Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Vishnu Mohan is out of the office.

2006-08-04 Thread Jason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I will be out of the office starting 08/02/2006 and will not return until 08/08/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. If this is an urgent matter please contact Chris Martino or Madhav Kundala -- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage

2006-08-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:58 -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 13:20 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: They're great devices - you can often buy a multimeter (every geek should have one :) with a current clamp (or transducer) thrown in. That way you have no wiring, no inline plugs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from SATA: Something special to consider ???

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
...forgot one...: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146468 keep booting! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with quota

2006-08-04 Thread Noack, Sebastian
thats right.. but always been this way... i can figure out was wrong On 8/3/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thiago Lüttig wrote: /dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults,quota,grpquota 1 2 Should not it be: defaults,usrquota,grpquota? At least in my fstab it is so, and

[gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Watson
Hi there, I've been trying to upgrade my Gentoo Laptop to 3.4.6 with the upgrade guide.. Everything seemed to go OK except now when I issue emerge --sync I get the message Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Crute wrote: Is it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the disk? Yes. Use fdisk to do so. Changing the part. types won't hurt the other partitions. Alexander Skwar -- A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. --

[gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage

2006-08-04 Thread Remy Blank
Iain Buchanan wrote: um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord, because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only the active going through the clamp... Or only the neutral.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from SATA: Something special to consider ???

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/3/06, Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I guess from here, I too will ask my own question stemming from this one: How do I get a bootloader (lilo preferably for me) to boot a device which may not always be in the same place like a SCSI-ish disk? Pay attention to BIOS drive mappings.

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from SATA: Something special to consider ???

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/3/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I will change my system from ATA to SATA. Is there somethng special to consider for this in beforehand? (...before I will not be able anymore to post to this list a cry of help ... ;) :O) ))) Make sure to build scsi disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Howard
I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54 then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I return to opera 9 then the fault returns. I guess there is no point raising a bug as it will almost certainly be my system not the package. Is there a list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:19:09 -0700 On 8/3/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Trying to write some udev rules to map two identical (model

[gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, is there a way to label partitions which have already been formatted with mkreiserfs and have data on it ? The manpage does not make that clear enough for me to check it on a running system.. Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???

2006-08-04 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 4 August 2006 06:14, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: But: How can I distinguish both harddiscs? On one of my system, I run a raid 1 array with two identical disks (hde and hdg), and I have this (sorry for the line wraps): [Fri Aug 04 11:38:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Janusz Bossy
You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. -- Pozdrawiam Janusz YANOUSHek Bossy gg# 791964 tlen [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Again SATA: hdparm - dma ???

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, what tool do I need to get/set the complete set of parameters of SATA-hds? Or in other words: Is SATA under linux scsi or ide ? (what a crazy question...) With hdparm I only get: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead= 256 (on) geometry =

WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Janusz Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:57:23 +0200 ! WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING ! *** WARNING !

Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 14:43 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: I applied mkreiserfs -l root to a SATA disk with the root fs on it and later reiserfsck. reiserfsck did not find any inconsistency because ALL DATA WERE ERASED !! Of course,

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al

2006-08-04 Thread Ralph Seichter
Ralph Seichter wrote: I'll try to figure out exactly which modules can be used to access the network controller (sk98lin, skge or sky2). emerge --update --deep world finished over night, and this is what I see after booting with an empty /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: # lsmod Module

[gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

2006-08-04 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I have a server that failed under fedora a while back, the EXT3 partition ended up with thousands of errors on it and the journal corrupted itself into oblivion. I was able (I don't know how) to recover my data, but I wiped it out formatted the drives and installed gentoo. I now want

Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

2006-08-04 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found it. Use a livecd/knoppix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage

2006-08-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
Remy Blank wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: um, I just came across a problem - it won't work with an AC power cord, because you have active and neutral both going through the clamp in opposite directions, hence they'll cancel each other out. You need only the active going through the clamp...

Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:43:38 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Wouldn't it have been safer to have tried it on a USB stick first? ...I did copy the whole rootfs to a previously total empty SATA disk and used THAT hd for experimenting... I am not /that/ blind... :-) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg-x11 problems

2006-08-04 Thread Pete Pardoe
Thanks Guys,That cleared it up and so I went back and tried modular X again - it worked except that I have no keyboard this time - any thoughts on this?PeteOn 8/3/06, Toby Cubitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:43:26AM +0300, Mantas Povilaitis wrote: On 8/3/06, Pete Pardoe

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera : Solved

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Howard
On the off chance someone else gets this error the solution was :- I for whatever reason [2 year old system] had not set my locale in /etc/locale.gen I did this and ran locale-gen and whoosh problem has gone away. Only problem now is that I have migrated to firefox, ho hum what a choice :) stu

[gentoo-user] Re: [Very OT] - Kill-A-Watt (240V Version) to measure my Gentoo Server Power Usage

2006-08-04 Thread Remy Blank
Ted Ozolins wrote: Well you almost got it right. The clamp is just a basic transformer being the secondary winding. Since AC current flow changes both in amplitude and direction, induces a current flow in the secondary winding, the clamp. The current is then rectified and the measurement

Re: [gentoo-user] Again SATA: hdparm - dma ???

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what tool do I need to get/set the complete set of parameters of SATA-hds? You don't. DMA, NCQ, and the like are enabled automatically if they are supported by the driver, chipset, and drive. hdparm -tT can still be used to

[gentoo-user] barnyard sguil output plugin doesn't work

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Welz
Hello. I installed snort, sguil-sensor and barnyard on one of my machines and I can't start barnyard. Does someone has a running installation and could tell me the version numbers of all three programs? I suspect that the version numbers of barnyard and sguil don't fit, i.e. that the sguil

Re: [gentoo-user] XEN on Gentoo, enough stable for production use ?

2006-08-04 Thread Robert Welz
Xavier MOGHRABI wrote: Hi guys, I've learnt months ago the existing of Xen project. I think this kind of feature is really interesting for hosting heterogeous application, improve security of my system and reduce the maintain effort. I wonder if any of yours have already experienced Xen on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 17:16:29 + (UTC) Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name writes: Janusz Bossy wrote: You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with

Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Janusz Bossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. WTF!!! Yeah, in theory, your suggestion might work. But it would be like going down stairs by jumping, and then having the doctor fix your broken legs!! To

Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 15:43 schrieb ext Meino Christian Cramer: But the idea, which was posted, was (cite): You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck. OK. Yes, that was pure bull... Yeah, I

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? I mean this is TOTALLY unacceptable. I know it is not gentoos fault, it's ATI putting out crap drivers... But this is SO FRUSTRATING not having reliable 3D :( Yeah, one of my main requirements for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Marvell Yukon 88E8001 not working, already tried modprobe sk98lin et al

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Noack, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kernel which I compiled supports sk98lin, skge and sky2 as modules, and it seems like skge is automatically chosen. BTW, shouldn't used by have a non-zero value for skge when the network controller is active? No, the used by column of

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Richard Fish wrote: I have never used it, so I can't say how well the reverse-engineered driver works. Pretty well on anything but the newest games, on which it tends to work OK. ATI has demonstrated very little interest in providing decent linux support. This hasn't been true for at least

Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 10:28:38 -0700 On 8/4/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Fri Aug 04 11:38:50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ [cut]

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 8/4/06, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know what the heck is going on here? I mean this is TOTALLY unacceptable. I know it is not gentoos fault, it's ATI putting out crap drivers... But this is SO FRUSTRATING not

[gentoo-user] Portage wants to install gcc-3-4-6, but system compiler is already 4.1.1

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Hi, after my last emerge -avuND world portage wants to install gcc-3.4.6: emerge -avuND world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r1 USE=fortran gtk nls -bootstrap -boundschecking -build -doc -gcj

[gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread James
Meino Christian Cramer Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: Sure, I was temporarily 86'd from the list for being a 'bone-head' about iptables. This was meant to reference inappropriate 'attitudes' I unwisely shared openly. It was not meant to characterize those persons with questions

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-04 Thread dg
On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: On 8/3/06, dg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, Michael Crute wrote: I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for gaming

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This hasn't been true for at least a year, since they started a real Linux team up. I will grant that their releases over the last several months seem to be getting better. Indeed they are at least releasing on a montly basis, while nVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to install gcc-3-4-6, but system compiler is already 4.1.1

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, after my last emerge -avuND world portage wants to install gcc-3.4.6: Add --tree to see what is pulling in gcc-3.4.6. but equery shows me: equery d dev-libs/mpfr Equery depends is broken. It shows 'possible' dependancies,

[gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Fortwinder
poweroff is a good option? Thanks Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT]

2006-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a NTFS partition and then boot Windows? It's probably being reported as non-formatted media. Windows will offer to format it, then. Click OK, and your shiny JFS is

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?

2006-08-04 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/4/06, Alex Fortwinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: poweroff is a good option? Thanks shutdown -h now ? halt ? :) - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - VPN Mail Project - http://vpnmail.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants to install gcc-3-4-6, but system compiler is already 4.1.1 [Solved]

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
sorry for the noise. i must have removed the the gcc-4.1.1 entry in package.keywords by mistake. gcc-4.1.1 has =dev-libs/gmp-4.2.1 =dev-libs/mpfr-2.2.0_p10 as dependencies but not the stable gcc-3.4.6 which portage wants to install because of the missing keyword. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ? locate doesn't locate that file on my system... carcharias linux # equery belongs /etc/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules [ Searching for file(s)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cleanly shutdown Gentoo?

2006-08-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alex Fortwinder schrieb: poweroff is a good option? Thanks Never. halt the system. Alexander Skwar -- When you're ready to give up the struggle, who can you surrender to? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Special characters in the console

2006-08-04 Thread Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos
Hello. I'm having trouble with special characters like cedilla (ç) and others like ã and õ. I have a Gentoo server here that runs a custom enterprise software based in ncurses and slang. I'm from Brazil and these characters are common in this country. How can I enable these characters without

Re: [gentoo-user] CD trouble - can't read linux discs.

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 8/4/06, Ed Jabbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Sent to gentoo-laptop by mistake. Sorry if you get this twice.) Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns bad superblock. The lap, strangely enough,

Re: [gentoo-user] Special characters in the console

2006-08-04 Thread dg
On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:21, Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos wrote: Hello. I'm having trouble with special characters like cedilla (ç) and others like ã and õ. I have a Gentoo server here that runs a custom enterprise software based in ncurses and slang. I'm from Brazil and these

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.27.10: total lock on logout

2006-08-04 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Justin R Findlay wrote: Ideally a fully documented card is what I want. That is why I've been following the open graphics project. Your best bet right now is to buy something with Intel integrated graphics. Intel's hired X developers to work on a fully open-source driver, and it also contracts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Labeling reiserfs partitions

2006-08-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:17:47 + (UTC), James wrote: hmmm, more than one explaination for a flag? If it's a local USE flag, because it's use is specific to each application defining it, although they are usually very similar. Global USE flags have a single definition. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC Upgrade Problems - Why does emerge --sync not work

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Watson
Starting retry 3 of 3 with rsync://140.211.166.165/gentoo-portage Checking server timestamp ... rsync: failed to connect to 140.211.166.165: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(107) [receiver=2.6.8] The server is refusing the

[gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel D Jones
I have two Dell LCD widescreen displays (one's a 2005WFP, the other is a newly purchased 2007WFP) that I've just configured for dual screen display. I'm running an ATI videocard and using the fglrx driver. The monitor on the right is using the DVI interface, while the screen on the left is

Re: [gentoo-user] testing SATA drives

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel Huckstep
Rasmus Andersen wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:16AM -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: if it is a physical or electrical problem with the disks. The disks are SATA drives 2x 250gb -- I am not sure how to proceed and I googling has not been helpful -- it may be there, I just haven't found

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual screen display, one is offset

2006-08-04 Thread Daniel Huckstep
Daniel D Jones wrote: I have two Dell LCD widescreen displays (one's a 2005WFP, the other is a newly purchased 2007WFP) that I've just configured for dual screen display. I'm running an ATI videocard and using the fglrx driver. The monitor on the right is using the DVI interface, while the

Re: [gentoo-user] CD trouble - can't read linux discs.

2006-08-04 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Fri August 4 2006 18:29, dg wrote: On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:20, Ed Jabbour wrote: Both Desktop and laptop run gentoo. Desk will boot or mount a knoppix or other live cd. Lap, however, will do neither - mount returns bad superblock. The lap, strangely enough, will mount and read a

Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:11 -0700 On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ? locate doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ???

2006-08-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev.rules: Two removeable SATA-hds...how to map to /dev ??? Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:59:11 -0700 On 8/4/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is that file (60-persistent-storage.rules) ? locate doesn't