Re: 2.6.15.1 kernel upgrade and DRI problem solved

2006-06-11 Thread Piero Piutti
est there. I haven't > > > tried for myself though, I'm running fine with a 2.6.16 kernel now. > > Well, donig that fixed it here :). No joy here. I compiled and installed a 2.6.16 kernel but DRI is still missing for my ATI IGP 340M. I am afraid that the new "radeon&

ATI IGP 340M and new Xorg - Where is my DRI gone?

2006-06-05 Thread Piero Piutti
this "temporary problem": I have no plans to revert to the old Xorg - when I decided to upgrade I was aware of the risk - but I would lile to understand why something working before is not working anymore. Feedback, advices and suggestions are very much welcome. -- Piero Piutti

Smb4k can't see shares on Win box

2006-05-27 Thread Piero Piutti
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Kde 3.5.1 for Etch available

2006-02-11 Thread Piero Piutti
Kde 3.5.1 for Etch just hit the mirrors (with K3b), I am updating as I write. -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA - Network Technician @ Systems Engineering Group (ICC/DPKO) United Nations Logistics Base

Re: kde 3.5

2006-02-10 Thread Piero Piutti
2006/2/10, Carl Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What is the problem keeping KDE 3.5 from moving into testing? You should check this page for the answer: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=kdelibs -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail -

Ram tweaking utility

2006-01-24 Thread Piero Piutti
rnel which would allow me to overcome the problem. Many thanks in advance, -- Piero Piutti Debian "Etch" Linux - KDE 3.4 - Firefox - Gmail - HP NX9010 Kubuntu Linux 5.10 - KDE 3.5 - P4 2 GHz - Nvidia GeF4 4200 Ti Member of Brindisi Linux User Group - http://www.brilug.it

Notebook freezes/reboots

2005-12-20 Thread Piero Piutti
was very much fond of it). Any hints? ACPI perhaps? Too much ram for a standard kernel? Bad (or not completely compatible) ram? Thank in advance to my saviours! ;-) -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA

Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux

2005-11-28 Thread Piero Piutti
ily configured through a web interface from any pc behind it (no configuration files editing needed). Give it a try and let me know what you think of it... -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA

Re: may-day\

2005-11-11 Thread Piero Piutti
couple of enthusiastic Italian Debian communities worth of noticing. Here are their links: http://www.debianizzati.org/ http://www.debianitalia.org/ Ciao! -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

2005-08-23 Thread Piero Piutti
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 23:14, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:06:08PM +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > > http:///debian-31r0a-i386-binary-1.jigdo > >^ > someone made a mistake > > 3.1 is sarge. Either there&#

Re: I tought I downloaded etch...

2005-08-23 Thread Piero Piutti
Is not a pleasant experience to download 4+ gigs of stuff only to find out that you've got something different that you'd expect. -- Piero Piutti Debian "Etch" Linux - KDE 3.4 - Firefox - Gmail Member of Brindisi Linux User Group - http://www.brilug.it --

I tought I downloaded etch...

2005-08-23 Thread Piero Piutti
files for testing snapshots point to stable instead? I am confused and I'd really like to know how to get a copy of Etch (with or without jigdo). Thanks! -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA

Re: Kernel modules loaded twice

2005-08-19 Thread Piero Piutti
try to do more or less the same > thing but were packaged for different kernel versions (one for 2.4, one > for 2.6). Thanks for the advice. Definitely worth investigating... -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - KDE - Firefox - Gmail - Member of Brindisi Linux User Group CCNA - MCP - MCSA

Kernel modules loaded twice

2005-08-17 Thread Piero Piutti
0 joydev 10176 0 unix 29616 389 Thanks in advance, -- Piero Piutti Debian "Etch" Linux - KDE 3.4 - Firefox - Gmail Member of Brindisi Linux User Group - http://www.brilug.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Piero Piutti
This is a great day for democracy in Europe: the European Parliament has rejected the Software Patents directive by 648/680 votes. We're free, we're save, we're happy! ;-)) http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q3/000109.html -- Piero Piutti ---

Re: Movie players

2005-06-23 Thread Piero Piutti
abase and found several pkgs that look promising for Quicktime; All you need is mplayer, the w32codecs and mozilla-mplayer (aka mplayerplug-in). It will work as a charm: tested with the Quicktime trailers on Apple's website. Hope this helps, -- Piero Piutti Debian "Etch&q

Re: OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart

2005-06-22 Thread Piero Piutti
is also embeddable in Mambo (the popular CMS) through a module called MOS Commerce. -- Piero Piutti Debian "Etch" Linux - KDE 3.4 - Firefox - Gmail Member of Brindisi Linux User Group - http://www.brilug.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: KDE 3.4

2005-06-10 Thread Piero Piutti
On Friday 10 June 2005 12:46, Phil Dyer wrote: > Piero Piutti said: > > deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ > > There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too. I've just finished the update from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 and it works just so nicely! I guess that anybody wishing

Re: KDE 3.4

2005-06-10 Thread Piero Piutti
On Friday 10 June 2005 12:46, Phil Dyer wrote: > Piero Piutti said: > > deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ > > There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too. Thanks for the hint. I'm upgrading as I write. Hopefully when I'm done I'll post to confirm that&#x

Re: KDE 3.4

2005-06-10 Thread Piero Piutti
e than a month thanks to this simple line added to my sources.list: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ Hope this helps, -- Piero Piutti Debian "Etch" Linux - KDE 3.4 - Firefox - Gmail Member of Brindisi Linux User Group - http://www.brilug.it -- To UNSU

choosing sarge version?

2004-06-11 Thread piero orsi
i've got a dvd from a magazine with debian disto-sarge version? is it updated and stable? should i download any other version? my sys sonfuguration is: p4 1,7ghz/256mb rimm/gforce4/hd40gb/hd20gb tks piero

install debian on a second hd

2004-06-11 Thread piero orsi
i'd like to try debian and i'll install it on my second hd. on my fist hd i have fedora core 1 with grub on the mbr. how can i manage the boot loader in order to boot one distro or the other? should i skip the installation of grub? how can i configure grub? tks

Bug in acpid 1.0.3-16: GLIBC2.3 needed

2004-05-12 Thread Piero Furiesi
I think that acpid 1.0.3-16 needs glibc 2.3, but .deb package seems not to depend on it. Am I wrong? bye P.Furiesi

X 4.3 equivs

2003-07-13 Thread Piero
I compiled, just for th fun of doing it once, X 4.3. Now I shoud build the equivs files for apt. I suppose I have to download the equivs package. And then: which equivs should I build? Please: do not bother to tell me a detaild list. Just tell me: how can I know which equvs should be builded? --

more or less

2003-07-11 Thread Piero
When I attempt to read a man page, the reading takes place through "more", not through "less"; which shell variable do I have to modifie, and how (.profile?)? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

less problems

2003-07-11 Thread Piero
I have the foll. problem with "less". When it scrolls down, it just writes the lower part of my monitor (the upmost few inches are left untouchet); then when I want to scroll back, the uppermost part of the text results tu be hidden. I guess it has to do with framebuffers; but what is to be don

Equivs

2003-07-11 Thread Piero
I have just (re)installed the whole of Debian Woody and I'm confronted with a problem I encoutered when I first installed it. My video card is a Radeon 9000, not recognised by the X server (and may-be by the X libraries) belonging to the Debian distributions. The other time I downloaded the X t

via-rhine & dhclient

2003-07-01 Thread Piero
Each time I turn onmy computer, I have to give commands: modprobe via-rhine dhclient How can I have them authomatically executed at every boot? I guess it's simple, but I cannot find the solution in any handbook or any man page. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

net config

2003-06-30 Thread Piero
Is it possible to configure the network as you do during installation, but after the installation? Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian: an opposit faction

2003-06-22 Thread Piero
I receaved this useful answer to my joined question. Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:20:12 +0200, Piero wrote: I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are

Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Piero
I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Re: Access to Windows partition

2003-06-18 Thread Piero
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Piero, Piero wrote: I mounted my hard disk's windows partition (fat32) with "gid=winusers" (the group to which I belong) and umask=113 as options. Correctly the directory /windows ant its subdirectories had uid 0 (default), gid winusers, and permi

Access to Windows partition

2003-06-18 Thread Piero
share address books and bookmarks? (I thought of symlinking them). Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing on Windows partition

2003-06-17 Thread Piero
Kent West wrote: Piero wrote: How can I properly write on my Windows partition without logging as root? I tried to create a group on purpose for this, and change group ownersip of this partition from the root group to this new group, but this operation was doomed illegitimate. May be it is

Writing on Windows partition

2003-06-17 Thread Piero
impossibility, may be there are better solutions. Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

4.3.0

2003-06-09 Thread Piero
I had to install X 4.3 because former version didn't support my video card. I istalled it from a tarball downloaded from the Xfre86 site. Is it possible to "tell" the packages databae managed by dpkg or apt-get that this operation has been done? Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBS

Alc-65

2003-06-09 Thread Piero
? Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

conflicts

2003-06-06 Thread Piero
I join part of the ouput of "dmesg", which shows a series of conflicts: do I have to worrie? Thanks, Piero usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 10:29:43 Apr 14 2002 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found

Address book sharing

2003-06-01 Thread Piero
Does anybody know whether it is possible to share the Mozilla address books of the Windows and of the Debian partition? And how? Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Test the network

2003-05-31 Thread Piero
I believe I have, after many pains, istalled the network. But I have not installed X window. How can I test if it works? (My box is connected to my Isp line through a Nat box that cotains a dhcp server). Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Nic card modules

2003-05-29 Thread Piero
hing on the line after them are ignored. Have nic cards modules special properties? Do they have a different name when they are loadable and when they are loaded? I'm a bit puzeld. Thanks, Piero. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Where is task-kde?

2000-12-17 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
e. Last week I read in the debia-user list that this setup worked nicely. Has anything changed since then? Gian Piero

Re: Sound problem

2000-12-12 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
(CDROMREADTOCHDR-2): Inappropriate ioctl for device > > Do you have any idea what this means, or how to avoid it? > I'm really sorry, but I can't help you. I don't even understand the the error message. I hope someone else may help you. Regards, Gian Piero

Sound problem

2000-12-09 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
e some idea about where I should look at? I use WindowMaker as window manager. Thanks. gian piero

Re: Yamaha OPL3-SA2

2000-12-09 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
in the insmod opl3sa2 and opl3 lines. I hope this will help you. gian piero PS - Thank you Scott

Debian 2.2.17 sources

2000-12-08 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
Hi, I've installed a GNU/Linux debian 2.2.17 from a CD without the sources. I'd welcome advice about pointing apt to get them. Thanks. gian piero

Sound config

2000-11-25 Thread Gian Piero Ascenso
d in the kernel. Where could I find opl3, opl3sa2? Thanks in advance. --Gian Piero

Printer setup problem in potato

2000-11-14 Thread Ascenso Gian Piero
s in advance for helping. Best wishes to all, Gian Piero

Problem with installation of emacs20, emacs20-el e w3-el

1998-09-04 Thread Piero Campanelli
..) Thank you for helping me PC Piero Campanelli Student of Computer Science University of Milan, Italy E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:// sorry, not yet !!