Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Klosa
I am also happy with QEMU. I used for an online game that uses DirectPlay wich is not supported by cedega or wine. Im running WinXPSP2 and it is really stable. The different license for kqemu is no problem. You are free to use it, but if you want to integrate it in a product you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?

2006-01-11 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2006/1/10, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Michael Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 January 2006 15:15 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ? There's a Gentoo installer?I thought that was

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
QEMU has been very good, with KQEMU even better. was running winXP and solidworks on for quite a while/cynyrOn 1/11/06, Uwe Klosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I am also happy with QEMU. I used for an online game that uses DirectPlay wich is not supported by cedega or wine. Im running WinXPSP2 and it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to control permissions on / ?

2006-01-11 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2006/1/10, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Did you use the Gentoo installer?IIRC I used the regular manual install with 2005.1 media, but not2005.1-r1 which I've used since. However I don't see how anything other than a PEBKAC could have caused it. I don't think the stage3

Re: [gentoo-user] mms stream

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:46:13 +0100, Massimiliano Bellomo wrote: is anyone able to play an mms stream using totem or any backend based on gstreamer ? Can you please tell me which is your gstreamer version and mms plugin ? gstreamer and I have never got on, but mplayer plays mms streams.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:46, Willie Wong wrote: The documentation for mplayer, however, suggests that with xmms support it can play musepack files. So you probably should make sure you compiled mplayer with the xmms flag, and emerge xmms-musepack. Presumably that would work. Actually

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Mattias Merilai
Antoine wrote: I'm glad you didn't write humor-impaired, because then we'd have had a long discussion on whether the longer humour stands out and represents a great community better than the traditional (albeit more recent) humor... Didn't that ou/o stuff in humour/humor, saviour/savior,

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Willie Wong wrote: While I can't really vouch for stability and uptime, QEMU is a great piece of software. I run it on my Dell D600 laptop From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running in the guest OS. Could somebody

RE: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2006 21:15 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:00:17 + (WET), Jorge Almeida wrote: Seriously, does someone find the talk in

[gentoo-user] mysql-query-browser

2006-01-11 Thread Catalin Trifu
Hi, My mysql-query-browser started to segfault since I upgraded to 1.1.17: /usr/bin/mysql-query-browser: line 20: 15876 Segmentation fault $PRG-bin Perhaps this is not the best place to put this and mysql list would be more appropiate, but if someone else had the same

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Martin Eisenhardt
Hello everyone, OK, this *is* getting rather off-topic, but what the heck ... :-D On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:04, Mattias Merilai wrote: Antoine wrote: I'm glad you didn't write humor-impaired, because then we'd have had a long discussion on whether the longer humour stands out and

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql-query-browser

2006-01-11 Thread Mike Williams
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 11:28, Catalin Trifu wrote:     My mysql-query-browser started to segfault since I upgraded to 1.1.17: /usr/bin/mysql-query-browser: line 20: 15876 Segmentation fault      $PRG-bin Perhaps this is not the best place to put this and mysql list would be more

[gentoo-user] Re: QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Remy Blank
Alexander Skwar wrote: From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running in the guest OS. Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe even a step-by-step guide :) ? For me, it has always been as easy as

[gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Sanda Pavel
hi, i tried to upgrade kernel from 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to 2.6.14-suspend2-r7 (i put my current config on 195.113.31.123/~sanda/asus/.config). it seems, that all devices are working, but everything is much much slower. i'm not speaking only about the boot time - starting X is 10x slower, eterm

[gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi all, I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2 (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it. I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot get it to boot from

[gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Wilson
box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop w/60 Gig, 7200 rpm hard drive, 1 Gig Ram Current configuration: XP factory installed on 30gig partition Suse v9.0 installed on 20gig partition ext2, 1 Gig SWAP Goal: 1. Remove Suse. 2. Format 20 gig with Reisersf Leave Grub Install Gentoo Install VMware.

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hello again. I do think To have some kind of useful standard among the many distributions. is a good goal, but /Savio[u]?r Linux/ is a strange way of doing it... anyway, see below On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:34 +0100, Martin Eisenhardt wrote: Hello everyone, OK, this *is* getting rather

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:59 +0100, Sanda Pavel wrote: hi, i tried to upgrade kernel from 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to 2.6.14-suspend2-r7 (i put my current config on 195.113.31.123/~sanda/asus/.config). it seems, that all devices are working, but everything is much much slower. i'm not speaking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 1/11/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running in the guest OS. Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe even a step-by-step

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Klosa
Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. /Uwe Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:59 +0100, Sanda Pavel wrote: hi, i tried to upgrade kernel from 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 to 2.6.14-suspend2-r7 (i put my current config on 195.113.31.123/~sanda/asus/.config). it seems, that all devices are

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke Godwin's Law[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law [quote] It is considered poor

[gentoo-user] Re: Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes: has anybody experience regarding this topic, i tried it with mjpegtools, but in the conversion stopped with a segmentation fault. There's are really cool article in the Linux Journal, Dec '05, that discusses menus for movies, that may

[gentoo-user] Re: QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Remy Blank
Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 1/11/06, Remy Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, it has always been as easy as adding -user-net (or since 0.8, -net user) to the qemu command line, and enabling dhcp in the client OS. I wonder why I don't even need that, I just enable dhcp at the VM and it gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry about the spam

2006-01-11 Thread Robin
So in reality Saviour Linux will not be a disturbution of it's own just a branch of Gentoo (for example) That is my take on it. On 1/11/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Stewart wrote: Really, we could make Gentoo the official distribution of Saviour Linux. Personally, I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] Sorry about the spam

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 1/11/06, Mark Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, I should have thought more about the first e-mail (oops). Thank you for all your comments! Here is what the goal is (as of now): - To have some kind of useful standard among the many distributions. - To compensate those who need or

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
Excellent! Sounds like everyone likes QEMU, so I'm definitely going to give it a shot. One other question... With Win4Lin, for example, one can start the Windows session in lieu of an X session--so all the user sees is Windows. My users will be accessing the server via VNC so this feature of

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread talisein
On 20:55 Tue 10 Jan , Daniel Pielmeier wrote: has anybody experience regarding this topic, i tried it with mjpegtools, but in the conversion stopped with a segmentation fault. Check out qdvdauthor. It makes this point-and-click easy. Currently in ~x86. -- Andrew Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data copied over, I booted up into

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Neil Bothwick schreef: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke Godwin's Law[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

[gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from the list. I'm sending it again... Forwarded Message From: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution

Re: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: I replaced SUSE with Gentoo on my server a few months back. I installed Gentoo from Suse, so that the server stayed up and running whilst I installed and configured everything. I did the install on a separate partition, and once everything was configured and any data

[gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread James
Petr Kocmid Petr.Kocmid at project-bhairava.org writes: On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:40, Mark Stewart wrote: Hello fellow Linux Users! We here at SaviourLinux.com desire to create a united universal way. Please visit the website for more information, but here is the purpose: You missed

[gentoo-user] mldonkey does not even start to build

2006-01-11 Thread Christian Herzyk
Hello all, I am trying to install mldonkey (p2p) on my system (amd64, Gentoo 2005.1). But this is as far as it gets: arnor ~ # emerge net-p2p/mldonkey Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) net-p2p/mldonkey-2.6.4-r2 to / md5 files ;-) mldonkey-2.5.21-r2.ebuild md5 files ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
Tom, I hacked that in by putting qemu in ~/.xinitrc so when the user does startx thats what they get. i believe that vnc uses the same file to figure out what to run after XCynyr. On 1/11/06, Tom Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Excellent! Sounds like everyone likes QEMU, so I'm definitely going

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:55:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Ooh, Neil, you're such a pedant! You're too kind :) -- Neil Bothwick Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Tom Smith
Thank you for the input, Andrew. A VNC session starts its programs (including the Desktop, session managers, etc) from ~/.vnc/xstartup. Currently, the following is what my users' xstartup contains: ~/.vnc/xstartup: #! /bin/sh win --fwin Win4Lin actually acts as the X desktop so the users never

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:19:58AM -0700, Penguin Lover Tom Smith squawked: One other question... With Win4Lin, for example, one can start the Windows session in lieu of an X session--so all the user sees is Windows. My users will be accessing the server via VNC so this feature of Win4Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU opinions...

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 12:23:19PM +0100, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: From time to time, I also tried to get qemu running. The big hurdle for me was, that I never got networking running in the guest OS. Could somebody please post some basic guidelines - or maybe even a

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you for your suggestions, i know the article and so i know qdvdauthor. I don't know if qdvdauthor is capable of creating a animated menu from a series of pictures. My picture source is a image i downscaled to the size of 720x1000. I have manually extracted pictures from this one with the

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
Ant, I'm actually running a BW G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:39:09PM +0530, Penguin Lover Abhay Kedia squawked: Actually I did try that but it doesn't work. If you see I do have xmms use flag enabled and xmms-musepack installed as well but same error. Musepack forums mention that mplayer is natively playing musepack files in

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Sanda Pavel
Basically, its related somehow to SMP kernels (I presume you have a hyperthreaded P4?) If so, there are patches available, which I still have on my machine if you want them, (or I can dig out the various bugzilla references)... But by far the easiest way to get around it is to use 2.6.15.

[gentoo-user] Evolution and the gnome clock applet

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
Has anyone noticed that evolution and the gnome clock applet show different starting times. mine show events starting 1 hour later than they actully do. Cynyr.

RE: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD. Ant, I'm actually running a BW G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 January 2006 18:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:55:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Ooh, Neil, you're such a pedant! You're too kind :) Shivers are good for the soul. ;-) ... and pedants are good for software development. Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2006 18:17, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:03 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but haven't had the time to do anything with. What is the

[gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread matthew . garman
Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the user account master and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Pielmeier schreef: Thank you for your suggestions, i know the article and so i know qdvdauthor. I don't know if qdvdauthor is capable of creating a animated menu from a series of pictures. My picture source is a image i downscaled to the size of 720x1000. I have manually extracted

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a term for the situation where you have one computer as the user account master and every other machine recognizes all user accounts that are specified on the master? I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play Musepack files in MPlayer?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 23:44, Willie Wong wrote: [01:09 PM]wwong ~ $ mplayer X-Mod_radio_x-level.mpc MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team Ah...thanks a lot. That struck a cord :) I did a major mistake. While searching for mplayer and musepack, I had an idea that CVS

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Shawn Singh
NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NISOn 1/11/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Wednesday 11 January 2006 13:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a term for the situation where you

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:04, Shawn Singh wrote: NIS comes to mind and some recommended docs are: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis-howto/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_NIS Please be aware of the security issues surrounding nis. may not be a problem in your

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86 2005.1. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread James Ausmus
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from the list. I'm sending it again... Forwarded Message From: Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Thank you, i know this article, there i found this method convert matrix_menu_background.jpg ppm:- | ppmtoy4m -n50 -F25:1 -A59:54 -I p -r -S 420mpeg2 | mpeg2enc -n p -f8 -b5000 -a3 -o matrix_menu_background.m2v here i can make a menu from only one image, how can i change this commandline to

[gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Michael George
I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did exist, though... I tried

[gentoo-user] Verizon KPC650 - disconnect after 1-2 minutes.

2006-01-11 Thread kurtg
I just bought a Verizon KPC650 Wireless Broadband card. I actually got it work, but after a few minutes I get a LCP terminated by peer disconnect. Has anybody had success with this or other Verizon cards? --Kurt Jan 10 12:40:17 seeker pppd[7358]: local IP address 70.199.74.109 Jan 10

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:57 -0600, John Jolet wrote: Given the name of a couple key packages and/or web links, I think I could figure the rest out. openldap is one way kerberos is another (don't pick this one) nis or YP is another I prefer openldap, but be warned, all of these methods are

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86 2005.1. More detail pls. boots from the LiveCD? but cant find

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures [solved]

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
ok i found it out for myself, it works for me with this commandline for i in *.jpg; do convert $i ppm:- ; done | ppmtoy4m -n50 -F25:1 -A59:54 -I p -r -S 420mpeg2 | mpeg2enc -n p -f8 -b5000 -a3 -o matrix_menu_background.m2v -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 21:20, Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I'm sure there's plenty of packages and documentation on how to do this, but I don't know what it's called, so I don't know where to start looking. You either use NIS or nowadays might use LDAP. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Michael George
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:20 -0500, Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did

[gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual great Gentoo HOWTOs

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sent this into gentoo-user last night, but never received it back from the list. I'm sending it again... I got both... Not really answering the question you asked, but it should be pretty trivial to setup fetchmail to grab mail from the

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl, courier-authlib, which one? or both?

2006-01-11 Thread Bill Roberts
I am currently running my email server on my workstation, providing email for myself and my wife. I use mutt, my wife uses outlook. I basically used the virtual email server guide, it has run ok for two years, but my wife suddenly cannot access her email. The issue seems to be the pop3 server,

[gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed the instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it gave me a string of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix: bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration... FATAL: Module ip_tables not found. iptables v1.3.4: can't

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select

[gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Abhay Kedia
Hello Everyone, I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in command line mode or run it on a live CD for 3-4 days and allow

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipsetwasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke thesupport again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why Xwouldn't start any more), so I decided

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box.I followed theinstructions in the README file.When I went to start it, it gave me astring of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix:bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration...FATAL: Module

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64.boots, but then says it can't find

[gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I'm trying to use BOINC to participate in some of the distributed computing projects out there, however, I am having trouble attaching to the worldcommunitygrid.org project. I provide boinc with the URL and account key. It successfully downloads the master page, but then blows up trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Anthony Roy schreef: Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences'

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan schreef: I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed the instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it gave me a string of errors, that I'm not sure how to fix: bullet ipkungfu # ipkungfu Checking configuration... FATAL: Module ip_tables

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl, courier-authlib, which one? or both?

2006-01-11 Thread kashani
Bill Roberts wrote: I am planning on building a simpler email system (I don't use imap, virtual domains, or a user database). In my quest for Zen-like simplicity and rock-solid quality, I'm planning on using postfix, plus courier as a pop3 server. For authentication, some guides use sasl, some

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:30 -0500, Andrew Frink wrote: On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box. I followed the instructions in the README file. When I went to start it, it gave me a

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Statux
Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it hasn't been updated. I had the same problem with the same project until I upgraded to 5.2.13. I contacted the project and they confirmed that the old versions

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu

2006-01-11 Thread Andrew Frink
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:30 -0500, Andrew Frink wrote: On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install ipkungfoo on my server box.I followed the instructions in the README file.When I went to start it, it gave me a

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Statux schreef: Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it hasn't been updated. I've been wondering about this issue myself-- my bf runs BOINC (and in fact is a tester thereof) under Windows, and

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
snip Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option would be to emerge the ~x86 evolution (2.4.2.1) - it has been quite a bit more

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
IMNSHO NIS is a big fat waste. I would strongly recommend against. it. =) It does simplify a number of things, and I honestly have never actually tried to make the LDAP integration work on BSD.Kerberos is not an account management tool - it is authentication management, I use it all the time, and

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Anthony Roy
Hi Holly, Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as if the CD is for some reason not bootable. The CD is perfectly browsable from within OSX. How did you burn it? Burnt from ISO image as I always do with iso images - that's certainly not the problem. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread James Ausmus
On 1/11/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Have you tried a revdep-rebuild -p -v to see if there is a dependency issue that would be causing the evolution crash? Also, have you tried a re-emerge of evolution and evolution-data-server? Another option would be to emerge the

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Statux schreef: Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it hasn't been updated. I haven't had time to try to figure out what to do about

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Holly Bostick
Paul Varner schreef: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Statux schreef: Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it hasn't been updated. snip Which is why I find the

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 13:39 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:21:23 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke Godwin's Law[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:06 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think once we've got to the stage of UK (and AU) vs US spelling, I can invoke Godwin's Law[1] hereby ending the discussion completely and immediately ;) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law I took the

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:27:56 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese solid state thin clients, I have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) I hope you are referring to computer hardware and not undernourished oriental customers :) -- Neil Bothwick LaForge

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:57:43 +0530, Abhay Kedia wrote: I have a EM64T enabled processor but currently running x86 install. Now I would like to install 64bit Gentoo on this system but since this is the only PC that I have, it is indispensable for me. I can't put it in command line mode or run

Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

2006-01-11 Thread Midnight Toker
Right, what you need to do goes a little something like this; if the mac is on, switch it off. Get a pen, and hold down the 'programmers button'. On a BW Mac, its the little button underneath the power button on the RIGHT hand side. (the other is the reset button). Tap the power switch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 16:16 +, James wrote: [a rant] I have even offered to spent my limited financial resources to get talented people to develop specific software and make it open source so that it can be used freely, ... Just add your offer to one of these sites. [They may all be

Re: [gentoo-user] X.org V7.0 partial success

2006-01-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Andrew, on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 16:27:41, you wrote: try adding 'Section DRI mode 0660 Group video endsection' to your xorg.conf Oh, that rings a bell, I think I did that to another config a long time ago...thanks, I'll try tomorrow @work! and no those are

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating DVD-menus from pictures

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 18:56 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: My picture source is a image i downscaled to the size of 720x1000. I have manually extracted pictures from this one with the size of 720*576, increasing the offset in x-axis pixel by pixel. The animated menu should play these pictures

Re: [gentoo-user] RESEND: [OT - Manually entering a new mail account into Evolution]

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
I saw your post on the evolution-list as well. I think your best bet would be to try and get evolution working without the crash. Do you have a trace? Evolution used to crash for me all the time, until I looked at the trace and saw a library needed recompiling. Now its rock-solid. Feel free

Re: [gentoo-user] slow boot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:27 +0100, Uwe Klosa wrote: Or you can try 2.6.15-suspend2. ? What exactly do you mean? Is there a suspend2-sources version up to 2.6.15? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Deflector shields just came on, Captain. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Practical Backup Solution

2006-01-11 Thread Lord Imbrius the Despondent
Hello, all. I have a small webserver/mail server running Gentoo. I need to find a backup solution that will work for this type of setup. Unfortunately, there is no working driver for a parallel floppy-protocol (backpack) tape drive for Linux 2.6. I've tried LOTS of things to get that drive

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