Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch 15 Oktober 2008 04:03:26 schrieb ext Adam Carter: I've tried it. Works at home with WPA2 PSK, but I get a segfault (in wpa_supplicant IIRC) when I use it with WPA2 Enterprise (802.1x) at work. I think my laptop is 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 or r7. Could you post the output of lspci, please?

[gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread momesso . andrea
Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a lot of time. This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the same package, and the same version, due to a new (and unused by me) useflag which is -templates%. Of course the result would be a completely identical

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 08:20:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a lot of time. This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the same package, and the same version, due to a new (and unused by me) useflag which is

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail+spamassassin user filters

2008-10-15 Thread David Rioja
Willie Wong escribió: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Rioja squawked: 2.- I created ~/.procmail with the following contents: SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir DEFAULT=$MAILDIR LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log | spamassassin

RE: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
Could you post the output of lspci, please? I have stability problems with madwifi on my system, so if you've got the same wlan chipset I would give it a try also (with 2.6.27, then). 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) FWIW I had no

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to like the flexibility of that. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Pintér Tibor
If you want to be sure your data is still readable in the event that your mobo dies and you can't find a replacement with the same fake RAID controller, stick with Linux kernel RAID. ...or buy a 3ware/areca/adaptec card, which is 100% supported. (but those are heavy bucks) t

Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-15 Thread Grant
Could you post the output of lspci, please? I have stability problems with madwifi on my system, so if you've got the same wlan chipset I would give it a try also (with 2.6.27, then). 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) I have the same

[gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to like the flexibility of that. The

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Jean-Marc Beaune writes: Did emerge told you to update some config files? Sure, LOTS. Especially in /usr/share/X11/xkb, which is now added to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. But everything has been updated already using dispatch-conf. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Dan Cowsill
Hi guys, I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID. Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs linux kernel RAID? Thanks, D Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of portage - segfault testing

2008-10-15 Thread Grant
motion keeps segfaulting on me, I've been over it with the motion list, and we're down to this: [quote] i've checked with a gentoo user in #motion channel wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/motion/motion-3.2.10.1.ta r.gz tar xfvz motion-3.2.10.1.tar.gz cd motion-3.2.10.1

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail+spamassassin user filters

2008-10-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:08:49AM +0200, Penguin Lover David Rioja squawked: Willie Wong escribi?: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:45:02PM +0200, Penguin Lover David Rioja squawked: 2.- I created ~/.procmail with the following contents: SHELL=/bin/sh MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter

2008-10-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Oct 2008, at 10:35, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: ... I'm trying to use usb to serial converter, the data transfer works but it's very very slow. I use FTDI converter with kernel 2.6.25-r7 build in driver. How could I trave where the problem comes from? Unless you give more information

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, since you seem to be german, there's an article about SW-/MoBo-/HW-RAID in the current issue of c't magazine. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with installdiscs 2007.0 and 2008.0 when installing on a K6 computer

2008-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, Sorry for the long delay, but I've been sick for some time, had some business trips etc... ugh. Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 19:33:28 Liebich, Wolfgang wrote: Hi, My computer at home is seriously old already. It has a K6 CPU, an motherboard with VIA chips

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
odt and ods are supported now in google document. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Andrea Momesso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Marc Beaune [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, I finished by emerging openoffice-bin instead, takes much less time. But takes much

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Albert Hopkins
Your mobo RAID is most likely software/BIOS RAID (what some people call fake RAID). The point is it's software that's doing the real work. If you want to be sure your data is still readable in the event that your mobo dies and you can't find a replacement with the same fake RAID controller,

[gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before. It's a german keyboard. Here are expected keys, and the results: ß \ ö [ ä ] ü @ Keys like @ (Alt-Gr q), | (Alt-Gr ) and ~ (Alt-Gr +} do not work at

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 15 Oktober 2008, Dan Cowsill wrote: Hi guys, I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID. Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs linux kernel RAID? yes. google

[gentoo-user] Hard lockups on new computer with gentoo live cd 2008.0-r1

2008-10-15 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I've bought a new private computer because my old machine is nearly 10 years old already and deserves a little rest now. I've bought it without an OS, and tried some linux install CDs and dvd's I have. With some worrying results: - One installDC stopped cold when booting --- nothing worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
Hi, I finished by emerging openoffice-bin instead, takes much less time. Actually now I use google documents... On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andrea Momesso [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2008

[gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the root console instead of getting a new login screen of slim. How can I prevent this? Kind regards, mcc -- Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2008 08:20:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I emerged app-office/openoffice-3.0.0, and as usual it took a lot of time. This morning, after sync, portage wants to reemerge the same

[gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter

2008-10-15 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
Hi, I'm trying to use usb to serial converter, the data transfer works but it's very very slow. I use FTDI converter with kernel 2.6.25-r7 build in driver. How could I trave where the problem comes from? Thank you, -- Jean-Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 15:13:45 Pintér Tibor wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. Additionally I would like to use LVM2 ---

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM: Keyboard problems after X update

2008-10-15 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
Hi, Did emerge told you to update some config files? /JM On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! I'm in the middle of a world update, but X stuff seems to be updated now. The problem is that the keyboard does not work as before. It's a german

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the root console instead of getting a new login screen of

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of portage - segfault testing

2008-10-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: motion keeps segfaulting on me, I've been over it with the motion list, and we're down to this: [quote] i've checked with a gentoo user in #motion channel wget http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/motion/motion-3.2.10.1.ta r.gz tar xfvz motion-3.2.10.1.tar.gz cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Jean-Marc Beaune [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi, I finished by emerging openoffice-bin instead, takes much less time. But takes much more time to load and to work on 64bit machines. Actually now I use google documents... Which is pretty limited for daily

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter

2008-10-15 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
Ok, The problem is I don't know what kind of information I can give. What I can say is the transfer takes 10 minutes via usb to serial instead of 30 seconds via the standard DB9 connector. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 15 Oct 2008, at 10:35, Jean-Marc

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread Erik Hahn
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the root console instead of getting a new login

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/15/08, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this actually a bug or intended behaviour? If it's a bug, is there a version that works properly? The bug would relate more to /etc/init.d/xdm than to SLiM. Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse thansoftware RAID?

2008-10-15 Thread kyle . bader
Go areca, I have a coworker that raves about his. At my shop we have dozens of systems using 3ware and they have horrible preformance. --Original Message-- From: Pintér Tibor To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org ReplyTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Oct 15, 2008 6:41 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] procmail+spamassassin user filters

2008-10-15 Thread David Wei
One more tip, the .procmailrc file should belong and only belong to the mail owner user(right 700),procmail refuse to run when the .procmailrc 's right is not properly set on my box. On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:24:34 -0400 Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:08:49AM

[gentoo-user] Prevent sshd from stopping?

2008-10-15 Thread Grant
One of my Gentoo systems is located in a separate building from the router. The wireless connection always seems to be strong, but periodically the services that depend on net.ath0 stop because it loses the connection. Issuing 'rc' always brings them back. Is there any way to prevent this from

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent sshd from stopping?

2008-10-15 Thread David Wei
I think one passive way is to use screen ,and detach the screen when you donot communicate with it. It can at least keep you program running in the background. This will not help if you need to have continual communication with your console. On my laptop,i use ndiswrapper as the wireless

RE: [gentoo-user] Slow connexion with usb to serial converter

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
The problem is I don't know what kind of information I can give. What I can say is the transfer takes 10 minutes via usb to serial instead of 30 seconds via the standard DB9 connector. It sounds like you're saying that the USB-RS232 serial connector is slower than a real RS232 port - is that

RE: [gentoo-user] ath5k in the kernel - where is it?

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
I've tried it. Works at home with WPA2 PSK, but I get a segfault (in wpa_supplicant IIRC) when I use it with WPA2 Enterprise (802.1x) at work. I think my laptop is 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 or r7. Update - no segfault with 2.6.27 with WPA2 Enterprise.

[gentoo-user] apache and named mysteriously stopping on boot

2008-10-15 Thread John covici
Hi. I have a dynamic IP address connected to my ISP using dhcp. Using dhcpcd 4.x, in /etc/dhcpcd.exit-hook, I start a number of things -- I put them in that place in case the IP changes. Now amoung them is apache and named. This works fine, except on bootup, after those two are started, they

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux -- IMO, it's horrific...

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Martin
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google

[gentoo-user] Does vmware work with 2.6.27?

2008-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
Or even 2.6.26? I use gentoo-sources. Presumably I'll have to use ~x86 for vwmare-modules and vwmare-server.

Re: [gentoo-user] Does vmware work with 2.6.27?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Adam Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or even 2.6.26? I use gentoo-sources. Presumably I'll have to use ~x86 for vwmare-modules and vwmare-server. Not the portage one (6.0.5). You have to download (6.5.0) from vmware.com. Download vmware-player, run the

Re: [gentoo-user] Does vmware work with 2.6.27?

2008-10-15 Thread Tony Clark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Carter wrote: Or even 2.6.26? I use gentoo-sources. Presumably I'll have to use ~x86 for vwmare-modules and vwmare-server. vmware-modules-1.0.0.22 works with 2.6.26, they won't, however, compile against 2.6.27 tony -BEGIN PGP