[completely OT]Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem

2005-08-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 August 2005 12:23, Mark Humphrey wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On 12 August 2005 04:13, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but case 1 surely shows it is performing

[gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem

2005-08-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, this message is rather lengthy. If you don't feel like reading all of it please don't bother to answer. You'll need the whole lot to get the picture. ;-) I have run into a weird network problem with 1Gb NICs. It involves these two boxes: Box A P4 2.8Ghz HT 512GB ram Tigon Gb NIC

[gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

2005-08-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
Anybody in the know how to generate an xpm image with 16 colours and 1 character per pixel? I mean other than using vi. ;-) Alternatively, converting an image to that format would do for me. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

2005-08-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 August 2005 11:45, Christoph Gysin wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Anybody in the know how to generate an xpm image with 16 colours and 1 character per pixel? I mean other than using vi. ;-) Alternatively, converting an image to that format would do for me. imagemagick is your friend

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GRUB won't boot my new Gentoo install

2005-08-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 August 2005 12:25, Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, At the moment I'm trying to upgrade one of my old computers from SuSE to Gentoo. I have install a second SCSI-disk and installed Gentoo on this second disk using a stage-1 install. But when I try to boot my new install GRUB hangs (kernel does

[gentoo-user] logrotate

2005-08-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, from /etc/logrotate.conf: - # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } - It states it rotates lastlog (/var/log/lastlog) but it doesn't and my lastlog grows forever. Doesn't seem right.

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate

2005-08-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 August 2005 12:11, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:54, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, from /etc/logrotate.conf: - # no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly create 0664 root utmp rotate 1

[gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, if a gigabit ethernet card is set to auto detect speed and duplex mode, how can I find out how it actually connects? I poked around in /proc but didn't find anything useful. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2005 11:41, Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:42, Uwe Thiem wrote: if a gigabit ethernet card is set to auto detect speed and duplex mode, how can I find out how it actually connects? I poked around in /proc but didn't find anything useful. mii-tool, part

Re: [gentoo-user] ethernet speed

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2005 12:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:30:46 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: mii-tool, part of net-tools. Thanks. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to know anything about Gb ethernet. :-( Use ethtool Thanks! That is exactly what the doctor has prescribed. Uwe

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2005 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Matthew, Michael and Richard, Thanks for the responses. They seem to outline the options pretty clearly. One question - once I get it converted and I think I'm running NFS using tcp, how do I determine that I actually am? Several

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...

2005-07-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 July 2005 15:17, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i given size. I have tried find /home -type d -size +5k and find /home -type d -size +5k -iname * Both without much success... du -k --max-depth=1 /home | sort -nrk1

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice / localisation

2005-07-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I've got a couple of questions regarding localisation. 1. OO and English If I set OO to either British or South African English the spellchecker still accepts American spelling which is wrong in Namibia. Anybody in the know how to make it stick to British spelling? 2. OO and

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 10 July 2005 21:07, Manuel McLure wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Still no joy. Same behaviour as before. :-( Actually, I wouldn't give a rat's ass for it but this is for a customer, and looks are important. Did you update the /usr/src/linux symlink to point to linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r4

[gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, verbose mode of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the background is black instead of showing my specified picture. Same behaviour for the themes emergence, gentoo and my own one. I skipped a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 10 July 2005 18:21, Richard Fish wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, verbose mode of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the background is black instead of showing my specified picture. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash

2005-07-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 10 July 2005 18:39, Manuel McLure wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, verbose mode of fbsplash doesn't seem to work any more. If I press F2 during the boot process or switch to a text console after booting the background is black instead of showing my specified picture. Same

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 08 July 2005 16:52, Ron Bickers wrote: On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day and

Re: [gentoo-user] best download manager in gentoo

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 12:45, simply change wrote: hi! dear all, i need emerge a download manager appz. so can any one help me to find a good 1? (with a good GUI) If you are using KDE anyway, have a look at kget. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all

[gentoo-user] deltup / file sizes

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
Nothing really importan, I am just curious: Anybody in the know why deltup sometimes reports file sizes and sometimes not when downloading a diff? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last

Re: [gentoo-user] which package is kfm in?

2005-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 18:40, Christoph Gysin wrote: Could some KDE user out there run the following command for me: $ equery b $(which kfm) kfm doesn't exist any more. Actually, it hasn't vor a long time. It used to be the file and web browser in KDE 1.0 and was replaced by konqueror

[gentoo-user] kuser

2005-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, kuser of KDE-3.4.1 is crashing on start-up. I looked around in KDE's ug db but didn't find it mentioned. So it doesn't seem to be a general problem. That leaves two possibilities: It's a Gentoo problem or my system is messed. Anybody else experiencing the same thing? I am in the

[gentoo-user] win32codecs / mplayer

2005-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, win32codecs are installed under /usr/lib/win32 but mplayer gets compiled without support for them. Can anybody tell what I am missing? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated:

[gentoo-user] Re: jdk / openoffice

2005-06-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 18 June 2005 18:48, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, anybody else seeing this? emerge --update world emerges blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02, it gets installed, 1.4.2.01 gets nuked, env-update runs. Afterwards, the relevant variables in /etc/profile.env are still pointing to the (removed

Re: [gentoo-user] Uncluttering my world file

2005-06-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 18:43, Richard Fish wrote: Here is a script to do it: cat /var/lib/portage/world | \ while read line; do count=`equery depends $line | wc -l` test $count -gt 0 echo $line done This will output every package listed in world that is a

Re: [gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 18:00, Christoph Eckert wrote: my konqueror does not support the protocol devices. Which library am I missing? maybe emerge -pv kdebase will show you use flags which have been disabled during compile time? It doesn't really reveal anything interesting: [ebuild R

[gentoo-user] konqueror / devices

2005-06-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, my konqueror does not support the protocol devices. Which library am I missing? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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