[gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy (http://www.ericdaugherty.com/dev/sshwebproxy/). However, for some reason, Tomcat will not auto-deploy any WAR files that I place in the webapps/ directory, as it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:21:24 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: For one-time use you can do the following: # export PATH=/usr/qt/3/bin:$PATH Then you can compile your program from the same terminal you typed the command above. For long-term use you should add that command to your shell's

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:01:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't know anymore how to tell what profile I'm running under ls -l /etc/make.profile -- Neil Bothwick (A)bort (R)etry (T)ake an axe to it? pgpxTgi5faXDu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: System wide paths should be put in /etc/env.d, don't forget to run etc-update after doing so. not etc-update I don't think! env-update is what you were thinking of surely? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 August 2005 20:28, Holly Bostick wrote: Chris Cox schreef: I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1 Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-17 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, Take a look here http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/server.html. Catalin. Matthew Cline wrote: On 8/17/05, Matthew Cline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently tried installing Tomcat in order to test out sshwebproxy

Re: [gentoo-user] Static resolv.conf

2005-08-17 Thread Oscar Carlsson
Add -R to your DHCP_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/net and dhcp started using the init-system wont override your resolv.conf :) Oscar Tuesday 16 August 2005 23.48 skrev Gyuri: Hell Gentoo users, I have a little problem. I use DHCP with my DSL router, so my /etc/resolv.conf is updated every time I boot

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Re: [gentoo-user] glibc builds but won't install

2005-08-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
darren kirby wrote: Also, I have rebuilt the glibc several times through this ordeal, and at 5-6 hours per pop it is getting tedious to try new things. Glibc _was_ built correctly, so is there anyway I can manually copy the rest of the files from the portage sandbox to the live filesystem

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2005-08-17 Thread Gyuri
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Re: [gentoo-user] Static resolv.conf

2005-08-17 Thread Gyuri
Christoph Eckert wrote: I want to give the 2 IP addressess provided on the paper of my ISP (primary and secondary DNS'es). How can I make resolv.conf static? You can even set it to the user as read only; OTOH I don't know if your IP-up script will then deny to establish the connection.

[gentoo-user] Re: Static resolv.conf

2005-08-17 Thread Sarpy Sam
Yes, but after a reboot (I daily boot and shut down my computer) the file's content is refreshed by the DHCP server. (nameserver 192.168.0.1) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I fixed this problem by adding the following flags to /etc/conf.d/net on the dhcpcd_eth0=-R -N -Y

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Backup-software for small network

2005-08-17 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi Dan,I am currently developing a P2P backup-system. It allows you to distribute your backups through all clients with space-efficiency and error-correcting-codes. However, it doesn't cover all your requirements (at least the current version), but you may want to have a look in the future..

[gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Andreas Fredriksson
On 8/16/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The code for nvwa-0.5 was added to try to get robust debugging (memory) working, but, alas I'm certainly not strong on C++ code, let alone some body else's C++ code. Try valgrind. It's an excellent memory instrumentation system which can trace back

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 el nino simple user restricts

2005-08-17 Thread Aaron Walker
Gyuri wrote: Hi guys, I've just downloaded, and installed Gentoo 2005.1 El Nino. I have some experiences with former Gentoo releases. But there is a little bug (maybe?) in el nino. A simple user cannot read the contets of the root ( / ) partition, she/he can only read and write in his/her own

[gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-08-17 09:59]: On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:21:24 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: For one-time use you can do the following: # export PATH=/usr/qt/3/bin:$PATH Then you can compile your program from the same terminal you typed the command above. For

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:52 pm, Pupeno wrote: Hello, I have an IBM wifi card that has an Atheros chipset that was working perfectly with the madwifi driver untill the update that happened recently, now it is a big mess. When I plug it in or at boot if it is plugged in when coldplugging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: problem with Tomcat auto-deploying WAR files

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Take a look here http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/config/server.html. Ok, I changed the debug attribute to 9 and restarted tomcat, but the log file still looks the same. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 19:01:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't know anymore how to tell what profile I'm running under ls -l /etc/make.profile Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of information:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:05, Robert Crawford wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:52 pm, Pupeno wrote: Hello, I have an IBM wifi card that has an Atheros chipset that was working perfectly with the madwifi driver untill the update that happened recently, now it is a big mess. When

[gentoo-user] ethereal bug?

2005-08-17 Thread James
Hello, When I run ethereal as root (su -p) in a kde session, it dies off when I end the capture session. I do not use gnome, so I do not know if the problem exist there. If I comment out this line: gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 #gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 in the file:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Nick Rout wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the whole system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? Thanks in advance, Norberto -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Norberto Bensa

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
Which updates are you talking about- madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using 0.1_pre20050420. Sync up man. You're supposed to downgrade to 20050420 now. I was having the same problem. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Big emerge world killed networking

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
Nice Dirk, but now I get: We require dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r10 and I have r11 which is the latest stable. r10 isn't even in the tree. Would upgrading to ~x86 dhcpcd 2.0.0 possibly fix this? At least on my laptop I have dhcpcd 2.0.0 and I don't get this error, so chances are good :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Norberto Bensa schreef: Nick Rout wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the whole system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? Yes, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is a valid variable name for

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
Which updates are you talking about- madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using 0.1_pre20050420. If downgrading to 20050420 doesn't work, try upgrading to the latest baselayout. An older

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and local LDAP server

2005-08-17 Thread Abraham Marín Pérez
Well, after using Ethereal to see the parameters sent during the transaction, it does work, I can browse the LDAP database. The problem now is that LDAP access seems to be read only and I'd like to be able to add new contacts to the directory from Thunderbird, is this possible? and is this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 15:18, James wrote: Bryce Verdier btv at cs.pdx.edu writes: Does the code compile and work on any other machine (that doesn't have nvwa compiled?)? It compiles and runs but it does not display video to the local gentoo linux system. The author claims it works on SUSE.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:07:52 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:50 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: System wide paths should be put in /etc/env.d, don't forget to run etc-update after doing so. not etc-update I don't think! env-update is what you were thinking of surely? Sorry,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:33:58 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: System wide paths should be put in /etc/env.d, don't forget to run etc-update after doing so. s/etc-update/env-update s/etc-update/env-update/ if we're going to be picky about typos :) -- Neil Bothwick Modesty Becomes You. Try

[gentoo-user] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Munat
Hello, I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let genkernel do it's thing, installing a 2.6 kernel. Things mostly went fine, however my keyboard and/or mouse keep going berserk... they just stop

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:17:37 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: ls -l /etc/make.profile Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ls -l /etc/make.profile not ls -l /etc/make.profile/ --

[gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all, Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only taking up 9mb (when gzipped). Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped image file into a ramdisk and use it as a root filesystem.

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread John Dangler
Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together John D -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? On 16 August 2005 20:28,

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +, Gyuri wrote: Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, How to unsuscribe from this list? Thank you Bayrouni It is written on the gentoo website. Gentoo.org - Lists Actually, as was posted before, the gentoo.org way is incorrect. It specifies

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Matthew Cline
On 8/17/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only taking up 9mb (when gzipped). Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:18:25 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Bryce Verdier btv at cs.pdx.edu writes: | Does the code compile and work on any other machine (that doesn't | have nvwa compiled?)? | | It compiles and runs but it does not display video to the local | gentoo linux

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2005-08-17 Thread Michael Crute
Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? -MikeOn 8/17/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +, Gyuri wrote: Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, How to unsuscribe from this

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel da Veiga
In fact, it is - not +... And with all the sources around, they still can't find it. I dont see a reason to change the way it works, what is left to change is the mind of the unsubscribers that don't even read the welcome message... On 8/17/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Crute schreef: Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? Interestingly enough, I just checked three of the several mailing lists to which I am subscribed, and none of them take unsubscription by

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2005-08-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:39 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line | unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? We did that already. Read the subject line more carefully. -- Ciaran McCreesh :

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Will do. Give me a day or two since I have to go through all the steps again my self to make sure there won't be typos or such. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves

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2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:39 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? The mail doesn't have unsubscribe in the subject line. -- Neil Bothwick Planet 98% full! Delete

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Robert Crawford
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 11:28 am, Grant wrote: Which updates are you talking about- madwifi, it was updated some days ago, to be exact, version 0.1_pre20050809 released on 2005/08/10 12:44:19, while previously I was using 0.1_pre20050420. If downgrading to 20050420 doesn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ALSA OSS Emulation to work

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Cox
On 8/16/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel really stupid. It wasn't the permission, but to get both quake and enemy territory to play , they have to be given direct access to the sound hardware. To do that, you must go to /proc/asound/cardX/pcm0p/ and add

[gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same thing... Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I get it to continue to determint what is wrong? I tried several kernels and all do the same

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) Here it goes: 1. Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's sysex in my case because

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:55 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote: What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered laptop. For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2 and gz? -- Kirk

[gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-08-17 18:39]: On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:33:58 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: s/etc-update/env-update s/etc-update/env-update/ if we're going to be picky about typos :) I'm going to lie you and tell you that I was refering to the vim's substitution. ;-) For a

[gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, On my laptop only when I open a gnome-terminal I'm no longer greeted with a prompt that says: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ - it now it just says flash ~ $. What controls this? I thought it was .bashrc but comparing my non-working laptop with my 3 working desktop machines, which do say

[gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread José Pable Ezequiel Fernández
Hello, I am not sure, but I think I am experiencing dramatic slow down on my computer when doing HD intensive (but not CPU intensive) tasks such as coping files (or rsyncing). Is it possible that I have disabled dma, or missing a kernel module for my IDE controler or something like that ? Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda (or whatever drive you are concerned about.) Greater than 15MB/S is almost certainly DMA but good DMA from newer drives should be 25-50MB/S You can look at the drives parameters using hdparm and reading through the man page to understand what all the

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Wade Brown
The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through your /etc on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Big emerge world killed networking

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
Nice Dirk, but now I get: We require dhcpcd-1.3.22_p4-r10 and I have r11 which is the latest stable. r10 isn't even in the tree. Would upgrading to ~x86 dhcpcd 2.0.0 possibly fix this? At least on my laptop I have dhcpcd 2.0.0 and I don't get this error, so chances are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ktoon

2005-08-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:59:54 +0200, Daniel Vrcic wrote: I'm going to lie you and tell you that I was refering to the vim's substitution. ;-) For a such simple thing it doesn't need trailing slash, although it can be there. OK, I won't argue about vim substitution, substituting vim with

[gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey guys, this is a non-gentoo question but I figure someone on here will have the answer I seek :-) My father's laptop (running Windows XP) managed to detonate itself a few days back and I'm trying to recover information from it. Before we wiped the hard drive I loaded a LiveCD and imaged the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Tom Eastman wrote: How can I take this image of ('hda') and mount the filesystem ('hda1') that's inside it? I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the archives). In case it does not, try this.

[gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
Wade, Thanks for the response. I think this will help me get it straightened out. So far I see no difference between the machines that work and the laptop which doesn't when doing the grep -r PS1 /etc/* command. However, when I echo $PS1 at the command line I do get different results:

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and sits there for hours?? I can reboot with ctrl-alt-del. How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-17 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:43 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:10:51 -0400 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 03:53 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: My desktop suddenly won't boot. It stops at Starting distccd... [ok] and

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 18 August 2005 00:31, Grant wrote: I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? - Grant first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 second: no. You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! glibc updates are

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? - Grant first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 second: no. You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! glibc updates are nothing to worry about, one replaces the

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Grant schreef: I noticed my glibc and gcc were updated to 2.3.5 in my last big emerge world. Should I run an emptytree emerge now? - Grant first, your gcc got not updated to 2.3.5 second: no. You do NOT NEED to do an emptytree. Never! glibc updates are nothing to worry about, one replaces the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ALSA OSS Emulation to work

2005-08-17 Thread Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
Hi Chris Unfortunately, it didn't. And I also have to do it everytime it restarts. I'm thinking about doing a init script to do it for me... Shouldn't the ebuild when it installs make those changes automaticly? When I tried out q3demo last year the sound worked fine same with Enemy Territory.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds = 2.28 MB/sec (or whatever drive you are concerned

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc and gcc updated to 2.3.5

2005-08-17 Thread Grant
I remember reading about a package update after which it is beneficial to emerge emptytree. I thought it was the compiler stuff. Am I remembering that wrong? You're probably not remembering completely. The only time it is *suggested* that you might want to do an emerge -e world is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ^

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds =

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds = 2.28

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Given the responses so far I think I might have to try a fresh install, this time using 2005.0 as this bug may well be limited to 2005.1 On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with ramdisk

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Fish
Is this an initrd or initramfs (aka, cpio.gz) image? If it is initrd, you should have a /linuxrc script to initialize the system. For grub, you will need: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc initrd=/rootfs.gz Then your linuxrc script must *not* exit. It will

Re: [gentoo-user] ethereal bug?

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Fish
James wrote: Hello, When I run ethereal as root (su -p) in a kde session, it dies off when I end the capture session. I do not use gnome, so I do not know if the problem exist there. If I comment out this line: gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 #gtk-alternative-button-order = 1 in the file:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mark Knecht wrote: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/make.profile/packages | grep profile G... Just do: ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Neil. It seems that this specific command doesn't give me a lot of information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/make.profile $ ls -l /etc/make.profile/ ^ delete this-|

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get mozilla-sunbird

2005-08-17 Thread Norberto Bensa
Holly Bostick wrote: Norberto Bensa schreef: Nick Rout wrote: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS has been deprecated for a very long time. But you can still use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in /etc/make.conf if you want the whole system to be ~x86. Or is there a better/recommendable way? Yes, ACCEPT_KEYWORDS is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:17, Joe Menola wrote: On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:15, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/17/05, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 18 August 2005 03:15, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/17/05, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda I got this: /dev/hda: Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 22:15, Mark Knecht wrote: On 8/17/05, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote: A quick test would be hdparm -tT /dev/hda I got this: /dev/hda: Timing

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat

[gentoo-user] mount point with hal and kde

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
Hello, I have various computers running KDE and hald and I also have various USB mass storages, some of the HDs and some of them memories. When I plug them I get an icon on the desktop and the first one to be plugged gets monted on /media/usbdisk, the second on /media/usbdisk1, the third on

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Joe Menola
On Wednesday August 17 2005 9:02 pm, Pupeno wrote: I have all as modules, maybe I am just missing to load it. Personally, I would compile them into kernel. You can get the module names from menuconfig/xconfig by selecting them and choosing help. Modprobe them, then hdparm /dev/hda. If dma is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /etc/make.profile/packages | grep profile # $Header:

[gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Munat
Really hoping someone has some idea on this... haven't found any solid answers on the web... b --- original message - Hello, I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:04, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: flash linux #  hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda:  multcount    = 16 (on)  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)  using_dma    =  1 (on)  keepsettings =  0 (off)  readonly     =  0 (off)  readahead    =

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:52, Pupeno wrote: I have this as module and it seem to be loaded automatically because lsmod shows: piix9476 0 [permanent] Maybe it has to be compiled on the kernel (not as a module) to work ? I compiled it in the kernel and now DMA is on by

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-17 Thread Pupeno
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 17:07, Jonathan Wright wrote: In the end I had to remove all the modules (rm -Rf /lib/modules) and reinstall all the modules before rebuilding wireless-tools, madwifi-driver, madwifi-tools in that order. Thanks, that worked! (I haven't rebuild madwifi-tools though).

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow HD

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 23:52, Pupeno wrote: I have this as module and it seem to be loaded automatically because lsmod shows: piix9476 0 [permanent] Maybe it has to be compiled on the kernel (not as a module) to work

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ where as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive

2005-08-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Tom Eastman wrote: I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the archives). In case it does not, try this. Since the real partitions usually start at the second sector (the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge xorg-6.8.2-r2 under Gentoo 2005.1

2005-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: On 8/17/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Yes, it does, but it still didn't tell me what profile I'm running: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /etc/make.profile/ 2.4 packages parent

[gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff

2005-08-17 Thread Ian K
Hi there, I was having to use Windows the other day, and it got me into wondering if Linux is able to automatically set up a network connection when an ethernet cable is inserted, or more importantly, establish a connection to my wireless network when I switch my network card on. (Yes it has a

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:10 pm, Ben Munat wrote: I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let genkernel do it's thing, installing a 2.6 kernel. There is your first mistake right there.

[gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Swanson
I'm setting up a home webserver on Gentoo Linux and was wondering about the above question. I've read on here many places about people writing their own ebuilds to install software. One of the pieces of software I run is Communigate Email, which is commercial software and gets installed by a

[gentoo-user] Re: [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, I don't really know what's going on. Just wanted to suggest some things: 1. I don't think it has anything to do with the 'Unknown key' messages. This simply means that there are some funny keys on the keyboard that the kernel doesn't recognize. You can check it with the showkey(1)

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