[gentoo-user] Gentoo Install - Concern w/ NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra

2005-12-15 Thread Doug Brown
After a lot of research I have decided to go with Gentoo, and I think I have all the install issues ironed out. My main concern is with compatiblity issues and my mobo. I have read a ton of horror stories, and I want to make sure I am prepared for any issues that could arise when I install

[gentoo-user] kde and network sound

2005-12-15 Thread Qv6
Folks Has anyone figured out how to use the kde network sound feature. I'd like to try it, but not sure how to go about iit. TIA -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about 10-30 seconds fore the

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and fstab

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:30:08 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: udev handles the creation of the device nodes, mounting is handled by hal. hal normally creates its own mount points in /media, but if the device is listed in /etc/fstab, it will use whatever is in there. How do you know that

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: 2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format. transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less arcane options and a readable man page make life a lot easier for ffmpeg users :) -- Neil Bothwick Windows -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:20:59 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EXTRA_ECONF=--enable-rootcommit emerge cvs usually works, although not all ebuilds respect $EXTRA_ECONF. Can you make an educated guess about that? I mean is it a pretty high percentage that allow that env flag? No, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP system it usually takes about

[gentoo-user] postgresql client problems

2005-12-15 Thread Dirk Dil
Hi, My computer is an amd64 sempron with a fresh Gentoo Linux 2005.1-r1. I'm trying to get pgaccess and postgresql to set up. Both have been successfully emerged. I can create a data base with my user dirk and access it using psql. Upon /etc/init.d/postgres stop/start I do find the

[gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port

2005-12-15 Thread ddup1
Hi, does anyone know how to specify a port to vncviewer (i used vncviewer under windows) and want to connect to my pc at home but not on port 5900. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Istanbul - missing theoraenc

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:21:54 up 1 day, 2:58, 5 users, load average: 0.95, 0.44, 0.33 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've read that dd actually has problems reading from cdroms and isos produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Merging lvm partitions

2005-12-15 Thread Stroller
On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:27 pm, Peper wrote: Why? If they really are LVM physical volumes, you can create a single (or modify an existing) volume group span both, and create or grow logical volumes without regards to the size of the individual partitions. Just for order. I have 3 LVM partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Merging lvm partitions

2005-12-15 Thread Stroller
On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:27 pm, Peper wrote: Why? If they really are LVM physical volumes, you can create a single (or modify an existing) volume group span both, and create or grow logical volumes without regards to the size of the individual partitions. Just for order. I have 3 LVM partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:55 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:15:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: 2. what program will convert 'anything' to said format. transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less arcane options and a readable man page make life a

[gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Good day Gentoo List !!! Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better, so I´ve installed Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:59:51 -0600, Dale wrote: I think the new portage is supposed to be better. That is what I have read anyway. I dunno for sure. To chicken to keyword it. LOL I run ~arch on everything, so this is still the case with portage 2.0.53. My iBook, running the same version,

Re: [gentoo-user] converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Martins Steinbergs
transcode and mencoder will do it, but ffmpeg is easier to use. Less arcane options and a readable man page make life a lot easier for ffmpeg users :) $ man ffmpeg No manual entry for ffmpeg `ffmpeg` produces some help info, but then -vcodec codec force video codec ('copy' to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:59:51 -0600, Dale wrote: I think the new portage is supposed to be better. That is what I have read anyway. I dunno for sure. To chicken to keyword it. LOL I run ~arch on everything, so this is still the case with portage 2.0.53. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread brettholcomb
There is a book covering backups that is supposed to be the Bible for backups. Unfortunately, I am not where I can lay hands on it and can't remember the title. From: Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/15 Thu AM 08:03:34 EST To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

[gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread James
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: I have lots of different types of video files - from short funny ads, to 1/2 hr tv episodes, to full movies, in all sorts of formats - wmv, avi, mpeg, etc. yes we all suffer from numerous types of video. Often the differences are trite, just

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:24:32 -0600, Dale wrote: I run ~arch on everything, so this is still the case with portage 2.0.53. My iBook, running the same version, doesn't have this issue. I stand corrected. I thought I read that they had made some changes that made things faster. Me confused

[gentoo-user] Re: How to make emerge skirt a package built from tar.gz

2005-12-15 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, and it wouldn't matter. Even if 99.9% of ebuilds respected it, yours could be in the other 0.1%. It should be fairly high though. Just run the command, Ctrl-C when the ./configure stage has completed and look in config.log in the work directory.

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2005-12-15 Thread reader
Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good day Gentoo List !!! A major tool for that is rsync and rsnapshot. For general theory about it maybe a google search like: linux backup strategy Well pull up a bunch of likely stuff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: Backups

2005-12-15 Thread James
Allan Spagnol Comar allan.comar at gmail.com writes: Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? 'emerge -pv amanda' http://www.amanda.org Brought to you by the good folks in College Park, the same folks that use to run the Internet (MAE-EAST) the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install - Concern w/ NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Doug Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a lot of research I have decided to go with Gentoo, and I think I have all the install issues ironed out. My main concern is with compatiblity issues and my mobo. I have read a ton of horror stories, and I want to make sure I am prepared

[gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread James
Hello, qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to survive the machinations of emerge, env-update et.

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:22:16 + (UTC), James wrote: qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes. Increasing the block size does make it /almost/ as

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some one knows where I can find some good material about backuping linux boxes ? If you can give us some more details about what you are looking for (number of boxes, backup device you want to use, whether you want simple backup or

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:22 +, James wrote: qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to

Re: [gentoo-user] clock problems software clock 20x fast

2005-12-15 Thread Noah J Norris
ok its fixed its a bug with ati / nvidia chipsets making the clock 2x+ fast disable_timer_pin_1 fixes the clock ^^ On Wednesday 14 December 2005 09:04 pm, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/14/05, Noah J Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 02:03 am, Richard Fish wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:53 +0200, Matan Peled wrote: Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Install - Concern w/ NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra

2005-12-15 Thread Steven Susbauer
I just installed the amd64 Gentoo build on nforce 4. No issues whatsoever (except when I was using a 2004.3 cd... once I got the right one it was all working).As Richard said, using a hardware raid is not going to be easy, however an lvm or software raid shouldn't cause you any problems. On

Re: [gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port

2005-12-15 Thread Steven Susbauer
I think if you connect to computer:4967 or whatever, it will use that instead of 5900 (which is where it will go if you type :0).If you're connecting through windows, putty makes it very easy to use vnc through an ssh tunnel, which would allow you to use 5900 without a problem. On 12/15/05, [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: Istanbul - missing theoraenc

2005-12-15 Thread James
Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. libtheora may contain the theora encoder you are looking for: This page may help: Rip DVDs to Theora on Linux http://www.parrishtech.com/content/view/16/2/ otherwise,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Francesco Riosa
James wrote: Hello, qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to survive the machinations of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 17:02, James wrote: [ snip - lots of good stuff ] All things video are a work in progress. I can run (2) color video streams over a 56 kbps frame relay link, with acceptable quality for a utility. For their needs, nothing is close to H.264, at this time, as we have

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. ditto - very easy, very efficient John pgpdB8qaDSaQE.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread James
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: I can only agree on each single point. So encoding is rather expensive. Well, I have a solution for this. openmosix: http://openmosix.snarc.org/ http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/ I'm just a little timid to jump in now, as I'm drowning with current

[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg I just copy it to /usr/local/bin. Since /usr/local/bin/qpkg is not owned by gentoolkit, it won't be touched by portage. An update to gentoolkit will reinstall qpkg in the original location, but it will be the

[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread James
Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg ln -s /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg /usr/local/bin/qpkg Yes, I rather like this symlink approach. Answering your question about paths, the place to put it would be /root/.bashrc export

[gentoo-user] vacation, suspend emails

2005-12-15 Thread Joseph
Does the mailing list have any feature like vacation or suspend for a shot period of time? While we are at it, is there a any feature in Evolution email like auto-reply to a certain group of people? -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread James
Francesco Riosa BastianBalthazarBux at pnpitalia.it writes: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Dude, (are old_farts allowed to use terms like dude?) with Gentoo, I do a lot of jumping. Granted, I have things working better than ever on computers, but, I 'jump'

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:56:30 -0600, Paul Varner wrote: My recomendation is to create a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin (which is in the default path) That doesn't work with gentoolkit-0.2.1*, because qpkg is now in /usr/share/doc/$PF/deprecated/qpkg/qpkg, so an upgrade of gentoolkit would

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:04 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in a particular category qpkg -I -g kde-base -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:53:27 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. I use rdiff-backup, which is ideal for backing up automatically to a hard drive. I run it from cron, hourly on

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-15 Thread Holly Bostick
Matthias Langer schreef: Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually not with Azureus, but with Java (that's what's slowing down,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:12 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:04 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-15 Thread Matthias Langer
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:15 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthias Langer schreef: Now, what i want is the same for p2p apps - give them as much bandwidth they can reasonably get but don't let them slow down firefox, ssh etc. In the case of Azureus specifically, your problem is actually

[gentoo-user] Re: vacation, suspend emails

2005-12-15 Thread James
Joseph syscon at interbaun.com writes: Does the mailing list have any feature like vacation or suspend for a shot period of time? Take a look at Gmane, as it may be even better dealing with the numerous postings as a front end that straight email tools http://www.gmane.com/ James --

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread James
Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: Actually it does: OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing Does this mean no (ebuild) contains theoraenc ? qpkg -i theoraencreturns emptytoo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Conflageration-Resolved

2005-12-15 Thread WFisher
I successfully installed the kde base system and everything seems to be working ok. Now I think I should start over and do the whole thing again from scratch so I can learn more about the installation procedure. Thanks Will -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thanks all for the answers until now; What i am looking for is to backup 3 servers, and a critical issue workstation. I have a storage working with samba, so my bakups will go to this samba server. I would like to make some diff bakups to save storage space :) thanks again all of you

[gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict

2005-12-15 Thread Glenn Enright
I installed kde3.5 which is great, but to do soI had to unmask some packages, including hal. So I have version 0.5.5.1 installed. Unfortunately I also have gnome-light installed, which requires hal-0.4 for gnome-vfs. Any ideas on how I might solve this conflict. I dont really need gnome, but

Re: [gentoo-user] vacation, suspend emails

2005-12-15 Thread Nick Rout
Simply unsubscribe and then re-subscribe when you get back. On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:26:48 -0700 Joseph wrote: Does the mailing list have any feature like vacation or suspend for a shot period of time? While we are at it, is there a any feature in Evolution email like auto-reply to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Francesco Riosa
James wrote: Paul Varner fuzzyray at gentoo.org writes: Actually it does: OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing qgrep theora is actually similar to grep theora

[gentoo-user] Emerging Net-SSLeay-1.25 for Webmin

2005-12-15 Thread Robin
I am trying to emerge Net-SSLeay-1.25 as a dependency for Webmin and it is failing. I tried searching for a solution with no success, and I can't make sense of where the error is coming from. Any ideas would be helpful. Here it is: emerge (1 of 3) dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.25 to / md5 files

Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Glenn Enright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed kde3.5 which is great, but to do soI had to unmask some packages, including hal. So I have version 0.5.5.1 installed. Unfortunately I also have gnome-light installed, which requires hal-0.4 for gnome-vfs. Any ideas on how I might

[gentoo-user] very strange nsswitch.ldap problem

2005-12-15 Thread Michael George
I have been fighting with a system for a couple hours now to get it to work again and I finally did it. But I don't know why what was wrong keeps it from booting right. Here's what I have: I'm testing using Samba and LDAP as a PDC server. So I have a system that I configured with Samba, LDAP,

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:26:47 -0600, Paul Varner wrote: Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in a particular category qpkg -I -g kde-base Actually it does: qlist -I kde-base Will show all installed packages in

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:04:38 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: completely hosed system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. So are my USB hard disks. Nothing against DVD backups though...I just find them too slow and small for my needs... A fair point, although it does make keeping spare,

Re: [gentoo-user] hal emerge conflict [SOLVED]

2005-12-15 Thread Glenn Enright
On Friday 16 December 2005 10:24, Richard Fish wrote: Since you do not use gnome, you probably don't care whether gnome-vfs supports hal or not: echo gnome-base/gnome-vfs -hal /etc/portage/package.use -Richard Of course! :) Simple elegant fix. Thanks for your insight. -- [Lois' sister is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:08 +, James wrote: OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing Does this mean no (ebuild) contains theoraenc ? qpkg -i theoraencreturns emptytoo How do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if you increase the block size from the default 512 bytes.Aside

[gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Doug Brown
My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0 and 1, but I am more

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 15 December 2005 21:55, Doug Brown wrote: My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support  raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very  good.  I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon  (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what  types of

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread kashani
Doug Brown wrote: My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I know it supports 0

[gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password?

2005-12-15 Thread Daevid Vincent
I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go to the URL, it prompts for a user/password. What exactly is this user/pw it's looking for? The one stored in mysql.users? My actual account? Both in this case have no password set. I've used this program for years, and I've just installed it from their

[gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front

2005-12-15 Thread reader
Just when I was thinking I might finally be getting a handle on using keywords and USE variable to control my install, I discover it really isn't as nifty as one might think. Here is my case: I grew tired of all the ins and outs of kde installation although I had a working one. I decided to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
Success! Partially at least (skip to the bottom if you want to know how!) On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:02 +, James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: Space it not too much of an issue Disc space is a relative thing. It always get's filled up. Human nature. You will

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Sullivan
I need help setting up my network's DNS configuration. I tried to subscribe myself to the bind-user mailing list (using the address at the bottom of the bind docs README file, but I saw this in the log: Dec 15 17:51:15 bullet sm-mta[29432]: jBFNpCvf029430: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password?

2005-12-15 Thread Qv6
On Thursday 15 December 2005 05:24 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: I emerged phpmyadmin 2.7 and when I go to the URL, it prompts for a user/password. What exactly is this user/pw it's looking for? The one stored in mysql.users? My actual account? Both in this case have no password set. It's asking

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help correcting my DNS configuration

2005-12-15 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: I need help setting up my network's DNS configuration. I tried to subscribe myself to the bind-user mailing list (using the address at the bottom of the bind docs README file, but I saw this in the log: Dec 15 17:51:15 bullet sm-mta[29432]: jBFNpCvf029430: to=[EMAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: mone on the KEYWORD USE front

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Mauch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This makes you want to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line, but after seeing the reasons for not doing that in recent posts I decided to follow the suggestions, and not do it. So either you must cycle thru enough `emerge -v kde' to find all packages needing

Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well you might think all that would be necessary is to keyword either: kde-base/kdebase ~x86 kde-base/kde-meta ~x86 kde-base/kde ~x86 Nope, you have to keyword-accept the dependancies also... What happens is emerge runs into a

RE: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? [solved]

2005-12-15 Thread Daevid Vincent
Hmm. Well I thought I had done this, but issuing this command again seemed to have fixed it: mysql -u root -p /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/2.7.0_p1/sqlscripts/mysql/2.7.0_p1_create.sql The problem now is that all the images are broken and no CSS is being applied if I try to connect from a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recommended MySQL frontends

2005-12-15 Thread Roy Wright
Thank y'all. Tried phpMyAdmin and it worked like a charm! Back to rails... Thanks again, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
kashani wrote: Doug Brown wrote: My mobo's chipset (nvidia nf 4) doesn't support raid real well, and I have read that Linux Software raid is very good. I am getting ready to install Gentoo 2005.1 64bit real soon (I am new to Gentoo), and I was wondering what types of raid it supports. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming this is a small home system I'd go with RAID 5 with maybe a hot spare if I have more than four drives in a normal server setting where reads happen more often than writes. That's more space with comparable performance for anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking hardware here, we mean real hardware RAID...made

Re: [gentoo-user] mone on the KEYWORD USE front

2005-12-15 Thread Chris White
On Friday 16 December 2005 09:54, Richard Fish wrote: echo x11-libs/qt /etc/portage/package.keywords ; cd /usr/portage/kde-base ; for packages in * ; do echo kde-base/${packages} /etc/portage/package.keywords; done Chris White pgpz4wiL2qBnA.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

2005-12-15 Thread Grant
How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? How can I keep my own http traffic private? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Istanbul - missing theoraenc

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:57 +, James wrote: Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. libtheora may contain the theora encoder you are looking for: Already tried that. No dice either otherwise,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Iain Buchanan wrote: Success! Partially at least (skip to the bottom if you want to know how!) On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:02 +, James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: Space it not too much of an issue Disc space is a relative thing. It always get's

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed

2005-12-15 Thread Jim Burwell
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Justin Krejci
On Thursday 15 December 2005 03:49 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:13 -0600, Justin Krejci wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the

Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

2005-12-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump How can I keep my own http traffic private? Use https instead. IPSec is another option, if supported. Also, traffic is normally only passed along the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-15 Thread Justin Krejci
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:45 am, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/14/05, Justin Krejci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run emerge -s whatever or emerge sync or any emerge command apparently, it usually takes about 1 second to start the command on the AMD64 system whereas on the Athlon-XP

[OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring individual files very easy, and a completely hosed

Re: [gentoo-user] VNCviewer config port

2005-12-15 Thread Justin Krejci
On Thursday 15 December 2005 04:14 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to specify a port to vncviewer (i used vncviewer under windows) and want to connect to my pc at home but not on port 5900. vncviewer will automatically add 5900 to your port number, for example (replace

Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

2005-12-15 Thread Justin Krejci
On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:17 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:10 pm, Grant wrote: How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your

Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

2005-12-15 Thread Grant
How can I see what is happening as far as traffic on my unencrypted network? tcpdump ntop is a good network summary program too. Works good if you can run it on your default gateway machine. tcpdump is pretty cool for sure. The network is just run from a router. No server on which I

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: the rest. I then have a weekly cron script that compresses the backup directories with squashfs and writes them to ISO images ready for writing to bootable DVDs. It makes restoring

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Thanks. Wonderful info. /me just bought a DVD writer. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/15/05, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bootable, but mkisofs. To use GRUB, you have to make a /boot/grub directory in your CD tree, and copy the stage2_eltorito file into that directory along with grub.conf/menu.lst. Oh, I forgot one thing. Instead of (hdX,X) in grub.conf, you

[gentoo-user] Two boots?

2005-12-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
My dual opteron box runs gentoo nicely. However, it ALWAYS takes two boot cycles to boot up. Is there some issue I might need to know about? Is this one boot per cpu? Thanks for any ideas, Alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin user/password? [solved]

2005-12-15 Thread David Obwaller
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:00:02PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: Hmm. Well I thought I had done this, but issuing this command again seemed to have fixed it: mysql -u root -p /usr/share/webapps/phpmyadmin/2.7.0_p1/sqlscripts/mysql/2.7.0_p1_create.sql The problem now is that all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 23:56, Hani Duwaik wrote: On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if