[gentoo-user] problems after using xcdroast

2006-03-02 Thread JC Denton
Hi Group, after burnnig a CD using xcdroast I get the following message while booting: hdc: ATAPI reset complete ide-scsi: (IO,CoD) != (0,1) while issuing a packet command This message shows up several times and then I can proceed. Searching in the net I found some stuff but I did not get the

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and erros that is. I have an XMMS player on my kde menu. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Wednesday 01 Mar 2006 22:54, Harry Putnam wrote: snip One way would be to mount the disk locally using cifs. See `man mount.cifs' for details but the syntax looks like this: From /etc/fstab (This is all one line in fstab) //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/harvey-c cifs noauto,username=reader,\

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/2/06, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Harry Putnam schreef: cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [V8237 ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237 VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xc800, irq 201 I did install alsa-utils and ran alsaconf. /etc/modules.d/alsa looks like this: alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
mount -t cifs -o user=reader%XXPASSWDXX //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/ harvey-c The directory /mnt/harvey-c has to be created ahead of time. The user reader needs to have an account on that windows machine. You'll need a windows user account username and password. If you don't use passwords for

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to backup all of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but even after reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct format. So are you saying the cifs

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Persson schreef: I am finding that with one particular windows application running under wine the graphics are incredibly slow. My question is: Is this something to do with wine that I just have to live with, or could it be connected to other things on my system, such as the xserver?

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The VIA 8237 is an onboard sound chip. I have one myself. As such, it's controlled by the BIOS. Since you have previously not used sound on this machine, it's within the realm of possibility (imo) that you disabled the sound chip in the BIOS, which --

[gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Bo Andresen
I know this is very off topic, but I have no idea how to find a place where it actually is on topic.. so I'm posting it here. I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that prints colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored output as a mail. In order to

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Holly Bostick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt segfaults. snip The weird thing is, after waiting a while (say two or three hours), the problem went away---everything just started working. This sounds awfully like a heat problem, especially if the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Bo Andresen
Just in case somebody wonders what I'm talking about here is an example (^[ is an escape character): ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Running emerge --sync ... ^[[A^[[73G ^[[34;01m[ ^[[32;01mok^[[34;01m ]^[[0m ^[[32;01m*^[[0m Running

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 02 March 2006 22:49, Bo Andresen wrote: My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines the escape sequences. Google for xterm escape sequences yields many results. s/xterm/ansi/ for even more. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2006 13:29 To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults Recently, programs on my computer have been victims of abrupt segfaults. [snip...] Anyone else ever experience

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 March 2006 13:44, Harry Putnam wrote: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and erros that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o username=whatever,password=whatever only root will be able to do this. You might want to try to avoid spaces in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o username=whatever,password=whatever only root will be able to do this. You

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:49:49 +0100 Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to be able to run a program (eix-sync/diff-eix) in cron that prints colors (with use of --force-color) and then send that colored output as a mail. In order to get colors in a mail a have to use html. If there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that the line didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace Thanks for all your help -- I now have it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Remy Blank
Bo Andresen wrote: My problem is that I am unable to locate a reference that defines the escape sequences. Guessing by testing with xterm isn't really a optimal way to find out... man console_codes HTH. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Bo Andresen
On Thursday 02 March 2006 15:56, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'd say, the Perl module HTML::FromANSI should do what you want (available from cpan). It brings a script, ansi2html, that provides access from the command line. Note that you might have to play with the TERM environment variable.

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread matthew . garman
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:23:17PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: If the application of a domestic cooling fan does not relieve the problem, then it could well be faulty memory module(s), or a faulty power supply. I'm afraid it's a random hardware failure. I've been running cpuburn for the

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Jason Weisberger
First off, I'm fairly certain that this application doesn't use OpenGL, so that will not be of any concern, however it seems that if you have an ATI card, you'd want to use the proprietary drivers from the ATI website to increase your performance. This would increase your 2D performance as well. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 15:14, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip Thanks for

[gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
Hi Folks, Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU, and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an emulated network card to the OS it's hosting. Works fine for the install CD.

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/2/06, Tom Haddon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, Very new to Gentoo, although not to Linux. I'm trying it out in QEMU, and have just completed the installation. Only problem is I can't seem to connect to the internet. QEMU is basically meant to provide an emulated network card to the

[gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Marton Gabor
Hi! Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID. Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk,

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread sHadoW MaN
Hi This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at boot time. Be sure you have entered your driver name ( I am not sure maybe it's 8029too) at file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. You can use nano text editor to edit the file... Cheers cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/2/06, Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID. Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need let's say a ~100MB /boot

RE: [gentoo-user] eth0 does not exist

2006-03-02 Thread Tom Haddon
Thanks, much appreciated. Turns out it was ne2k-pci. Added that to the file you mentioned and it was all good. Thanks, Tom On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 11:56 -0500, sHadoW MaN wrote: Hi This is certainly because you haven't loaded your network card driver at boot time. Be sure you have entered

[gentoo-user] Import SSL Certificate Authority

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
Hi all, I use fetchmail to retrieve mail from my university's IMAP server with SSL enabled. After an upgrade to the latest stable version, whenever I run fetchmail, I get the following output: [12:12 PM]wwong ~ $ fetchmail fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... I'm in need of sound on my unix box and kind of quickly. I never even configure sound or want it as a rule but now I need it to test some recording equipment on a second winxp computer with m-audio delta-66 installed. This

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Terminal formatting and colors escape sequences

2006-03-02 Thread Bo Andresen
Does anyone know of I way in which to force emerge to show colors when piping the output to a file? I really could use a tip. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread b.n.
It's been several months ago, but I did run about eight hours of memtest86 on the memory. Is it unusual for memory to work fine for a while and *then* go bad? Mmm. No. Mine did exactly so. I might try a new power supply anyway. A faulty PS would give you odd hw-related (mostly cd-related)

RE: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2006 15:54 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious segfaults On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:23:17PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: If the application of a domestic

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: On 3/2/06, Marton Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk, Actually, if you make 512MB non-raid swap on each disk with equal priority, its like having swap on raid0 (it will be stripped over swap-partitions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Import SSL Certificate Authority [SOLVED]

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: [12:12 PM]wwong ~ $ fetchmail fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local issuer certificate fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted fetchmail: Server

[gentoo-user] install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

2006-03-02 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to perform this task. Best regards, MC --

[gentoo-user] USB, udev, and SCSI emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Wes Gray
I've been researching getting my camera to work and I have a few questions. I'm running udev and kernel 2.6.15.1. 1) For USB mass storage to work do I still need SCSI emulation or does udev remove that requirement? 2) If so do I still need to pass the kernel parameter hdc=ide-scsi? 3)

Re: [gentoo-user] USB, udev, and SCSI emulation

2006-03-02 Thread znx
Hi, I don't require scsi emulation for use with my USB camera/storage devices. I don't use ide-scsi (its not in my kernel). You might like this: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~fac075/howto/udev.txt Which is a simple udev howto I did. Thanks Mark On 02/03/06, Wes Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] USB, udev, and SCSI emulation

2006-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:44:10AM -0800, Penguin Lover Wes Gray squawked: I've been researching getting my camera to work and I have a few questions. I'm running udev and kernel 2.6.15.1. 1) For USB mass storage to work do I still need SCSI emulation or does udev remove that

[gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

2006-03-02 Thread Simon Kellett
Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to perform this task.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/2/06, Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frankly, I dont understand this. Why should the write speed be so degraded? If you have 4 disks in raid5, and you want to write 1.5 GB of data, you actually write 500MB on disk1, 500MB on disk2, 500MB on disk3 and 500MB on disk4 (1.5 GB data + 0.5 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

2006-03-02 Thread Masood Ahmed
Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to perform this task. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

2006-03-02 Thread Antoine
Simon Kellett wrote: Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl (?) weirdness in wine

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:08 Jason Weisberger was like: First off, I'm fairly certain that this application doesn't use OpenGL, so that will not be of any concern, however it seems that if you have an ATI card, you'd want to use the proprietary drivers from the ATI website to increase your

Re: [gentoo-user] add a disclaimer to Q-Mail

2006-03-02 Thread Benno Schulenberg
El Nino wrote: We are using Q-Mail. now we would like to add a disclaimer at the end to every outgoing message. Is there someone who knows any way to add this ? Yes. Don't do it. Don't send out such garbage. -- Your separator is wrong, it's missing a final space. (Or is the mailing list

[gentoo-user] E-mail server not working ???

2006-03-02 Thread Steven Gill
I followed the instruction here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml but whenever another server (ie. the gentoo mailing list server) tries to send it an e-mail I get this in the postfix logs: - /var/log/mail/current Mar 2 22:20:15 [postfix/smtpd] initializing the server-side

[gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question

2006-03-02 Thread CR Little
How do you setup dhcpd to default start on eth1 vs eth0? This message contains information from SourceLink - Madison which may be confidential and privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, please refrain from any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this

Re: [gentoo-user] cups and parallel printing

2006-03-02 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:19, Glenn Enright wrote: Scratch that. got it working finally! seems there was something not quite right with the esp driver, and now a new kernel build along with a foomatic driver did the trick! Yay!!! -- Al Gore resembled a Vulcan desperately in need of a blow

RE: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question

2006-03-02 Thread CR Little
Doesn't that only set it for picking up dhcp servers? Being dhcpCd not dhcpd? I have eth0 which needs to pull a dhcp address then I have eth1 on a different network which needs to be a dhcp server. When you rc-update add default dhcpd it automatically runs on eth0 not eth1 so I'm having to

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/2/06, CR Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you rc-update add default dhcpd it automatically runs on eth0 not eth1 so I'm having to start it with /usr/sbin/dhcpd eth1 /etc/conf.d/dhcp: # Configure which interface or interfaces to for dhcp to listen on # list all interfaces space

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dhcpd question

2006-03-02 Thread Roy Wright
CR Little wrote: Doesn't that only set it for picking up dhcp servers? Being dhcpCd not dhcpd? I have eth0 which needs to pull a dhcp address then I have eth1 on a different network which needs to be a dhcp server. When you rc-update add default dhcpd it automatically runs on eth0 not eth1

Re: [gentoo-user] install windows after gentoo on two different physical drives

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/2/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i have a machine with two SATA hard disk. I would like to know if there are some possibilties to install windows (XP in particular) on the second hard drive AFTER gentoo has been installed on the first one, and, if yes, how to

[gentoo-user] Which profile for EM64T setup?

2006-03-02 Thread Statux
I currently have a generic i686 setup on my P4 with HT and EM64T. I've come to realize that I could be doing better so I've started considering switching over to use EM64T (nocona). I figure that I'll be switching my CHOST to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and my march variable in CFLAGS to nocona (from the

[gentoo-user] login error message

2006-03-02 Thread Robert Persson
Since doing whatever that command is that gets ati opengl working I have been getting the following error message when I do a console login, either as a user or as root: -bash: export: -m: invalid option export: usage: export [-nf] [name[=value] ...] or export -p -bash: export: -i: invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Which profile for EM64T setup?

2006-03-02 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Friday 03 March 2006 06:13, Statux wrote: I currently have a generic i686 setup on my P4 with HT and EM64T. I've come to realize that I could be doing better so I've started considering switching over to use EM64T (nocona). I figure that I'll be switching my CHOST to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and