Re: Reporting a bug (was: fglrx driver problems)

2007-03-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu March 29 2007 10:08, Marko Randjelovic wrote: I run Etch on machine with Nvidia nForce3 250 motherboard and Radeon 9550 graphics card. DRI is not working neither with radeon, nor fglrx driver. I tried several versions of fglrx driver and kernel, Debian and vanilla. I think it's a bug

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue March 27 2007 19:05, Teilhard Knight wrote: I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this

Re: How to compile

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote: I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail.. ;) Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64? Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others. My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with module-assistant. How do

Re: Using Asterisk in Debian to set up Conference Calling

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 26 March 2007 08:14, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi! } On 3/25/07, Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } Is there really nobody on this list using asterisk and the Meetme } application? I use asterisk, but i've not already use meetme. I think that you could find a better community

Re: Using Asterisk in Debian to set up Conference Calling

2007-03-24 Thread Alan Chandler
Is there really nobody on this list using asterisk and the Meetme application? On Friday 23 March 2007 20:14, Alan Chandler wrote: I have a Debian Etch server running asterisk I am trying to set up conference calling with the MeetMe command. However when ever I enter an extension which

Using Asterisk in Debian to set up Conference Calling

2007-03-23 Thread Alan Chandler
, being the Debian binary package, that I don't have the ztdummy driver installed.  On the otherhand I read in viop-info.org that that wasn't necessary with Linux 2.6 (I am running 2.6.18). Where do I go from here? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

RE: iptables + IPP2P

2007-03-12 Thread Alan J . Córdoba Rodriguez
-Mensaje original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Lunes, 12 de Marzo de 2007 01:17 p.m. Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: iptables + IPP2P Hola, lista estuve probando iptables + módulo ipp2p (0.8.0 y 0.8.2) para controlar el trafico

Re: Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 09:12, Dave Walker wrote: I have set up a nice big /Share directory on a separate HD, and would like to create a document repository there accessible by all users. So far only the root user can read, write and execute on the /Share directory. What is the best way to

Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 11:30, agentace wrote: I installed debian on a PowerEdge 850 flawlessly in October of 2005 using a Testing NetInst CD. It's sad that the SATA support for this machine has since been removed, as I'm now attempting to install debian on another machine which is exactly the

Re: Sad...

2007-03-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat March 10 2007 12:56, Ben Humpert wrote: Well, then the debian guys should fix this decades old sarge installer - OR - merge it with the etch installer; it just takes some hours to do this. sata is already established enough to support it. its a shame to direct users to testing only to

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-04 Thread Alan Chandler
/) to provide a very powerful tool to access my database. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Asterisk and MP3 files

2007-03-04 Thread Alan Chandler
Asterisk should have mp3 files for playing music on hold. The debian distribution doesn't appear to have these in it. Is there another package which does hold them? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Kernel Multipath

2007-02-28 Thread Alan Romaniuc
or is offtopic? -- Alan Romaniuc Phone : +55 11 5105-4955 Mobile : +55 11 8270-2520 [EMAIL PROTECTED] INTELIGENSA DO BRASIL Rua Quintana, 887, 5o. andar - Brooklin 04569-011 - São Paulo - SP - BRASIL www.inteligensa.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Configuring pptpd confusing

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Chandler
connect. IT says it is being pointed to by this mythical /etc/pptpd.conf file. Can someone enlighten my how I am supposed to use pptpd on debian -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Configuring pptpd confusing

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 26 February 2007 23:24, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:57:00PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: I have just installed pptpd on my etch system and am now confused about what configuration file is where Documentation seems to imply a /etc/pptpd.conf file

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 07:02, Matthew K Poer wrote: If you want to 'mkfs.vfat' try 'apt-get install dosfstools' as it handles FAT systems. Odd: I was wondering earlier how to reformat my USB MSD. I guess mkfs will do it. I probably wouldn't have remembered the command 'mkfs' if it hadn't

Re: Cannot boot using Grub from CD

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 08:55, Chris Lale wrote: I am trying to make a CDROM Grub boot disc so that I can boot my system if the MBR is overwritten or the default partition is removed. I made an eltorito CD with stage2_eltorito and my menu.lst file in the CD's /boot/grub using the instructions

Re: X wont start (Etch)

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 09:10, redhat penguin wrote: hi, I installed the latest release of the NetInstall for Debian ETCH just a couple of minutes ago but when i boot debian i get an error message saying: *Code:* Failed to start X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is

Re: Install of etch

2007-02-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed February 21 2007 17:32, Kevin Kempter wrote: I want to try out Etch. I have a DVD of Sarge (via Linux Magazine). Is it easy enough to install Sarge and upgrade to Etch, or am I better off downloading a weekly snapshot of Etch? Either way will work. If I were in you situation I would

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-20 Thread Alan Chandler
cannot produce documents with the consistency and completeness (proper version control of all documentation, with the version numbers automatically printed in the footer is just one such example) -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian Etch OpenGL libraries

2007-02-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 20 2007 07:21, Srikanth Venigandla wrote: Hi, I am trying to install a software called Geant4 on my debian Etch installation of x86_64 architecture (intel EMT64). I figured out that OpenGL libraries installation is incomplete on my system. I tried posting the error message

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but I thought that MP3 was one of the questionable formats that goes against the DFSG. Perhaps I am wrong. In any event, I was pleasantly surprised. I find that mp3 and ogg are

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 19:43, Ken Heard wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. What kind of trouble are you having? I installed dosemu on one of my boxes that will need it

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 05:39, David Baron wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 Are you running sarge? Sid. Opps.. :) I found no conf file specitying

Re: no sound..

2007-02-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 18 2007 09:28, Mikael Backman wrote: sön 2007-02-18 klockan 16:40 +0100 skrev Nigel Henry: On Saturday 17 February 2007 21:31, Mikael Backman wrote: On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:00, Mikael Backman wrote: I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is

Re: no sound..

2007-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 17 2007 09:00, Mikael Backman wrote: I use Debian Stable. Everything seems ok.. The sound card is detected.. I've rune alsaconf.. Used alsamixer to adjust the voloume.. It's just that there is no sound. Not a beep :( Have you also unmuted the channels you want to use in

Re: Epson V100 Scanner Problem

2007-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 17 2007 13:32, Thomas H. George wrote: I just purchased an Epson V100 Photo Scanner but apparently the sane epson backend does not support this model. As root scanimage -L finds the scanner but the test scanimage image.pnm suggested in the sane man page results in scanimage:

Re: Debian 3.1r4 question

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 16 2007 09:54, Joe Vender wrote: Are the CD images provided for Debian 3.1r4 able to do a full, clean install of Debian on an zero-filled HDD, or are they just for an upgrade from 3.1r3 or earlier? I'd like to try Debian on a clean system, but I'm not sure if I can use the

apt-get

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Krasiński
Witam Próbuje zrobić sobie zbiorcze repozytorium debiana dla wersji stable i testing. Ogólnie wszystko ładnie mi wyszło najpierw zrobiłem repozytorium ręcznie a potem okazało się, że apt-move jest o wiele prostrzym rozwiązaniem. Problem w tym, że na maszynie na której ma być repozytorium

Re: apt-get

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Krasiński
kolego co to za herezje ;), co cię skloniło co stworzenia wlasnego repo ? w dodatku czemu chcesz instalować kadu bez zależności - potrzebne ci tylko binarka kadu tak aby jej nie mozna bylo uruchomić ? No to może ja wyjąsnie. Mam pare maszyn z debianem w wersji testing i w wersji stable.

Re: apt-get

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Krasiński
Dnia czwartek, 15 lutego 2007 13:26, Wojciech Ziniewicz napisał: 07-02-15, Alan Krasiński [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał(a): [...] internet JA --ludzie z debianami :] ajj.. sory tępy jestem , trzeba było tak od razu : nie trzeba rzeźbić : #$ apt-cache show apt-proxy Nie do końca bo

Re: apt-get

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Krasiński
Dnia czwartek, 15 lutego 2007 13:33, Albert Czarnecki napisał: Witam Tutaj jest opis jak tego dokonac , mowie o apt-mirror:) http://howtoforge.net/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror Popraw jeśli się myle ale to robi kompletnego mirrora a ja chce mieć w repo tylko wybrane przezemnie pliki.

Re: apt-get

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Krasiński
Dnia czwartek, 15 lutego 2007 13:39, Wojciech Ziniewicz napisał: odpowiedzialny z ciebie admin ;) Poprostu chce sobie zmniejszyć nakład pracy. Czyli niemoża zassać samego deba bez zależności ? W sumie jest to do przeżycia bo przecież nie próbuje zmniejszać użycia łącza ale tylko zautomatyzować

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:12, Niels Rasmussen wrote: ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer. There is no flash player for 64 bit anything, at least not yet. I read that the folks at macromedia/adobe were working on it but nothing

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:12, ciol wrote: Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian. I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100% voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze wants to be paid, if debian will not loose its identity. Isn't it

Re: Installing Etch onto a laptop w/out CD device

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 09:38, andy wrote: Good day I have an old-ish laptop with a dodgy CD-device, onto which I want to install Etch. I am using Etch on my desktop and the laptop is connected to the same LAN that my desktop is on. Is there anyway that I can exploit this arrangement to

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 18:25, rocky wrote: Hey all, I'm going install debian testing on my Dell Inpiron 1300. I'm going to make it a dual boot system. Right now I have Windows XP home edtion loaded on the laptop. And the 60 GB hard driver is not partitioned. Can any of you help me on the

Re: Install Debian testing distribution

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 19:09, Alan Ianson wrote: There are a few net install images for etch. Look here.. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ Opps, those are full disc sets.. try here.. :) http://www.us.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Clamav Warnings

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 06:28, David Baron wrote: WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Current functionality level = 12, recommended = 13 Are you running sarge? I found no conf file specitying anything but 12 anything but maximum threads. Is a new upgrade in the

Re: Need Scanner Recommendation

2007-02-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 15 2007 20:27, Thomas H. George wrote: My Epson Perfection 2400 Photo scanner has died and must be replaced. The Epson 4990 is too rich for my budget and the Epson 4490 is not on the Sane list of supported scanners? Has anyone had success with the 4490? Are there better

Re: xmcd problem?

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 6 2007 16:57, Listscribbler wrote: I have xmcd_2.6-19_i386.deb installed on an etch laptop. I cannot figure out how to use xmcd to rip ogg files off audio CDs. Never used or seen that one so I'm not sure. A year ago I had xmcd (don't recall version) installed under unstable

Re: xmcd problem?

2007-02-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 6 2007 19:01, Bayrouni wrote: Alan Ianson a écrit : On Tue February 6 2007 16:57, Listscribbler wrote: I have xmcd_2.6-19_i386.deb installed on an etch laptop. I cannot figure out how to use xmcd to rip ogg files off audio CDs. Never used or seen that one so I'm not sure

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this looks suspicious. That sounds about right. I have a base install plus kde and my /usr/share/ is 1.8G. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 5 2007 15:29, cga2000 wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this looks suspicious. That sounds about right. I have a base install

Re: highmem kernel question

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 5 2007 15:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:06:07 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. ^^^ Are you sure? I just updated and I still only see the -3- image. Etch is still at -3. If all goes

Re: amule refuses to start

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 06:58, Michael Pobega wrote: This [0] is what I get in the command line. I apt-get removed, dpkg --purge 'd and apt-get installed amule. What else could be going on? Greetings, Juanjavier Martínez [0] http://personales.ya.com/juanjavier_xxx/amule.jpg

Re: Unstable and Testing stability

2007-02-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 14:49, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm currently using Debian Etch (Testing) on my notebook, and it is fairly stable in a good sense of the word (Those 100+ release critical bugs really aren't bugs that affect me, so my system is perfectly stable to my knowledge). Unstable is

Re: resize2fs on LVM2 on hardware RAID5

2007-02-03 Thread Alan Chandler
/var/cache) and make a lvm logical volume for it. Then mount it at some other place, mv the data across, and then umount it and remount it on /var/cache. I got back about 1.9G of space for the rest of /var by that mechanism. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 1 2007 08:31, Tim Wescott wrote: I need a new laptop, and if possible I want to get one without paying for Windows. After looking around the web and asking locally, I've found two sources of laptops that come new with Linux loaded. One is Linux Certified, the other Emperor

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 30 2007 20:55, cga2000 wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:46:27PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote: I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any feedback. I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I

Mount information during boot.

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
label or by uuid, using -U uuid . Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd]. For many more details, say man 8 mount . -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mount information during boot.

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:58:56PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: The following text appears several times whilst booting. Its relatively new (for the last couple of months). Any idea what does it? as it doesn't appear

Re: Mount information during boot.

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 20:40, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 07:52:59PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:58:56PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: The following text appears

Re: Small Network Setup with Debian Router

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
because of the volume. It was then that I put my 1Ghz celeron debian PC as the router, and it has never once even broken sweat dealing with the volume of data. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 16:07 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 10:36 +, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: On 2007-01-30, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 and rhythmbox from playing sounds

Re: Gnome sound server

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2007-30-01 at 17:39 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: How does one use dmix, or is that used when the sound server is disabled? First of all, dmix, sound servers (esd and so on) are all used if your card can't do hardware mixing. If it can do hardware mixing, you don't need to use any

Re: Bug #352758

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 30 2007 18:05, cga2000 wrote: I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any feedback. I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the wrong maintainer group .. etc.

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 29 2007 06:16, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Use a dynamic IP hosting service like no-ip.com or dyndns.com By the way, hoes do these dynamic ip services handle ssl https certificates? Would they trigger errors on users' browsers? These services just provide the dns redirection to

Re: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote: In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? You'll need to uninstall whatever you installed to begin with. If you used aptitude to install gnome and xorg it'll remove them with all the depends it installed with it. One of

Re: Απ: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 29 2007 07:17, Nick Demou wrote: 2007/1/29, Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote: In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome? You'll need to uninstall whatever you installed to begin with. [...] Someone else

Gnome sound server

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Ianson
Whenever I turn on gnome's sound server it blocks some apps like ut2004 and rhythmbox from playing sounds. Is there a better way to configure gnome's sound server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch on X86-64

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 28 2007 15:58, Ananda Samaddar wrote: Hello there, my desktop computer recently bit the dust and I'm thinking of getting a Core 2 duo system. What is the status of Debian on the X86-64 platform? Is it usable? I'd love to hear from people using this particular port and their

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 28 2007 19:44, Oliver Twist wrote: I am a soon-to-be new user of Debian. I have been using other (particularly live) distros for a while to learn linux, but I very much want to move to Debian. In any case, with a new major release (etch - 4.0) coming out soon, I am wondering

Re: [OT] Nvidia 9746 driver

2007-01-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 27 2007 08:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, The upward pressure continues: Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my MX440 + MX4000 cards You are being driven to get boards with PCI Express slots and buy faster videocards. I found the FX5200 is

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri January 26 2007 14:20, Piotr Dziubinski wrote: I'm very irritated and disappointed with your policy! Why? I think this all boils down to the mozilla or firefox policy doesn't it? I've used various Linux distributions for 8 years. I've been using Debian for the last 6 months, but today

Re: Installing Debian by installation disk

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 25 2007 06:35, Colin Perkins wrote: Hi everyone, I have installed both Gnome and KDE. Xinit shows 6 titles starting with X ; whether a xserver is running or not - I do not know. I have read the installation documents ; but I am still not sure what I am doing, I am trying

Re: can Etch AMD64 recognise a Realtek ALC563 Ethernet card?

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 25 2007 12:31, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, Here is the Ethernet card in my AMD 64 box: LAN Integrated Fast Ethernet (10/100/1000) Realtek ALC653 Does anyone know if Debian Etch will see it OK? Not sure, I have used realtek network cards without any problem

Re: Installation of Debian by disk

2007-01-25 Thread Alan Chandler
to get to that prompt and logout, then type Ctrl-Alt_F7 to get back to your graphical prompt.) Try this, and come back to this mailing list if you have further problems. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Switching to amd64 - is it worth it?

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 22 2007 06:33, Juergen Fiedler wrote: I don't do anything that needs vast computing power - I mostly use that machine for web browsing, email and the occasional movie, all of which works quite nicely with the x86 kernel and libraries. Is there any good reason to switch to an

Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 18 2007 06:22, Mitchell Verter wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to install Sarge on a pretty old Toshiba 2500CDS http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproducts/html/satellite/satellite_2500cds_spe c.html I downloaded the netinst CD image (100 Mb) The computer has just begun loading

Re: Lost lots of volume suddenly - help?!

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 18 2007 08:50, Julian Gilbey wrote: Any suggestions on this one: I'm running ALSA (with ESD) and between turning my computer off yesterday and switching it on today, the output volume has been decimated. I need to change the master volume and program output volume (in eg, xmms,

Re: How to get those nice console fonts?

2007-01-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue January 16 2007 07:53, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Daniel Haude wrote: Hello, I'd like to have my console (non-X) fonts small and neat like Knoppix's. I tried the various vga=xxx kernel options but all of them produced bigger and uglier fonts. How is it done? I don't really

Re: USB flash key and other issues.

2007-01-14 Thread Alan Chandler
understand - what processes? If you are talking about those during startup /etc/init.d/ start and /etc/init.d/ stop where is the particular daemon. (look in /etc/init.d to see whats there). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Chandler
seems to have a completely different ip address - so presumably is another router) needs to be configured to represent the ip addresses on the interfaces. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: [OT] UK petition against software patents

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Chandler
waste money on 'defensive patents'. These have no value against pure litigation companies and do not counter threats made directly to customers. I don't understand the argument here. If it says that there is economic disadvantage to the state from patents then say so. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: gtk-gnutella problems

2007-01-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 13 2007 12:49, operator wrote: /interesting to note that mine does not work either, and I am using sarge stable. operator The version is stable is likely a few versions behind, it did work when sarge was released but that was about 19 months ago. I think the best solution in

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 11 2007 06:15, Douglas Tutty wrote: Have you had a look at http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ ? You might find that interesting. I'll dl it and check it out. I note, however, that the most recent is made from Etch in October. There were more at one time. I downloaded a

Re: This URL crashes Konqueror.....?

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 11 2007 18:54, M-L wrote: Can someone enlighten me please as to why this the URL below crashes Konqueror? http://www.avaaz.org/en/iraq_campaign_jan_2007/ It doesn't crash my konqueror on etch-amd64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: IP Address networking - best way?

2007-01-11 Thread Alan Chandler
192.168.0.39 netmask 255.255.255.0 -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 04:41, Duncan McDonald wrote: Hi all, I'm relatively new to Debian administration and I've recently encountered a problem with Exim which has me stumped. While I can send email directly from the server to external recipients and also from other computers within the

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 05:54, Duncan McDonald wrote: From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:26 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... Just a shot in the dark. If exim4 is set

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 09:37, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails okay, so I had to

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 10:19, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Alan Ianson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:49 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails ... It was a common

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 11:00, Duncan McDonald wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails so you can get to

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 20:45, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, etc. Knoppix is a huge iso and I'm

Re: Missing jigdo file

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun January 7 2007 22:16, Bryce wrote: Does anyone known anything about the file gtkdiskfree_1.9.3-4sarge1_amd64.deb : Jigdo asks for this file but can't find it--out of over 7,000 files this is the only one missing for a DVD ISO (for AMD-64). The archives at snapshot.debian.net

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 8 2007 08:42, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: I think this gmail quirk should go to Raju's FAQ: Q: I posted from my gmail account, but I don't receive my own posts. But I receive other posts and even answers to my own posts.

Re: firewall problem? was: www.debian.org down?

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon January 8 2007 08:57, Paul Scott wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:33:11AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Is anyone else having trouble getting to www.debian.org? I can get to mirrors to install packages but not to the web site. works fine in Spokane WA

Re: /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

2007-01-07 Thread Alan Chandler
near the beginning. Did you run out of disk space sometime recently? There should be a /var/lib/dpkg/available-old file too (at least I have one) Disclaimer: I don't know what I am talking about. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Slow USB disk

2007-01-05 Thread Alan Chandler
to a large fat drive and fried it in the process] What the grandparent post wants to do is controlled by HAL parameters. Install the hal-doc package and then look inside /usr/share/doc/hal-doc/conf for some examples. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk

gift-gnutella

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
I have been using the gift package to connact to the gnutella and openft networks but I'm not connecting to the gnutella network on my current etch-amd64 box. Connecting to openft does work. Anyone else having success with gift have any pointers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Graphic Card

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 4 2007 19:34, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I think I have selected the graphic card's vendor of my system incorrectly during Debian installation. How can I change it? On sarge dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and on etch and unstable dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. -- To

Re: Graphic Card

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
) and choose the nvidia driver. Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu January 4 2007 19:34, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I think I have selected the graphic card's vendor of my system incorrectly during Debian installation. How can I change it? On sarge dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, and on etch

Re: Graphic Card

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Ianson
uses xorg. Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu January 4 2007 19:51, Danesh Daroui wrote: Now another question. I am using NVIDIA and last time I selected NV it didn't work properly. Is there any way to force to autodetecttion mode? Or, what option should I choose if I have NVIDIA graphic card

Re: /dev/dsp missing (SOLVED)

2007-01-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 3 2007 07:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 04:45:25AM +0100, Benjam? Villoslada wrote: El Diumenge 31 Desembre 2006 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: Can anyone tell me how to get audio input without disbling the rest of the sound system? ?That's

Re: Switching graphics cards, how?

2007-01-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 3 2007 10:35, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:28:36 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: My old Matrox video card is dying. I have a new e-geforce 6200 and an Etch system. I have picked up on some issues about drivers for mVidia cards, but have no idea whether they

Re: Imagen de disco en Debian

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Chandler
backup on the way mkdir -p $ARCH/snap I backup this machine to another creating archives of the data using a rsync - like this rsync -aHxq --delete --backup --backup-dir=/archive/mydocs/ /home/alan/mydocs/ roo::alan/mydocs/ (Note this creates the archive on the other

Re: how to copy and/or rip DVDs with Debian?

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Chandler
you could play, my guess its the +R against the -R thing. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making hotplugging my camera work

2006-12-31 Thread Alan Chandler
configuration files in /usr/share/hal But I cant find any information about which is the right place for me to add the information about :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND New Year :-) Wayne -- DOS Tip #2: Add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS ___ -- Alan

Making hotplugging my camera work

2006-12-30 Thread Alan Chandler
and group of root - yet I am still able to read the data as user alan. 2) I tried creating a udev rule that changed the device name to /dev/camera. In this instance, it appears that the first time the device is created, kde does pop up the dialog box, but until I reboot the machine never does so

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