Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote: I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my IDE chipset included, rebuilt my

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: That makes 4 out of 4 possible devices. So where's your IDE floppy connected to, then? Is it an IDE floppy device at all, or a normal PC floppy device? Bye... Dirk I was unaware there was a difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from something in /dev/fd? Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries in /dev for your IDE Floppy

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim: I was unaware there was a difference. It's a 34-pin ribbon cable connector on the motherboard. Yes, that's a normal PC floppy device. You need CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Is this another change introduced by libata? No. IDE floppies are a different kind of device, IOmega Zip is one example. They are attached to an IDE controller, just like a hard disk or CDRom drive. OK, that explains everything. I've never ever

[gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
I want to filter the strings; ? something http:// or ? something? https:// or ? something ftp:// from URLs in apache. I know i need to escape ? but i'm not sure about / and i've used '(something|otherthing|whatever)' to make the 'or's work. LocationMatch

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote: I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my IDE chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted.

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim: Nothing there either. # dmesg|grep -i hd Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD400BB-23DEA0, ATA DISK

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: What do I need to do to get usable block access to my floppy from something in /dev/fd? Nothing. It's IDE Floppy, not Floppy. You should have new hd* entries in /dev for your IDE Floppy device. Read some more lines in your dmesg output. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
Tim wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: That makes 4 out of 4 possible devices. So where's your IDE floppy connected to, then? Is it an IDE floppy device at all, or a normal PC floppy device? Bye... Dirk I was unaware there was a

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim: I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my IDE chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Tim: I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my IDE chipset included, rebuilt

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Tim wrote: I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my

[gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Tim
I recently had occasion to need a floppy drive. Thankfully, there was one in my Gentoo box, but no support in the kernel. I added CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y to .config and already had support for my IDE chipset included, rebuilt my kernel, and rebooted. Now I have a folder /dev/fd/, but every

Re: [gentoo-user] fd symlinks to pts?

2008-06-03 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: That makes 4 out of 4 possible devices. So where's your IDE floppy connected to, then? Is it an IDE floppy device at all, or a normal PC floppy device? Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo 2007.1

2008-06-03 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Norman Hakim wrote: By the way, you may want to just shrink your MSWindows partition with e.g. gparted LiveCD and then create new partitions to install Gentoo in. This will allow you to multiboot into either OS. A common data partition will allow you access to

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot keeps mounting itself

2008-06-03 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 June 2008, Grant wrote: I've been noticing this for awhile and it's time I ask you guys about it: # mount /boot # umount /boot # mount /boot mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /boot busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is already mounted on /boot A few hours

[gentoo-user] Second dvd/cd device confused with K3B

2008-06-03 Thread James
Hello, I replaced a very old cdrom device with a newer DVD rw, as the second dvdrw device in a workstation. dmesg: hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR

[gentoo-user] Re: Second dvd/cd device confused with K3B

2008-06-03 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: dmesg: hda: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A 1.04 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard problems

2008-06-03 Thread ionut cucu
On Wed, 28 May 2008 22:14:28 -0400 Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I've had the same problem, same symptoms, and the same solution fixed it. My assumption is that the kernel has some bug where the keyboard interface starts dropping data. I'm running 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 on an AMD64.

[gentoo-user] multifile replacing with charset respecting

2008-06-03 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Does such tool (CLI or GUI) exists? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] multifile replacing with charset respecting

2008-06-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 3 June 2008, 21:47, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Does such tool (CLI or GUI) exists? sed? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Second dvd/cd device confused with K3B

2008-06-03 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: Oooops, If forgot to include this information: l /dev/cdr* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrom1 - sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrom3 - hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrw1 - sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrw3

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:39 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I want to filter the strings; ? something http:// or ? something? https:// or ? something ftp:// from URLs in apache. I know i need to escape ? but i'm not sure about /  / needs to be escaped in perl if your regex delimiters are / as