Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Richard Fish wrote: I think we have a failure to communicate here Actually no... The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (along

[gentoo-user] strange problem with fam USE-flag

2005-11-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Recently (last two days) when running:emerge -DNu world -ptv receive the following: ... #emerge -DNu world -ptv These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.1 +berkdb -debug +fam* -gdbm -ldap

[gentoo-user] More 2.6.14 badness: iptables no longer logging

2005-11-12 Thread William Kenworthy
More 2.6.14 badness: just realised my gateway iptables rules under 2.6.14 no longer log events. rebuilt iptables with no changes so Ive gone back to 2.6.13. Is anyone else seeing this? Ive only tested 1 system so far. BillK -- William Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home! --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-12 Thread Jimmy Rosen
On Saturday 12 November 2005 17.11, Chris White wrote: On Saturday 12 November 2005 16:33, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, The wife has finally put her foot down and said I have to clean up the mess that inhabits my office which occupies our second bedroom. I probably would tell you the

Re: [gentoo-user] More 2.6.14 badness: iptables no longer logging

2005-11-12 Thread Sascha Lucas
More 2.6.14 badness: just realised my gateway iptables rules under 2.6.14 no longer log events. rebuilt iptables with no changes so Ive gone back to 2.6.13. Is anyone else seeing this? sorry I can't see this on my desktop. -j LOG works as expected. Do you use ULOG? BTW: I use

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-12 Thread Chris White
On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:17, Jimmy Rosen wrote: However, I haven't found a good OCR program yet. That is the major hurdle. Searchability is the really important thing. The space saving and portability is nice enough though, for the moment. I heard that Adobe has a windoze only software

Re: [gentoo-user] how to upload files...?any tool?

2005-11-12 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
On 00:22 Fri 11 Nov , El Nino wrote: Dear friends, i develop my own webpages now want to upload them to a remote server. so im new to do this... so can any body to point me a tool to do this? For ftp I use: * net-ftp/weex Available versions: 2.6.1.5 Installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] What is recommended behavior for complete updating of an old system ?

2005-11-12 Thread abhay
On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 8:52 am, Bob Sanders wrote: emerge sync once per week and let it run over the weekend doing updates. About once per year - - emerge sync - ufed and check out the USE flags. Some changes occur and they need a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to upload files...?any tool?

2005-11-12 Thread Toby 'qubit' Cubitt
On 00:22 Fri 11 Nov , El Nino wrote: Dear friends, i develop my own webpages now want to upload them to a remote server. so im new to do this... so can any body to point me a tool to do this? If you can find some way (e.g. shell access or a friendly sysadmin) to install it on the remote

[gentoo-user] problem starting BillardGL (assertion failed)

2005-11-12 Thread b.n.
Hi, I'm trying to start BillardGL (a very cool billard OpenGL free game), but all I have is this error... BillardGL (C) 2001, 2002 Tobias Nopper, Stefan Disch, Martina Welte No Game Mode possible! BillardGL: r200_vtxfmt.c:1052: r200VtxFmtFlushVertices: Assertion `rmesa-dma.flush == 0 ||

[gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-12 Thread Mal Herring
Hi Gentoo-User I run a Apache2 webserver and Postfix as per the virtual mailhost guide... For resilience I would like to have two gentoo boxes doing these tasks for load balancing / redundancy - how can this be achieved? Is there a tool that will allow replication of the config files /

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Mrugesh Karnik schreef: Richard Fish wrote: The via_drv I am talking about is an _x.org_ driver, not a kernel driver. It has nothing to do with the kernel sources or rebuilding the kernel. It should exist at /usr/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (along with all other X11 drivers). I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with fam USE-flag

2005-11-12 Thread Holly Bostick
Rumen Yotov schreef: Hi, Recently (last two days) when running:emerge -DNu world -ptv receive the following: ... #emerge -DNu world -ptv These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.1 +berkdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Holly Bostick wrote: Possibly because you don't have the 'insecure-drivers' USE flag enabled: I had insecure-drivers enabled the first time I compiled xorg. I think I had disabled it in the subsequent compilations. I found an ebuild with VIA Unichrome USE flag and patches added; in the

Re: [gentoo-user] More 2.6.14 badness: iptables no longer logging

2005-11-12 Thread William Kenworthy
No, I use LOG (via the monmotha script). Same prob with both iptables versions: its only the kernel version thats changed. Diff'ing the configs hasnt helped. At least I now know its my system, and not something more widespread. Just setup and tested another gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r1 system and

Re: [gentoo-user] ghosting(?) a drive

2005-11-12 Thread Digby Tarvin
I do this quite frequently - except that in most cases I am replacing an old drive with a new larger driver, but want the existing partitions copied accross identically as if nothing has changed. To complicate matters, I often have more that one operating system installed on the disk. The basic

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with fam USE-flag

2005-11-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi Holly, On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:16 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Rumen Yotov schreef: Hi, Recently (last two days) when running:emerge -DNu world -ptv receive the following: ... #emerge -DNu world -ptv These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world

[gentoo-user] Re: Have another 2.6.14 problem: cisco-vpn client

2005-11-12 Thread Adrian Loetscher
Hi, I had the same problem and found a solution for this problem. In line 292 and line 432 of the file linuxcniapi.c, I have replaced the following text do_gettimeofday(skb-stamp); whit the following code: __net_timestamp((struct sk_buff *)skb); I have found this solution in a patch

[gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

2005-11-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi! Since recently (I of course don't know since when exactly *G*), I cannot get KDE or Gnome or ivman to automatically mount my digicam, when I plug it in. The camera appears as a USB Mass Storage devices. In the kern.log, I get the following entries: Nov 12 20:28:14 blatt usb 1-1: new full

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

2005-11-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
How can I get the system to automatically mount my USB device when I attach it? Most cameras can be switched from USB to PTP mode in the setup. I recommend to do so and instead of automounting it to access it via PTP (see gphoto2/digikam etc.). It's much more convenient because you can plug

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

2005-11-12 Thread Alexander Skwar
Christoph Eckert schrieb: How can I get the system to automatically mount my USB device when I attach it? Most cameras can be switched from USB to PTP mode in the setup. Yeah, I know. When Mass Storage worked, it was much more convenient than having to start some program to import hte files

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

2005-11-12 Thread Christoph Eckert
Thanks for the tip, though. But instead of the PTP workaround, I'll use the manual-mount workaround. Or maybe autofs. PTP is slow, *very* slow on my machine. This is a big minus. Regardless of mass storage or PTP you can write a small shell script which automates the process and copies the

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/12/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I tried was to enable the VIA drivers in the kernel. It then compiled both drm.ko and via.ko and also via_drv.o, but the via_drv.o never left the /usr/src directory. Which is the exactly correct and expected behavior. I don't

[gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Hopefully somehere can direct me to where this should be posted or answer it directly. I'm looking to my Gentoo box to solve the problem described below: First: My home lan looks like: INTERNET | DSLMODEM | -

Re: [gentoo-user] [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread John Jolet
The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. look at the schedule setups. set them up only to be able to access the internet for, say a second on sunday at 3 am, and not for the rest of the time On Saturday 12 November 2005 17:35, Harry Putnam wrote: Hopefully somehere

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. look at the schedule setups. set them up only to be able to access the internet for, say a second on sunday at 3 am, and not for the rest of the time Do you mean to bock every address on

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg.. twm not starting and terrible performance with fluxbox

2005-11-12 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Richard Fish wrote: Too many variables to answer that question...kernel versions, kernel configuration, kernel patches, frame buffer options, xorg versions, xorg patches, and so on. You could try to eliminate some of those variables by using the same kernel version .config under both. Ay!

[gentoo-user] NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
I'm trying to resize an NTFS partition to fit Gentoo on a new laptop. As recommended by countless sources all over the Internet, I am using Knoppix Qtparted for resizing. However, QTParted complains about accounting errors in the NTFS filesystem (yes, I know that's redundant). After a little

[gentoo-user] Re: Keeping /usr/portage/distfiles empty. Need the room. :/

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
Dale wrote: Hi all, I am putting Gentoo on a fairly small hard drive. I would like to clean out distfiles to save room. I would like to tell it to download the source file then delete it when the compile is finished. I looked in the make.conf.example but I didn't see anything that tells it

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Grimaldy Soto
I suposed that if the partition is in use it's because is the main partition, if not you can use the /x option for chkdsk if will force a dismount, anyway why you no resize the partition with a partition manager like partition magic. Its better and faster and course lets dangerous that making

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keeping /usr/portage/distfiles empty. Need the room. :/

2005-11-12 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
Write a wrapper for emerge. (example for updating a package): First, get the output of emerge -fup PACKAGE. Use basename to get the filename. Save that in a variable. Second, emerge -u PACKAGE (for f in $FILES; do rm -f $f; done) On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Pingveno wrote: Dale wrote: Hi all,

[gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread El Nino
Dear friends,i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(1000mails/per day).i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. has anyone built a server recently that worked?1) can anyone give me a suggestions for a

[gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this being the boot partition. Here's the message I get when I run chkdsk /f: output The type of the file system is NTFS. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread John Jolet
built 20 blade-type servers. tyan tomkat motherboard with dual-core opteron processers and sata drives. also single-core. the single-core models ended up costing about a grand each, but 5 of them are supporting 500,000 web hits/day. On Saturday 12 November 2005 20:31, El Nino wrote: Dear

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keeping /usr/portage/distfiles empty. Need the room. :/

2005-11-12 Thread Dale
Pingveno wrote: As a horrible, horrible hack, you could just write a shell script to be run by crond. I'm sure there's something better, though. Well, right now I'm just doing a rm -rfv /usr/portage/distfiles/* every few hours. It works but it did fill up once. The system was still running

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 13 November 2005 04:06, sempsteen wrote: Section Module # This loads the DBE extension module. Load dbe # Double buffer extension # This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables # initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module. SubSection extmod

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keeping /usr/portage/distfiles empty. Need the room. :/

2005-11-12 Thread Dale
Don't shoot me, he top posted so I assume he likes it too. Noobie alert. Take hand and with a quick motion go right over the top of your head. I did get the emerge -fup PACKAGE part though. What I was needing is this. Let's say I want to install mozilla. I issue the command, it downloads it

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
I am by no means an expert on this subject, but any time you have an X server problem, you run startx -- :1 from a shell. This starts the X server up on virtual terminal 8. The X server starts dumping out information, which might be helpful for diagnostics. -Pingveno sempsteen wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:31:10 +0600 El Nino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. I wouldn't worry about whether it's parallel or sata raid. If you need high i/o it needs to be SCSI. Otherwise either IDE or SATA works fine with little difference in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:56:46PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Do you mean to bock every address on the internet? I'm not following you hear. Further I don't see an option to block ip addresses in the blocking section at all. Only by keywords. Yes, the netgear will do it. My crappy netgear

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 05:06:12 +0200 sempsteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've installed the nvidia drivers by the walkthrough of Gentoo Linux nVidia Guide. Emerge installed nvidia-glx v1.0.6629-r6 and nvidia-kernel v1.0.6629-r4 with no problems and i did the necessary changes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:06:12AM +0200, sempsteen wrote: (II) LoadModule: nv (II) Loading /usr/lib/modules/drivers/nv_drv.o (II) Module nv: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 6.8.2, module version = 1.0.1 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (II)

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread abhay
On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:36 am, sempsteen wrote: snip # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread abhay
On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this being the boot partition. Here's the message I get when I run chkdsk /f: output The type of the file system

[gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-12 Thread El Nino
dear friends, i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home now i want give access to my college friends to it. (i already have two running squid+firewall gentoo servers) I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within 1km. can anyone give me a solution to do this?

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia driver problem

2005-11-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 13 November 2005 05:13, abhay wrote: On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:36 am, sempsteen wrote: snip # ** # Module section -- this section is used to specify # which dynamically loadable modules to load. #

[gentoo-user] Printer configuration for Flash

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
Hum, does anyway know how to set up the printer configuration for the Macromedia Flash plugin? Someone wrote a nifty flash page from which he offered a print button to print the content generated. Unfortunately, it seems to only want to send the job to lpr, without an option to print to file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-12 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote: I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine installed using genkernel.  All the RAID support is compiled into the kernel, but no /dev/md? device files exist.  I can create these using mknod and make the RAID, but

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-12 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:02:09AM +0600, El Nino wrote: i have a 128kbps Internet connection to my home now i want give access to my college friends to it. (i already have two running squid+firewall gentoo servers) I'm looking for wireless technology to do this. all friends are within 1km.

[gentoo-user] Re: NTFS resizing

2005-11-12 Thread Pingveno
abhay wrote: On Sunday 13 Nov 2005 8:43 am, Pingveno wrote: Yeah, this is the main partition. According to the web sites I have read, there should be no problem with what I'm doing, even with this being the boot partition. Here's the message I get when I run chkdsk /f: output The type of the

[gentoo-user] Re: [Iptables related] How to make one machine only talk on loc lan

2005-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:56, Harry Putnam wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The netgear will do it. you can give it ip addresses to block. look at the schedule setups. set them up only to be able to access the internet for, say a

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-12 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/12/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote: I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine installed using genkernel. All the RAID support is compiled into the kernel, but no /dev/md? device files exist. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating RAID devices - udev question

2005-11-12 Thread Brian Parish
On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:23, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/12/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote: I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine installed using genkernel. All the RAID support is compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread kashani
El Nino wrote: Dear friends, i'm planning on buying a server for running gentoo(will b our 1st gentoo server) with a mail+dns server(1000mails/per day). i'm looking for sata raid,amd opteron around 1GB ram. has anyone built a server recently that worked? 1) can anyone give me a suggestions

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is a wiki what I'm after?

2005-11-12 Thread Robert Persson
On November 11, 2005 11:33 pm Andrew Lowe was like:  A wiki is one of the first things to come to mind. I'm contemplating setting a wiki up on my trusty little firewall/email/squid/dns server, scanning the clipping, creating an entry in the wiki, placing, By all means consider using