Re: How to set up WPA wireless networking

2006-12-21 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 12/21/06, Daniel Schepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, I haven't really been able to find a good reference for how to set up wireless networking and wpasupplicant on Debian, so if there's something obvious out there that I've missed, I would be glad for pointers.

OT: Has any one used torpark in a regular basis?

2006-12-13 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has used torpark in a regular basis. I'm kind of intrigued about it being use as a regular browser. I noticed it's mounted over firefox, so although it's free software, I believe there would be issues as debian has them with firefox right now, but still there might

Re: cdrecord replacement (wodim) fails (WORKS NOW)

2006-10-25 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
[...] I wonder why the change to wodim, cdrecord has been the main stay for cd burning for as long as I can remember. If wodim is the default now I hope it will work as well as cdrecord has all these years. http://lwn.net/Articles/198171/ -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Debian GNU/Minix?

2006-10-10 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 10/16/06, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HXC wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) ) This same question has been

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-29 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/29/06, Stephen Yorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know when the patch for this will be uploaded ? -Original Message- From: Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:38 AM To: Stephen Yorke Cc: David Goodenough; debian-user

Re: Problem installing xserver-xorg

2006-09-25 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/25/06, Stephen Yorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] -Stephen From: David Goodenough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 9/25/2006 9:36 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem installing xserver-xorg [...] When configuring xserver-xorg it asks

Re: how to define what is kernel

2006-09-21 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/21/06, Jabka Atu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening... im creating a tips and triks lesson and i need to define what is module and what is kernel . could you plz advise how to define what is kernel : is it the collection of program (modules) that allow interaction between harwdare

Re: Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card

2006-08-01 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 7/19/06, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:26, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. No, nor would you want to if you

Increasing videoRam beyond the one in the video card

2006-07-19 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, I'd like to know if there's a way to increase the video memory, beyond the one included in the video card, using the main memory ram. I thought I could use videoRam with xorg.conf, but I couldn't, and when I read the man page, it seems that one can't use it for that purpose. I think one

OT: Port to minix3?

2006-07-13 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Just out of curiosity, is there any project trying to port debian to minix3? Under: http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux I don't see anything, but the might be a separate project around there... Thanks, -- Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Fwd: Problems mirroring debian-multimedia

2006-06-26 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 6/24/06, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am repeating this issue to give it it's own subject line and thread. Since the change from marillat to debian-multimedia I have not yet found a satisfactory way of mirroring debian-multimedia. The site does not seem to offer anonymous rsync or ftp,

Re: which debian linux-image has 2.6.16.17?

2006-06-12 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 6/12/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I find out whether a Debian Unstable linux-image has kernel.org's 2.6.16.17? H Linux image package comes with specific versions, for example, there's a package linux-image-686, accompanied by linux-image-2.6-686, which in turns

Re: which debian linux-image has 2.6.16.17?

2006-06-12 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 6/12/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/12/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I find out whether a Debian Unstable linux-image has kernel.org's 2.6.16.17? H Linux image package comes with specific versions, for example, there's a package

Re: OT: ogg player

2006-06-07 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
[...] I don't know what fits your specific requirements, but here is a list of portable players that support vorbis (some do flac as well) : http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers Thanks to all who have answered. The feedback is greatly appreciated. Regarding this mentioned page,

OT: ogg player

2006-06-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
I've been looking for a portable ogg player which would work with removable batteries or plug to an outlet, that is mass storage compliant (that works nice under debian-linux), that would use flash memory cards instead of internal one, and that doesn't require firmware update for proper ogg

Re: How do you hibernate to work?

2006-05-29 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/29/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 15:05:43 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: How do you get hibernate to work on a laptop? Is there a driver to load or a file to configure? Hibernate is one of the things that still can be tricky. Depending on your hardware,

key.asc generation from apt ring

2006-05-25 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, As I don't have internet access at home, I use apt-mirror (very nice tool by the way) to keep an up to date repositorie under an USB disk. I downloaded the debian and gnuab key ascii files (*key*.asc), however the debian-marillat key I grabed on the machine that I can connect to Internet

Re: cdrdao question

2006-05-18 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/18/06, Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The examples in the man page don't appear to cover this job unless I'm reading something and it's just flying by. How could cdrdao be used to burn an already existing iso image to a cdr disk? cdrecord in stable version for kernel 2.4.x just

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-15 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/7/06, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7

Re: Alsa breaks after kernel upgrade

2006-05-11 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/11/06, John L Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Abajian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sound used to work fine. Running Sarge distro kernel 2.6.8-2-386, Alsa was happy. Life was good. Sndstat said: snip Upgraded to new kernel, 2.6.14.7, built from source starting with old

Re: Urgent X Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/10/06, Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what distro you upgrade, but until sarge, you could use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to solve this kind of problems. This person is using Testing, and the error happened after an upgrade. We tried dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-07 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/6/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:11:17 -1000, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7 [...] [...]. WDM doesn't seem to work here, and I've already edited /etc

Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to unstable, and although I can start X up by running just X, now I can't get an X session from wdm for example neither startx. I'm sure I'm just missing some

Re: Anyone having X problem updating from testing to unstable.

2006-05-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 5/5/06, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 15:58:28 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: It looks like the modularized Xorg finally got into unstable, which is good news I believe. Only problem is that I moved from testing to unstable, and although I can

gtksee under sid

2006-04-19 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Is gtksee under sid working for any one out there? Just wondering because for me it complains glibc found. Just to see if it's not just me, :-). -- Javier --

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 1/20/06, kamaraju kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: roberto wrote: hi all i need actually to use math software like matlab and maple whose linux version are not available to me You might already know about this. But I will say it anyway. There are various alternatives for matlab and

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 1/20/06, Adam Fabian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?KOI8-R?B?98nUwczJyiDp3cXOy88=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail online web interface 1) queues -- vital ;) Very handy feature I can't think of any Gmail feature called a

Re: window manager.

2006-01-10 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
... Ok. But...why using hurd with mach kernel instead of linux? It's for your trial ok, but supposing hurd became stable, why use it instead of linux? ... That's for anyone to find out: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd At the end everything comes to a personal choice and taste. I

Re: window manager.

2006-01-09 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 1/9/06, Mauro Sanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Can you suggest me a light window manager to use via vnc in internet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use fluxbox, whether for light wm requirement,

Re: window manager.

2006-01-09 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 1/9/06, Mauro Sanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use fluxbox, whether for light wm requirement, and also in my desk. It's easy to config, it's pretty light, but it also allows fancy stuff if you want it to. For me it's the only wm in all boxes (laptops, desktops, remote connections

ftp://ftp.fsn.hu down?

2005-12-22 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi ! Is someone aware if ftp://ftp.fsn.hu is down? I was downloading unstable jigdo images and all of a sudden it's no longer reachable. -- Javier --

Re: update-grub on aptitude install of new linux image...

2005-12-01 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 12/1/05, Florian Ernst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello *, On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:52:37PM -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: I'm wondering how to make update-grub automatically when ever a new linux image gets installed, whether from debian stock or generated through make-kpkg

update-grub on aptitude install of new linux image...

2005-11-30 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Hi, I'm wondering how to make update-grub automatically when ever a new linux image gets installed, whether from debian stock or generated through make-kpkg. Might be just editing a config file or something? Thx, -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
the gpg info: http://debian.video.free.fr However it can be found on a mirror: http://debian.udsu.ru/debian-soft/marillat Try it out, maybe that's the problem... -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
... But the problem has not been solved. I get the same error when I make apt-get update. I really dont know what's happenning. Thanks, Sergio I doubt it's marillat's repositories: FTP Directory: ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/ [DIRUP] Parent Directory

Re: Problem with Marillat's repository

2005-11-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 11/23/05, Roy Pluschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:06 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: ... I always used stable, testing, unstable rather than etch, sid etc. in my apt sources list for marillat's repository (works fine here). Maybe he doesn't have the symlinks set

Re: Remote printing in cups

2005-11-14 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 11/14/05, jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Migrating from lpr to cups, and can't get past square 1. Have read reams of docs Downloaded latest bits off of sourceforge. Gotten ppd for the remote printer. My setup is this: ---

Re: Getting Debian updates onto a slow bandwidth system

2005-10-28 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
new one I just said no or something like that). By default it seems to look for a CD, so that it downloads just what's new for the new image... I hope I'm not wrong in my appreciation though, :-) -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: X.org does not start properly after upgrade

2005-10-12 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
, and only if it works, then try *dm (wdm, xdm, gdm, etc.)... -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Adding system memory to graphics video...

2005-09-23 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
picked by, but I don't know what to do with it, ex: image=/boot/vmlinuz # or whatever image there is append=mem=480m # leave some memory for graphics So what's next? How should I specify to use the left memory for video purposes? Thanks, -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: Downloading ISO image using BitTorrent, confused

2005-09-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
, I'm wondering why not using jigdo. It's supposed to be the preferred method to download debian iso's, and it doesn't congest the servers either. The mechanism is a bit different since the packages are separately downloaded, but it's kind of cool also. -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: Installing mplayer

2005-09-14 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
and there are problems with Marillat's packages I'm not aware of, and if that's the case, apologyze my post... Thx, -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
How about flac? Is there any comparisson between flac and Ogg in terms of compresion and sound quality? Thx, Javier. On 8/13/05, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in

Re: How does wdm detect and store window manger sessions?

2005-08-11 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
I've never modified wdm-config, but that's a nice option. wdm will call always ~/.xsession. What I've always done is to call the WM I want from ~/.xsession and that's it. It might be I misunderstood the question though, and also previous answer... Javier. On 8/11/05, strawks [EMAIL

Re: upgrading to X.org server

2005-08-05 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
Did you try dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and still got what you mentioned? I had some issues with previous XF86Config-4 at 1st, but after performing the reconfiguration of the package I got everything set correctly... Javier. On 8/5/05, Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so long

Re: web browser alternatives...

2005-08-03 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:37:33 -0600 Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only options I knew were mozilla and opera, but in my experience opera can't access some web pages mozilla does and I don't like its adverstisement... I'm a long time Opera user but have never found pages

web browser alternatives...

2005-08-02 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
? I read about amaya and dillo, but none has the support mozilla does for flash and java... Thanks, -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas

floppy auto type

2005-08-01 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
unstable... Has anyone noticed this? Any hints/suggestions? Thanks, -- Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas