Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Thanks, I did some research and I've decided to get a 939 with an a64fx 3500+ in an asus a8n sli deluxe, I already have a 600w power bestexpress supply, guess that will do the deal, I'll stick with my old nvidia graphic card till I get money to get a new board (probably pci-e), I guess all my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Jarry
Daniel da Veiga wrote: Thanks, I did some research and I've decided to get a 939 with an a64fx 3500+ in an asus a8n sli deluxe, I have 3200+ with a8n-sli deluxe, and I'm a little dissapointed with that motherboard: - terrible bios! e.g.: you set memory frequency (ddr400), then change

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-17 Thread Richard Fish
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:55, Zac Medico wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: but there is enough stuff out there, that does not work with ntpl. So recommending ntplonly is irresponsible. No problems here. I'd expect people to do their own research

Re: [gentoo-user] gphoto2 large file problems ?

2005-07-17 Thread Dave S
Zac Medico wrote: Dave S wrote: Hi all, gphoto2 used to work well with my Kodak DX6340 camera. I recently did a emerge -uDv and loads of version numbers have been bumped since I last did an upgrade, some 8ish months ago. Anyhow having sorted the access permission problem It appears that

[gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Hi all, Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This only happens when unlocking

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:38, Jarry wrote: Just my 2 cents. I have been using asus-products for about 7 years, but I think asus is not the hardware-producer it used to be. Asus still makes excelent mobo's for Intel, but its mobo's for AMD64 are... well, imho only average. Nothing more,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:49, Richard Fish wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2005 00:55, Zac Medico wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: but there is enough stuff out there, that does not work with ntpl. So recommending ntplonly is irresponsible. No problems here. I'd

[gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-17 Thread Jorge Almeida
I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344889-highlight-kde+slow+redraw.html (but no answer there...) Any idea? -- Jorge

[gentoo-user] hotplug permissions xsane

2005-07-17 Thread Dave S
Hello all, My scanner was working OK till I did a 'emerge -uDv world'. xsane now picks up my logitech webcam instead of my scanner and does not see my scanner. In root xsane sees both devices, asks me which one to use and all is OK, so its a permissions problem. vanda_comp dave # lsusb Bus

[gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

2005-07-17 Thread E. Pereira
During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL connection? Or this shouldn't interfer in my connection I I'm having to reconnect

[gentoo-user] [OT] Resize of a reiser4 filesystem?

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! I'd looking for a way to resize my reiser4 filesystems. Best would be an online option (ie. one, that does not require an unmount of the fs). In older packages, I found a man page for a resize_reiser4 tool (not sure about the name). Even this manpage is gone in sys-fs/reiser4progs-1.0.4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

2005-07-17 Thread Holly Bostick
E. Pereira schreef: During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL connection? Or this shouldn't interfer in my connection I

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware/xorg.conf issues --SOLVED--

2005-07-17 Thread Bill Roberts
On 00:03 Sat 16 Jul , Richard Fish wrote: Bill Roberts wrote: Richard I tried all of your suggestions, without success. See inline comments: Note device and monitor section of xorg.conf at end: I've had one further idea. I have a 4-port kvm switch (Cybex), it has never

[gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, Ie been looking at thee gentoo wiki and internet to find out what my problem is but can't find it any where. I installed splash_utils and make the right kernel options and when I try to run splash_util -c on I got this error message FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE failed, error code 22. Does someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown Issues

2005-07-17 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 11:12:13 -0300 (ART) E. Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During the shutdown Gentoo brings down my eth0 connection, but my computer is connected to a router that uses xDSL for connection, so my questions is: Can I remove this, this way I won't have to reconnect my xDSL

[gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Hi, I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use Win4Lin 4) and the other is kernel 2.6 I have an emerge problem with my 2.4 kernel. After emerge sync, when I perform an emerge -up world, I do not see any packages requiring update. When I start checking individual

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, what happens with the command emerge --deep --update --newuse world and what's in your world file? (/var/lib/portage/world) Cheers, Mark On 7/17/05, Jeff Cranmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run a dual-boot linux system. One is kernel 2.4 (in order to use Win4Lin 4) and the

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Spagnol Comar schreef: Hi all, Ie been looking at thee gentoo wiki and internet to find out what my problem is but can't find it any where. I installed splash_utils and make the right kernel options and when I try to run splash_util -c on I got this error message FBIOSPLASH_SETSTATE

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Yuan MEI
I am using splashutils 1.1.9.7 and livecd-2005.1, and genkernel 3.2.5 works very well with all the stuff. So I think you can find the solution inside the genkernel scripts. -- Yuan MEI -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Looking for file /usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook_4

2005-07-17 Thread Thomas Drueke
Hi, I would like to generate the documentation from the alsa-drivers. While trying to generate it, openjade tells me this: openjade:E: cannot open /usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook_4 (Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden) I googled around but I found it only with rpm-distributions like Suse

Re: [gentoo-user] slow redrawing in KDE

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Jorge Almeida wrote: I just emerged KDE, changing from the monolytic packages to the split ones. Now windows redrawing is painfully (and cas-ca-ding) slow. The problem seems to be the same as in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-344889-highlight-kde+slow+redraw.html (but no answer there...)

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba crashes after upgrading system

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Robert Cernansky wrote: RF RF For a complete list of packages that should be rebuilt, you can run: RF RF equery belongs `ldd /usr/sbin/smbd | grep ' /' | awk '{print $3}'` | RF sort | uniq RF RF This will print the name of every package that contains a library that RF smbd depends upon. RF

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] hotplug permissions xsane

2005-07-17 Thread Dave S
Dave S wrote: Hello all, My scanner was working OK till I did a 'emerge -uDv world'. xsane now picks up my logitech webcam instead of my scanner and does not see my scanner. In root xsane sees both devices, asks me which one to use and all is OK, so its a permissions problem. vanda_comp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Alexander Kirillov wrote: Hi all, Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge glibc

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Veit
Zac Medico wrote: Linuxthreads are the *old* linux threading library and nplt is the *new* linux threading library. I've been using nptlonly for a couple months now with no noticeable problems. AFAICT it's a drop in replacement for linuxthreads and it supposed to give superior

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I am using kernel 2.6.12-r4 ans splashutils 1.1.9.7, I had tried emergence and livecd-2005.0 themes and none had worked :( Check your kernel config and see if you've used vesafb-tng. Also, set the resolution for vesafb-tng the same as the resolution of your

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Samba crashes after upgrading system

2005-07-17 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:45:00 -0700 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZM Robert Cernansky wrote: ZM So I decide to downgrade glibc first, but it did not help. Then I downgrade ZM linux-headers and re-emerge (downgraded) glibc and samba (for sure). Again ZM without success. :-( I removed

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
I tried to use bouth vesafb and vesafb-tng, in tng I used the same resolution as the theme agian neather one of then worked On 7/17/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I am using kernel 2.6.12-r4 ans splashutils 1.1.9.7, I had tried emergence and

[gentoo-user] Problems with SB Live, again

2005-07-17 Thread E. Pereira
As I told before my system gives me WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/sound/dsp): No such file or directory when I try to play audio. So I took a peek in my system and discovered, while trying to install alsa-driver, that ALSA is already compiled into my kernel. So what

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba crashes after upgrading system

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Robert Cernansky wrote: Great idea with this livecd. I just replaced /usr/lib64/gconv/IBM852.so with that one from livecd and it works! When I'll have more time I'll try to rebuild toolchain as you suggested. Thank You. Robert. Great! Actually, I meant to say stage3 instead of livecd.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with SB Live, again

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
E. Pereira wrote: As I told before my system gives me WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/sound/dsp): No such file or directory when I try to play audio. So I took a peek in my system and discovered, while trying to install alsa-driver, that ALSA is already compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This only happens when unlocking a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Alexander Kirillov wrote: Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This only

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This only happens when unlocking a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ipsec with openswan consult...

2005-07-17 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, Walter Willis wrote: # ipsec verify Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and started correctly: Version check and ipsec on-path [OK] Linux Openswan U2.3.1/K2.6.12-gentoo (netkey) Checking for IPsec support in kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resize of a reiser4 filesystem?

2005-07-17 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! I'd looking for a way to resize my reiser4 filesystems. Best would be an online option (ie. one, that does not require an unmount of the fs). In older packages, I found a man page for a resize_reiser4 tool (not sure about the name). Even this manpage is gone in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Alexander Kirillov wrote: Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This only

[gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi there, When I emerged libraw1394 it tells me there is no /dev/raw1394 device: Required /dev/raw1394 device file not found. Run 'make dev' to create it. which is correct: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:35, Mark Knecht wrote: which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this really be created for a udev system? A rule somewhere in some udev.conf file? Dynamic dev filesystems (devfs

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Mike Williams wrote: On Sunday 17 July 2005 22:35, Mark Knecht wrote: which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this really be created for a udev system? A rule somewhere in some udev.conf file? Dynamic

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this really be created for a udev system? A rule somewhere in some udev.conf file? Its a kernel bug which is fixed in 2.6.12. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Zac Mike, Thanks for the responses. I am getting a device /dev/raw/raw1394 created when I load the module and removed when I rmmod the module: godzilla ~ # ls -la /dev/raw ls: /dev/raw: No such file or directory godzilla ~ # modprobe raw1394 godzilla ~ # ls -la /dev/raw total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Daniel, See my other post on this thread but as for the kernel it is updated: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a Linux godzilla 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 #1 Sat Jul 16 09:29:59 PDT 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Thanks, Mark On 7/17/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can't unlock session in KDE 3.4

2005-07-17 Thread Alexander Kirillov
Kb layout switch in session unlock screen doesn't work for me after upgrade to kde 3.4 When kde session locks on timeout and the keyboard happens to be left in non-english layout I can't switch it back to en and have to kill X to get things back to normal. This only happens when unlocking a

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/17/05, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this really be created for a udev system? A rule somewhere in some udev.conf file?

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Mark Knecht wrote: What's throwing me is that the libraw1394 emerge makes this limited complaint: Required /dev/raw1394 device file not found. Run 'make dev' to create it. This is more suited for the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resize of a reiser4 filesystem?

2005-07-17 Thread Sean Johnson
AFAIK, and according to the README in the reiser4progs, Reiser Co have not gotten around to implementing the resizer for reiser4. So, for an 'offline' option, backup, resize, reformat, restore Since practically all my partitions are LVM, not being able to resize really takes reiserfs4

[gentoo-user] [OT]Throttling/Restricting download speeds

2005-07-17 Thread agl
Hi all, Here in Australia the internet access plan I have is capped at 12GB downloads/month during peak hours and then an additional 24GB/month during offpeak hours, ie 2am - 9am. Rather than sit up until 2am to kick off a download, I was wondering if it was possible to somehow throttle a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Throttling/Restricting download speeds

2005-07-17 Thread William Kenworthy
Checkout the QOS modules in the kernel and the iproute package. There's plenty of examples on the net as well as mailing lists and bundled scripts that will serve as a base for what you want to do. Also rsync and wget have bandwidth limiting options that may be easier/more suitable for what you

[gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Hi guys, does anyone know any way to resize a ext3 partition? i'm trying QTparted (parted) and i can't... when i try with qtparted it just does not let me resize it, and with parted (text mode) it complains: br ~ # parted /dev/hdb resize 1 Start? [32kB]?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 17 July 2005 18:32, Bob Sanders wrote: btw - my recommendation of PC Power Cooling power supplies is not because there are no others as good, it's that I've had more fails and seen more fails with other brands. ok, I do not now PC Power Cooling, but I've had a couple of PSUs so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]Throttling/Restricting download speeds

2005-07-17 Thread Nick Rout
wget has a throttling option --limit-rate how about : 1. keep a file containing the urls of the files you want to download. (dllist) 2. start them at whatever time like: wget --limit-rate=5k -i dllist 3. use at to run a script at 2.00 am which kills wget and restarts it with no limit-rate

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: Hi guys, does anyone know any way to resize a ext3 partition? i'm trying QTparted (parted) and i can't... when i try with qtparted it just does not let me resize it, and with parted (text mode) it complains: br ~ # parted /dev/hdb resize 1 Start? [32kB]?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: Hi guys, does anyone know any way to resize a ext3 partition? i'm trying QTparted (parted) and i can't... when i try with qtparted it just does not let me resize it, and with parted (text mode) it complains: br ~ # parted /dev/hdb resize 1 Start?

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Zac Medico
Bruno Gola wrote: About the cd-writer, ive tried with cdrecord (command line) but, it stills stop.. i dont know what could it be.. any idea? What output does cdrecord give before it stops? Does cdrecord actually exit or does it just hang? Try it with the -v option. Zac --

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: About the cd-writer, ive tried with cdrecord (command line) but, it stills stop.. i dont know what could it be.. any idea? What output does cdrecord give before it stops? Does cdrecord actually exit or does it just hang? Try it with the -v option.

Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ext3 and burning cds...

2005-07-17 Thread Bruno Gola
Bruno Gola wrote: Zac Medico wrote: Bruno Gola wrote: About the cd-writer, ive tried with cdrecord (command line) but, it stills stop.. i dont know what could it be.. any idea? What output does cdrecord give before it stops? Does cdrecord actually exit or does it just hang?

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my world?

2005-07-17 Thread Jeff Cranmer
The emerge --deep command did throw up a few others. [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-config-1.8-r4 [1.8-r2] [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.9b [1.0.8] [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.9b [1.0.8] [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.9 [1.0.8] [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing woes; firefox incompetent; cups printer disabled and cannot enable

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Okay, thanks, that helps clarify it. I got the printer working anyway -- my printers.conf needed manual editing -- it had two different lp0 printers in it somehow, one of them badly mangled. ++ kevin On 7/15/05, Edward Catmur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:30 -0700, Kevin

[gentoo-user] Enabling frame buffering in kernel causes odd console display (wide screen lcd)

2005-07-17 Thread cafairle
Enabling splash in the kernel causes text to start a 1/3 of the way over on the screen and wraps around (after decompressing kernel). Hardly legible and no splash image to be seen, nvidia module will not load (no screens found error) and editing files is difficult due to this shifted display

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash problem !!!

2005-07-17 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I tried to use bouth vesafb and vesafb-tng, in tng I used the same resolution as the theme agian neather one of then worked Are you trying Gensplash or Bootsplash? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Resize of a reiser4 filesystem?

2005-07-17 Thread Richard Fish
Sean Johnson wrote: AFAIK, and according to the README in the reiser4progs, Reiser Co have not gotten around to implementing the resizer for reiser4. So, for an 'offline' option, backup, resize, reformat, restore Since practically all my partitions are LVM, not being able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabling frame buffering in kernel causes odd console display (wide screen lcd)

2005-07-17 Thread Richard Fish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enabling splash in the kernel causes text to start a 1/3 of the way over on the screen and wraps around (after decompressing kernel). Hardly legible and no splash image to be seen, nvidia module will not load (no screens found error) and editing files is difficult due