Re: LAME for Lenny

2009-12-24 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my older Sarge system, I used 'lame' to encode wav files to mp3. However > I can't find 'lame' for Lenny. Could someone tell me where to find the > appropriate package ? You got some answers about debian-multimedia. You can

OT: Operation not permitted with UDP port SNAT

2009-10-28 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hello. I have an issue with udp SNAT. If I try to change the source port of all UDP packets that go to a given port I get the "sendto: Operation not permitted" message. For the tests I used the "talker.c" program. http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/clientserver.html#datagram Thus i

Re: dev/null only root access - why?

2009-09-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Why does dev/null has rw permissions only for root? > > ls -al /dev/null > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 22 сеп 21,09 /dev/null Mmm. Weird major and minor numbers. It doesn't look like a char device. crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2009-09-21 14:24

Re: binary grep

2009-09-19 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rob Gom wrote: > Hello, > thanks for your suggestions. I'm afraid grep was designed as text-oriented > tool. > I'm not sure how it will handle CR and/or LF characters when matching > pattern. IIRC grep has no multiline patterns, so it could basically > fail. > I

Re: what does "kept back" mean when do "apt-get upgrade"?

2009-04-13 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:13 PM, 明覺 wrote: > I often see that some packages are "kept back" when I do "apt-get > upgrade", what does it mean? what actions are done to those kept back > packages? thanks The package is not upgraded. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: which package in etch can convert high-quality mp3 to low quality mp3?

2009-04-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: > I have a cell phone > it can't play some mp3 > maybe it supports only 128K > So I want to convert hight quality mp3 to 128K > Which package in etch? > mplayer maybe, but can you tell me all the command options? > Thanks! You can also convert the

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
>> I guess you can edit /etc/inetd.conf and then restart inetd. >> >> On my Lenny installation the initialization script is >> /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd . >> > i changed the port my ftp server use, then it starts. it's good, i'm > not so stupid. Sure. Nobody said you were. Have a nice day/night.

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Star Liu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: >> i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but >> i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server >> starting, so i want to find out the app and stop it,

Re: how to solve the problem "Could not bind sock on port 21: Address already in use"?

2009-03-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Star Liu wrote: > i found that there is already a application listening on port 21, but > i donot know what's the application, and it prevents my ftp server > starting, so i want to find out the app and stop it, how to do it? > thanks. Try with netstat -p ? -

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi > I have been recently looking at other distros to use other than Debian. And > i have also been given a new laptop for use in school which i am soon going > to be running Linux on. However i don't know what to go for. The 3 options > to c

Re: Skype

2009-02-24 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Has anyone used this software on Lenny?  Etch? Sid? Lenny and Sid here. There is also a debian package for amd64 I found somewhere (posted to this Debian list I think). > http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ > > If you have, may I have s

Re: ckermit startup time too long

2009-02-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Nelson Castillo wrote: > Hello. > > When I start the kermit program (ckermit package in Debian) it takes > about 5 seconds to come up. Strace shows that it does a lot of lookups > I might not need. > > Is there a known way to speed things

ckermit startup time too long

2009-02-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hello. When I start the kermit program (ckermit package in Debian) it takes about 5 seconds to come up. Strace shows that it does a lot of lookups I might not need. Is there a known way to speed things up? I do not remember having noticed this when I used ckermit a few years ago. Thanks, Nelson.

Re: [OT] C++ templates and debugging (limitations) in Linux

2009-01-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > This is related to templates in C++ and debugging tools we have in Linux > (I use gdb, is there any other comparable open source tool?). > > > What do C++ programmers here think about the usefulness of using > templates in C++ while keeping

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
> No, don't. I'm just wondering why. Actually I did a test in the same order > (bzip2 and the pbzip2) on a tar of my picture directory and on a video. I > just don't understand why my 2 runs aren't much quicker with pbzip2. Your test data is already compressed :-) You will not be able to compress

Re: Parallel GZIP

2008-12-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
>> Anyone has better results ? > Yes, see following: > > jac...@work:~/temp$ time tar -cjf temp1.tar.bz2 debian > > real0m18.830s > user0m18.317s > sys 0m0.268s > jac...@work:~/temp$ time bash -c "tar -cf - debian | pbzip2 -c > > temp2.tar.bz2" > > real0m10.494s > user0m19.557s

Re: Toshiba A305 S6859 / how do I control display brightness?

2008-12-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 2008 December 20 15:40:01 Nelson Castillo wrote: >> I have a Toshiba laptop [1] and I cannot stand the maximum >> brightness. My eyes hurt... >> >> What could I try? > > Look at:

Toshiba A305 S6859 / how do I control display brightness?

2008-12-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hello. I have a Toshiba laptop [1] and I cannot stand the maximum brightness. My eyes hurt... How can I control this? I've searched the web and so far I haven't found a solution. The module toshiba_acpi seems to be obsolete and it doesn't work. What could I try? Regards. [1] http://explore.tos

Re: TTY programming

2008-12-02 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:34 AM, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen loads of postings but no real answer to this: > > I write() a command to the modem > I read() to try to get a response, i.e. OK or if the command is a dial, BUSY > or such. > I do not get anything. > > The commands

Re: .bash_history duplicates

2008-11-26 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been going thru a number of bash related web sites looking for the way > to eliminate duplicates in ~/.bash_history. So far I've turned up > > export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups > export HISTCONTROL=erasedups > awk '!x[$0

Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

2008-11-19 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:06 AM, 中和刘 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the > user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I > hope I can get the mac address of the user according to its IP > address, is it possible? tha

Re: SVN Behind Proxy

2008-08-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Zaki Akhmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to get some source code with SVN. My access to Internet is > behind proxy. How do I set the SVN (I use subversion package) so that > I can access the source code? Hi. Please check the file "~/.subve

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: >> > On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-ge

Re: openssl vulnerability and RSA keys

2008-05-13 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 13, 2:20 pm, Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this mean that RSA keys for openssh should not be considered > > compromised? If so, why the need to regenerate them? > > On our systems the dowkd.

OT: Good binary diff?

2008-04-30 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I'd like to know what binary diff program you've been using in a production environment. I've been searching the WEB and I've found a few popular alternatives: * http://jojodiff.sourceforge.net/ * http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/ * xdelta3 (In Debian) The second one seems to need a lot of

Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:35 AM, paragasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, i just did an experiments on my old pentum III computer. > > one of the slave hardisk listed as /dev/sdb1 (EXT2) and /dev/sdb2(SWAP)

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

2008-04-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
> Other than writing a python script, can someone give me a simple command > to fix this so that it is not so distracting? Ideally, I'd put it into > an executable file and pipe the file through it on it's way to lpr. > > e.g. > $ cool-writing.txt | antiAJ | lpr -Pepson I use recode. cp coo

Re: Adding a ttyS

2008-03-24 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Jean Létourneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Goo day, > > How do I add a /dev/rrtS? I have 6 physical com port on my machine, but > Debian only see 4 of them. I use the command MAKEDEV but they do not appear > in the /dev, only in the /dev/.static/dev, I trye

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

2008-03-05 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is > no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I would just like to know > the number of keypresses I am generating everyday and perhaps the num

Re: HTTP through SSH?

2008-02-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Debian computer has a intranet IP address and cannot access the internet > directly. I currently use a proxy server. I have a non-super-user account on > a Fedora web server that has an intranet IP address, and

Re: Suppressing kernel 'printk's.

2008-02-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Feb 4, 2008 6:57 PM, Peter F Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi; > > I have a Debian kernel in which some printks have been left. These make > a mess of the console and logs. Is there any way, other than recompiling > the kernel, of suppressing the printk output? I think there is a "quiet

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
> > but who can i disable writes without damaging my system i guess linked tmp > > with ramdisk is a start but i need more ideas . > > > > Thank you in advance. > why not look at one of the distro's that are built for flash drive (openwrt ?) Mmm. I guess openwrt is not enough for a laptop. I guess

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-22 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Jan 22, 2008 7:33 PM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:23:57PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > My theory about flushing even makes a testable prediction: if you run > > umount(8) first and have no other removable media, then sync(1) should > > complete a

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-18 Thread Nelson Castillo
> > the solution is not to use the "sync" option, that also increases > > your drive's lifetime. > > I put the `sync' option just to avoid drive corruption. If it is > necessary to toggle it off, how can I be sure the process is terminated > before I unmount the drive? This was discussed sometime

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Jan 10, 2008 1:23 PM, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 10, 2008 1:11 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am coming back to perl after a long time. > > > > The sample code these days also uses variable attribute my as: > > > > my $inst = Extutils::Installed->new(

Re: [OT] JavaScript with socket function

2007-12-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Dec 20, 2007 1:06 PM, Misko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to write some JavaScript function in web page > that can fetch other web page from internet, store it in > variable, parse and present some extracted data from that > other page. I just do not know how to fetch other page. > I

Re: Iptables & Default policy of Reject

2007-09-10 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/10/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am just going through my firewall setup and I notice I can no longer > do iptables -P INPUT REJECT iptables -P INPUT DROP I use DROP. I guess it is not a good idea to send ICMP packets back by default (But I don't know if it can be don

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-28 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/28/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (cut) > > Any comments, suggestions, and including "go and get a life", welcome. > > Well, it seems like a multicast address. I've used that range to do > multicast in a LAN (with videolan). Rendezvous,

Re: Strange 224.0.0.251 address being accessed on bootup

2007-08-28 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/28/07, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (cut) > TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=52 > DROPPED IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.7 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=72 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 > TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=52 > d > > Any comments, suggestions, and including "go an

Re: a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-14 Thread Nelson Castillo
> 2. when i go to the gui -opendesktop --and i click on the network applete, > and deactivate the adapter and activate ---I am able to ping on my local > network. > 3. i can not ping past the my default gateway ---i double checked the > default gateway settings they are correct standard 192.168.2.1

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/9/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems > > with Python > > code which would not also be an issue in other code as well. The only > > difference being you have to be

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-08 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/8/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Nelson, > > On 8/8/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nowadays I replaced Perl with Python, but I still use Perl from time > > to time (to write one-liners mostly). > > Why did yo

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/7/07, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to learn bash or python scripting. > > - Which one is easiest to learn? Python I guess. > - Which one is more powerful? Python. > - Can I execute /bin commands from within a python script > (something like mkdir or ls)? Y

Re: Not able to find qwtplot3D

2007-07-30 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/30/07, Ashivni Shekhawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! >I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my > machine; however I get the following error: > > # apt-get install qwtplot3d > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find packag

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
If you install as stated above with aptitude, tesseract-ocr-data is automatically installed unless you change default behavior of aptitude. FTBFS is just package issue. This package should work. Otherwise, please file bug report. Osamu, thanks a lot. The package works well. Sorry -- if I was

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nelson Castillo([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:

Re: OCR questions

2007-07-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/21/07, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 10:53:09PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 22:25:43 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Why not use the Debian package? It is called "tesseract-ocr". Yes. But it is old 1.02 version and has FTBFS bug.

Re: Problem with sendmail, error code 67.

2007-07-02 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 7/2/07, Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Shams Fantar wrote: >> I have used Google to have the answers at my problem, but I did not find >> anything. You need more practice, the 1st page of my only search turned up this: ---

Re: Commandline FTP tool to sync mirror @ISP

2007-06-17 Thread Nelson Castillo
Can anyone recommend a tool for this? Also "ckermit". It belongs to non-free because of some cryptography options (I think -- I am not sure). http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftpclient.html http://packages.debian.org/ckermit We used it with this program 2 years ago. http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net

Re: Enable vim color?

2007-06-17 Thread Nelson Castillo
> Thanks i installed vim-python and its working like charm now :-) Good :) It's good to know that you only need "vim-python" if you actually wish to use vim scripts written in python. To edit python files you'll be fine with "vim". Regards. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNS

Re: Enable vim color?

2007-06-17 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/17/07, Vladimir Strycek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, i used vim before on debian and when i was editing my python scripts ( i use vim mainly for python coding ) i've got nice colored syntax and so on... here in debian i have only black and white. I tried command :syntax enable or :sy

Re: boot problem with custom kernel

2007-06-10 Thread Nelson Castillo
12. make-kpkg --append-to-version=.powertop kernel_image Hi, you missed the "--initrd" option. That way the package will make the initrd when installed and the kernel will use it at boot time. Regards. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/23/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (cut) Explain to me... what BIG games are there for Linux ... NOT Wine enabled. How many sales will that take a away from Blizzard... the WoW has shown people will use Windows to play it period. Why shoudl it change and cater to 5% that will cau

Re: xorg cannot read V_BIOS Intel D945GTP + 2 video cards / a way out

2007-05-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
*** 2) Downgrade to xorg 7.0 since this setup was working before I would not like to to this, but it's an option. My dual setup worked out of the box in a previous xorg version. I wonder how I could use an older xorg in Debian sid. Ok. A few hours and I got it. Let's reply myself

xorg cannot read V_BIOS Intel D945GTP + 2 video cards / a way out

2007-05-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. More than one month ago I asked in this list about an issue with my current setup that does not allow me to use my second PCI video card [1]. While it happens with an Intel D945GTP [2], I don't think this is specific to the main board as some say (I'm not sure). Anyway, the BIOS doesn't show

Re: thank you Debian Kernel Team!

2007-05-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/20/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Linux-source-2.6.21 is out in Sid. Good job! I use it to generate my own Debian stock kernel plus some changes: - take out CONFIG_PARAVIRT (to be able to use the nvidia closed source driver) - take out CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE - set CONFIG_P

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
> What does "mount /dev/sda /mnt/something" do? It seems to mount OK. Then you have no partitions, I think. About one year ago I formatted a pen drive (mp3 player also) with mkfs.vfat and the mp3 player would not work. I did something like mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX After a lot of tries I thought

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
If you read the contents of the link I provided, you'd see why sync-mounting a vfat device might be a very bad idea. Thanks a lot, I missed it. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/16/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (cut) What you *could* do is add an entry to root's crontab which runs sync(1) every 15 or 30 seconds. That would *mitigate* the usb stick timeouts, but would sync *all* drives, not just your thu

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-15 Thread Nelson Castillo
I am going to try a new card unless someone here tells me that no partition is normal for a CompactFlash card (8 mb). Maybe you have a file system in the raw device, with no partition table? What does "mount /dev/sda /mnt/something" do? Regards, N.- -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com

Re: using sizeof

2007-05-14 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/14/07, J HU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, Perhaps it's an easy/silly question but I don't understand how it works. (I'm working in a debian) I have declared a structure and I'm using the "sizeof" to get the size of this structure. After the call I get that the total size is 64Bytes

Re: Runlevel for textmode

2007-05-13 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/13/07, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi ; Hi. I want to start in textmode. In /etc/inittab I commented out the following line id:2:initdefault: as follows: # id:2:initdefault: and added the following: id:3:initdefault: but etch continues to boot up to an X login. What runlevel n

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
- These are *big*corps* with 1000s of users/customers. If it were a problem on their side I think they would have found and fixed it by now. Esp. since in one case the problem prevents logins. This is a flawed argument. They might not care about this problem. Can you use gmail? They might

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Nelson Castillo
I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared variable speed Warning: assignment to undeclared variable len Wa

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

2007-04-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 4/7/07, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a good start, you could also try older versions of > xserver-xorg-video-nv and xserver-xorg-core and see if it broke in a > specific upgrade. You can find older packages here, > http://snapshot.debian.net/ &

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

2007-04-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
That's a good start, you could also try older versions of xserver-xorg-video-nv and xserver-xorg-core and see if it broke in a specific upgrade. You can find older packages here, http://snapshot.debian.net/ Otherwise, I suggest you use the reportbug tool to file a bug report for xserver-xorg-vide

Re: Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

2007-04-06 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 4/6/07, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:48 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > What nVidia modules are you using? 9129 was the last version that > supported the NV18 chipset. I know, I have an exact duplicate of the > card. Looks like he's using the free nv driver.

Two video cards / Xorg crashes in sid

2007-04-06 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I had a successful setup a long time ago with Xorg and xinerama in Debian sid. I use 2 monitors and 2 video cards. It used to work well, but now I doesn't work anymore, even with the same configuration file I had before. I didn't have the time to debug, until today. Has something similar h

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/26/07, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:12:44AM +, Steve Kemp wrote: (cut) From my gut, it doesn't seem like SELinux is getting in the way. I'd see if FC has option to turn off SELinux as a kernel option or at least to turn off enforcing mode by using /selinux

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
I'd suggest disabling SELinux and seeing if that fixes it, if it does then I guess you get to learn more about using it than I wish to right now ;) :) Same here. Well, disabling SELinux in the host is not an option, but I can live with root not being able to run "passwd user" as long as I c

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/25/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 2/23/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > >> CHROOT> passwd userx

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 2/23/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > CHROOT> passwd userx > passwd: You may not view or modify password information for userx. Er, you ARE doing that as root, right? Yes :) The only special th

passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I had a chroot with debian sarge that I had to dist-upgrade to debian etch. I have backups and everying. But the problem is that now I try to change a user's password and I cannot. What could be the problem? What am I not aware of (regarding this issue)? CHROOT> passwd userx passwd: You may

Re: problem searching packages

2007-02-08 Thread Nelson Castillo
How to check whether hplip (or any other package) is installed on my system or not ? dpkg -l | grep packagename The second question : how to investigate what packages are installed in my system, with all informations (package name, version etc...) dpkg -l :) There are graphical frontends, i

Re: Sid + nVidia + Compiz == no good?

2007-01-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/29/07, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 18:01:58 -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: >On 1/25/07, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi Magnus! >> >>On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >>> I'

Re: Sid + nVidia + Compiz == no good?

2007-01-26 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/25/07, B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Magnus! On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Magnus Therning wrote: > I've been trying to get Compiz to run on my Debian Sid system. This is > the setup: > [snip] You didn't say which nvidia driver you are using. I believe that compiz requires features th

Re: base-config equivalent to Etch?

2007-01-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/23/07, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sarge has a command base-config which -- besides running as part of the installation process -- is also available to change or correct such things as the time zone, passwords, etc. This command does not seem to exist as such in Etch. Is there an

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
Is there a way to recover deleted files? Yes. 1) Shut down the computer. 2) Ask a more specific question. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-12 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/12/07, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote: > Hi! > > > > Nohup.out got larga enough and I don't want to redirect nohup output neither > to nohup.out nor to any other file. > > How can I do it??? nohup > /dev/null nohup >

Re: tty migration

2007-01-11 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 1/11/07, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:22:05PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > >Note: I'm not trying to migrate a process from one machine to another, > >just the program's stdin, stdout, stderr from a VC to a ssh. > >

Re: tty migration

2007-01-11 Thread Nelson Castillo
Note: I'm not trying to migrate a process from one machine to another, just the program's stdin, stdout, stderr from a VC to a ssh. Perhaps you should use GNU Screen instead. It will change your life :P This link will get you started: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935 I use

Re: about httpd.conf and ssl.conf

2007-01-09 Thread Nelson Castillo
> My aaim is to run multi domains on apache server with ssl support. ( I created ssl certicates by openssl sucseccfull for each domain there is no problem with certificates and keys) like https://www.domain1.com https://www.domaian2.com something like this... > 1. Please don't post entire

Re: about httpd.conf and ssl.conf

2007-01-09 Thread Nelson Castillo
[Tue Jan 09 15:51:09 2007] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence [Tue Jan 09 15:51:09 2007] [warn] _default_ VirtualHost overlap on port 443, the first has precedence (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443 no listening sock

Re: EAC vs. CDPARANOIA

2006-12-26 Thread Nelson Castillo
And another question: is there any frontend or GUI for CDPARANOIA? There are some. We use some scripts: http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/mp3-encode -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
Anyhow, he said that most amusing thing about Microsoft was that they are just getting around now to solving the problems that UNIX solved 20 years ago or more and still managing to make new mistakes in the process. This is rather fun. I remember that in 1995 I didn't now UNIX (I used to live in

Re: The Linux Code

2006-11-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 11/25/06, Igor Guerrero Fonseca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you goin to visit him? Say hello and thanks to Linus for me!!! That video not only Linus is in... also Richard M. Stallman, Miguel de Icaza, Alan Cox and a lot a lot more!!! I loved what Alan Cox said about coding and poetry. S

Microphone not working with Intel 82801G / Board D945GTP

2006-10-14 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I run sid at home and I haven't been able to use the microphone. Alsa mixer only allows me to pick either Mic, Front Mic or Line, but I don't see the volume level of the Mic. Gnome's sound recorder doesn't allow me to select a device to record from. It shows no devices. I've searched the web

Re: firefox won't start

2006-10-04 Thread Nelson Castillo
nice trick, but does not work for me :(. I tried all combinations of removing: - Reset toolbars/controls - Reset bookmarks to Firefox defaults - Reset all user preferences... When I tried to use "reportbug" with firefox, I got this useful hint: If you get crashes and none of the above hints di

OT : Does the Olympus VN-960 PC work in Linux?

2006-09-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/21.php http://www.streettech.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1405&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 You you happen to know whether this voice recorder works as a normal USB pendrive? We need to buy a few, and we need to download the a

Re: must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

2006-09-25 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/23/06, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) Same here, running Debian unstable. I use gnome at the desktop, and Gaim and Amarok don't work unless I run alsaconf first. I upgraded alsa-base and alsa-utils to the latest version in sid and the error is gone. # apt

Re: must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

2006-09-23 Thread Nelson Castillo
At my Etch-system, some of my programs need for alsaconf to be run before I start the program, in order to get the sound to work. This does not apply to all progs (native KDE/Gnome progs do not need this, example. k3b, noautun, gaim). Of the programs I use daily, it is Skype, Wine and some linux g

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-09-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/5/06, Frank Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A couple of months ago, I switched from a normal PC router to a Linksys WRT54G with OpenWRT. It's a good image but the problem is space. There is barely room for an OpenVPN server and shorewall. Also, I'm somewhat worried about timely updates. One

Re: install on compact flash

2006-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
since the Soekris has no monitor or keyboard. You can use the serial console. Is there a way to install without using the Debian installer? Or is there some way to run the installer on my laptop and have it install everything on the compact flash card (and not mess with my laptop's OS of cour

Re: k3b substitute

2006-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/20/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:18 +, operator wrote: > Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? xcdroast gnomebaker bonfire gcombust I've used gnomebaker and I like it. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Global File System in production?

2006-09-07 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi, Anyone using Global File System in production? I installed 2 servers with etch/amd64 and I wonder if any of you are using it in a production environment. Regards, Nelson.- -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/1/06, Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian have a package with a utility that will allow me to do this? # apt-get install tetex-bin $ latex file

Re: eliminating implicit rules in makefiles

2006-06-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
How can I get rid of all these implicit rules, so I only get the ones I speify explicitly? Learn autoconf and automake. -- http://arhuaco.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package name

2006-06-08 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/8/06, Lei Kong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, My system is debian testing, I just found I lost man pages for basic system calls, like open(), read() write() ... Can someone tell me what is the package I need to install? manpages-dev Regards. -- http://arhuaco.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Subversion Repository / db4.2_recover

2006-06-05 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 6/5/06, Nelson Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My repository is getting corrupt almost every other day. I might have to put db4.2_recover in a crontab! Suggestions? Martin, Wesley and Roberto, Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I was not aware of the FSFS backend. Regards,

Subversion Repository / db4.2_recover

2006-06-05 Thread Nelson Castillo
My repository is getting corrupt almost every other day. I might have to put db4.2_recover in a crontab! Suggestions? Have any of you ran into similar issues? Regards. -- http://arhuaco.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

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