[gentoo-ppc-user] DVD Playback in Gentoo?

2005-07-31 Thread Mike S
I am new to gentoo so first, let me say I am lovin it. However I am also new to a source distribution, so I may need a little leeway with the questions I ask. I have used now 3 different distributions, ubuntu, debian, and now gentoo, and in all of them the same thing has happened, whenever I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:44:00 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: (none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname cat /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb laeb.dyndns.org (none) mark # [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cat /etc/conf.d/hostname # /etc/conf.d/hostname # Set to the

[gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Martin S
I've looked at freshmeat and googled a bit (my terms seem a bit vague) I'm looking for software to keep a collection of research references and notes. I currently play with RefKeep, but - is there other such software out there somewhere? Anyone knows?Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] how to deploy a video lab?

2005-07-31 Thread Dimitar Toshev
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:15 +0600, simply change wrote: AybOwan! (=welcome) dear lu_zero, im a Sinhalease from Sri lanka. i have a small company here in lanka (video filming company ex:- wedding, parties filming). my editing tools are Adobe Premeir,after effect, etc like propriatary

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Hi, I am now looking for some sort of backup restore solution which would help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB should be enough for

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Fish schrieb: Alexander Skwar wrote: Richard Fish schrieb: Pupeno wrote: I use the dm-crypt from the kernel I've read that it is unsecure and I also read that it is not yet vory well suported. Dm-crypt is fairly well supported, since it is in

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-31 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 13:53, domenica 31 luglio 2005, Alexander Skwar ha scritto: How? /bin/crypsetup file-with-passphrase Where does the attacker see the passphrase? Oh. You took my example way too literally. *echo*ing the password is an extremely bad idea. You're of course right. But in reality I of

Re: [gentoo-user] PCMCIA Card detection issue

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Ian K wrote: Hi guys, I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-37 notebook here, and I finally have the Ricoh cardbus of hell working. :) I now, need to get the driver for my Linksys WPC11 Version 4.0 Card working. I insert the card, and upon a Well, from googling it seems that the driver is still

[gentoo-user] FYI: Gimp + xscanimage

2005-07-31 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I was struggling with getting gimp to accept xscanimage as a plugin but no matter what I did I always got this: --- /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/xscanimage: GIMP support missing. (gimp:19576): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: gimp:

Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Alexander Skwar wrote: Is it possible to encrypt the complete block device with loop-AES? Or does it only encrypt a file that's afterwards loop mounted? Yes. Everything that can be encrypted with dm-crypt can also be encrypted with loop-AES. For example, my laptop has two hard drives.

Re: [gentoo-user] dv-dvd encoding

2005-07-31 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 20:17, sabato 30 luglio 2005, Neil Bothwick ha scritto: Is playback in Kino also slow? If so, try emerging it with the ffmpeg flag. I don't know if it is still the case, but there were problems with libdv running very slowly on some amd64 system, mine included, and getting Kino to use

[gentoo-user] Problem with doing a system restore

2005-07-31 Thread Andrew Randles
Hi everyone I was hoping someone would have suggestion for me. My hard drive was going bad so I bought a new one and put it in. Instead of doing a complete reinstall I used dar and a usb harddrive to do a backup of the system. I then used a gentoo live cd (2004.2 or 3) and to get everything

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:44:13 +0200 Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at freshmeat and googled a bit (my terms seem a bit vague) I just used the search term bibliographic on Freshmeat and it seemed to come up with some stuff you may find useful. Then there's always esearch $

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: I am currently using 'dar' to backup to external USB hard disk. I thought of this too, but I don't know how to power-off usb-disk remotelly. On the other side, after burning and unmounting dvd-r, dvd-drive stops spinning (kind of overheating protection)... 5. chroot, 6.

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Jarry wrote: Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and 6., and to automate it with some scripts... Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if I would really recommend it. If you are using a stage 1.5 with grub, you would need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with doing a system restore

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Andrew Randles wrote: Hi everyone I was hoping someone would have suggestion for me. My hard drive was going bad so I bought a new one and put it in. Instead of doing a complete reinstall I used dar and a usb harddrive to do a backup of the system. I then used a gentoo live cd (2004.2 or 3)

[gentoo-user] mount ntfs partition crashes system

2005-07-31 Thread Kurt Guenther
This has been working forever, but I just did it today and it crashes the system. I just do this: # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs/ I have ntfs file system built as a module for the kernel: CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m Any ideas? --Kurt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Init Reloading

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
Under what conditions will init reload? I am a bit worried that in the past week or so I've seen two instances where it says that Init 2.8.6 is reloading. The second of which never came back: underneath the line that says Init 2.8.6 is reloading, a bunch of random characters were displayed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with doing a system restore

2005-07-31 Thread Andrew Randles
Thanks your reply helped me a lot. That was exactly what I needed. It turns out there are important files in /dev/ that are not dynamically generated. Thanks again, Andrew On 8/1/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Randles wrote: Hi everyone I was hoping someone would have

[gentoo-user] Re: backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread James
Chris Cox yeahsowhat at gmail.com writes: I am now looking for some sort of backup restore solution which would help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Richard Fish wrote: Jarry wrote: Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and 6., and to automate it with some scripts... Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if I would really recommend it. If you are using a stage 1.5 with

Re: [gentoo-user] mount ntfs partition crashes system

2005-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
Did you upgrade your kernel and forget to make modules_install? What kind of errors are you getting, kernel panic? -MikeOn 7/31/05, Kurt Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has been working forever, but I just did it today and it crashesthe system. I just do this:# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs/I

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Richard Fish
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux #Command (m for help): q ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951 You missed a few! :-) The actual number of 512-byte

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Richard Fish wrote: Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux #Command (m for help): q ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951 You missed a few! :-) The

Re: [gentoo-user] backup restore solution?

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really automates the process. But generally the steps are: 1. fdisk 2. mkfs 3. mount 4. restore files 5. chroot 6. install boot loader 7. reboot Partition image

[gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering if Unison is a good tool for helping me make sure the two copies of our music library are consistent? Local: /dev/sda1 mounted at /home/mark/music Remote: dragonfly:/Musiclib NFS mounted at /mnt/Musiclib These two directories started off identical at one point about 4-6

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-07-31 Thread Christian Floeter
I have problems emerging standard xmms plugins, like xmms-mikmod, xmms-mpg123, xmms-vorbis, xmms-oss, xmms-esd, xmms-alsa and xmms-cdaudio. All of these produce the same error while emerging (the following was produced by xmms-mikmod): [] generating symbol list for `libmikmod.la' nm

[gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
Hi, Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space should we reserve for that? regards pshemko -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: Hi, Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space should we reserve for that? regards pshemko The Gentoo Infrastructure Project [1] can probably help you. Apparently jforman and

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:05, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space should we reserve for that? http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo

[gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Daniel D Jones
Currently running KDE 3.3. I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1) [blocks B ]

[gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Tony Davison
Emerging kde-3.4.2 failed when emergeing kdebase-3.4.2 with this error. Making all in man make[3]: *** No rule to make target `man.protocol', needed by `all-am'. Stop. make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
Daniel D Jones wrote: Currently running KDE 3.3. I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1)

Re: [gentoo-user] XML-Parser missing -- is it bad perl? IT WAS

2005-07-31 Thread maxim wexler
That's one way. Perl-cleaner can also be found in /usr/portage/dev-lang/perl/files. #perl-cleaner allmodules did the deed. Thanks Holly. BTW, where are these modules and how do they differ from the ones residing under /lib/modules? __ Do You

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
Tony Davison wrote: Emerging kde-3.4.2 failed when emergeing kdebase-3.4.2 with this error. Making all in man make[3]: *** No rule to make target `man.protocol', needed by `all-am'. Stop. make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1) You currently

[gentoo-user] ffox compile fail

2005-07-31 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, for an emerge of mozilla-firefox after 12 of 14 this: [...] ar cru .libs/libdns-sd.a dns-sd-method.o ranlib .libs/libdns-sd.a grep: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.5/libstdc++.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:43:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: One possibly tricky part about this will be that in some cases we have found bad rips and have reripped files to fix that. In this case there is going to be a newer file in each either location with the same name but with a new size

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kde-3.4.2 failed.

2005-07-31 Thread Tony Davison
On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:59, Zac Medico wrote: MAKE_OPTS=-j1 -s CFLAGS =-02 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe CXXFLAGS= ${CFLAGS} CHOST =i686-pc-linux-gnu Any ideas guys? It's supposed to be MAKEOPTS, not MAKE_OPTS., and make -s means silent so you might get more clues if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Size of a gentoo mirror

2005-07-31 Thread Pshem Kowalczyk
Thank you all for that information. regards pshemko On 01/08/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2005 22:05, Pshem Kowalczyk wrote: Together with my boss we are thinking about mirroring gentoo (both distribution and packages) . Can someone tell me how much space

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread David Corbin
On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4*

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:43:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: One possibly tricky part about this will be that in some cases we have found bad rips and have reripped files to fix that. In this case there is going to be a newer file in each

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE

2005-07-31 Thread Zac Medico
David Corbin wrote: On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far I cannot even kill the thing. kill -9 pid or killall -9 unison act like they killed it but ps aux says the process is still there. It's even there if I try killing the gui in Gnome. The gui goes away but the process persists. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] ffox compile fail

2005-07-31 Thread Willie Wong
run fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 W On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:59:17PM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, for an emerge of mozilla-firefox after 12 of 14 this: [...] ar cru .libs/libdns-sd.a dns-sd-method.o ranlib .libs/libdns-sd.a grep:

Re: [gentoo-user] Error Emerging Liferea 0.9.2

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:37 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 03:56 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: ui_feedlist.o(.text+0x227d): In function `ui_feedlist_dbus_connect': : undefined reference to `dbus_bus_acquire_service' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:35 +, James wrote: Bill Roberts billbalt at eyeofthequark.com writes: I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. hdparm -Tt /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 3080 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec Timing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - looking for reference research software

2005-07-31 Thread Martin S
Thanks! Now I remember that I should have searched on that instead. I'll give pybliographer a shot. As it is closest to what I'm looking for, even if it's Gnome ... Regards,Martin S

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xmms plugins

2005-07-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 22:40 +0200, Christian Floeter wrote: I have problems emerging standard xmms plugins, like xmms-mikmod, xmms-mpg123, xmms-vorbis, xmms-oss, xmms-esd, xmms-alsa and xmms-cdaudio. All of these produce the same error while emerging (the following was produced by

[gentoo-user] New Zealand Gentoo Users

2005-07-31 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'd like to scope out the interest that New Zealand based Gentoo users would have to to establishment of a Gentoo Users Group specifically for NZ based users. The items to be established are: 1/ Is there sufficient interest? 2/ Is there anything to stop us using the term Gentoo Users New

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Glenn Enright
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran the same system with FC2 for quite awhile. 1394 worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Hints for using Unison?

2005-07-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/31/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 11:52, Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/31/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly this problem is really an NFS issue or a 1394 issue? Neither of these are overly tested, at least on my system under Gentoo. I ran