Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/18 Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com I need an opinion here. I had a 5 year old, lovingly upgraded workstation with 32-bit sid up until I upgraded my hardware. I did a nuke and pave and reinstalled amd64 sid. Sometime along the line, pulseaudio was installed, which broke sound on the

Re: To pulse or not to pulse?

2012-07-19 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/19 Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: Have a try with ALSA+Jack (qjackctl gui) and use vlc phonon backend for KDE4 (gstreamer backend really sucks IMHO). Phonon is currently set up for vlc

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/8/8 lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com Hi, It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, from one server to another server. I checked that rsync is faster than scp, but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network is also a problem split (man split) your data into

Re: alsa

2012-06-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/6/4 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:27:25 +0100, john gennard wrote: (please, avoid sending html formatted posts) /I have Debian 6.05 installed, but on bootup alsa fails. In what way fails? What's the printed error? It will provide more info about the source of

Re: alsa

2012-06-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/6/4 john gennard joney1...@btinternet.com ** On 04/06/12 18:13, Raffaele Morelli wrote: my bet: 99.9% alsa vs pulseaudio You'll have to explain that. I don't understand. I think you have pulseaudio starting at boot. Post the output of `ps ax|grep pulse`. Try `service pulseaudio

Re: alsa

2012-06-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/6/5 john gennard joney1...@btinternet.com ** root@debian:/# ps ax|grep pulse 2620 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep pulse root@debian:/# service pulseaudio stop pulseaudio: unrecognized service root@debian:/# service alsa-utils start Setting up ALSA...amixer: Mixer hw:0 load error:

Re: alsa

2012-06-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/6/5 john gennard joney1...@btinternet.com ** On 05/06/12 10:22, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2012/6/5 john gennard joney1...@btinternet.com root@debian:/# ps ax|grep pulse 2620 pts/2S+ 0:00 grep pulse root@debian:/# service pulseaudio stop pulseaudio: unrecognized service

Re: alsa

2012-06-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/6/5 john gennard joney1...@btinternet.com ** Thank you very much. That cures the problem. I would not have been able to work out that it was due to the motherboard having a non supported chip. I am most grateful to you for taking the time to sort things out. Kind regards, John.

Re: alsa

2012-06-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/6/6 Weaver wea...@riseup.net 2012/6/5 john gennard joney1...@btinternet.com ** Thank you very much. That cures the problem. I would not have been able to work out that it was due to the motherboard having a non supported chip. I am most grateful to you for taking the time to

Re: Why compiling.

2012-07-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/10 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com This is a very basic question but confusing me for very long. so i need your help. why people do compiling. i have heard many time that people are compiling kernel on debian. what is the reason for this? i am using debian for almost 1.5 year

Re: audio capturing in debian?

2012-07-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/7/16 Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net Hi again, I am seeking to find one single program, as audio hijack pro is one single program, that combines multiple recording functions...so I do not have to hunt through many utilities. I do know about audacity, nice to learn there is a

Re: but ubunt... (multimedia)

2012-12-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/12/18 Lucio Crusca lu...@sulweb.org Hello, I came back to Debian (testing/unstable) since a good year now, before that I had been using Ubuntu for about two years and yet before Debian since 2003. No doubt I prefer Debian. There's a but. Debian pretends to be the universal OS. Maybe

Re: but ubunt... (multimedia)

2012-12-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/12/18 Lucio Crusca lu...@sulweb.org Raffaele Morelli wrote: use another app... eg qdvdauthor or switch to the command line :D typical reply from the IT dept. qdvdauthor isn't in Debian either (but, even then, I still need DVD-Styler for a few other reasons) and switching

Re: but ubunt... (multimedia)

2012-12-18 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/12/18 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 14:50 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Debian is great but If you don't want to get deeper with it and your purpose is movie making... then you should give up with debian and switch to multimedia oriented distros, eg

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/12/27 tsit...@linuxmail.org Hi. i am running debian 6.0.6 and i am banging my head to create a simple script that will run periodically (through cron). i do have a whole lot of wav files in opt/wavfiles and i do need: -convert them to mp3 -delete the wav files that have been converted

Re: mplayer2 does not play MIDI files.

2013-01-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/1/4 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com Good time of the day. $ mplayer 1.mid MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing 1.mid.

Re: Sharing sound between users on wheezy - Your recommendation.

2013-01-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
013/1/5 Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com No. What I want is sharing hardware - the sound card among several users - i.e. I have several users logged in on a host. some of them use the card - some play music, or keep it paused currently while another tries to work w/ MIDI editor - like RoseGarden

Re: How to make snd-aloop use index 0?

2013-01-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/1/8 Robert Latest boblat...@gmail.com Hello Andrej, On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: Try removing all snd- modules and then manually inserting snd-aloop with option index=0. I tried that, and it works. So, technically, my problem is

Re: alsa, jack output issue

2013-01-29 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/1/29 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net jd@entropia:~$ jackd --version jackd version 0.122.0 tmpdir /dev/shm protocol 24 PS jack has nothing to do with jackd And jackd is what is used for audio. I don't know what this jack is for. But indeed, jackd is called jack, resp. jack1

Re: alsa, jack output issue

2013-01-29 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/1/29 dAgeCKo dage...@free.fr Le 29/01/2013 19:48, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:37:38 +0100, dAgeCKo dage...@free.fr wrote: Yes jack1 because jack2 never wants to start for some reasons. If you started jack2 by QjackCtl, than there might be a dbus issue. QjackCtl

Re: alsa, jack output issue

2013-01-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/1/30 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 07:31 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2013/1/29 dAgeCKo dage...@free.fr Le 29/01/2013 19:48, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:37:38 +0100, dAgeCKo dage

Re: alsa, jack output issue

2013-01-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
It might be possible that Jack2 was installed, when he wasn't in the group audio, we never will know, but now he can start Jack1 with real-time, so I've doubts. IMO he is in the group audio. AFAIK it could be his guitar cable, he's not posting anything useful about running processes, etc

Re: alsa, jack output issue

2013-02-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/2/4 dAgeCKo dage...@free.fr Le 30/01/2013 21:17, dAgeCKo a écrit : I will first try, hopefully tomorrow, to test the cpu-scaling stuff, when the problem will arise again. Then after, I'll try all your suggestions. The problem did not arise again. So it was difficult for me to try

Re: alsa, jack output issue

2013-02-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/2/4 dAgeCKo dage...@free.fr Le 04/02/2013 15:13, Raffaele Morelli a écrit : you are plugging your guitar directly into the sound card right?... there's really no use in 96Khz, switch to 48Khz and choose a low latency settings instead beacuse 10.7ms latency is very ugly in your case

Re: debian wheezy amd64 freeze

2013-02-25 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2013/2/25 Alfredo Alessandrini alfreal...@gmail.com: No idea for your logs, but I bet the problem come from your GPU drivers or Xorg. It sounds like this computer uses a NVidia GPU, so I guess your driver is currently nouveau. Do you still have the crash if you use NVidia's drivers? (it is in

midnight commander and ssh keys

2011-12-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, how can I use mc with ssh rssa/dsa keys? regards -r -- *L'unica speranza di catarsi, ammesso che ne esista una, resta affidata all'istinto di ribellione, alla rivolta non isterilita in progetti, alla protesta violenta e viscerale.*

NFS trouble

2012-02-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I am setting up (tryin at least) a nfs mount on a remote machine, there's a firewall in between so I asked the net administrator to open ports 111 and 2049 on the server. /etc/exports on the server is /home/username/ CLIENT_IP(ro,sync) mount command is mount -v -t nfs

NFS trouble

2012-02-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I am setting up (tryin at least) a nfs mount on a remote machine, there's a firewall in between so I asked the net administrator to open ports 111 and 2049 on the server. /etc/exports on the server is /home/username/ CLIENT_IP(ro,sync) mount command is mount -v -t nfs

Re: NFS trouble

2012-02-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/2/27 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: I am setting up (tryin at least) a nfs mount on a remote machine, there's a firewall in between so I asked the net administrator to open ports 111 and 2049

Re: NFS trouble

2012-02-29 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/2/27 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com You have to use static ports for statd, mountd, and lockd if you're not using nfsv4. (You don't have to use the same static assignments used below.) - Set STATDOPTS=--port 4003 --outgoing-port 4004 in /etc/default/nfs-common - Set

Re: Restrict a user to a set of binaries?

2012-03-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/2 Bijoy Lobo bijoy.l...@paladion.net Hello Everyone, Is there a way where i can only assign a few binaries to user like, su - ls ? I do not want him to access anything else from /bin or /usr/local/bin You can remove /bin/ and/or /usr/local/bin from his PATH by changing its

Re: Restrict a user to a set of binaries?

2012-03-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/2 Jon Dowland j...@debian.org On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 07:29:52AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: You can remove /bin/ and/or /usr/local/bin from his PATH by changing its /home/user/.profile They could just add it back, though. This doesn't offer any serious protection. Of course

Re: sound issues

2012-03-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/2 Darren Crotchett deb...@crotchett.com I am having issues with sound on my son's computer. We are unable to run two sound applications simultaneously. Occasionally, I can stumble upon a combination of more than one (usually two) that will work together. But, it's not repeatable.

Re: sound issues

2012-03-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/2 Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 05:35, Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com wrote: if you want two or more audio apps to share the same sound device, start qjackctl, tell vlc to use jack output module and do the same with other apps

Re: sound issues

2012-03-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/4 Darren Crotchett deb...@crotchett.com I am going to clearly remark as much as possible for the benefit of anyone who may find this page later. See my inline replies/comments. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Kelly Clowers kelly.clow...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at

Re: sound issues

2012-03-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/5 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com Just to clarify with Kelly about what complicated stands for :-) IMHO you are going to get what you want in two steps: killall pulseaudio aptitude install jackd qjackctl regards -r what you want meaning a complicated

Re: sound issues

2012-03-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/5 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com On 05/03/12 19:18, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2012/3/5 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com mailto:scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com Just to clarify with Kelly about what complicated stands for :-) IMHO

Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?

2012-03-14 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/14 Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk Hello All I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap, usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the Contents-i386.gz for

Re: wget/curl cannot work on debian amd64

2012-03-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/21 严海东 handlerofmas...@gmail.com Dear all: I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64 when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages will display as below: --2012-03-21 14:43:43-- http://www.XXX.com/ Resolving 10 (10)...

Re: rt kernel and nouveau

2012-03-22 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/3/22 daniel jimenez daniel.jimenez.go...@gmail.com Hello everyone, I'm trying to get an rt kernel working in debian testing on an amd64 laptop with nvidia graphics. Ideally I'd have nouveau set up to start when I select (in grub) the rt kernel and the nvidia drivers when choosing the

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/4/2 Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:48:21PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: This is not very encouraging (given that you are already using a fairly new kernel), am I correct to assume this is a (very) new board? Yes, likely. It's a new PC, so could well be.

Re: No sound with new install

2012-04-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/4/2 Nick White nick.wh...@durham.ac.uk On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Have a look at /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ there are lots of info about hd models (install alsa-base if you don't) look for your souncard model infod in the relevant files

[OT]: yet another linux antivirus fairytale

2012-04-13 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, an italian newspaper has published an article about security risks and virus related issues on mac osx and obviously linux is cited. http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/04/12/sicuri-frottole/ In the article the author states: [...] First myth: There are no viruses for Mac. In the mythology

Re: [LAU] [solved] A new issue installing Debian stable - Was: Adding PPPoE to a net install

2011-05-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/5/30 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:48 +0200, Raffaele wrote: it's enough to download just the first cd/dvd, then be sure to uncomment the lines in /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-06-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/5/31 Steven Rosenberg stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi all :) until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The GNOME2 performance of Debian stable is much better than of Ubuntu. Pulse Audio is not

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-06-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/1 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:50 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2011/5/31 Steven Rosenberg stevenhrosenb...@gmail.com On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi all

Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of brazilian, french and italian music has plenty of accented chars in filenames). Is it a locale

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 Lorenzo Sutton lsut...@libero.it Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor of brazilian

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com On Vi, 24 iun 11, 12:05:17, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my amarok collection (as you

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de Raffaele Morelli raffaele.more...@gmail.com writes: I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess a lor

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/6/24 Camaleón noela...@gmail.com On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:05:17 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: I am experiencing serious problems with my external HD, I can't create/write filenames containing accented chars, especially when copying music from my amarok collection (as you can guess

DHCP weirdness? broken?

2011-02-03 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I am having serious troubles with dhcp. The resolv.conf file is being continuosly overwritten by some program/daemon I can't guess. I tried the supersede/prepend directives in dhclient.conf with no success, the same with the dhclient-script hooks I tried using network-manager connections to

Re: DHCP weirdness? broken?

2011-02-03 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/2/3 elbbit elb...@gmail.com On 03/02/11 10:19, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, I am having serious troubles with dhcp. The resolv.conf file is being continuosly overwritten by some program/daemon I can't guess. I tried the supersede/prepend directives in dhclient.conf with no success

Re: DHCP weirdness? broken?

2011-02-03 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/2/3 David Gaudine dav...@alcor.concordia.ca On 11-02-03 5:19 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Me again. Do you have dhcpc installed? If so, try setting SET_DNS='no' in the config file. David no but well, I am really confused... 1. removed all dhcp* pkgs 2. removed all dns* pkgs 3

Re: Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

2011-02-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/2/7 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org On Sun, 06 Feb 2011, Pier Paolo wrote: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Yea! Squeeze is stuck with 2.6.32...patched sup., as per standard distribution's kernel? As in what Debian is shipping, so yes, standard distro kernel. You can

Skype

2011-02-07 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I wonder if anyone of you is currently using skype on debian amd64 and which app are you using. I would prefer not to install ia32-* stuffs as suggested by http://wiki.debian.org/skype regards raffaele -- *L'unica speranza di catarsi, ammesso che ne esista una, resta affidata all'istinto di

Re: Skype

2011-02-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/2/8 Simon Brandmair sbrandm...@gmx.net Hi, On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:20:02 +0100 Raffaele Morelli wrote: I wonder if anyone of you is currently using skype on debian amd64 and which app are you using. I am successfully running the Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit version on debian squeeze 64bit

Re: 64bit vs 32bit on a 64bit System

2011-02-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/2/9 Boblitz John john.bobl...@bertschi.com We are internally debating whether to install the 64bit port on our 64bit machine. Are there any reasons to NOT use the 64bit port? Cheers, John Boblitz ?! :-) IMHO I see no reasons at all. I am running amd64 (both on production servers

Re: Skype

2011-02-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2011/2/9 Wolodja Wentland babi...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:46 +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2011/2/8 Simon Brandmair sbrandm...@gmx.net I am successfully running the Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit version on debian squeeze 64bit. well, I finally installed ia32-* and followed

Re: Any body running apd-1.0.1 with PHP5.2 on Etch/amd64

2007-04-13 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/4/12, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I got this error trying to Compile http://pecl.php.net/get/apd-1.0.1.tgz on Etch/amd64 and got the following Error. testsrv:/var/Software/apd-1.0.1# make install

Re: Soundcard issues

2007-04-13 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/4/12, Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 04/11/2007 11:00 AM, Zoho Vignochi wrote: but when I reboot alsa loads nothing and I have to manually insert the module. So I thought that loading the module and then running the command alsactl store I can then invoke-rc.d alsa reload and

Re: Any body running apd-1.0.1 with PHP5.2 on Etch/amd64

2007-04-13 Thread Raffaele Morelli
You mean to compile PHP? Yes. http://pecl.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=9329 When a bug appears, hopefully the solution will appear in a recent snapshot I really don't want to move away from Stable packages on a Production Server :-( any other Option? Install php5-dev if you haven't yet and

Re: Soundcard issues

2007-04-14 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Did you look at alsa-project web sites? Search specific tips for your card there, isapnp sound card require isapnp tools/packages to deal with. Have a look. cheers raffaele I only see outdated stuff there, but thanks. Besides, the sound card works fine, alsa works fine, I just have to

Re: upgrade etch

2007-04-26 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Francesco, in order to move to 4.0 you just have to make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list points to stable or etch which is current stable release (a symbolic link to). This is a line of mine deb http://debian.fastweb.it/debian/ stable main contrib You can also run netselect-apt stable it will

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/1, bigoperm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge (over Etch) without using any data? I did something very close to this using a local repository for apt,

Re: General questions...

2007-05-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
c) I know loads of text editors can do multi-file find/replace - but I want to do this on a massive scale, it would mean opening up every text file on the file system! - i.e. I want to -on mass- rename something unique in all configuration files mentioning it Don't you like CLI instead a GUI

Re: kernel recompile compile

2007-05-02 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/2, Andrew Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone tell me how to, or point me to a good website that tells you how to recompile/compile a kernel? The normal way? and the debian way? I suggest you the debian way, debian website offers a straight and easy command sequence for make-kpkg

Re: Problem with xmms on debian etch 4.0 stable

2007-05-03 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/3, Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With XMMS 1:1.2.10+20061 installed on debian etch 4.0 stable, the menu display does not show up properly after right-clicking, the items cannot be read. I don't think this is a problem with xmms per se, probably with gtk? Probably with xfonts I

Re: Mount problem for an external USB hard drive

2007-05-07 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/7, Mauro Sacchetto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've a new error when I connect an external USB hard drive. A message tells me: === hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000 === So, the user (usar samiel:group samiel, uid 1000) cannot see the

Re: (Continued) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/8, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I remember, dselect can show available packages. Can dpkg do that? apt-cache search package_name or apt-get install [tab][tab] will ask you to show all available packages in the repositories pointed by sources.list raffaele

Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
I just changed: 1. Processor type and features - Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL) OFF 2. Processor type and features - Timer frequency (1000 HZ) 3. Processor type and features - Preemption Model (Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)) 4. Device Drivers - Graphics support - Logo

Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/8, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 8 May 2007 12:12:22 +0200 Raffaele Morelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Me too compile kernels as root and really would like to know why it is considered such a bad habit. It's generally considered a bad idea to do anything as root unless

GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny. Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or removal, menu.lst grows bigger. Installed kernel entries for (recovery mode) are duplicated, same thing happened for AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST section.

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
That is not what he is saying you get for your example. Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-k7 (Single User Mode) Debian

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
you mean you get multiple entries for the recovery mode of the *same* kernel? e.g. three recovery mode entries for 2.6.18-4 Yes. or are you just worried about multiple kernel entries in general. That is controlled by the howmany= statement in menu.lst. A No, I frequently try different

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/10, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are a lot of window managers available (too many to download and test them all over a slow dial up link) and I'm looking for suggestions. Here's what I want: low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. Most of the time, x apps

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-14 Thread Raffaele Morelli
That is what I thought Wackojacko has the answer in this thread it is because of having the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symbolic links in /boot it adds these as well. I removed them and updated grub manually I did not get the duplicates put the links back updated grub and there were the duplicates

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-14 Thread Raffaele Morelli
That is what I thought Wackojacko has the answer in this thread it is because of having the vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old symbolic links in /boot it adds these as well. I removed them and updated grub manually I did not get the duplicates put the links back updated grub and there were the

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007-05-17 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/16, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / tmpfs 126M 0

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/18, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of offtopic posts there.

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/21, S C [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With Windows all this was

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007-05-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/21, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2007/5/16, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h Filesystem

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007-05-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/21, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raffaele Morelli wrote: Any other good suggestions, please ? With 33Mb in / there's really poor room to work, and a kernel install requires space for modules, around 50 for me. du -sh /lib/modules/* Easier said than done: '/' has 93 MB used

Re: I want to install lenny from scratch

2007-06-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/6/6, arijit [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I am almost new to debian. I was using ubuntu before but due to crashes I switched to debian recently (etch is my first debian experience). After using etch I found it as the most stable linux OS I have ever used. Recently I was looking in the

Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-11-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
I use the exact same card. Under the Section Device, change the driver from s3 to savage The modified Section Device should look like this: Section Device Identifier S3 Inc. VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] Driver savage BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection

Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-11-22 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2006/11/22, Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raffaele Morelli wrote: Mhhh... Previously, you claimed to be using debian testing. Debian testing/etch is currently using kernel 2.6.17. Maybe there's a problem using current xorg with about 2 years old kernel? this is my /et/apt

Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-11-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Oh...its good to see that it has worked with you. I had a lotta trouble with the 2.6.8 Kernel on Debian Sarge 3.1r0 and that video card. Well..but here I am a bit confused. The 2.6.8 kernel doesn't even have the module required for this video card. I wonder how could you do that when its not

Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-30 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi, I use transcode for video conversions and find it a real swissknife for that. As written on the man page, DVD rip is nothing without transcode so I think you only have to try it with different settings for video codec (-y option), video output bitrate (-w option) and of course video (-Z )

Re: audio / video system

2006-12-04 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2006/12/4, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:57:10AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Does anyone know of a good source of info or even have much experience doing that themselves? I think the agnula web site and related list could be a good start. http://agnula.org/ cheers

Re: audio / video system

2006-12-05 Thread Raffaele Morelli
I think the agnula web site and related list could be a good start. http://agnula.org/ Hi Raffaele, I poked around a bit but couldn't really get a good idea of what's going on at agnula. It's an umbrella group, right? Adam Hi Adam, I started there but after I did it on my own :) and

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2006/11/30, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain system. Hi, I think this assertion is a little bit misleading. Instead, as you wrote, you moved to GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular

Re: How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-09 Thread Raffaele Morelli
We're wanting to use one Debian box to play two different audio streams to two different systems: one playing music-on-hold for our general telephone system, and one playing tips-and-updates for our Helpdesk phone system (for simplification purposes, you can just think of the two streams going to

Re: Sound

2006-12-27 Thread Raffaele Morelli
eg. posting lspci and discover output would be of help regards It's something from Intel: Here is the output from lspci referring audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) Fritz it seems an on board SC, but what about

Re: /etc/inid.d/networking script

2007-07-06 Thread Raffaele Morelli
I took a look on the /etc/inid.d/networking script and noticed that the ifup -a wouldnt ifup the interfaces. So, ifup -a doesnt work, but ifup eth0 works just fine. from ifup --help: ifup -a configure all interfaces marked auto so check your /etc/network/interfaces Am I doing

Re: revert to Etch from Lenny/Sid

2007-07-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/7/11, kedmond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I am using a Thinkpad X21 laptop with 384 MB of RAM and a new 40 gig disk. I installed Debian 4.0 (Etch) via the floppy disk install. Installation wa actually really pleasant, especially over the fast network connection. With some work, I got

Re: Debian Etch apache2 virtual host problem

2007-07-31 Thread Raffaele Morelli
# HTML documents, with indexing. Directory / Options +Includes /Directory this is extremely insecure if your machine is public see Order Deny, Allow # CGI Handling ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/workzone/cgi-bin/ Location /cgi-bin

debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Hi you all, I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense. thanx in advance

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific trouble about sound cards as my first goal is to get sound system perfectly working. Any other feedback about sound system

Re: debian oriented laptot suggestions

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/9/12, Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Thanx for your replies. After all, it seems that Thinkpad (IBM or Lenovo) is a good choice. As suggested by Celejar I am now going to ask on debian-laptop for more specific

Re: Can't execute PHP script

2007-09-12 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/9/12, Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey, I installed apache like; aptitude install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 As returned by apache2ctl, I am running; Apache/2.2.4 (Debian) PHP/5.2.3-1+b1 I point my browser to; http://localhost/apache2-default/test.php The file

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