Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Gabriel Dain
However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig !--- Add whatever support you need, i've never worked with ACPI, sorry --- # make make modules_install # reboot that should do it, if support is what you need. However, this will probably be more useful: #

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Teresa and Dale
Gabriel Dain wrote: However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig !--- Add whatever support you need, i've never worked with ACPI, sorry --- # make make modules_install Addition: cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImageyour stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working

2006-03-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 March 2006 04:59, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/23/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap spla sh=verbose,theme:live-cd-2006.0 quiet

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I'm very very new to Gentoo. I managed to squeak through a install from the live CD, however, this gave me a kernel with little or no ACPI support - I have a laptop, so I'd like to have this support enabled. However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, or do so enabling ACPI support. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install iplimit?

2006-03-24 Thread Mariusz Zalewski
I would like to use iplimit in my firewall. I'm still using 2.6.11-r9, but, it appears to be in yours too. From make menuconfig under the 2.6.11-r9 it is here: [...] m limit match support It is not this module. limit module can limit number of packets in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mpg123: Can't open /dev/dsp!

2006-03-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Walter Dnes schreef: On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 08:41:44PM +0100, Simon Kellett wrote Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... mpg123 complains about not being able to open /dev/dsp ... Does mpg123 -a /dev/sound/dsp work ? Nope. The only change is that now I get Can't open

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:58:09 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Alright, then run sudo bash -c 'echo some_string some_file' No problem here :) Except this means you have to give the user permission to run bash, and subsequently any command as root. You may as well give them the root password

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:42:22 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: what I think is needed here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense? Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that,

Re: [gentoo-user] resuming emerges

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:19:45 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: You can edit /etc/make.conf and add noclean to your FEATURES. This way the temporary stuff in /var/tmp/portage (or wherever it is) will stay behind, and you can say `emerge --resume` and it will continue. You also need keepwork in your

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:19:07 +1100, Gabriel Dain wrote: # cd /usr/src/linux # make menuconfig !--- Add whatever support you need, i've never worked with ACPI, sorry --- # make make modules_install # reboot That should be make make modules_install make install or your new kernel will

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install iplimit?

2006-03-24 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I would like to use iplimit in my firewall. Did you check for new netfilter options in kernel config after installing iptables extensions? Did /usr/src/linux point to correct location when you were installing the patches? This is just a guess. Didn't do that myself. Sasha --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-24 Thread Nagatoro
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 21:30 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' 'stable' ? There are 3 levels: Masked, ~ARCH, and ARCH. Masked you can install if you want, like gnome-2.14, but it's your own fault if it kills

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, does the stick have a write-protect switch? Mine has - and AFAIR most sticks too. Maybe he switched it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Kintzios
Thank you All for your replies. -Original Message- From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 23:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar? Michael Kintzios wrote: As things currently are gentoo_usr.tgz is in

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

2006-03-24 Thread Hiren Dave
Hi, Yes, I have MX record. This is a virtuserable concept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] @yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry in there and that means mails that are sent to admin and yahoo.com should go to root. Am I right? On 3/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiren Dave

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:49:40 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in, but what comes out? is it DV (like a DV camera

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-24 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system Gabriel Dain or get another virtual terminal (with x running, it's shift-alt f2, or shift-control f2, i forget which). that will

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Moore
No, I mean, I don't have another distro installed that I could compare the two xorg.conf files. you mean you deleted it, or your system auto-detects it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi list, I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? awk '{print $2???}' TIA, Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 15:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 00:00 -0600, Dave Moore wrote: I have this problem too, precisely as thufir described it. I, however, have no other xorg.conf for comparison. you mean you deleted it, or your system auto-detects it? if 1. then

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: JimD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 21:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:18:44 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to turn off the

RE: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Hemmann, Volker Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2006 10:45 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast? Hi, does the stick have a write-protect switch? Mine has - and AFAIR most sticks too. Maybe he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

2006-03-24 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/21/06, Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. So, just replace /boot/grub/grub.conf with /root/grub.conf ,yes? Yes, but make shure the menu menu.lst sybolic ling is pointing to grub (ls -s menu.lst grub.conf.) Robert .. I looked for menu.1st and couldn't find it :( However,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-24 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 24.03.2006 um 15:19 schrieb Michael Kintzios: While on this topic, when I cut paste in Vim it automatically inserts indents on the front of each pasted line which messes up my config files. I had it fixed some time ago and now I noticed it's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-24 Thread Björn Gustafsson
Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: JimD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 21:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:18:44 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-24 Thread Erik Haider Forsén
Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: JimD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2006 21:20 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:18:44 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-24 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:19:19PM -, Michael Kintzios wrote: While on this topic, when I cut paste in Vim it automatically inserts indents on the front of each pasted line which messes up my config files. I had it fixed some time ago and now I noticed it's back - would you know how I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:34:22 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? awk '{print $2???}' I'd do the following: awk '{$1=;print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This still

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could boot from the Gentoo CD, and chroot to your system or get

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Cláudio Henrique
let's say you have a listing like this in a file name list.txt: aaa bbb aaa bbb aaa bbb aaa bbb aaa bbb if you wanna print the bbb column, you just have to do like this: cat list.txt | awk '{ print $2 }' if the listing is like this: aaa;bbb aaa;bbb aaa;bbb aaa;bbb aaa;bbb then you do:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting': I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? I think: awk '{shift; shift; print $0}' -- If there's one thing we've established over the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 March 2006 05:53, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] How to tar?': -Original Message- From: Benno Schulenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Kintzios wrote: what I think is needed here is untarring of the archive, while untarred

Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)

2006-03-24 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 24, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:13, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] My Gentoo is too secure ... ;)': On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:31 PM, Gabriel Dain wrote: If the problem is you log straight into KDE, you could

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:05:01 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: analog to dv is an expensive device, but some digital video cameras have an analog rca input and you can convert old analog stuff to dv by passing it through the camera. I am not sure if you have to record it on to digital video tape first

[gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Mark Shields
Greetings list. I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now. I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently. Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC (the server is also a router, my home PC connects through it). I have a kvm switch so I had WoW

[gentoo-user] alsamixer process after close 100% cpu

2006-03-24 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I used alsatools for a long time, and never had any problems, but now on my laptop when I use alsamixer, sometimes when closed (using ESC to close) leaves the process running and using 100% CPU. I have to go to console and kill it. Laptop is HP Pavilion ze5470us. I don't have my

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: awk '{$1=;print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This still leaves you with one OFS starting the line (between $1 and $2), you can get rid of this using awk '{$1=;print substr($0,lenght(OFS))}' thanks. the function lenght seems not

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 24.03.2006 um 15:56 schrieb Mark Shields: s there anyway to find out why it froze? Check the kernel logs and look if there is somethig suspicious. Greets, Rafael -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin)

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-24 Thread Joseph
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 22:51 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/23/06, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, here is dmesg output, the last two lines indicate that: hdc: DMA disabled hdc: ATAPI reset complete The lines that are interesting to me are: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 March 2006 15:36, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Michael Kintzios wrote: what I think is needed here is untarring of the archive, while untarred data is dynamically deleted immediately after untarred to make space for more data to be untarred . . . do I make sense?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: awk '{$1=;print $0}' (awk recalculates $0 when $n is modified) This still leaves you with one OFS starting the line (between $1 and $2), you can get rid of

RE: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Kintzios
-Original Message- From: Rafael Bugajewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 March 2006 14:30 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Linewrap in vim -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 24.03.2006 um 15:19 schrieb Michael Kintzios:

Re: [gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working

2006-03-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/24/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap splash=verbose,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
That may or may not yield anything useful, depending on which logger you are using (as some don't write immediately). Rafael Bugajewski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 24.03.2006 um 15:56 schrieb Mark Shields: s there anyway to find out why it froze? Check the

[gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Hello! I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However, when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER executed. Not once, not ever! It seems that the ONLY jobs that run are via

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/24/06, Martin S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't had the oppurtunity to look for a switch (haven't seen one though) as it's home and I'm not. But no I can't repartition it as evident from earlier mails in the thread. It's read-only :( I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:22 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 07:34, Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting': I want the awk analogon for cut -f2-, which prints fields #2 to #n. Is this possible? I

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux distros: from crontab(1): If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file does not exist but the cron.deny file does

Re: [gentoo-user] How about ieee 1394 was:USB TV / Video capture devices

2006-03-24 Thread Joseph
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 01:05 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:49:40 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am unclear what you mean here. what is a Analog to Digital S-VHS converter. I suspect it has RCA analog video in,

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/24/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then reboot to your 'Safe' kernel to make sure things work. Oh, and obviously, you should do this *before* starting any work on rebuilding or installing a new kernel... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/24/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, or do so enabling Others have covered the mechanics of building and installing the kernel. Just a couple of points to try to keep you out of trouble: 1. However you install the kernel (by which I

[gentoo-user] X.org 7 rules?

2006-03-24 Thread Rafael Fernández López
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've updated my X.org to X.org 7. I have a laptop with an ATI RADEON MOBILITY 9700 (r300 chip), and I've haeard before of NEW X.ORG DRIVERS, and how they'd pretty empower radeon cards. Well, I have no direct rendering yet. I wonder if

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Philip Webb
060324 Mark Shields wrote: I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now. I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently. Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC I have a kvm switch so I had WoW running on my main PC while I was working on

[gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff
Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg How do I get those Asian characters to appear? TIA! -Jeff -- Jabba the Hutt: Bring me Solo and the Wookiee! They will all suffer for this outrage.

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-24 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped. Otherwise, yes, i think you have to replace it. I can't imagine how the other guy could have damaged it from your description of the events though. -Richard You might want to try it on another computer before giving it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

2006-03-24 Thread Ryan Tandy
THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I looked for menu.1st and couldn't find it :( That should be menu.lst, with a lower-case L rather than the number 1. In any case it's a symlink to grub.conf (on my systems anyway), so it doesn't really matter. delta ~ # ls -l /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst

[gentoo-user] ebuild dependencies and the --tree switch

2006-03-24 Thread Daniel Rolls
Hi, I'm trying to understand how ebuild dependencies work in gentoo. If I type: emerge -vpu --deep --tree kde-base/kdebase I see the package x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.12.1 at one of the roots of the tree. The kdebase version is 3.5.1-r3. Firstly how can anything other than kde-base/kdebase

Re: [gentoo-user] Sendmail virtusertable

2006-03-24 Thread Jarry
Hiren Dave wrote: Yes, I have MX record. This is a virtuserable concept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] @yahoo.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry in there and that means mails that are sent to admin and yahoo.com should go to root. Am I right? I do not think so. At least I do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Splash livecd-2006.0 not working [SOLVED]

2006-03-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 March 2006 17:19, Richard Fish wrote: On 3/24/06, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED],mtrr,ywrap splash=verbose,theme:livecd-2006.0 quiet

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:54 -0500, JimD wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:15:37 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wife has the same problem with her computer running Gentoo, but I generated the xorg.conf file from X -configure when I first installed Gentoo on it for her,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: awk scripting

2006-03-24 Thread Sascha Lucas
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:15:09 +0100 (CET) Sascha Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks. the function lenght seems not defined. but substr($0,2) works. That was a typo. Should of course be length. sorry. I was in a hurry and didn't noticed the

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff
You could try, as root: lspci and/or lspci -v Here's mine for example: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Ryan Tandy
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm not sure. Is there a way of finding out the video card without opening the case and looking? We have no idea where the manual went.. emerge pciutils lspci -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:17 -0500, Jeff wrote: You could try, as root: lspci and/or lspci -v Here's mine for example: # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Chad Feller wrote: I haven't tried this on gentoo, but in general, and on other linux distros: from crontab(1): If the cron.allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the cron.allow file does not exist but the

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:27:01 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several local users on my machine that are members of the cron group. Vixie-Cron runs as my cron agent. It is running. However, when I setup jobs to run in the users crontab, they are NEVER

Re: [gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Bliss
On Friday 24 March 2006 09:00, Jeff wrote: Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg How do I get those Asian characters to appear? TIA! -Jeff Try adding cjk to your USE flags and doing an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] is it toast?

2006-03-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 March 2006 16:23, Martin S wrote: Haven't had the oppurtunity to look for a switch (haven't seen one though) as it's home and I'm not. But no I can't repartition it as evident from earlier mails in the thread. It's read-only :( hm, I am not sure, but it is not possible for some

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Jeff
As root: X -configure This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify xorg.conf.new to take advantage of your particular hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Hosted server as distcc machine

2006-03-24 Thread Grant
Is there anything wrong with making a remote machine [a] distcc system? Not really, but you do need to realize that distcc doesn't guarantee that jobs will be sent to the remote machines and will not prevent jobs from being run locally. Good to know for sure. I was kinda

Re: [gentoo-user] New To Gentoo and Emerge, No ACPI in Kernel

2006-03-24 Thread Mike Myers
Richard Fish wrote: On 3/24/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then reboot to your 'Safe' kernel to make sure things work. Oh, and obviously, you should do this *before* starting any work on rebuilding or installing a new kernel... -Richard Also, something to keep in

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Renat Golubchyk wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding users

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Renat Golubchyk wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml BTW ... following this document explicity ... it is still not working. $ ps ax | grep cron 3469 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 3515 pts/0S+ 0:00 grep cron $ ls -ld /etc/cron* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Mar

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread kashani
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: According to this document, it indicates my setup SHOULD be working. It does suggest creating a cron.allow and adding all members that are allowed to use cron to this file. I fail to see the reasoning of adding users to the cron group AND to this file, but that

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to the cron group (gpasswd -a my username cron), then as my regular user ran crontab -e and entered */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user' Just to get it to email me

[gentoo-user] ftp connection refused

2006-03-24 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I keep casting this fly, hoping for a strike ;0 For a crossover lan. Ping OK. route -n confirms net setup on *both* machines iftraf indicates activity on remote machine when ftp command issued. adding debug switch returns: servname not supported for ai_socktype. googling

[gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
sebastien Pastor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i got all those scripts stabilized, i really wanted to keep exactly same version of binaries. After installing a new server, i got the surprise not being able to use ecasound-2.3.3, the only version available is the 2.4.3. This is one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
kashani wrote: Hmmm I've never had to so more than add users to the cron group... is it possible that the crons are running, but that the scripts have path issues or something similar? No. I have tried echo commands, which should hit the user email, I have tried simple scripts that put a

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/24/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As root: X -configure This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify xorg.conf.new

[gentoo-user] Re: How to tar?

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have move my /usr onto a different machine as part of a migration exercise, but the partition in question will barely contain it. Is there a way of running tar ... Why do you need to tar it up ? Is there a network connect between the 2 machines:

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread John Jolet
Thanks :) Warning: Do not just change the values of these two monitor related variables without consulting the technical specifications of your monitor. Setting incorrect values lead to out-of-sync errors at best and smoked up screens at worst. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml I

[gentoo-user] Re: is it toast?

2006-03-24 Thread James
Martin S shieldfire at gmail.com writes: Haven't had the oppurtunity to look for a switch (haven't seen one though) as it's home and I'm not.But no I can't repartition it as evident from earlier mails in the thread. It's read-only :(Martin S If you've got partition magic or similar

[gentoo-user] Re: screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Kellett
JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I first installed Gentoo I was using the vesa driver until I downloaded the NVidia driver. With the vesa driver I too had flickers. However once I installed the Nvidia driver the problem went away. If you do have NVidia then the Xorg nv driver may be

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with domainname

2006-03-24 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 3/19/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In order to get a proper FQDN, you need to set up three files: /etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/hostanme, /etc/conf.d/domainname. I also have the same problems as you in past, and one day I found that the most tricky thing was

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Chad Feller wrote: Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to the cron group (gpasswd -a my username cron), then as my regular user ran crontab -e and entered */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user' I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

2006-03-24 Thread mfyang
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:00:37PM -0500, Jeff wrote: Hey all. Have a look at the *bottom* of this Google screen shot: http://home.comcast.net/~jmg_071769/images/borkedcharacters.jpg If you just want to display the chinese characters, it should be easy. Just emerge some chinese font package,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie question : specific software version no more available

2006-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:58:18 +0100, Simon Kellett wrote: This is one of the (few) things I do not like about Gentoo - sort of *forced* upgrades. There are manual workarounds, but I think it would be very friendly if I could flag packages as not-to-upgrade: the ebuild (and dependencies) would

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
Haven't been able to reproduce your problem yet, but just out of curiosity: What version of cron are you running? I've got: # emerge vixie-cron -pv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso - DMA related problem

2006-03-24 Thread Joseph
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 13:08 -0500, JimD wrote: On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:49:09 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've disable IDE ATAPI CD-ROM in the kernel but the DVD-drive wasn't recognized upon reboot; well I think I just have to wait till they fix it in the kernel :-/ For now,

It's Working. [Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...]

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Chad Feller wrote: Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to the cron group (gpasswd -a my username cron), then as my regular user ran crontab -e and entered */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s 'test from user' Well ...

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:17:35 -0600 Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad Feller wrote: 2) Check your appropriate log file (I use sysklogd), so something like tail -f /var/log/syslog might reveal something of interest. Nothing special, no errors and no sign of it running. You

[gentoo-user] two usb memory devices

2006-03-24 Thread James
Hello, I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus: /dev/sdb1 500576 6464494112 2% /media/usbdisk /dev/sda1 127716 3922123794 4% /media/usbdisk since they both get 'automounted as /media/usbdisk, I cannot have them

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo froze after 25 days of being up

2006-03-24 Thread Mark Shields
On 3/24/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 060324 Mark Shields wrote: I've had Gentoo on my home server for a little over a year now. I've never had a problem with it outright freezing until recently. Yesterday I was playing World of Warcraft on my home PC I have a kvm switch so I had WoW

[gentoo-user] pikdev-0.7.1-r2

2006-03-24 Thread James
hello, Portage says it's available, and upon issuing 'emerge -uDp world' is want to upgrade, but I get this error: emerge -uD pikdev Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-embedded/pikdev-0.7.1-r2 to / Downloading http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.1.tar.gz --09:14:50--

Re: [gentoo-user] two usb memory devices

2006-03-24 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 3/24/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have (2) usb memory devices that both work fine with hal/ivman/dbus: /dev/sdb1 500576 6464494112 2% /media/usbdisk /dev/sda1 127716 3922123794 4% /media/usbdisk since they both get

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:15 -0500, Jeff wrote: As root: X -configure This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video, monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify

Re: [gentoo-user] pikdev-0.7.1-r2

2006-03-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 21:49 +, James wrote: hello, Portage says it's available, and upon issuing 'emerge -uDp world' is want to upgrade, but I get this error: emerge -uD pikdev Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) dev-embedded/pikdev-0.7.1-r2 to / Downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] screen flickers/static

2006-03-24 Thread Rumen Yotov
...SKIP... Michael Sullivan wrote: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661/741/760/761 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Elitegroup Computer Systems Unknown device 1b13 Flags: 66MHz, medium devsel, IRQ 10

[gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

2006-03-24 Thread James
Rumen Yotov rumen at qrypto.org writes: Hi, Seems to be an issue with the 0.7.1 tarball, it's missing. Just tried pikdev-0.7.1-r2 and received the same error as you. Could fetch 0.6.6a though. Check the homepage directly, get tarball if possible and put it in distfiles dir. Ah, well this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pikdev-0.7.1-r2

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
Interestingly enough, and although not listed on their download page, you can still wget http://pikdev.free.fr/pikdev-0.7.0.tar.gz successfully James wrote: Rumen Yotov rumen at qrypto.org writes: Hi, Seems to be an issue with the 0.7.1 tarball, it's missing. Just tried pikdev-0.7.1-r2

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