Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-19 Thread David Klempner
* Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-19 00:25]: David Klempner wrote: Note that without doing *anything*, with a normal 3G/1G split, you'll actually get 896M. Recent kernels added in a config option to have a 2.75G/1.25G split, which solves this problem; it makes sense to use that

Re: [gentoo-user] Speed up ATI Radeon X300 with google-earth?

2006-06-19 Thread Kumar Golap
I just emerged the latest x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati (6.6,1)...for my radeon 9200 on ~amd64 and it did wonders for me for googleearth googleearth on 6.6.0 was slow like molasses in winter. In xorg.conf I'm using the radeon driver. Cheers, Kumar On 6/17/06, Ryan Tandy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] 2GB of RAM

2006-06-19 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks David for the clear answers I'll investigate further. As for the rest of the PC running great with extra RAM ~ it's just UT2004 I have discovered to have an issue here. The 2/2 is what I'm running with at the moment ... seems to be

[gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi guys, I'm just curious about something. I've noticed many people report problems with their repository syncing simply because someone was in the middle of committing to the repository. Couldn't this be resolved by replacing the syncing mechanism with *svn* as opposed to rsync? After all, it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 June 2006 09:58, Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, I'm just curious about something. I've noticed many people report problems with their repository syncing simply because someone was in the middle of committing to the repository. Couldn't this be resolved by replacing the syncing

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
Thanks for the reply. Interspersed comments below... On 6/19/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 09:58, Trenton Adams wrote: Hi guys, I'm just curious about something. I've noticed many people report problems with their repository syncing simply because

[gentoo-user] cdrom is not available any more

2006-06-19 Thread JC Denton
Hi group!I had some problems with my cdrom before and tried to chage that ;) I rebuild the kernel in order to have appropriate scsi and atapi settings for usb and cdrom support. But I messed something up. The original problem is gone but now I have no cdrom support at all. Here is what I get from

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom is not available any more

2006-06-19 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/6/19, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi group! Hi, I had some problems with my cdrom before and tried to chage that ;) I rebuild the kernel in order to have appropriate scsi and atapi settings for usb and cdrom support. But I messed something up. The original problem is gone but now I

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 June 2006 10:58, Trenton Adams wrote: One other benefit of this mechanism, that I can think of, would be that I could easily roll back to my last sync date or release, if some of the updated ebuilds caused me problems. That really should not be necessary. What you should

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom is not available any more

2006-06-19 Thread JC Denton
No information as far as I can see ...# cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/infoCD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17drive name:drive speed:drive # of slots:Can close tray:Can open tray:Can lock tray:Can change speed:Can select disk:Can read multisession:Can read MCN:Reports media changed:Can play

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom is not available any more

2006-06-19 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/6/19, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No information as far as I can see ... Mhh, what tells a zgrep -i floppy /proc/config.gz or grep -i floppy /usr/src/linux/.config ? # cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 drive name: drive speed: drive # of

Re: [gentoo-user] does anyone here speak japanese? please help in translaton

2006-06-19 Thread CapSel
On 6/19/06, fei huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This mail is written in Chinese, yes, I'm sure, for I am a Chinese.. besides, please click the report spam button to get rid of it. regards daniel On 6/18/06, CapSel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't speak japanese at all :) -- Forwarded

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 17 June 2006 02:53, Mick wrote: Yep, it works a treat (other than setting up email - it opens FF).  It is masked because it is a new ebuild.  If no bugs are reported it'll become stable within a month. Any idea how to set it up to open Kmail? It uses the BROWSER environment

[gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4. I don't have userlocales flag set either. And probably should consider selling sweatshirts to oil-exporting countries instead of software engineering as I don't seem to be capable of running STABLE system anymore. --

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom is not available any more

2006-06-19 Thread JC Denton
That is all:- for floppy:# grep -i floppy .configCONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver#grep -i disk .configCONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=yCONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y# CONFIG_IDEDMA_ONLYDISK is not set# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)# NOTE: USB_STORAGE enables SCSI, and

Re: [gentoo-user] does anyone here speak japanese? please help in translaton

2006-06-19 Thread Devon Miller
Sounds like spam...Courtesy of babelfish.altavista.com: From: Shenzhen commodity group limited companyDate: Jun 18, 2,006 12:48 AM Subject: Shenzhen commodity group limited company To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sends your firm finance manager to receive: This company is the Guangdong Province

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Pete Pardoe
Depends on what you want it for. I personally have two AMD 64 systems - one at work and one at home and have one running 64 bit (work) and one 32 bit (home). My experience is that yes you can get most major apps running on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]

2006-06-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:24 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: i've recently set up a local nfs server for my disfiles; to keep the WAN out i have: iptables -A INPUT -p TCP -i ! ${LAN} -d 0/0 --dport nfs -j DROP iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom is not available any more

2006-06-19 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/6/19, JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That is all: - for floppy: # grep -i floppy .config CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver Try to disable this IDEFLOPPY driver (kernel recompilation is needed) regards, Boris. #grep -i disk .config CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of the more exotic apps that are not available in the 64 bit world. which one? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alexander Kirillov wrote: I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4. You'll need to create a /etc/locale.gen file. After that, read man 5 locale.gen man 8 locale-gen and run /usr/sbin/locale-gen I don't have userlocales flag set either. As there *is* no

RE: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread JC Denton
I did upgrade the glibc today. How did you recognize the missing locale?Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4.I don't have userlocales flag set either.And probably should consider selling sweatshirts to oil-exporting countries

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:23 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of the more exotic apps that are not available in the 64 bit world. which one? Well... There are still

Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]

2006-06-19 Thread Ralph Slooten
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: i'm not sure which of these lines acually fixed my problem as i've just looked at the output of rpcinfo and grabbed all nfs relevant ports from there. This will probably fix your problems *until* you restart nfs. # lsof -n

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander Kirillov
# locale -a locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory C POSIX de_DE [EMAIL PROTECTED] en_HK en_PH en_US en_US.utf8

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander Kirillov
I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4. You'll need to create a /etc/locale.gen file. After that, read man 5 locale.gen man 8 locale-gen and run /usr/sbin/locale-gen Yep. Thanks. Easy enough. I've seen something of the sort in glibc-2.3.6-r4.log The

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 19 June 2006 14:35, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:23 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but there are still a lot of the more exotic apps that are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread fei huang
On 6/19/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4.You'll need to create a /etc/locale.gen file. After that, readman 5 locale.genman 8 locale-gen and run /usr/sbin/locale-gen I don't have userlocales flag

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Gian Domeni Calgeer
Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 15:54 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:35, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: Am Montag, 19. Juni 2006 14:23 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Monday 19 June 2006 14:02, Pete Pardoe wrote: on a 64 bit system through the use of 32 bit bins but

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
fei huang wrote: On 6/19/06, *Alexander Skwar* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4. You'll need to create a /etc/locale.gen file. After that, read man 5

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:24:56 +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: For instance Abuse_SDL or slune is not available, and there are lots which are keyworded on AMD64 but not on x86. Neither of these ebuilds have an amd64 keyword. This does not mean they don't run on amd64, only that they haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] svc: bad direction 268435456 [SOLVED]

2006-06-19 Thread Matthias Langer
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:53 +0200, Ralph Slooten wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Langer wrote: i'm not sure which of these lines acually fixed my problem as i've just looked at the output of rpcinfo and grabbed all nfs relevant ports from there. This

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread kashani
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: you don't need a chroot. Just emerge firefox-bin for flash and mplayer-bin for wmv files. Everything else does not make problems. Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a difference. Many of the stranger codecs are supported through

[gentoo-user] lost tv...

2006-06-19 Thread Luigi Pinna
Hello! Until 2 weeks ago I used without problem my tv card (Pinnacle MediaCenter i300) with philips chipset (module saa7134). Since this time I cannot watch more than digital tv (dvb-t). I can set the tuner, change channel, I heard the audio but I have no video. If I try to use the analog input,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Trenton Adams
On 6/19/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 10:58, Trenton Adams wrote: One other benefit of this mechanism, that I can think of, would be that I could easily roll back to my last sync date or release, if some of the updated ebuilds caused me problems.

[gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
A while ago I had a working 2-head setup which I stopped using because I needed to use the proprietary ati driver. Now I need to revert to using the twin-head setup, but I can't get it to work any more. I have the same xorg.conf as before. What has changed is that I have upgraded to xorg-7. It

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - More Mythtv problems

2006-06-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:09:59 -0500 Michael Sullivan wrote: Thirdly, what happened to the buffering aspect when watching LiveTV? I don't want LiveTV I watch to stick around forever taking up space, and I don't want to have to delete the programs I watch in LiveTV manually inside the

Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit

2006-06-19 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 19 June 2006 20:26, kashani wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: you don't need a chroot. Just emerge firefox-bin for flash and mplayer-bin for wmv files. Everything else does not make problems. Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 19 June 2006 22:15, Trenton Adams wrote: For example, with openldap, you're supposed to slapcat before upgrading, and slapadd after upgrading, or you could have database problems.  I did not know this.  So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had problems.  But, I didn't have time to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and rsync vs svn

2006-06-19 Thread Teresa and Dale
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 19 June 2006 22:15, Trenton Adams wrote: For example, with openldap, you're supposed to slapcat before upgrading, and slapadd after upgrading, or you could have database problems. I did not know this. So when I went from 2.2-2.3, I had problems. But, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-19 Thread David Klempner
* Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-19 17:47]: However, is this something to do with my firewall, or my sysctl setup? $ nc -l 192.168.0.1 -p 80 Can't grab 0.0.0.0:80 with bind : Permission denied That would be because you need root to

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-19 Thread Ryan Tandy
Mick wrote: I don't know how I have managed without netcat all this time . . . it can do almost everything but take the dog out for a walk! :-)) Didn't you read the man page? -W[dksa] --walk=(dog,kid,spouse,away) $ sudo nc -Wd :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing mailserver with ssh

2006-06-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:45:43 +0200 Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick wrote: On 17/06/06, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot use an ssh client in this manner. If you want a telnet client, emerge either netkit-telnetd or telnet-bsd. Thanks for all the replies. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup

2006-06-19 Thread sean
Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:13:44 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get my recently built system to recognize my Adaptec 29160 configured on the system. I have SCSI built into the kernel, here is the dmesg statement, SCSI subsystem initialized, Do you

[gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread Mike Markowski
Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos and missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot. :-( This is what I did to (try to) recover: # cd /boot # mklost+found # emerge grub [...edited grub.conf...] [...recompiled kernel modules and installed...] I

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread Teresa and Dale
Mike Markowski wrote: Well, when I do it, I do it right. Through a bad combination of typos and missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot. :-( This is what I did to (try to) recover: # cd /boot # mklost+found # emerge grub [...edited grub.conf...] [...recompiled kernel modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 29160 Setup

2006-06-19 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:07:42 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to see the scsi cdrw and the jaz drive. Tried mounting the jaz drive but as expected it failed, the format of the unit cartridge is UFS. But it at least saw it, assigned it, and tried to mount when I manually tried.

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted /boot

2006-06-19 Thread fei huang
On 6/20/06, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, when I do it, I do it right.Through a bad combination of typosand missing an enter I deleted everything in /boot.:-(This is what I did to (try to) recover:# cd /boot# mklost+found # emerge grub[...edited grub.conf...][...recompiled kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost most locales after glibc upgrade

2006-06-19 Thread fei huang
On 6/19/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fei huang wrote: On 6/19/06, *Alexander Skwar* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: I've lost most of them locales after upgrade to glibc-2.3.6-r4. You'll need to create a /etc/locale.gen file. After that,

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
I should have made it clear that the problems I am having are with the voodoo card and not with the radeon. Also I should add that I have booted into windows and verified that the hardware works correctly. This is the output of startx: xauth: creating new authority file

Re: [gentoo-user] can't get xorg tdfx driver to work any more

2006-06-19 Thread Robert Persson
FYI, I have a workaround. Set the primary video device to PCI in the bios. I don't know why this works, but it's enough to get by with at least. Robert On Monday 19 June 2006 20:37 Robert Persson was like: On Monday 19 June 2006 13:25 Robert Persson was like: A while ago I had a working