Monitor change: Change frequencies at boot time

Hi,   My Debian displays on an old 15" Cathodic MaCom Monitor. I plan to change it for a budget 19" Samtron. Obviously I have to modify the Horizontal sync and Vertical refresh hz in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 When do I do that? Before or after changing the monitor? How long do I have before it fries if

[SATA]Which controller?

Hi,   My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 hard disks to do some Oracle labs, but I think I need to slot in a controller. Could someone g

Hello Nethelpers [SSH / PUTTY]Strange behaviour with telnetd

Hi,   I have installed sshd on Debian and PuTTY on XP.   PuTTY only connects via SSH when the line: telnetd is in inetd.conf not commented.   There is something else I don't understand   Suppose I generate a key on one pc using keygen, how do I copy it to the other machine?   So far I understan

[Telnet]Permanent stop

Hi, I've installed sshd and putty, I'd like to stop telnet permanently without removing it. Here is a Fedora command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# chkconfig telnet off Is there a similar one under Debian? Many thanks  J.B.M.

[AMD 64 4x4]Motherboard?

Hi,   I plan to setup a server using dual core processors, I just read about an AMD project:   http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/02/amds-4-x-4-platform-pairs-2-dual-core-cpus-4-gpus/   I wonder if there would be a motherboard supported by Debian?   Many thanks   Jean-Benoit MORLA  

CHECKSUM finding software to do it.

Hi,   I've a special Debian CD, called bonzaï, it works wonder with exotic Hardrives mounted IDE-SCSI-ATAPI , I'd like to make it available to Debian Users via ftp, but obviously it could get tampered by mischief-in-the-hacker, so I thought maybe giving the checksum to the person downloading would

[Debian user Digest]does it exist?

Hi,   I just read a thread mentioning this digest, so I wonder if it really exists, or if it's a joke.   Could someone   Many thanks     J.B.  

PHP 4 uninstall

Hi,   I have mistakenly installed php4 when I wanted php5. Which apt-get commands should I use to completely remove PHP 4?   Many thanks    

[newbie trying to install Debian]

Hi, I don't use Nero ( $$$ ), I use DeepBurner ( Free ), it's intuitive, just make sure you burn the iso image itself, not the directory containing the iso image