Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter

2007-12-25 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Thanks Neil. I'll try it. Just want to be sure it works stable. Tuesday, December 25, 2007, 1:48:50 AM, you wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:04:33 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: At the moment I use IPW3945. Is it wort to switch to iwlwifi? How does it work with 2.6.23 kernel? Is it stable? I use

[gentoo-user] Installing iptables on OpenVZ Gentoo guest

2007-12-25 Thread Yahya Mohammad
I'm running a Gentoo guest on an openvz kernel version 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.028stab045.1 (redhat I think). When I tried to emerge iptables portage wanted to pull in gentoo-sources. After reading the portage man page I worked around this by adding 'sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3' to

[gentoo-user] Prevent user from shutting off while other sessions open?

2007-12-25 Thread Erik
If a user tries to shut off from KDM, he gets a confirmation dialog with a list of sessions that are open. This is good. Even better would be an option to forbid shutting off when there are other sessions open. But inside KDE, the user can shut off without even a warning about other open

[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-25 Thread reader
forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something to remember for the future: You can delete entries in the world file Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is already installed, and doing the uninstall the long way. emerge --tree should help some, as well,

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/{cabal,haxml} -- runaway memory hog

2007-12-25 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:57:10PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: On Dec 23, 2007 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerging haxml directly repeats the greedy performance, and when I kill it, it gives me this message: * The 'prerm' phase of the 'dev-haskell/haxml-1.13.2' package has failed

[gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Paul Stear
Hi all, Complements of the season. I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have read the man pages but am not quite sure if I

[gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a bit jumpy as if the video hardware is not fast

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Dec 2007, at 15:59, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... I'm using x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.433 and have followed guides and verified direct rendering is enabled (however I don't know if that matters for displaying video). Is this the best I can expect for this video hardware? I can post

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent user from shutting off while other sessions open?

2007-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
Bug seems a little harsh in the xmas season ;) Quick google brings this webpage http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWTO.html#s5 and on my Gentoo install this file looks likely though I have not customised personally /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread András Csányi
2007/12/25, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the display is a

[gentoo-user] Re: Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However when attempting to view a DVD at full screen, the

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Roman Zilka
I wanted to create the empty directories on the backup i.e. run, dev, also Add something like this to the exclude-list: /dev/* /var/run/* ... That'll copy the dir itself, but not its contents. directory links i.e. lib to lib64 I don't fully understand here. You have a '-a' (even a redundant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Laptop ATI Integrated Video Performance?

2007-12-25 Thread András Csányi
2007/12/25, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2007-12-25, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Gateway laptop with an integrated ATI graphics board. lspci detects it as: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] However

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Roman Zilka
I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have Oops, I forgot about this one. What makes you think whole fiels are being

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +, Paul Stear wrote: I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if rsync has changed. I have read the man pages but

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent user from shutting off while other sessions open?

2007-12-25 Thread Erik
Stuart Howard skrev: Bug seems a little harsh in the xmas season ;) Quick google brings this webpage http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWTO.html#s5 That link is about allowing only root to shut off the system. But it is certainly not desirable to require

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-25 Thread Paul Stear
On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:43:32 +, Paul Stear wrote: I use a script to perform backup to a connected usb harddisk and I have noticed that it appears to be writing all files each time instead of updating only the changes. I am wondering if

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter

2007-12-25 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I have laptop with wireless adapter: # lspci | grep -i wireless 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) It has 2 drivers: http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ (marked as deprecated)

[gentoo-user] Which ivtv driver for gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r5?

2007-12-25 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm having trouble getting ivtv-1.0.3-r1 to install correctly under 2.6.23-gentoo-r5. The driver loads but throws a message about not being able to load a driver for a cx25840. When I look at make menuconfig it seems like I've called out for the driver to get built but it's not in /lib/modules.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/{cabal,haxml} -- runaway memory hog

2007-12-25 Thread Jason Dusek
On Dec 25, 2007 6:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:57:10PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: On Dec 23, 2007 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerging haxml directly repeats the greedy performance... Does deleting the ebuild (not haxml, just that particular ebuild,

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel Wireless 3945ABG Adapter

2007-12-25 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
On Dec 25, 2007 6:03 PM, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Sergey Kobzar wrote: I have laptop with wireless adapter: sn't do anything. With 1.1.x, there was some issue with the driver getting confused if it lost the access point's signal briefly and then got it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removing X

2007-12-25 Thread forgottenwizard
On 07:34 Tue 25 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgottenwizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something to remember for the future: You can delete entries in the world file Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is already installed, and doing the

[gentoo-user] Tiny Annoying Window

2007-12-25 Thread Henk Boom
Hi, when I use Firefox 2.0.0.11, Firefox 3 beta 2, or VLC player, I often get a small grey 1x12 window in the top left of my screen. No decorations or anything, just a 1x12 strip of grey against the corner. I can't move it, and it appears on top of all other windows in all workspaces. Firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Which ivtv driver for gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r5?

2007-12-25 Thread forgottenwizard
On 16:57 Tue 25 Dec , Mark Knecht wrote: I'm having trouble getting ivtv-1.0.3-r1 to install correctly under 2.6.23-gentoo-r5. The driver loads but throws a message about not being able to load a driver for a cx25840. When I look at make menuconfig it seems like I've called out for the

[gentoo-user] Any glaring use flags here

2007-12-25 Thread reader
This machine is been prepped to be a sort of DMZ machine, but not more wannabe than really since it will not route stuff to my home lan at all... just be the recipient of all blocked stuff at an upsteam NETGEAR firewall/router. I would like an opinion about the USE flags I keep in /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Any glaring use flags here

2007-12-25 Thread Randy Barlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not sure what -X really does. -X tells it not to include support for X11 for all packages that have that as an option. This should be used for most server/console only type systems... -- Randy Barlow http://electronsweatshop.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/{cabal,haxml} -- runaway memory hog

2007-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 05:26:31PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: On Dec 25, 2007 6:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:57:10PM -0800, Jason Dusek wrote: On Dec 23, 2007 8:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emerging haxml directly repeats the greedy performance...