Re: [gentoo-user] OT: gmail

2005-09-22 Thread danielhf
well, if you need one, tell me your address. On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:16:31PM -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I am sure I'll get flamed for this, but I am in need of a gmail account, anyone have one to give? Mike -- Michael W. Holdeman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-05 Thread danielhf
the problem solved already, i'll take a look at this later. thanks again. daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:35:51PM -0400, Greg Yasko wrote: On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:19:37 +0800, danielhf wrote: i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option

Re: [gentoo-user] gpasswd not function immediately?

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
yes, that's exactly what you should to make the command take effect. On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:46:40PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:35 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to create a crontab for my account using crontab -e. However system tells me I have no permission

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting problems with nVidia and OpenMosix kernel

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
i have got the same problem while installing the nvidia-kernel within portage tree on my 2.6.12-5 kernel. i solved it by commenting the line --- Load glx in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. i recommend downloading the latest driver xxx.run from nvidia.com and compile a module for your kernel. it worked for

[gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option blank while configure the kernel, but recently, i found i could not mount my cdrom, there is no such device at all! the /dev/cdrom and the like has gone! i test with my usb disk, and the /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
unfortunetly, hdc does not exist either. and dmesg does not show anything about my cdrom or hdc. just odd. On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:36:49PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: i upgrade my system to use udev instead of previously known devfs, and leave the devfs option

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:07:34PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. besides, why there is a register dump while i reboot, the error occures at /etc/init.d/halt.sh right after Unmounting filesystems. hehe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no error on reboot now, but i will try to switch to windows to see if the cdrom works well On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:07:34PM +0200, Sven K?hler wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
my BIOS infomation shows my cdrom is at the third IDE primary, so i do: mknod -m 660 hde b 33 0 and later i tried mknod -m 660 hdc b 23 0 the output: hdc is not a valid block device no luck. hde failed either, i give it up. ;-( thanks for all help. daniel On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:53:57PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
yes, it works just well in WindowsXP. it even works before i use udev. hehe i'm not sure it failed due to the udev, i have no idea now. On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:20:42AM -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: Alex Korshunov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:32:56PM +0800,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
i did read that document, to find the doc is trivial. what i got is just similar. the udev just create the device files which were detected by kernel, and handle the operations like add or remove dynamically. i tried this feature with my usb devices already, i really like the way udev works. i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting problems with nVidia and OpenMosix kernel

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
i'm not sure, i use a nvida card instead, i will recieve some error while there is a wrong module compiled or i have two module which locate at different path, this will occur probably when i update my driver. for example, i emerge nvidia-kernel and it is in /lib/module/`uname

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
there are two items there: ide-cdrom ide-disk but just empty directories. ?? On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:45:21PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. Are you really really sure?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread danielhf
i discover a something while examine my dmesg output. --Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 --ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx --Probing IDE interface ide0... --hda: ST380817AS, ATA DISK drive --Probing IDE interface ide1...

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread danielhf
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:28:21PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Before this gets into a flame war, let's just operate under the assertion that the best window manager/desktop environment is strictly a matter of personal preference. So, having said that, what window manager do you use, and

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-13 Thread danielhf
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:47:22PM +, Stefan K?gl wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be

[gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-12 Thread danielhf
i've found that i could not access the mounted directory with non-root users. 1. i chown directories under /mnt to the user, but so long as i mount, the permission of the specific dir will be changed to drwx-- and owner changed to root automatically. 2. i try to use a mount option

[gentoo-user] what's new with all those new packages?

2005-07-11 Thread danielhf
portage reminds me of updating packages frequently, i have to decide what to update, and if it's worth downloading? is there a easy way to see what's new of those packages to be updated? the ChangeLog within /usr/portage/xxx-xxx/ make no sense to me. thanks. regards daniel.. --

[gentoo-user] problem running qalculate (a calculator)

2005-07-06 Thread danielhf
is anybody using qalculator (the calculator) on gentoo? thay are masked by the keywords, so i added the packages in my package.keyword, and they where emerged as normal then. however, so long as i run qalc or qalculate, it complains that it could not load global definitions from

Re: [gentoo-user] acct: function not implemented

2005-07-03 Thread danielhf
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:12:11PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been looking for a program that can audit my system, it seems that acct just fit, however, as i run accton /var/account/pacct it complains: function not implemented, i searched the web, and somebody says the kernel

[gentoo-user] display image in links?

2005-06-15 Thread danielhf
is there a way to display images directly in links? i think it is possible, but could not find any option to turn it on, any ideas? thanks in advance, i have enabled the framebuffer for the console.. daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] display image in links?

2005-06-15 Thread danielhf
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:13:55AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to display images directly in links? i think it is possible, but could not find any option to turn it on, any ideas? thanks in advance, i have enabled the framebuffer for the console.. daniel --