Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Iain Buchanan wrote: They both rely on the fact that you can read what _was_ once written to the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method. Yes, in theory that might be possible - but how comes, that not even the data recovery companies advertise this? And also, do you have

[gentoo-user] trouble getting plustek parallel port scanner recognised

2006-02-01 Thread Robert Persson
I tried this parallel-port scanner question on the sane-devel list, but no luck. I wonder if anyone here might know the answer?: I have just bought a Plustek OptikPro 9636P+ parallel port scanner from a charity shop -- no proof that it works except that the light comes on when I power it up,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 18:09, maxim wexler wrote: sarawak heathen # unix2dos env-lp-test | lpr -l unix2dos: converting file env-lp-test to DOS format ... lpr: error - stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. If you look at the man page of unix2dos you find these examples: Get input from

Re: [gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool

2006-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:34:22 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the years. Try x11-misc/gwhere. I tried it a while ago and found it quite useful. -- Neil

[gentoo-user] Re: Autofs problem 4.1.3-r4

2006-02-01 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Reported: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121143 -- Forwarded message -- From: Paulo J. Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31-Jan-2006 10:34 Subject: Autofs problem 4.1.3-r4 To: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Hi all, having a terrible problem with autofs which I already had a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-02-01 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 17:21, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/31/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, could you post the InputDevice and ServerLayout sections of your xorg.conf? Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-02-01 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, Try adding this dir and file: $ mkdir -p /etc/portage/profile $ echo virtual/x11x11-base/xorg-server /etc/portage/profile/virtuals $ echo virtual/xftx11-libs/libXft /etc/portage/profile/virtuals Rebuild. If that is not enough then put

[gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-01 Thread Stefan Istvan
Hello List! I have a videocard of this type: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) I installed nvidia-glx as it is described in the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nvidia-guide.xml ) When I start X, I get

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-01 Thread Pongracz Istvan
You have to check your /usr/src/linux point to the current used kernel. You have to emerge nvidia-kernel ebuild to. This will provide you the missing nvidia kernel module. You have to write it to the /etc/modules.autoload/2.6blah-blah-blah to load it every system start. István Stefan Istvan

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:03:14 +0100, Stefan Istvan wrote: I have a videocard of this type: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15) I installed nvidia-glx as it is described in the Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide (

Re: [gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-02-01 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Adrian wrote: Suddenly I've stated having a problem with Abiword 2.2.11 -- every time I cut or copy text it crashes. This version was working fine. [...] [ebuild U ] gnome-base/orbit-2.12.4 [2.12.0] -debug +doc +ssl -static 661 kB If you run 'emerge -pet abiword', you'll see

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 January 2006 18:29 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic? Any ideas how to fix this? new map? When I boot (2.6.14-gentoo-r6) the

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?[New thread? - System.map not found]

2006-02-01 Thread Rob Oravec
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:25 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: I am also getting this on my boot script on two different boxes. It started a week ago after some update world. I am about compile the latest stable kernel to see if it goes away. Same goes for me. It appears to have started with

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-01 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, load the module before starting X. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I notice that the rsync command generated by emerge --sync contains the --progress flag. I run emerge --sync as a cron job ang log the output; the progress goo messes up my logs. I can't find any mention of a 'progress' (or a 'noprogress') flag in the emerge man page. Is there a way to get

Re: [gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Dale
Holly Bostick wrote: Myself, I used to mail myself the output of esync, and now I mail myself the output of eix-sync, so I don't have so much experience with using emerge --sync in a cron job, but this looks like it might be what you're looking for: --nospinner Disables the

[gentoo-user] OT - Returned mail and received mail

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
I have an annoying problem. I have three computers on my network. Every night I get emerge -uD world cron reports and backup reports as well as a few others. These reports (and other things cron sends me) are delivered successfully...and unsuccessfully. I get them just fine, but I also get

Re: [gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:42:10 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I didn't know it did this. I just type in emerge sync emerge -efv world emerge -upv world and walk away. I check it latter one when my modem is idle. Why -e? That will only fetch any source packages you have used and deleted. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-02-01 Thread A. R.
On 1/31/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A. R. wrote: I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. What exactly do you mean with the message is delivered blank?If you

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Returned mail and received mail

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 09:58 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I have an annoying problem. I have three computers on my network. Every night I get emerge -uD world cron reports and backup reports as well as a few others. These reports (and other things cron sends me) are delivered

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Grant
Almost everyone seems to agree that recovering data from a formatted drive is possible. What is the process by which this is done? I've read here that: 1. The space between tracks contains historical data information. and: 2. There is a difference between a track written with a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: They both rely on the fact that you can read what _was_ once written to the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method. Yes, in theory that might be possible - but how comes, that not even the data

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any more ideas? Not from me... :-( -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext

2006-02-01 Thread daniel
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 14:57, Steven Susbauer wrote: Try a revdep-rebuild and see if it wants to build something. Running revdep-rebuild told me to rebuild blackdown-java-something so that wasn't any help. I had however noticed that along the way of doing the full upgrade gcc had been

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 20:52 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using Konqueror trans time =25 seconds [XP share mounted smb using Linneibourhood] Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP

RE: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-02-01 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 January 2006 16:16 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by

Re: [gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:42:10 -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I didn't know it did this. I just type in emerge sync emerge -efv world emerge -upv world and walk away. I check it latter one when my modem is idle. Why -e? That will only fetch any source packages you

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 17:03 -0800, Grant wrote: I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or not it was possible. I'm sure I've read that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Johansson
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00.28, Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:11, Dan Johansson wrote: I'm now going to look into the ebuild to see why PHP5 builds the cli and apache2 parts differently. Could it be you forgot to restart apache after rebuilding php? The configure

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread James
Devon Miller devon.c.miller at gmail.com writes: Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcm Well my firewall should allow outgoing initiated sessions from the ntpd (internal) server. From what I read, the remote ntpd

[gentoo-user] udev 084 breaks USB?

2006-02-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Today I updated from udev-081-r1 to udev-084. Since then, I can no longer use my USB devices, like my mouse or my flash card reader. Did anyone else notice this? Alexander Skwar -- Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -- Thomas Alva

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
got to start looking. I wouldn't be suprised if it's a permission problem like Mick says. No look closer, that is NOT what it says!! It says PID 5869 stopped with status 3! PID 5869 is foomatic-rip (see two lines above, not quoted above, but in maxim's message) Started filter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 1:25 PM, James wrote: Devon Miller devon.c.miller at gmail.com writes: Make sure you have told you firewall to allow port 123 for both TCP UDP.I had the same behavior until I did that.dcm Well my firewall should allow outgoing initiated sessions from the ntpd (internal)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread maxim wexler
You could try running /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel from a console to see what happens (as the same user as cups is running under!) There's no parallel man page and parallel --help is very terse but I made the following stab(left the 'options' field blank): sarawak heathen #

Re: [gentoo-user] udev 084 breaks USB?

2006-02-01 Thread Ralf Hinz
Alexander Skwar schrieb: Hello! Today I updated from udev-081-r1 to udev-084. Since then, I can no longer use my USB devices, like my mouse or my flash card reader. Did anyone else notice this? Alexander Skwar Hi I have no problem since a updated. Cardreader etc. just works fine. Ralf --

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread James
John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: But now when I run 'ntpq -p' I get: ntpq: read: Connection refused is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop it and start it again: /etc/init.d/ntpd start fails. Ideas? James --

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: But now when I run 'ntpq -p' I get: ntpq: read: Connection refused is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop it and start it again:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
James wrote: is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop it and start it again: /etc/init.d/ntpd start fails. /etc/init.d/ntpd zap to clear out the invalid status, then do the 'start' again. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It corrected the minutes but it's off by exactly one hour. It needs to be EST (eastern standard time) NY (Tampa Florida). so what file do I edit to correct utc to est ? Try timezone US/Eastern instead of EST. ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern

Re: [gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Steven Susbauer
'emerge --sync --quiet 1 /dev/null 21' will put nothing in your logs. If you prefer, just use 'emerge --sync --quiet' and it will say when it's working but not do the progress or anything else really. On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - I notice that the rsync command generated by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread Manuel McLure
maxim wexler wrote: What I would try is to set up another printer queue, using Raw Printer - this makes cups get out of the way as much as it can (even more than -l would do.) Not sure, but if you mean sarawak heathen # cat cups_error /dev/lp0 then the result is as before: some noise

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 2:18 PM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: But now when I run 'ntpq -p' I get: ntpq: read: Connection refused is ntpd dying? ps -elf|grep ntp should show you something besides the grep. Yep. Attempt stop it

Re: [gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:01:10 -0600, Dale wrote: When did this start anyway? --nospinner and --quiet have been there since Adam was a lad. I was talking about the progress thing. Is this the little thing that used to hang at 50%? Or is he talking about something else? Something else,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-02-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:50:46 -0800 (PST) maxim wexler wrote: sarawak heathen # /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel 34 heathen error_log 1 error_log ERROR: Unable to open parallel port device file /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel: Text file busy sarawak heathen # looks like it could be a

[gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
Hi, I'm back again and immediately have some issues. ALSA stopped working after some emerge -u world. Maybe something has changed with ALSA. While booting I get: Loading ALSA modules ... Loading snd-seq-oss ... [OK] Loading snd-pcm-oss ... [OK] Restoring mixer levels ...

[gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
Hi, that's me onesmore. Again the things changed were some emerge -u world. There are no USB disks coming up anymore. Dunno when this issue came up. I have a digital camera which I connected to my PC. It came up as /dev/sdaX and due to my USB settings as /dev/psmart. I have an USB key, which

[gentoo-user] stubborn distcc compile on localhost

2006-02-01 Thread krutny
Hi, I'm fighting with distcc and have following problem: halinka ~ # /usr/lib/distcc/bin/gcc test.c distcc[28674] (dcc_trace_version) distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu; built Feb 1 2006 00:53:26 distcc[28674] (dcc_recursion_safeguard) safeguard level=0 distcc[28674] (main) compiler name is gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA issue

2006-02-01 Thread Christoph Eckert
Sound was working - at least mpeg files were with sound. This started with an update world somewhen during november last year. check /etc/modules.d/alsa, that's where your soundcard configuration lives. If it doesn't contain a matching configuration, enter it manually or run alsaconf as root

Re: [gentoo-user] stubborn distcc compile on localhost

2006-02-01 Thread Dave Nebinger
How is it shown file is compiled on localhost despite: halinka ~ # distcc-config --get-hosts 192.168.0.2 Where of course localhost != 192.168.0.2 Any ideas what am I doing wrong ? I think you need to add a line to your compile hosts like: localhost/0 I believe this informs distcc not to

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
Well some details. Here's the syslog for connecting the USB stick: Feb 1 23:36:03 frankies usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 Feb 1 23:36:03 frankies usb 2-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub Feb 1 23:36:03 frankies scsi0 : SCSI emulation for

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, that's me onesmore. Again the things changed were some emerge -u world. There are no USB disks coming up anymore. Dunno when this issue came up. I have a digital camera which I connected to my PC. It came up as /dev/sdaX and due to my USB

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been a _lot_ of changes in udev, and most likely your Oh, forgot to mention...man udev. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stubborn distcc compile on localhost

2006-02-01 Thread krutny
Dave Nebinger wrote: How is it shown file is compiled on localhost despite: halinka ~ # distcc-config --get-hosts 192.168.0.2 Where of course localhost != 192.168.0.2 Any ideas what am I doing wrong ? I think you need to add a line to your compile hosts like: localhost/0 I believe

[gentoo-user] beagled indexing roots

2006-02-01 Thread krgn
hi, Has anyone a clue why neither beagle-config nor beagle-settings will allow me to index /usr/share/doc for instance? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ beagle-config indexing AddRoot /usr/share/doc Debug: Loading Beagle.Util.Conf+IndexingConfig from indexing.xml Error: Could not load configuration from

Re: [gentoo-user] USB issue

2006-02-01 Thread Franta
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 16:06 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/1/06, Franta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, that's me onesmore. Again the things changed were some emerge -u world. There are no USB disks coming up anymore. Dunno when this issue came up. I have a digital camera which I

[gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread Eric Bliss
I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I can't seem to find the reference to in in the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 31 Jan 2006, at 13:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I understand that writing zeros over the file should permanently delete the data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive... On 31 Jan 2006, at 13:31, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I just read the docs for shred and it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:32, Alexander Skwar wrote: Stroller wrote: ... a data recovery specialist last year offered to return 17gigs worth of data from a hard drive that had died containing only 8 gigs of files. Died hard drives are a *COMPLETELY* different matter. The additional 9gigs of

[gentoo-user] evolution won't play new mail sound

2006-02-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm using gnome-light, so chances are there's something not installed that should be, but evolution won't play the sound file I've specified for new mail. I can play the .wav file manually using aplay. Does anyone know what evo uses to play audio? I also have esound installed. I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-02-01 Thread Bob Sanders
For video data, use a linear stripe across two controllers. And at least three controllers for HD video. But HD video requires SCSI or SAS, stripped across multiple controllers and 15Krpm drives in the arrays. I should be a bit more detailed. For - Uncompressed SD video - 60

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
Default behaviour is that if the time zone is off by more than a preset amount (I think 128ms) it will refuse to sync, and silently fails. Read the docs for the config file command tinker panic 0 (and its implications) which will remove the limitation and allow stepping to the new time. Also

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread Patrick Börjesson
On 06/02/01 16:32, Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I can't

[gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps

2006-02-01 Thread Daniel Vrcic
Hi list! I have some strange problems with compilation of C++ apps. I've done numerous emerges today and it turns out that _only_ compilation of some C++ applications fail(?!). I get always the same error message: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault. For example avidemux has some part of

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Grant
I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in an argue\ment with a buddy last night about whether or not it was possible. I'm sure I've read that the government and other well-funded

Re: [gentoo-user] can't compile some C++ apps

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Daniel Vrcic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I have some strange problems with compilation of C++ apps. I've done numerous emerges today and it turns out that _only_ compilation of some C++ applications fail(?!). I get always the same error message: internal compiler error:

[gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)

2006-02-01 Thread Grant
A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly updated software is actually running in place of the old version? The concensus seemed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths? - Grant I think we all know it can be done. Governments do it all the time. Data recevery people do it too. Years ago I worked at a

[gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop

2006-02-01 Thread Grant
Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: xfce-base/libxfce4mcs xfce-base/libxfcegui4 xfce-base/libxfce4util They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the two most recent ~x86 versions of the packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Well, I have this controller - it arrived today. Did you have to do anything to get I've booted the LiveCD and the controller is listed in lspci. However, EVMS doesn't show any volumes nor does anything show up under scsi in /dev/ I haven't found anything on the list or forum that has helped

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths? I think for what would be available for you, me, or ${megacorp} to use, yes, it is rumor and myth. As I mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade/downgrade portage loop

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/1/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have the following in package.keywords: xfce-base/libxfce4mcs xfce-base/libxfcegui4 xfce-base/libxfce4util They need to be in there for xfmedia. Whenever I run 'emerge -avDuN world' portage wants to either upgrade or downgrade between the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sata Controllers and drives

2006-02-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Got it. I had to disable the onboard IDE - the docs indicated this controller would coexist with the on-board but evidently it doesn't. I'll do more research later. hopefully I can use one IDE on the motherboard so I can have my DVDs on two separate busses. On Wednesday February 1 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)

2006-02-01 Thread Graham Murray
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly updated software is actually running in place of the old

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia and X

2006-02-01 Thread Stefan Istvan
Hi, load the module before starting X. Hello, I got three answers to my question, and I answer now for all of the three here: Istvan, Hermann: I installed the nvidia-kernel ebuild, and I load the nvidia kernel module before starting X. # lsmod|grep nvidia nvidia 3469788 0