone.com how I'm make this is? Use 'hostname' to set the host name. Do 'man hostname' for details on how to use the

Re: Voice recognition (ViaVoice Dictation?)

2000-11-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:29:11AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: Is anyone doing anything with voice recognition under Debian? I purchased ViaVoice Dictation for Redhat and I've tried to install it under Debian with no success. If anyone's succeeded at this I'd be interested in hearing from

Re: File permissions for /dev/*

2000-11-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:23:09PM +, Jan Warnking wrote: Hi everybody, Stupid me, I inadvertently changed the permissions for all of the device files on my potato box to 660. How do I get them back to their initial state? I didn't find any documentation on the default file

Re: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:55:09PM +, guran remberg wrote: A Debian dilemma. Myself and other newbies, which come to Debian to learn how to run a small and properly confined Linux, may be called 'iconographs'. That is to say we don't know the underlying commando structure of what

Re: Panel Crash

2000-10-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:16:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I've make an upgrade from potato to woody and now the gnome panel at startup crashes (segmentation fault) any idea on what i should check? Try to move away your ~/.gnome* directories. You will lose most of the

Re: dove reperire i cd Debian

2000-10-27 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 06:17:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vi sarei grato se mi dite dove posso reperire i cd della Debian. io abito a Melzo / Milano Translation : where can I find Debian CDs? I live in Melzo / Milano. Risposta: Rivolgi la stessa domanda nella lista

Re: Dual OS

2000-10-25 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:01:32AM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote: Why didn't Debian use the kernel version 2.2.17pre6 that is on the CD's instead of using 2.2.15-4mdk? Debian usually gives you the choice among several of the last stable kernels. Just install the kernel-package and

Re: Lucent winmodem and Debian with an up to date Kernel

2000-10-23 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:10:46AM +0100, Jeff Green wrote: A colleague has got some of our laptops which contain internal Lucent winmodems working using DeadRat 6.2 I would much prefer him to use Debian or Storm but the Lucent driver we can find is a binary only affair found on

Re: funziona con ati rage futy maxx

2000-10-19 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:03:20PM +0200, Salvatore Russo wrote: Scusate il disturbo volevo sapere se io ( avendo unas skeda video ati rage fury maxx) posso utilizzare l'installazione grafica con debian 2.2 Translation : sorry, I'd like to know if I, with a video-card ATI-RAGE Fury MaXX, can

Re: Weird X Problem

2000-10-18 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 07:54:36AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs that xsreensaver run),

Weird X Problem

2000-10-17 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Hi all! yesterday, I experienced a very weird problem with X : the background of my Laptop become suddenly black, excepting two areas : one showed a fragment of a picture with a dog in it ( only the head an part of the body ), the other showed an half-schetched drawing which could be a

Re: Graphical FTP client

2000-10-09 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:19:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. Just in case you don't know, the KDE File Manager ( kfm with KDE 1.x, konqueror with kde2.0 ) can be also used

Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-05 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:27:43PM +0200, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: I don't know which package to report that bug on, so I'll ask you folks first... I had a couple weird spontaneous shutdowns of GNOME (it seems)... I come back to my laptop and I see the GDM login screen, though I'm sure I

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-03 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:07:53PM -0500, Daniel E. Baumann wrote: On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: Hi everybody, I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some config files

Re: Debian and compaq presario

2000-10-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:29:21PM +0200, Olivier Billet wrote: Hi everybody, I've well installed --well, more or less : I just set the X server, some config files correctly-- Debian 2.2 on my Compaq Presario 1200 laptop, but I still have a problem: Is there somwhere someone that has

Re: Problem with Lucent winmodem on debian 2.2

2000-10-01 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 11:25:30AM -0400, Shaji N V wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure Lucent Winmodem on my HP Pavillion (6735) box with Debian 2.2. I have followed the instructions from www.linmodems.org for installing the binary only driver provided by Lucent, but still have problems

Re: windows fixed on upper panel (cannot be moved or resized)

2000-09-27 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:59:25PM +0200, Ulrich Grün wrote: I have installed debian 2.2 with X_4.0.1 (the original X-server refused to connect because of some errno=111). Which one ? (It dowsn't matter anymore, anyway ...) My problem is, that all the windows are fixed on the upper panel on

Re: Exim smarthost problem

2000-09-25 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 12:29:00PM +0200, Frodo Baggins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi debianers, I'm sure the answer should be in the doc, but I couldn't find it :) Problem is, I use two different ISP, dependig on the time of the day (no flat rate in

Re: mozila eats memory - additional question

2000-09-20 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
In addition to the above post : I have a single Mozilla windows, started recently, but if I do a 'ps' I get 6 'processes' running ./mozilla.bin : are they threads or what ? Ciao -- FB

Re: Missing modules - system still silent

2000-09-20 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:47:46AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Many thanks for the help thus far - I was clearly mixing two methods of kernel compilation! Now, I've compiled the kernel yet again (8th try I think) and STILL the system can't find the modules - that is I get lots of can't

Re: OT: abbreviations

2000-09-15 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:17:40PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: Hi all, because I'm not english I don't understand all the abbreviations you use in the mail... can anybody explain to me ? :) IMHO, BTW, AFAIK, etc etc etc Try this link: http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym Someone could write

Re: exim configuration (Authenticators)

2000-08-24 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 04:47:46PM -0400, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: I have problems in configuring exim using a remote server as smarthost, because I don't know how to tell exim my username and password on the smarthost. I have posed the question to the exim-users mailing list, and they have

Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

2000-08-11 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Karl Matheson wrote: Hey, I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing me the stack. It looks like this: SNIP.../SNIP scsi : 0 hosts scisi : detected total Partition check: hda : hda1 hda2

Re: sawmill + gnome?

2000-08-11 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 11:55:31AM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: Hello; I am trying to get sawmill to work correctly with gnome. Previously I was using windowmaker. For right now I just want to know what I am _supposed_ to have in these boxes inside gnomecc: Name: - I just put

Re: Lilo Problem

2000-08-08 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:42:04AM +0200, Dirk Allard wrote: Hi, I just installed the latest slink cd image on my machine (worked ok). Trying to install lilo it wouldn't work, because the boot disk has over 1024 cylinders. Unfortunately the floppy is not working, so I cannot boot through

Re: lilo problem

2000-08-07 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 04:26:14PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: I'm running libranet version of debian potato. It uses the 2.2.14 kernel. I am having a problem with lilo. My hard disk is a 15 gig with the following partitions /=2500 megs /usr=5000mgb /home=2500mgb /var=1250mgb the rest of

Re: Corel Linux--your opinions pls

2000-08-06 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:05:08AM -0700, Aaron Maxwell wrote: I think it's fine. My 1-month-old system came with CorelOS preinstalled. I used it for a week until I changed it to pure debian [1]. I too has a similar experience: because slink won't install on my new Atlon, I installed Corel,

Re: Loading fetchmail man page in Gnome-help uses all memory

2000-08-05 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:54:05PM +0100, Lee Elliott wrote: Hello list, I noticed a curious thing this evening - when I load the fetchmail man page in the Gnome help browser, it grabs all my memory - 256MB and ramps up swap usage until all that's gone too - another 256MB - previously none

Re: Easy potato installation alternative?

2000-08-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
I remember that someone once said in this list that installing Corel and then upgrading wouldn't work well... Mmmm, I think it depends on what you want to do. When I bought my current Desktop, an Atlon 700, I couldn't install from the Slink CD, bucause the kernel with it (2.0.36) was

Re: Easy potato installation alternative? - errata corrige

2000-08-02 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
All true but the dounload time : I don't remember exactly, but it could not be 3 hours only. The maximum I can do is 5.5~6kB/sec and I downloaded about 200 MB ! -- FB

Re: Compiling mc-4.5.44 [no:command not found]

2000-07-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 02:34:29AM -0700, Sherab Puntsok wrote: Hi debs, I have a problem on compiling mc-4.5.44.tar.gz no: command not found Details: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/download/mc-4.5.44/po' file=./`echo nl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ rm -f $file

Re: Wine Windows Emulator

2000-07-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 02:23:20AM -0700, Thomas Loredo wrote: I am a newbie to the Linux OS and I am using Corel Linux. I was trying to install the Wine emulator and can't figure out how to do this, if anyone can help please do so? Thanks, Tom Loredo You should use dselect, or a

Re: how to start gnome

2000-06-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:29:19 Nick wrote: i loaded gnome a long time ago and forgot how to start it i have tried gnome-sessionand not luck gnome-session is correct, but the first time you should create the session ( ASAIK gnome-session just allows to save the program started in a

Re: rank newbie - no mouse

2000-06-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 06:34:50 sido wrote: I installed Debian Linux and everything works great except for X which looks fine except the mouse doesn't move. I've re-installed the OS 3 times now and searched for help on the mouse but not come up with much. I tried to run mouseconfig but

Re: GNOME+Sawmill workspaces

2000-06-30 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:32:40 Ed Cogburn wrote: I have GNOME and Sawmill/Sawfish (latest debs from potato/woody) and I want to have 4 workspaces in a horizontal row. The GNOME pager works as I want it to, except that Sawmill allows moving the cursor to the top or bottom of the

Re: Install X windows Command??

2000-06-22 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
Debiandomain wrote: Hi Group, I just noticed X windows didnt install after doing a fresh install of slink. How do I install it? Do I use dkpg or something? I normally install it with everyhting else but I guess I forgot to select it or something. Thanks -- You could use dselect and