Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Persson
On April 11, 2005 12:17 pm, quoth 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 hope it helps Thanks everybody. Seems the problem was the eq-xmms plugin. Upgrading to 0.6-r2 (~x86 masked) got it

[gentoo-user] Adobe Photoshop 7.0 On Wine Users.

2005-04-12 Thread Andy
I installed Adobe photoshop using wine on an account called andy. I know wine doesn't work well when used in root but I usually only use root so I was wondering if there is a way to open my Photoshop 7.0 using root with Wine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] New E-mail

2005-04-12 Thread Steve B
All, Well the time has come to change my e-mail. I just can't see paying for 250MB of storage when I have all this free space at gmail. I should have a new gpg keys soon. rshadow [ at ] linuxquestions.net will still work for the rest of the year and messages will be forwarded to my new

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

2005-04-12 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Mike Williams wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] OT: problem with perl under chroot

2005-04-12 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I use a chroot'ed Apache installation under /var, including perl installed under /var/... as well. I can run perl scripts (say: cgi scrpits) just fine, except one error: I can't fetch sites from within a perl script with method get. This is a little test script: #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Photoshop 7.0 On Wine Users.

2005-04-12 Thread Andy
Florian Idelberger wrote: Normally it should be quite possible to just su into root in a terminal and then start all the gui programs you want from there as root. And if you're concerned about security in som way you really should do so. Just a recommendation. On Apr 12, 2005 9:27 AM, *Andy*

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Photoshop 7.0 On Wine Users.

2005-04-12 Thread Charles Pittman
On Apr 12, 2005 6:58 AM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Florian Idelberger wrote: Normally it should be quite possible to just su into root in a terminal and then start all the gui programs you want from there as root. And if you're concerned about security in som way you really should do so. Just

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

2005-04-12 Thread Charles Pittman
On Apr 12, 2005 12:09 AM, Peter Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Antoine
Hi, I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at --

[gentoo-user] rpc time outs

2005-04-12 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
hi, I have a central distfile server, and time after time i get on my clients this error when they try to connect: mount: RPC: Timed out The same with new gentoo installes when i try to connect with the live cd 2004.3 to the disftfile server. portmap version:5b-r9 nfs-utils:1.0.7 Kernel:

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Photoshop 7.0 On Wine Users.

2005-04-12 Thread Andy
Charles Pittman wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 6:58 AM, *Andy* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Idelberger wrote: Normally it should be quite possible to just su into root in a terminal and then start all the gui programs you want from there as root. And if

Re: [gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:49:08 +0200, Antoine wrote: I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? I saw a tool like this on Freshmeat

Re: [gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 13:49, Antoine wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? What's wrong with a network

Re: [gentoo-user] rpc time outs

2005-04-12 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:51:21 +0200 (CEST), Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I have a central distfile server, and time after time i get on my clients this error when they try to connect: mount: RPC: Timed out You need to start portmap. /etc/init.d/portmap start Its of cource started on both

[gentoo-user] Re: intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Antoine
On Apr 12, 2005 1:49 PM, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? Cheers Antoine btw, it

Re: [gentoo-user] intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Antoine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I am looking for a way to intercept a stream before it gets to my browser, so I can see everything that is being sent to me, and that I send back. Does anyone know know of a tool that will do this for me? ethereal? squid proxy? hth, Cooper. --

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-12 Thread Zander Z365
Thanks to all of you for helping me. I can successfully emerge X KDE using an SMP kernel and hard setting the CPU frequency. However, using an SMP kernel 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' nor 'x86info -mhz' seem to show the new cpu frequency. I do have two more questions: 1. Using a Uni-processor kernel

[gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains a lot of control codes. -- --

RE: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains a lot of control codes. Here's how I accomplish

[gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
Last Wednesday CableOne (my ISP (unfortunately)) suffered a violent thunderstorm at their headquarters in Arizona. All CableOne internet customers were without Internet for about six hours. Ever since the internet became available again my mail server has not been able to send mail from

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
I forgot to say that mail between espersunited.com users works fine. As I said, I've had this problem for a few days and I previously thought that the messages simply weren't being sent from the message queue. Incoming mail to espersunited.com works fine too... --- Michael Sullivan [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Tuesday 12 April 2005 13.49-n, A. Khattri ezt írta: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains

Re: [gentoo-user] xine will not run

2005-04-12 Thread Paul
Hi, I have re-emerged xine and emerged strace. strace produced the following error:- futex(0x8114054, FUTEX_WAIT, 78, NULLxiTK received SIGSEGV signal, RIP. ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ I just don't know what to try next, any ideas?? Paul On Monday 11 Apr

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Photoshop 7.0 On Wine Users.

2005-04-12 Thread Florian Idelberger
Technically (afaik) it should also work as root, but you shouldn't try because in this case working in root could really mess up your system. So why not use andy for your daily work, including photoshop, and su into root in a console window and run your gui root programs from there? That would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
A. Khattri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron contains a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: intercept browser traffic

2005-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:23:58 +0200 Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, it is in https, but seeing as it is my browser I want to spy on, isn't that OK? technically, it is not. You could intercept network traffic at the link level and even simulate the remote host and its correct address

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mail server attempts to deliver the outgoing email, but returns the mail to the user who sent it with an error message. The interesting thing is that I can ping the address of the recipient mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, What is the error message you talk about? Are you running your own mailserver internally, or trying to post to your ISP's SMTP? It looks like you mean your own, but before passing judgement could you confirm? .. but I cannot telnet to their

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Is there a way to query my router for DNS information and use that instead of the two hard-coded IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf? Here is the /etc/resolv.conf file on my server box: domain espersunited.com nameserver 192.168.1.1 nameserver 24.116.0.160 nameserver 24.116.0.202 The

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:49:18 -0400 (EDT), A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the email from cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:23:57 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: I'll bet I wasn't the only one who went running to 'man emerge' and 'emerge --help'. :) Try man make.conf :) -- Neil Bothwick IMPORTANT: The entire physical universe, including this message, may one day collapse back into an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread David Morgan
On 15:14 Tue 12 Apr , Botykai Zsolt wrote: Tuesday 12 April 2005 13.49-n, A. Khattri ezt ?rta: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread R'twick Niceorgaw
On Tue, April 12, 2005 9:09 am, Michael Sullivan said: snip The interesting thing is that I can ping the address of the recipient mail servers at Yahoo and Gmail, but I cannot telnet to their port 25. /snip are you sure your ISP doesn't block outgoing port 25 connections? I would check with

[gentoo-user] hostap-driver not emerging correctly on gentoo 2005.0

2005-04-12 Thread Brent Vukmer
I've tried to emerge both the stable and unstable versions of hostap-driver and in both cases, the hostap_cs.conf file is not deploying to /etc/pcmcia and the hostap_cs.ko file is not deploying to /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r5/net/. Looking in the hostap-driver ebuild file, I see that if use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Michael Sullivan
The error message is Warning: Could Not Send Message For Past Four Hours. It says that it could not connect to the server it's trying to deliver the mail to and that it will keep trying for the next week. I am using my own mail server. I do not wish to use CableOne's smtp server because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe Photoshop 7.0 On Wine Users.

2005-04-12 Thread Charles Pittman
On Apr 12, 2005 7:54 AM, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: technicly shouldn't it work if I SUed into andy and ran it?--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yes, it would work, but I'm just wondering why you would want to do that in the first place... one of us must be missing something important

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:24, Jason Cooper wrote: Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread Jason Cooper
Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:24, Jason Cooper wrote: Jason Stubbs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:49, A. Khattri wrote: There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the --nospinner option. (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/resolv.conf and return mail

2005-04-12 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error message is Warning: Could Not Send Message For Past Four Hours. It says that it could not connect to the server it's trying to deliver the mail to and that it will keep trying for the next

[gentoo-user] Music Management Database

2005-04-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Hey all, I'm looking for recommendations for an application to manage all the music on my fileserver, perhaps through a web interface. I have a reasonably large library (100k files), and manually organizing everything is needlessly tedious. I'm not interested in playing music (it wouldn't be a

[gentoo-user] enable dspam cgi

2005-04-12 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Hi all, Does anyone use the dspam's web interface? I tried to find how can I do that, but without success. Can anyone help me? []'s Mauro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] enable dspam cgi

2005-04-12 Thread Mauro Faccenda
Mauro Faccenda wrote: Hi all, Does anyone use the dspam's web interface? I tried to find how can I do that, but without success. Can anyone help me? Ok, I was just trying to find a way to get dspam to build with the .cgi, but is another package (dspam-web) that does it. []'s

RE: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
Here's a good starting reference that might help: http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge needs a --nocolor option

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jason Stubbs wrote: It's already handled earlier. I was considering moving the whole lot downward but then there is color output when bad options are specified. Hey that was fast ;-) -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Last I want to be able to record and distribute TV on the network and need some pointers as to both hardware and software. A lot of people like MythTV (mythtv.org) - ebuilds exist. It has a client-server architecture so you can have less powerful setop

[gentoo-user] Error Emerging PHP 4.3.11

2005-04-12 Thread Tommy Young
When doing my emarge -uavD world, and letting it upgrade from php 4.3.10 to php 4.3.11, I get the following build error. Has anyone else seen it or know how to fix it? libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 12, 2005 9:05 AM, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Last I want to be able to record and distribute TV on the network and need some pointers as to both hardware and software. A lot of people like MythTV (mythtv.org) - ebuilds exist. It

[gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread The Disguised Jedi
OK...This is going to sound like a really dumb question, but I'm really new at this, but liking it so far... I've heard (and believe) that the Mac OS is built on a Linux kernel. Is this true? If so, does that mean that Macintosh\Applecompatible software can be installed on a Gentoo machine?

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

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:05 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: Isn't that what the -march=pentium-m and -mtune=pentium-m flags are for in GCC 3.4? That's what it should be for. Friend of mine used 3.4 on a BSD machine to compile apps using pentium-m and results were

[gentoo-user] [OT] global variables and memory limitations

2005-04-12 Thread Denis
Folks, I am not certain if this has anything to do with Gentoo or not. I am programming something in C, and I need to address as much memory as possible for the arrays that need to be specified as global variables. I have 2 GB memory on this machine, and I'd like to use as much of it as

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

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Richard Fish wrote: Ok, since nobody is actually bothering to _read_ article that I linked to, let me quote a small piece: Hey!! -- I Resent That! -- *I* read the article, and I use AMD's! And I read the whole thing, too, *examined* the charts! (Just so you know it wasn't wasted ;) -- Have a

[gentoo-user] web-browser out port

2005-04-12 Thread Joseph
Is there a standard port the web-browser connection is going OUT (to internet) on? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Right all the way, Trey, as best as I recall, my local brother has a Mac, which I hadda help him with a couple of times, after drooling for a few minutes at his wonderful 87-inch -- !! -- I mean 27-inch -- -- no, I mean **23**-inch Apple monitor ;) . rgh. Trey Gruel wrote: I've heard

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating root's settings to new user

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
Grant wrote: I've been logging in as root and working completely from there, but xscreensaver doesn't like that too much so I finally got around to adding a user for myself to work from. I understand that's the smart thing to do anyway. Is there a slick way to get all of my root user's settings

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] global variables and memory limitations

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
Denis wrote: Folks, I am not certain if this has anything to do with Gentoo or not. I am programming something in C, and I need to address as much memory as possible for the arrays that need to be specified as global variables. I have 2 GB memory on this machine, and I'd like to use as much of

RE: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging PHP 4.3.11

2005-04-12 Thread Dave Nebinger
libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.4/libstdc++.la' To fix: # fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-04-12 Thread Antoine
Neil Bothwick wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging PHP 4.3.11

2005-04-12 Thread Daniel Westermann-Clark
On 2005-04-12 13:23:27 -0400, Tommy Young wrote: When doing my emarge -uavD world, and letting it upgrade from php 4.3.10 to php 4.3.11, I get the following build error. Has anyone else seen it or know how to fix it? libtool: link: cannot find the library

Re: [gentoo-user] web-browser out port

2005-04-12 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Joseph wrote: Is there a standard port the web-browser connection is going OUT (to internet) on? You might want to read up on how TCP/IP works. Outgoing connections are made on a random (well, not random, but not exactly predictable) port 1024. All ports =1024 are restricted for root's use

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

2005-04-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Richard Fish wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Scott Taylor
Look here http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ and http://www.opendarwin.org/ The base is pretty much a linux but as has been mentioned before, they have plenty of hardware-specific code and their cocoa which realistically only works on their gear, so don't expect to run mac software on anything

[gentoo-user] Re: Music Management Database

2005-04-12 Thread Eamon Caddigan
Botykai Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuesday 12 April 2005 18.28-n, Eamon Caddigan ezt írta: Hey all, I'm looking for recommendations for an application to manage all the music on my fileserver, perhaps through a web interface. I have a reasonably large library (100k files), and manually

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

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 01:07 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: Can Mozilla SHARE the Win/Netscape bookmarks, history, eddress-book, **and** local accumulated-mail folders with my Win/Netscape ? I understand that the answer is yes, although I have not done it. I think the answer would be the same for

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

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
Jamie Dobbs wrote: The unfortunate thing about that it it doesn't appear to accept the 'meta-package' to cover everything and I'm still trying to work out all the packages that need to be added. Ugh... # grep --no-filename deprange /usr/portage/kde-base/*-meta/*-meta-3.4.0.ebuild | sort |

Re: [gentoo-user] web-browser out port

2005-04-12 Thread Joseph
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:09 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Joseph wrote: Is there a standard port the web-browser connection is going OUT (to internet) on? You might want to read up on how TCP/IP works. Outgoing connections are made on a random (well, not random, but not exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Apr 12, 2005 11:40 AM, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it true though that the X-Box requires a hardware modification (like soldering in a new BIOS or something) in order to run Linux? Or is this no longer true? Yes, that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:24 -0600, Scott Taylor wrote: The base is pretty much a linux but as has been mentioned before, they have plenty of hardware-specific code and their cocoa which realistically only works on their gear What rubbish, Mac does NOT run linux. The fact that it a posix-like

[gentoo-user] ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread James
Hello all, I've gotten my portable system updated, excepted for the ati-drivers. I need somebody to explain a few things to me about the ATI-drivers. BACKGROUND: On my portable I have this chipset: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable. emerge -s ati-drivers shows:

[gentoo-user] kmail-3.4.0 dependencies

2005-04-12 Thread Guilheme Cirne
Hi, Does anybody know why kmail-3.4.0 depends on kontact-3.4.0? TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Inlining what little I know here... James wrote: Hello all, BACKGROUND: On my portable I have this chipset: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable. emerge -s ati-drivers shows: media-video/ati-drivers Latest version available: 8.12.10 Latest version installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Below... Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:24 -0600, Scott Taylor wrote: The base is pretty much a linux but as has been mentioned before, they have plenty of hardware-specific code and their cocoa which realistically only works on their gear What rubbish, Mac does NOT run linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
James wrote: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable. 1. Should I switch to ATI OpenGL ? If not what do I loose? Why? I'm pretty sure you don't need the ATI drivers, the built-in radeon driver has 3D acceleration for your card. You only need the ati-drivers for

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
Richard Fish wrote: James wrote: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable. 1. Should I switch to ATI OpenGL ? If not what do I loose? Why? I'm pretty sure you don't need the ATI drivers, the built-in radeon driver has 3D acceleration for your card. You

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU0: Temperature above threshold

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Fish
Zander Z365 wrote: Yes. I did enable SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support. Here is what I have for Processor Family: Pentium-4/Celeron(P4-based)/Pentium-4 M/Xeon) Here is what dmesg reports: CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz stepping 09 CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Right! rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 1:44 PM, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Repeating what has already been said here, the OS X kernel is (based on?) BSD, which, technically, is not Linux'. That said, yes, *some* linux-aps will run there... rgh. Like the joke says, only

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Persson
On April 12, 2005 11:37 am, quoth Robert Persson: There is an open source project called Gnustep which is trying to replicate the Nextstep API (Cocoa). Oops. What I meant to say was that the OS X native API is called Cocoa and is closely based on the nextstep API. -- Robert Persson Don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread michael
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 11:40 AM, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it true though that the X-Box requires a hardware modification (like soldering in a new BIOS or something) in order to run Linux? Or is this no

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread Mark Knecht
Michael, I'm being careful as I don't want to hurt my kid's XBox but apparently Dynebolics has a LiveCD that boots on XBox. I'm downloading it and intended to try booting it today or tomorrow and see what happens. If I could use that for playing PVR recorded video it would be great as the thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-12 Thread michael
Thanks Mark - I look forward to hearing your review. I'm almost tempted to run out right now (perhaps it's good that my lunch break has already passed) and buy an xbox! If I do anything, I will certainly post what I learn here as well. M On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: Michael, I'm being

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap results: need help

2005-04-12 Thread Alex Bennee
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:43 -0700, death rince wrote: hi, a) why does it show that the there is netbois ports b) why mysql is shown as unauthorised. c) why is it showiing tftp as filtered. why it is open in the first place I have attached the output of grep disable /etc/xinetd.d/*

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap results: need help

2005-04-12 Thread A. Khattri
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, death rince wrote: 3306/tcp open mysqlMySQL (unauthorized) Maybe the root login in MySQL has no password? (This is the default when you install MySQL. It is considered good practice to put a password on the root login after installation). -- --

[gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-12 Thread Jerry McBride
I found an way to speed up portage and save some drive space at the same time The first thing I tried... I happened to have some spare room on a scsi harddrive and simply moved /usr/portage and /var/db to the scsi drive. Then created links from the scsi pointing back to the original

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
Try using /dev/hdX notation instead - there's some advantages to it with 2.6 (DMA is one) However I have found it just as flakey at times. CD burning and linux is just not nice in all the years I have used linux - and it seems to be getting worse, not better. BillK On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 22:16

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
One possibly severe disadvantage I can see is losing the whole tree due to corruption of the loop file (it happens). Then again, it will be smaller and easier to backup! BillK On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: I found an way to speed up portage and save some drive space

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-12 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, kernel is Linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 Let me guess, it all used to work perfectly until you upgraded to 2.6.10? If this is the case, then I had similar problems. I cannot say for sure if gentoo found and fixed the errors in their own patched version

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:16:11PM -0400, Phill MV wrote So, I suddenly need to burn some cds in linux. k3b installed, I pop that little cd in the case and make me an iso of /pkg. I goes, you burn me that baby and watch it, well, not do anything. At all. The cd recorder drove up a bit then