Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Robert Persson
On April 10, 2005 06:12 pm, quoth Jerry McBride: On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:28 pm, Robert Persson wrote: Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using xmms-1.2.10-r13. I've no idea how long ago I emerged this

Re: [gentoo-user] x-forwarding or vnc or ?

2005-04-11 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 10 April 2005 17:45, Grant wrote: I'm working on getting NX set up, but I noticed the nomachine.com site lists a price for the NX Server Personal Edition. In a previous thread, Mike Williams mentioned: NX is a great product, and free to use for a single user (no licence

Re: [gentoo-user] A Call for Testers [apache, mod_php, subversion, ...]

2005-04-11 Thread Felix Tiede
Christian Parpart wrote: Hi all, We (the gentoo apache team) is about to go stable. That is, marking current testing-marked ebuilds as stable. This time, it's not just another revision number changed, it's totally different behind. So, please take this serious. If you test any of the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Hosting

2005-04-11 Thread Tim Igoe
Mark Brier wrote: Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, my host doesn't seem to be available for reboots on the weekends so I'm going to switch to a company that is. I'm looking at these machines: Why do you need someone on hand to reboot? I have a ded server (with ctn1, good deals,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to send {HTTP Post} messages to http server from bash ?

2005-04-11 Thread Christian Parpart
On Monday 11 April 2005 5:14 pm, Maxim Vexler wrote: For the sake of example, lets assume I have this text inside a var in the bash script. postmsg() { local str1=${1) } yes, is possible. I've once written a bash script that connects to my server (not HTTP) and it just works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it possible to send {HTTP Post} messages to http server from bash ?

2005-04-11 Thread Stephan Grein
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ = Maybe you can look there up, IIRC there was an guide for doing this. cheers. -- If gentoo would be a woman... ~x86 user. Kernel: 2.6.12-rc1-love1 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
It seems that suddenly, anything to do with downloading, or even viewing HTML source, is broken. I get a dialog box showing (for viewing source): XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: chrome://global/content/viewSource.xul Line Number 1, Column 1: ; ^ Is this a known problem? Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Stephan Grein
Hi. Having the same problem. It's a known issue. I hope there will be a fix in future. cheers. On Apr 11, 2005 7:09 PM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that suddenly, anything to do with downloading, or even viewing HTML source, is broken. I get a dialog box showing (for

[gentoo-user] proving

2005-04-11 Thread sIbOk
Sorry for this bump mail, i'm doing some proves. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread James
Hello all, Updating my portable, with '-uDp world' gives me this: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 (is blocking x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1)

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... smug smile Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. luck, rgh Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Robert G. Hays wrote: Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... smug smile But then you don't get the joy of trying to fix a problem... ;-) Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. Oh, it works fine now, since I

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Pete Ezzo
Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using xmms-1.2.10-r13. I've no idea how long ago I emerged this version. Is this a problem with this particular ebuild/xmms release or is something else going on?

RE: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Robert G. Hays wrote: In the Gentoo manual, in the early stages, it mentions -tT; nearby below, it mentions another hdparm line to speed things up. Did you try that line? I've tried it. The result is 19.11 MB/sec. But why are the values posted before so different? hdparm -vid /dev/hda

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread James
Edward Catmur ed at catmur.co.uk writes: emerge -u ati-drivers Yea, well just because there is a later version of the ati-drivers it will not let me update !!! Error: the media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 package conflicts with another package. !!!both can't be installed on the

[gentoo-user] proxy to hide redirects?

2005-04-11 Thread Bryan Whitehead
At my job; we have a new application (j2ee) that is throwing redirects about 5 times for each normal page load. In other words, we have 5 302's for every 1 200. Sadly, there is nothing I can do to fix the application. However, I can put a proxy between the application and the outside. I want

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Mitko Moshev
Edward Catmur wrote: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 (is blocking x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) What's the trick to do this update? emerge -u ati-drivers --

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Veit wrote: geometry = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0 geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 4003776, start = 0 Well, the obvious thing for me is the difference in the drive geometries between the two systems...the 2.6 kernel is seeing the entire drive while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Tim Janssen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It looks like portage might be trying to emerge an updated version of opengl-update which is a dependency of the new ati-drivers but the old ati-drivers you have are blocking the new opengl-update. You could try unmerging ati-drivers and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2005-04-11 Thread Mitko Moshev
James wrote: Edward Catmur ed at catmur.co.uk writes: emerge -u ati-drivers Yea, well just because there is a later version of the ati-drivers it will not let me update !!! Error: the media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 package conflicts with another package. !!!both can't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Richard Fish wrote: Alexander Veit wrote: geometry = 4867/255/63, sectors = 78198750, start = 0 geometry = 65535/16/63, sectors = 4003776, start = 0 Well, the obvious thing for me is the difference in the drive geometries between the two systems...the 2.6 kernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Justin Patrin
On Apr 11, 2005 12:58 PM, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of slowing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
If you go the make 'config route, *do* by all means read all the help you can find in there before changing thins; you cwill probably find something that interacts with something else that you've already done that makes what you've already done irrelevant or -wrong-, so read all through the

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Alexander Veit
Robert G. Hays wrote: Well, we know what the drive can do; at least, At Least!, so I am left suspecting that the Gentoo kernel does not have the best setup for the mobo, --or-- has something in there for safety that has the effect of slowing the throughput down; make [ menuconfig |

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Matthew Cline
probably that you forget 50% of the times the # mount /boot ;) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I seem to recall that the make install script will spit out an error if it doesn't find grub or lilo in /boot, which would

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 11:59 AM, Alexander Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas how to get the same disk performance with Gentoo? Thanks in advance Alex Alex, Does Knoppix enable /proc/config.gz? If so look there. Also, do you see anything much different about modules being loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 3:18 PM, Eric S. Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Matthew Cline wrote: I recommend using genkernel for creating a kernel. You still have to deal with configuring yourself, but then Gentoo deals with the compile and moving the kernel around

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Richard Fish wrote: Snip! # time dd if=/dev/hda bs=64k count=16000 (time the reading of 1G of data from hda). Feel free to adjust count to your liking...although it should be at least twice memory. At 20M/sec you are looking at about 1G/min for reading. -Richard (And how many -- or rather how

[gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
I've saved your listing, when I next boot to linux, I'll dif that against what I have (before W4L) let you know *IF* I notice something meaningful -- kinda new to this part, too, me, but I'll try. Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 11 April 2005 23:18, Eric S. Johansson wrote: ;);) (I've started to mount it read only so at least an error came up) I always leave it mounted since it makes little real difference security wise.  seriously, what does it protects you against when a compromise can probably also

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Snip! seriously, what does it protects you against when a compromise can probably also mount it then unmount it again as a courtesy What Mark said :: Just the random rm / ... Also some *strange* internal errors I've seen over the years, and... if the computer is

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n re-iterate by going into the next level you want to look at and doing the same On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:43:20 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root /

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? du -hs /* This will give you an easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox XML problems

2005-04-11 Thread Chris Woods
I had the same issue, tried re-emerging firefox, didn't help. What did help, however, was starting with a fresh firefox profile. A bit of a pain, but it worked. with Firefox not running, do: mv ~/.mozilla ~/mozilla.bak Then start firefox, which creates the new .mozilla/firefox directory. Quit

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks all! so many great answers so quickly. Greatly appreciated. cheers, Mark On Apr 11, 2005 4:06 PM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root (because du will not count directories it cannot access) cd / du --max-depth=1|sort -n re-iterate by going into the next level you want to

[gentoo-user] A couple of weird portage errors

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
Can anyone help me with the following? I have a machine that is giving me this error : emerge -upD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy virtual/pcmcia. !!! Problem with ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread William Kenworthy
or du /|sort -rn|less for a global view, largest files/directories at the top! BillK On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:54 +0100, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 23:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:44:20 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there

Re: [gentoo-user] getting sound to work with a new kernel and udev

2005-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:36:58 +0200, Antoine wrote: I have upgraded to the latest ck and udev. Everything seems to be working, except sound. I also compiled my soundcard as a module this time, instead of right into the kernel. I didn't load it on boot, but a modprobe doesn't seem to make any

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. On my notebook, I'm still using ext2 for power management reasons

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 11, 2005 4:54 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:40:26 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: or du /|sort -rn|less for a global view, largest files/directories at the top! Or emerge filelight is you want a graphical view. Yeah, I like filelight but it's

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:59 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. On my

Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Gordon
Ow Mun Heng wrote: dir_index Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. Can you explain to me this feature? It's the first I've heard of it. I'm not an expert or guru, but I'll sure try. From what I understand, the filesystem normally stores the block and inode

[gentoo-user] How to update after emerging KDE-3.4.0 using ~x86

2005-04-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I recently emerged KDE-3.4.0 using the command ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge kde-meta and so far so good, a few little errors such as juk crashing from time to time and k3b not working, but nothing I can't live through at the moment. The issue I now have is how can I apply any necessary updates

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
From the prompt enter : du -x -h | more and then page through the displayed screens (using the space bar) where you wil be shown the size of each directory which may help you find the culprit. Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100%

Re: [gentoo-user] help! xorg doesn't recognise my pci-express card!

2005-04-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 04:44:41AM -0400, daniel wrote On April 5, 2005 01:46 am, Walter Dnes wrote: What does Windows show it as in the system dialogue? Do you know how to use the debug command in Windows? nope. but it's ok, i figured it out after a great deal of googling. Try the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update after emerging KDE-3.4.0 using ~x86

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Jamie Dobbs wrote: At the moment if I do an emerge -uDpv world I can see it wanting to downgrade a huge amount of packages whihc I obviously do not want to do. Add any packages that you want the ~x86 keyword accepted for to /etc/portage/package.keywords. Something like kde-base/kde-meta

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Gordon wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: Because I KNOW it works on AMD mobile chips, first hand. I've never even looked at Intel mobile processors Probably never will... Don't disregard the Pentium M so quickly. The Pentium4 is a _horrible_ architecture: Intel wanted a CPU that could

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-11 Thread Peter Gordon
Isn't that what the -march=pentium-m and -mtune=pentium-m flags are for in GCC 3.4? -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. --- Peter A. Gordon (codergeek42) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key

Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Continued at Bottom... Nick Rout wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless there

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Veit wrote: I've changed the access mode from auto to lba. The same results. Then from lba to large. Same results. Ok, thanks for trying. It was worth a shot. Also, it might be interesting to see the dmesg output for the IDE controller. With access mode set to lba (this