[gentoo-user] md5sum error

2005-08-08 Thread glumtail
Hi: When i use: md5sum -c stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2.md5 I got a result as below: stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso was downloaded via BitTorrent from gentoo.org Any suggestion? Thanks! --

Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

2005-08-08 Thread Arek Murzyn
- Original Message - From: Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200 Arek Murzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done something recently on my gentoo

[gentoo-user] Acer TM2313 NIC problems

2005-08-08 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi, I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this weekend. Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading, finding the card and

[gentoo-user] How do I emerge Evolution+eds with debug information?

2005-08-08 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, Evolution is crashing on me on start with the following output: ## snip ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ evolution es menu class init adding hook target 'source' (evolution:8059): camel-WARNING **: Invalid root: '/home/colding/.evolution/mail/local/Drafts.ibex.index'

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

2005-08-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi Tero, what I meant with redo my partitions was in the way that I will expand my gentoo partition (or try to). I have: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% / ^^ *might* be enough for a minimal system, but

[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] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:04:32 -0300, Francisco J. A. Ares wrote: Not a script, but I have some machines with /usr/portage NFS'd to a server (I'm thinking about doing the same with /var/tmp/portage/ also, but don't know how to lock it to avoid colisions). Putting PORTAGE_TMPDIR on an NFS

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

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on P7010: very quiet sound

2005-08-08 Thread Stefan Onken
Hello, I installed last week on my Fijutsu Siemens P7010 Notebook Gentoo. The sound is working fine after manuelly amending the modules for ALSA, but its very very quiet. Even with alsamixer and kdemixer set to the top I hardly hear anything. Any idea how to solve this ? And a another question:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on P7010: very quiet sound

2005-08-08 Thread Stefan Onken
Hi, I installed last week on my Fijutsu Siemens P7010 Notebook Gentoo. The sound is working fine after manuelly amending the modules for ALSA, but its very very quiet. Even with alsamixer and kdemixer set to the top I hardly hear anything. Any idea how to solve this ? ignore me... ;:) 1) I

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rebuilding with -e -- problem with output

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Raymond Lillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 August 2005 21:57 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rebuilding with -e -- problem with output Zac Medico wrote: Raymond Lillard wrote: Mark Shields wrote: Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum error

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:17:25 +0800, glumtail wrote: stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso was downloaded via BitTorrent from gentoo.org Any suggestion? Thanks! Download it again. md5sum is telling

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

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:45:36 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundstr_m wrote: udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev ^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste. Especially with that size. udev is a virtual filesystem, it's using 808K of memory, not 252M of disk space. udev appears to allocate half

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge Evolution+eds with debug information?

2005-08-08 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:15 +0200, Jules Colding wrote: I can not get any sensible debug information from bug-buddy. So how do I re-emerge evo and eds with debug symbols? Try USE=debug CFLAGS=-g emerge -1 evolution evolution-data-server. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: W.Kenworthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 03:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NE module, modprobe, etc. Experience across a number of cards on a number of machines (both running 2.4 and early 2.6 kernels)

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

2005-08-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 10:45:36 +0300 (EEST), Tero Grundstr_m wrote: udev 252M 808K 252M 1% /dev ^^ Why a separate partition for /dev? This is complete waste. Especially with that size. udev is a virtual filesystem, it's using 808K of memory, not 252M

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

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 08:46 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: It is up to you how to rearrange them but I

[gentoo-user] Arts problem

2005-08-08 Thread Marc Schlienger
Hi, I'm running Gentoo 2005.0 with gentoo-sources (2.6.12) on an AMD Athlon 64. I'am using alsa-driver. Sound is working with mplayer and with xmms even using the arts plugin. But it is not working in kde. Why ? Regards Marc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I emerge Evolution+eds with debug information?

2005-08-08 Thread Jules Colding
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:41 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: USE=debug CFLAGS=-g emerge -1 evolution evolution-data-server That was easy. Thanks, jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2005-08-08 Thread Tero Grundström
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 08:46 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: It is

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
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 :-) # emerge -avt imagemagick The following isn't

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

2005-08-08 Thread Sean Reiser
Fernando Meira wrote: Hi Tero, what I meant with redo my partitions was in the way that I will expand my gentoo partition (or try to). I have: # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M 83% / udev 252M 808K 252M

[gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
Hello, This is OT, but I'm kind of worried and google hasn't been my friend... * I'm doing backups of my server everynight and had the following errors in the mail from the cron output this morning. repeated a dozen of times. bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aug 8 03:17:00 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14366126) = blocks count(14366126) - block_group = 438, es == c2510400 [...] Aug 8 08:46:52 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14372149) = blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
Aug 8 03:17:00 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14366126) = blocks count(14366126) - block_group = 438, es == c2510400 [...] Aug 8 08:46:52 www kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_new_block: block(14372149) = blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] Media players

2005-08-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Norberto Bensa wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: It has radio, nice visuals, dvd, etc support. Much Since when does Windows Media Player have DVD support? Last time I looked at it, it couldn't play DVDs by itself. Yep. It does. You need drivers from your DVD player, Ah, so it does not play

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Check your temp partitions... --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
Le Lundi, 8 Août 2005 13.57, vous avez ecrit : bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device         Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Check your temp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
Norberto Bensa wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out. Possible reason follows. bzip2: No space left on device Input file = (stdin), output file = (stdout) tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Check your temp

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try fsck? nope :-( I'm a bit too afraid to try it. It's a production server with only one partition and it's located about 6000 miles away. If something goes wrong, I'll be really in a bad situation. I think I'll have to do it anyway, but I'm checking for

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

2005-08-08 Thread Dan Johansson
On Sunday 07 August 2005 19.40, Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 07 August 2005 19.22, Richard Fish wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Saturday 06 August 2005 20.43, Richard Fish wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Friday 05 August 2005 14.37, Holly Bostick wrote: Dan Johansson schreef: 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-08 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Found an easier way to do it instead of editting the adsl-connect script, for future reference. In /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf there is the following line: PPPD_EXTRA= (round line 136) you can list any extra arguments here that you would like to pass to pppd, like: PPPD_EXTRA=mtu 1352 mru 1352 logfd 1 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting default MTU for rp-pppoe

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Kain
thanks man I'll use that On 8/8/05, Ryan Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found an easier way to do it instead of editting the adsl-connect script, for future reference. In /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf there is the following line: PPPD_EXTRA= (round line 136) you can list any extra arguments here

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Gysin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with this, fsck won't change anything to my partition at all? nope. and what about this line from the output of tune2fs? Filesystem state: clean with errors Is it like critical or like informative? only fsck can tell... Since e2fsck _will_ find errors,

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] how to control portage space usage

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Tero Grundstrm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2005 11:21 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Tero

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Virtual Host

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote: Just a note for the future. Whenever you create a virual host that points to a directory you must create a directory container inside of the virual host container that sets up the permissions for the directory otherwise your will always get a 403

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

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:00:49 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote: Well, it has been practical enough for *my* needs. For a while I was running Gentoo on a small partition and having run aground on a couple of cases with a seized system during some mammoth emerge, I decided to set up a separate /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Acer TM2313 NIC problems

2005-08-08 Thread Richard Fish
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi, I've bought a new Acer TravelMate 2313. I've tried to install this weekend. Everything seemed to go fine but I don't have a network connection. The NIC is a SiS 900 PCI fast ethernet adapter. Looking at ``dmesg'' there everything looks O.K. I see the driver loading,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resuming operations after suspend.

2005-08-08 Thread Richard Fish
Pupeno wrote: Hello, I am tryngi to get suspend to ram working on my IBM Thinkpad G40 but I can't get it to turn on agan. I am able to put it on suspend with klaptop, by hand, or by closing it and this script: http://www.hardeman.nu/~david/thinkpad.php#suspend But it never comes up, wehn I

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

2005-08-08 Thread Richard Fish
Fernando Meira wrote: Ok, so running through that forum I decided to try out some of the scripts to clean stale distfiles. The first one (distcleaner-0.0.2) returned a lot of errors. The second (distmaint.py) was too weird. Finally, (distclean.sh) seemed to be ok, and freed 255 MB. I could

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread gentoo
How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. If it's not broken, don't fix it. I would take to system

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Christoph Gysin wrote: Check your temp partitions... What makes you believe this has something to do with /tmp? Just curious... He didn't read the whole message, saw disk full and said oh, his temp partition is overflowing. The correct answer here is that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. If it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:53:54 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached the output of e2fsck -n. Could you please tell me how bad it looks? Are there questions to which answering yes is dangerous? e2fsck 1.26 (3-Feb-2002) Warning! /dev/hda2 is mounted. That is done in a mounted

[gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set by the manufacture? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Aaron Nichols wrote: I was going to try the non-genkernel approach and see if that worked any differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this situation, but those do not use udev and none

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum error

2005-08-08 Thread glumtail
HI: install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso is ok stage3-authon-xp-2005.0.tar.bz2 and other stages (but not x86) is ok too I have downloaded stage3-x86-2005.0.tar.bz2 from several servers but has the same problem. 2005/8/8, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:17:25 +0800, glumtail

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

2005-08-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, glumtail wrote: Why not write a GLOBAL script for collecting some usefull information? And then just be included in every pages, store records in a particular file. This is a horrible way to do it. A lot of free stats services do something similar with a block of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

2005-08-08 Thread kashani
glumtail wrote: Hi: Why not write a GLOBAL script for collecting some usefull information? And then just be included in every pages, store records in a particular file. Because the first time you get any spike in traffic your performance goes to hell especially if done through a db with a

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set by the manufacture? -- #Joseph I think the issue might be the driver for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

2005-08-08 Thread daniel
you might want to check out awstats (emerge awstats) it's a very in-depth apache log analyser that'll parse combined-formated log files to capture all sorts of handy information and graph it to be pretty too ;-) barring that, you could write your own php (or whatever language you like) -based

Re: [gentoo-user] crypted key for dm-crypt

2005-08-08 Thread Pupeno
On Sunday 07 August 2005 04:39, Christian Hoenig wrote: Hi, Well, I have dm-crypt configured and running. It encrypts tha swap, a loopback for /tmp (with a random key), all this using the standard /etc/conf.d/cryptfs. Now I'd like to encrypt my home with a key instad of a passphrase,

Re: [gentoo-user] 16 colours xpm

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Raison
Use The GIMP 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. Uwe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set by the manufacture? -- #Joseph I think the issue might

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Roy Wright
Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set by the manufacture? -- #Joseph I think the issue might

[gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
First off, let me say that I know perfectly well that you can `emerge -C package_name` at any time. That's not what I'm talking about. What I want to do is to remove the built binary too. Let me explain what I do and what I'm trying to do in more detail... Sometimes, I like to be able to

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

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, On 8/8/05, Tero Grundstr� [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi Tero, what I meant with redo my partitions was in the way that I will expand my gentoo partition (or try to). I have: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G 3.8G 803M

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 20:52 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:03 -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a BenQ DW1620 DVD/RW drive but DMA is not set, even though it support it. When I try to set it using: using_dma -d 1 It will not let me. Was the limit set

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

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Sean,On 8/8/05, Sean Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: I have: # df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 4.6G3.8G803M83% / udev252M808K252M 1% /dev /dev/hda523G 20G3.3G86% /mnt/share /dev/hda1 9.8G8.0G1.8G82% /mnt/windows none252M 0252M 0% /dev/shm Options:-

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 20:16, lunedì 08 agosto 2005, Joseph ha scritto: I have tried hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd but it is not accepting the it. I can not set DMA on this DVD I just called BenQ and they don't support Linux; so don't buy BenQ products as they don't support Linux. In example of DVD/writer it will

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Roy Wright
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos' chipset into kernel-config. Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' file. Ex.(mine): hda_args=-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 // this is for my hard disk all_args=-d1

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

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Neil,On 8/8/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 14:00:49 +0100, Michael Kintzios wrote: Well, it has been practical enough for *my* needs.For a while I was running Gentoo on a small partition and having run aground on a couple of cases with a seized system during some

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

2005-08-08 Thread Fernando Meira
On 8/8/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My preference, since I normally mount with noatime, is:mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,atime(yes, I keep distfiles on a separate LVM volume!)emerge --deep --emptytree --fetchonly world(updates atimes)mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,noatimefind

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Rumen Yotov
Roy Wright wrote: Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, First thing to do is to make sure you have support for your mobos' chipset into kernel-config. Then emerge/install hdparm and have a customized '/etc/conf.s/hdparm' file. Ex.(mine): hda_args=-d1 -A1 -m16 -u1 -a64 // this is for my hard disk

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

2005-08-08 Thread Sean Reiser
Fernando Meira wrote: The question is...can you live without the windows partition? Well, maybe. The problem is that sometimes I need to use something that works only under windows (or better under windows). Besides that I only use windows for video-conference (I haven't found the

Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

2005-08-08 Thread YoYo siska
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:01:09AM +0200, Arek Murzyn wrote: - Original Message - From: Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:52 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:58:11 +0200 Arek

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

2005-08-08 Thread Luke Albers
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 14:54 -0400, Sean Reiser wrote: Fernando Meira wrote: The question is...can you live without the windows partition? Well, maybe. The problem is that sometimes I need to use something that works only under windows (or better under windows). Besides that

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

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:23:30 +, Fernando Meira wrote: You don't need to add partitions, because portage isn't hard coded to use any particular partitions. If you run out of space during emerges, you only have to change $PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere with more space than /var. Equally,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast to tune my fs. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Yikes. Y'know, what city is this machine in? One of us might be nearby and willing to talk the

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 13:25 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: royw-gentoo linux # dmesg | grep -i dma DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xF000 irq 14 ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 145226112 sectors: lba48 ata1: dev 1 ATA, max UDMA/133, 145226112

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:59:26 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: How the heck do you remove the old built binaries? They aren't simply put in '${PKGDIR}/All' like the manual says. There are a bunch of places that the different pieces go. A bunch of symlinks and new directories are created too,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Roy Wright
Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi Roy, Just guessing here but seems you have SATA drives not IDE, don't use/know much about SATA yet ;) but maybe this have something to do with the error on activating DMA, from the logs your hard-disk *is* using UDMA-133 PIO4 ? Could check BIOS-settings, other thoughts

[gentoo-user] Web classes - can't pass their windows compatibility test

2005-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Anyone want a challenge? ;-) I was interested in taking a web class later this afternoon. The signup page sent me this link in and email: http://prod1.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/SystemCheck/SystemCheck.jhtml and asked me to check my compatibility. Of course, being a non-Windows user

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Roy Wright wrote: -snip- I'm having the same issue with a Memorex DVD writer. Googling suggests making sure the IDE controller chipset module is loaded. My problem is that I don't see a config module option for Intel 82801EB (ICH5). Yes u are right, IMO it has nothing to do with CD/DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Web classes - can't pass their windows compatibility test

2005-08-08 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Anyone want a challenge? ;-) I was interested in taking a web class later this afternoon. The signup page sent me this link in and email: http://prod1.centra.com/SiteRoots/main/SystemCheck/SystemCheck.jhtml and asked me to check my compatibility. Of course, being

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-post:How to get jfs root partition to properly fsck on power failure?

2005-08-08 Thread Aaron Nichols
On 8/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Aaron Nichols wrote: I was going to try the non-genkernel approach and see if that worked any differently, as the grub configuration is quite different. I have examples of other distributions which work fine using jfs in this

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you can do it automatically with qpkg -I -nc -v | while read p; do touch --no-create $PKGDIR/$p.tbz2 touch --no-create $PKGDIR/All/$(basename $p).tbz2 done find $PKGDIR ! -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Since qpkg is being phased out, I guess the

[gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that also doesn't (overly) unneccesarily spin up the hard drive. I don't think that I'll use Reiser4, as it's lacking

Re: [gentoo-user] Web classes - can't pass their windows compatibility test

2005-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
Christoph Zac, Thanks. Guess I'm out of luck. cheers, Mark On 8/8/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: OK, I pass the first step (Browser Java) but it then goes on to check the network and all it does is go to a blank page after a message about popups.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:37:06 -0400, Matt Randolph wrote: Since qpkg is being phased out, I guess the equery way to do this is: equery -C l 2 /dev/null | grep / | while read p; do touch --no-create $PKGDIR/$p.tbz2 touch --no-create $PKGDIR/All/$(basename $p).tbz2 done Probably,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: Or you can do it automatically with qpkg -I -nc -v | while read p; do touch --no-create $PKGDIR/$p.tbz2 touch --no-create $PKGDIR/All/$(basename $p).tbz2 done find $PKGDIR ! -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Since qpkg is being phased

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:19:46 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: My system has two SATA WD Raptors for hard disks. I'm trying to get DMA working for the DVD writer which is IDE. I'd just like to eliminate the occasionaly hiccup when playing DVDs. This makes it more likely that the problem is lack of

Re: [gentoo-user] md5sum error

2005-08-08 Thread Zac Medico
glumtail wrote: HI: install-x86-universal-2005.0.iso is ok stage3-authon-xp-2005.0.tar.bz2 and other stages (but not x86) is ok too If the iso md5 checks then everything on it should be okay. You could be having problems with the cd drive or cd media though. If you have cdrtools then you

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:19:46 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: My system has two SATA WD Raptors for hard disks. I'm trying to get DMA working for the DVD writer which is IDE. I'd just like to eliminate the occasionaly hiccup when playing DVDs. This makes it more likely that

[gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Jorge Almeida
I've downloaded a KNOPPIX cd and burned it onto a cd via cdrecord (k3b having recently evolved to brain death). The command was cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc KNOPPIX_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.iso The sha1sum of the downloaded image is 51294cb7439a127efd36f819f636208163988972, which is what it's

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
I'm starting to believe that it has something to do with some option in the kernel that is not enabled. I just swap the CD/RW Plextor from the machine that is working OK on kernel 2.6.11 (where DMA is enabled and everything is working, CD/RW, except eject - but that is another story) into a new

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you remove packages made with --buildpkg?

2005-08-08 Thread Matt Randolph
Neil Bothwick wrote: find $PKGDIR ! -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; This line is wrong, it should be find $PKGDIR -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \; Oops! I should read more slowly too. Thanks again, btw. -- Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate - W. of O. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Zac Medico
Jorge Almeida wrote: I've downloaded a KNOPPIX cd and burned it onto a cd via cdrecord (k3b having recently evolved to brain death). The command was cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc KNOPPIX_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.iso The sha1sum of the downloaded image is 51294cb7439a127efd36f819f636208163988972, which

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Joseph
Problem SOLVED - but another problem pop-up. Writing to a disk is not reliable. I was right, I've missed some setting in the Kernel, Device Drivers: ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL Support (x) Sharing PCI IDE interrupts support (x) Generic PCI IDE Chipset support (x)

Re: [gentoo-user] eterm issue

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 09:01:09 +0200 Arek Murzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use udev and Legacy(BSD) with 2.6.12-r6. How to check if I use virtual terminal? How to switch to Unix98 - I can't find this option in menuconfig. It's on the same menu, just above the BSD pseudo terms.

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 00:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I've downloaded a KNOPPIX cd and burned it onto a cd via cdrecord (k3b having recently evolved to brain death). The command was cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc KNOPPIX_V3.9-2005-05-27-EN.iso The sha1sum of the downloaded image is

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 00:18 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I've downloaded a KNOPPIX cd and burned it onto a cd via cdrecord (k3b having recently evolved to brain death). The command was cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:40:36 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that also doesn't (overly)

Re: [gentoo-user] sha1sum of cd

2005-08-08 Thread Zac Medico
Iain Buchanan wrote: oops, I got lost in all the sha1sums...! I didn't realise the first and the last ones were the same. Oh well, it may be a knoppix bug then - is there a knoppix users list? The problem he reported is really quite typical of unionfs problems. No doubt, many other knoppix

Re: [gentoo-user] Media players

2005-08-08 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 13:59:48 +0200 Alexander Skwar wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: It has radio, nice visuals, dvd, etc support. Much Since when does Windows Media Player have DVD support? Last time I looked at it, it couldn't play DVDs by itself. Yep. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, On Monday 08 August 2005 23:40, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello! What filesystem(s) do you recommend for use on a notebook? I'm looking for a FS that's fairly stable even if all of a sudden the power goes away (battery empty) and one, that also doesn't (overly) unneccesarily spin up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Media players

2005-08-08 Thread Norberto Bensa
Alexander Skwar wrote: Norberto Bensa wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: It has radio, nice visuals, dvd, etc support. Much Since when does Windows Media Player have DVD support? Last time I looked at it, it couldn't play DVDs by itself. Yep. It does. You need drivers from your DVD

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

2005-08-08 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Version 3 should work... the internal filesize is a 64bit value... Do a search for NFS v2/v3 and you can read up on it all. (It is boring and just a simple footnote...) On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/2/05, Bryan Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, it could be you are using

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