Re: [gentoo-user] Does a tool that resizes reiser4 partitions exists ?

2005-04-22 Thread Richard Fish
Maxim Vexler wrote: Since the first public release of resiser4 it came a long way, but yet I haven't seen even one tool that can resize a reiser partition. Have I missed something fundamental ? And If the answer is yes, can I get a livecd with that ? RTFM! Let me show you how: # tar -xzf

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 16:04 schrieb ext fire-eyes: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Any more ideas? In case you're using udev, you can give them whatever name you want,

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:33:06 -0500, Kirk Schneider wrote: Orginally I was cleaning ccache since my emerge runs under root and root's home directory is on a small partition. Taking your input I've decided to just set ccache size and not use my script to clean it. Why not set ccache (I think

[gentoo-user] OT - hardware problems

2005-04-22 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, Yesterday arround midday i have lost contact with my home server, when i came home i saw that on the front the light (power) was red instead of green. I have rebooted with the power button and all is fine until now. The machine is a old Compaq deskpro AP prof desktop PIII, does anyone know

Re: [gentoo-user] dma is off

2005-04-22 Thread iNFERNo
Hi, I had the same problem and I've installed gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r5 and the problem was gone, the old kernel was gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r3. Now I'm running on gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6 and it's ok. Best regards Al Bayrouni wrote: Al Bayrouni wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:34:45 +0100 Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Anyway, what has been bugging me about the vi imposter on gentoo is | this gawdy psychadelic colourisation Try one of these in your vimrc: set background=dark set background=light Or possibly: colorscheme darkblue Or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 01:09:43 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Here's a patch you probably *WON'T* acceptg. Warning, some coarse | language... http://dev.gentoo.org/~lewk/img/vim.gif *sigh* what makes that really pathetic is that we already have vimgor, which is an actual

[gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2

2005-04-22 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Is there anyone using Xorg on an Intel 82865G card and can lend me their Xorg configuration file. I got my card as a part of a Dimension 3000. Thanks -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600 975 P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia Voice:

[gentoo-user] how to read dvd (encrypted) with mplayer

2005-04-22 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello all I have one movie dvd that I had get at dvdtheque. I can't read it. which libraries I need? Thank you Bayrouni. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings

2005-04-22 Thread Nick Rout
try emerge info to see what the end result of all the files. Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. your profile is in /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 but note the parent file in there, this contains a single entry: .. - this means that everything in the

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: Cleaning all distfiles was a decision I made on having high speed downloads. Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. Adjust the

Re: [gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2

2005-04-22 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi Bill, Thanks for that. Are you using Xorg or Xfree? Devraj Bill Roberts wrote: On 20:16 Fri 22 Apr , Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Is there anyone using Xorg on an Intel 82865G card and can lend me their Xorg configuration file. I got my card as a part of a Dimension 3000. Devraj I wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-22 Thread Lucien D.
Ah thanks, we're in business now, I should have put the DefaultDepth in, that was just stupid. The font is still a little big, but smaller than before. My next step is kde 3.3 - 3.4 so I'm just gonna wait on that. Well thanks for the help, my knowledge of X is slowly improving. Lucien On

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:57:10 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: This one (not my original work) I liked: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/GentooTips I like that one too. None of the scripts I saw dealt with a shared distfiles directory, they deleted all files not used by the machine running the script. My

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-22 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Sounds like fun stuff. He needs about 64 channels of analog(audio IO) in the form of high end audio cards with multiple input/output channels. Probably a couple of RME HDSP 9652s sync'ed via word clock would get you pretty close at 52

Re: [gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2

2005-04-22 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Thanks for the various emails Bill. I managed to get your Xorg configuration on my system. When I run X -config /root/xorg.conf.bill I get the following messages and my screen is blank Any suggestions directions are welcome. I am using a Diemsnion 3000 by Dell. Thanks X Window System Version

Re: [gentoo-user] i810 Intel 82856G graphic 2

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Devraj Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone using Xorg on an Intel 82865G card and can lend me their Xorg configuration file. I got my card as a part of a Dimension 3000. Thanks -- Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eternity Technologies Pty. Ltd. ACN 107 600

[gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings

2005-04-22 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: emerge info Hey, that's pretty cool. Must of missed/forgot this command... to see what the end result of all the files. Also remember you have stackable (is that the name? its late) profiles. your profile is in /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - hardware problems

2005-04-22 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Marquetecken schrieb: Hi, Yesterday arround midday i have lost contact with my home server, when i came home i saw that on the front the light (power) was red instead of green. I have rebooted with the power button and all is fine

[gentoo-user] Automatic process restarter

2005-04-22 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I need to monitor some processes on a server and if they die, they must be restarted. Before reinventing the wheel again (create my ons script) i search the internet and the most intresting soft i found was: procautostart http://www.yolinux.com/HOWTO/Process-Monitor-HOWTO.html Are some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic process restarter

2005-04-22 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I need to monitor some processes on a server and if they die, they must be restarted. Before reinventing the wheel again (create my ons script) i search the internet and the most intresting soft i found was: procautostart

[gentoo-user] 1000Mbps NIC Getting 100Mbps speeds

2005-04-22 Thread fire-eyes
I have installed a 1000Mbps NIC in my system. This is the system some of you read about me where I was trying to swap the names of eth0 and eth1 so maybe that has something to do with my problem. The light on the NIC shows 1000Mbps link, as does the switch it is connected to. Kernel messages show

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-22 Thread Richard Fish
Lucien D. wrote: Ah thanks, we're in business now, I should have put the DefaultDepth in, that was just stupid. The font is still a little big, but smaller than before. My next step is kde 3.3 - 3.4 so I'm just gonna wait on that. Well thanks for the help, my knowledge of X is slowly

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-22 Thread Graham Murray
Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B.T.W., LG may send their best units (unit-lots) to Sony /or other Brand Names, and sell the 'shaky' stuff under their own name -- this is a known operating plan used by *lots* of manufacturers for many years. So it is strange that my LG DVD burner

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-22 Thread Robert G. Hays
James, I don't have the answers that you are looking for myself, but I have a couple of thoughts about 'proceedurals' that you *might* not have thought of; please forgive my presumption if you *have* already thought of 'em... Have you put together a good precis of all the info from these

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 22 April 2005 18:05, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hello, Thanks for all the input guys (and gals, if any). Finally, I've decided to go for LG as it's saving me money and can't really see a big gain from buying Sony. Anyways, now I'm wondering about the media... +R or -R? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the /dev/v4l/XXX is created? yes, quite likely. Anyway, your logs/dmesg should show whats going on. OK, with the firmware properly extracted and in place

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Nick, you and Lucian seem to be on the same tack but I do not have a /dev/v4l directory: dragonfly ~ # ls -la /dev/v4* ls: /dev/v4*: No such file or directory dragonfly ~ # Video4Linux is compiled and I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-22 Thread michael
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Eric S. Johansson wrote: Dave Nebinger wrote: Reboots only come in if I build a new kernel. And it is often times easier to manually restart the services that have been updated rather than rebooting the box. I also suggest rebooting after major library updates to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error

2005-04-22 Thread H.J. Jung
On 4/22/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: H.J. Jung wrote: When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Why can't it find gcc?It finds your gcc, but your gcc version is not supported by mplayer. gentoo adds a patch to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't got udev on the system with v4l on it, still on devfs. I would take a good look at dmesg, it should show the device being found and the device name allocated, or else the kernel log file (which varies from system to system). But

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Lucien D.
Make sure the card is recognized in lspci, heres the output from mine 000:00:10.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64,

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error

2005-04-22 Thread Christoph Gysin
H.J. Jung wrote: When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Why can't it find gcc? It finds your gcc, but your gcc version is not supported by mplayer. gentoo adds a patch to work around this patch. After unpacking the

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:48 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Appears to be udev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ps aux | grep udev root 4698 0.0 0.0 1428 436 ?Ss 13:34 0:00 udevd mark 16051 0.0 0.0 1476 464 pts/0R+

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is video in Gentoo? (/dev/XXX)

2005-04-22 Thread Lucien D.
no problem, its nice to be able to answer questions occasionally instead of just asking them. On 4/22/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/22/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 16:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is that driver required before the

[gentoo-user] memory used

2005-04-22 Thread George Roberts
I started using Linux again a couple of months ago. After I installed Mandrake /noticed that if my computer sat idle over night the memory usage went up from 100 megs to 2-300 megs ( I have 1 gig of ram, so no biggie). I switched to Gentoo and have noticed the samething. After watching this

[gentoo-user] tray open ?

2005-04-22 Thread Paul Kain
I tried burning 2 cd's but I keep getting this error when trying to copy the distfiles from the cd to /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles hdb: tray open end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 478884 buffer I/O error on device hdb, logical block 119722 Now I know it cant be the hardware as I

[gentoo-user] Problems with vchkpw

2005-04-22 Thread gentoo-user
I'm trying to setup a new mailserver with qmail and vpopmail.  I've installed both, and have setup user accounts.  I'm running into problems when trying to test the setup to make sure things are working. Running this command: printf [EMAIL PROTECTED] | vchkpw `which id` 30 yields this result:

Re: [gentoo-user] installation automation scripts

2005-04-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: if I haven't forgotten something... famous last words... I forgot a few things. but this version puts you much closer to having a working system in 90 minutes or less. All you need to do is: boot off of life CD mkdir /mnt/flash mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash #(don't

Re: [gentoo-user] memory used

2005-04-22 Thread Robert G. Hays
Maybe someone else knows, but my guess, from the numbers I see at the top of the screen when running :: top suggest that this is cached stuff, maybe from cron et al, or files or screensaver. Somebody please enlighten us both! rgh. George Roberts wrote: I started using Linux again a couple of

[gentoo-user] Advice sought on M9000 epia myth-box setup

2005-04-22 Thread Nick Rout
I have a recently acquired M9000 epia box. I want to make a gentoo mythtv box. I have set up myth before, but not on an epia box. This machine has a Ezra C3 processor and castlerock graphics (lspci and /proc/cpuinfo below). This page http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags tells me I should use

Re: [gentoo-user] memory used

2005-04-22 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 17:34, George Roberts wrote: It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot out of me why this is happening. Thanks. Perhaps these will help enlighten you. # Memory and swap information cat /proc/meminfo free An article, Tips for Optimizing

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer compile error

2005-04-22 Thread George Roberts
H.J. Jung wrote: HI, all When I try to compile Mplayer 1.0pre7 I get following errors: Detected operating system: Linux Detected host architecture: i386 Checking for cc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Checking for gcc version ... 3.3.5-20050130, bad Checking for gcc-3.4 version ... not

Re: [gentoo-user] tweaking hdparm settings

2005-04-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 22 April 2005 22:06, James wrote: Hello, I've been noodling around with hdparm settings, and would like some input from persons with experience: After building a new (2.6.11-r6) gentoo sources kernel, I rebooted and issued 'hdparm /dev/hda' on my portable: multcount= 16

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings

2005-04-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:30 +, James wrote: /u/p/p/default.linux/x86/2005.0 you mean: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0 default.linux thru me for a few seconds until a search show default-linux... err yeah sorry bout that! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding support for Microsoft fonts in Open Office

2005-04-22 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
If the fonts used are from a standard font defintion they will suffice. But if they are Microsoft centric fonts then you might have a problem. Devraj Hareesh Nagarajan wrote: Hi, Every time I download a Microsoft Powerpoint file off the web and open it in OpenOffice Impress the fonts in the

[gentoo-user] problem with gentoo 2005 bootstrapping

2005-04-22 Thread moonspollo
Hi all: this problem will appeare every time when bootstrapping. who can help me? thank you ! Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed .. mounting loacl filesystem... mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist some local filesystem failed to mount this