Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6 and OpenGL

2006-05-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
- but that was back on a very early kernel. BillK On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 18:58 -0400, JimD wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: I have just set up a Sony Vaio with an i915 that runs ~850-900fps - acceptable, but how does this compare with your i915? Sorry if you already mentioned this, but I have come

Re: [gentoo-user] Modular X

2006-04-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
Try using zebedee to both compress and encrypt (if neccessary) the vnc connection. Provided a nice usability increase when using vnc through a modem, though tightvnc was a little better than vnc. BillK On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 16:47 -0500, Jim wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 22:29 +0200, Alexander

Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

2006-02-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
not only that, but this error has been there for many months, no matter what version of glibc you use. It doesnt seem to cause any problems on my systems, but if the line is erroring off, it means that you are using MDNS by default (or so it seems), so commenting the line is status quo. Has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ntp won't synchronize

2006-02-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
Default behaviour is that if the time zone is off by more than a preset amount (I think 128ms) it will refuse to sync, and silently fails. Read the docs for the config file command tinker panic 0 (and its implications) which will remove the limitation and allow stepping to the new time. Also

[gentoo-user] qemu problems

2006-01-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am having some problems in how gentoo has split up qemu. There are version 0.8.0 builds for qemu-user and qemu-softmmu. There is also a kqemu ebuild at version 0.7.2. Installing just qemu-user and qemu-softmmu gives a kqemu error on running qemu. Should I be using kqemu, even if it appears

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thats the world file, is there an equivalent for system? bunyip ~ # emerge -ep system These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating system dependencies ...done! bunyip ~ # As you see, I have a couple of systems with a blank system target. BillK On Wed, 2005-12-28 at

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
The majority of *crap* hitting my firewall (in Oz) comes from China. Use geoip iptables to block China for a more peaceful life. Its not as though there's any valuable sites there unless you have relatives or a reason to access something there! Taiwan and Hong Kong have also been suggested as

Re: [gentoo-user] Mixing amd64 and x86 libraries

2005-12-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
Build ncurses manually (ebuild [package] unpack compile install). Using ldd, find what libs the application needs, locate them in the ncurses install directory and copy them somewhere handy. Use LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/lib/libname application to preload the required library before running your

[gentoo-user] OT: Whats a good SIP/VoIP soft phone for linux

2005-12-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
Whats a good SIP/VoIP soft phone for linux (linphone, gnophone, SimpleH323, ...) I need something simple to set things up with the least hassle, and then perhaps something good to actually use - if they dont overlap(!) BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

2005-11-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Use rsync. I am not sure how much gain there is to be had but try using an older version as the seed file - should save at least a little. Creative use of head/tail with seed files and already downloaded portions can save a lot if the link drops out halfway. Make sure you use the -P option (read

[gentoo-user] ebuild package recompile

2005-11-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Currently I find I am doing a lot of patching across multiple systems to get the functionality I require. One of the more anoying problems is that ebuild package clean removes all the existing package. There does not seem to be an equivalent to make clean in the ebuild command. Is there a way

Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)

2005-11-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
To explain, keep in mind that optimisation and chost are two different things. i386 is a lowest common denominator instruction set that will run on most 386 and above x86 processors. i4/5/686 adds few specialised instructions and I believe the compiler is able to use them to produce faster

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-11-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
Search forums: many posts exist. Try using gcc-config and fix_libtool.sh as a starter. BillK On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 22:49 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I think I've somehow managed to screw gcc up. Whenever I try to emerge anything I get this message: checking for C compiler default

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
Some thoughts: I recently did a stage 1 install and found that the process seems to have deteriorated to the point it was more work than it should have been - hence I see some of the reasons for abandoning it. In particular, the recompiling needed to bring it to a GCC 3.4.4 with all the options

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
Open the print dialog, tick the Print to file box and then print. A file save dialog pops up. It prints in ps format. OO has done it this way for years ... BillK On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 19:32 -0800, John Myers wrote: On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: Hello. So far openoffice is

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
(resolution, DPI etc) isn't available. BillK On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:28 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: Open the print dialog, tick the Print to file box and then print. A file save dialog pops up. It prints in ps format. OO has done it this way for years ... I just wish

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread W.Kenworthy
to print in colour! I'll try and configure a dummy colour printer in that machine and see if it corrects the problem. Thanks for starting me thinking again on this one. BillK On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 14:19 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: This is a gentoo list - nobody here really

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I use 2.6.14 and remove udev and go back to devfs

2005-11-16 Thread W.Kenworthy
(I think, without checking) devfs has been removed from 2.6.14 and everything is supposed to be udev from now on. A suggestion made out of frustration with 2.6.14 - use 2.6.13-r3 first. Some kernel versions have had glitches with udev, and I know -r2 and -r3 are working for me on the i82k. The

[gentoo-user] Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it

2005-11-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Trying to update to 2.6.14 but I cant get x11-drm to build against it - fails with an error on I2C_ALGO_ATI. I have copied the working 2.6.13 config over without luck - this symbol doesnt show in it. Any ideas? - nothing in the forum or bugs on I2C_ALGO_ATI so I think I must be missing something

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is an ATI symbol, and card ... also on a dell, but an i8200. Hah, just managed to get it to build - had to go ~x86 for x11-drm. BillK On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 06:31 +, Luca Botti wrote: No issue at all, here. Kernel 2.6.14, and nvidia 7676 on dell d800 notebook. Alle Monday 7

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.14 Nvidia

2005-11-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
replied to the wrong message - at least my problem is solved. Sorry about the confusion, its been a trying day. BillK On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 13:47 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: This is an ATI symbol, and card ... also on a dell, but an i8200. Hah, just managed to get it to build - had to go ~x86

[gentoo-user] Have another 2.6.14 problem: cisco-vpn client

2005-11-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Have another 2.6.14 problem. I am trying to build the cisco-vpn client against this kernel and get the following errors below. Note that I am using a portage overlay version here, but the error message is identical no matter what version I am trying to build. Needless to say, it builds fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop

2005-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
I get around this problem by running a zebedee tunnel on the laptop to my home server using imap: the tunnel surfaces inside my home LAN which is heavily firewalled, but unauthenticated internally. Avoids a whole lot of issues running public servers, as well as simplifying laptop setup. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
syslog-ng does. bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d apache2 hibernate-script mysql scrollkeeper syslog-ng bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng app-admin/syslog-ng * bunyip ~ # so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit back and watch it happen. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] struggling with dri

2005-10-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
I looked at this thread and found intel-agp wasnt loaded. Added (in order) to the modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: intel-agp agpgart drm radeon Rebooting resulted in no display once X started. Commenting out intel-agp got the display back on reboot. Any ideas? I am getting 300fps tops, when at

Re: [gentoo-user] Shell through the web

2005-10-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
gnu http-tunnel - works well (I last used it a few years back to tunnel a zebeddee encypted, compressed tunnel through a tight firewall/webproxy gateway, doesnt seem to have changed much - mature) Move the sshd instance on your server to port 443 (if you are not running an ssl aware webserver

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr and /home to another partition

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
If you want to move directories, avoid wholesale symlinking like this as it always ends in tears ... Using a liveCD, create your partitions and directories, then copy everything over (rsync or tar is best to make sure its accurate), change your fstab then reboot. When you are happy its working,

Re: [gentoo-user] making my own router

2005-10-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Unless its limiting you in some fashion, leave it there as an extra layer of protection - dedicated HW firewalls are often more secure than a general purpose machine, but lose out in the flexibility/functionality stakes. You can also get funky and use the gentoo box to detect suspect traffic, and

[gentoo-user] Re: [Madwifi-users] Re: madwifi and wpasupplicant with NO or static WEP encryption

2005-10-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
Just finished dealing with something similar - found the ~x86 wpa_supplicant would work with ndiswrapper, whereas x86 would not! - using identical config files. Also found that /etc/conf.d/wireless is not parsed by wpa_supplicant configs (whereas it was with iwconfig), so I had to move the

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and best of all, its in potage and there is a gentoo wiki doc on how to set it up. Nice!

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
scenario. BillK On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 13:27 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net access, then point the rest

[gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

2005-09-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not detected. Does 2005.1 detect this chipset, or do any liveCD's work with it? BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom BCM4309 chipset and 2005.1 install

2005-09-27 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 22:20 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:40 am, W.Kenworthy wrote: I am just about to install gentoo on my wifes dell9200 with the broadcom BCM4309 chipset. However, no wlan0 is created and the chipset is not detected. Um, Broadcom

[gentoo-user] properly repartition a windows XP disk?

2005-09-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Are there any linux partitioning tools that will properly repartition a windows XP disk ready for gentoo? - I need to keep windows until gentoo is fully working, inc. all bells and whistles! Last time I came up against this I had to use a commercial product. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

2005-09-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this. They installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and exercised it extensively. They then did the remove everything based on atime that hadnt been

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation: well linux-supported inkjet printers

2005-09-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
I agree: I have a Dell720 - a re-badged lexmark thrown in when I bought a laptop. A real pain to set up, had to get a propriety driver but is now working and windoze ipp prints to it using the adobe postscript drivers. One (and only one!) doze machine will only print greyscale tho!

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
One point I have never seen mentioned is *why* would you *not* want a package in the world file - especially if you want it to be managed by the system? BillK On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:07 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:12, gentuxx wrote: If every security fix comes

[gentoo-user] apache upgrade to -r31

2005-09-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi, I am looking the current apache upgrade to -r31. There are a number of MPM (Multi-Processing Module implementing a hybrid multi-threaded multi-process web server) related use flags. I have not seen any discussions on these so is there anyone willing to comment on their desirability - is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend swsusp2 and genkernel initrd initramfs?

2005-09-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
I stand corrected on the LVM bit as I dont use it that way. I gave up on genkernel long ago when it made me waste many hours tracking down obscure networking faults. Simpler is better in my book, and that includes intrd's and other complicated magic!. BillK On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 11:54 +0200,

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Equivalent

2005-09-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
and set /etc/mail/aliases if needed. BillK On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Sunday 18 September 2005 20:14, C. Beamer wrote: Hi all, I'm not sure how to do the equivalent of the following in Gentoo, so any help would be appreciated. When I used Fedora Core,

Re: [gentoo-user] Plesk...

2005-09-15 Thread W.Kenworthy
Then what is it? A quick look at the web site tells me how good it is, but not what it does? One of the faq questions deals with email. Its a control panel - but for what. They mention things like skinning it, but not what does plex do ... BillK On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 12:39 -0400, Mark

[gentoo-user] minicom as a user but I am getting a cant create lockfile failure

2005-09-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
I want to use minicom as a user but I am getting a cant create lockfile failure. It works fine as root. I dont wish to change the perms on /var/lock unless I have to - so whats the gentoo way to get minicom working as a user? Also what group(s) do I need for serial port access (/dev/ttyS0 so I

[gentoo-user] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? (black icons)

2005-09-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
Re the xorg-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? The -r2 version is unusable for me because of this. According to the bug its resolved, fixed upstream, but there is no detail which versions of xorg it applies to. BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system?

2005-09-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
Does mythtv require older nvidia builds on a radeon system? bunyip ~ # emerge media-tv/mythtv -vp These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-misc/lcdproc-0.4.5 +doc +ncurses +samba +svga 284 kB [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] davfs errors - solved

2005-09-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Solved, a combination of the latest davfs requiring a trailing slash on the URL specification which it didnt before, and bug #102542 (thanks Alexander Skwar) BillK On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:51 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Has anyone been able to get the latest davfs2 to work with kernel 2.6.13

[gentoo-user] davfs errors

2005-09-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Has anyone been able to get the latest davfs2 to work with kernel 2.6.13? Cadaver works fine to two servers (one ssl, one plain), whilst davfs gives (with both): bunyip ~ # mount.davfs http://myserver/mydir /mnt/mydir Please enter the username for authentication with server http://myserver/mydir

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Laptop hardware is custom, so I doubt yu can replace anything with something else. For radeons, use the xorg driver rather than the ati ones for a laptop. You lose some, you gain some. For me I can get it to work across multiple projectors/monitor types and resolutions without rebooting (I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Also check out monmotha for a good script that should handle this. However, as others have pointed out, home brew firewall scripts, especially with someone who admits they are lost is a recipe for disaster. Pick something like shorewall or monmotha and modify - carefully. There is a very good

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
The module thats responsible for /dev/input/mouse0 creates the node when it loads via udev: is the modules loaded? /dev/mouse is usually (on newer systems) a symlink to /dev/input/mouse0 if it exists. /dev/input/mice is a concentrator. i.e., on my laptop I have a ps2 mouse (actually the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/input/mouse0 Doesn't Exist

2005-09-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
at 21:03 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 9/6/2005 8:49 PM W.Kenworthy wrote: The module thats responsible for /dev/input/mouse0 creates the node when it loads via udev: is the modules loaded? /dev/mouse is usually (on I come from the FreeBSD world and thus, I'm a linux newb. Sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Displays nVida vs Radeon... take TWO

2005-09-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
Welcome to the mess that are laptops and xorg/xfree with projectors. Both nvidia and ati are as good as each other - and each have their own little problems. I currently use an ati M9 I find the main problem is most projectors I deal with work in a native 1024x768 mode, with higher modes

Re: [gentoo-user] sacked my rc.conf

2005-09-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
bunyip ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf # /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/rc.conf,v 1.30.4.1 2005/02/10 01:11:52 vapier Exp $ # UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console. # If you set to yes, please

RE: [gentoo-user] workspace setups

2005-08-31 Thread W.Kenworthy
What do you mean by workspace??? - multiple desktops via the pager? BillK On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:32 -0400, John Dangler wrote: ... Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] workspace setups T -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% / udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
My scheme is: 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but its mostly space att) 2G swap 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning /boot on this partition. Particularly useful with

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
The focus isnt on the number of packages per se, but on the size of the install media that a modern distro requires. Gentoo (as long as it has the coverage) has a natural advantage here in that you only install what you want to install from the repositories, or from a single, relatively small CD

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
a patched for suspend2 kernel (vanilla here, but gentoo sources when its available. I do not use genkernel: it has caused me too many problems in the past. BillK On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My scheme

RE: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
Not sure that is an official site ... The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the size of the install media. The difference between distros is most likely little used packages, and the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] Any booby-traps with AMD64?

2005-08-28 Thread W.Kenworthy
On my last few installs I have used LVM2: magic as it means you can easily and transparently resize partitions and add new drives with minimal downtime. Partition size choices are no longer such a limiting factor. Highly recommended. BillK On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:11 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to increase the number of external (all imap) accounts in evolution?

2005-08-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
Evolution looks like it can handle only 5 external imap accounts plus local. It attempts to use the extra account (I need 6), but tries to disable one account (sometimes only partially succeeds) - often the one I just added, but sometimes another. Is there a way to increase the number of

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
For me, bottom posting is not netiquette but a total pitta. It wastes time and effort in reading mail on the mail readers I use. It was originally used by the first text mode readers and seems to be mainly inertia, continued by the design of mainly text based based readers (pine/mutt and the

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
This works very well, though it can be set too zealous (as warned about in the spamassassin section) so needs checking of the trap directories every few days. http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=tct=rescd=1url=http% 3A//www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mailfilter-guide.xmlei=o3kOQ5urCqesYbf74OoE BillK On Fri,

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution 2.2.3 Filtering Time (Too Long!)

2005-08-23 Thread W.Kenworthy
Not a real solution if you dont have your own mail server, but I moved the spam and filtering to spamassassin/procmail/amavis etc onto my own imap email server and turned off all filtering on that account. Now its not a problem for the main account. An interesting aside is it seems to take as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo equivalent to yum provides

2005-08-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
man equery doesnt specifically say, but I suspect that along with other tools that do this like qpkg, they only work on the installed packages. I dont think gentoo can do this for packages not installed on the system. I usually end up googling ... BillK On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 02:12 +0200, Holly

Re: [gentoo-user] udev, /dev/svga and gnuplot

2005-08-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
bunyip ccze-0.2.1 # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge svgalib -s Searching... [ Results for search key : svgalib ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * media-libs/svgalib Latest version available: 1.9.21 Latest version installed: 1.9.19-r3 Size of downloaded files: 928 kB Homepage:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Also makes long builds like OO and xorg fail for random network issues as well seeming to take forever. My success rate for OO is under 50% of attempts when I was using NFS for the tmpdir. Did work fine for smaller builds tho. BillK On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc.

2005-08-07 Thread W.Kenworthy
Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels) says otherwise - and its not working so its worth a try! In fact, I cant remember it ever working without the irq option, even if the card uses auto. This brings up another memory - some cards

[gentoo-user] How does cisco vpnclient find its .pcf file?

2005-08-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
I have just installed the cisco vpn client and cant figure how it accesses the .pcf configs under gentoo. Can someone in the know tell me how to specify a .pcf when issuing a /etc/init.d/vpnclient start ? Where I work has given me a couple of different configs depending where I access from, but

Re: [gentoo-user] pcmcia problems (cardmgr can't find device)

2005-08-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hint: Avoid d-link DWL-G650+ (atheros ACX111) based cards - they have a resource conflict with this laptop resulting in a hard lockup. Interesting, it works under dozeXP after loading the manufacturers driver as per instructions (ndiswrapper, madwifi and the acx100 project all suffer from this)

Re: [gentoo-user] open office icons messed up

2005-08-02 Thread W.Kenworthy
If everybody added there names to the bug so that it gets noticed that many people are affected by this, it might get fixed faster. There's a few already, but the more the merrier ... BillK On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 09:39 -0500, Kevin Hanson wrote: Catalin Trifu wrote: Hi, The

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread W.Kenworthy
Its ok for a quick check - especially as I dont want ~x86 samba on that system. I regard /etc/portage and the way it has been done is a disaster waiting to happen. You have files hidden away in there that unless you make the effort, can (and do) keep insecure versions of software on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Big booboo!

2005-07-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
Can you: man emerge (check out the --regen flag) as a starter rebuild metadata then sync. BillK On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 02:59 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Help! I inadvertantly deleted my /var/db/pkg directory (and indeed my entire /var (Don't ask!)). Is there ANY way to regenerate it or

Re: [gentoo-user] Name Resolution Problem

2005-07-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
check 'man dhcpcd' to check the arguments to pass to it (via /etc/conf.d/net) to prevent it overwriting local config files like /etc/resolv.conf. Are you using a local bind server? recent updates to localhost processing in a recent gentoo update did the same for me with clients on other machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Name Resolution Problem

2005-07-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
nsswitch.conf has a number of other entries in it which if missing may give rise to similar weird problems like this. You might like to extract it from sys-libs/glibc (the owner on my system) and replace it with the full file. BillK On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:59 -0400, Russell Slater wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi Jaimie, its obviously talking to the tuner ok, so the problems further on (maybe). Did you try and set the setnorm, setinput and setfreqtab values? I have found that some apps (such as gnomemeeting) dont always select the input you want until it eventually dawns on you that its set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-19 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is the user a member of the video group, does it work as root? BillK On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:54 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Jamie. we seem to be following each other around the mailing lists. CLUG, mythtv, now here. You seem to have all the modules loaded, what is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot get TV Card to work

2005-07-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
The problem is almost sure to be the tuner card. Try v4ctl with debug set to check for errors when tuning. (you will need xawtv installed) rattus ~ # v4lctl -v 1 setchannel 2 /dev/v4l/video0 vid-open: trying: v4l2-old... vid-open: failed: v4l2-old vid-open: trying: v4l2... v4l2: open v4l2:

Re: [gentoo-user] [tight/real]vnc and ctrl-alt-del

2005-07-14 Thread W.Kenworthy
yes there is, I think its right click in vncviewer for the menu, or shiftF8 to get the menu. Going from memory but this should point you in the right direction. BillK On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:03 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I noticed that in the windows version of tightvnc, there is an option to

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound recorder in portage

2005-07-11 Thread W.Kenworthy
GNUsound just sits there using 100% cpu when I hit record (requires a kill -9 to stop it). Looks pretty tho ... BillK On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 22:55 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: The current Audacity in portage has some dependencies I don't want to change on existing system

[gentoo-user] Sound recorder in portage

2005-07-10 Thread W.Kenworthy
The current Audacity in portage has some dependencies I don't want to change on existing system. All I need is a simple sound recorder, and if it has a function to view the waveform (and even better edit it!) so much the better. Suggestions welcome BillK -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

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

2005-07-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
This is one reason you should not do auto-updates via cron. It adds to the fun in tracking down such problems. I also wish that emerges would stop whenever a message like this is printed to the screen, but people have been cursing/moaning and getting caught with dead systems by this bug for

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2005-07-06 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks, thats the hint I needed. env_reset was spoiling things. Enabling the exception for the wheel group fixed it safely. BillK On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 08:00 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2005 05:07 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: After an update (possibly pam related

[gentoo-user] Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2005-07-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
After an update (possibly pam related) a couple of weeks ago, I can no longer run so X apps under sudo (starting apps from a root logged in via su in an xterm work fine). In particular, I have some scripts using gtkdialog (which run as root) to ask which network for my laptop using a small gui

Re: [gentoo-user] Home mail server problems.

2005-07-05 Thread W.Kenworthy
email them and ask :) My ISP has a web page (toolbox) that allows port blocking to be turned off or on - defaults to on to protect new accounts, but allows users to turn it off (25, 80, 139 445 - only all on or off unfortunately) as needed. BillK On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 02:07 -0300, Scott

[gentoo-user] kdedeltas

2005-07-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
I just noticed a new (maybe?) USE flag for kde called kdedeltas The description says [-] kdexdeltas - Makes kde ebuilds download binary diffs rather than entire new tarballs for every new release Can someone expand on this: is it a diff against the final stage1 binary (I doubt it), is it a

[gentoo-user] text browser with frames and javascript that actually works

2005-06-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is there a working text console browser that can use frames and javascript? I am trying to access a dlink dsl modem setup page via ssh'ing into a gentoo box behind it: lynx: no frames, doesnt do javascript links: blank display (zero sized pages), though it works ok on standard html elsewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] text browser with frames and javascript that actually works

2005-06-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
Thanks, worked great. Thinking outside the square! I had gotten into the train of thought that console must equal textbrowser. BillK On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 14:23 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: ... from pc at work: ssh -L :192.168.1.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-15 Thread W.Kenworthy
Gentoo is not designed to save space, or rather isnt worried about space is a better way to describe it. Some things you can do : delete /usr/portage/distfiles/* - can save lots, but often the same distfile is used for updates/rebuilds, so I would copy them to another system running rsync (point

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

2005-06-15 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 22:59 -0500, cothrige wrote: * W.Kenworthy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Gentoo is not designed to save space, or rather isnt worried about space is a better way to describe it. Well, I can understand this. With modern machines who exactly is using the kind of drive I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how do I know if the distcc works or not?

2005-06-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
Dont know if this has been suggested: edit /etc/conf.d/distccd on the distccd server and add this: DISTCCD_OPTS=${DISTCCD_OPTS} --log-level info This will log the daemons connects, successes and failures to to /var/log/everything/current on the distcc server. A quick check of the logs will

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread W.Kenworthy
emerge -fp system file on the system in question will list the critical files, and where to download them from. Its messy, but this can be edited into a clean list and fed to a downloader in some fashion. May make a considerable saving in download amount and time over a whole iso. Alt is there

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start

2005-05-24 Thread W.Kenworthy
check DNS/name resolution - sounds likes its waiting and timing out. One of my less appreciated features of gnome ... BillK On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still

Re: [gentoo-user] SLOTS and Cedega

2005-05-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Sounds good, need to add a wine-config (etc) and a hook to the new eclectic to manage the versions. BillK On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:54 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Hi all, Those of you that use Cedega probably know that some versions work better with some games than others. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Blue video playback

2005-05-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Do you have a laptop or multi-output video card? On my laptop system, I get video on the laptop screen, but only a frame around a bluescreen on the original monitor. Does this give a clue? BillK On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:57 +, Calvin Spealman wrote: This happens a lot. Currently, video

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop-Modular Bay HotPLug possible?

2005-05-04 Thread W.Kenworthy
Same here: I can swap the bay mounted cdrw with a floppy module for a short time, and as long as I swap it back before doing a software suspend all is fine. Any other combination (including leaving it out for extended periods) ensures a painful crash at inopportune moments. As well, my i82k has a

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-03 Thread W.Kenworthy
Sometimes you get a size of zero for an evolution pane. Looking carefully through your alcoholic fog, grab the edge of the left side of the right pane (the calendar pane) and drag it to the right. It looks like a narrow, dimpled vertical bar. BillK On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:27 +0100, José

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:50 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hello folks, ... I have 768MB of RAM and so far I haven't seen it use any swap. So I'm planning on a 256MB swap partition. Also, there will be a /boot which would be about 50MB. Traditionally swap was set to twice ram: I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
why are you concerned? bunyip root # euse -i aac global use flags (searching: aac) [+ C ] aac - Enables support for MPEG-4 AAC Audio local use flags (searching: aac) no

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
Rather than roll your own iptables script, use monmotha (its in portage) to get up and running. As well as better protection, you can eliminate iptables as the cause of your problems. BillK On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:38 +0600, askar ... wrote: Hello! Installed Gentoo 2005.0, stage3. --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
I beg to differ, as I posted previously I gave up on ext2/3 because of lost data - not everyone agrees that ext2/3 is the best fallback! Better performance with reiserfs3 as well as peace of mind goes against ext2/3 for me. As I said - YMMV - I have looked at my usage, number and type of

<    1   2   3   >