Re: Programando aplicaciones en Debian para Windows

2003-05-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
wxwindows, que entonces lo traduce a llamadas que son entendidos por la sistema operativo para cual estas compilando el programa. Si no me equivoco, wxwindows soporta X11, win32, OSX, qt, GTK+, y varios otros. Tambien se puede isntalar en Debain con apt-get. -Roberto Sanchez

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dan Anderson wrote: On the other hand, like so many distributions designed for those without a good grasp of computers, OS X probably puts a lot of load on the machine with superfluous programs. When I install debian I only install the kernel modules I want, and only install the packages I want,

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Micha Feigin wrote: I am guessing that the fact that most of these viruses etc. appear on windows is more due to popularity then security. The fact that it is also easier and thus every script kidy can patch up a virus of of a couple of scripts found on the internet probably helps also. Linux is

Re: USB mouse under X not working

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Micha Feigin wrote: don't know how usb-uhci and ehci-hcd play together. iirc ehci-hcd is for usb 2.0, so if you don't have such bus, disable it. They play fine together. In fact there is really no need disable it. If you have the USB 2.0, the modprobe succeeds. If not, the modprobe errors out

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ray wrote: i haven't actually looked into the numbers, but zone-h.org has linux website defacements usually in the 50-75% so i guess it just depends on who and how you ask. granted we have yet to see a 'code red' like virus for apache. so far the only virus i recall seeing for apache was for

Re: help with xinetd

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Scott wrote: Greetings: As I setup my debian box, I installed xinetd so it would be more like the RH setups I was used to. The change seemed to go fine when I installed it via dselect. I expected a conflict with inetd, but got no complaint. I did get a message that the jist was nothing that

Re: Debian shuts down sitefinder

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom wrote: Verisign has stopped sitefinder; they say temporarily. Seems like a good sign! http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3087071 Yeah. Here is the related Slashdot article: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/03/1410244mode=threadtid=126tid=95 ICANN basically told them

Re: Gibraltar firewall

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, New user type questions I am afraid. I am trying out the Debian based firewall CD Gibraltar. I am just tinkering about the edges at the moment and I have two periferal problems which I should be able to solve, but can't. They are

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

2003-10-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
S. Loisel wrote: Dear Debianites, I've decided to install Knoppix on my hard disk. It has been suggested before that this is a good way to get an initial installation of Debian up and running, and it's true that the process is very seamless. I want to try out Debian due to its much vaunted

Re: RH to Debian conversion help

2003-10-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Mackinney wrote: Debian certainly doesn't have anything like RH's kudzu (one of the more impressive featres of RH, IMO). The 'modconf' command run as root allows you to dynamically enable/disable kernel modules, and 'dmesg' will print all the startup messages, which typically show lots of

Re: install Apache problem under Debian 3.0 r1

2003-10-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jacob Anawalt wrote: What sources are you using in /etc/apt/sources.list? I ask because libgd1 1.8.4-17.woody2 and libgd1-noxpm 1.8.4-17.woody2 should be available to you. Did the apt-get update (or dselect Update) fail? Are you choosing to not run dselect after tasksel? Ilve never tried

Re: gdm setup returns error

2003-10-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: gdm installation in sid returns error code (1). gdm works fine though. Siddhesh. You probably want to report that to bugs.debian.org, rather than posting it to the mailing list. -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-04 Thread Roberto Sanchez
skippi wrote: I will not mention how I stupidly fdisked the drive with all my personal/important data on it. Good thing I learned about making backups on a regular basis. Checkout parted. It will recover deleted partitions (assuming you have not already repartitioned and put new data on

Re: Ticker

2003-10-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of any program that could scroll a messages across the root window or some sort of news ticker? Ideally works with sawfish Rus You mean like these? $ apt-cache search ticker gdesklets - an advanced architecture for desktop applets gkrellm-newsticker -

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel B. wrote: Agh! Should it really be this hard to upgrade a kernel? Do you _really_ need an initrd? Can you just compile a kernel that doesn't use one? -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

GTK question

2003-10-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Just out of curiousity ... is it possible to force GTK2 to render GTK/GTK+ apps? I hask because I have a few apps (Audacity and a wxWindows based app that I am developing) that use GTK+, but would look lots better if rendered with GTK2. Are they so different as to not be compatible from v1 to

Re: how to build Debian 2.4.20, -21, or -22 kernel package for woody?

2003-10-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel B. wrote: Do you _really_ need an initrd? Not that I know of. I was just trying to do things the Debian way and consistently with the rest of my system. (Mixing initrd and non-initrd kernels takes more editing of /etc/lilo.) Do you have only one kernel now? If so, just change

Re: frustration building, please help - latest - (was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
skippi wrote: Ok, I have decided that I am stupid. This is the only possible explination. Can someone explain what I am doing wrong using very small words and short sentances. I am trying to install Xfree86 4.3 on my Woody system. I go to

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-05 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Uwe Dippel wrote: There are those collections of Microsoft-Fonts around. Do we have a package in Debian ? I tried apt-cache, but no success.$ Uwe Make sure you have included the contrib repositories and: apt-get install msttcorefonts The installer will ask you have the fonts archive locally on

Re: apt-proxy

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
wjl wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: BACKEND_FREQ=240 Check to make sure you do not have this set too high. I.e., mine is set at 4 hours, to after an update by any client, the server won't refresh the archive for 4 hours. If your is set really high, that may be the cause of the problem. -Roberto

Re: reiserfs vs ext3fs

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johan Van den Neste wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 14:06, PF wrote: I found no faq or thread about comparing ReiserFS and Ext3FS for use on laptops. Can someone tell me her/his impressions? I'd like to install a Debian 3.1 on a HP Omnibook and I wish using journaled fs principally to avoid

Re: Xv video driver expires after xfree86 upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Alphonse Ogulla wrote: What graphics driver are you using (what video card)? Ist the XVideo extension listed in xdpyinfo? onboard Intel 810e graphics adaptor. xdpyinfo lists XVideo amongst 27 other extensions Is it a laptop? I had a problem with my laptop where if the X server was started

Re: Sendmail and SMTP AUTH

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
James W. Thompson, II wrote: I am trying to get Sendmail setup with SMTP AUTH for send mail from my powerbook. I have tried to follow the directions I have found but I am new to sendmail and Linux administration in general and am having problems, I want a strong authentication setup so that

Re: GTK question

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mark Roach wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:14, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Just out of curiousity ... is it possible to force GTK2 to render GTK/GTK+ apps? I hask because I have a few apps (Audacity and a wxWindows based app that I am developing) that use GTK+, but would look lots better

Re: are you looking for vim + gnome 2?

2003-10-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: I just found vim-gnome in unstable, which seems to be the gnome 2 equivalent of vim-gtk. hope that helps someone; I seem to remember hearing some outcry about it recently. Since vim-gtk is built against GTK2, wouldn't having a build against GNOME2 be a bit redundant?

Re: lilo problem

2003-10-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
LeVA wrote: When I run the 'lilo' command it says: Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda6 doesn't have a valid boot signature Ok, but what should I do now? How can I make a valid boot signature to that partition? I have installed RH9 on it, and it seems it didn't create that onto that partition. How

Re: apt-proxy

2003-10-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
wjl wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: [Tips for apt-proxy] Hmmm Roberto, I checked all this, tho I couldn't believe that the problem would lay there, since the clients do get the package list and everything just fine *the first time*. Also installing new packages, even ones the proxy doesn't have

Re: Gave it a try and will try again ....

2003-10-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kent West wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: On the other hand, for a seasoned user after three days too many items are unresolved: The original ATI Rage 128 never made it to start, the Ensoniq 5880 problem remains unresolved, galeon doesn't use the proxy settings; of course I could fiddle with XFConfig to

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Aaron wrote: Hey, Debian users! I currently use a fetchmail / procmail / mbox / mutt e-mail setup, with ssmtp (properly linked through `sendmail` of course) for sending. I would really like to have a web mail system set up so that I can at least read, if not send, e-mail from my website as well.

Re: How to manage services?

2003-10-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
ninaiz wrote: Sudeep Mukherjee wrote: Hi What is the equivalent of RH's ntsysv in Debian? I want to permanently disable a few services like Samba, etc. man update-rc.d Example for disabled service samba: cd /etc/init.d/ update-rc.d -f samba remove if you want enabled service: update-rc.d -f

Re: apt-proxy

2003-10-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
wjl wrote: Ok; my /etc/apt-proxy/apt-proxy.conf looks like: I can't see anything specifically wrong. Here is my apt-proxy.conf: add_backend /main/ \ $APT_PROXY_CACHE/debian/\ http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/

Re: module-init-tools and modutils

2003-10-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Cheryl Homiak wrote: If I understand correctly, the package module-init-tools is for 2.6 kernels, and the modutils components for 2.4 kernels (rmmod, lsmod, insmod) are being renamed with a .modutils extension in debian unstable. I am running debian unstable, and just had trouble installing a

Re: install debian in SATA

2003-10-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 17:35, Attila Csosz wrote: Hi, Is it possible to install debian from scratch in an SATA winchester? How? If bf2.4 used kernel 2.4.22, I bet it would work, but I don't think that 2.4.17 knows enough about SATA. This might help. I used it to install

Re: shorewall: imap doesn't work any longer

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Vittorio wrote: I have setup a debian 3.0 server functioning as a gateway, router, **IMAP SERVER**, and firewall. It connects to the internet via a DSL ppp0 connection and to the internal network through eth1. Being an absolute beginner, I've set up shorewall with a basic configuration suggested

Re: apt-proxy

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
wjl wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Try getting the box that runs the proxy working first before you try the remote boxes. Hi Roberto, after setting it to 5 Minutes (you saw that), and after waiting for another day (in fact it was over night) all of a sudden it works automagically. Now I'm back

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Michael D Schleif wrote: OK, this is my first foray into a sale-able product, based on `free' software. I am working with a company that is writing software that is to be sold to their customers. I have specified Debian as the OS on which this all runs; so, here I am on this list to learn the

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Gavin Hamill wrote: mplayer can play realplayer files (I guess that audio too). I'm not sure about converting them though... Since mplayer can play realmedia (it may need you to install the binary realplayer for some of the very new formats, but I'm unsure on this point), it can also send the

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: I think, with my capability for pushing the wrong button at critical moments, I might be safer to stick with ext2 then. Well, I admit that I found out about this the hard way. But I think that was when I was running slink; the woody versions of the tools all seem to spit out

Re: Convert realaudio to free audio ???

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
csj wrote: My school does some courses over the web with streaming video (WMV, of course). After the class session they make the whole WMV video available as a download. I've been burning them to CD, but I hate to keep them in WMV format, I'd rather use an open format. Speaking of which, what

Re: man dangling symlink question

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 20:30 GMT, David Z Maze penned: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd never heard of update-alternatives or /etc/alternatives until a few days ago on this list, and to be honest I'm still a little (a lot) foggy on what exactly it's used

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Erik Steffl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or else the riaa might sue you. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html quote from article: Computers running Linux and older versions of the Mac operating system are unable to run the software and are able to

Re: Xinerama and OO and Mozilla

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: Why that happens when my Linux-bashing, Windows-loving friend is over I don't know. It is a clear sign from The Almighty that you should *not* be friends with a Linux-bashing Windows-lover. I mean come on. Is s/he trully worhty of your friendship? :-) -Roberto

Re: Just got CDs, boot, oops...

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
KRF wrote: Just got my 7 CDs in the mail and have a dedicated PC to learn Debian on. I downloaded the entire manual and have good intentions to go through the install step by step, totally unlike my usual method of learning by rapid tapping on the enter key. CDs say they are D3.0 Woody and

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 22:49 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: If you have and ext3 that you want to revert to ext2, you can just: tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hdXX -Roberto Out of curiosity, why would one want to do this? Also, you can always mount an ext3 drive as ext2

Re: Local .deb mirror / apt-move

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Albert Dengg wrote: Hi well... you could set up apt-proxy (apt-proxy.sf.net)... just be aware that it has sometimes painfully long waiting times but otherwise it works for me Actually, you can just apt-get install apt-proxy. It is reasonably easy to setup. -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description:

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a work laptop running Win2000 that has a large number of files I would like to transfer to my home Linux desktop. What would be the easiest way to do this? I've considered my USB Zip drive (but it would take quite a while) and also configuring SAMBA (haven't got it

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 21:35, Naitik Shah wrote: Easiest would be to install ssh on your linux box, and use a SFTP client (many freely available) to connect to your linux box, and well, copy the files as if you're using ftp! Can you get online from your laptop? I mean, can you

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Monique Y. Herman wrote: Two things: One, ssh adds encryption overhead (I believe), so it will be slower than a non-encrypted transfer (am I wrong here?) Absolutely. My fileserver is a PentiumPro 200 with 128 MB RAM. scp/sftp file transfers top out at 1.9-2 MB/s ftp/wget file transfers top out

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey all, this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be opinionated about it. i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was originally saved to disk with hard tabs for

Re: /dev/audio: No such device, do I have to recompile kernel?

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Erik Jälevik wrote: I am a Debian newbie and I'm trying to get a Soundblaster PCI128 (CT4810) working. I'm running Debian 3.0 with kernel 2.2.20. I have added the relevant users to the audio group but I keep getting No such device errors when trying: cat /usr/share/sounds/pop.wav /dev/audio Two

[OT] Segfaulting tutorial program

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
the wxFileDialog constructor. It looks as thought happens when returning from a call to lib/ld-linux.so.2. I am not really sure how handle this. Everything else in the tutorial was working correctly up until I added the dialog box. I would really appreciate some help on this. -Roberto Sanchez

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel B. wrote: The Linux kernel has had and still has a number bugs that can corrupt the filesystem data on an IDE disk, especially when using DMA. **Rob: If you are using IDE disks (if you don't know that you have SCSI disks, you most surely have IDE disks), you should immediately disable DMA.

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:38:41PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:09:41PM +0200, A. Loonstra wrote: | How long would it take, normally? | | There is no normal when it comes to bugfixes. Depends on how trivial | or non-trivial the bug is. It

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mental Patient wrote: I've done this with mixed results. In general if you're going to work on projects, its a good idea to come up with your format conventions first. :) However, sometimes you just inherit code and really there isnt much you can do about it. Its right up there with cuddled

What holds up a package in incoming?

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I was browsing incoming.debian.org and saw kernel-source-2.6.0-test6 has been in there 04 October. Why has it not come through yet? What holds up a package like that for almost a week? Just wondering. -Roberto pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Daniel B. wrote: What IDE controller does your motherboard have? (Mine is an Asus A7M266-D (dual-Athlon MP), with an on-board AMD768 (for which DMA apparently doesn't work reliably yet).) Daniel 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])

Re: windows NT

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Your question makes no sense. Debian is an entire operating system and does not run on another operating system. If you have something like VMware installed on your NT 4 system, then Debian can run in that. Other than that, you would have to set up your system to

Re: Switching from RH 7.3 to Debian 3.0r1

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Curtis wrote: I've downloaded the debian isos, burning them afterwards, but before I take the plunge into switching, is there anything to prepare? This is my first time switching distros on a computer. Any pitfalls to avoid. By the way, I wanted to do a netinstall, so I only have to use the

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rob Dupuis wrote: Hey guys. Many thanks for all you responses. My drive is DMA100 ide drive running on a promise fasttrak raid controller on my motherboard. It's been quite happy up until recently when I upgraded a bunch of packages. This seemed to start the ball rolling. I think I'm gonna

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rob Dupuis wrote: The only thing noauto does is prevent the partition from automaigcally being mounted at boot. If you have some sort of data recovery tool you plan to use on the dirve, this is probably a good idea. Especially since a corrupted drive will likely trigger a fsck, which could make

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 05:47:23PM -0400, Ef Reb wrote: Will Debian run on Windows NT 4? I've an intel 233 processor. If so which version. HAHAHHA! What even makes you think that? Debian is an OS. It doesn't run on other OS's, it *is* one. Did you even read the web page

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom wrote: Since I didn't get an answer yet, I'll ask again: (To anyone) Do you prefer fontconfig with the autohinter or bytecode interpreter? I'm trying to decide how to set it up. Thanks. Just pick one. If you don't like it you can just dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig That present you with

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-10-11T15:56:08Z, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The situation you describe would mean that mysql would be non-free, and thus not part of Debian. The license of mysql 4.0.14 is a mixture of the GPL, LGPL and BSD licenses, with nothing prohibiting commercial use.

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-10-11T16:57:51Z, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just looked at the page and it seems as though they just elaborate on the GPL. Basically, you use MySQL in a GPL app, and you are OK. But what does that mean? Clearly, if I embed the MySQL engine

Re: Do-all computer?

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
alex wrote: My current computer is an old Quantex that works very well with a variety of installed Linux systems (Debian, Progeny, Knoppix, Lycoris, Mandrake, and Libranet) as well as Windows 98SE. The only fault is that it is quite slow compared to the newer computers. So, I would like to know

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom wrote: You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced since I switch to Linux. (I hope you get that: 9 months ago I was a MS-employee. I mean to say: taboo subject about which we are embaressed so we'll pretend it isn't worth discussing... Less than complete intellectual

Re: Fw: openoffice.org1.1-bin

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Peter N. Vargo (LTS) wrote: Noone know howto help me? thank you I would just download the binary tarball from openoffice.org. It is fairly slow moving (especially now that they have achieved a 1.1 release, I would imagine). If you were running unstable, that would probably cure your problem,

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jacob Anawalt wrote: With debian, the files come to you whereas the old rpm system required you to find packages and fix things yourself. And isn't it just better this way? Thanks goes to all the hard working package mantainers! :) One of the beauties of open source:

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Faheem Mitha wrote: The only file in that directory is known_hosts. I'm not sure why keys would enter into this at all anyway. As I understand it, the whole idea is to just stick the trusted hosts into .rhosts, and you're away. You want the key placed into the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. For

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Faheem Mitha wrote: Which key is this exactly? Also, are you sure this is not what is called rsh rsa authentication? I was just looking for rsh authentication. Faheem. In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or

Re: The plot thickens - Unable to handle kernel paging request.

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rob Dupuis wrote: Following my previous posts: 'fsck hangs my machine unpredictably'; I've managed to back up a lot of the data from this drive by skipping fsck on boot and pulling the data off over the network. I now want to reinstall debian. When I try to install kernel v 2.4 from the CD I get

Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 12:58:41PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: I have a hard drive that is going bad so I want to copy it from the old hard drive to the new one, same hd and everything. I was wondering which was faster doing dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hda or mounting each partition and

Re: advise about bying ATI Gaphic card

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I'm thinking of bying Hercules 3D Prophet 9600, so I googled for it. I didn't find many matches (on the debian lists), and most of them were in french, so I was wondering is that good or bad? Is this card well supported? I know that ATI released drivers for it, but the

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
stan wrote: How cna I do this? The machine I want to match is a testting machine, that I quit updating about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. Will this ne a problem? On source machine: dpkg --get-selections selections.txt On destination machine: (make sure sources.list is the

Re: Help - kernel 2.4.22 hangs

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jerome R. Acks wrote: http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0261.html In your kernel config you probably also should have: CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set I was unsuccessful getting a 2.4.22 kernel to work properly and

Re: burning from .ogg

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, Anyone know of an easy way to burn an audio CD from .ogg files, i.e. without converting them to .wav first. I'm not fussed about a GUI, infact I'd rather not have one. A sox is a great tool for converting audio formats (it will do ogg, wav, mp3, au, and a few

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Neal Lippman wrote: Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); do apt-get install $pkg; done which will work although not be the most efficient way (because you will have to run apt-get for each

Re: Instalación de Paquetes

2003-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
-window-system Saludos, -Roberto Sanchez pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Driver Download and Installation ATI Proprietary Linux Driver 3.2.8 Download--for those interested

2003-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Rob Sims wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote: snip KDE works when I use the radeon driver, but I get no DRI. Where do I go from here? I didn't find a user forum for the ATI drivers, just a no-response bug reporting link.

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:01:41 -0400, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your case it is the key contained in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub (or id_rsa.pub, if you use RSA authentication) from the host on which the login attempt will originate. Is it actually necessary to use

Re: tarjeta red

2003-10-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
suerte en la lista debian-user-spanish. Desafortunadamente yo no tengo ningun expirencia con hacer el encendido/ apagado remoto de le forma que tu qiueres. Saludos, -Roberto Sanchez pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Trouble with local login

2003-10-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I managed to screw up one of my machines today (at school), to where regular users can't correclty log into it anymore. I get this: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ However, if I ssh in to the machine, it works fine. The user accounts are furnished by the NIS/NFS server (which runs Woody),

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
David W.Aquilina wrote: Places to look for error messages are /var/log/XFree86.0.log and dmesg. That's the truly annoying thing. There aren't any errors in the XFree log, unless I'm missing something not-obvious. A copy of one such log is here: http://bombadil.starkindler.us/XFree86.log

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Simon Windsor wrote: Hi I have just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.20-idepci to 2.4.18-k7 and all appears ok apart from networking. The server has a RealTek 18139 card that works fine for 2.2, using rt18139. There is no equivalent module for the 2.4.18-k7 kernel, and attempts to try 3x59x, ne2k-pci

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Yeatman wrote: Hi, similarly, I have an onboard Promise RAID chip but with chipset PDC20276 which, however so close, doesn't seem to be offered the same support by the 2.4.18(-19) kernel (at least it doesn't explicitely say it supports it as it does the PDC202067 chipset). The device is

Re: Promise Fasttrak 100 PDC20267 on Debian

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Yeatman wrote: Thanks for the reply! -In response to your message- --received from Roberto Sanchez-- I had to get a 2.4.21 kernel to get support for the 20276 chipset. I suppose you are using the testing distribution? Actually I installed that on a Woody system. I just did a wget

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..ok, I can do decent rpms the rpmbuild -ta way, never tried to build X or DRI rpm's though, debs is as easy? (Have Mach64 ugh cards.) .debs are a cinch: apt-get source package cd package dpkg-buildpackage Of course, for something like XFree86 4.3, you would specifically

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings to all: I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated. That's all for the moment, good night to everyone,

Re: XFS over EXT3

2003-10-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, what I did is get the iso from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ burn to CD and then install Debian. Cool. I was unaware of that. I've bookmarked it for future reference. In my case though, I needed to use Knoppix as I had very recent hardware that

Re: Couple of problems here... ;)

2003-10-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Martin Hooper wrote: Using Woody 3.0r0 here... First Problem USB Printing using CUPS I have a HOWTO which tells me how to set up CUPS with a parallel port printer but I have a USB printer. In the CUPS web setup I can add a printer but when I try to print the test page I get the following

Re: Automated installations

2003-10-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Robert Soricone wrote: Does Debian have an application similar to RedHat's Kickstart? I want to be able to duplicate the same configuration on multiple machines, without configuring everything manually. Thanks in advance, Rob I use systemimager (http://www.systemimager.org). The great advantage

Re: More on spam

2003-10-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Sidney Brooks wrote: As a result of my thread here, I am getting an almost endless stream of spam messages, supposedly from microsoft. Unless I clean out bulk and trash every few hours, they are pushing me beyond my Yahoo allowance. The effect is to cut me off from sending and receiving messages.

Re: wont install

2003-10-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
stuart whittaker wrote: file will unzip with winzip. Since the message was HTML generated with some M$ tool I would guess that the attachment contains a virus of some sort. Maybe we are witnessing fledgling attempts at social engineering to get Linux users download and execute viruses? Maybe I

Re: wont install

2003-10-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:01:51PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: stuart whittaker wrote: file will unzip with winzip. Since the message was HTML generated with some M$ tool I would guess that the attachment contains a virus of some sort. Maybe we are witnessing fledgling attempts

Re: Mkinitrd question

2003-10-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Rademaker wrote: Hello, This 'll probably be a piece of cake for those of you who have any experience using mkinitrd, I found a howto on how to get my raid system to work. However I gotta make an image, the howto was written for RH and the mkinitrd of Debian seems to be something else. If

Re: reanimate old kernel?

2003-10-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andreas Bohnert wrote: Hi, on my vanilla woody system i compiled a 2.4.14 kernel and builded a debian package. After some tests I sucessfully removed the package and tried to reanimate to old 2.2.20 kernel again. I created a symbolic link /vmlinuz to my old kernel. After the reboot the 2.2.20

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
klaus imgrund wrote: While it hasn't made the list useless, it is indeed a major pain in the ass that's fairly recent. I've been on this list about a year and haven't had this bad a problem before. It's a nasty problem that shouldn't be minimized. Many users won't (or can't) take heroic

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jeff Elkins wrote: I agree that it's not that difficult. Perhaps heroic was a bad choice of words, but I'll still wager that a significant percentage of newbies won't take the time to set up an aggressive anti-spam system, but will migrate away from this (and other) listservs if this isn't

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dave Howorth wrote: Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: $ apt-get source libwxgtk2.4 snip Thanks for the instructions Derrick. I don't know how you came up with 11 packages. 11 comes from doing a search at Debian: testing wxwin2.4-examples 2.4.1.2 (2391.3k) wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI

Re: HP ProLiant DL560

2003-10-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Christian Riis wrote: Hello, I am charged with the job of installing Debian on an HP ProLiant DL560-server. Now this machine has a wierd SCSI-controller (Smart Array 5i plus from Compaq) which needs the bf24 kernel in order to run. The machine also has two NC7781 NICs. These I am having trouble

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