[gentoo-user] Re: Messed up mail access rights

2005-09-24 Thread Mick
Pupeno wrote: Providing some basic information such as what mail servers are you using would be a big plus to get an answer from someone. Thanks Pupeno, Unfortunately it's a sendmail setup on a hosted account and no info is forthcoming from the admin. It seems like an mbox style mail

[gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread Jarry
Hi, I want to make my notebook dual-bootable (i must keep win because of some software), and I would like to know how big partition do I need for gentoo (basic workstation install, with X/KDE). Would single (except for swap) 10 GB partition be enough to handle updating and compiling? I would not

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark Knecht wrote: Note that there is no link for any of the 100Mb settings. This is verified looking at the switch itself as the link light turns off. Actually, I had never noticed that the 100 light was not turning on before today. so much for plug and play! (My bad...me stupido...) ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them? - SOLVED

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark Knecht wrote: The switch was stuck in some strange state. Power down and back up fixed it. Time to get a UPS for the media center... Opps. Just clicked send on the reply and I saw this! :) Ah well! hehehe. I'm using a UPS myself for my two servers the master switch and the wireless

[gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some new pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are mounted once the user has logged on and authenticated... nothing out of the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 11:14 +0200, Jarry wrote: I want to make my notebook dual-bootable (i must keep win because of some software), and I would like to know how big partition do I need for gentoo (basic workstation install, with X/KDE). Would single (except for swap) 10 GB partition be

[gentoo-user] weird samba problem

2005-09-24 Thread Red
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i tried to setup samba, but i just can't get it to work right. i can write files - but i can't read them ?!? please help!!! some example of my problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % smbmount //silverserver/public /home/red/public Password: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-24 Thread Graham Murray
Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything at all lately. it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before :( Anyone else seen

[gentoo-user] Incompatible gcc

2005-09-24 Thread Rupert Young (Restart)
I have emerged gcc-3.4.4, but emerge --info, see below, still shows 3.4.1. There was a PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in make.conf and 3.4.1 was in this dir. I commented out the PORTDIR_OVERLAY, but no change Do I need to reboot or something for changes to become apparent? Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Incompatible gcc

2005-09-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
I have emerged gcc-3.4.4, but emerge --info, see below, still shows 3.4.1. There was a PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in make.conf and 3.4.1 was in this dir. I commented out the PORTDIR_OVERLAY, but no change I'm no portage expert but I think you have to re-emerge the meta emerge meta as

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Qiangning Hong schreef: Bryan Whitehead wrote: Can't you also use the iocharset=utf8 and codepage=utf8? something like: mount -t smbfs -o user=user,iocharset=utf8,codepage=utf8 \\server\path /mnt/samba This doesn't work? It doesn't work. There are ?s in the filenames. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:14:01AM +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, I want to make my notebook dual-bootable (i must keep win because of some software), and I would like to know how big partition do I need for gentoo (basic workstation install, with X/KDE). Would single (except for swap) 10 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some new pc's and they are wanting to run a dual boot setup on them with windows 2k and gentoo. The profile and home directories are all on a server and are mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Ryan Viljoen
there should be 100 or so computers. How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on?On 9/24/05, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:03:52PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I am currently helping out my old high school. They have just got some new pc's and

[gentoo-user] gentoo ebuild for munin

2005-09-24 Thread martin hudec
Hello, are there any ebuilds for munin (http://www.linpro.no/projects/munin/) available for gentoo? Only relevant information I found was Bug #76018 on bugs.gentoo.org, but it seems to be cold track at least for last months. If there is no ebuild available, what should one do to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-24 Thread Dimitar Toshev
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 14:13 +0100, Graham Murray wrote: Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything at all lately. it crashes on most pages sooner or later

Re: [gentoo-user] Security Updates and Portage Trees

2005-09-24 Thread Fernando Meira
On 9/22/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:03:53 +0200, Fernando Meira wrote: I might be wrong, but I have the idea that E-cvs packages are always updated during an emerge world.Only if you run it without -p or -a. I never run emerge world without fiorst checking

[gentoo-user] Filesystem error...

2005-09-24 Thread Keats
Hi, i have input/output errors i cannot remove files neither replace them for example : emerge gentoolkit cannot replace eclean-dist so it breaks ls -l /usr/bin ls: /usr/bin/date: Erreur d'entr�/sortie ls: /usr/bin/dd: Erreur d'entr�/sortie ls: /usr/bin/df: Erreur d'entr�/sortie ls:

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-24 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Tim Thanks for the reply, just printing the info, hopefully this will solve the problem. Thanks again Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding Linux clients to samba primary domain controller

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:02:07PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: there should be 100 or so computers. How do the linux clients authenticate when the user logs on? It doesn't. It mounts the NFS volume at boot up. The user homedirs points to the directories on the NFS volume. The user logs in

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem error...

2005-09-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:40:36PM +0200, Keats wrote: i 've tried : navi ~ # fsck.reiser4 /dev/hda4 Fatal: The partition (/dev/hda4) is mounted with write permissions, cannot fsck it. i ve tried to umount it but there is no way to do that try mount -o ro,remount /dev/hda4 W i've

Re: [gentoo-user] Font sizes very small in KDE

2005-09-24 Thread Stewart Taylor
Hi Tim Printed the info, read half way down first page of Mozilla DPI issues, problem fixed in 5 minutes. Thanks again for your help Stewart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Incompatible gcc

2005-09-24 Thread Nagatoro
Rupert Young (Restart) wrote: I have emerged gcc-3.4.4, but emerge --info, see below, still shows 3.4.1. There was a PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in make.conf and 3.4.1 was in this dir. I commented out the PORTDIR_OVERLAY, but no change gcc along with some other packages are _slotted_.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo ebuild for munin

2005-09-24 Thread Nagatoro
martin hudec wrote: Hello, are there any ebuilds for munin (http://www.linpro.no/projects/munin/) available for gentoo? Only relevant information I found was Bug #76018 on bugs.gentoo.org, but it seems to be cold track at least for last months. If there is no ebuild available, what

[gentoo-user] [OT] CD-R(W)/DVD-R(W) manufacturer info tool

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Is there such kind of CD/DVD tool? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-24 Thread Qiangning Hong
Holly Bostick wrote: Qiangning Hong schreef: Bryan Whitehead wrote: Can't you also use the iocharset=utf8 and codepage=utf8? something like: mount -t smbfs -o user=user,iocharset=utf8,codepage=utf8 \\server\path /mnt/samba This doesn't work? It doesn't work. There are ?s in the

[gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Robert Persson
Should I enable the mmx use flag when I am compiling stuff (e.g. mplayer) for a pentium 4? I'm confused because I've kind of got the idea that mmx is obsolete, but I'm not clear exactly how obsolete. Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackscreen on Xorg-X11 after monitor and video card change

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/24/05, - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just inserted an NVidia 7800GT and put the computer on a 2000FP monitor and adjusted xorg.conf to the correct refresh rates for my monitor but I just get an unresponsive blackscreen after doing startx. I had X11 properly running with an NVidia

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
Robert Persson wrote: Should I enable the mmx use flag when I am compiling stuff (e.g. mplayer) for a pentium 4? I'm confused because I've kind of got the idea that mmx is obsolete, but I'm not clear exactly how obsolete. In theory, yes it is sort of obsolete - sse and sse2 are the

[gentoo-user] multiple gcc versions

2005-09-24 Thread Matthias Langer
I'm mainly in x86 and thus using gcc-3.3.6. However, as i do some programming, i want to know if it is without greater problems possible, to install gcc-3.4.4 additionally, so that i can make sure that the code i'm writing is accepted by gcc-3.4.x too [i know that i can't expect my code to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread John J. Foster
Please, please don't include a 65 line signature. pgpA6Tfc0G5om.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Can't get iptables to work on AMD64, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10

2005-09-24 Thread Michael Kjorling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My system is AMD64, Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 (from gentoo-sources), iptables 1.3.2 and generally up-to-date. I can't seem to get iptables to work. Netfilter support is compiled into the kernel (compiling it as a module and loading that gave the same

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 09:45:30PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote In theory, yes it is sort of obsolete - sse and sse2 are the preferred method. However, so long as you have specified -march=pentium4 (and -mcpu=pentium4 or -mtune=pentium4 with =gcc-3.4) mmx/sse/sse2 will be implied as part of

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running gcc 3.3.6. I just ran emerge --sync a few minutes ago. Running emerge --ask --deep --update --world doesn't mention gcc. Are you unmasking a test version? I think gcc-3.4* is still marked ~x86; however since that version -mcpu has been depreciated in favor

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackscreen on Xorg-X11 after monitor and video card change

2005-09-24 Thread Norberto Bensa
- - wrote: Section Monitor Identifier 2000FP HorizSync 31-80 VertRefresh 56-76 EndSection try removing those if you didn't -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Default font for X

2005-09-24 Thread visualnoise
Users, I just emerge'd --newuse --update --deep world then went to work. When I returned to GDM I had a different (and uglier) font at the prompt. This change has also affected Firefox, perhaps more. So how do I set something more pleasing to the eye as a default font for all X apps?

Re: [gentoo-user] weird samba problem

2005-09-24 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Red wrote: i tried to setup samba, but i just can't get it to work right. i can write files - but i can't read them ?!? please help!!! some example of my problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ % smbmount //silverserver/public /home/red/public

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackscreen on Xorg-X11 after monitor and video card change

2005-09-24 Thread Peter O'Connor
- - wrote: (II) Module glx: vendor=NVIDIA Corporation compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.6629 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: nvidia (II) Loading /usr/lib64/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-24 Thread Zac Medico
fire-eyes wrote: p.s. - ntplonly USE flag is bad news, stay away from it. Why blame random things when you have no clue what the actual problem is? I for one have used nptlonly for a while with no problems. Your build logs show that in both cases you got segmentation faults when running

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple gcc versions

2005-09-24 Thread Peter O'Connor
Matthias Langer wrote: I'm mainly in x86 and thus using gcc-3.3.6. However, as i do some programming, i want to know if it is without greater problems possible, to install gcc-3.4.4 additionally, so that i can make sure that the code i'm writing is accepted by gcc-3.4.x too [i know that i

Re: [gentoo-user] weird samba problem

2005-09-24 Thread Red
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gentuxx wrote: What are the NT file permissions of the share you're trying to mount? You might also want to check the share permissions. Depending on which Windows OS you're mounting from, they may be different. If I remember correctly, NT

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 11:10:35PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote however since that version -mcpu has been depreciated in favor for -mtune. I use -march, so that point is moot. As for the mmx information, that's valid across all gcc versions. If you specify -march=pentium4 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?

2005-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 20:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a computer with both a wired and wireless network card. At home I use the wired connection, but when out I use the wireless. [snip] Is there some way I can have dhcpcd to run in the background, and to provide an IP address to

Re: [gentoo-user] Blackscreen on Xorg-X11 after monitor and video card change

2005-09-24 Thread Peter O'Connor
- - wrote: I think we're going somewhere because even though I blackscreened, the 7676 drivers gave me this: (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma