re: no sound on debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
G'day, I've recently upgraded to Debian Squeeze and the sound's stopped working. It did work on Debian Lenny. I'd appreciate some advice on what to do please. Thanks in advance, Alexander Kapshuk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

re: increasing screen resolution, nvidia xconf.org

2009-12-05 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
+0200 From: Alexander Kaphuk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, I'd like to once again thank those of you who have responded to my earlier emails on the subject in question. The solution to my problem turned out to be an easy one. I upgraded to Squeeze which uses 'xserver-xor

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-29 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Wow! Good to know there's an abundance of solutions to a given problem that can be explored. Thanks a lot to all those who have responded to my original email! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 09:42:23PM +0200, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Dave Witbrodt wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my

Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alexander Kaphuk wrote: G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy

re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine

2009-11-28 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
G'day, I'd appreciate somebody pointing me where to look for info on how to copy files from a home directory on one machine to a directory on another machine via network. I've got about 100GB of data I need to copy from my desktop running ubuntu 9.04 on to a laptop running Debian Squeeze whi

re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768 [SOLVED]

2009-11-15 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I'd like to once again thank those of you who have responded to my earlier emails on the subject in question. The solution to my problem turned out to be an easy one. I upgraded to Squeeze which uses 'xserver-xorg-video-nv' version '1:2.1.14-2', which automatically sets the screen resolu

re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-14 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
I'd like to thank all those that have responded to my email about setting screen resolution to 1366x768 the other day. Here's what I did... 1. Stopped gdm; 2. Downloaded the nVidia driver off their website ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run); 3. Downloaded and installed the linux-headers and

Re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 14:32:32 Alexander Kaphuk wrote: I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of 'xrandr&

re: setting screen resolution to 1366x768

2009-11-11 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I have installed Debian Lenny on a Compaq Presario. The screen resolution was automatically set to 1024x768. This resolution seems to be the highest available based on the output of 'xrandr'. The native screen resolution for my laptop is 1366x768. I'd appreciate anyone suggesting how to go

Re: Gmail again

2009-09-23 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: 2009/9/22 Alexander Kaphuk <mailto:sashaandta...@gmail.com>> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 22 Set 2009, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: As far as my initial email being sent three times in a row. I do apologise for the

Re: Gmail again

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Ter, 22 Set 2009, Alexander Kaphuk wrote: As far as my initial email being sent three times in a row. I do apologise for the incident. I didn't do it on purpose though. I was under the impression that I would receive a copy of that email straight after se

Re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP]

2009-09-22 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Sorry I took a while to reply to all those who had got back to me about my query. My network is up and running now. As it turned out, it was a simple matter of getting my laptop ping the DSL modem before trying to connect to the outside world. No manual configuration was required. I am fairly

re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP

2009-09-16 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I'm still having trouble configuring my wired network interface on Debian Lenny running on HP Compaq Presario CQ61. I put "auto eth0; iface eth0 inet dhcp" (each statment on separate line as shown in debian wiki) into my /etc/network/interfaces file. I ran "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". I got

re: wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801 while getting IP address for eth0 interface using DHCP

2009-09-16 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Hi, I'm still having trouble configuring my wired network interface on Debian Lenny running on HP Compaq Presario CQ61. I put "auto eth0; iface eth0 inet dhcp" (each statment on separate line as shown in debian wiki) into my /etc/network/interfaces file. I ran "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0". I got

Re: network configuration failed during installation

2009-09-10 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
Thanks a lot for a prompt reply to my email, Tiago! I'll follow up on the suggestions you've made and let you know how I go. Cheers. Alexander Kapshuk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

re: network configuration failed during installation

2009-09-10 Thread Alexander Kaphuk
G'day, I have installed Debian Lenny on a HP Comaq Presario CQ61 laptop. However, the automatic network configuration failed during installation. I'm fairly new to Linux. I'd appreciate somebody referring me to a HOWTO or some other resource containing instructions on how to rectify the probl