Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] problems with PowerBook G4

2005-09-23 Thread Matti Bickel
Nicholas S-A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it turns out that is the problem! The router somehow got misconfigured as 0.0.0.0 instead of 10.0.1.1. here is ifconfig: [config eth0,eth1,lo,bond0,dummy0] They seem to be ok. and route -n: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway

[gentoo-user] [OT] DVD-writer testing tool

2005-09-23 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Is there some kind of such tool? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DVD-writer testing tool

2005-09-23 Thread krzaq
On 9/23/05, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some kind of such tool? There is a tool caled kprobe2 but it only works on LiteON DVDRW and WINDOZE. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What's my architecture ? - was System update problems

2005-09-23 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:23:05 +0100 Rupert Young (Restart) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having a problem updating my system, but I think I have a more fundamental problem. I'm not sure what my architecture is! Sorry for the dumb question. uname -a, gives the following Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-23 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi Iain, thanks a lot for your post (for the tips etc.). I did much of the initial work to prove the concept and handed it over to someone else to turn into a reproducible system. As far as I know, we've had 3 or 4 running continuously for quite a few months now. Do you have a website were

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:51:35PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: So to be positive about it heres how i found the answer: 1. looked to see if there were mbox or maildir USE flags that affected the build of pine - answer NO 2. google pine maildir and discover that there are patches in circulation

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:32:18 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: 1. symlinks aren't (or at least weren't in my case) picked up by the process, probably because when you access a symlink, only the date of the target appears to be altered. I had to manually copy many symlinks (which were mostly like

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:16:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: HP Deskjet 5550 works just fine I'll just weigh in here for Hewlett Packard, (although I am told that if you want highest quality digital photo prints go for epson). I used to think that, having used the six colour Epsons. But I had big

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-23 Thread Stewart Taylor
Holly Bostick wrote: Phew! what a long post. Sorry it's taken so long to come back on this. I tried the emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt. Then made the changes in KDE Control center. No effect at all. I didn't have Gnome installed, so to see if the basic setting and hardware are ok I

[gentoo-user] apache2 update

2005-09-23 Thread q-parser
Hi. I've just updated my apache2 and I found out there were several changes done. I mean replacing apache2/conf/apache2.conf with apache2/httpd.conf and stuff. But it's not the issue. I have a problem with getting php back to work. In /etc/conf.d/apache2 there's that APACHE2_OPTS=-D

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 update

2005-09-23 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Freitag, den 23.09.2005, 12:49 +0200 schrieb q-parser: Hi. I've just updated my apache2 and I found out there were several changes done. I mean replacing apache2/conf/apache2.conf with apache2/httpd.conf and stuff. But it's not the issue. I have a problem with getting php back to

Re: [gentoo-user] apache2 update

2005-09-23 Thread Roman v. Gemmeren
Am 23.9.2005 schrieb q-parser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I've just updated my apache2 and I found out there were several changes done. I mean replacing apache2/conf/apache2.conf with apache2/httpd.conf and stuff. But it's not the issue. I have a problem with getting php back to work. In

[gentoo-user] Documentation Search ?

2005-09-23 Thread Ted Kaczmarek
Am I being a chuckle head, is their any documentation search capability at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/. ? Regards, Ted -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 22, 2005, at 10:32 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 00:21:56 -0300 Norberto Bensa wrote: Try to stay away from Lexmark printers. -- Ironic. IBM spin off Lexmark in 1991 IBM subsequently become big Linux supporters. Lexmark don't give a toss about linux. Such is life,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:52:17 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: It appears to me that when the screensaver burns up that much horsepower, whether it's CPU+Nice or CPU+Nice+Waiting, then mythbackend is having trouble. Why are you running a

Re: [gentoo-user] top - 99.9% wa? What's 'wa'?

2005-09-23 Thread Jason Dodson
DMA is essentially the AVOIDANCE of using the CPU for I/O. The CPU makes a few calls to the chipset (in the case of ATA DMA), and the rest happens around the processor, not threw it. Jason It's described in the vmstat man page. You're supposed to be clairvoyant about these things and know

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Shields
A tad off-topic, but John, why don't you setup a mailing list and have the PTA members join?On 9/23/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it.I didn't think the ISP would block

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Search ?

2005-09-23 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/23/05, Ted Kaczmarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I being a chuckle head, is their any documentation search capabilityat http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/. ?Regards,Ted Pretty sure there isn't any from the project itself though you can use Google to search it by first entering

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:31:34AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:38:07 -0400, Sean Lester wrote: That's it. I didn't think the ISP would block outgoing port 25. Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE4 problem when using package CD installation

2005-09-23 Thread HG
Thanks, Bryan. After emerge gentoolkit and revdep-rebuild, Problem Solved! --- Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: run revdep-rebuild to find broken libraries/programs. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, HG wrote: Hi, All, I am a pretty new user to Gentoo and I like it! I am trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-23 Thread Mark
Well, here's the situation. My machine is on a small corporate network that uses a Microsoft proxy. I am not able to get portage to work, even with webrsync and even after installing ntlmaps. I also have access to a DSL connection in the same office. So what I want to do is connect one NIC to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Search ?

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: On 9/23/05, Ted Kaczmarek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I being a chuckle head, is their any documentation search capability at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/. ? Regards, Ted Pretty sure there isn't any from the

[gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Arran Fraser
Greetings from Halifax, Nova Scotia! I have a Memorex 1GB USB drive that I've used with my Gentoo systems (home and work) quite happily for some time. Until this week. I upgraded a number of packages, including my kernel (gentoo 2.6.12 -- gentoo 2.6.13). After the reboot, no more

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:38:48 -0400, Mark wrote: I receive internet DNS information from the DSL connection, so no problem there. But I want my internal connection to know about the internal DNS servers as well. Assuming your internal DNS servers give an almost instant response (they should do

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:29:50 -0300, Arran Fraser wrote: Until this week. I upgraded a number of packages, including my kernel (gentoo 2.6.12 -- gentoo 2.6.13). After the reboot, no more /dev/sda1. By the way, for the first time I used make oldconfig instead of make menuconfig... was

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Arran Fraser
Since it no longer works with the old config either, it is possible the device has failed and it happening when you changed kernels was one of those 'coincidences' that prove the existence of Finagle. That is exactly what I thought too when reverting didn't work. But, the device does work

[gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.

2005-09-23 Thread David Harel
Hi all, Installing video facilities such as mplayer or kaffeine resulted in some video formats such as .wmv not working. I unmerged all video players and libraries and then carefully emerged them back again. First the libraries and then the players as adviced, among other places, in:

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: Unfortunately, quite a lot seem to do it. it's a lazy and lame solution to spam trojans. Other ISPs forward all port 25 connections to their own SMTP server, so your mail may not be delivered directly, but it is delivered. Even if port 25 isn't blocked or redirected, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Tamas Sarga
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Arran Fraser wrote: To me, that implies that it may have been another package I upgraded (udev?) that is causing the change... but unfortunately I don't remember exactly what programs were on the list of updates. -- Arran Hi, You can see all emerges in date order

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:53:33 -0300, Arran Fraser wrote: To me, that implies that it may have been another package I upgraded (udev?) that is causing the change... but unfortunately I don't remember exactly what programs were on the list of updates. emerge genlop genlop -l --date last week

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Richard Fish
Arran Fraser wrote: Since it no longer works with the old config either, it is possible the device has failed and it happening when you changed kernels was one of those 'coincidences' that prove the existence of Finagle. That is exactly what I thought too when reverting didn't work. But,

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:20:50 -0500, kashani wrote: I worked at probably the first nation wide US ISP to block port 25 to any address other than our mail servers. While it was sad to see the days of free and clear access to smtp dying there really wasn't much choice. There is,

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Cyrille Damez
Le Friday 23 September 2005 14:53, Arran Fraser a écrit : At this point, I've messed around with everything I know about... so I may need to just start from scratch. I found a HowTo[1] but of course it doesn't mention what to do if sda doesn't show up. I had a similar problem this week.

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Paweł Madej
Hi, Maybe this will help after upgrading udev / kernel sources i've found in dmesg that my camera (olympus) which uses mass storage protocol was found as a /dev/uba1 so maybe your USB stick will also be as such device. if not paste your dmesg messages what it says while plugging into USB

[gentoo-user] NFS Drive testing?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Any simple tools for testing NFS drive speeds? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread John Jolet
On Friday 23 September 2005 10:52, Dave Nebinger wrote: John I'd suggest yahoo - they have a groups section where you can set up a mailing list - they host the list, you just handle the posting. yeah, but they put ads at the bottom and you have no control over what is in the ad...I'm a bit of a

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Cyrille Damez
Le Friday 23 September 2005 15:57, Paweł Madej a écrit : after upgrading udev / kernel sources i've found in dmesg that my camera (olympus) which uses mass storage protocol was found as a /dev/uba1 so maybe your USB stick will also be as such device. Most likely, it would be there too, but as

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Paweł Madej
Cyrille Damez wrote: Le Friday 23 September 2005 15:57, Paweł Madej a écrit : Most likely, it would be there too, but as far as I understand those /dev/ub* devices use the generic usb block device driver, which is very slow. For a memory stick or a hard-drive, it is much better to use

Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

2005-09-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
This might work, but the correct way to do this is still a split DNS. Since this machine is on the border of private/public networks it should combine the two. Your DNS on this border box should be a slave to the internal master. These slave records should be restricted to being queries from

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
first, make sure portmap is running on both machines. I'm sure it is but check anyhow. Also make sure they are not wildly different versions. Do the same for util-linux package. run 'rpcinfo -p' on each machine and copy/paste the output. I have a feeling one kernel has NFS v3 and another has

[gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all. Sorry in advance for the rash of emails today but the topics seem to be varying and hopefully folks will read only the ones they think they could help with. QUESTIONS: 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface? 2) How can I eliminate them? (Including hardware changes if

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
Neil Bothwick wrote: There is, redirecting port 25 traffic. I discovered an ISP was doing this by accident, when I switched to my backup ISP and forgot to change my mail settings. It was only later that I realised mail was still going out, despite my software being set to use a different ISP's

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Will do. portmap is running on both machines but neither machine has rcpinfo. What package do I emerge? dragonfly ~ # rcpinfo -p -bash: rcpinfo: command not found dragonfly ~ # slocate rcpinfo dragonfly ~ # Thanks much, Mark On 9/23/05, Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: first, make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all. Sorry in advance for the rash of emails today but the topics seem to be varying and hopefully folks will read only the ones they think they could help with. QUESTIONS: 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface? 2)

RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade

2005-09-23 Thread Daevid Vincent
Here is a related bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106403 Rob said that This is also in mailman-2.1.5-r4. MAILGID is set to 280 which is the new user id for mailman. MAILGID should be 12. How do I set the MAILGID from 280 to 12? I had this same idea last night to try it. If I

[gentoo-user] traffic mesure ?

2005-09-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Does someone knows how I can mesure a traffic trought a firewall in bytes or Kbytes per second ? Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Arran Fraser
Based on the log, I would say udev is the most likely point of failure. Have you run etc-update yet? Yes... although I may have rebooted before doing so. You can also try setting udev_log=yes in /etc/udev/udev.conf, to have udev output sturff to /var/log/messages. Will do. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic mesure ?

2005-09-23 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 23 September 2005 15:41, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Does someone knows how I can mesure a traffic trought a firewall in bytes or Kbytes per second ? ntop (web based) or iptraf (curses based). []'s Mauro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] traffic mesure ?

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
Does someone knows how I can mesure a traffic trought a firewall in bytes or Kbytes per second ? Iptables keeps counters for the various filters, etc. See the man page for iptables to see how to export your rules with the counters. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Paweł Madej
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 18:39:29 +0200, Pawe__ Madej wrote: Turn off Device Drivers - Block Devices - Low Performance USB Block driver in your kernel config. I've done this and i got /dev/sda now and as you said it is much faster than /dev/uba. Thank's a lot Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with USB memory

2005-09-23 Thread Richard Fish
Arran Fraser wrote: Based on the log, I would say udev is the most likely point of failure. Have you run etc-update yet? Yes... although I may have rebooted before doing so. Shouldn't matter...as long as you made the appropriate updates to the configuration files, it should be ok.

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic mesure ?

2005-09-23 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
thank you, i will check out iptables counters; if I got something wrong I will ask again. Bye, Allan On 9/23/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does someone knows how I can mesure a traffic trought a firewall in bytes or Kbytes per second ? Iptables keeps counters for the various

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE4 problem when using package CD installation

2005-09-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Yea, revdep-rebuild is my friend... :wub: On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, HG wrote: Thanks, Bryan. After emerge gentoolkit and revdep-rebuild, Problem Solved! --- Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: run revdep-rebuild to find broken libraries/programs. On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, HG wrote: Hi, All,

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
you don't have rpcinfo? that is not right! epm -qf /usr/sbin/rpcinfo glibc-2.3.5-r1 it should be in /usr/sbin/ maybe you need to rebuild glibc? rpcinfo will ask your portmapper what versions/protocols your mountd, nfs, etc are running as. I don't understand why you don't have this

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-23 Thread Tim Beck
Sounds like your DPI may be set incorrectly (if at all). I've had a horrible time getting the fonts in Firefox + KDE looking usable at normal (10-14) font sizes. For whatever reason, Xorg doesn't play nice when it comes to anything font related (at least, not in my experience). It certainly

RE: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Nebinger
you don't have rpcinfo? that is not right! dragonfly ~ # rcpinfo -p -bash: rcpinfo: command not found dragonfly ~ # slocate rcpinfo dragonfly ~ # Hold on guys, notice the spelling difference - rpcinfo which is what you need, but rcpinfo is what was searched for. --

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Can't you also use the iocharset=utf8 and codepage=utf8? something like: mount -t smbfs -o user=user,iocharset=utf8,codepage=utf8 \\server\path /mnt/samba This doesn't work? On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 16:26 +0800 schrieb

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark Knecht wrote: 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface? As Paul pointed out via his e-mail (via the previous thread), collisions are when two packets try and talk over an ethernet cable at the same time. In terms of a hub, it's very common, esp. when the hub becomes loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.

2005-09-23 Thread David Harel
Jonathan Wright wrote: David Harel wrote: Hi all, Installing video facilities such as mplayer or kaffeine resulted in some video formats such as .wmv not working. I unmerged all video players and libraries and then carefully emerged them back again. First the libraries and then the players

[gentoo-user] autofs + usb device issue

2005-09-23 Thread Paweł Madej
Hello, I've installed and configured automounter and it works ok for my cdrom and floppy drive. I'll describe my situation: My laptop has only one usb port and normally I have plugged to it my mouse. When I want to copy photos from my digital camera I have to unplug mouse and plug usb cable

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 22 September 2005 03:03 am, Qiangning Hong wrote: I tried to transfer a large file (~300MB) to a windows machine from my gentoo laptop: # mount -t cifs //winbox/movies /mnt/samba -o iocharset=utf8,umask= # exit $ cp largefile.avi /mnt/samba The transfer starts and eats 100%

RE: [gentoo-user] System update problems

2005-09-23 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
Ok, I followed the instructions, but get the error below. I am using apache2 not apache1, why is it asking for this? Why am I using gentoo? emerge --update --deep --emptytree --newuse world Calculating world dependencies / emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =net-www/apache-1.*. !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS Drive testing?

2005-09-23 Thread Ted Kaczmarek
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 09:08 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Any simple tools for testing NFS drive speeds? Thanks, Mark cp Regards, Ted -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] KDE split ebuilds broken

2005-09-23 Thread Wes Gray
When I first upgraded to 3.4 I was unaware of the new split ebuilds, so I just emerged normally getting (I assume) the old monolithic ebuilds. When I finally got around to trying to use 3.4 (which was a few months later) KDE came up with the taskbar not able to start, and as such I couldn't see

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs + usb device issue

2005-09-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:33:54 +0200, Pawe__ Madej wrote: I'll describe my situation: My laptop has only one usb port and normally I have plugged to it my mouse. When I want to copy photos from my digital camera I have to unplug mouse and plug usb cable to camera. Wouldn't it be easier to buy a

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera not starting problem

2005-09-23 Thread Tro
On Friday September 23 2005 19:13, Rupert Young (Restart) wrote: When I try to run Opera 8.02 I get this error (the success comment seems rather misleading) /usr/bin/opera: line 199: /opt/opera/lib/opera/8.02-20050727.5/opera: No such file or directory /usr/bin/opera: line 199:

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-23 Thread Grant
Does anyone else's Firefox crash whenever it hits a page with Flash on it? If I start a new .mozilla folder and always choose to not download Flash, everything is fine. As soon as I download Flash, it starts crashing whenever it sees a Flash file. Flash is working fine here, although

[gentoo-user] what exactly does rc-update modify?

2005-09-23 Thread michael
I'm ashamed to say that although I've been using Gentoo for awhile now, and installed on over a dozen computers, I use rc-update without knowing exactly what it changes. Right now I'm putting Gentoo on a Compact Flash card for a robot. I have a parallel setup on a hard disk, and I do all my

RE: [gentoo-user] Opera not starting problem

2005-09-23 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
Err, don't know. How do I check? Regards, Rupert -Original Message- From: Tro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 September 2005 00:37 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Opera not starting problem On Friday September 23 2005 19:13, Rupert Young

Re: [gentoo-user] what exactly does rc-update modify?

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 23 September 2005 23:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a wireless network card, so I ran rc-update to configure it upon booting. I have a configuration I'm happy with on the hard disk, so the question is, what files were modified by rc-update that I need to modify on the CF card?

Re: [gentoo-user] what exactly does rc-update modify?

2005-09-23 Thread michael
Argh! I should have checked to see if it was a script. That would have saved a lot of time. Thanks! Michael On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Mike Williams wrote: On Friday 23 September 2005 23:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added a wireless network card, so I ran rc-update to configure it upon

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you don't have rpcinfo? that is not right! dragonfly ~ # rcpinfo -p -bash: rcpinfo: command not found dragonfly ~ # slocate rcpinfo dragonfly ~ # Hold on guys, notice the spelling difference - rpcinfo which is what you need,

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up mail access rights

2005-09-23 Thread Pupeno
Providing some basic information such as what mail servers are you using would be a big plus to get an answer from someone. On Friday 23 September 2005 20:52, Mick wrote: Hi All, Could you please advise what the access rights ought to be for my mail directory? I restored from a backup and

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Just to clarify, you can mount right? if so cat /proc/mounts on both machines. can you show me the /etc/exports of the server? If you are able to mount you should be able to ignore the error. It looks like everything is setup ok... unless you have firewall/iptables in the way of any

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
Bryan, Yes, I can mount just fine. I was jsut concerned that the warning was there and since I'm having trouble with bandwidth/throughput/something I was looking to make it as clean as I can. If this is not an issue I'll ignore it for now. I think my other thread about 'Lots of network

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/05, Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface? As Paul pointed out via his e-mail (via the previous thread), collisions are when two packets try and talk over an ethernet cable at the same time. In terms of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera not starting problem

2005-09-23 Thread Tro
On Friday September 23 2005 19:56, Rupert Young (Restart) wrote: Err, don't know. How do I check? emerge -av glibc Check out http://gentoo-wiki.com/NPTL if you decide to go with +nptl (you don't need +nptlonly) emerge sync for opera 8.5 and do echo net-www/opera ~x86

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them? - SOLVED

2005-09-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dragonfly ~ # mii-tool -r restarting autonegotiation... dragonfly ~ # mii-tool -v eth0: autonegotiation failed, link ok product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-23 Thread Qiangning Hong
Bryan Whitehead wrote: Can't you also use the iocharset=utf8 and codepage=utf8? something like: mount -t smbfs -o user=user,iocharset=utf8,codepage=utf8 \\server\path /mnt/samba This doesn't work? It doesn't work. There are ?s in the filenames. -- Qiangning Hong

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-23 Thread Qiangning Hong
Jerry McBride wrote: What version samba and do you have use sendfile = no in the server smb.conf file? samba 3.0.14a-r2. I don't know how to set options in the windows box. But in my gentoo laptop, there is no sendfile line in /etc/samba/smb.conf. -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn