Upgrading kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
I've upgraded the default potato kernel to 2.4.3 by downloading the sources and following the instructions in the documentation of kernel-package. It worked without problems. Now I would like to upgrade the kernel using the package already distributed with woody, but I don't kn

Re: Upgrading kernel

2001-08-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Daniel> I've upgraded the default potato kernel to 2.4.3 by > Daniel> downloading the sources and following the instructions in > Daniel> the documentation of kernel-package. > > Is there a reason you didn't get the latest and greatest (2.4.7)? 2.4.3 was the latest and grea

Searching in dselect

2001-08-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Is there any way of searching for a string in the short or long descriptions of the packages in dselect ? Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: How to get packages via a Windows box

2001-08-13 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > > I'm thinking of a Windows version of atp-get. If I had that, I > > > could bring down all the packages for X-window create a local > > > mirror on my dos partition and then run atp-get under Linux > > > this time the local mirror is > > > my source). > > > > > > Has this been done before? A

Fwd: Re: Connection state information

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perhaps the responses could be posted to the list also. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Connection state information Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 23:57:29 -0300 From: Daniel Toffetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Chu" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > If I uninstall the console-tools and reinstall I can't select an > > new keytable and the old russian table was loaded. Where to hell is > > the configuration file to change this permanent? > > /etc/console-tools > > Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check > /etc/init.d/conso

Re: Woody and default keymap

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> /etc/console-tools > > Copy a keymap there named as 'default.kmap.gz'. Check > /etc/init.d/console-tools for more info. BTW, I forgot to say that under X the keyboard works OK and the configurarion in XF86Config-4 simply says 'es'. Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: Fwd: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V101 #1132

2001-08-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> For once I am ashamed to be Australian.. > No, I will never be ashamed of being an Australian. > > I am however ashamed to be living in the same country (and the same > state) as someone who is so rude and naive and abuses the rest of the > world like a spoilt child who believes that he is the on

Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:

2001-08-17 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Okay everyone, make a procmail rule for this e-mail address. > He's not going to get unsubscribed this way... Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in th

Re: Boletín Informativo - Agosto 2001

2001-08-17 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 17 August 2001 11:29, GLOBALTECH CORP. wrote: > > > << snipped >> For those of you, non spanish-enabled, here goes the funniest parts: "to ease the management of the daily matters of a Church"... "record of offerings or donations made by members, classified by type (tithe, regular

Re: Unsubscribing feature ?? Ex: Re:

2001-08-18 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Daniel> Perhaps it is possible to set up some e-mail address, say > Daniel> [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that when > Daniel> someone wants to be unsubscribed, just need to click in > Daniel> the link and send the message ?? I saw this working in > Daniel> other lists... > > It would

Re: Ayuda instalacion

2001-08-18 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 18 August 2001 08:50, ALBERTOMU wrote: > Hola soy un Novato en el mundo de linux y estoy recopilando manuales > y textos para ir aprendiendo, si alguno tiene algo que sea valga la > pena y que enseñe algo a los de mi nivel agradeceria que me lo > mandaran y si alguno tiene el manual de

Dependency problems with ddd

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
I'm trying to upgrade ddd 3.2.1-3 to 3.2.1-4 in woody. In the package information for ddd I see it recommends gdb >= 4.17, but when checking dependencies, dselect complains about ddd recommending gdb >= 5.0. Current version of gbd in woody is 4.18.199909. Should I post it to the developers/maint

Re: Dependency problems with ddd

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> I'm trying to upgrade ddd 3.2.1-3 to 3.2.1-4 in woody. In the package > information for ddd I see it recommends gdb >= 4.17, but when > checking dependencies, dselect complains about ddd recommending gdb > >= 5.0. Current version of gbd in woody is 4.18.199909. > Should I post it to the developer

Re: me mandem emails

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 20 August 2001 18:39, Michael William Cypriano wrote: > sou amante do debiam, mais sofro de vez em quando. queria receber > estudos do debian The official language of this list is English, don't expect too much responses when writing in portuguese. Try posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your

HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Is there any graphical HTML composer which runs happily on Woody and KDE ? I don't need any advanced features, only lists, performatted paragraphs and the like. I just want to avoid typing the tags... Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: HTML composer ?

2001-08-20 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> >Is there any graphical HTML composer which runs happily on Woody and > >KDE ? I don't need any advanced features, only lists, performatted > >paragraphs and the like. I just want to avoid typing the tags... > > IBM Websphere runs pretty well, but isn't GPL and uses some funky > WINE gear > Nets

Disabling diald

2001-08-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! Until some days ago I was using a 56 Kb modem to connect my single box to the Net. Now I have an old box as a proxy connected 7x24, and my box behind it. I would like to prevent diald from starting at every boot, but without deinstalling it, since I still can access through the modem in ca

Removing folder in KMail

2001-08-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
I've imported an Outlook 5 folder into KMail. Now I want to delete this folder, but the Remove option in the Folder menu in grayed out. Other folders I've created previously in KMail (not imported) don't have this problem, but inbox, outbox an the other 'system' folders do, so I guess perhaps th

Streaming and Win Media Player plug-in

2001-08-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi folks ! I tried to access the page of a streaming broadcast, and Mozilla send me to go download the plug-in... right here !! http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/Download/ \ default.asp?tcode=9#location2?application/x-mplayer2 Is there any chance I can listen to this broadcasts w

Re: Problemi con kernel.

2001-11-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Salve, le scrivo poiché ho la necessità di ricompilare il kernel il > modo da condividere una porzione del mio filesystem nonché di > installare la scheda audio. Purtoppo incorro comtinuamentein questo > errore. Per favore aiutatemi. Scusi non parlo italiano. If you need to recompile the k

Python and python-base dependency problems

2001-11-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi All ! Since yesterday I'm having dependency problems with python and python-base. Dselect wants me to remove Koffice. Can somebody give me a clue ?? Thanks all ! Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: Kmail problems - please reply offlist

2001-11-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> The fourth, problem and the one I want help with now, is that when I > pop (pop3) messages from our mail server, the downloaded messages > appear to have two carriage returns inserted into them at 0 or more > random points. This is a BIG problem because when you get two > carriage returns in the

Network config problem

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I've a small diskless proxy booting from a floppy based distro called Coyote. Now I've got an old HDD and I'm installing Debian Potato, but I'm failing to get the access to the Net working. Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP address as before, configuring i

Re: Network config problem

2001-12-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 08 December 2001 16:58, ben wrote: > > Right now I get the external interface be assigned the valid IP > > address as before, configuring it as 'static dhcp - hostname pump' > > in /etc/interfaces. But when I try _any_ ping (any but my own > > address and localhost, of course), it fails

Re: Network config problem

2001-12-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 09 December 2001 02:53, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > You want: > auto ethWHATEVER > iface inet dhcp ethWHATEVER > instead of "static dhcp" which, I'm not even sure how it would be > parsed by ifup. ifconfig should tell you if your interface iseven > being brought up. My fault here, sorry

Re: Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 09 December 2001 18:58, William P Martin wrote: > I have been trying to upgrade both a woody box and a sid box to a 2.4 > kernel (2.4.16 and 2.4.14 respectively). I use make-kpkg and If your old kernel was of the 2.2.x series, then you should upgrade some packages to a newer version, th

[PART-SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 09 December 2001 16:24, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > It's strange to me that 'pump -i eth1 --status' shows correctly the > > gateway (10.7.2.1), nameservers, etc. So I tried to add the two > > missing entries, and it failed. > > > > root:> route add default gw 10.7.2.1 dev eth1 > > SIOCA

Re: [PART-SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 10 December 2001 16:23, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > But now (and this is why I say PART-SOLVED) the internal hosts are > not assigned a valid internal IP from the proxy via pump. I even > copied the file dhcpd.conf from my old proxy to the new, tried > changing from pump to d

Re: Problems upgrading kernel

2001-12-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 09 December 2001 18:58, William P Martin wrote: > Running dslelect and getting kernel-source-2.4.14.tar.bz2 > bunzip2 and untar the source > menuconfig > make-kpkg -rev cusotm.1 kernel_image > dpkg --install newkernelimage.deb > > Then I reboot. Any help on this would be greatly appreciat

Re: Homework

2001-12-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 10 December 2001 14:01, Nicolás Conde wrote: >So, without wanting to ofend anyone, before you post a question > > 1. RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) > 2. Search the {archives | HOW-TOs} > 3. Ask your local {Linux | Unix} guru (if you have one) > > and if this doesn't help (which I dou

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Network config problem

2001-12-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Monday 10 December 2001 19:39, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > Reading again /etc/init.d/dhcp I see the following: > > > > # Add all interfaces you want dhcpd to handle here > > Change the lines in /etc/init.d/dhcp that look like > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $DHCPDPID

Re: Kmail bug

2001-12-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 14 December 2001 08:50, Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs wrote: > I have the same problem, that fix did'nt helps me out. I saw also the > mailboxes in text-editor. I don't know why, the downloaded mailbox > contains random newline chars, sometimes 2 newline chars. An example: I also have the same

Kernel config: make menuconfig: cannot find ncurses

2001-12-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm trying to compile a new (2.4.13) kernel on an old 486 box. When I try to configure it with "make menuconfig" I get the following error: = Start of the error message = rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering dire

Re: installazione

2001-12-15 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 14 December 2001 21:10, nino lambra wrote: Hi Nino ! The official language of this list is english, you will receive very few or no answers if you keep posting in italian. Alternatively, you can post in italian to the list debian-italian@lists.debian.org > desideravo provare il sist

Error compiling kernel 2.4.13

2001-12-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm getting the following error: "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" when compiling kernel 2.4.13. This error appears in many functions in the files fs.h and locks.h. I've configured the kernel for supporting NFS. Before exhaustively trying to check in/out each NFSs option and

Configuring dhcpd problem

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I have a proxy and I want it to serve IP addresses to the internal network using dhcpd. /etc/dhcpd.conf describes the internal subnet only, which corresponds to the interface eth1. Looking in /var/log/daemon.log, dhcpd is complaining that there is no declaration for the subnet correspo

Re: What's a debian kid look like?

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 19 December 2001 04:24, Matt wrote: > Who are we here? I'm curious about what the Debian demographic is. I > know this is sort of an impossible thing to answer, but it'd be > interesting to explore in vague terms who uses Debian, at least > compared to those who don't. 31 years old s

Re: Configuring dhcpd problem

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 21 December 2001 15:00, you wrote: > from my /etc/init.d/dhcp which i have doing what you want > > start) > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $DHCPDPID \ > --exec /usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1 -- -q Opsss, sorry but this didn't worked either. It keeps hanging the boot proce

Iptables scripts

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some init script, put it in /etc/init.d/ and link it from some /etc/rcX.d/ Can somebody please point me to some specific documentation and example scripts ?? Thank

[SOLVED] Re: Configuring dhcpd problem

2001-12-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 21 December 2001 21:54, Daniel Toffetti wrote: I was using the option -d which syslogs debug info, and that is what caused the daemon to fail, without this option it works well. Strange feature indeed... Daniel > On Friday 21 December 2001 15:00, you wrote: > > from my /e

Re: Iptables scripts

2001-12-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 22 December 2001 00:50, Wayne Topa wrote: > Daniel Toffetti([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi all ! > > > > I need to set up some simple (to start with) iptables rules for > > masquerading and port forwarding. I guess I need to write some

Re: ????

2001-12-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 22 December 2001 20:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > salve Salve ! > il problema che non so nulla di questa sistema? > vorrei sapere se avete la possibilitià di mandarmi informazioni su > questa sistema via mail The official language of this mailing list is English, you have very li

Re: consulta

2002-02-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Sunday 24 February 2002 18:13, Patricia Guiñales wrote: Hola Patricia ! > Tengo 33 años, desearía trabajar en una ciudad grande de Gran > Bretaña, preferiblemente Londres, con el único objetivo de > relacionarme y hablar ¡ por fin!en inglés; desgraciadamente no tengo > mucho tiempo, y desearía

Re: suggestion

2002-03-02 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Saturday 02 March 2002 14:52, will trillich wrote: > short version: > why not have your .signature reflect which debian you're using? I do agree also, BTW how can I display some sort of "Woody/testing" besides "version 3.0" ?? -- Daniel Toffetti ---

Just about to woody ==> sid

2002-03-02 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! I'm just about to apt-get dist-upgrade from woody to sid and, since my box is working OK right now, would like to avoid any problem, I mean, broken packages and changes in configuration files. Any comments ?? Thanks in advance !! -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There i

Re: suggestion

2002-03-06 Thread Daniel Toffetti
-the-scenes only?) > > if nothing else, you can hobble yuor script to say "i like > potato, you can keep your wood" or some such (if that matches > your philosophy). OK Will, I wired it by hand, I think it's nice... :) -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no

Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi All!           I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I may not noticed so far):   - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I got the file mailed to me

OT: Re: deleting specific files (a litle note about "de nada" )

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Miguel, Karsten: "De nada" is the usual form to reply to "Gracias" in Spanish. "Por nada" can be used as well. My .2 Daniel PS: The bad thing with having so many beautiful languages in our planet is that we can't learn them all !! > >> thank you for your patiente... > > > > > > De nada.

Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I've been gently adviced to post messages in text only mode, I apologize for any inconvenience. I'm posting in text only in other Linux oriented lists already, but I'm new to this list and I forgot to select text only as default. Thanks for the responses I already got to m

Re: XFree86 4.0.2 in Debian

2001-03-30 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi Shaleh ! Perhaps you can help me understand some issues: - In what package is the file ld-linux.so.2 packaged ?? Why do sometimes this lib is a link and sometimes a file, may I assume it has to be with versions ? I upgraded from potato to woody and lilo complained about 'version GLIBC

Re: Problems with 8139too driver in kernel 2.4.2

2001-03-30 Thread Daniel Toffetti
I have two cheap cards and it worked fine and straightforward for me. The only problem I had was that I selected a wrong driver the first time, then I browsed the drivers diskette and found the right driver, which is already bundled with the kernel. Have you compared the sources of

Re: Kernel-2.4.2 with AMD Duron(K7) : big problem !

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi Mathias ! If you are running potato, perhaps you should try using kernel-package, it runs fine, is well documented and easy to understand. I haven't tried it with a Duron based box though... Daniel > Does anybody else tried to compile the kernel-2.4.x by using an AMD Duron > and had t

Re: Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi Karsten !! - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). > I got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and > managed to repair the boot. So...is your problem resolved or not? - I managed to solve my missing library problem, but not m

Re: SABER MAS

2001-10-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Thursday 20 April 2000 14:43, LUISANA MARTÍNEZ GARBI wrote: > COMO ME PUEDO SUBSCRIBIR Y COMO SE USA, DESEABA BAJAR UNAS CANCIONES > Y APARECIO UN MENSAJE PIDIENDO LA CLAVE Y EL PASSWORD Y PERMITIA EL > MIO. DESEO SABER COMO OBTENGO EL USERNAME Y PASSWORD DEL SITE: > MAESTRO.SNU.AC.KR Hasta don

Config file for kernel compilation

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm ready to compile and install the new kernel 2.4.13 in my box. I've done it before without problems, but now I want to know if it is safe to load a config file from an older version. make xconfig allows (I guess all other config interfaces do it as well) to load config options from

Cybercafe software

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi again ! I've been asked if I know any decent software tailored to tha administrative duties of a cybercafe. Does somebody know something alike, open source and free beer ??? BTW, does the word "cybercafe" is so much widely used in different languages as I believe ?? Daniel PS: Sort of lingu

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 20:12, Alex de Landgraaf wrote: > Note: this may be a bit long, but i hope you will read it and give > feedback about your opinon on the subject(s) discussed. And sorry for > crossposting, just wanting everones 2cents. forgive me :) > Now, i will halt my rant/manifesto/s

Fwd: Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Sorry I forgot to send this to the list too... > > Does somebody know anything about any common format for > > configuration files? Does any sense to propose this, somebody knows > > if there are references of this in Linux Standard Base ? > > Do makes any sense even the sole idea of such format ?

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> | > I meant a common metalanguage, so that it could be possible to > | > write one single application as interface to handle any config > | > file. > > | You should take a look at gconf and its derivatives. The idea is > | a common configuration/registry-like interface for applications > | and a

Re: OT: IPtables maillinglist

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Does anyone know of a good firewall maillinglist and faq? > > Tarjei Look in http://netfilter.samba.org/ Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: Kde

2001-11-01 Thread Daniel Toffetti
n your CDs are too old, then you better upgrade Debian to a newer release like Woody or Sid. If you don't know how to do this, just keep asking. Note also that you should post to this list in english as this is the language spoken by most of its users. Otherwise you should check if

Frequent problems with non-us ??

2001-11-05 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I'm having problems when doing 'apt-get update' using the mirror ftp://non-us.debian.org woody/non-us Should I keep trying, are there other mirrors, anything else ? Thanks ! Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

OFF-TOPIC Opening and converting .pm4 files

2001-11-05 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! Please excuse me for this off-topic. I need to convert some very old .pm4 files (Aldus Pagemaker) to whatever else format, say .html for example. The target format is not important as long as I can open it or convert it again, or at least print it, so .html, .doc, .ps, .pdf or even .tx

xserver-xfree86 won't upgrade

2001-09-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! Yesterday I upgraded X in Woody from 4.0.3-1 to 4.1.0-5, but for some reason, xserver-xfree86 was not correctly configured and remains in C** state. the other X packages, fonts etc. installed fine. Any idea ? Daniel -- "There is no spoon..." - The Matrix

Re: OT: watch out for email "PRINT Summary Report"

2001-09-19 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 15:58, will trillich wrote: > nasty auto-running email -- look out, those of you who read using > microsoft email readers: i strongly recommend that if you get a > message entitled "PRINT Summary Report" from SOMEONE YOU DO NOT > KNOW, delete it instead of viewing it.

Re: Iniciando com o DEBIAN-Linux

2001-09-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 18:26, TRF TRF wrote: > Olá, Meu nome é Thiago Rodrigues, tenho 21 anos e escrevo de Cuiabá > MT, Hi Thiago, this an English mailing list, there is another list for Portuguese-speaking people. Hola Thiago, esta es una lista de correo en inglés, hay otra lista para qu

Re: informacion

2001-09-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 21 September 2001 15:58, Adam McDaniel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:26:52AM -0500, colegio el pacifico wrote: > > me gustaria saber como y que es la configuracion de red punto a > > punto > > usted puede ser que desee mirar > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/translatio

Simple backups

2001-09-25 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I want to make simple backups of my work, nothing more complex than moving things to a different partition and/or disk. I know I can do it with a few commands like tar, gz and cp, but perhaps somebody can tell me about other ways to do it that I should consider. Thanks in advance ! Da

Re: Simple backups

2001-09-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > I want to make simple backups of my work, nothing more complex than > > moving things to a different partition and/or disk. I know I can do > > it with a few commands like tar, gz and cp, but perhaps somebody > > can tell me about other ways to do it that I should consider. > > Thanks in advanc

Re: Debugger for C programming?

2001-10-02 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> Is there a good debugger for C programming. You know, the kind of > thing that lets you step through a line at a time running your > program and put watches on variables etc. > > Now I know that Linux rules for C programming, so what do all you > programmers use to debug your code? > > Thanks. >

Re: Just wondering...

2002-01-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 21:02, Craig Dickson wrote: > 2. Provide enough information. This generally means "as much as you > can, while keeping your total message size down to a few hundred > lines". "A few hundred lines" ?? I hope you were meaning either "tens" or "words"... :) Daniel --

Re: CDs y manuales de Debian

2002-01-12 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 15:27, Carlos Parra wrote: Para comenzar, en esta lista de correo normalmente se habla en inglés, si quieren seguir escribiendo aquí deberían hacerlo en inglés y sino pueden escribir a la lista debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org > También hemos visto que hay mucha

How can I change the keyboard layout ?

2001-05-13 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! My keyboard is set to the default 'us', I need to change it to 'es'. I expect it to work in tty1, is this configuration valid for X ? Do I need to configure it in another place for it to run under X ? After reading consolechars and charset man pages, I'm very much confused. I'

Re: OT: Aliens in the heavans (was Re: seti@home)

2002-03-07 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Don't forget all those social programs, and WV needs a new Interstate > hwy every 2 years... Can you please explain what do WV and bwy stands for ? I know this is way off-topic, but it's funny anyway and don't want to miss a thing :) -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is

Boottime keymap

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! I've renamed boottime.kmap.gz in /etc/console to boottime.kmap.gz.bak and copied es.kmap.gz in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz, so that the spanish keymap loads every time I boot. Is this the right way to do it ? TIA -- Daniel Toffetti --- &

Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
AxisMapping" "4 5" Option "CorePointer" EndSection Of course I've changed the entry in ServerLayout from Mouse1 to Mouse0 when I tried the new config. The X server crashes and dumps me to the console. I've tried also changing "device" in the

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel Toffetti
;t work. > I set mine up on the first try after following the advice at > http://www.koala.ilog.fr/ (boy was I surprised!) Hmmm... "Unknown host" Why surprised ?? -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

Re: Certificate printer software? / turboprint

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
stenlos" as we have "kaput," "dumkopf," > and "blitzkrieg." Unlike the French, English speakers have no > problem using/stealing the words that best do the job. :-) I've seen many times that English native speakers use the Spanish word "gratis"

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
l, now at least it doesn't crash, but the wheel doesn't work. > > Which protocol are you using now? > I switched mine from ps/2 to ImPS/2 > the device stayed at /dev/psaux because I'm > using the same port as my old mouse did Right now the protocol is set to "Mi

Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> configuration). Well, in fact gpm _is_ running. Using ps -ax I see it's started as: gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rms3 But the "device" in XF86Config-4 is "/dev/mouse" which in fact is a link to /dev/gpmdata. I'm completely puzzled... I'll try to look for and

[ALMOST Solved] Re: Wheel mouse

2002-03-09 Thread Daniel Toffetti
the scrollbar, not as sliding up. After spending (investing?) the whole evening trying to hack this (and some audio issues and a little perl script), I consider my hacking day finished. Now it's time for a beer, perhaps tomorrow I'll have more luck. Thanks everybody for your help !!

Re: Wheel mouse DIFFERENT PROBLEM

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
s2 > port! > -Greg Murphy Check /usr/doc/xserver-xfree86/README.mouse.gz, there is a complete list of mice and the protocols that work with them. Perhaps you can try with some of those protocols. Good luck ! -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix

Re: wheel mouse

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
p you. Well... I restarted the xserver and it crashed. Perhaps there is any combination of this option and the other settings, as the protocol, that works OK, I'll keep trying. Thanks ! -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian

Re: Boottime keymap

2002-03-10 Thread Daniel Toffetti
keymap loads every time I boot. > > > Is this the right way to do it ? > > > > I think the "right" way is: > > # dpkg-reconfigure console-common > > > > ...RickM... Ooops... I guess you pressed the Send button too early ? -- Daniel Toffetti ---

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
nel, or is there any specific kernel config I must consider? -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
rked as it should. Hi, another question here: I've 'installed' the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx .deb packages using dselect, but nothing else yet. Is it enough to follow the procedures given in the documentation (the README files in /usr/share/doc/nvidia*) or should I also r

[DONE] Re: latest Nvidia drivers

2002-03-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
, it runs very fast. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
that were banned in the USA, an approximate span of time while remained banned, the library or university which considered it offensive and the reasons argumented. Interesting reading. http://www.flashback.se/archive/BOOKBANS.ASC -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - Th

Garbage chars in KMail

2002-03-14 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi ! In many messages I see garbage instead of any kind of characters. I would like to know if it's possible to see them as characters but without changing the localisation configuration. The font I've currently selected is bitstream-courier. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'Th

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Friday 15 March 2002 22:29, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > For gods sake please drop it. This has NOTHING to do with debian in > any sense, so please take it else where. I agree, this has nothing to do with Debian, but it's SO FUNNY !! :) -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'T

Re: VERY OT: On Censorship.

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
in the last months ? But, alas, perhaps it's not a faulty wiring. I'm sure it's just because the "religious memecomplex" (http://www.lucifer.com/virus/memlex.html) has a higher fitness value in some particular social environments. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'Ther

Re: Is the list broken?

2002-03-16 Thread Daniel Toffetti
fire due to the current thread on "inappropiate racism on Debian". -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Toffetti
jokes and banning them is like sweeping the actual problems under the carpet. I don't care of jokes about my nationality, I'm concerned about equality of opportunities. When you are hungry, you don't care so much about jokes, you do care about food. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
correcta de esa lista en www.debian.org, en la sección Mailing Lists, yo ahora no la recuerdo. Mucha suerte ! -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

Re: No puedo bootear Debian.

2002-03-21 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> On Wednesday 31 December 1969 21:00, Daniel wrote: Yes, this is strange, I see a different date here... can somebody explain why ? -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oc

Purging /var/cache/apt/archive

2002-03-22 Thread Daniel Toffetti
;ve found is in "apt-get -h": clean - Erase downloaded archive files autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files But now I'm not sure what "old" means for apt-get. Does it means "the older when there are more than two versions of the same package"

Advice on wysiwyg editor

2002-03-24 Thread Daniel Toffetti
uld be very valuable. While I keep playing with those three, it'll be very useful to hear some advice. Thanks in advance !! -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30

Re: Advice on wysiwyg editor

2002-03-25 Thread Daniel Toffetti
of work to set up). I'm trying to avoid that extra work, but well, my alternative then would be M$ Word... :( Thanks for your help !! -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SM

OpenOffice (was Re: Advice on wysiwyg editor)

2002-03-25 Thread Daniel Toffetti
lation, etc. In the archives I've found some issues with the installation, but already solved anyway. -- Daniel Toffetti --- 'There is no spoon...' - The Matrix Running the bleeding edge Debian Sid version 3.0 Linux luni 2.4.13 #1 SMP Sun Oct 28 18:30:53 ART 2001 i686 unknown

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