Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-10 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. As I have stated before I get around 230 FPS when [EMAIL PROTECTED] is

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Peter van Eck
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman wrote: Well I can't get the live cd to boot so I'll check back in a year to see if Gentoo has it's act togather yet. I do look forward to running Gentoo, someday. Alvin For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ My home page

[gentoo-user] Re: Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i've run the live cd and the installer on my MSI neo4 with amd athlon 64 3000+ and 1GB of RAM with no errors.. i just ran into a problem that i made myself by canceling the installation while still partitioning the system it deleted the partitions but that was easliy fixed. a bug in the installer

[gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/10/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do this safely? Thanks, Mark Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Stear
On Friday 10 Mar 2006 14:42, Harry Putnam wrote: snip I don't really understand the relationship between what you call a server and the actual disks. How is it different from just having the disks on an USB port? The external USB discs have a USB connector that plugs into the Linksys network

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Ghaith Hachem
i think this should be easy, make the new partition copy the contenet of /usr to it change your fstab to include the new modifications i'm not sure how to delete the old one after it's mounted maybe mount -o bind? or just boot a live cd and delete the content of your old /usr from there when you

Re: [gentoo-user] how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-10 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:49:28 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attempting to emerge www-client/amaya The tail end of emerge shows: i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++: ../redland/raptor/.libs/libraptor.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [../bin/amaya] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: It recognises my Nvida card [fx 5200] but when you get to the stage where the icons dissapear as stuff loads, when the last one goes the monitor shuts off. as is't booting from a cd there's no error log and nofb didn't help. Like I said some day Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] lost partition table

2006-03-10 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Ghaith, on Thursday, 2006-03-09 at 06:52:38, you wrote: help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition fdisk don't show it what can i do? is there a way to restore it gpart is the tool for that. If nothing works any more, you can use Knoppix or something. Then just start

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. Holy crap... good thing you are here to tell me this... guess I will have to pull Gentoo off of all my 1/2 dozen or so production servers and go back to

Re: [gentoo-user] weird error messages

2006-03-10 Thread znx
All those entries are stored in /etc/login.defs I guess they are set wrong? Here is it without comments: FAIL_DELAY 3 FAILLOG_ENAByes LOG_UNKFAIL_ENABno LASTLOG_ENAByes MOTD_FILE /etc/motd TTYTYPE_FILE/etc/ttytype FTMP_FILE

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Moore
Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you more familiar with your system I just finished (about a week ago) my first non-binary install of a linux distribution, compiling from a stage3, starting with the 2006.0 Gentoo Minimal Install CD. As

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Sergio Polini
Mark Knecht: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some problem with doing it this way. There are several hints in that topic. I did move my /usr to a new partition, so I'ld say: 1. create and format your new partition;

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Moser, Dan
-Original Message- From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now Gentoo is pretty stable.. the installer isn't try the old way it's way better and makes you

Re: [gentoo-user] weird error messages

2006-03-10 Thread James Ausmus
It sounds like either bash or baselayout was upgraded recently. Login as root and run etc-update, merge your configuraation changes appropriately, and you should be good to go. HTH- James On 3/9/06, nick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I logged into my box just now I received

Re: [FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] newbie livecd installation dual boot problems

2006-03-10 Thread Travis Osterman
I am a jfs user as well and would recommend (especially on a laptop) to add the line that was recommended above: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/hda2 to the bottom of your /boot/grub/grub.conf. Often when I hard reboot (power failures, etc), reading

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 10 March 2006 15:53, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I have an out of disk space problem machine. It looks like moving /usr to a new partition would be the best thing to do. How can I do this safely? go to the suse support database. Look up your question. They recommend tar (I did it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums: Funny enough, you asked almost the exact same question on 04 June 2004! http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/83253 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/10/06, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Very sorry to answer my own post. I found this link in the forums: Funny enough, you asked almost the exact same question on 04 June 2004!

[gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The ebuild needs a fix, or even better: upstream needs to be fixed. It's mentioned in bugzilla already (gentoo bugzilla, that is). I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you can simply change the directory to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. You're right, Gentoo is not 'stable' [1], and it never will be stable. It is functional and reliable however. But you need to know linux, your hardware,

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=121164 I'll proceed in this manner unless I hear back that there is some problem with doing it this way. There are several hints in that topic. I did move my /usr to a new

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Mark Knecht wrote: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. Now that you've broke it, I'd like to suggest to learn and refrain from using old fashioned partitioning. Instead, I'd strongly suggest to use LVM instead. With

[gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: how to track this down (emerge of amaya)

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I helped myself by compiling manually. The same problem occurs, but you can simply change the directory to Amaya/WX/redland/raptor, type make, return to Amaya/WX/amaya and continue building with another make. This would also give you a more current

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Bliss
On Friday 10 March 2006 09:43, Mark Knecht wrote: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) To

[gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I've hit this problem before but never did have to get it sorted because the package I was after was actually installed already. I'm installing amaya by hand since the ebuild fails and its pretty old anyway. I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage for mesa libs I

RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-10 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 9:12 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] antivirus -Original Message- From: Bob Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 March 2006 21:05

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Josh Helmer
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is auto-magically generated by mount. Josh --

Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:10, Harry Putnam wrote: Ok, Its the only ebuild available and following that advice for ever will not explain how to get aroud this circular masking problem. It's not a circular masking problem, mesa is package.mask'd, as in

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Bliss
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. Don't touch mtab. mtab is

Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 10 March 2006 17:58, Uwe Thiem wrote: did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Well, strangely enough, I have a machine on the other desk not doing anything which is running 2.6.14, and 3 DFE-580TX

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 10, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Eric Bliss wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
--- Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flame In all seriousness, if your too lazy to sit down with the minimal CD and a pile of docs for your first install then Gentoo is probably NOT for you. Also, there is no reason to go

[gentoo-user] problems emerge'ing amavis-new

2006-03-10 Thread Nick Smith
i get this when i try to emerge amavis-new: Unpacking amavisd-new-2.3.3.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/amavisd-new-2.3.3-r2/work * Patching with qmail qmqp support. * Applying amavisd-new-qmqpqq.patch ...

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Sergio Polini
Mark Knecht: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of things...) That happened to me too ;-) But the reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Very funny! Thanks for finding it! LOL, well it's not really like I was trying to find it. Truth be told it was my software that found it. I wrote a few scripts to archive all my gentoo-user mailing to a MySQL database (88,132

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Antoine
Sense we're on it though, why would they put out a broken product? If you have to install gentoo from a stage tarball why devlope a live cd that can't even boot right? Maybe because the devlopers understand that if gentoo is to become populare beyond the geek squad they'll have to have

Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 March 2006 20:19, Mike Williams wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 17:58, Uwe Thiem wrote: did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Well, strangely enough, I have a machine on the other desk not doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Freitag, 10. März 2006 19:44 schrieb A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman: Bill Gates can sleep good...they even have voice software [8=) Stop trolling and grow up. -- --- Heiko. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 10 March 2006 19:00, Uwe Thiem wrote: Would you please shed some more light on this? I am under a deadline here and need it to work by Monday. ;-) Sure. I booted the machine, ran genkernel to find and compile the driver, then restart coldplug. ifconfig -a then listed all 5 real

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Holly Bostick
A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that non-geek=normal -- with geek being defined by these so-called normal

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On 3/10/06, Sergio Polini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht: Well...I did my best, but it wasn't good enough. The machine no longer boots to any level that a user could use. I'm told there are lots of messages on the screen about being unable to find files. (/usr/bin, /usr/sbin sort of

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Moser, Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:44 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now -Original Message- From: Dave Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 10,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Dave Moore
But of course, I'm out of here; pointless flame-fests are not my idea of a fun Friday night. Well said. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(+) s+: a24 C++ UBL++ P L++ E--- W+++$ N+ o? K? w O? M-- V? !PS !PE Y PGP- t++ 5++ X+ R+++ tv+ b++ DI D++ G e+ h-- r++ y+

RE: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman
-- Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of piling on opinions, I agree as well, after doing 15 or so compiled installs, I have moved to the installer for the simple fact of needing to speed up my deployment. My only complaint with the compiled installation is that it takes

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:32 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: As for insulting the developers I said I looked forward to when they had something I [a normal person] could use You know, it just occurs to me to question this often-heard assumption that

[gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Ash Varma
Hi. I get the following error in my logs.. Should I be looking at replacing this drive.. This is on a machine that has been up for well in excess of 2 years at this stage.. Thanks WARNING: Kernel Errors Present end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda)...: 1 Time(s) hda: dma_intr:

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Ash Varma
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:44 -0500, Michael Crute wrote: It may not be the drive. I would start by checking the ribbon cable and replacing that before you go out and buy a new drive. OK Thanks.. Will do..

Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Harry Putnam wrote: I need Mesa libs onboard (its not mandatory ) so looking at partage for mesa libs I find: media-libs/mesa [ Masked ] Latest version available: 6.4.2-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] If you have xorg-6.8.2 installed, then you already have Mesa

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
Michael Sullivan wrote: Amen to that. The US government has labelled me mentally disabled, and I still managed to successfully install Gentoo on three different PCs... If someone like me can do it, anyone can. Well, maybe you've *GOT* to be mentally disabled to be able to install and

[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include files. I've downloaded and installed most of it not they look like: ls -F /usr/local/include/ GL/ GLES/ /usr/local/include/GL: GLwDrawA.h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rsync backup problem2

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
2. How do other gentoo'ers achieve backup onto a windows machine? In my case, with dd and gzip. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Apache security tips

2006-03-10 Thread Jim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey group, I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a url filter to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I enabled the glx, but it seems the speed is still slow. $ glxinfo | grep rendering direct rendering: Yes The output of glxgears is about 130 FPS. I use intel_agp. Yes, it's not a particularly powerful card. Since direct rendering is now enabled, that's about

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1:1 alais help

2006-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 04:54, Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] eth1:1 alais help': Michael W. Holdeman wrote: I have a wireless card in my laptop, setup on all my ap's it is assigned 192.168.14.102. My vm-ware is setup to use samba to share the drives on

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable glx

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
As I have stated before I get around 230 FPS when [EMAIL PROTECTED] is running and it jumps to around 1300 FPS when I stop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing else changed. This is an Radeon 9000 Mobility. Make sure you have nothing else running and see if that makes a difference. The Rage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 10 March 2006 18:22, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Back in the soup [circular mask problem]': Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: equery files xorg-x11 | grep -i mesa Yes of course, what I need is I guess the developer set with include

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Ryan Tandy
Ash Varma wrote: hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }...: 1 Time(s) Every time I have ever seen this error, it has been because of a drive getting ready to die. It could be the ribbon, but have a backup ready just in case. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Ash Varma
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 18:30 -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: Ash Varma wrote: hda: dma_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }...: 1 Time(s) Every time I have ever seen this error, it has been because of a drive getting ready to die. It could be the ribbon, but have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Joe Menola
On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote: thanks... ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline and replace the drive... Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills it completely. My advice is don't use the drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Ash Varma
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 20:55 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote: thanks... ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline and replace the drive... Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what

[gentoo-user] Gentoo 2006.0 on HP DL580

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Madden
Has anyone gotten Gentoo 2006.0 installed using the x86 livecd installer on a HP DL580? On my DL580, it loads the cciss driver and the partitions show up in /proc/partitions. However both the console and gui installation don't find a hard drive to partition. The console installer crashes while

[gentoo-user] Network Speed

2006-03-10 Thread Statux
I noticed something today. For some reason, when I'm running a Gentoo Live-CD to rebuild this system (as I am now in the finishing stages of once again) I get really speedy data xfer rates over my cable link pulling files from portage mirrors. I noticed that 1.2MB/s was average which is correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache security tips

2006-03-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked: I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the security of Apache. I am running Apache/2.0.55. Is apache good with handling bad URL's? I remember with an IIS server I use to have I needed to install a

Re: [gentoo-user] weird error messages

2006-03-10 Thread nick thompson
James Ausmus wrote: It sounds like either bash or baselayout was upgraded recently. Login as root and run etc-update, merge your configuraation changes appropriately, and you should be good to go. HTH- James James, etc-update did the trick. thanks to all who replied. you guys are great!