make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-16 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Hello I have a SiS 671 video card and have downloaded a source driver to see if I can make it work ... I have installed a bunch of dependencies but the 'make config' command fails complaining abou a missing xf86Resources.h file The below output of the make attempt: $./configure checking for a BSD

Re: make Xorg driver fails - missing Xf86Resources.h

2010-03-16 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
? Tried this also: r...@casa:~# locate -b 'xf86Re' /usr/include/xorg/xf86Rename.h r...@casa:~# --- So I don't have it installed , anyone knows how to proceed? Why isn't it installed via x11-dev packages? Rogerio 2010/3/16 Ron Johnson > On 2010-03-1

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Ok the bigger problem you should have is "what is a base system" You could run in another box a installation and get a list of the basic system packages, but what do you want the box for? give us a user case and we would try to sort this mess out for you. Definitely purging X is a must -- that wi

Fwd: Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686?

2010-03-19 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rogerio Luz Coelho Date: 2010/3/19 Subject: Re: Kernel headers for 2.6.32-trunk-686? To: Ron Johnson Easy work around way: # aptitude install module-assistant # m-a update # m-a prepare ;) Rogerio 2010/3/19 Ron Johnson On 2010-03-19 16:46

Re: pivot_root. unmount old root

2010-03-20 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
are you doing this with X enabled? If so stop X before atempting a umount Rogerio 2010/3/20 Katharina Haselhorst > Hello, > > I'm running debian lenny with xen kernel 2.6.26, amd64. Inside a domU I > need to make a pivot_root and unmount the old root afterwards. > I've done the following: > >

Wireless - RTL 8187b + wicd + wpa_supplicant - naughty behaviour

2010-03-20 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
So I got as a present a Laptop, the giver was aware that I don´t use M$ anymore for some time now (about 5years) and she (my wife) did this as a surprise in the coming of our new baby girl (she took pity at my old Laptop - witch Toshiba should buy me up for historical purposes). This means she baug

Installing a "backport"

2010-03-20 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Here is how you go about not damaging your system in ANY WAY: Find a package/program in your distribution´s repository that suits you and doesn´t come from Backports, Backporting stuff is almost running Stable/Testing, somethings won´t matter ... but many will, I only recommend Backports if you c

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-20 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010/3/20 Stefan Monnier > > I suppose I can classify this as an experiment case, whereas I will > > likely later on try out various (which may include Apache, Samba, > > whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan > > to keep better track of what I have installed so tha

Re: Wireless - RTL 8187b + wicd + wpa_supplicant - naughty behaviour

2010-03-21 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
> > So I got as a present a Laptop, the giver was aware that I don´t use M$ > anymore for some time now (about 5years) and she (my wife) did this as a > surprise in the coming of our new baby girl (she took pity at my old Laptop > - witch Toshiba should buy me up for historical purposes). This mean

Re: Wireless - RTL 8187b + wicd + wpa_supplicant - naughty behaviour

2010-03-23 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Same problem with current kernel 2010/3/22 Wayne > Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > > <---SNIP---> > > > >>> Here are some outputs >>> >>> >> # uname -a >> >> Linux casa 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_

Re: Sony voice recorder on Lenny

2010-03-23 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Wine site: http://wiki.winehq.org/USB Rogerio 2010/3/21 Girish Kulkarni > Hello, > > I decided to try Wine after failing to get my Sony voice recorder > (model ICD-PX720) working on Lenny. Fortunately, the device drivers > and accompanying audio decoder program ("Digital Voice Editor") > inst

Re: Wifi Can't Connect

2010-03-23 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Try installing the WICD pacckage to see it is KNetworkManager Rogerio 2010/3/23 Florian Kulzer > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 18:44:03 -0400, Mark wrote: > > On Monday 22 March 2010 04:32:08 pm Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Please post the output of: > > > > > > lspci | grep -i wireless > > > > ~# l

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-27 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
Just do a 2010/3/3 Brian Ryans > Quoting Carlos Williams on 2010-03-02 09:28:13: > > I thought I was purging the package, no? > > > > #apt-get remove --purge exim4 I do this to purge exim4 and ev erything it stands for # aptitude install xdm ;) Rogerio

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-27 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
SORRY !!! It´s #aptitude install xmail ... 2010/3/27 Rogerio Luz Coelho > Just do a > > 2010/3/3 Brian Ryans > > Quoting Carlos Williams on 2010-03-02 09:28:13: >> > I thought I was purging the package, no? >> > >> > #apt-get remove --purge e

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-28 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
exim4 is a MTA , xmail is also MTA , the system alows only one MTA , so aptitude resolves this conflict by purging exim4 Rogerio 2010/3/28 Celejar > [Message rearranged.] > > On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:45:53 -0300 > Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > > > > > 2

Re: Multiple, non-concurrent repositories?

2010-04-01 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010/3/30 Brian Ryans > You replied to me personally, instead of the list. This fixes that. > > Quoting Rogerio Luz Coelho on 2010-03-27 20:39:07: > > You can use pinnig ... you are looking for the "origin" keys in > > Pinning to accomplish this. >