[gentoo-user] Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread don
I have a system with an SATA hard drive, and two IDE cdroms. The kernel sees them as shown by these lines in /var/log/messages == Jul 7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hda: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Jul 7

[gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not great. Any ideas? Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin

[gentoo-user] Re:

2006-07-20 Thread Trenton Adams
Perhaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] should be removed from the list? I keep getting the following messages after sending something to the list... On 7/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General SMTP/ESMTP error. Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 20 Jul

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/19/06, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd recommend you emerge --nodeps xorg-x11 in order to change its USEflags to the ones you want (no compilation necessary), and then emerge -k to pull in the binary packages depended on by its new flags, which will save you the

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/19/06, don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system with an SATA hard drive, and two IDE cdroms. The kernel sees them as shown by these lines in /var/log/messages == Jul 7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hda: SONY DVD-ROM

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:06:13 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Running testing, most packages wb recompiled within a month anyway. I have a lot of testing packages, which run without problems. That's different to running a completely testing system, the vast majority of your packages are still

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm 1.12 vs 2.5.2

2006-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Trenton Adams wrote: There appeared to be a version bump around 1.12, according to gentoo change logs. This bumped it to 2.0. Does that mean that 1.12 is very similar to 2.0, and that the version bump was really the only change? The ChangeLog is for the ebuild, when we say version bump we

[gentoo-user] xorg 7, i810, and no 1600x1200

2006-07-20 Thread Jakub Łukomski
hi, i recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0-r1. after the upgrade everything works fine, except one thing. 1600x1200 resolution stopped working (it worked fine in 6.8). i've got an onboard intel video card, based on 915G chipset. the only part of Xorg.0.log that seems relevant is: (II) I810(0):

Re: [gentoo-user] remote login help

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:21:56 +0100 krgn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using ddclient to get to my router (which works) but can login to my machine behind the router (ssh for now, ftp and http later). Is that router a machine running linux or is it one of those little consumer appliances?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:32 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-20 Thread Cliff Wells
As a more useful bit of info than anecdotes and scaremongering, here's a decent article that covers XFS in fair detail and compares a few of its major differences from the other journaled filesystems: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs9.html The section on Journaling is

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL + Compiz + OpenGL issues

2006-07-20 Thread Andrew Frink
i have had a problem with missing visuals is xorg 7.1 with taht card... i think it's also there is some versions of 7.0, you have to get the right CVS date to get rid of them it would seem.sorry for the unhelpfulness but i just thought i would let you know you aren't the only one. On 7/19/06,

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:25:09 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not great. What are you missing (except the ebuild)? What functionality are you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7, i810, and no 1600x1200

2006-07-20 Thread William Kenworthy
You might have some luck using this: * sys-apps/855resolution [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.4 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 6 kB Homepage:http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier Description: Utility to patch VBIOS of

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:25:09 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a good eBook reader (software). No packages in portage that I could find. I found etr but no ebuild and its not great. What are you missing (except the ebuild)?

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL + Compiz + OpenGL issues

2006-07-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 20 July 2006 00:15, Jayson Vaughn wrote: I think this issue is probably caused a crappy vid carm, but I thought I'd check with you guys. I setup XGL + compiz recently. I have Xorg 7.1 and an intel i915 vid card. Everything runs fine and looks nice, but when I run another

[gentoo-user] scripts taking forever

2006-07-20 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
I installed Gentoo 2006.0 amd64 on a Athlon 64 3000 and i tried to configure ldap and pam, when i rebooted the starting udev ... and cleaning /tmp directory ... scripts caused a humongous delay, 4,5 min aprox. In the end, the system finally boots, but taking a lot of time! besides i cant make

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Ryan Tandy
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you suggested, and still *ALL* other video-drivers are shown in the list, and VIDEO_CARDS did not show the same content as

[gentoo-user] Portage elog mail

2006-07-20 Thread Grant
Will ssmtp +mailwrapper be enough to get Portage's elog mail module working to send email to my yahoo.com account? Do I need to set up any configuration on the ssmtp or mailwrapper end things? This is on my desktop and it doesn't have any other email duties. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re:

2006-07-20 Thread Grant
Is anyone else getting this when they send a message to the list? - Grant On 7/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General SMTP/ESMTP error. Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:00:27 +0300 (EEST) Action: failed Status: 5.0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re:

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else getting this when they send a message to the list? Someone asked a day or two ago...who was that? :-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140263 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7, i810, and no 1600x1200

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Jakub Łukomski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i could send a full Xorg.log and xorg.conf if needed. Yes please. At the very least, the Monitor, Screen, and Device sections of your xorg.conf. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ssh, public keys and ldap

2006-07-20 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
i justa installed a Gentoo on my machine and whenever i try to connect via ssh to other hosts the password does not work and eventually, i get the message: Permission denied (publickey, interactive-keyboard) hoy do i configure ssh (and ldap maybe?) so this does not happen anymore i intend to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Cliff Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a more useful bit of info than anecdotes and scaremongering, here's a decent article that covers XFS in fair detail and compares a few of its major differences from the other journaled filesystems:

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 install: bootstrap failed

2006-07-20 Thread Calvin Walton
On 7/19/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I just used the amd64(experimential) livecd to attempt an installation. Here's where it failed: Exception received during 'Performing bootstrap: Stage 1ERror: FATAL: stage1: Boostrapping failed! Should I have chosen another option other than the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 17:54 schrieb Ryan Tandy: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you suggested, and still *ALL* other video-drivers are shown in the

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem came when I wanted to INSTALL the packages on the target machine, where portage seems to ignore the VIDEO_CARDS variable from /etc/make.conf for some reason. Because it uses the VIDEO_CARDS variable from the binary package.

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/20/06, Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 17:54 schrieb Ryan Tandy: Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Nope, doesn't work. Same problem. I emerged with --nodeps the xorg-x11 package, with exactly the video-cards I want. Then I've tried the -k as you

[gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
When I run 'emerge --depclean' I get this at the end as output: Packages installed: 2305 Packages in world:1762 Packages in system: 64 Unique package names: 2283 Required packages:2322 1. It seems I'm missing 17 (2322 - 2305 = 17)

Re: [gentoo-user] Filtering spam for a business address

2006-07-20 Thread Preston Hagar
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/focus_spam_postfix/That's a great article.Where do you implement the changes hesuggests on the first page?I searched /etc/postfix/main.cf for the configuration options but they aren't there.- Grant-Just add them to main.cf and do a /etc/init.d/postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: match the target system. As Randy said, you cannot change the s/Randy/Ryan/g with apologies to Ryan. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7, i810, and no 1600x1200

2006-07-20 Thread Jakub Łukomski
William Kenworthy wrote: You might have some luck using this: * sys-apps/855resolution [ Masked ] I think there is also a 915 resolution at www.geocities.com/stomljen/download.html thanks for help, but unfortunately those are not of much use to me, because 1600x1200 mode IS present in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread PaulNM
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: When I run 'emerge --depclean' I get this at the end as output: Packages installed: 2305 Packages in world:1762 Packages in system: 64 Unique package names: 2283 Required packages:2322 1. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Vladimir G. Ivanovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run 'emerge --depclean' I get this at the end as output: Packages installed: 2305 Packages in world:1762 WOW! That is a *huge* number of packages in world! 1. It seems I'm missing 17 (2322 - 2305 =

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
Paul, Thanks for your help. One more question... Does 'emerge --update --deep' look for updates to packages like, using your example, pysol-sound-server, i.e. packages not in my world file? --- Vladimir On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 15:47 -0400, PaulNM wrote: They are dependencies of packages in your

Re: [gentoo-user] eBook reader

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:20:10 -0500 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically looking for text readers, although PDF, HTML and others would be nice. Need for it to be able to automatically save position, change fonts, fg/bg colors, etc. OK, I don't know of such multi-purpose

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0 upgrade question

2006-07-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/19/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to apologize for sending without thinking there. I'm not particularly good with names, and didn't at all connect you with the same MythTV user who's been posting all along. I realise how frustrating that probably is for you. That said,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7, i810, and no 1600x1200

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Jakub Łukomski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section Monitor Identifier miro VendorName miro ModelName P17F86i HorizSync 30-86 VertRefresh 50-160 Option dpms

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11, $VIDEO_CARDS binary packages

2006-07-20 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:40:39 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm wrong, but binary packages are BINARY (-k), so, you can't change their USE, because they're already compiled, they'll use the flags that were used by the time the package was created. If you install it

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:08:21 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: Does 'emerge --update --deep' look for updates to packages like, using your example, pysol-sound-server, i.e. packages not in my world file? emerge --update would catch this particular example. It updates the packages listed plus

[gentoo-user] Re: Re:

2006-07-20 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote: On 7/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else getting this when they send a message to the list? Someone asked a day or two ago...who was that? :-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140263 I have a theory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re:

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a theory and this response may help prove it. When I respond to the ML using a mail client I don't seem to get this problem . . . however, when I respond using a news-reader then I do! How do you explain this? No idea. filter of some sort on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Cliff Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the other well-known bit of info is that ext3 gets much of its reliability from syncing every 5 seconds. If you want to use XFS and get that sort of data reliability, here's a bash script to add to rc.local: ( while true; do sync; sleep 5;

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions on the number of packages listed by 'emerge --depclean'

2006-07-20 Thread Dale
Richard Fish wrote: snip emerge --prune --pretend world Do *NOT* run this command without the --pretend option. -Richard AMEN. BE VERY CAREFUL with that one. It can bite you badly. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Xmodmap with unnamed keycode [solved]

2006-07-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 18. Jul 2006, 23:10:31 +0200 schrieb Benno Schulenberg: Try this instead: $ xmodmap -e 'keycode 39 = s S 0x100017f ssharp 0x100017f ssharp' By the way: I found this by grepping for long s in /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc (on your install probably

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 22:28, giovedì 13 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: Okay. But what does 'equery belongs xdm' say? You really seem to have trouble reading and following instructions. Sorry, I mixed all things, sometime I already tried something, When you're asked what

[gentoo-user] grub

2006-07-20 Thread James
Hello, I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop. (big compile left to complete). The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c): root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 boot system then boots; Issueing the second command, grub finds the kernel with a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub

2006-07-20 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 21 July 2006 01:35, James wrote: Hello, I have mostly completed the installation of a new amd64 laptop. (big compile left to complete). The system boots if I use the command line option of grub (c): root (hd0,1) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 boot system then boots; Issueing

[gentoo-user] Re: Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread don
Richard Fish wrote: On 7/19/06, don don_reid at comcast.net wrote: I have a system with an SATA hard drive, and two IDE cdroms. The kernel sees them as shown by these lines in /var/log/messages == Jul 7

Re: [gentoo-user] grub

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks good, but try this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 Actually since you have a separate /boot filesystem, it would be more accurate to use: kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: grub

2006-07-20 Thread James
Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: looks good, but try this: kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 Actually since you have a separate /boot filesystem, it would be more accurate to use: kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 Yes both work. as well as what I decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread Justin R Findlay
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:01:23PM -0700, don wrote: No they don't. It sounds like you may not have some important ide kernel module loaded. I would check /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/ide/ first for modules to load and then look at the kernel IDE config. Justin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing device files for cdroms

2006-07-20 Thread fei huang
BTW: /dev/cdrom is required by some applications, e.g. eject. you may create a soft link by yourself manualy, so long as your actually device works, that's probably /dev/hda or /dev/hdb in your system.daniel.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gmail spam

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems to be a problem with Gmail (I haven't seen it). Well the only way this could happen is if his fetchmail setup (since General SMTP/ESMTP error is a fetchmail message) or his local qmail setup (just a guess based on the headers) was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/20/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why didn't the old syntax work? (separate partition for /boot) kernel /kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r13 When it worked from the command line of grub? To be honest, I'm not sure. Can you try something like this: root (hd0,1) title Gentoo Linux

proper use of package.provided (was: Re: [gentoo-user] package.provided)

2006-07-20 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: Great, I knew there must be a solution for this issue. Thanks for interpreting the man page for me ;) Perhaps it could be more clear what site-specific overrides means but now I know. Thanks again.

[gentoo-user] Howto recreate files in /dev?

2006-07-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! Yesterday, I managed to unmount /dev of a running system (which is an astonishingly stupid idea... :]). As I didn't know how to recreate the files in /dev (I'm using udev), I rebooted the system. But rebooting can't be the answer ;) How do I recreate all the dev files? Thanks,