Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 13:20 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : L Which in turn come from the table in /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h. Maybe you can try adding an entry for your device to that table? Something like: UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x1043, 0x8006, 0x0110, 0x0110,

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 17. April 2006 16:34 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: In your situation, I'd get rid of evms, it's not needed. Use mdadm to create a raid5 volume from your 3 drives, then use the command-line lvm tools to create a pv, vg, and all the lvs you want. Why should people have to use

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:04, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: [*] OK. I have sanduleak ~ # find /dev/disk/ -iname '*usb*' /dev/disk/by-path/usb-0x1043-0x8006:0:0:0 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Drive [*] Any other idea ? Never give up. Try hexdump on the

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/uba1 with Klingston usb disk.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . I've just tried the ub driver, and it's the same problem (/dev/uba node but no /dev/uba1), with the following dmesg output. usb

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:12 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : On Tuesday 18 April 2006 05:04, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Any other idea ? Never give up. That seems to be your moto :-) Try hexdump on the device above: hexdump -C /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_USB_Flash_Drive I'm currently

Re: [gentoo-user] prelink question and kdeinit

2006-04-18 Thread Marco Calviani
well, this is a good question. Actually i'm not seeing any incredible boost in performance, excluding a reduced need of RAM memory. I would like to add that these extra RAM saving is really very useful in increase the responsiveness of all the system and thus apparent extra speed.

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:37:54 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: There is indeed an encryption feature on this key. I've never used it (I haven't even downloaded the windows-only software allowing to use it). Can it be related to this problem ? Possibly. Some USB keys use two partitions for

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 15:37 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : So my next steps are : 1. Switching back to usb-storage 2. Trying to dd the disk 3. That doesn't work, trying to get access to another computer and see if I can do something. Of course, I meant *If* that

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 09:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:37:54 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: There is indeed an encryption feature on this key. I've never used it (I haven't even downloaded the windows-only software allowing to use it). Can it be related to

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:14, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Any idea left ? So, you definitely have a hardware problem. Digging for the id of your device 1043 8006 reveals a linux kernel mailing list archive thread: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.0/0023.html with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Mick
On 17/04/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on even if it is not where Mozilla is. I went into prefs and the mail settings thing and can not find a setting to cut off this

Re: [gentoo-user] kgpg error with gpg-agent

2006-04-18 Thread Mick
On 17/04/06, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 18:26, Mick wrote: I seem to have something wrong with the gpg-agent setup on by box. First of all gpg-agent does not start automatically despite the fact that I have added eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) in my

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync error

2006-04-18 Thread scwang
Now I find the problem is caused by utf-8. My local changed from zh_CN.GB2312 to zh_CN.utf8 recently. But I don't know how to correct. -- Wang ShaoChun(王绍春) [EMAIL PROTECTED] PH.D Candidate Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Science --

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Konstantin V. Gavrilenko
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 18:51 +0100, Konstantin V. Gavrilenko a écrit : On the example of the SD card reader, when you insert the card, /dev/sdb appears, but not the actual partition (/dev/sdb1) So you have to do fdisk /dev/sdb, then quit, then the /dev/sdb1 is

[gentoo-user] Way OT : DDR2-667 Memory and Heat Issues

2006-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm thinking of getting some 1GB Ram Module of the newest 667Mhz Memory. Then I came into this article in the inquirer http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31041 [SNIP] On one Intel booth, the demo showed how, at full speed, a 1 GB DDR2-667 SO DIMM in a thin and light notebook reached an awfully

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dale wrote: I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on KDE Control Center Regional ... Accessibility Visible Bell Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] shell script

2006-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a shellp script, let STRING=a.txt b.txt c.txt And I want to delete a sub-string from $STRING, for example b.txt, and then we got $STRING is a.txt c.txt So for what you want just do:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync error

2006-04-18 Thread Mattias Merilai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I find the problem is caused by utf-8. My local changed from zh_CN.GB2312 to zh_CN.utf8 recently. But I don't know how to correct. Unicode still messes up a lot of portage/compile thingies. You will want to leave your system locale to C or POSIX and set

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/18/06, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first time I saw those 32 MB (a few days ago, when the key worked and was almost empty), df -h told me there was 1006 MB left on the key. Wait, it worked before under Linux? I don't think you mentioned that previously. Was this on

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk.[SOLVED (sort of ...)]

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le lundi 17 avril 2006 à 22:24 +0800, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : I've a problem with a recently bought usb disk:there is a /dev/sda node but no /dev/sda1 . (snip) I finally managed to plug this disk onto a windows machine. Windows sees the disk, but can neither read it nor format it (as far

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 06:25 -0700, Richard Fish a écrit : On 4/18/06, Frédéric Grosshans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first time I saw those 32 MB (a few days ago, when the key worked and was almost empty), df -h told me there was 1006 MB left on the key. Wait, it worked before under

[gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
Title: udev/initramfs problem We have several dual cpu systems - half intel, the other half AMD. For our purposes, we are building to the i686 arch. The hosts with the below described problem are running on Tyan mother boards with LSI Logic SCSI controllers embedded in PCI-E bus. We

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 11:47 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:14, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Any idea left ? So, you definitely have a hardware problem. Digging for the id of your device 1043 8006 reveals a linux kernel mailing list archive thread:

Re: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:44:09 -0500 Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We rescently upgraded to the 2.6.15-r1 kernel and life is great on the systems that use the adaptec scsi controllers. However, LSI Logic does not appear to be seen by udev or, more likely,

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 17 April 2006 09:41, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] evms': On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 09:14, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] evms': I want to end up with lvm logical

Re: [gentoo-user] kgpg error with gpg-agent

2006-04-18 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 17 April 2006 02:52 pm, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 17 April 2006 18:26, Mick wrote: I seem to have something wrong with the gpg-agent setup on by box. First of all gpg-agent does not start automatically despite the fact that I have added eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) in my

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread John Jolet
I've never needed any of the few additional features EVMS provides. (The only one that comes to mind right now is BBR, which modern HDs already do.) It /can/ make things a /little/ easier, since it allows you to resize a block device and the filesystem (or whatever) on top of it with a single

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 01:33, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] evms': Am Montag, 17. April 2006 16:34 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: In your situation, I'd get rid of evms, it's not needed. Use mdadm to create a raid5 volume from your 3 drives, then use

RE: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74
The current kernel build process is simply: # genkernel -- menuconfig --install all make.profile=2006.0 gcc=3.4.5-r1 When in the ash shell environment, I notice that there are few static nodes in /dev. ( i.e. console, pty etc.) In this environment, I am able to load the modules manually, but

Re: [gentoo-user] kgpg error with gpg-agent

2006-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 17 April 2006 12:26, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] kgpg error with gpg-agent': I seem to have something wrong with the gpg-agent setup on by box. First of all gpg-agent does not start automatically despite the fact that I have added eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) in

[gentoo-user] kdelibs update an kmail

2006-04-18 Thread Martins
hi after kdelibs, kwin update i got this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libkhtml.so.4) for some time i switched to gcc-4.1.0 leaving gcc-3.4.6 as backup. after

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mick wrote: On 17/04/06, Teresa and Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on even if it is not where Mozilla is. I went into prefs and the mail settings thing and can not find a setting to

Re: [gentoo-user] shell script

2006-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 18 April 2006 07:11, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] shell script': Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a shellp script, let STRING=a.txt b.txt c.txt And I want to delete a sub-string from

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs update an kmail

2006-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/18/06, Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi after kdelibs, kwin update i got this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/libkhtml.so.4) for some time i switched

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Dale wrote: I have recently noticed that when I get new email my screen flashes red, on whatever desktop I am on KDE Control Center Regional ... Accessibility Visible Bell Benno Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dale wrote: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. :) They need a warning on that one since it is on by default. I very much doubt it. But there _is_ something screwed in those Bell settings, as Regional

[gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Thomas Cort
Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? lsmod -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/18/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list lsmod Maybe that's what you want? -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -BEGIN GEEK CODE

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Istvan Pongracz
lsmod Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox upgrade-downgrade problem

2006-04-18 Thread Grant
I upgraded to the ~x86 firefox and it had some stability issues so I downgraded again. Now when I run firefox in a terminal it outputs this: Extension System Warning: Failed to set up default extensions files probably because you do not have write privileges to this location. While you can

Re: [gentoo-user] udev/initramfs problem

2006-04-18 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:25:52 -0500 Johnson, Maurice E CTR NSWCDL-K74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # genkernel -- menuconfig --install all Hm, I don't really know genkernel. Does it create the initramfs? When in the ash shell environment, I notice that there are few static nodes in /dev. (

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla and screen flashing red when I get email.

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Benno Schulenberg wrote: I notice that in Konsole, I didn't get the beep for a good while. After the last upgrade it worked again. So maybe they are working on it. Where is that MEHP sound located and what do they call it? There are a lot of sounds in /usr/kde/3.5/share/sounds/. I copied

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Thomas Cort wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? lsmod Another neat find I had a while back is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # modprobe --list /lib/modules/2.6.14-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/hwmon/w83627hf.ko

[gentoo-user] Using icon and cursor themes with Gentoo+xfce4

2006-04-18 Thread Grant
I've found a cursor and icon theme I like at xfce-look.org. What is the best way to go about installing and using them on a Gentoo system? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] system sounds

2006-04-18 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dale wrote: Where is that MEHP sound located and what do they call it? It's the PC speaker itself, the System Bell that lets you set Volume, Pitch and Duration (except that Volume doesn't work here, it sets Duration too). I would like to find some more sounds though. I like the noise.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe [SOLVED]

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 16:24 -0500, Teresa and Dale wrote: Thomas Cort wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to retrieve a listing of kernel modules that are currently loaded? lsmod Another neat find I had a while back is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # modprobe --list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - question about modprobe [SOLVED]

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm helping a guy in Maryland work through the handbook to install Gentoo and neither one of us was sure what driver the LiveCD was using for his network card. I think lsmod worked out. Thanks. That was the command but I thought I would give just a little extra

Re: [gentoo-user] system sounds

2006-04-18 Thread Teresa and Dale
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Dale wrote: Where is that MEHP sound located and what do they call it? It's the PC speaker itself, the System Bell that lets you set Volume, Pitch and Duration (except that Volume doesn't work here, it sets Duration too). I would like to find some more

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs update an kmail

2006-04-18 Thread Martins
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:50:29 +0300, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/06, Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi after kdelibs, kwin update i got this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ kmail kmail: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found

[gentoo-user] apache 2.2.0-r2 building woes

2006-04-18 Thread kashani
Anyone actually get Apache 2.2 to compile cleanly? Mine repeated craps out at this point. /usr/share/apr-1/build-1/libtool --silent --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -Os -march=pentium4 -pipe -L/usr/lib -o rotatelogs rotatelogs.lo -lm

Re: [gentoo-user] apache 2.2.0-r2 building woes

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
kashani wrote: Anyone actually get Apache 2.2 to compile cleanly? Mine repeated craps out at this point. [snip] /usr/lib/libapr-1.so: undefined reference to `find_if_index' [snip] kashani Known issue upstream http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39199 By adding USE=ipv6

[gentoo-user] portage: config's

2006-04-18 Thread Dan LaMotte
I use the /etc/portage/package.* files for unmasking packages. Just curious if there were any packages out there to help keep those files organized. Basically, if the package comes out of package.mask, is there an easy way to take it out of those package.* files also. Also, if there are

[gentoo-user] OT - Need grub help

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) and so on? The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo is having trouble with grub. grub detected /dev/hdd, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. At this point we're treating them as (hd0), (hd1) and (hd2). Everything seems right to me, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] apache 2.2.0-r2 building woes

2006-04-18 Thread kashani
Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote: Known issue upstream http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39199 By adding USE=ipv6 it should work. Note that these versions (apache 2.2.x, apr/apr-util 1.2.x) are still hard-masked because they still have issues. I'm not surprised to be

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need grub help

2006-04-18 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) and so on? The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo is having trouble with grub. grub detected /dev/hdd, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. At this point we're treating them as

[gentoo-user] fish as default shell

2006-04-18 Thread Bryce Verdier
Hey all, i would like to turn Fish into my default shell (just trying something different). But not all of the environment variables used in gentoo for bash seem to be crossing over. Does anyone know where to find all of the shell variables when bash gets initialized? thanks in advance,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need grub help

2006-04-18 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/18/06, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 19:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: Is there a way to find out which hard drive grub considers to be (hd0) and so on? The guy I'm helping to install Gentoo is having trouble with grub. grub detected /dev/hdd,

Re: [gentoo-user] No /dev/sda1 with Klingston usb disk. Wrong lsusb output.

2006-04-18 Thread David
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 10:59:00PM +0800, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: Le mardi 18 avril 2006 ? 11:47 +0200, Petr Kocmid a ?crit : On Tuesday 18 April 2006 10:14, Fr?d?ric Grosshans wrote: Any idea left ? So, you definitely have a hardware problem. Digging for the id of your device

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync error

2006-04-18 Thread scwang
There is something wrong about the network of my lab, then the emerge --sync can't suceed. I noticed that rsync freezed at receiving file list, but it didn't in fact and it just didn't print the process of receiving the file list. This is a change in emerge system. You can enable the original act

Re: [gentoo-user] evms

2006-04-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 18. April 2006 18:07 schrieb ext Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: Why should people have to use several different tool sets for volume management when one is enough? I don't get your point. Because it's quicker to learn 4 or 5 simple, small tools than it is to learn to crap that is