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

2005-04-21 Thread Peter Gordon
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 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 care about your data, use

Re: [gentoo-user] XML parsing errors editing Mozilla prefs

2005-04-21 Thread Alin Dobre
Reinstall mozilla, but this time make sure that you don't have any existing mozilla processes running while installing the new version. On 4/18/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with recently emerged Mozilla (1.7.7) Selecting Advanced or Scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-21 Thread Steingrim Dovland
* Patrick Marquetecken Whatever skin i uses the mplayer gui always looks bue. Is this normal ? I had this problem a while ago (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6) and my solution was to emerge it with USE=mmx mmx2. However, that won't do it for the amd64-folks :/ It'd be interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Robert G. Hays wrote: At Bottom. Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to a folder and burn the contents of

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:37 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:53:06 +0530, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Having said that, I'd go with Sony. You know you are getting good quality with them, really? but do you know that you're getting sony? If you're referring to LG

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Tim Igoe wrote: Hi, I have 2 LG drives here (one CDRW and one DVDRW) - both are working perfectly for me, better than windows even! This DVD is one of the dual layer 16x all format ones (can't remember teh model number) Can't comment about Sony ones, never had any problems from LG - so if it ain't

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage

2005-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 22:45:58 +0200, Rodolphe Rocca wrote: rm -f /usr/portage/distfiles/* no risk. Until you recompile your kernel, reboot and find your network drivers don't work. You need to re-emerge them, but you have deleted the source. If you use slmodem, ndiswrapper, hcf???modem et

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/hostname

2005-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:30:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: My older machines do not have this file. The new install does. What's the right way to use this file. Is this supposed to contain It replaces /etc/hostname, so should contain the same information. HOSTNAME=dragonfly or

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Thomas Heinrichsdobler
My standalone DVD unit only supports DVD-R, so I haven't checked yet. But the DVD-R work just fine ;) //Thomas 2005/4/21, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tim Igoe wrote: Hi, I have 2 LG drives here (one CDRW and one DVDRW) - both are working perfectly for me, better than windows even!

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:20:45 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Having said that, I'd go with Sony. You know you are getting good quality with them, really? but do you know that you're getting sony? If you're referring to LG as being not so good, then how about this: a friend of mine bought

[gentoo-user] download dynamic generated file using wget or curl

2005-04-21 Thread Qiangning Hong
I want to download some jpg's whose URL is as http://some.site/show.php?id=100. In firefox, the downloaded filename is correctly as somefile.jpg, but if I download it using wget or curl, the downloaded file name is show.php?id=100, which is not acceptable. Can anyone give me a hint to use command

Re: [gentoo-user] K3B compilation error

2005-04-21 Thread Christoph Gysin
Al Bayrouni wrote: May be it is an oppurtinity for me to leanr programs like growfsiso transcode and so on. I like the command line) but I still need k3b because it is very confortable and easy to use. The commandline is the most powerful tool I've ever seen. I do almost all my work on the cl.

Re: [gentoo-user] download dynamic generated file using wget or curl

2005-04-21 Thread Matan Peled
Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to download some jpg's whose URL is as http://some.site/show.php?id=100. In firefox, the downloaded filename is correctly as somefile.jpg, but if I download it using wget or curl, the downloaded file name is show.php?id=100, which is not acceptable. Can anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] download dynamic generated file using wget or curl

2005-04-21 Thread Edward Catmur
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:45 +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to download some jpg's whose URL is as http://some.site/show.php?id=100. In firefox, the downloaded filename is correctly as somefile.jpg, but if I download it using wget or curl, the downloaded file name is show.php?id=100,

[gentoo-user] update to rss-glx-0.8.0 fails

2005-04-21 Thread MAIN Thomas D
I'm trying to update rss-glx from 0.7.6 to 0.8.0 via emerge --update --deep world and the compile of rss-glx is failing with the following messages: hyperspace.cpp: In function `void hack_init(xstuff_t*)': hyperspace.cpp:521: error: `assert' undeclared (first use this function)

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Svoboda
* Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-20 10:30]: I'm sorry to ask something so basic, but is there an Idiot's Guide to Time Syncronization on Gentoo Linux anywhere? I just can't figure the dumb thing out. :-( try openntpd which is as simple as emerge openntpd I don't remember if I had to change

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get Dual Head working? - SOLVED

2005-04-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:46 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: By adding the lines: Option Clone off Option Xinerama on In the ServerLayout section. I now have Dual head working. Thanks to you. I finally moved my butt and got this configured.

[gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9 different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't exactly as clear as

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:04 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Perhaps you can try this.. compile them as module and load one after the other?? -- Ow

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:04 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Perhaps you can try this..

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. I was told here about the netdev argument to the kernel. I tried about 9 different ways of using this, but the documentation isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
fire-eyes wrote: Well, my fault for not mentioning. But I don't enable module loading support on servers, it is a security risk. Fair enough. I've done the same on my servers. What's the possibility of moving the cards around? The kernel will detect and load them in a different order then. --

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:33 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: fire-eyes wrote: Well, my fault for not mentioning. But I don't enable module loading support on servers, it is a security risk. Fair enough. I've done the same on my servers. What's the possibility of moving the cards around? The

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
fire-eyes wrote: I would do this however one of them is built into the motherboard. I found a document which claimed with grub all Ihad to do was netdev=irq=24,name=eth0 however I tried this, a few variations, and even used two netdev statements, one for each card and it still didn't swap. Yeesh,

[gentoo-user] tweaking USE settings

2005-04-21 Thread James
Hello, I've been noodling round a gentoo system, that I intend to customize for viewing all sorts of video inputs. Feel encouraged to correct my verbiage/understanding below: USE flag settings: mild confusion. make.conf USE settings are working fine, but I'm not sure I have everything I need

RE: [gentoo-user] tweaking USE settings

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
Did I miss something? Nope, you hit the nail on the head. How do I check (command syntax) that the profile is actually updated ? ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still have 2004.x in the path names instead of

[gentoo-user] OT: cpu/mobo combo

2005-04-21 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everyone, Tigerdirect.ca offers an Abit KV8-Pro board Skt 754 w/Sempron3100 cpu, item #MBM-KV8-SEM3100. But also on another page the same(?) board w/AMD64 cpu, item #MBM-KV8-3000. According to Tigerdirect the board only works with the AMD64. They haven't answered my request for

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
fire-eyes wrote: My understanding was that ether= was for 2.4 kernels, in fact the docs for 2.6 say netdev= is the replace ment, but at this point i'm willing to try. Continuing the search, I've found this page: http://www.science.uva.nl/research/air/wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames They've put irq=

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Kiawud
On 4/21/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Igoe wrote: Hi, I have 2 LG drives here (one CDRW and one DVDRW) - both are working perfectly for me, better than windows even! This DVD is one of the dual layer 16x all format ones (can't remember teh model number) Can't

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 16:14 +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: fire-eyes wrote: My understanding was that ether= was for 2.4 kernels, in fact the docs for 2.6 say netdev= is the replace ment, but at this point i'm willing to try. Continuing the search, I've found this page:

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Bert Buchholz
On Thu 21.04 10:04, fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Simply use nameif to name your NICs based on their MAC address. Bert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread askar ...
Hello! Installed Gentoo 2005.0, stage3. I want to make home router for 2 computers: Gentoo and Win2000. 2 computers connected directly to each other with Lan cable. I tried to set according to the http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml Things done as follows: 1) rp-pppoe installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-21 Thread Antoine
Eamon Caddigan wrote: Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:16:41 + (UTC) Eamon Caddigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Vim's great, but sometimes you just want vi.=20 That's a shame, because I removed (traditional) vi from the tree. Your choices are Vim, nvi, elvis

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:46 +0200, Bert Buchholz wrote: On Thu 21.04 10:04, fire-eyes wrote: So I'm using a 2.6 kernel, and trying to figure out how to cause eth0 and eth1 to swap. That is, eth0 start up as eth1, and eth1 start up as eth0. Simply use nameif to name your NICs based on

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
# iptables -I FORWARD -i eth0 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j DROP # iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT # iptables -A FORWARD -i eth1 -d 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT I'm still working through my iptables for my home router, but I think you need to

[gentoo-user] Myth .18, HDTV, Firewire and Gentoo

2005-04-21 Thread Michael Haan
I'm currently running the .17 e-build from Gentoo on an AMD64 machine doing SDTV out of an nvidia 6600GT. The new HDTV arrives on Monday. I'd like to: a) Tune using the SA3250 b) Upgrade to .18 via an e-build c) Upgrade the kernel to 2.6.11 (from 2.6.9) d) Upgrade to nVidia 7174 via an e-build

[gentoo-user] Where is gpgsm?

2005-04-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! I search to install the gpg-agent plug-in in my GENTOO box, but it doesn't support the s/mime because gpgsm is not installed. The problem is that binary is in the package newpg that isn't more in the portage tree... Does it exist a new package or I must install it manually? I'm very

Re: [gentoo-user] Mplayer looks always blue

2005-04-21 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
* Patrick Marquetecken Whatever skin i uses the mplayer gui always looks bue. Is this normal ? I had this problem a while ago (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6) and my solution was to emerge it with USE=mmx mmx2. However, that won't do it for the amd64-folks :/ It'd be

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Alex A. Smith MCP
You seem to have missed out this one # iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT My home router stopped working without that. Hope that helps somewhat. - Alex A. Smith MCP ASMHosting.com Owner askar ... wrote: Hello! Installed Gentoo 2005.0, stage3. I want to

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
You seem to have missed out this one # iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT He didn't miss it, it's not part of the page. And it shouldn't be needed as the rules that he's defined does not inspect state at all; they simply accept packets (regardless of state) when

[gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Antonio Coralles
I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from different machines. To tighten security without disabling pam i've created a user which is not in groop weel, and configured ssh to accept logins for this user only. By the way all passwords on my system are well choosen and should

RE: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Nebinger
The iptable rules from the howto seem to assume that the default policy is set up to the following: INPUT - DROP FORWARD - DROP OUTPUT - ACCEPT Seeing as I hate assuming what is actually going on, I would add the following lines to the top of the iptables script: iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables

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

2005-04-21 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
James Hiscock wrote: This is a Class 1 faxmodem, which, AFAIR, doesn't work with m|vgetty. ...yeah... [vm]getty has no support for Class 1 fax, but it's (theoretically) still ok for voice... Hmmm - I've just looked out a manual and it seems to agree with you... and until this hint I'd no

[gentoo-user] nameif segfault: SOLVED

2005-04-21 Thread fire-eyes
Just wanted to pass on that nameif was the solution to my NIC device swapping issues. I had mentioned that it kept setfaulting, though it was indeed doing its job. I found a bugreport, and it turns out that if the config file you pass nameif has more than 3 lines, it segfaults. This is fixed in

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
Antonio Coralles wrote: I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from different machines. To tighten security without disabling pam i've created a user which is not in groop weel, and configured ssh to accept logins for this user only. By the way all passwords on my system

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-21 Thread Byron Pezan
Rumen Yotov wrote: Antonio Coralles wrote: I'm running sshd on my personal computer to be able to log in from different machines. To tighten security without disabling pam i've created a user which is not in groop weel, and configured ssh to accept logins for this user only. By the way all

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread A. Khattri
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm just poking around looking at kernels again this morning. Maybe I've missed it but I cannot find one in portage that uses Ingo Molnar's realtime-preempt patches. Is there one? I am now using both ck-sources as well as the realtime-lsm module from

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread michael higgins
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:49:50 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm just poking around looking at kernels again this morning. Maybe I've missed it but I cannot find one in portage that uses Ingo Molnar's realtime-preempt patches. Is there one? I am now using both ck-sources as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/21/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm just poking around looking at kernels again this morning. Maybe I've missed it but I cannot find one in portage that uses Ingo Molnar's realtime-preempt patches. Is there one? I am now using

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/21/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:49:50 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm just poking around looking at kernels again this morning. Maybe I've missed it but I cannot find one in portage that uses Ingo Molnar's

[gentoo-user] Re: tweaking USE settings

2005-04-21 Thread James
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes: ls -l /etc/make.profile should indicate what profile you're linked to. How come all of those 'use.defaults' files still have 2004.x in the path names instead of 2005.0 ? I believe the 2005.x standard is to use the

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

2005-04-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:18:06 -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: I don't think it could, because it doesn't know which ones you wish to keep. I don't know about your reasons, but I use buildpkg so I always have a binary of the previous version available, making it easy to roll back if a problem

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Are there enough people using Gentoo for realtime audio that it would warrent some sorrt of specialized kernel project? I expect so. Is there interest? How do we start one? YES, I'm extremely interested in RT for audio on Gentoo. I have an EE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-21 Thread Digby Tarvin
Since we are discussing this I too am used to (and quite happy with) vi. It does what I want. Since moving to gentoo I have continued to type 'vi' when I want to edit a text file, in blissful ignorance of the fact that this is now a sym link to vim - or at least should have been.. Now this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:34:45PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: So.. what is the secret to stopying vim from displaying text in in invisible colours? And how can I tell it to stop messing with the colours at all... I can't find anything in the man page, '-C' doesn't inhibit colourisation, nor

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/21/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:06:12 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/21/05, michael higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:49:50 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: using the patch from here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/21/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Are there enough people using Gentoo for realtime audio that it would warrent some sorrt of specialized kernel project? I expect so. Is there interest? How do we start one? YES, I'm extremely

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with setting up home router

2005-04-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
Rather than roll your own iptables script, use monmotha (its in portage) to get up and running. As well as better protection, you can eliminate iptables as the cause of your problems. BillK On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:38 +0600, askar ... wrote: Hello! Installed Gentoo 2005.0, stage3. --

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

2005-04-21 Thread Stroller
On Apr 21, 2005, at 6:52 pm, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: There was an interesting bit in the vgetty faq about potential imminent support for class 1 fax modems... but there was no hint as to a timescale. Imminent would not be a correct statement of the current status. See

[gentoo-user] wireless start-up world of pain

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Thanks in advance. It seems like I'm writing too many messages here. I apologize. I hope someone can help. I'm in a world of pain struggling with this wireless lan start-up problem. The basic problem (and I'm guessing at this a bit) is that if the wireless NIC doesn't find the router at

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 6.8.0 and Radeon Mobility

2005-04-21 Thread Lucien D.
ah, thanks. As to what Richard said about hsync, he's probably right those values may be bad, I'll get rid of them. Though I don't even know if X is abiding by them, when I look at the on screen menu for the monitor its showing hsync of 106 and vsync of 85. On 4/21/05, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers ( readers!) work best with media-brand-X poorly or not at all with media-brand-Y; AFAIK, this applies to all brands, although it is not *quite* as bad as it was a few years ago, so that fact probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Pubudu, one last thought... before you alter the partitions on your drive to make room for the Linux, two thoughts: 1) you ned to defrag your drive, either with any built-in tools in WhinedoZZZe, or best if you have or can afford, SpeedDisk from Norton 2) ... Unless you are using a new

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

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Mark, been busy, I'm in WhinedoZZZe again right now, but I'll check what I got when I next get into Linux post it back to you. rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/20/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as when the box

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

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
-- Forwarded message -- From: Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 21, 2005 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mark, been busy, I'm in WhinedoZZZe again right now, but I'll check what I got when I next get into Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:08:30PM -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 2) ... Unless you are using a new version of WhinedoZZZe (I forget what you said you had) that claims to not need defragging ( I said 'claims', if the new ones happen to make such a claim, and I'd keep my fingers firmly crossed

Re: ***SPAM(6.5)*** Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files and distfiles, then sync portage. Last line runs emerge to start updating the all the packages. #!/bin/bash # # File:update.sh # Version: 20050421 # Author

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

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files and distfiles, then sync portage. Last line runs emerge to start updating the all the packages. #!/bin/bash # # File:update.sh # Version: 20050421 # Author

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

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: Corrected script, suggest using with portage-2.0.51. Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't that

RE: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Nanayakkara, Pubudu
I give up. I changed my mind, and I installed Ubuntu. It looks OK, let me play with it for few days ( or months) if this is unstable I might come back. Cheers, Pubudu. -Original Message- From: Robert G. Hays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 April 2005 10:09 AM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 22 April 2005 01:53, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers ( readers!) work best with media-brand-X poorly or not at all with media-brand-Y; AFAIK, this applies to all brands, although it is not *quite* as bad

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless start-up world of pain

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Knecht
Bill, That's an interesting idea. I don't use sudo for anything but this may well be a very good use in my case. Thanks! - Mark On 4/21/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use sudo an a desktop icon to run the init script so a user can do it. I also found that gentoo's wireless setup

Re: [gentoo-user] abit AI7 - acpi, ht

2005-04-21 Thread Cosmin Nicolaescu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, April 21, 2005 5:16 pm, Richard Fish said: Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote: Yes, that's exactly what I though about as i was browsing that page. This could be solved so much easier with a simple invoice that's lost somewhere in my room (perhaps).

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Thanks for the extra info! rgh. Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 22 April 2005 01:53, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers ( readers!) work best with media-brand-X poorly or not at all with media-brand-Y; AFAIK, this

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging vlc

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Rout
on my system that library appears to be provided by media-libs/xvid check whether xvid is installed, if it isn't, and it is a dependency for vlc then file a bug report at bugs.gentoo.org On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:20:03 -0500 Qv6 wrote: Folks: Please! Need help emerging vlc. Get this

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

2005-04-21 Thread Kirk Schneider
your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. Adjust the number of days based on your needs. #!/bin/bash # # File:update.sh # Version: 20050421 # Author: Kirk Schneider # About: script to handle Gentoo portage

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

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Might hit gmane or mail-archives tomorrow for prev msgs, wrestling croclegators right now... For now: e.g.: in: /etc/conf.d/net iface=192.168.1.7,broadcast=192.168.0.255,mask=255.255.255.0 # stuff... gateway=eth0,192.168.0.1 I shortened the iface line :: already forgot

[gentoo-user] Xorg on Dimension 3000

2005-04-21 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi there, Are there any Dell Dimension 3000 users with Intel Graphics 2 (82856G chipset) successfully running Xorg? I have managed to get it going once but the fonts etc were really bad and it was all running at 16bit. If you can send me the configuration for your X server, it will be great.

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

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: orrected script, suggest using with portage-2.0.51. Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging vlc

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Please do not hijack threads -- bad manners bad luck getting answers. Also, we need a *LOT* more data to be able to help, most likely. rgh. Qv6 wrote: Folks: Please! Need help emerging vlc. Get this error when I try: *configure: error: Cannot fine libxvidcore library...* Any clues will be

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

2005-04-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:33:06 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: Considering your problem of slow downloads, I have changed the script to remove files that have been on the system after 30 number of days. Adjust the number of days based on your needs. well I sure can't complain about your

[gentoo-user] installation automation scripts

2005-04-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
since it is taking me forever to get around to writing these up in putting them on a web page (web sites are so 1990s) I figured I would cast these bits upon the electronic waters and accept any bug fixes that may return. I present for your amusement, a series of scripts which will, if I

[gentoo-user] Grub versus WD120GB, rounds 1,2,3,4,5

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
-- and yes I have done that many so far.. grrr... And *still* cannot boot Gentoo Linux on my real, *working*, drive. I have a 30GB Maxtor that I used as a test/victim drive to install Gentoo to, including dual-monitor ATI and Win4Lin5_for_win9x. *Finally* got it all together with a little help

Re: [gentoo-user] sudoers file

2005-04-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:00:26PM -0600, Tres Melton wrote HI, I'm trying to add a user to my /etc/sudoers file that will enable them to play doom3 with elevated priorities but NOT elevated privileges. I want to cut down on the choppiness in the game play for the user so I want them to