Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to create nessus-bin-3.2.0 ebuild

2008-03-22 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've taken a slightly different route, going for the debian package. Instead of looking for an eclass to handle the conversion i just did it manually with deb2targz. Handley debian has openssl-0.9.8, so the dependancies

[gentoo-user] some OSS software that enable me make call to traditional telephone by using Internet?

2008-03-22 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear all I wish to be able to make telephone call from Internet to Traditional telephone, like I did with skyp out. But I am using Linux on ppc, and skype did not release ppc binary. Is there a solution for people like me? I think if there are OSS solutions they are preferable because then it

Re: [gentoo-user] some OSS software that enable me make call to traditional telephone by using Internet?

2008-03-22 Thread Sergio Díaz Nila
You can try ekiga http://ekiga.org/ and openwengohttp://www.openwengo.org/, both can call to regular or cell phones, read FAQ of both sites for details.

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m I don't want modules here.

2008-03-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb Dale: What is this and why is it so persistent about it having to be there? Because of: config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN tristate default m depends on SCSI depends on MODULES in drivers/scsi/Kconfig. HTH... Dirk signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 17:39 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Michael Schmarck wrote: Hello. Sorry for being somewhat Off Topic, but could you guys please tell me if it's possible to use iTunes with

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m I don't want modules here.

2008-03-22 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 22 Mar 2008, at 01:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:23:11 +, Stroller wrote: I suspect that this is caused because CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN depends upon some other kernel option, and because you have that compiled in as a module. Thus the dependencies of

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m I don't want modules here.

2008-03-22 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 21. März 2008 schrieb Dale: What is this and why is it so persistent about it having to be there? Because of: config SCSI_WAIT_SCAN tristate default m depends on SCSI depends on MODULES in drivers/scsi/Kconfig.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-22 Thread Grant
A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? Hi there, I

[gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Grant
I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant I work at the

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or an application

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Florian Philipp schrieb: On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:07 -0700, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? -

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 18:44 +0100, Norman Rieß wrote: Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 22. März 2008, Grant wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? price/performance still favours AMD.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Norman Rieß
Grant schrieb: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Grant
I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys think? - Grant Well the experience of a desktop or an

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread James
Norman Rieß norman at smash-net.org writes: It is a pity. When did AMD's overall advantage disappear? With the arrival of the Core CPU's. When/if AMD is able to complete their new architecture, integrating video processors with 64 bit processors they might become competitive on a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-22 Thread Ted Ozolins
Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? As strange as this may

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m I don't want modules here.

2008-03-22 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 22. März 2008 schrieb Dale: It just seems weird to me. Linux is about choice right? Feel free to file a bug on kernel.org. They'll either fix it or eventually explain why it is as it is. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:57 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMD is my soul_mate(particularly since they are open sourcing new ATI video drivers...) As far as I know, and unless something changed, that's inaccurate. They haven't released any code at all. They have released

[gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-22 Thread Max
Hello, After updating gnutls revdep-rebuild would like to update an awfull lot of packages, including unixODBC. So far no problem but unixODBC does not compile. After a while it comes up with the following error message: ... checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Alexander Meinke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. AMD has had better engineers than Intel all the time. Intel just had the money. A few years ago the CIO from Intel advised engineers to be more creative. So AMD will stay ahead of the pack and if they find the right way (actually they're going

Re: [gentoo-user] unixODBC econf failure

2008-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 22 March 2008, Max wrote: Hello, After updating gnutls revdep-rebuild would like to update an awfull lot of packages, including unixODBC. So far no problem but unixODBC does not compile. After a while it comes up with the following error message: shameless crib of request for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-22 Thread Grant
A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? As strange as this may

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-22 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? As strange as

[gentoo-user] nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x - tainted driver 96.43.05 causes X crash sig 11 - Kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r3

2008-03-22 Thread Gregory Shearman
Last week I upgraded the kernel on one of my 5 year old Pentium 4 desktop machines to 2.6.24-gentoo-r3. Kernel compilation went fine as usual but when I tried to emerge the current (x86) binary nVidia driver [96.43.01] for its GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x graphics card it failed with an error message

[gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

2008-03-22 Thread Galevsky
Hi, I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt' as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ? Thks, Gal' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-22 Thread Neil Walker
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: price/performance still favours AMD. How on earth do you justify that statement? I am an AMD fan and have been since the 486/133 (was a Cyrix fan before then) but I can certainly tell you that the performance of the Intel Q6600 makes the AMD Phenom 7600 look

[gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-22 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi folks, Today I had some really serious problems with my Gentoo router. I could ping it, and all the network connections were in place and functional, but no outside access. I looked into it and found that the syslog was flooded with this: Mar 22 21:25:55 localhost kernel: nf_conntrack:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-22 Thread Andrey Falko
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Today I had some really serious problems with my Gentoo router. I could ping it, and all the network connections were in place and functional, but no outside access. I looked into it and found that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router: Conntrack table full

2008-03-22 Thread Dan Cowsill
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Today I had some really serious problems with my Gentoo router. I could ping it, and all the network connections were in place