Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Well, somewhere deep in the BIOS peripheral settings, there are things like Enable AGP Fast Write or similar. Set all those things to Off or Disabled. You wil want stability first, speed maybe later. It probably won't make a difference, but it at least excludes

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-19 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Benno Schulenberg wrote: You've said you have an MSI K8M800 motherboard. Looking at http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_list.asp?class=mbcpu=3, such boards only support Sempron 2600+, 2800+, 3000+, 3100+, 3300+, not a 2500+. This may not be a problem, but then again, it might not be

[gentoo-user] about ccache permission adjusting

2005-11-19 Thread sempsteen
Hi, I've changed my CFLAGS settings and merged ccache for future works. Now i'm updating my system with emerge -e world. During merge i realize that ccache is adjusting permissions before and after for all packages, it's something like this: media-libs/libsdl-1.2.8-r1 merged. * Adjusting

[gentoo-user] monitoring ppp0 with mrtg

2005-11-19 Thread Kevin Verma
Hello, I am trying to monitor a standard dial-up connection as ppp0 (non-static ip) with mrtg. I can generate a cfg file, but find ppp0 as disabled. Can some one please suggest a suitable configuartion syntax for ppp0. I have followed setup instructions from Gentoo wiki, and had a particular

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread fire-eyes
Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German forums, so I thought maybe someone here could help me with

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

2005-11-19 Thread Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez
I'm having a similar problem with ivman, and i've discovered that the reason is that the camera has an id label that has a space, ie: LEXAR MEDIA. That's not right for pmount, and when ivman tries to mount it, fails. But it works for other usb devices. Does it work for you? Also, i had to

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Alexander Skwar schreef: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the system and the system

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread David Morgan
On 06:44 Sat 19 Nov , fire-eyes wrote: Well, you aren't running one then :) As for getting around, I haven't figured out a way. It's very frustrating to note that I haven't been able to ever find help about this. Makes one feel on your own... It's not kernel related, it's glibc telling you

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-19 Thread fire-eyes
David Morgan wrote: It's not kernel related, it's glibc telling you that you screwed up with memory allocation somewhere. The only 'fix' is to fix your code, so no one can help without seeing it (apart from maybe listing some common mistakes that cause this). Okay. My difference is that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash Config files

2005-11-19 Thread darren kirby
quoth the gentuxx: Hi all, This is sort of a n00bie question, but something I haven't really had to mess around with. I recently did an `emerge world` and after the update and a reboot, my root prompt has changed back to the gentoo default. It now seems that the /etc/bashrc and

[gentoo-user] about ccache permission adjusting

2005-11-19 Thread sempsteen
Hi, I've changed my CFLAGS settings and merged ccache for later works. Now i'm updating my system with emerge -e world. During merge i realize that ccache is adjusting permissions for 4 times per package; before merge, before unmerge of existing packages, after unmerge and after merge. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 *** [SOLVED]

2005-11-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 06:44 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 15:00 -0500, fire-eyes wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I don't really know who to ask about this error. I searched for an explanation on Google and it gave me a link to the Gentoo German

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Saturday 19 November 2005 16:19, Brian Parish wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:33, Brian Parish wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:23, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/12/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote: I am trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-19 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 19 November 2005 14:15, Brian Parish wrote: This still doesn't survive a reboot though.  i.e. I have to run the mdadm --create command again.  I assumed that this required something in mdadm.conf, so I updated that with all the magic numbers shown by mdadm -D. No change though.

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the system and the system acts as a consumer (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's the gain - in *THAT* scenario? Learning. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I will admit that I have a big concern about an upcoming MySQL update that is probably going to break my whole TV network here. Due to my fear I haven't upgraded MySQL and will likely come back ranting myself sometime in December when I'm probably

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, kashani wrote: We've got a number of customers that use Geotrust which is significantly cheaper than Verisign/Thwate. Someone also uses Starfield which is dirt cheap. There is a technical issue when using certs no one has ever heard of before. Many times

Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-19 Thread Bill Roberts
On 21:42 Fri 18 Nov , Matthias Bethke wrote: I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if there's still any advantage to

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Brian Parish wrote: I have now implemented a smooth work-around by: 1. Setting the RAID in fstab to noauto and no checking 2. Creating a script in /etc/init.d which assembles and mounts the RAID set 3. Adding this script to the default group using rc-update Yes, this

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-19 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:56:18 +1000 Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I backed down to 1024xsomething: vertical lines were scalloped/wavy. Someone mentioned this would be a timing issue, but I don't know what I'd do to microadjust timing? xvidtune? I'll try it. That won't help. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-19 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Machines 3-5 are heavy hitters for graphics work and are heavily loaded with such things as Photoshop, vegas, canopus Edius, Adobe Illustrator and the like. I don't want to have to worry about spyware,adware,virus prevention firewall stuff competing

[gentoo-user] Webserer monitoring tools

2005-11-19 Thread Colin Copley
Hi List: I have just purchased a refurbished PC - PIII, 450, 128mb ram, Network card, 10GB. Also just purchased Broadband connection (2mb's, upsteam 288kbps) I want to use the machine as a webserver over the broadband. and host my own site (which currently runs on a free ISP) As it's a low

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-19 Thread kashani
A. Khattri wrote: GeoTrust claim to have their root cert in 99% of the browsers out there... Claims and actually works are two different things. For the record IE 5 on the Mac is your big problem child. If it works with a particular cert *AND* the SSL options/env you're passing then you're

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread abhay
On Saturday 19 Nov 2005 8:40 pm, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Learning. The whole point of using free, open source software. if you do not want to get messy, then use windows. Anyway, if this user chosed all of his use flags, then he is probably willing to LEARN. What? What kind of theory

Re: [gentoo-user] about ccache permission adjusting

2005-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/05, sempsteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've changed my CFLAGS settings and merged ccache for later works. Now i'm updating my system with emerge -e world. During merge i realize that ccache is adjusting permissions for 4 times per package; before merge, before unmerge of

Re: [gentoo-user] about ccache permission adjusting

2005-11-19 Thread sempsteen
First, there is no need to post your message multiple times. I didn't know that i sent it multiple times?. I've sent one to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org by mistake and when i figure out this i wrote another one to gentoo-user@gentoo.org. From your message i see that both are the same way. I'm

[gentoo-user] gtk 1.2

2005-11-19 Thread ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
Hello!! :-) Thanks to all for the previous answers about my login problems. I have another problem :-) (as you can see I'm day and night configuring my new gentoo system...) The problem is GTK! I'm installing Pro/Engineer (proprietary soft.) and it needs gtk 1.2 The thing is that I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-19 Thread Cédric FINANCE
Nagatoro wrote: Cédric FINANCE wrote: The Link quality is not supported by the driver (ndiswrapper). I am connected to an irc server and I have no problems. I don't think that the problem come from the wireless connection. It might have something to do with the rsync protocol, the modem or

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sync

2005-11-19 Thread Cédric FINANCE
the modem or my ISP. But I don't know how to figure out where the problem is. do you have a LAN as well? You could try that out. Otherwise I would look for an alternative .inf file to use with ndiswrapper (from windows NT instead of windows XP for example), or look for a native linux

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk 1.2

2005-11-19 Thread Peter Gordon
The GTK+ ebuild is SLOTed, which means that you can install multiple versions as needed. If you need GTK+ 1.2, you could try something such as: # emerge =gtk-1.2* Hope that helps. --Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk 1.2

2005-11-19 Thread Peter Gordon
Peter wrote: # emerge =gtk-1.2* Hrm. That should be gtk+, not gtk. # emerge =gtk+-1.2* Sorry about that. :-) --Peter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?

2005-11-19 Thread michael
Excellent. That's very helpful as well. Michael On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:48:19 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was it. Thanks! M you could also try strace -eopen programname It will give a pretty verbose account of what files are opened by

[gentoo-user] how to create a .igz file?

2005-11-19 Thread El Nino
dear friends, append initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs dokeymap cdroot how can we create .igz files. i saw this kind of file on the Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd '/isolinux/' folder(think it contain current kernel compiled modules).so please help me

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create a .igz file?

2005-11-19 Thread b.n.
El Nino wrote: dear friends, append initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs dokeymap cdroot how can we create .igz files. i saw this kind of file on the Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd '/isolinux/' folder(think it contain current kernel compiled

[gentoo-user] how to create initial ramdisk image?

2005-11-19 Thread El Nino
dear friends, how to create initial ramdisk image for preloading modules? [i saw this kind of file(.igz) on Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd.] my previouse question--- On 11/20/05, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Nino wrote:

[pl ignore] [gentoo-user] how to create a .igz file?

2005-11-19 Thread El Nino
On 11/20/05, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Nino wrote: dear friends, append initrd=gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs dokeymap cdroot how can we create .igz files. i saw this kind of file on the Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd '/isolinux/'

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 abhay wrote: What? What kind of theory is that? Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly. I didn't mean to say that use gnu/linux/oss for the purpose of learning. However you can't argue that one gets to learn a lot from simply using it. So, to

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I have tried running revdep-rebuild -X and revdep-rebuild --package-names, but it is still trying to compile the package. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Colby wrote: 3.4, is there an easy way that I can find out what package is using kde3 libs? *** Start Error Message *** All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 Remove all .revdep* and run

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread b.n.
James Colby wrote: List members - I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I have tried running revdep-rebuild -X and revdep-rebuild --package-names, but it is still trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
On 11/19/05, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Colby wrote: List members - I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I have tried running revdep-rebuild -X and

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman schreef: and, *on the other hand*, the whole point of using free, open source software, is usually to get hands-on software on a lower level than in windows like platforms. That's what I wanted to say. Most gnu/linux/oss users like screwing up their systems :P

Re: [gentoo-user] how to create initial ramdisk image?

2005-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/05, El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear friends, how to create initial ramdisk image for preloading modules? [i saw this kind of file(.igz) on Gentoo Live 2005.1 cd.] my previouse mkinitrd. mkinitrd. If that doesn't do what you want, it is just a shell

Re: [gentoo-user] confused udev?

2005-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/18/05, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already set RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=no, following Richards' suggestion. I didn't boot from a CD and cleaned /dev yet, but I'll give it a try. Meanwhile, I upgraded the kernel and added a config option (for firewire) that was missing (for

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
On 11/19/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Colby wrote: 3.4, is there an easy way that I can find out what package is using kde3 libs? *** Start Error Message *** All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/19/05, James Colby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, revdep-rebuild did give me the list of files that would not link, and equery belongs FILENAME tells me that the files are part of the kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 package. Is there a way for me to find out which packages on my system

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Holly Bostick
James Colby schreef: Thanks, revdep-rebuild did give me the list of files that would not link, and equery belongs FILENAME tells me that the files are part of the kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7 package. Is there a way for me to find out which packages on my system depend on kdelibs-3.3.2-r7?

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 11:57:12PM -0600, kashani wrote The Mystique has 4mb of RAM upgradeable to 8mb IIRC. It was likely new in '95-'96 as I scraped together $140 to by the slightly better Matrox Millennium used off Ebay in '96. The Mystique did not do well at higher resolutions, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:18:17PM -0500, James Colby wrote: List members - I am trying to run revdep-rebuild and it is failing. It is trying to re-compile a package that is no longer has an ebuild available (kdelibs-3.3.2-r7). I have tried running revdep-rebuild -X and revdep-rebuild

[gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory

2005-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, I came home today to find the firefox instance that has been running for 3 or 4 days killed. Apparently it was an out of memory thing. Dmesg gave the following oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild fails

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
I just ran into this problem last night. I ran equery depends kdelibs made sure NONE of them specifically depended on kdelibs-3.3.2 (in my case they were all compiled against kdelibs-3.4.x during a few of the past update cycles). then I just emerge unmerge =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r7

[gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-19 Thread James Colby
List Members - I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux package anymore. I am trying to install it and emerge can't find it. It also does not appear to be available as a use flag for mplayer any more. Did the package change names, or am I just really tired and missing

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox out of memory

2005-11-19 Thread elinar
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:36, Willie Wong wrote: Hum, I came home today to find the firefox instance that has been running for 3 or 4 days killed. Apparently it was an out of memory thing. Can anyone tell me what that means? This is the first time that firefox has actually been killed by the

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout broke my system

2005-11-19 Thread Grant
Hello everyone, I updated to something like baselayout pre9-r2 a few days ago and I immediately started getting this on boot up right after Checking root filesystem: did you also upgrade glibc to 2.3.6? Apparently there's some behaviour with glibc and recent versions of portage that

Re: [gentoo-user] divx4linux

2005-11-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:52:24PM -0500, James Colby wrote: List Members - I have another question. I can't seem to find the divx4linux package anymore. I am trying to install it and emerge can't find it. It also does not appear to be available as a use flag for mplayer any more. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:51:36AM -0600, John Jolet wrote On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the system and the system acts as a consumer (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's the

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:10:42PM -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote Alexander Skwar wrote: What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the system and the system acts as a consumer (ie. no servers)? Why add the complexity of PAM? Where's the gain - in

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

2005-11-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Jose Maria Alvarez Fernandez schrieb: I'm having a similar problem with ivman, and i've discovered that the reason is that the camera has an id label that has a space, ie: LEXAR MEDIA. That's not right for pmount, and when ivman tries to mount it, fails. But it works for other usb devices.