Re: complaints about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Robert Goley
What I find most frustrating of all is that there are LOTS of valid concerns for the use of systemd but that it is coming out at the point of implementation. I am sure I am a bit out of the loop with with daily tasks etc but this kinda seems like it came out of nowhere destined for integration

Re: scp stalled

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Rottscholl
Hi Francesco, what kernel version do you use? There is an unfixed (in mainline) kernel bug in the tun device which might cause your problems (see https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74051 ). This will only be a problem if you use a tunnel to connect to your server. Greets Robert

Re: root low space

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Rottscholl
Hi Francesco, backup only the affected volumes (2 in your case, being vg1-root and vg1-home). A tool like partclone can be useful in your case, as it only backups used sectors, which reduces file size of the resulting backup image and also speeds up the whole process. Greets Robert Am

Re: scp stalled

2014-05-22 Thread Robert Rottscholl
Hi Francesco, as you have not heared of it, it is unlikely that you use it. So I would go for an mtu check. What is 'ping -M do -s 1472 login.plx.cineca.it' saying, does it work? Greets Robert Am 22.05.2014 08:53, schrieb Francesco Pietra: Hi Robert: francesco@tya64:~$ uname -r 3.2.0-4

Re: root low space

2014-05-20 Thread Robert Rottscholl
Hi Fransesco, what does 'vgs' say is there free space? If not, resize vg1-home (reduce size) and afterwards increase vg1-root. But be careful first resize the filesystem (resize2fs) and afterwards the logical volume (lvreduce), otherwise you might loose data. Regards Robert Rottscholl Am

Re: auto-activating iSCSI device with an LVM volume group

2014-05-14 Thread Robert Rottscholl
to it you should add your lvm to LVMGROUPS in /etc/default/open-iscsi and you should enable automatic in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf setting node.startup to automatic. I hope this helps cheers Robert Am 10.04.2014 00:11, schrieb Seb: Hi, I've been trying to find the proper piece of documentation

Re: disk maintenance raid1

2014-05-09 Thread Robert Rottscholl
Hi Francesco, you can adjust the number of mounts after which the filesystem is checked with 'tune2fs -c N'. Or you can use 'fsck -i' to use a time dependent checking. Greetings Robert Am 08.05.2014 18:00, schrieb Francesco Pietra: Hi Robert; Thanks a lot for providing the information

Re: disk maintenance raid1

2014-05-08 Thread Robert Rottscholl
be the usage of ext4 on squeeze and something else on wheezy. In ext4 disk checks are (I think) disabled by default (see http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/437298-fsck-not-needed-ext4-filesystems ). Greetings Robert Am 08.05.2014 15:40, schrieb Francesco Pietra: Hello: W#ith my amd64

Re: Bug#730258: please add arch-specific BTS tags

2013-11-24 Thread Robert
On 24/11/2013 02:45, Robert Millan wrote: On 23/11/2013 22:53, Don Armstrong wrote: kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 Most of the bugs affecting one of these also affect the other. I think it makes sense to add a single tag to cover both. FWIW, I think dpkg resolved this quite nicely

Re: Bug#730258: please add arch-specific BTS tags

2013-11-23 Thread Robert Millan
On 23/11/2013 22:53, Don Armstrong wrote: kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386 Most of the bugs affecting one of these also affect the other. I think it makes sense to add a single tag to cover both. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Would like a ports mailing list for x32

2013-08-18 Thread Robert Goley
I would recommend the Lubuntu distribution. It is light on resources, the gui works in a similar manner to windows and does not have too many easy to mess up settings. On Aug 18, 2013 10:51 PM, Aeon gaeaesse...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best and most Recommended Distro for someone that has

Re: shell wrapper to set ioctls before after a command execution?

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Goley
That sounds like a good idea but you would need to blacklist the PIDs of the commands called from your backup script as well. Most likely, they are the processes opening all of the files to start with. You might want to look at using a python script for your backup script so you can more easily

Re: shell wrapper to set ioctls before after a command execution?

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Goley
Wasn't sure it had been thought out. Thought you were doing a single backup script expecting blacklisting the single PID to work. The method you have should work great. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Giacomo Mulas gmu...@oa-cagliari.inaf.itwrote: On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Robert Goley wrote

Re: Just to be very clear about Office

2013-02-05 Thread Robert Isaac
You will find the user interface different. It is capable of reading and writing microsoft file formats, OpenOffice still doesn't write OOXML and there is very little macro compatibility with Excel. I dn't know what to do if you want to run Microsoft Office on a Linux system. Rumours are

Re: a few dumb questions about wine

2011-12-29 Thread Robert Goley
the installation process too. I have not tested it lately on Debian but they do provide package repositories for Squeeze and Lenny. I would give it a shot if I were you. Could save you a good deal of time. Robert On 12/29/2011 11:43 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote

Re: please update patches / investigate build failures for gcc-4.7 snapshot builds

2011-12-19 Thread Robert Millan
is obsolete, please replace with attached build fix. -- Robert Millan --- a/src/gcc/config/kfreebsd-gnu.h~ 2011-07-21 17:31:44.0 +0200 +++ b/src/gcc/config/kfreebsd-gnu.h 2011-12-19 20:20:26.961301396 +0100 @@ -33,3 +33,4 @@ #define GNU_USER_DYNAMIC_LINKERGLIBC_DYNAMIC_LINKER

Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-11 Thread Robert Isaac
Not _all_ users -- only the ones who have the root password.  Which you simply don't give to ordinary users. Which bypasses the purpose of groups and relies solely on passwords for security, which are crackable.  Even on a system which supports it, what is there to stop a user who has the

Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Isaac
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:05 AM, A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk wrote: On Monday 08 Aug 2011, Robert Isaac wrote: On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to? Does it really matter when any user that has

Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Isaac
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to? Does it really matter when any user that has the root password can gain root privileges thanks to gnu su's inability to limit root privileges to a specific group? --

Re: What groups does a desktop power-user need to belong to?

2011-08-08 Thread Robert Goley
for the group %sudo. It is also worth noting that I believe the group staff has permissions by default to install software in /usr/local. As I said above though, power user really depends on the general tasks you have in mind for that machine. Robert

Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

2011-07-08 Thread Robert Isaac
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Finding all scripts with /bin/sh and changing them to /bin/bash can be done in a couple of lines of perl.  Trivial to do really It's more trivial to change the default shell to bash if it is necessary for a

Re: libcholmod

2011-05-06 Thread Robert Isaac
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM, brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: My comment about multiarch was an extension of the previous paragraph. If those extra development files (such as headers) end up in both library packages, they may cause a file conflict. I'm still not seeing

Re: libcholmod

2011-05-05 Thread Robert Isaac
It will also affect multiarch, where those two versions of a library package may be for separate architectures. You'll have to explain how a library in lib32 could possibly conflict with a library in lib64 as long as ld is doing its job correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-26 Thread Robert Isaac
That doesn't seem relevant to whether 32 or 64bit works with flash. That's just a problem with the flash plugin in general. Not really, Debian's security support for flash is often lacking. If users are lucky there will be a backport available, if not then they are on their own. Same package

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-24 Thread Robert Isaac
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:10:52PM -0400, Robert Isaac wrote: The current stable flash plugin is 32-bit only which leaves you using either nsplugin-wrapper or a 32-bit browser. There is a 64-bit beta

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-22 Thread Robert Isaac
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: Flash stopped being a problem at least two years ago - I could be wrong there, it may be even longer than that. I have no reason to regret my choice of using the 64-bit port. And, I may add, I am a non-technical user.

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Goley
a failsafe to allow booting into Linux from Windows in the event Windows overwrites the bootloader on the MBR. -- Robert Goley FOSS Implementation Specialist Toll Free: (800) 338-4984 Local: (770) 479-7933 Fax: (770

Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Isaac
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Re: dumb question about dual booting debian and Windows 7 on separate drives.....

2010-12-08 Thread Robert Isaac
It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to choice of booting it when you boot up the PC.. Yes, but it's fragile and not worth doing that way. Depends on the version of grub:

Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation failures

2010-11-30 Thread Robert Isaac
On 11/29/10, Tomasz Nitecki t...@tnnn.pl wrote: On 29/11/10 17:00, dage...@free.fr wrote: Anyway, just a remark, I have noticed that just after the installation of Debian AMD 64, there's no xorg.conf file at all, but X runs well. Any hints to make me understand ? It 'just works' due to its

Re: Lotus notes oamd64?

2010-09-18 Thread Robert Isaac
I'm afraid it's not possible, as Lotus Notes is a non-free email/collaboration suite from IBM: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus If the Source Code is not available then that is surely, in and of itself, a good enough reason to run it inside a chroot -- that way, it can't get at

Re: Google Gears

2010-07-05 Thread Robert Goley
This may not provide all the same features as Google gears but what about Thunderbird with offline caching turn on? Similar to Outlook but cross platform. Allows for accessing all IMAP folders or just the select ones you want while offline. Works great with apps at our office... On Jul 5, 2010

make-kpkg fails writing to weird directories on dual or multi core processors

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Key
Hi I have using make-kpkg successfully on my amd64 dual core system until about a month ago. I did the following: installed debian testing amd64 apt-get install kernel-package make g++ gcc build-essentail libncurses5-dev linux-source-2.6.32 and any other files I needed to build a kernel I

Odd issue with mkfs.xfs under Lenny/amd64

2009-12-28 Thread Robert Goley
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Re: kde4

2009-09-23 Thread Robert Isaac
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Karl Schmidt k...@xtronics.com wrote: Anyone running KDE4?  Any AMD64 issues? Can it be loaded running lenny? All of the backporting projects that I have seen stopped around 4.1. You could probably backport it yourself if you have the time, or remember to

Re: What is the matter with the http://people.debian.org/~rafael/skype-amd64/?

2009-07-21 Thread Robert Isaac
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:30 AM, A J Stilesde...@earthshod.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 21 Jul 2009, James Brown wrote: I know about ekiga and such but they do not serve for all my aims. I (and many people in my country - Russia, when existing terrible and bloody dictatorship of tyrants Putin and

Disk Controller detected with i686 kernel but not AMD64 kernel

2009-05-19 Thread Andrew Robert Nicols
I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on some Dell R610s but I've been having some major issues with the installation when trying to install with an AMD64 architecture kernel. I've also tried apt-get installing the amd64 kernel and selecting it at boot time but the system is unable to find the disks

Re: nvidia driver debian way and 3D

2009-05-03 Thread Robert Isaac
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Klaus Becker colon...@free.fr wrote: I just tried http://musee.louvre.fr/expo-imaginaire/escalierdesambassadeurs/fr/index.html and it works fine, and it's 3d. Klaus It also doesn't use the 3DVIA-player plugin that the first link uses. You basically have

Re: iceape-browser

2009-03-24 Thread Robert Isaac
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org wrote: Which is a polite way of rephrasing what I said earlier :) No, you pointed against an O: bug. The above ia a perfectly valid reason because when the security team (volunteers, you know, and we all know how crappy Mozilla

Re: iceape-browser

2009-03-22 Thread Robert Isaac
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:03 AM, macdowell@dpf.gov.br wrote: hello, why we can't find iceape-browser in lenny, there is only for etch ? is there any conflict to download etch version with lenny ? if so there others wysiwyg html editors for lenny? thanks

Re: MD List in the USA

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Weinstein
Do you still sell MD board certified in the US lists? Regards, Bob Weinstein The Carolan Group Tel - 609-714-8947 Email lweinst...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Resource conflict amd64 lenny MMIO issues failure of modprobe fglrx

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Isaac
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Francesco Pietra chiendar...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot to mention that the graphic card is Pixelview 6600 256M DDR DVI GeForce 6800. I expected that it is compatible with fglrx francesco You may have more success with the nvidia driver with that particular GPU,

Re: reinstalling X.Org server

2009-01-31 Thread Robert Isaac
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:29:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/30/2009 04:18 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote: Is it possible to reinstall X.Org server on a multisocket dual-opteron computer running amd64

Re: Where is the kernel?

2009-01-06 Thread Robert Isaac
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:06 AM, A J Stiles de...@earthshod.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2009, Robert Isaac wrote: That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, so it is not necessarily a good idea for the people that rely on those for a desktop. But it would

Re: Where is the kernel?

2009-01-06 Thread Robert Isaac
That would break all three nvidia drivers currently within non-free, I'm sorry, but that's not the case: Debian is *only* main, non-free is a commodity place we provide for our users, it's not that something broked in non-free would stop the release to happen. That is good to say, but in

Re: Where is the kernel?

2009-01-05 Thread Robert Isaac
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Exactly. That's why 2.6.27 should be more mainstream. To reiterate the thoughts of millions of right-thinking people, 2.6.27 should be the

Re: flashplugin-nonfree on debian-amd64 BUG ???

2008-12-08 Thread Robert Isaac
latest version of package flashplugin-nonfree is (IMO) downloading the wrong version of flashplayer. It seems, it is downloading the 32-bit-version. This version is not running on my 64-bit system. From debian-multimedia.org: New flash-player package for amd64 in experimental (can be

Re: SATA CDROM/DVD fails to mount CDROM

2008-07-21 Thread Robert Hancock
of sata_nv? I'm not sure how else to report problems with modules - I would be glad to help test it. I haven't seen any reports since 2.6.25. Are there updated details (dmesg output, etc) posted anywhere? Robert Hancock wrote: Karl Schmidt wrote: Mounting CDROMS on a cdrom/dvd/-rw used

Re: How would I get debian unstable?

2008-06-06 Thread Robert Isaac
Yes, Linux wrote Linux when BSD wasn't available. I've read a quote somewhere that if BSD had been available he wouldn't have bothered with Linux. I have to point that out that you just did it again. :-) Don't worry, we'll just be used as lubricants when the kernel fulfills its mission

Re: How would I get debian unstable?

2008-06-05 Thread Robert Isaac
Note that the reason that OpenBSD can claim only two security holes in the default install in the past 10 years is that there are no services active in a default install (you have to add commands to the startup script to enable them). Except they don't make that claim, OpenBSD claims two

Re: How would I get debian unstable?

2008-06-05 Thread Robert Isaac
Do you know the difference between Unix and Linux? Short answer is that Linux wrote Linux when he needed a Unix but Unix was caught in the Unix wars and there wasn't one available that wasn't tied up in legal wrangling and rewriting to remove copywritten code. So the kernel wrote itself?

Re: my nvidia 3D acceleration seems to have conked out..... (problem now FIXED)

2008-05-25 Thread Robert Isaac
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 768 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-1's EDID; cannot compute DPI (WW) NVIDIA(0): from CRT-1's EDID. (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default Do you have your monitor's HorizSync and

Re: my nvidia 3D acceleration seems to have conked out..... (problem now FIXED)

2008-05-25 Thread Robert Isaac
Just a shot in the dark, change: SubSection Display Modes 1280x768 EndSubSection to: SubSection Display Modes 1360x768 1280x768 EndSubSection Also it _isn't_ a good idea to punch in random HorizSync and

Re: debian and cuda....

2008-05-17 Thread Robert Isaac
I read about GPUs nvidia and CUDA etc a bit on the web. I found out that CUDA is supposed to work in Linux and nosed around and saw that there is some sort of implementation of it for Ubuntu http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html Unless you are developing an application that

Re: linux-image-2.6.18-6-amd64 kernel installed, but am I running a 64-bit system?

2008-05-02 Thread Robert Isaac
Whoa now, don't go bashing my diesels! :) 350 HP, 650 lb-ft torque, 15 mpg in a 7000 lb truck! Plus you can convert the engine to run on waste vegetable oil AND have your home invaded by angry gun toting IRS agents when you fail to pay the fuel tax (USA only, sorry). :) -- To

Re: SATA CDROM/DVD fails to mount CDROM

2008-04-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Karl Schmidt wrote: Mounting CDROMS on a cdrom/dvd/-rw used to work. At first I had a plextor 712s and thought it had failed. I replaced it with an Optotrac and now a LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1L. (These are all SATA drives) Wonder what I need to back out of lenny to get it to work again? This

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-10 Thread Robert Isaac
Other than games, for what is 3d used? Does it take 3d to render a movie full-screen using the hardware, or is that a 2d function? CAD programs, 3d modelling programs, a few renderers, etc. It's not just eye candy that needs a hardware accelerated display. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-09 Thread Robert Isaac
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:04:35PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: the reverse engineered nvidia driver is working now, cant recall the name of it. nv Which is 2d only, the nouveau driver is the one aiming for

Re: Fwd: P5K-VM v BFG NVidia 8800GT OC

2008-04-08 Thread Robert Isaac
interested in this, but I've attached output from both dmesg and lspci -vv. Also, I spoke with the computer shop where I purchased the card and they've agreed to check it out for defects. Robert, you had mentioned that the motherboard was incompatible with the card -- where can I find a list

Re: Graphics cards with Free drivers

2008-04-08 Thread Robert Isaac
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:08 AM, A J Stiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of buying a new 64-bit machine to use as my home desktop. (It will probably run Sid.) Does anyone know of a graphics card which is definitely supported by Free drivers? Intel, as previously stated, is the

Re: Hey everyone, GUI isn't working; I can't figure out how to configure my xserver correctly.

2008-04-07 Thread Robert Isaac
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Lance Ferrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im getting XIO: Fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 when I try to boot debian. I'm new to linux and computers in general, so any help would be great. I have a BFG NVidea 8800 GT if that helps.

Re: Fwd: P5K-VM v BFG NVidia 8800GT OC

2008-04-04 Thread Robert Isaac
Just as a side note, I called BFG Technologies on the off-chance they might help (they boast of a 24-hour live support in North America, so I figured I'd try it). Worse than useless: 'We don't support Linux' I was about to ask if they knew of any support links online to check. They hung up

Re: Package xserver-xorg-core and Nvidia

2008-01-21 Thread Robert Isaac
The versions abobe 100.14.09 must use Xorg7.3 and higher, due to a new ABI in the Nvidia drivers. 100.14.19 builds and works fine on Etch as did 100.14.09. Only the debian package requires Xorg = 7.3 which can easily be changed by lowering the version numbers in the debian/control.in file in

Re: Package xserver-xorg-core and Nvidia

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Isaac
But they are NOT compatible. That means they don't work. The new xorg can't work with the old nvidia hence there should be a dependancy preventing you from having the old nvidia with the new xorg. It's a good thing when packages prevent you from doing broken things. The new version of

Re: Package xserver-xorg-core and Nvidia

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Isaac
Best course of action: stick to Intel graphics, or use the free nv driver. The nv driver only works on some cards and intel cards are overpriced POS that simply do not support some of more useful GL extensions. AMD/ATi has recently released specs for their newer chips, and promises to do so

Re: Package xserver-xorg-core and Nvidia

2007-11-22 Thread Robert Isaac
AFAIK not all specs are available and even the released ones have some holes. I'm sure these will be solved over time but IMHO right _now_ the only fully supported Radeon family is still the R200 generation. R300 and partly R400 is becoming pretty good but it is not yet complete. Work on R500

Re: sources.list help

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Isaac
Demand a better archive format, tar.bz2 has much better compression. Otherwise: apt-cache search unrar unrar-free - Unarchiver for .rar files unrar - Unarchiver for .rar files (non-free version) Just add contrib non-free to the end of your mirror if you must use the non-free version of unrar it

Re: Still bugs in Nvidias binary drivers

2007-11-07 Thread Robert Isaac
I also think we should write to our Elected Representatives and ask why it cannot be made a legal requirement for manufacturers to provide full specifications for any hardware they sell. Don't we have enough laws already? You'll have a quicker and less invasive response by sending snail-mail

Re: Re: Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-13 Thread robert caterina
. cheers -- robert caterina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread robert caterina
Hy Joost, To get an IP adress for your laptop you must specify where it can find the dhcp server. You must include in the wireless stanza the IP adress of that server via an instruction: gateway (write the IP of the dhcp server behind gateway. Hope this helps! -- robert caterina [EMAIL

Re: Re: How to wifi with ipw3945 on Dell Vostro ???

2007-10-11 Thread robert caterina
on it: in general it is at the output of the ethernet box. That one has an IP address of the form 192.168.0.1 and acts as a gateway to connect to the internet. But may be i am wrong. Sorry if it is the case. -- robert caterina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: nvidia-glx 100.14.19 freezes the whole system

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Isaac
So what video card has an Open Source driver that can access all hardware accellerated functions? Intel is the only company (that I am aware of) that has open source drivers that fully utilize the hardware but they are not known for being high performance or inexpensive video cards. AMD has

Re: help-libxul0d

2007-09-02 Thread robert caterina
hello, Your system is probably not up to date. Try apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. It should do the trick. Cheers robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please Help - glx

2007-08-09 Thread Robert Isaac
thats games are playable? could you name some? Thanks :$apt-cache search games will bring up quite a few games. I suggest checking out Nexuiz, OpenArena (in lenny and sid, though 0.7.1 hasn't been packaged yet), and Tremulous (in contrib and non-free). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#419035: rott: crashes on start on AMD64

2007-08-07 Thread Robert Isaac
The full version is playable on Sarge when taken from upstream CVS. How about the Shareware version (or what do you mean by full version)? There is no difference between the full retail version and the shareware version, it is just a compile switch that allows the loading of more wad files.

Re: Bug#419035: rott: crashes on start on AMD64

2007-08-06 Thread Robert Isaac
However, do you consider the game playable? The full version of the game was playable on Sarge without issues (32-bit compiled from upstream CVS). The breakage seemed to happen when compiled on an Etch system (if that's helpful) this is both the Debian package and Upstream's CVS. I am CCing

Re: deciding on a new amd64 system

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Isaac
Of course you can get a stupid little Athlon 64 X2 3600+ system from dell for $399CDN at the moment. Hard to beat that price/performance ratio. Of course it is a Dell, so who knows... :) -- Len Sorensen If you go the Dell route be sure to pick the Ubuntu pre-installed choice. It may be

Re: Youtube on non X86 platforms.

2007-04-19 Thread Robert Isaac
There is libswfdec, also free software. If all you want or need flash for is to view YouTube or Google Videos libswfdec and Gnash are a fine replacement for flash. It's when you come to the sites that think complete flash design with the latest codec is the best possible way to wow the customer

Re: when is etch safe to access internet?

2007-01-01 Thread Robert Isaac
On 12/31/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 02:45:57PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: Hi, Two interrelated questions: Short question: when can my Etch amd64 box access the net via dialup safely? At one point recently in relation to Etch (pre RC1), there

Re: 2D,3D,nvidia,nv?

2006-12-17 Thread Robert Isaac
On 12/17/06, Brian R. Whitecotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 2D nv driver is fine Last time I tried the nv driver on my 6800 my display was borked due to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6212 which you would have known about had you attempted to use the nv driver with your card.

Easy Job Good Moeny

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Rouse
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Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Robert Isaac
Sarge is a stable release, and hence will not get ANY updates. Except, of course, security fixes. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia driver

2006-11-03 Thread Robert Isaac
On 11/3/06, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:50:58PM -0500, Robert Isaac wrote: Except, of course, security fixes. ;-) Does Debian even try to do security fixes for non-free? There is a non-free repository at security.debian.org and the debian.org/security

Re: mozilla-browser

2006-10-31 Thread Robert Isaac
I thought it was renamed to Iceape due to trademark issues with Mozilla Corp. with firefox (tm) to be renamed to iceweasel. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354622 On 10/31/06, Douglas Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:53:24PM -0600, Mike Reinehr

Re: em64t

2006-10-08 Thread Robert Isaac
On 10/8/06, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz wrote: It's now Intel 64, if that wasn't confusing enough. http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34722 So intel went from IA-32e to EM64T to Intel 64! I guess you know why

Re: which package to play DVD's ???

2006-09-06 Thread Robert Isaac
I do NOT find any mention of copy protection on the three (3) DVD's that I am trying to play. well CSS (which is realy actually more an encryption then an copy protection) is seldomly mentioned but you will find very few dvd to buy (not self recorded) that do not use CSS). there is a package

Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-09-02 Thread Robert Isaac
Robert == Robert Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert That leaves you with two reasons to have a 32bit chroot, Robert hardly a headache but it is after all your choice. Myself I Robert have been using a 32bit chroot mainly for the video codices Robert and wine since before the release

Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-08-31 Thread Robert Isaac
Firefox + Flash (Flash is 32-bit only) There are open alternatives that work 64 bit native (let's be honest, flash 7 is broken anyway what is the big deal if certain sites crash the player or won't play at all?) OpenOffice Understandable here, everyone needs an office suite but there is a 64

Re: Flash in firefox on amd64 -- revisted?

2006-08-21 Thread Robert Isaac
Every single Free flash plugin sucks is useless. That's about all there is to say on the matter right now A bit brutal, but I'm afraid it is correct. I had pretty good luck with libswfdec (meaning it didn't crash as often). Another good example on why closed formats (and not closed

Re: Nvidia Texture corruption in quake4!

2006-08-19 Thread Robert Isaac
Two things, 1.) Quake 4 does not have a 64-bit executable, it only runs with 32 bit libs installed on your system, iD has yet to produce a 64 bit game. TTimo's view of the issue can be found here: http://www.linuxgames.com/?dataloc=articles/ttimo2006/ (second to last question) 2.) It is not a

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-16 Thread Robert Isaac
, Matteo Vescovi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/16/2006 03:24 AM, Robert Isaac wrote: That might change, though, now that AMD owns ATi. They _might_ release specs :-) http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6104655.html Mmhh, it seems like it won't change

Re: Question : grub commands

2006-08-15 Thread Robert Isaac
It gives that ATI sucks! :-) That's all. That might change, though, now that AMD owns ATi. They _might_ release specs :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian amd64 and linux certifications

2006-07-25 Thread Robert Isaac
On 7/25/06, Gnu-Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 25 July 2006 08:08, Christian Powers wrote: Anyone, I am currently a Debian only user at home and at work. Most of my computers are running 64bit kernels and of course the others are running 32bit systems and an ARM type system.

Re: Java and firefox

2006-07-24 Thread Robert Isaac
On 7/24/06, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:56:53PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: Exactly how does one get it running? I DL'd the x64 client from Sun, which recommends using the 32 bit client also for java script. I have downloaded both, putting the 32 bit

Re: Re: running vncserver?

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Hassing
Hi It seems that the host you named doesn't accept any reuests Is there another way to retrieve the .debs? With kind regards Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Picasa

2006-06-26 Thread Robert Isaac
On 6/25/06, Nelson Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaus Becker wrote: Am Sonntag 28 Mai 2006 10:15 schrieb Nelson Menezes: Just to let people know that the new Picasa for Linux from Google (http://picasa.google.com/linux/) works fine in AMD64; just download the .deb from

Installer error: Failure trying to run: chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc

2006-04-22 Thread Robert Hulme
Could someone please please please help me? :-) I posted this to debian-user but I get the feeling it's actually an amd64 problem. I've spent about 8 hours on this now and it's causing me to pull my hair out. Googling seems to largely reveal a few people in the past who have had the same problem

strange SIGSEV

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Millan
-o buffer.so gcc test.c -o test ./buffer.so ./test Segmentation fault $ gcc -fPIC -c buffer.c gcc test.c -o test buffer.o ./test foo Note: this currently breaks swap{on,off,ctl} on kfreebsd-amd64 -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: strange SIGSEV

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Millan
. Use -Wall to detect these errors: Ouch. Thanks :) -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kfreebsd-amd64 base system ready

2006-03-14 Thread Robert Millan
:00:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Hi! For those who want to play with it, there's a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD system for amd64 now: http://io.debian.net/~rmh/amd64/ Its stage is very preliminar and only useful for developers. Instructions: - Install FreeBSD 6.0 for amd64, and setup

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