[gentoo-user] fujistu s2110 amd64 problem

2006-07-11 Thread Shaochun Wang
Yesterday evening, I installed gentoo on a new fujistu s2100 laptop. It's an amd64 one. I have a wierd problem: the network speed is very slow and it comes up and dow frequently. So transfering files in my home netword is very time consuming. Specially, the connection speed is about 50 kps or

Re: [gentoo-user] unified document viewing

2006-07-11 Thread Roy Wright
Roy Wright wrote: James wrote: Ah, that brings up a follow up question. If many of the ebuild packages have built in documentation, then is there a tool/package/web_interface that allow the document perusal without individual(admin) interaction? For example, man pages are auto loaded and ready

RE: [gentoo-user] Protecting my server against an individual

2006-07-11 Thread Daevid Vincent
Don't spend too much time, as it's a waste. You will NOT see my MAC address. Not because I try to disguise it, but because it won't be available to you. That's simply how TCP/IP works. There is one caveat to this, I if you are running a 802.11 wifi, the MAC is sent in the packets and then

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 18:57:33 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Do you know of a decent graphical program for editing DVB files. All I really need is to be able to cut out commercials etc. A command line program would do, but graphical would be easier. That would be the ProjectX mentioned by

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:36:01 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: If you just want to cut out commercials i recommend you ttcut, it is only designed for this purpose. Ttcut is able to cut the video frame-accurate and not only on I-Frames. It doesn't appear to do that here, the Cut-In button is

[gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-11 Thread Walter Dnes
I have a long USE variable (starts with -*, so I enter stuff manually. At one point it got to be something like... USE=-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb gif gtk2 imlib jpeg maildir mikmod mime mmap mmx

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:29:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote Gerhard Hoogterp schrieb: When I say yes I mean yes. When I say no I mean no. And I don't mean just until the next update either. I have reasons for my settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Walter Dnes wrote: I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config file. But if someone has customized a config file, assume that they

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout

2006-07-11 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I added setxkbmap us_intl do ~/.xprofile, but still haven't had time to verify if it did the job. I've found something about internationatization somewhere in the gentoo wikipedia. On 7/10/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cláudio Henrique wrote: I've beem having problems setting

[solved?] Re: [gentoo-user] modular X, nvidia, and unresolved symbols

2006-07-11 Thread John Blinka
It appears that the nvidia driver wants something that isn't available when the minimal use flag is present during the xorg-server compile. Eliminating this use flag got rid of the unresolved symbols. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Dale
Alexander Skwar wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config file. But if someone has customized a

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Dale wrote: Careful with that -5 option. delta ~ # ( while true ; do echo -5\n ; done ) | etc-update *shifty eyes* -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 7/11/06, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:29:06PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote Gerhard Hoogterp schrieb: When I say yes I mean yes. When I say no I mean no. And I don't mean just until the next update either. I have reasons for my settings; please don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Devon Miller
On 7/9/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WouldPORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mailserver:port work? For clarification:user= user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]pass=pass_with_:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailserver=mailserverport=port Well, ymmv, but

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-11 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
If you just want to cut out commercials i recommend you ttcut, it is only designed for this purpose. Ttcut is able to cut the video frame-accurate and not only on I-Frames. It doesn't appear to do that here, the Cut-In button is ghosted for most frames, so I end up cutting slightly off fro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: A/V muxing application ?

2006-07-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:29:41 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: If you want to use frame-accurate encoding you have to enable it under: Action-Settings-Encoding-Use Encoding Mode OK, I'll try that. Thanks. -- Neil Bothwick Unable to open TROUSER.ZIP - replace floppy and retry. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Layout

2006-07-11 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Cláudio Henrique wrote: hi, there, I've beem having problems setting my kbd layout. I added a line in xorg.conf telling it to use us_intl as my kbd layout, but it seems to be ignoring it. as a consequence, I have to execute setxkbmap us_intl every time I enter Gnome. I also tried adding it

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-11 Thread Luigi Pinna
Alle 22:58, lunedì 10 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: Luigi Pinna wrote: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de So you had a de map, and in the right place. So that wasn't the problem. # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb/ X11/xkb ? It's a command, to be executed as root (that's what

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config file. But if someone has customized a config file, assume that they know what

[gentoo-user] No more xorg upgrade?

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Cernansky
Hello, I've recently synced. emerge -up world do not want to upgrade xorg-x11 to 7.0. Only upgrade from 6.8.2-r7 to 6.8.2-r8 is printed. Before this sync, the xorg-x11 wants to be upgraded from 6.8.2-r7 to 7.0-r1. Previous sync I did shortly after modular xorg becomes stable. I did not update

[gentoo-user] Re: Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-11 Thread James
Walter Dnes waltdnes at waltdnes.org writes: BLEAGH! I've now broken it up into logical groupings... USE_cpu=3dnow mmx sse sse2 USE_font=bitmap-fonts truetype-fonts type1-fonts USE_gui=X dga dri gtk2 opengl sdl xv USE_multimedia=a52 aac alsa divx4linux encode exif ffmpeg flac gif jpeg

Re: [gentoo-user] No more xorg upgrade?

2006-07-11 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:13, martedì 11 luglio 2006, Robert Cernansky ha scritto: Hello, I've recently synced. emerge -up world do not want to upgrade xorg-x11 to 7.0. Only upgrade from 6.8.2-r7 to 6.8.2-r8 is printed. Before this sync, the xorg-x11 wants to be

[gentoo-user] Postix+SASL with LDAP

2006-07-11 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, I configured my PAM (using nsswitch.conf) to auth against a LDAP server. Everything works fine and now I want to setup postifix to permit only authenticated users to send e-mail through my smtp server. But when I try to auth via smtp client, I got the following message on /var/log/message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Crute
On 7/11/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you can break it up like this: # Multimedia USE_mplayer USE_ffmpeg USE_audio USE_video-players Where your selected categories are not so rigid as audio, stills, video, etc? But doesn't this idea kind of circumvent the package.use file?

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
Gerhard Hoogterp schrieb: I think there's a mis-understanding here. Gerhard and I are complaining about config files being possibly *OVERWRITTEN* with default settings. If there's no config file, sure write the default config file. But if someone has customized a config file, assume

[gentoo-user] Java Installation: failed on MD5 verification

2006-07-11 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
embedded distfiles # emerge -v =sun-jdk-1.5* Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07 to / checking ebuild checksums ;-) checking auxfile checksums ;-) checking miscfile checksums ;-) checking jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64.bin !!! Digest verification failed: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Postix+SASL with LDAP

2006-07-11 Thread Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos
Show us your /etc/sasl2/smtp.conf. Mine is: pwcheck_method: authdaemond log_level: 3 mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN authdaemond_path: /var/lib/courier/authdaemon/socket In my case, postfix authenticate on the Courier-imap authdaemond while authdaemond authenticate users in a MS AD server. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Postix+SASL with LDAP

2006-07-11 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
2006/7/11, Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Show us your /etc/sasl2/smtp.conf. Mine is: pwcheck_method: authdaemond log_level: 3 mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN authdaemond_path: /var/lib/courier/authdaemon/socket In my case, postfix authenticate on the Courier-imap authdaemond

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:07:42 +0200 Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Show me what is added or removed. And since it can only do that by comparing the new file to a clean, untouched, original file I innocently suggested to have such a file, make changes there and leave it up to

[gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-11 Thread James
Francesco Talamona ti.liame at email.it writes: It seems like quite often I have to go on a search expedition for docs beagle (I haven't looked a beagle since 0.0.10). Using 0.2.7, it's quite good. Yes this is the sort of tool I've been wanting. If one considers the collective

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
[Discussion about etc-update (and friends) changing something that was set by the user] I believe there is a misunderstanding. Perhaps what the OP is noting is that etc-update gives you diffs between * The file as on your system (which may have user changes) * The file as in the current

Re: [gentoo-user] Any guess to why amarok visualizations fail to function?

2006-07-11 Thread Kenton Groombridge
Richard Fish wrote: Well it looks like I get the same problems running the same versions of amarok, libvisual, and libvisual-plugins. Cool! Well, not cool that you are having problems, but cool that I am not alone. I was beginning to wonder what was up. I just did an emerge -e world, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Installation: failed on MD5 verification

2006-07-11 Thread Julien Cabillot
# ebuild path_to_the_ebuild/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07.ebuild digestAfter that emerge sun-jdkOn 7/11/06, Leandro Melo de Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:embedded distfiles # emerge -v =sun-jdk-1.5*Calculating dependencies... done! Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07 to / checking ebuild checksums

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-11 Thread Dale
Michael Crute wrote: On 7/11/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you can break it up like this: # Multimedia USE_mplayer USE_ffmpeg USE_audio USE_video-players Where your selected categories are not so rigid as audio, stills, video, etc? But doesn't this idea kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 22:58, lunedì 10 luglio 2006, Benno Schulenberg ha scritto: # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb/ X11/xkb That's not what i wrote, but this: # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb /usr/lib/X11/xkb I didn't understand from where it should be: a local path means that I am in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: [Discussion about etc-update (and friends) changing something that was set by the user] I believe there is a misunderstanding. Perhaps what the OP is noting is that etc-update gives you diffs between * The file as on your system (which may have user changes) *

[gentoo-user] weird behaviour - unable to connect to wireless router

2006-07-11 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi,I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G.I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use my card with this new

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I believe he would prefer to know the difference * The file as in the previous emerge of this package * The file as in the current emerge of this package Then he would decide what to do with these changes. Precisely. When Portage makes a ._cfg_* file, it

Re: [gentoo-user] lost deadkeys layout

2006-07-11 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's not what i wrote, but this: # ln -snf ../../share/X11/xkb /usr/lib/X11/xkb Sorry, I delete some characters... I used your link! I tried it now... It's works! Thanks! It worked? What did it solve? What symlink do you now have

Re: [gentoo-user] No more xorg upgrade?

2006-07-11 Thread b.n.
Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 21:13, martedì 11 luglio 2006, Robert Cernansky ha scritto: Hello, I've recently synced. emerge -up world do not want to upgrade xorg-x11 to 7.0. Only upgrade from 6.8.2-r7 to 6.8.2-r8 is printed. Before this sync, the xorg-x11 wants to be upgraded from 6.8.2-r7 to

RE: [gentoo-user] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC -- Palm Tungsten E, and Google Calendar

2006-07-11 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On 7/10/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking to be able to sync my palm tungsten E to my google calendar, and I am wondering if it would be possible to use evolution or other linux program to accomplish this -- I know it's a bit off topic for the list, so feel free

[gentoo-user] weird behaviour - unable to connect to wireless router

2006-07-11 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi,I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success.The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G.I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use my card with this new

Re: [gentoo-user] SOMEWHAT OFF TOPIC -- Palm Tungsten E, and Google Calendar

2006-07-11 Thread Mick
On 11/07/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed the above Wiki article, and have hit a snag. Further down the same webpage it also gives instructions on creating a udev rule . . . Also, check the links at the bottom of the page and the forum. HTH -- Regards, Mick --

[gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile

2006-07-11 Thread Willie Wong
A emerge update after a recent sync turns up the following message: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy nvidia-kernel have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7676-r1 (masked by: package.mask) # These

[gentoo-user] OT - Need help configuring apache for SSL

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm trying to make use of SSL on my server box. I followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_ssl on my client PC and everything worked right. However, when I try it on my server PC and I go to start Apache with the new configs for SSL, Apache won't start and I get the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help configuring apache for SSL [SOLVED]

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 17:59 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to make use of SSL on my server box. I followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_ssl on my client PC and everything worked right. However, when I try it on my server PC and I go to start Apache with

Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process CPU % usage limit

2006-07-11 Thread Evan Klitzke
On 7/8/06, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the subject says, is there any way to force a particular process to use at most a given CPU percentage? Although I haven't used it myself, I am fairly confident that this is what the cpu option does in /etc/security/limits.conf. You will

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:01:00 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: [Discussion about etc-update (and friends) changing something that was set by the user] I believe there is a misunderstanding. Perhaps what the OP is noting is that etc-update gives you diffs between

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread David Corbin
On Friday 07 July 2006 15:22, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Hi, This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what things can be improved in this wonderful distro. snip If I have more ideas I'll

[gentoo-user] OT - Apache, userdir, and CGI with suexec

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Sullivan
I use userdir on Apache on my server box. In /etc/apache2/httpd.conf I have UserDir set to webspace/html instead of public_html. I want to create a webspace/cgi-bin directory for each of my users to store (and access) their CGI scripts in (cgi-bin should be outside the DocumentRoot for security

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile

2006-07-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right? Yes. 2. Is there more information about what more harm than good means? I tried googling but the only thing I found was a commit log on solar's website with a one-liner about p.masking

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile

2006-07-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/11/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. nv still doesn't do 3D acceleration, right? Yes. *Sigh*. Yes, I know I replying to myself 15 seconds after posting, and that is a faux-pas. Sorry. But my response here wasn't clear.

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 7/11/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see an option where certain packages are not upgrade just because they're out of date, but require an additional command line argument. Additionally, a tool that I could run that tells me the following packages are being 'held back'

[gentoo-user] Re: d

2006-07-11 Thread James
Francesco Talamona ti.liame at email.it writes: The closest would be beagle (I haven't looked a beagle since 0.0.10). Using 0.2.7, it's quite good. Boy this is interesting. beagle: /etc/beagle /usr/lib/beagle /usr/share/beagle /usr/lib/beagle show a mulitude of *.exe *.dll files

Re: [gentoo-user] Java Installation: failed on MD5 verification

2006-07-11 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julien Cabillot wrote: # ebuild path_to_the_ebuild/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07.ebuild digest After that emerge sun-jdk Beware that this bypasses any security measure that portage provides and is not the preferred way to fix this issue. If you are positive

[gentoo-user] SVN stopped working after update of neon?

2006-07-11 Thread Daevid Vincent
I had SVN working fine, but then sometime recently neon was updated (due to gnome I believe?). I'm only trying to connect to a remote SVN server (not local). [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ svn update svn: error while loading shared libraries: libneon.so.25: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

[gentoo-user] How to get source of emerge to patch?

2006-07-11 Thread Jim John
Hi. I want to patch cyrus-imapd. I have the diff file, but no source because I emerged from the repository. How do I get the source and ebuild it? Thanks. __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia-kernel p.masked by hardened profile

2006-07-11 Thread Willie Wong
First, thanks for the pointers. See below On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:08:52PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: On 7/11/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is there more information about what more harm than good means? I tried googling but the only thing I found was a