Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 16:29 schrieb ext Frank Schafer: ... if I remember right it has. You'll have to remove your graphics card so that the kernel sends everything to the first serial port found. Of course NOT. If the kernel has support for a serial console, it will send output to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 07:28 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is there a way to do it under VMware? I got a little confused reading your email. Are you running VMWare on Linux or on Windows? If on Linux, you can resize virtual disks with vmware-vdiskmanager. You will

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-18 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
Hi, while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, this sounds a lot like the behavior you would see back in the day when you set the mouse protocol to PS/2 when the mouse device was really a serial mouse, or vice versa. Try changing the mouse protocol in the xorg configuration file and

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge without deleting?

2005-04-18 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:32 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: Is it possible to unmerge an ebuild without deleting the files? In other words, is it possible to unmerge to a package in case you want to re-merge it in the future without having to rebuild? Thanks Robert The easiest way is to

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:02:26 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | it just annoys me. Its has been like that for at least a few weeks, it | doesn't inspire me to use vr.org, it doesn't instill me with | confidence in the people who actually vet these ads and put them on | gentoo's front page.

[gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Frank Schafer
Hi list, I try to setup a network printer attached to a Wondies printserver. I have CUPS and Foomatic installed and try to follow the instructions of the Gentoo printing-howto. foomatic gives me an error: foomatic-configure -s cups -p Canon-imageRunner_330s -n Canon -c smb://steffi/Canon\

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Harald Arnesen
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some | journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 | (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). If you

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerging kde-3.3

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:25:02 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: Your solution worked, but I needed one extra step. I had to qpkg -I -v -nc -g kde-base | grep 3.3.2 | xargs emerge -C after I qpkg -I -v -nc -g kde-base | grep 3.3.2 | xargs emerge -Ca Couldn't you just respond y to the query

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: start up the whole free imacs flamewar again, mkay? You Watch too much southpark. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:54:35 up 2:30, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.29, 0.34 --

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:33 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: foomatic-configure -s cups -p Canon-imageRunner_330s -n Canon -c smb://steffi/Canon\ iR2270\/iR2870\ PCL6 -d hpijs Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Foomatic/DB.pm line 3427. lpadmin:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi, I also couldn't resist to answer :-) the choice of the right FS tends to be some kind of religion... ??? But we use gentoo and we decide on facts. Didn't we? :-) The gentoo-father Daniel Robbins gives us a brief introduction to the differnt FSs. See

[gentoo-user] xbindkeys

2005-04-18 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello, I try to run xbindkeys on startup I put it in /etc/conf.d/local.start I have a .xbindkeysrc in both homes (me and root) When I launch xbindkeys manually, it starts normally and I can use the resource file (.xbindkeysrc). But I have this message at each reboot: Error: xbindkeys not found

Re: [gentoo-user] xbindkeys

2005-04-18 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 04/18/05 avril Al Bayrouni [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: Hello, I try to run xbindkeys on startup I put it in /etc/conf.d/local.start I have a .xbindkeysrc in both homes (me and root) When I launch xbindkeys manually, it starts normally and I can use the resource file

Re: [gentoo-user] xbindkeys

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 12:34 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: I don't know about launching it sitewide, but starting xbindkeys automatically per user is very easy. If you use eg xfce, just put a link to it in ~/Desktop/Autostart. For kde or gnome there are specific places to make a link.

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Frank Schafer
Thanks! Well, I know this. As I said, I'm printing to a Wondies server. This one isn't owned by me, so renaming the printer isn't a choice. I found something more on the CUPS documentation: To configure CUPS for SAMBA, run the following command: ln -s `which smbspool`

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Stroller
On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:50 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Note: this is *entirely* separate from the crap that shows up sometimes on store.gentoo.org. The store isn't run, owned or operated by the Gentoo Foundation -- it's a private thing that's only around because the owner has Gentoo held by the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 09:45:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit /etc/passwd /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home directories? (Without Gentoo actually

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:00:59 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: And that's a good point: /var/portage gets pretty full of hundreds of megs once in a while, and so does /usr/portage/distfiles and (in my case) /usr/portage/packages - so how could portage clean up by default the binary packages I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:21:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I read about vdiskmanager, but it does not offer that capability. And Vmware _does_ have this capability if you're running Windows as the Guest OS in Vmware. Have you installed vmware-tools into the guest OS? Once you do this, and run

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-18 Thread Robert Svoboda
* Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-17 04:40]: - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2 patch? Or will it only apply cleanly to a vanilla kernel? I patched my standard gentoo kernel this way:

[gentoo-user] Re: konqueror (kde icon) right click menu question

2005-04-18 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Monday 18 April 2005 14.02-n, Neil Bothwick ezt rta: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:34:26 +0200, Botykai Zsolt wrote: Remembering the old Suse and Debian days I really loved one feature in KDE: right click on an (or on a group of) icon(s) then select the Move to or Copy to item from the menu,

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 08:43 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le vendredi 15 avril 2005 à 13:51 +0200, Dirk Raeder a écrit : do you have a CPU that can modulate its frequency? I don't think so (it's not a laptop). How do I check that ? In that case, activate

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu/etc

2005-04-18 Thread Keith Gable
It's actually a Mozilla thing. The Mozilla apps are usually individually hacked so often you can't run one piece of XUL code on another Gecko engine. i.e. Nvu won't work if you run it as chrome in Thunderbird. There's work on this and it should land for Firefox 2.0 or Firefox 1.5, and it's called

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread A. R.
Hello, I have had experience with reiserfs in the past (When I used to use Slackware) And I never had any problems with it. Currently I am using XFS on a laptop and so far so good (I has only been 4 months). XFS seems to be very, very fast. IMHO you cannot go wrong with either reiserfs or XFS.

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:38:24 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:50 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Note: this is *entirely* separate from the crap that shows up | sometimes on store.gentoo.org. The store isn't run, owned or | operated by | the Gentoo Foundation --

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:38:24 +0100 Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:50 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Note: this is *entirely* separate from the crap that shows up | sometimes on store.gentoo.org. The store isn't run, owned or | operated by | the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: konqueror (kde icon) right click menu question

2005-04-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Botykai Zsolt wrote: I just emerge kde-meta one day before (according to kdeaddons-meta Changelog) konq-plugins was added to kdeaddons-meta dependecy list. So after emergeing konq-plugins it's there now. But it's a bad policy IMHO. After changing (adding a dependecy) the ebuild should get a new

[gentoo-user] bash script question, strange grep

2005-04-18 Thread Botykai Zsolt
Hi 4 everyone, I have a little problem: i have a file list in /tmp/iadmos (contains 28 file name which are in the current directory, i made this list with: egrep -il 'trt_attr.*[,]iadm' t*.dcl /tmp/iadmos then I want to cut out the files which don't contain the string 'NOIADM'. So I did:

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-18 Thread Devon Miller
Brix has been maintaining a suspend2_sources ebuild that handles the patching. http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/overlay/sys-kernel/suspend2-sources/ dcm Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-17 04:40]: - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2patch? Or will it only

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
To configure CUPS for SAMBA, run the following command: ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb ENTER I do not have samba installed. Will I need a further USE flag? Will I need to reemerge everything after the USE flag changes (See the empty ''Advanced'' tab in

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Keith Gable
On 4/18/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the store is owned by drobbins, and if I buy from the store I'll donate tohim? If this is the case, then that's not exactly the way I thougt it to be, but it's okay for me.Christoph--echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/18/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:52:56 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: What am I missing here? Am I supposed to make some edits to /etc/conf.d/net? That might make sense but I'm not sure what to do. If so where do I get /etc/init.d/net.wlan0? Copy

Re: [gentoo-user] bash script question, strange grep

2005-04-18 Thread Edward Catmur
then I want to cut out the files which don't contain the string 'NOIADM'. So I did: for i in `cat /tmp/iadmos` ; do egrep -lv 'NOIADM' $i ; done which gave me all 28 file name. I wondered about it, so I tried: for i in `cat /tmp/iadmos` ; do egrep -l 'NOIADM' $i ; done which gave

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Christoph Gysin
Keith Gable wrote: From Googling, it looks like you'll be helping to pay his bills and his $20,000 worth of Gentoo-related debt... I haven't been around that long so I don't know for sure. That's why I spent money in the shop. I heard of his 20'000$ debts, caused by working on gentoo instead

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Pavel wrote: Since I put Gentoo on my workstation (2 years ago ) , never had segfaults with reiser3fs ;) I prefer ***CENSURED*** for my /usr/portage , reiserfs for my /usr,/var,/boot,/home and XFS for my isos and music ssshhh don't ever mind at that file system if ciaranm is around ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:52:55 -0400, A. R. wrote: Currently I am using XFS on a laptop and so far so good (I has only been 4 months). XFS seems to be very, very fast. XFS is probably a poor choice for a laptop, as it is the most likely to suffer data loss in the event of a power failure. I

[gentoo-user] Wireless: Driver for BCM94306

2005-04-18 Thread revolt
Hello, I bought a new notebook compaq presario r3340us and they come with Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g wireless device, i have installed a gentoo 2005.0 amd64. the point is...the driver for windows (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php) cause a segfault e complete crash out

[gentoo-user] OT - Slow sendmail

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
Ever since I installed Gentoo on my server box SMTP to the server and mail sent from the command line on the server has been slow. I looked it up on the sendmail FAQ, (Q3.12) and they said that I could add: define(`confTO_IDENT',`0s')dnl to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and m4 the file to

[gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen to be. I've heard of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment - that way I can retrieve them wherever I happen

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
Joseph wrote: Asterisk - for answering system (might be overkill) Hylafax - for fax server Hmmm - That was my take on Asterisk too... if it really is the best way to do a voice-mail system - then I guess I should take the plunge... I'd still be interested to know if there are viable

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Heinz Sporn
Hi! If it's anything worth let me share my FS experiences. As a home user I tried EXT2/3, XFS and Reiser. Switched completly from EXT3 to XFS a couple of months ago for better performance. Survived a power fail without a single problem. In the contrary I failed two times running Reiser 3.6. In

[gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-18 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon, I had intended on starting my conversion from Suse 9.1 to Gentoo over the weekend, but the weather turned out to be way to nice to remain indoors. But in my planning stages I realized I have a bit of a longer learning curve than I initially anticipated. So, I'm going to remedy

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: I've been trying to work through the Gentoo Hardware 3D instructions: Are you using a 2.6 kernel? Did you follow the instructions at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building (the drm and mesa parts)? Did you disable DRI support in the kernel config ? Did you put

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: I kinda avoid ext(2|3) for pure prejudice. Don't have anything to complain about them, but when I migrated from Mandrake, I left behind everything that had anything to do with RPM distros*. Since they use ext3 as default FS, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Driver for BCM94306

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Max, I have a Compaq laptop also.I've never set it up for wireless so I decided to give it a shot. I happen to run ck-sources at the moment. Interesting results: flash linux # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present flash linux # lsmod | grep ndis

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread A. R.
Huh? I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery at least gives me a chance to gracefully shut down the computer. Maybe I made a newbie choice, but so far, no problems yet. Regards, -AR On

Re: [gentoo-user] arts runs cpu overload and kills

2005-04-18 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Maybe a setting got hosed somewhere... You've _probably_ done this already, but double check the Hardware settings for artsd. The defaults (and safe) options are Alsa, with nothing else checked on the Hardware tab. -Richard Further oin this, If I emerge alsa-lib like emerge -u world

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I've been trying to work through the Gentoo Hardware 3D instructions: Are you using a 2.6 kernel? Yes. Did you follow the instructions at http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building (the drm and mesa parts)?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
I think you didn't got my point. I'm not saying that other distros can't use ext3. I just got mad with having to chase RPM dependencies and started hating RPM distros. The fact that they (Mandrake, RedHat, Fedora, Conectiva, etc) use ext3 as default made me hate ext3 too. I know now that it was

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Jarry
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Strange how Jarry is quiet about all this... I'm counting votes, and waiting for some final decision to come. I can not contribute to this discussion, because I have absolutely no experience with journaling filesystems at all. That's why I asked... Up

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Driver for BCM94306

2005-04-18 Thread revolt
Hi Mark, I've made a test with 64bit driver for windows and everything goes well...even when I run iwlist wlan0 scan, I can find my Access Point, but if i try to ping.I have a segfault... in my point of view, the problem are the version of ndiswrapper in portage. Any clue? Max Em Seg,

Re: [gentoo-user] portatge 4Q-2002 / 3Q-2003

2005-04-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:59:33 -0600 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In addition to current portage: 3Q-2004, I still have in | portage/profile/updates: 4Q-2002 / 3Q-2003 | | Do I need them? | Is it safe to remove it? Step away from the updates files! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Sometimes that happens, too much information. If I had to make a decision, in your case, I'd use ext3. Everyone said it was stable, reliable. All the others show some cases of failure. Maybe you can put two test volume with reiserfs and xfs with data that is not really significant and benchmark,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Stroller
On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:33 pm, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I am looking at cobbling together a replacement for my antiquated hardware answer phone... Ideally I'd use my existing Voice/Fax Modem - and have voice mail messages delivered to me as emails in some appropriate attachment ... I've been doing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Slow sendmail

2005-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
I thought it might be a DNS problem too (the sendmail FAQ said that it might be) but when sending mail while logged onto the server box took a long time too I discarded the idea... On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:27 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Michael Sullivan wrote: Ever since I

RE: [gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I just can't get my head around why you would want or need to do a total rebuild. I myself can't imagine _wanting_ to do a rebuild, but needing to, yes. Flood, tornado, theft, etc . Users have work to do. Let's see, what's my SAMBA configuration? And those SQL databases looked

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml stated If you use a 2.4 kernel, make sure the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is off. The X11-DRM package will provide its own. 2.6 kernel users should enable the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) as the X11-DRM package currently does

[gentoo-user] warning about missing signatures in Manifest-files

2005-04-18 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, During the last day or two, when using 'emerge ...| esync' receive too much warnings about missing signatures in Manifest files, does somebody also has such problems? Till now for a week didn't have warning like these. Could repair this by removing 'gpg' from FEATURES but don't want to. TIA.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread James Hiscock
What do other gentoo users do for answer phone and/or fax services for a POTS line? You might want to check out vocp (http://vocpsystem.com/) as an alternative - there's a (horribly experimental - read: partially completed) ebuild for it on bugs.gentoo.org... I'm still trying to tweak stuff to

[gentoo-user] OT: Capturing caller id data...

2005-04-18 Thread Dave Nebinger
I've got caller id on my home phone line. Is there a way to throw a modem on my gentoo box in order to capture and log the caller id data? I don't want to set up a pbx or answering machine or anything like that, I just want to capture the incoming caller id info. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Capturing caller id data...

2005-04-18 Thread James Hiscock
Is there a way to throw a modem on my gentoo box in order to capture and log the caller id data? I don't want to set up a pbx or answering machine or anything like that, I just want to capture the incoming caller id info. I suspect you could do that by just setting up vgetty, but never

[gentoo-user] emerge -uDv --newuse world want a lot of java (aka teach me DEPEND)

2005-04-18 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Ola' can someone explain what is trying to emerge the two blackdown java vm ? Also strange is that -java* Related stuff: a) The box (~x86) has finished yesterday the following sequence: # emerge -ev world # emerge --sync # emerge -uDv --newuse world # emerge -uDv --newuse world #

Re: [gentoo-user] System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: I'll choose the simpler cronjob solution, thanks. Anyway, isn't that a kernel bug ? How sould I report this ? Well, from googling around, it seems that a few seconds per day of drift between the system clock and hardware clock is considered perfectly normal, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Can you validate that in real-life?? Since I see my CPU usage is 80% all the time. Need to know if it's RAM or CPU dependent. Well, that sounds more like a software configuration problem. For me, if the virtual machine is idle, the CPU usage of VMWare is 2-3%. But I

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild error on python

2005-04-18 Thread Chris Bare
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Chris Bare wrote: I'm not sure what I should do at this point. Do I still need python 2.2.3 at all? can I safely unmerge it? Or should I force python-2.2.3-r6 to be installed? Im no Python expert but since emerge uses Python I would be loathe to remove it without

[gentoo-user] Fax Server that can email Tif image

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I'm interested in finding out if I can set-up my Gentoo box to replace my fax machine. Can it then be set-up to email me the received faxes automatically on receipt. I travel a lot for work and it would be REALLY useful. Regards, Richard -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

[gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and wlan-ng

2005-04-18 Thread Chris Bare
I recently upgraded my laptop to the 2.6.11 kernel and am trying to get my wifi working again. It worked under 2.4 with the linux-wlan-ng package. I followed the instructions in the bug and built it for 2.6 by turning off the sandbox. It appears to build fine, but here's what I get in

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Watson
I'm attempting to get wireless up and running. First time on Gentoo. I have used ndiswrapper on FC2 which this machine used to run so I have ESSIDs, mac addresses and keys that are known good. I've emerge the wireless-tools stuff and have an edited /etc/conf.d/wireless file with my

[gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Lingyun Yang
Hi all, I met a problem when I reboot from using eth1(wireless) to eth0, I can't connect to internet, and after I delete one of the default route it works, restart eth0 doesn't work for me. My home network: notebook eth0 -Switch ---Gentoo(Iptables)---cable modem-- Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:00:00PM +0200, Jarry wrote: Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Strange how Jarry is quiet about all this... I'm counting votes, and waiting for some final decision to come. I can not contribute to this discussion, because I have absolutely no experience

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B compilation error

2005-04-18 Thread Luis Felipe Strano Moraes
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:14:40PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:00:17 +0200 Al Bayrouni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status | message. ^^ Try checking bugs.gentoo.org to see if your problem hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS printing

2005-04-18 Thread Joseph
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 11:33 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: I try to setup a network printer attached to a Wondies printserver. What is Wondies printserver? I've recently tired freesco as a print server and it passed with flying colors 5min. setup; printing from linux and windows98. -- #Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax Server that can email Tif image

2005-04-18 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, Hi - I'm interested in finding out if I can set-up my Gentoo box to replace my fax machine. Can it then be set-up to email me the received faxes automatically on receipt. I travel a lot for work and it would be REALLY useful. at least ghostscript can convert postscript to g3 files, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/18/05, Richard Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to get wireless up and running. First time on Gentoo. I have used ndiswrapper on FC2 which this machine used to run so I have ESSIDs, mac addresses and keys that are known good. I've emerge the wireless-tools stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax Server that can email Tif image

2005-04-18 Thread Nick Rout
you probably want hylafax, its in portage, and I have had it going on a gentoo box. I am yet to complete the project. Also a quick google found this: http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July2002/article249.shtml If you look at the bit about how to process the faxes (the author prints them and

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6 kernel and wlan-ng

2005-04-18 Thread Jason Cooper
Chris Bare ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: I recently upgraded my laptop to the 2.6.11 kernel and am trying to get my wifi working again. It worked under 2.4 with the linux-wlan-ng package. I followed the instructions in the bug and built it for 2.6 by turning off the sandbox. It appears to

Re: [gentoo-user] DRM on a new ck kernel

2005-04-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/18/05, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml stated If you use a 2.4 kernel, make sure the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) is off. The X11-DRM package will provide its own. 2.6 kernel users should enable the Direct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System time drift problem

2005-04-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:33 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le samedi 16 avril 2005 à 02:24 +0200, Antonio Coralles a écrit : gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The sytem time of my computer drifts by

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-18 Thread Stroller
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:25 am, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: I've been using vgetty - the version in Portage is pretty good, and once I actually sat down to configure it I had it mostly up running over the course of an evening - I think it sounds much more complicated than it is I'm migrating to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse...

2005-04-18 Thread Erik Osterholm
On 4/18/05, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 April 2005 02:33 am, Andreas Fredriksson wrote: Hi, while I don't know what's causing your specific problem, this sounds a lot like the behavior you would see back in the day when you set the mouse protocol to PS/2 when the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread W.Kenworthy
I beg to differ, as I posted previously I gave up on ext2/3 because of lost data - not everyone agrees that ext2/3 is the best fallback! Better performance with reiserfs3 as well as peace of mind goes against ext2/3 for me. As I said - YMMV - I have looked at my usage, number and type of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote: Huh? I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery at least gives me a chance to gracefully shut down the computer. One of the methods I used to

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild error on python

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:14 -0400, Chris Bare wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Chris Bare wrote: I'm not sure what I should do at this point. Do I still need python 2.2.3 at all? can I safely unmerge it? Or should I force python-2.2.3-r6 to be installed? Im no Python expert but since

Re: [gentoo-user] Wacky Mouse... (fwd)

2005-04-18 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
-- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:39:10 -0400 From: David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re:

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-18 Thread kashani
John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon, I had intended on starting my conversion from Suse 9.1 to Gentoo over the weekend, but the weather turned out to be way to nice to remain indoors. But in my planning stages I realized I have a bit of a longer learning curve than I initially anticipated. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Jerry McBride
The one EXTREME test that I witnessed was during a Panasonic ToughBook demo. The presenter gave a 15 minute speech, pool side at a hotel, about how good and tough the new Panasonic ToughBook really was. All during the speech, he would slide a ToughBook off a desk onto the concrete apron at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 23:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Can you validate that in real-life?? Since I see my CPU usage is 80% all the time. Need to know if it's RAM or CPU dependent. Well, that sounds more like a software configuration problem. For me, if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:21:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I read about vdiskmanager, but it does not offer that capability. And Vmware _does_ have this capability if you're running Windows as the Guest OS in Vmware. Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged in. when on wireless try /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop Can you also look at your /etc/conf.d/net file and determine

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create new menu item in gnome

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 22:23 -0500, Brian Truter wrote: On 4/18/05, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each time i want to add a item to the gnome menu it won't show up, not even after a logout or reboot? Its just gtkPod to multimedia. Im pretty sure editing the gnome menu is

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Lingyun Yang
On 4/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged in. when on wireless try /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop and see if that fixes it. ERROR: net.eth1 has not yet been

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Lingyun Yang
On 4/19/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged in. when on wireless try /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop Can

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Pavel
heh ! So far I remember his April joke ;) Anyway I`ll stay with reiserfs till first data loss .. Real men make backups On 4/18/05, Bastian Balthazar Bux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel wrote: Since I put Gentoo on my workstation (2 years ago ) ,never had segfaults with reiser3fs ;) I prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
Jerry McBride wrote: One of the methods I used to test ext3 was just that... I removed the battery, plugged the laptop into a local outlet... booted it and started a number of various processes... when things looked real good and busy, I pulled the plug... BAM! Dead Plug it back into the

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 04:26 +, Lingyun Yang wrote: On 4/19/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged in. when on wireless try /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 04:28 +, Lingyun Yang wrote: On 4/19/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged in.