[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

2007-10-09 Thread Remy Blank
Neil Bothwick wrote: It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so much earlier. [1] Screen falls into this category too. I can confirm about screen, I use it everywhere now. But I've yet to try LVM (I

Re: [gentoo-user] apache: Directory index forbidden by Options directive

2007-10-09 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:42:20 -0500 Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 16:27:16 +0200 Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PHP should get working fine though, have no fear. Yesterday, after a reboot, apache php start working. I did not check, but I'm pretty sure apache process did not die

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Oct, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, my current default gcc is of version 4.1.2 but I would like to switch to version 4.2.1. As root (only) I can do gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.1 but this switch is lost after re-login. Furthermore I cannot switch in

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Jerry McBride, The problem I have is, how to get ifconfig eth1 up to run before the wireless stuff? Add it to the preup function in /etc/conf.d/net. Something like this should do it. preup() { if [[ ${IFACE} == eth1 ]]; then ifconfig eth1 up else

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound with mplayer [SOLVED]

2007-10-09 Thread pat
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 21:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote On Sunday 07 October 2007, pat wrote: Hello, Time to time I have problem with mplayer. The sound for some video files doesn't work (mainly for DVDs). The problem is: *** Requested audio codec family [a52] (afm=liba52) not

[gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg

2007-10-09 Thread econti
Hi all, I'm going to upgrade xorg. Following the Migrating to Modular X HOWTO I ran: grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the output was: Driverkbd Drivermouse Driver vga Driver nv Then I ran also emerge --verbose --pretend xorg-x11 Here is part of the output:

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb Thufir: Read my first response again: In fstab you specify who can _mount_ a volume. In the _mounted_ volumes filesystem, you specify access rights using chmod, chgrp, chown or, if using ACLs, setfacl. And if you

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions, fstab and LVM

2007-10-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 8. Oktober 2007 schrieb Thufir: Read my first response again: In fstab you specify who can _mount_ a volume. In the _mounted_ volumes filesystem, you specify access rights using

Re: [gentoo-user] Traveling: DSL modem via USB?

2007-10-09 Thread Grant
I'm currently traveling with my laptop and I can get it online if I can make it work with the DrayTek Vigor 318 DSL modem that is available where I am. Should that be do-able? - Grant good news grant; looks like you might have in-kernel support:

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg

2007-10-09 Thread Dale
econti wrote: Hi all, I'm going to upgrade xorg. Following the Migrating to Modular X HOWTO I ran: grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the output was: Driverkbd Drivermouse Driver vga Driver nv Then I ran also emerge --verbose --pretend xorg-x11 Here is

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello econti, So I should set INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse and VIDEO_CARDS=nv vga fbdev in my make.conf. That looks reasonable, if you need fbdev. But, what is the meaning of the minus sign preceding any of the video card names? And the ones between parentheses? The minus sign means the

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg

2007-10-09 Thread econti
Neil Bothwick ha scritto: Hello econti, So I should set INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse and VIDEO_CARDS=nv vga fbdev in my make.conf. That looks reasonable, if you need fbdev. But, what is the meaning of the minus sign preceding any of the video card names? And the ones between

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 08:40 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: I had this problem and solved it by deleting ~/.gnome ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private hmm, although i've installed gentoo only about 2 month ago, i don't want to loose all my personal settings; i've created a new user - and it

[gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-09 Thread Marc Blumentritt
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: but what value of CHOST should I take? This is OK. I did not send this link for CHOST, but for the part of checking the gcc config. I currently have CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu and gcc-4.1.2 is the standard C-compiler. Now, I'd like to switch to gcc-4.2.1. Have a look

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge and remerged glibc. Most probably no danger here. The interfaces of the

AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Zimmerling, Alexander
Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16. I used a unstable version of gnome-2.18 once and downgraded because of

Re: [gentoo-user] linux-headers

2007-10-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:48:15 +0200 Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:50:56 -0400 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean I am at some risk with headers at a higher version than the kernel? I followed the advice at the end of the headers emerge

[gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-09 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i have a Santa Rosa (Core 2 Duo T7300) Acer AS5720 laptop, and i'm getting problems with the temperature of the CPU. In particular i'm using the coretemp module for determining the core temperature. Normally (using cpufreqd and the ondemand governor) the CPU stays at nearly 50C (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)

2007-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i have a Santa Rosa (Core 2 Duo T7300) Acer AS5720 laptop, and i'm getting problems with the temperature of the CPU. In particular i'm using the coretemp module for determining the core temperature. Normally (using cpufreqd and

[gentoo-user] postgresql problem

2007-10-09 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello, i'd like to ask you people if anyone has succeded in installing a postgresql version greater than 8.0.13 because i tried (unmasking by adding ~x86 to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS) and ran into a lot of problems. I don't have the logs with me, so i will post a description of such problems in the near

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HowTo switch the default gcc

2007-10-09 Thread ds
On 10/9/07, Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but what value of CHOST should I take? I currently have CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu and gcc-4.1.2 is the standard C-compiler. Now, I'd like to switch to gcc-4.2.1. There is an official guide to upgrading gcc

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest stable version. I had no problems at all by using gnome 2.16.

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread Matthias Langer
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:31 +0200, Matthias Langer wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:56 +0200, Zimmerling, Alexander wrote: Hi, I ried this 'solution' just one time. Unfortunately, I installed a lot of programs during the time. This problem appeared after upgrading gnome to the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Traveling: DSL modem via USB?

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:01:19 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect, thanks Dan! - Grant Let me know if it works, please. I just might be switching my server to business DSL and if I do, I would much rather have a modem connected to my computer than a stand-alone. -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] whoa, this new(ish) portage is nice

2007-10-09 Thread kashani
I've been buried in work again and hadn't had time to get to admin tasks on my hosting machine. Today I started some updates and was pleasantly surprised to see some nice updates to portage. 1. Dependencies are a shade darker than things in the world file when doing an emerge -pv world 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:29:36 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The parentheses mean the flag is not available in your profile. in this case, those video cards are for specific, non-x86 hardware. Perhaps this is entirely true, and I am misinterpreting. But the manpage appears to say

Re: [gentoo-user] whoa, this new(ish) portage is nice

2007-10-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Yes, I agree. Especially the messages at the end - it is really appreciated now its finally here. Ahh, progress ... BillK On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:52 -0700, kashani wrote: I've been buried in work again and hadn't had time to get to admin tasks on my hosting machine. Today I started some

[gentoo-user] Introduction (new member) and first ask-for-help... :-)

2007-10-09 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Hello fellows. I'm new to the mailling list, though I'm not really new to linux nor Gentoo. I'm a 21 year old Brazilian and I'm currently being trained by the actual admin of the lab I work (see signature) to become the new admin. The lab (www.las.ic.unicamp.br) hosts a project named Tutoo, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading xorg

2007-10-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dan Farrell, The parentheses mean the flag is not available in your profile. in this case, those video cards are for specific, non-x86 hardware. Perhaps this is entirely true, and I am misinterpreting. But the manpage appears to say differently: () circumfix =

Re: AW: AW: [gentoo-user] metacity does not start

2007-10-09 Thread don
#!/bin/bash ! ps -u $(whoami) | grep metacity /dev/null metacity I have been seeing this problem for some time too. Can someone suggest where to look for error messages? I've looked in the places I know about. -- Don Reid -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction (new member) and first ask-for-help... :-)

2007-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 20:11 -0300, Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: My first question is whether any of you can please help me with this issue: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4347959.html a wild stab in the dark: can you turn off bash-completion? I noticed it's in your use flags. Maybe

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't boot from livecd

2007-10-09 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Finally, I found a ubuntu 64bit livecd to boot up and this time succeed. Thanks, everyone! 2007/10/7, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi guys! I can't boot my dell1400 laptop from livecd.Here is output: Making tmpfd for /newroot Attempting to mount media:- /dev/sda Attempting to mount

[gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-09 Thread Chuanwen Wu
I just setup a gentoo in my dell1400 laptop,and until now,the sound problem is not solved yet. Here is the problem: $ aplay 01.mp3 ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:864:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:545: audio open error: No such file or directory And here is my hardware: # lspci | grep

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql problem

2007-10-09 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:22:10 -0300 Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i'd like to ask you people if anyone has succeded in installing a postgresql version greater than 8.0.13 because i tried (unmasking by adding ~x86 to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS) and ran into a lot of problems. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa problem

2007-10-09 Thread Randy Barlow
Chuanwen Wu wrote: I also tried to emerge alsa-driver and didn't use the driver in the kernel,but the result was all the same. I don't know the module name for the HD, but did you add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and/or modprobe it first? -- Randy Barlow

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2007-10-09 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've held off on doing this gcc update as I'm on an old P4 2Ghz notebook with 1G RAM (Dell i8200). Things are generally working okay (as well as any linux/gentoo system can be I guess). What is the compelling reason to update if any? I've masked out this new GCC for many months and have had no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2007-10-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daevid Vincent wrote: I've held off on doing this gcc update as I'm on an old P4 2Ghz notebook with 1G RAM (Dell i8200). Things are generally working okay (as well as any linux/gentoo system can be I guess). (Chuckles) you have a relatively modern system then :-) ... I run Gentoo on two