Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Joseph
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 16:17 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dave Jones wrote: I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. This seems a bit too warm for my liking. Are these 'normal'

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-21 Thread Peter De Zutter
Hey James,I'm a happy vmware server user on gentoo.But I did try following the guidelines on that url you supplied, and I wasn't able to start vmware.I did found a work around, first emerge vmware-workstation, when that's done untar the vmware-server in /opt. And then run the vmware-install.pl,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardwarespec

2006-05-21 Thread Nicolas MASSÉ
On Saturday 20 May 2006 14:48, Nagatoro wrote: Nicolas MASSÉ wrote: On Friday 19 May 2006 12:59, Nagatoro wrote: Case: Antec Sonata II 450W I have this case and it is a really good product ! Quiet one? Yes, with 3 HDD in the box and the fan at the lowest speed, I can sleep near

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-21 Thread Petric Frank
Hello James, On Sunday 21 May 2006 03:38, James Colby wrote: Does anyone on the list have any experience with installing vmware-server on a gentoo box. I followed the directions found at http://diaryproducts.net/about/operating_systems/unix/installing_vmware_ser ver_on_gentoo_linux_part_2 but

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardwarespec

2006-05-21 Thread Nagatoro
Nicolas MASSÉ wrote: Yes, with 3 HDD in the box and the fan at the lowest speed, I can sleep near the computer (ok, my CPU is passively watercooled). Sound nice. Another question: two sticks or just one ? I meant : One stick of memory or two ? (i.e. dual channel or not). Two -- Naga

Re: [gentoo-user] Question on my USE choiche

2006-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Samedi 20 Mai 2006 12:47, Neil Bothwick a écrit : On Sat, 20 May 2006 10:52:30 +0200, Jonathan Chocron wrote: I mean that kdelibs should have the arts useflag set. Otherwise uou can't have any system sound (either through alsa or oss). KDE has an option to use an external player for

Re: [gentoo-user] USB devices (dvd writer+scanner)

2006-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 21:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, I want to use linux for dvd writing and scanning. Both my scanner (Canon) and my dvd writer (BenQ) are usb devices. How can I know which device files these devices use? Or how can I configure a device file for these devices?

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 04:31, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Ok... now I'm stuck here: ramdisk compressed image found at block ufs: was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as read-write udf-fs: no particition found (1) xfs: bad magic number xfs: sb validate failed kernel panic -

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 07:30, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Good advice - tho I think 50 degrees C will burn your hand in about a second, so yeah - be careful! fingerburnging starts at 55°C. or more correct 'it hurts' start there, burning is around 60°C ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Kirkwood wrote: You could emerge smartmontools, and see if its temperature readings agree with hddtemp (they should). Here both smartmontools and hddtemp report a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius. But KSensors gives a system temperature of 33. Sticking in a normal thermometre through

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry Turba
John Jolet wrote: Jerry wrote: I am setting up gentoo on another computer and cannot get shorewall to start properly. I had used another version of shorewall previously but cannot get 3.0.4 to work. I have read and tried to follow the instruction in

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry Turba
Ryan Tandy wrote: Jerry wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/shorewall # shorewall start Any particular reason why you're running that instead of /etc/init.d/shorewall start? Thats is what the docs suggested as the start command. Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry Turba
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 18 May 2006 17:38, Jerry wrote: Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities: NAT: Not available Packet Mangling: Available Multi-port Match: Not available Connection Tracking Match: Not available Packet Type Match: Not available

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Teresa and Dale
Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 16:17 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dave Jones wrote: I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. This seems a bit too warm for my liking. Are these

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2006-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chocron
Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit : I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =net-misc/neon-0.25.3 have

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2006-05-21 Thread Teresa and Dale
Jonathan Chocron wrote: Le Dimanche 21 Mai 2006 16:11, Daniel D Jones a écrit : I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/db/pkg # emerge -uDvat world These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies - !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 16:57, Teresa and Dale wrote: Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 16:17 +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dave Jones wrote: I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 5/20/06, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 20, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:I like to be one of the good guys. I'm not always sure what that means in particular cases, so I'm going to ask what I should do here. Opinions welcome. Flames somewhat less so. I

Re: [gentoo-user] museseq-0.6.2-r1 not compiling

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Сбт, 2006-05-20 at 20:03 +, b.n. wrote: Trying to re-emerge (due to new use flags) museseq gave me the following error: itransformbase.cpp:28:23: spinboxfp.h: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [itransformbase.lo] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs 1. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
Mark Kirkwood wrote on 21/05/06 07:30: On May 20, 2006, at 7:56 PM, Dave Jones wrote: I've implemented the hddtemp service, and see that my HDs, one an IBM 120GB, the other a Hitachi 120GB disk, run a steady 46 and 49 degrees C. When you touch them, does it feel about right. While it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread JimD
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 5/20/06, *Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC* [EMAIL PROTECTED] I like to be one of the good guys. I'm not always sure what that means in particular cases, so I'm going to ask what I should do here. Opinions welcome. Flames somewhat less so. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi Ryan, The / partition is ext3. The ufs message is just a warning. I don't need UFS support. Any other clue? Leandro. 2006/5/21, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: ramdisk compressed image found at block ufs: was compiled with read-only support, can't be mounted as

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi Hemmann, well, I don't have a good reason to use initrd, but this is an attempt to try putting gentoo running on my server. I'll kick out ufs but I don't think that this is the problem. Yes, before try to use initrd I put everthing I need *built in* but didn't work. Any other clue?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Dave Jones wrote: smartmonctl -a /dev/hdb gives the results below, which looks bad to me. I'd guess that my Hitachi second HD is heading for the great /dev/null. 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000Old_age Always - 13573 Drive has been ruuning for 13573 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 19:01, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi Hemmann, well, I don't have a good reason to use initrd, but this is an attempt to try putting gentoo running on my server. I'll kick out ufs but I don't think that this is the problem. Yes, before try to use initrd I put

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi Hemmann, thanks to answer. I re-check /etc/fstab and everything seems to be ok. Yes, I have ext2/3 in the kernel. I think that problem stay in SCSI support, is there something that I need to check? About pc-partition support, what you really want to say about it? Thank you once again,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Dave Jones
Benno Schulenberg wrote on 21/05/06 19:27: smartmonctl -a /dev/hdb gives the results below, which looks bad to me. I'd guess that my Hitachi second HD is heading for the great /dev/null. 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000Old_age Always - 13573 Drive has been ruuning

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2006-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 May 2006 10:11:55 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!!(dependency required by gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.1 [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for net-misc/unison

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread JimD
JimD wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Yes, the price is right, but when I tried it I could not make it work. ++ kevin I am using VMware 4.x workstation. The workstation performance is better than the free versions. I use Linux for my main desktop, however I do MS Win C# programming for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 20:19, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi Hemmann, thanks to answer. I re-check /etc/fstab and everything seems to be ok. Yes, I have ext2/3 in the kernel. I think that problem stay in SCSI support, is there something that I need to check? About pc-partition support,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg i810/i915 mode problem (modular X)

2006-05-21 Thread Jure Varlec
On Sunday 21 May 2006 01:42, W.Kenworthy wrote: The modes are there but xorgs log shows them as filled out with zeros (see the bit for Mode 38 below - quite a number of modes are like this). 915resolution reports that the modes I want to use are present) If I start it up with the ext monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Server beta on Gentoo

2006-05-21 Thread James Colby
Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I was able to get it installed thanks! Get the ebuilds via svn as written at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122500#123 I installed it on a AMD64 in 32 and 64 Bit mode. One thing i had to do is to re-emerge vmware-modules after

Reliability of smart values (was: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures)

2006-05-21 Thread Alexander Skwar
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Dave Jones wrote: smartmonctl -a /dev/hdb gives the results below, which looks bad to me. I'd guess that my Hitachi second HD is heading for the great /dev/null. 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000Old_age Always - 13573 Drive has been

[gentoo-user] Skype problem

2006-05-21 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! I installed skype but I can't used it: I have no access to ringing device (it's gray) but the call device is linked to /dev/dsp. I used it with the arts wrapper (I have kde 3.5.2) What can I do? Thanks, Luigi - -- Public key GPG(0x633F86B7)

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my Mac Mini arrives... I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware. I've got a mini and it's not fast (at least running Linux). Usable for

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread JimD
Cliff Wells wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my Mac Mini arrives... I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware. I've got a mini and it's not fast (at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Ok.. I put it. And yes, scsi drivers is in the kernel. Any other clue? []s Leandro. 2006/5/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 21 May 2006 20:19, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi Hemmann, thanks to answer. I re-check /etc/fstab and everything seems to be ok. Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 21:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Ok.. I put it. And yes, scsi drivers is in the kernel. Any other clue? with drivers you mean the drivers for the card and the scsi disk driver? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Reliability of smart values (was: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures)

2006-05-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Alexander Skwar wrote: Benno Schulenberg wrote: Dave Jones wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 13573 Drive has been ruuning for 13573 hours total. How much can this data be trusted? It can't. Sometimes there's a factor involved (like

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Yes... for both. 2006/5/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 21 May 2006 21:39, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Ok.. I put it. And yes, scsi drivers is in the kernel. Any other clue? with drivers you mean the drivers for the card and the scsi disk driver? --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] HD running temperatures

2006-05-21 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 21, 2006, at 10:40 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Any recommendations for cool-running ATA HDs, preferably with a capacity of around 250 GB? I bought a bunch of Hitachi 250 SATA drives -- they probably have an ATA interface version. Running open with no airflow they get slightly warm to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 22:20, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Yes... for both. which driver? the aacraid one? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 21, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Cliff Wells wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my Mac Mini arrives... I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware. I've got a mini

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:35, JimD wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my Mac Mini arrives... I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Exactly... AACRAID one. 2006/5/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 21 May 2006 22:20, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Yes... for both. which driver? the aacraid one? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Leandro Melo de Sales. Computer Science Student Laboratório de

[gentoo-user] Benchmarking Kernels

2006-05-21 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi Folks: As I am getting better at compiling kernels etc., I was wondering if there is any software out there that will allow me to benchmark a new kernel to see if it is faster / better than an older one that I am using - -it would be nice to be able to quantify any gains or losses so I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 23:01, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Exactly... AACRAID one. hm, and the drive is correctly identified by the bios? You can use it, except when booting the new kernel? when you boot a livecd, can you mount the partitions? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 21, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:35, JimD wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my Mac Mini arrives... I have doubts

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Yes.. when I boot using livecd I can mount the partitions correct. I really don't know what is happened... :( []s Leandro 2006/5/21, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 21 May 2006 23:01, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Exactly... AACRAID one. hm, and the drive is correctly

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 21 May 2006 23:50, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Yes.. when I boot using livecd I can mount the partitions correct. I really don't know what is happened... :( and the livecd uses tha aacraid driver too? is the grub entry really correct? maybe it looks after the wrong harddrive? (I

[gentoo-user] bash wizardry needed: PATH and MANPATH grow and grow and grow

2006-05-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have inherited some pretty gnarly dotfiles that I don't really want to fool with too much, but I'm also unhappy with what they do to my environment. They keep adding the same things over and over to some of the variables. Does anyone know a nice little idiom for de-duping a colon-list like PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] USB devices (dvd writer+scanner)

2006-05-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 09:03:00PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hello, I want to use linux for dvd writing and scanning. Both my scanner (Canon) and my dvd writer (BenQ) are usb devices. How can I know which device files these devices use? Or how can I configure a device file for these

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread JimD
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Yes, the mini was upgraded a few months ago. $599 gives you a 1.5ghz Core Solo, 512mb, etc and $799 gives you a 1.66ghz Core Solo, 512mb, That would be the Duo ;) etc. You can go up to 2GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 21, 2006, at 6:50 PM, JimD wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Yes, the mini was upgraded a few months ago. $599 gives you a 1.5ghz Core Solo, 512mb, etc and $799 gives you a 1.66ghz Core Solo, 512mb, That would be

[gentoo-user] Software suspend 2

2006-05-21 Thread James Colby
List members - I am trying to to set up software suspend 2 on my laptop using the instructions found on gentoo-wiki.com. I am at the section where I need to configure my boot loader (I'm using lilo) and when I add the following entry to my lilo.conf: image=/boot/gentoo-suspend2

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend 2

2006-05-21 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Colby wrote: List members - I am trying to to set up software suspend 2 on my laptop using the instructions found on gentoo-wiki.com. I am at the section where I need to configure my boot loader (I'm using lilo) and when I add the

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend 2

2006-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
I am no lilo expert, but the forst thing that strikes me about the lilo file you posted is that most of the lines have no spaces around the = sign. Line 14 does. On Sun, 21 May 2006 21:57:02 -0400 James Colby wrote: List members - I am trying to to set up software suspend 2 on my laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Skype problem

2006-05-21 Thread Jason Weisberger
There could be a couple of things causing this. Do you have ALSA's OSS Emulation properly configured. If you do, you should be able to hear sound when you #echo /dev/rand /dev/dsp . If /dev/dsp isn't working, please refer to the Gentoo Wiki article on setting up ALSA properly for OSS Emulation.

Re: [gentoo-user] system suspend every time when rebooting or shutdown.

2006-05-21 Thread fei huang
I think I have solved this problem, not completely though. again I removed everything under /etc that belongs to baselayout, and re-emerge it, (I still don't know what the hell had caused the problem!). however, when I tried to restore some of my startup scripts like metalog, alsasound, gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation AMD64 with SCSI

2006-05-21 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Well, I have /dev/sda1 as my / partition. So, I setup my grub.conf like this: title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.16 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.16.img root=/dev/sda1 udev noapic acpi=off and my /etc/fstab looks like this: /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0