Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: > Ryan Tandy wrote: > >> I haven't used Home myself, so I don't know if they're there too. > > > At least ping and traceroute (tracert) are there as well. I think > nslookup might be there as well. > > Alexander Skwar This is the home edition and ping was not there befor

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:05 am, Tero Grundström wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen wrote: > Hi! Everybody! > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In > my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck > and even

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Ryan Tandy wrote: I haven't used Home myself, so I don't know if they're there too. At least ping and traceroute (tracert) are there as well. I think nslookup might be there as well. Alexander Skwar -- People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. -- ge

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:14 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Kesara Rathnayake wrote: >> > I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we >> > used today. >> >> To fi

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: >> On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Kesara Rathnayake wrote: >> (I hate HTML mailand I hate Outlook even

[gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-04 Thread WillieDaPimp
There are alot of web pages that I've tried to watch video clips on but i can't watch them due to the files being in .wmv format. Is there a plugin that I can emerge to view these files or maybe even a app that converts .wmv to some other linux friendly video file?? D. Tigue -- gentoo-user@gen

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 10:57 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> wu chuanwen wrote: >> Try a blank Firefox profile. To create one, run "firefox >> -ProfileManager". > > This is something like

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.4 - "emere -e world" necessary?

2006-05-04 Thread Graham Murray
"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > glibc updates NEVER need a rebuild. > > Only if you change from gcc 3.X to 4.Y you have to rebuild. > > But not because of a glibc update. That is not always true. A glibc upgrade *can* require that *some* packages are re-built. I am not an e

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 10:50 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> wu chuanwen wrote: >> > 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > that is (AFAIK) just a layer below TCP/IP. Wrong. Beside

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL... Kaboom?

2006-05-04 Thread Justin Hart
Hrmm. Whoops. I checked the page, and already have that option enabled. Justin On 5/4/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Hart wrote: > 1) Did anybody notice that gentoo wiki seems to be down? > > 2) I'm getting this after updati

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL... Kaboom?

2006-05-04 Thread Justin Hart
Thanks. On 5/4/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Hart wrote: > 1) Did anybody notice that gentoo wiki seems to be down? > > 2) I'm getting this after updating last night. I need to get this up > and running, so, I am downgrading,

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-04 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:58 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote: I can ping the windoze box from my Linux box but I don't know how to do anything on the windoze side. Pointers?? XP Home or Pro? XP Professional, if you open up a Command Prompt (DOS box), has a number of th

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Ryan Tandy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian "Testing" and "Unstable". A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't been tested enough yet to certify as stable. Or it may be horribly broken

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:21:25PM -0700, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: > > Well, I recently switched to the binary version and to my surprise I > > found that it is much faster than the self compiled version. Especially > > the interface is much more responsive in the binary version.

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:58 pm, Teresa and Dale wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Set up a Samba server... hmm... KDE Control Centre has a excellent > > interface for that. Very easy. > > > >In a related story... > > > >The first time I used Samba to do some network transfers I spent ten >

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:02:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote > > > > And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless you > > > are prepared for the consequences. > > > > WHAT CONSEQUENCES!? > > > > I've asked on multipl

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Jamie
> > How did you "switch to a binary version?" How did you do that? I didn't > know > you could use emerge and not compile it. Unless, of course, you aren't > using > emerge... > emerge mozilla-firefox-bin will emerge the binary version of firefox -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Thursday 04 May 2006 04:42 am, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2006 11:51 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > > > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-

Re: [gentoo-user] Non Standard X Resolution

2006-05-04 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Friday, May 5 2006 11:12, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've only done this with CRTs, but it should also work with CRTs. You > need to know the max and min frequencies (both horizontal and vertical) > for your display. Knowing the card's max bandwidth helps, but isn't > as critical. Since you're ge

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:57 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 30 April 2006 05:59 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> wu chuanwen wrote: > >> > >> Not really. > > > > You most likely either have a faster machine > > Celeron M Notebook with 1.5 GHz. Not what I'd call fa

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 11:14 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:21 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Kesara Rathnayake wrote: > >> > I guess Firefox is slow now because of whole lot of Extentions that we > >> > used today. > >> > >> To find out, I aske

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:05 am, Tero Grundström wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, wu chuanwen wrote: > > Hi! Everybody! > > I think most of us are using firefox now .Do you think it's too slow?In > > my machine,if i open 6 or more tabs in firefox,my firefox will be stuck > > and even can not scroll up

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 11:03 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2006 07:55 am, Justin Patrin wrote: > >> On 4/30/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Kesara Rathnayake wrote: > >> (I hate HTML mailand I hate Outlook even more.) > > > > Out

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:50 pm, Alexander Skwar wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sunday 30 April 2006 08:47 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> wu chuanwen wrote: > >> > 2006/4/30, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > that is (AFAIK) just a layer below TCP/IP. > > Wrong. Besides: "just a laye

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL... Kaboom?

2006-05-04 Thread stupendoussteve
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Justin Hart wrote: > 1) Did anybody notice that gentoo wiki seems to be down? > Whoops! Sorry for sending a nothing message. The c is way too close to the x. Gentoo wiki was down a little bit ago (I don't know about today though, it was a couple of days ago), as was gentoo-p

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL... Kaboom?

2006-05-04 Thread stupendoussteve
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Justin Hart wrote: > 1) Did anybody notice that gentoo wiki seems to be down? > > 2) I'm getting this after updating last night. I need to get this up > and running, so, I am downgrading, but does anybody know the fix to > this? > > dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/4/06, Allan Spagnol Comar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi list, I am instaling a new gentoo box with x86, and I have a doubt about instaling xorg, I know that 7.0 is masked but almost getting stable, and I know that migrating from one another is a little traumatic, so here is my question, I g

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11 7.0 or 6.8. What of then is better ?

2006-05-04 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi list, I am instaling a new gentoo box with x86, and I have a doubt about instaling xorg, I know that 7.0 is masked but almost getting stable, and I know that migrating from one another is a little traumatic, so here is my question, I got a ATI radeon x300 video board on a fast AMD processor wi

[gentoo-user] Re: partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Peter
On Thu, 04 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400, Leigh Stewart wrote: > I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used > resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the > device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat > unnerving experience becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] Non Standard X Resolution

2006-05-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:46:30PM +1200, Jamie wrote > In the next few days I will be getting my brand new Dell 2007WFP > LCD delivered and obviously I want to use it on my Gentoo box. > This screen uses a non-standard resolution of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I > have no idea how to get this setting i

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Francisco J. A. Ares
Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:14 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > >> On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:59, K. Mike Bradley wrote: >> >>> How do I mount a compact flash? >>> >> depends on the interface >> >> is it a USB/PCMCIA/builtin CF reader? >> >> because they all

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:56 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > I have a similar problem to Matthias. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 no longer > returns, so spamd, sendmail, saslauthd, etc. never start up. It used to > work... In my case, the interface is up, but `/etc/init.d/net.eth0 > status' says "start

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:02:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless you > > are prepared for the consequences. > > WHAT CONSEQUENCES!? > > I've asked on multiple occassions for a comparison to a Debian > paradigm. My first dist

Re: [gentoo-user] XGL... Kaboom?

2006-05-04 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Hart wrote: > 1) Did anybody notice that gentoo wiki seems to be down? > > 2) I'm getting this after updating last night. I need to get this up > and running, so, I am downgrading, but does anybody know the fix to > this? > > dlopen: /usr/l

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: FontForge needs conversion from ISO-8859-1 to UCS2 - iconv (glibc-2.3.5-r2) does not support it on amd64

2006-05-04 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
This is fixed in glibc-2.3.6-r4 and glibc-2.4-r2 now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131386 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Friday 05 May 2006 02:46, Uwe Thiem wrote: === On 04 May 2006 22:30, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Of course, I'm forced to use another modes. But earlier "Region" > mode _worked_ with delay. Do you mean such changed behaviour is > by-design? Yes because a delay in "region" makes no sen

[gentoo-user] XGL... Kaboom?

2006-05-04 Thread Justin Hart
1) Did anybody notice that gentoo wiki seems to be down? 2) I'm getting this after updating last night. I need to get this up and running, so, I am downgrading, but does anybody know the fix to this? dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: __glXActiveScreens

Re: [gentoo-user] partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Leigh Stewart wrote: > does anyone know if it would be possible to replace my boot and > swap partitions with identically sized logical partitions inside > a single primary partition? That should work. You could even make all three partitions logical ones, Linux has no problem with that. You di

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.4 - "emere -e world" necessary?

2006-05-04 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Thursday 04 May 2006 19:25, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello! > > I'd now like to upgrade to glibc 2.4 as well. After having installed glibc > 2.4, is it required to have a full "emerge -e world" run; ie. rebuild the > entire system? no. glibc updates NEVER need a rebuild. Only if you change fr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 22:30, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Of course, I'm forced to use another modes. But earlier "Region" > mode _worked_ with delay. Do you mean such changed behaviour is > by-design? Yes because a delay in "region" makes no sense. The moment you select a region the snapshot gets done. Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> On 5/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> > > In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. > > > It used

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 04 May 2006 17:18, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 5/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. > > > It used to be no longer than a namespace lookup. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/4/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box.> It used to be no longer than a namespace lookup.  It's not TCP, I think, > because connecting to apache is fast and my web

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, portage niceness and distcc

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/4/06, Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One solution to this issue is to use the faster server as a binary host for the slower one. I was able to do something similar with a slow laptop and a fast desktop machine. I'm not in front of my gentoo machine right now, so I can't provide the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
It does. Thanks. --- Vladimir On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:08 -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:36 -0400, Statux wrote: > > > Neither /dev/sda nor /dev/sda1 are defined on my system? What package is > > > responsible for defining them. > > > > > > --- Vladimir > > > > Pe

[gentoo-user] java comm ports issue

2006-05-04 Thread Leigh Stewart
Using rxtx, i cant get past square one on my current system. Ive been trying on and off for the last few months to get some onewire devices working with my system but havent had any luck. So in the process of troubleshooting, I built and ran this fairly simple program: http://www.java2s.com/Exa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Friday 05 May 2006 00:51, Peter Ruskin wrote: === On Thursday 04 May 2006 19:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > I'm at ~x86. After some of KDE upgrade (don't remember exactly to > wich version) I have noticed ksnapshot delay-related field > (numeric field for seconds) is disabled at "Reg

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Friday 05 May 2006 00:40, Uwe Thiem wrote: === On 04 May 2006 19:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > For KDE-users: > > I'm at ~x86. After some of KDE upgrade (don't remember exactly to wich > version) I have noticed ksnapshot delay-related field (numeric field > for seconds) is disabled at

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Rodrigo Forlin
You should enable scsi emulation on your kernel On 5/4/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 04 May 2006 19:28, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > It gives me an error saying the file system type must be specified. > > > > I did: > > > > Mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/flash > > > > And it says bad

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:36 -0400, Statux wrote: > > Neither /dev/sda nor /dev/sda1 are defined on my system? What package is > > responsible for defining them. > > > > --- Vladimir > > Perhaps you don't have SCSI support built into your kernel. You need the > USB mass storage (if it's via USB) a

[gentoo-user] debugging runscript

2006-05-04 Thread Leigh Stewart
can anyone tell me how to trace through init scripts, which are executed by /sbin/runscript? with bash there is a nice little switch which does just that. i need to figure out exactly what those net.ethx scripts are doing because they clobber my wifi interface when i use the LinuxAnt driverloade

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 19:28, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > It gives me an error saying the file system type must be specified. > > > > I did: > > > > Mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/flash > > > > And it says bad block Is it really sdb, or is it sdb1? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, portage niceness and distcc

2006-05-04 Thread Matthew Cline
One solution to this issue is to use the faster server as a binary host for the slower one. I was able to do something similar with a slow laptop and a fast desktop machine. I'm not in front of my gentoo machine right now, so I can't provide the exact details, but it goes something like this: On

[gentoo-user] partition resizing question

2006-05-04 Thread Leigh Stewart
I recently decided to resize my reiserfs root partition, used resize_reiserfs to shrink the filesystem, then used cfdisk to resize the device. Everything went according to plan, although it was a somewhat unnerving experience because in order to resize using cfdisk u have to delete then recreate

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 18:19, Hani Duwaik wrote: > On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switched > > to Gentoo: > > It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up the > > network interface. But dhcpd quits,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 19:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > For KDE-users: > > I'm at ~x86. After some of KDE upgrade (don't remember exactly to wich > version) I have noticed ksnapshot delay-related field (numeric field > for seconds) is disabled at "Region" mode. How to restore this feature? By selecting ano

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache + Per User Directory configuration

2006-05-04 Thread Mike Williams
On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:17, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Any tips appreciated, thanks! Yeah, read your email. You got 2 replies to this, one on Monday, one today. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:14 +0100, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:59, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > > How do I mount a compact flash? > depends on the interface > > is it a USB/PCMCIA/builtin CF reader? > > because they all have different ways of accessing. The most popular is the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Statux
> Neither /dev/sda nor /dev/sda1 are defined on my system? What package is > responsible for defining them. > > --- Vladimir Perhaps you don't have SCSI support built into your kernel. You need the USB mass storage (if it's via USB) and SCSI emulation support options. Also, make sure you select

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teresa and Dale wrote: > How does one see if it is fragmented or not? I'm sure there is a > command somewhere. Would this command be on the Gentoo install CD, the > 2005 version? > > Thanks > > Dale > :-) You will probably like this forum thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 20:04 +, Mick wrote: > On 04/05/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/4/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > How do I mount a compact flash? > > > > You get the device that is created by looking at the "dmesg" output > >

Re: [gentoo-user] DRI, GLX, Savage and Xorg7 [Fixed]

2006-05-04 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
On Friday 28 April 2006 11:53, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Never mind, the latest updates to xorg7 seemed to have fixed the problem, which is good =) My PC is now full of eye candy :P Thanks for trying anyway :) > On Thursday 27 April 2006 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Well, I upgraded to X

[gentoo-user] Apache + Per User Directory configuration

2006-05-04 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi, I have spent most of the day getting per user web serving to work (/home/$user/public_html => http://server/~$user) but was constantly getting "401 Forbidden" errors with apache2. After lots of hunting I found that you have to set the permissions for the user directories to 755 (a+rx). So

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:59, K. Mike Bradley wrote: > How do I mount a compact flash? depends on the interface is it a USB/PCMCIA/builtin CF reader? because they all have different ways of accessing. The most popular is the usb device, so you will need the "usb-storage" module and associated l

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Mick
On 04/05/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How do I mount a compact flash? You get the device that is created by looking at the "dmesg" output after you plugin the flash. I'm assuming you have all options set in your kern

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-04 Thread Martin S
Now it seems to be working - thanks.Martin S2006/5/4, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 04/05/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>> Try changing the permissions of /dev/sda*.. I suggest you do a>> chmod 0666 /dev/sda* [snip . . . ]Before trying this it may be worth adding auto to your fs

[gentoo-user] Can't delete CUPS print queue

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
I can't delete a networked queue because its host no longer exists. * foomatic-configure -s cups -R -n [EMAIL PROTECTED] works, but the queue comes back after ~15 seconds. Grepping for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in my /etc directory (Gentoo 2.6.x) doesn't yield any hits. Where is the queue name kept

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
May 4 11:20:27 scarlatti usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 May 4 11:20:27 scarlatti usb 3-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 4 11:20:27 scarlatti scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Ma

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade, portage niceness and distcc

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello List, I've been trying to upgrade an really old machine to the new gcc, and so, following the guide, I'm at the "emerge --oneshot sys-libs/libstdc++-v3" step. This old hardware suits my needs for a web server and MySQL mirror, but that's about the charge it can handle, so, I've set PORTAGE_

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

2006-05-04 Thread Mick
On 04/05/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try changing the permissions of /dev/sda*.. I suggest you do a chmod 0666 /dev/sda* [snip . . . ] Before trying this it may be worth adding auto to your fstab: /dev/sda/mnt/usbauto,vfat noauto,us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: #!/bin/sh trap 'kill 0;exit' TERM echo "before" ( sleep 30; echo inside ) echo "after" No use. trap will wait till the running child is completed, which is not what I want (as reply of Hans-Werner). Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PLEASE HELP!!! Emerge Isssue Now!

2006-05-04 Thread Mick
On 04/05/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had to deal with something similar when I was using CableOne. I registered my router once and never had problems with it again afterward, aside from the fact that they charged me $99USD a month for a static IP. OUCH! -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 5/4/06, K. Mike Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I mount a compact flash? You get the device that is created by looking at the "dmesg" output after you plugin the flash. I'm assuming you have all options set in your kernel the right way. After that, you mount it normally. Mine c

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble running X clients as root

2006-05-04 Thread Tamas Sarga
Robert Persson wrote: I am trying to run gdmsetup and getting "can't find display" type errors. Here is what happened when I try to run it from an xterm: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sux Password: zebedee robert # gdmsetup (gdmsetup:6618): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Aut

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't get my wengophone account

2006-05-04 Thread Ptitjack
Matthias Bethke a gentiment tapote: > Hi Ptitjack, > on Tuesday, 2006-05-02 at 12:24:01, you wrote: > >> I just emerged Wengophone. >> When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account. >> A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here. >> Problem, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 04 May 2006 13:57, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. > It used to be no longer than a namespace lookup. It's not TCP, I think, > because connecting to apache is fast and my web pages bet served > as usual. > > What happened

[gentoo-user] Suddenly, ssh is slow to connect

2006-05-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
In the last few days, connection takes a minute or so to my gentoo box. It used to be no longer than a namespace lookup.  It's not TCP, I think, because connecting to apache is fast and my web pages bet served as usual. What happened to sshd???-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

[gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
For KDE-users: I'm at ~x86. After some of KDE upgrade (don't remember exactly to wich version) I have noticed ksnapshot delay-related field (numeric field for seconds) is disabled at "Region" mode. How to restore this feature? Andrew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
* Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04/05/06 21:00]: > Hi, > > On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:55:28 +0300 > Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any > > "after" (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
$ dir /dev/sd* ls: /dev/sd*: No such file or directory --- Vladimir On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:24 -0300, Fernando Ferrari wrote: mkdir /mnt/flash mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash   remplace sda1 for the correct   Saludos Fernando Ferrari

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread K. Mike Bradley
It gives me an error saying the file system type must be specified.   I did:   Mount –t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/flash   And it says bad block   Could the file system on this CF device be proprietary?   It’s from a camera.    

RE: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Fernando Ferrari
mkdir /mnt/flash mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash   remplace sda1 for the correct   Saludos Fernando Ferrari Desarrollador Linux http://fernandorferrari.blogspot.com   De: K. Mike Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Jueves, 04 de Mayo de 2006 02:59 p.m. Para: gent

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Thursday 04 May 2006 12:44, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 18:32 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > > > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage > > > an updated foomatic driver die

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

2006-05-04 Thread Vladimir G. Ivanovic
I have a similar problem to Matthias. /etc/init.d/net.eth0 no longer returns, so spamd, sendmail, saslauthd, etc. never start up. It used to work... In my case, the interface is up, but `/etc/init.d/net.eth0 status' says "starting". If I try to start, say, sendmail, it says WARNING: sendmail

[gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread K. Mike Bradley
How do I mount a compact flash?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:55:28PM +0300, Penguin Lover Moshe Kaminsky squawked: > Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any > "after" (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I > didn't find any sleep process. Maybe it was from some different > exp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Dave Jones
Frédéric Grosshans wrote on 04/05/06 18:32: > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : >>Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an >>updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is >>finished printed fine, or if one is l

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking xft on fresh install

2006-05-04 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Thanks Christopher, i will try the bug solution later. On 5/4/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just so you know, there is a bug at bugzilla now and here it is just incase you don't know http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132260 Sincerely, Christopher On 5/4/06, Christopher E <

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Teresa and Dale
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: >Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : > > > >>Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? >> >> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full >dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Frédéric Grosshans wrote: Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 13:49 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : reiserfs is nice, if you have lots and lots of small files (like me), because it saves a lot of space. However, reiserfs suffers from fragmentation in the long term. A laptop (slow disk) with a singl

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/4/06, Jure Varlec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? From Wikipedia: > There is no known way to defragment a ReiserFS filesystem, aside from a full dump and restore. However ReiserFS v4 has

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] kill a child and suicide

2006-05-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 4 May 2006 18:55:28 +0300 Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny, I just tried the same, and it worked. It also didn't print any > "after" (appropriately, since the sig handler includes 'exit'), and I > didn't find any sleep process. Maybe it was from some different > ex

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread A. R.
> > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an > > updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is > > finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process > > logged. > ... > Thanks. I had the same problem, which has be

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking xft on fresh install

2006-05-04 Thread Christopher E
Just so you know, there is a bug at bugzilla now and here it is just incase you don't know http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132260 Sincerely, Christopher On 5/4/06, Christopher E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I also got the same issue when trying to install gnome, hal, dbus. The

[gentoo-user] glibc 2.4 - "emere -e world" necessary?

2006-05-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hello! I'd now like to upgrade to glibc 2.4 as well. After having installed glibc 2.4, is it required to have a full "emerge -e world" run; ie. rebuild the entire system? Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- NATHAN ... your PARENTS were in a CARCRASH!! They're VOIDED -- They COLLAPSED They had no CHAINS

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

2006-05-04 Thread Hani Duwaik
On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switchedto Gentoo:It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up thenetwork interface. But dhcpd quits, complaining it couldn't listen on eth0 because it had address

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 11:26 -0500, Michael Sullivan a écrit : > Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReiserFS#Disadvantages says no, unless full dump and restore i.e. tar everything, clean your disk, and untar it ... Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 18:32 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans a écrit : > Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an > > updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is > > finished pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Best File System For Linux

2006-05-04 Thread Jure Varlec
On Thursday 04 May 2006 18:26, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is there a way to defragment a rieserfs file system? >From Wikipedia: > There is no known way to defragment a ReiserFS filesystem, aside from a full dump and restore. However ReiserFS v4 has a repacker that takes care of file fragmentation

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] CUPS stopped printing

2006-05-04 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 17:42 +0200, Petr Kocmid a écrit : > Sometimes, due poor maintnance of low level foomatic driver in portage an > updated foomatic driver dies silently and cups daemon thinks everything is > finished printed fine, or if one is lucky as you, ends with dead process > logged.

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