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

2008-03-25 Thread Adam Carter
The contents of the connection table is in /proc/net/ip_conntrack Example: tcp 6 65 TIME_WAIT src=192.168.1.4 dst=20.x.y.40 sport=4986 dport=80 src=207.46.109.40 dst=192.168.1.4 sport=80 dport=4986 [ASSURED] mark=0 use=1 So go nuts with grep/awk/sed/sort/uniq etc to find what is consuming

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-25 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Kaushal Shriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mike Edenfield [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? If you could passwords were useless.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote:  But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then give root another password. But then, conventional passwords are as useless. One needs no more than physical access to the computer, a LiveCD and a couple minutes in order

Re: [gentoo-user] defect management block device

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If SMART (or something conceptually similar) detects that a drive might be failing and be beyond the range of the drive's ability to cope, it could raise an event and move the blocks used to another

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: Hi! I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux. I'm planing to buy a core 2 Duo platform with a nvidia 8800 GT, Stay away from

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: Hi! I would like to buy a new pc, but since I use linux more than windows (that i use only for gaming), I am interested in hardware compatibility with linux. I'm planing to buy a

Re: [gentoo-user] Error emerging gtk+ Pango not found (NOT expat - kind of SOLVED)

2008-03-25 Thread Patrick Holthaus
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote: cairo's obviously built w/ GL, and your GL library is broken. In no way surprising, since it's NVidia's proprietary crap. I have never expierienced any problems with the proprietary driver (till now). For sure it would be better if it were open

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Galevsky
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Video cards is the big sticking point For sure. But I guess that he wants to satellite his GC with the last Windows games, so I would recommend a 8800. And his NVIDIA wont hurt for a common desktop usage. As for the

Re: [gentoo-user] 1/2 OT: What Linux could learn from mainframes ?

2008-03-25 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:12:13AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * defect management directly on block basis (w/o additional stacking layers). IMO dividing things into layers/parts is good. It allows for replacing one layer, or not using some of them if they are not needed. *

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or disable booting from the optical drive (or remove it completely) and set a password in the BIOS. This is one of the few areas in which a laptop has an advantage, you can't just pope the side off the case and flip a

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Galevsky wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Video cards is the big sticking point For sure. But I guess that he wants to satellite his GC with the last Windows games, so I would recommend a 8800. And his NVIDIA

[gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the source line in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=openchrome via Now I get this: uwix ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose xorg-server These are

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't done head to head comparisons on nvidia for ages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Liviu Andronic: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. März 2008 schrieb ext Steven Lembark: Make sure that your bash is statically linked, otherwise you can run into problems with this approach. # ldd /bin/bash linux-gate.so.1 = (0xb7f2a000) libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7ec7000) libdl.so.2 =

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:08:04 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote: I'd say the BIOS is not much of a security enforcer. Even with the BIOS password protected, one can plug out the hardrive, connect to another system and get access to all the data. It might need more time than a LiveCD approach, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Galevsky
Tank you. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Bye... Dirk --

[gentoo-user] Re: openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the source line in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=openchrome via Now I get this: uwix ~ # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Why on earth is it excluding openchrome? Because the xorg-server ebuild does not support openchrome. yet. Just add openchrome to world until it does Well, didn't look into the ebuild. You are right. Now, why and how did it work with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: As for the performances, could you tell me if there is a gap between nv and the proprietary driver ? I Never tried the later. I'll let someone more current answer that - I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:50:21PM +0100: Sergey, Last time, when I sent my .config file, that has intelfb builtin and working. I think, because I also has this kind of integrated video card. Check that out or drop me a PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Grant
On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Yes, I realised that when typing the original, but left it as is

[gentoo-user] Error compiling media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.4-r1

2008-03-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
Hello list :) I'm having a problem compiling splashutils, anyone else having the same problem ?? attached is my 'emerge --info' and the build log.. Regards, -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 /ö\ Computers make

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-25 Thread Sergey Kobzar
This One Time, at Band Camp, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:50:21PM +0100: Sergey, Last time, when I sent my .config file, that has intelfb builtin and working. I think, because I also has this kind of integrated video card. Check that out or drop me a

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Volker Armin Hemmann: The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver. since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs? I thought the Xorg folks wrote the nv driver?

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Why on earth is it excluding openchrome? Because the xorg-server ebuild does not support openchrome. yet. Just add openchrome to world until it does Well, didn't look into the ebuild. You

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:43:46PM +0200: Did intel works for you?? how's the performance ?? What did you add/remove from your kernel ?? No, unfortunately it does not :(. I've switched to uvesafb. Looks like I have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: The nv driver has *no* 3D acceleration and limited 2D acceleration due to nVidia's refusal to release the specs needed to create a decent OSS driver. since the nv driver is written by nvidia, who needs specs? The nv driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:48 -0600, darren kirby wrote: I thought the Xorg folks wrote the nv driver? They do, but the nv driver code was written by someone paid by nVidia and hasn't really had any significant work done on it in years. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Grant wrote: On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Yes, I realised

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-25 Thread Sergey Kobzar
Hi Wael, Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 6:56:32 PM, you wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:43:46PM +0200: Did intel works for you?? how's the performance ?? What did you add/remove from your kernel ?? No, unfortunately it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Florian Philipp
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 09:32 -0700, Grant wrote: On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Grant
On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Yes, I realised that when typing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Joseph
On 03/24/08 23:43, Nicola Degl'Innocenti wrote: [snip] Someone have one of those cards or know a good site with information about linux compatibility for those cards? The SLI capability is not important as having ethernet or sound supported on linux. Another option/consideration would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Steven Lembark
I am starting to wonder why am I so attached to my root password being strong.. :) Becuase I can crack a simple password from outside of the box. Hacking in w/ a CD or the init=blah approach requires physical access and a reboot, both of which are fairly noticable and preventable. -- Steven

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Steven Lembark
If it is possible to have sufficient access to be able to remove the hard drive, then an encrypted filesystem is essential. Any computer that isn't nailed down behind a locked door should have this, unless it contains and has access to absolutely nothing of value. Which setup does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Steven Lembark
them. Things have indeed changed since 1978 Unless you include the time in 1972 that some of my friends broke into the computer room, hacked the PDP-11, and inserted Panther, Pink into every class in the highschool. They have remained hugely the same :-) -- Steven Lembark

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb Steven Lembark: If it is possible to have sufficient access to be able to remove the hard drive, then an encrypted filesystem is essential. Any computer that isn't nailed down behind a locked door should have this, unless it contains and has access

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Steven Lembark wrote: them. Things have indeed changed since 1978 Unless you include the time in 1972 that some of my friends broke into the computer room, hacked the PDP-11, and inserted Panther, Pink into every class in the highschool. They have remained

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Nicola Degl'Innocenti
Thanks for the reply. I love linux, his power and flexibility, but i don't think buying a p3 or athon X2 64 only to have linux on Bios. I didn't know that project but it seem quite interesting. I hope some major motherboard builders seriusly invest on the project and bring it to the world of

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:53:24 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: Which setup does anyone out there use for the encfs? I use LUKS too. -- Neil Bothwick Eagles may soar, but Wombles don't get sucked into jet engines signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-25 Thread forgottenwizard
On 19:11 Tue 25 Mar , Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi Wael, Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 6:56:32 PM, you wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:43:46PM +0200: Did intel works for you?? how's the performance ?? What did you

[gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. But I hear nothing at all :/ Any ideas about why that's so? The volume slider in rb is all the way

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] intelfb and 945GM

2008-03-25 Thread Sergey Kobzar
That's one of the reason why I wanted intelfb, but got no luck. I'm using uvesafb at the moment, but still hope intelfb will be fixed soon. I seem to have missed the start of this thread, but if you don't mind, could you give me a quick idea on what is broken within intelfb? I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:03:29AM +0100: But you can boot from a LiveCD, mount your harddrive, chroot and then give root another password. But then, conventional

[gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uvesafb works nice. Can anyone help me with the following? Do any of you know how to make uvesafb (that replaces the old vesafb-tng) set to a pre-defined resolution? What I mean is that with vesafb-tng I used to set like:

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Andrey Falko
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. But I hear nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. But I hear nothing at all :/ Any ideas about

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:23:00PM +: That's why I have my entire installation over a DM-CRYPT ( LUKS encrypted partition... ), including swaps and storage ( LVM over DM-CRYPT actually), this way even if someone had a physical

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:02:59PM +0100: I use LUKS encrypted logical volumes. Root fs is encrypted with a password, all other volumes are encrypted with a keyfile located on /. Why not encrypt a big fat partition and then

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Meinke
Hi. Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. For 1400x1050 with kernel 2.6.24-r3 I am using the following lines: title Gentoo GNU/Linux (gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r3) root (hd0,1) kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ale
2008/3/25, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:* * Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Alexander Meinke
Ale wrote: 2008/3/25, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: * * Are you guys using uvesafb in the latest gentoo sources kernel? because i dont have the option to choose this one..i am using vesa Yes I am using gentoo-sources. I think since kernel 2.6.23 (or maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. Okay, *that* I didn't know. :-) I do know 1440x900 is a supported

[gentoo-user] Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hello. Andrey Falko ma3oxuct at gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de wrote: Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
I wrote: Andrey Falko ma3oxuct at gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de wrote: There's another problem: When I start gnome-volume-control, I get: No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found Hmm... [...]

[gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I found the output crowded with puffy, oozing electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that I'm not alone. Can somebody recommend a

[gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Good evening! I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.4-r1

2008-03-25 Thread Rodolphe Rocca
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:22 +0100 Wael Nasreddine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list :) I'm having a problem compiling splashutils, anyone else having the same problem ?? The splashutils-1.5.4-r1 ebuild has been updated to cope with recent API breakage in the new baselayout-2.0/openrc.

[gentoo-user] Re: Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Schmarck
Hi. Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Would the type of filesystem encryption you guys are talking about be unsuitable for a high-traffic server because of performance considerations? Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that nobody has physical

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I found the output crowded with puffy, oozing electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for Fuhjyyu on Google revealed that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: I'll crawl back into my KDE and e17 fanboy clubhouse and shut up now. It would've been better if you would've just shut up right from the beginning - or simply post helpful comments. The latter would be the preferred option, as far as I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling media-gfx/splashutils-1.5.4-r1

2008-03-25 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Rodolphe Rocca [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:20:31PM +0100: On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:33:22 +0100 Wael Nasreddine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list :) I'm having a problem compiling splashutils, anyone else having the same problem ??

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gnome: No sound - No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found (was: rhythmbox plays silently)

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: I wrote: Andrey Falko ma3oxuct at gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de wrote: There's another problem: When I start gnome-volume-control, I get: No volume

[gentoo-user] Nowell disconnects

2008-03-25 Thread Lukáš Oliva
Hi, I need to connect Nowell Netware discs time to time. I found out how to do it and I have it working in /etc/fstab with line server/login with context /mnt/server ncp defaults,ipserver=ip

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ian Lee
Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Meinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to determine possible resolutions by typing hwinfo --framebuffer. Use the hex code 0x... and put it as kernel parameter in your grub.conf. Okay,

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ian Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i always thought vga= was only used by the old vesafb driver i use video=uvesafb:1024x768-32 i cant get any wide screen modes to work at all, anybody else know how?? Nice, new thoughts being added to the discussion. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread ionut cucu
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:17:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Stay away from NVidia. Good performing cards, but their Linux support is atrocious (and that's being kind to them) ATI are not much better but at least they make something of an effort to publish some specs.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I found the output crowded with puffy, oozing electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for Fuhjyyu on Google revealed

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, ionut cucu wrote: The SLI capability is not important as having ethernet or sound supported on linux. Should you follow the path of the manual you'll find interesting links about sound cards support on linux, as for ethernet, if you dan;t have drivers from

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ATX PS recommendation

2008-03-25 Thread Dale
Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I bought a Coolmax PS which was touted as the latest and greatest and then it died. When I opened it up I found the output crowded with puffy, oozing electrolytic caps, most made by Fuhjyyu. A search for

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Motherboard

2008-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I can't remember a single ethernet device in the last several years that wasn't fully supported and JustWorked(tm) straight out the box on any old arb Linux system. When I bought my Asus P5B-E board last year, the drivers for the

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-25 Thread Chuanwen Wu
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Ricardo Saffi Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uvesafb works nice. Can anyone help me with the following? Do any of you know how to make uvesafb (that replaces the old vesafb-tng) set