[gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread darren kirby
Yeah well, me again. Seems I'm the only one having trouble with PPC these days. I got Xorg 7.1, fluxbox, and KDE installed. After creating an xorg.conf with Xorgautoconfig I quickly realized I indeed had the problem hinted at re: VGA BIOS. So I ~ppc64 keyworded xf86-video-ati and emerged

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
darren kirby wrote: Yeah well, me again. Seems I'm the only one having trouble with PPC these days. I got Xorg 7.1, fluxbox, and KDE installed. After creating an xorg.conf with Xorgautoconfig I quickly realized I indeed had the problem hinted at re: VGA BIOS. So I ~ppc64 keyworded

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread Joseph Jezak
Try Xorgconfig auto will not work for my mac I have Dual 1.8 17 Studio also check the video ram amount That has helped to get X running fine every time Well, as the author of Xorgautoconfig, what was the problem? :) Can you post the config generated from each so I can fix it? -Joe --

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread Louis Hey
Joseph Jezak wrote: Try Xorgconfig auto will not work for my mac I have Dual 1.8 17 Studio also check the video ram amount That has helped to get X running fine every time Well, as the author of Xorgautoconfig, what was the problem? :) Can you post the config generated from each so I

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] xorg not working.

2006-10-06 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Louis Hey: Try Xorgconfig auto will not work for my mac I have Dual 1.8 17 Studio also check the video ram amount That has helped to get X running fine every time Good Luck I gave it a shot, but it didn't work. The xorg.conf that Xorgautoconfig came up with was much

[gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

2006-10-06 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! Since I changed my graphic card from ATI to NVIDIA I have a strange problem. I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap. The results is that my computer stopped to work. If

[gentoo-user] [OT] Problem with disk: cannot mount as ext3 but yes as ext2 ???

2006-10-06 Thread Gregory SACRE
Hello, I had a hard disk attached on an old RedHat PC formatted and mounted as ext3 filesystem. I removed the hard disk from the PC and plugged it in my Gentoo box. I tried to mount it as ext3 file system and got this error:

[gentoo-user] Fortran g77 support

2006-10-06 Thread JC Denton
Hi!I need g77 and g95 on my system in order to install a few things like:blaslapackscipyelmer (finite element)I found this post on http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=266985but this does not help me. When upgrading gcc from 3.4.6 to 4.1.1 I did not add or remove any USE flag so I assume this

Re: [gentoo-user] Fortran g77 support

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 08:50, JC Denton wrote: I need g77 and g95 on my system in order to install a few things like: Both are provided by gfortran on gcc-4.x with the fortran use flag enabled. Look at `man gfortran` for details. `gfortran` acts as g95 and `gfortran -ff2c` acts as g77. They

[gentoo-user] Building lapack failed

2006-10-06 Thread JC Denton
Hi! I try to install lapack on my machine. This is what I get when I try to emerge lapack:...Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/lapack-3.0/work/LAPACK ...g77 -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o cbdsqr.o cbdsqr.fgfortran: no input filesmake: *** [cbdsqr.o] Error 1!!!

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box hangs

2006-10-06 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 October 2006 20:22, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: thanks for sharing. One question I have - did you run memtest86 or something similar at the time? The reason I'm asking - I ran memtest86 on this machine and it showed nothing. I'm not entirely sure how much I can trust memtest.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:53:55 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 October 2006 14:44, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not': [...] Note that the first 29 bits are all equal. In addition, the first 30 bits

[gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install an experimental package with a different prefix, say /usr/local/test What should I write into the ebuild file? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Alexander H . Færøy
Honored users and developers, This is your monthly bugday reminder that the next bugday is held on Saturday the 7. October. Join #Gentoo-Bugs on irc.freenode.net and help out with bugfixing or just see how this day works ;) Regards, Alexander H. Færøy -- Alexander H. Færøy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Building lapack failed

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 09:05, JC Denton wrote: I try to install lapack on my machine. This is what I get when I try to emerge lapack: [SNIP] !!! ERROR: sci-libs/lapack-3.0 failed. [SNIP] I think bug #146448 [1] is the most relevant bug (which you should be able to find on your own).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unison

2006-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 00:12:55 + (UTC), James wrote: System A: ~/.mozilla/default/53a4kpfr.slt/bookmarks.html System B: ~/.mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt/bookmarks.html Unison copies both dirs/files correctly back and forth but the different installations of mozilla use different paths

[gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-06 Thread Charles Trois
Hello! I have searched the Web about this, but didn't find an appropriate reference. I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole,

Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

2006-10-06 Thread b.n.
ciao, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap. - fire up a shell - enter 'top' - digit Shift+M to order processes for RAM consumption (memory-eating processes are on top of list) - wait -

Re: [gentoo-user] Building lapack failed

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 10:49, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: I think bug #146448 [1] is the most relevant bug (which you should be able to find on your own). Unfortunately it provides no solutions. This package simply isn't prepared for gcc-4.x yet. [SNIP] [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:21:05 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to install an experimental package with a different prefix, say /usr/local/test What should I write into the ebuild file? I don't think the ROOT environment variable when emerging is what you

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: auto rename konsole session tabs?

2006-10-06 Thread James
Bo Ørsted Andresen bo.andresen at zlin.dk writes: To get only the hostname (\h is substituted with the hostname as you can read in `man bash`) ... # export PS1=$PS1'\[\033]0;\h\007\]' Well I tryied this command by puting it in the .bashrc file on both the host system and the target remote.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello list, I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official DocumentationonLocalizationandSyste-wide UTF-8,butIcannotmakeactuallyhavingen_US.UTF-8.HerearesomecommandsIran: The locales I have (nothing changes even after I run the rest of the commands.

[gentoo-user] problem getting UTF-8 locale

2006-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Sorry for the double-sent message. Have just changed the subject. Hello list, I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official DocumentationonLocalizationandSyste-wide UTF-8,butIcannotmakeactuallyhavingen_US.UTF-8.HerearesomecommandsIran: The locales I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: auto rename konsole session tabs?

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 13:18, James wrote: To get only the hostname (\h is substituted with the hostname as you can read in `man bash`) ... # export PS1=$PS1'\[\033]0;\h\007\]' Well I tryied this command by puting it in the .bashrc file on both the host system and the target remote.

[gentoo-user] Re: unison

2006-10-06 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Unison copies both dirs/files correctly back and forth but the different installations of mozilla use different paths to their bookmarks.html file. I'd do ln -s 53a4kpfr.slt ~/.mozilla/default/6xnd2dcf.slt on System A and put follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 13:08, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'd like to install an experimental package with a different prefix, say /usr/local/test What should I write into the ebuild file? I don't think the ROOT environment variable when emerging is what you want. I think you can just

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 13:29, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide UTF-8, but I cannot make actually having en_US.UTF-8. Here are some commands I ran: The locales I have

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 03:13, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not': On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:53:55 -0500 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it would be sufficient to specify a /29 netmask (255.255.255.248). However, we

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 6 October 2006 14:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Anycast is virtually unused anywhere. I'd imagine it could be used in some crazy layer 3 clustering solution, but I've never actually seen it used. Actually, ipv6 uses anycasts extensively. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:25:47 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 13:08, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'd like to install an experimental package with a different prefix, say /usr/local/test What should I write into the ebuild file? I don't

Anycast (was: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not)

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 08:05, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not': On Friday 6 October 2006 14:32, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Anycast is virtually unused anywhere. I'd imagine it could be used in some crazy layer 3 clustering solution, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Different install prefix - howto ?

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 14:50, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: [SNIP] I'm not sure why you don't think he wants the ROOT var. Because it didn't sound like he was trying to set up a chroot environment just for that package but rather make shure its installed files don't cludder /usr. If ROOT is

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-06 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The C89 standard I work off of [1] doesn't list isascii or isblank. They must have been added in either C99 or by the GNU project. I'm not sure what standard (or standard + extensions) gcc defaults to, but I'll bet

Re: [gentoo-user] C programming use of isascii(), ispunct() and isblank() fails

2006-10-06 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gcc -o digits -Wall -ansi -pedantic digits.c With that, I got the implicit declaration of function BLAH message. When that happens, and the man page does not list anything special, I usually add this at the beginning of the source file: #define

[gentoo-user] Recurring reiserfs error

2006-10-06 Thread reader
(note dmesg follows message) Out of 12 partitions in my setup 8 are reiserfs. During bootup I see them go by being checked, but always the last one /dev/hda11 fails with this message: fsck could not repair all errors And drops me into the repair shell. This has happened over several

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/6/06, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide UTF-8, but I cannot make actually having en_US.UTF-8. Here are some commands I ran: The locales I

[gentoo-user] A nic with no IP

2006-10-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Hi folks: I am working on my snort sensor box which runs gentoo. The setup that I am going to do requires me to have one nic (an intel Pro1000) with no ip on it (it is currently eth0 as the machine is currently set up). I know how to set up the nic in the /etc/conf.d/net file but making it have

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect vs eselect-opengl (or Why does xterm deeply depend on eselect-opengl)

2006-10-06 Thread Justin Patrin
On 10/3/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 03 October 2006 22:14, Justin Patrin wrote: I'm getting this very odd behavior when trying to --update --deep world. # emerge -atuDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box hangs

2006-10-06 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 06 October 2006 00:58, Mick wrote: I've run memtest86+ a number of times and no errors were shown. There's a whole thread (either in this ML or in the forums) as to why memtest is not a foolproof test for your *system* as opposed to a memory module. Try to search around and look in

Re: [gentoo-user] A nic with no IP

2006-10-06 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: I am working on my snort sensor box which runs gentoo. The setup that I am going to do requires me to have one nic (an intel Pro1000) with no ip on it (it is currently eth0 as the machine is currently set up). I know how

RE: [gentoo-user] A nic with no IP

2006-10-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
I am working on my snort sensor box which runs gentoo. The setup that I am going to do requires me to have one nic (an intel Pro1000) with no ip on it (it is currently eth0 as the machine is currently set up). I know how to set up the nic in the /etc/conf.d/net file but making

[gentoo-user] Auto-mount USB device

2006-10-06 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Gentoo_64 gnome-light When the USB enclosure is plugin hotplug detects it. But it won't mount it automatically showing it as an icon on desktop. I have to mount it manually on console. Please advise which file I have to edit enabling auto-mount when the USB enclosure is

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
How should eth1 and eth2 be configured in /etc/conf.d/net ? They should be configured as part of a bridge device (see the bridging section of /etc/conf.d/net.example) and have the address assigned (and DHCPD listing on) that bridge device. Except that this doesn't work on

Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

2006-10-06 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto: ciao, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap. - fire up a shell - enter 'top' - digit

Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

2006-10-06 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 06 October 2006 13:22, Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto: Unfortunately, the problem is the main X process... How can I isolate the problem? which driver are you using for your nvidia card? the opensource one (nv) or the proprietary one

[gentoo-user] Execution on X start (Gentoo way?)

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
I need to run: nvidia-settings --load-config-only when X starts to get my 1360x768 display to center on my 1366x768 screen. Is there a way to do this in xorg.conf instead? If not, should I use .xinitrc or is there a Gentoo way? I'm starting X via 'startxfce4' right now but I'll be using gdm

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
What's the error? I've run dvdrip for a long time and don't get any errors. Embarassing, but I needed to change the CHANGE_ME paths to eliminate the errors. I'm trying to make backups of my DVDs that are smaller than the full 8GB but don't lose any noticeable audio or video quality. I'd be

Re: [gentoo-user] Execution on X start (Gentoo way?)

2006-10-06 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
nvidia-settings --load-config-only when X starts to get my 1360x768 display to center on my 1366x768 screen. Is there a way to do this in xorg.conf instead? If not, should I use .xinitrc Use ~/.xinitrc or check this if you wanna use GDM: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Run_Commands_at_X_Startup

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE login with non-us keyboard

2006-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:11:50 +0200, Charles Trois wrote: I run KDE 3.4 under Gentoo on a G4 iMac. The keymap specified in xorg.conf is one designed for the extended Apple keyboard (109 keys) in the French language. It works quite well on the whole (in Konsole, Kate, etc), but the KDE login

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 remote printing methods

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
Is that correct? Could I use two remote printers attached to the same print server via the ServerName method? Yes. I have two printers attached to my Mini-ITX server box and both are available across the network. The only configuration on the client boxes is to add the ServerName directive,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:59:51 -0700, Grant wrote: I think I'll stick with: dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. Instead, use vobcopy followed by growisofs. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
I think I'll stick with: dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. Instead, use vobcopy followed by growisofs. What about this (it's what I've been doing): lsdvd dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd Is there any advantage

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 10:50:27 -0700, Grant wrote: That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. Instead, use vobcopy followed by growisofs. What about this (it's what I've been doing): lsdvd dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd Does it work with

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: auto rename konsole session tabs?

2006-10-06 Thread James
Bo Ørsted Andresen bo.andresen at zlin.dk writes: Are you absolutely certain that this option is enabled: Settings - Configure Konsole - General - Set tab title to match window title ? And make sure you don't make a typo... yes, absolutely certain. Try it in e.g. an xterm also. You

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. Instead, use vobcopy followed by growisofs. What about this (it's what I've been doing): lsdvd dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd Does it work with scrambled DVDs? The CSS key is supposed to be stored in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Uhm... how bout we NOT HIJACK THREADS. Please start a new thread whenyou have something new to say. Thank you. What I did. Immediately after noticing it. The problem getting UTF-8 locale thread. I hope it reached the list. -- Liviu

[gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

2006-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thanks for answering. On 10/6/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 13:29, Liviu Andronic wrote: I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide UTF-8, but I cannot make

[gentoo-user] usb- seriial(minicom) problem

2006-10-06 Thread James
Hello, I have (2) different usb-serial converters, both of which are listed when I build the drivers-usb-serial-converter in a 2.6.17-r8 kernel: USB Serial Converter support USB Generic Serial Driver USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver (EXPERIMENTAL) USB HP4x Calculators support

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem getting UTF-8 locale

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 06 October 2006 20:51, Liviu Andronic wrote: Thanks for answering. Was a mistake by me that I replied to the wrong mail of yours.. ;) [SNIP] Please note that here locale -a doesn't show en_US.UTF-8, but en_US*.utf8 *(case change and missing dash). That's expected. Not an error.

[gentoo-user] Re: A nic with no IP

2006-10-06 Thread James
Timothy A. Holmes tholmes at mcaschool.net writes: I am working on my snort sensor box which runs gentoo. The setup that I am going to do requires me to have one nic (an intel Pro1000) with no ip on it (it is currently eth0 as the machine is currently set up). I know how to set up the nic

[gentoo-user] Re: Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant wrote: I think it would be smarter for me to buy a $15 switch from NewEgg instead of trying to configure my Gentoo router to use its extra NICs this way. Is there any reason I wouldn't want to do that? Academic exercises aside, the only

Re: [gentoo-user] Recurring reiserfs error

2006-10-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Saturday 07 October 2006 00:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (note dmesg follows message) Out of 12 partitions in my setup 8 are reiserfs. During bootup I see them go by being checked, but always the last one /dev/hda11 fails with this message: fsck could not repair all errors

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box hangs

2006-10-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 October 2006 16:25, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On Friday 06 October 2006 00:58, Mick wrote: I've run memtest86+ a number of times and no errors were shown. There's a whole thread (either in this ML or in the forums) as to why memtest is not a foolproof test for your *system* as

Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

2006-10-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 October 2006 17:22, Luigi Pinna wrote: gpgkeys: key 1E69248E633F86B7 not found on keyserver Alle 14:41, venerdì 6 ottobre 2006, b.n. ha scritto: ciao, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I can recognize it) eats

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box hangs

2006-10-06 Thread b.n.
My 2e-2 euro: a relatively frequent freeze of the machine can also mean a going-to-fail power supply. It was for my machine in at least two cases. If you have a good power supply to do the experiment, try. It's a cause more often than not. It is expecially true if the logs say nothing and you

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 11:59, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?': dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd This is it's a standard store-bought DVD, this will end up copying the encrypted (CSS) data to your HD, which will add CPU overhead

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 12:27, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?': On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:59:51 -0700, Grant wrote: dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data

Re: [gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 17:56, Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge': Are there hooks in portage with which I can execute some scripts after an emerge -u world? Not AFAIK. However, it's easy enough to write a script to do an

Re: [gentoo-user] Eating RAM...

2006-10-06 Thread Robert Welz
Luigi Pinna schrieb: Hi! Since I changed my graphic card from ATI to NVIDIA I have a strange problem. I leave my session always on but I see that a process (I don't know I can recognize it) eats all my ram and my swap. The results is that my computer stopped to work. If I log out and log in

Re: [gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Dave V
A simple solution would beto use : emerge -u world echo do whatever you could also write a wrapper script relatively easily Dave On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:56:21 +0200 Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Are there hooks in portage with which I can execute some scripts after an

Re: [gentoo-user] Router 3rd and 4th net interface problem

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
I'm afraid I can't keep up with you guys here. What I'd like to do is use eth1 and ath0 on my router to serve the same local network. Can I bridge them according to net.example to accomplish this? I understand that I will either need to use a crossover cable with eth1 or attach a switch

[gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Robert Welz
Hello! Are there hooks in portage with which I can execute some scripts after an emerge -u world? I need to check my libraries in the chroot jail :) I build for boinc today against their original counterparts in the file system. This would be nicer than having a cronjob looking after them at

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd This is it's a standard store-bought DVD, this will end up copying the encrypted (CSS) data to your HD, which will add CPU overhead at play time. dvdbackup (in portage) does roughly the same thing, but decrypts once, at rip time. It does no transcoding so

[gentoo-user] Sound stopped working (xfce4 problem?)

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
Hello, Sound stopped working at some point on my laptop. I don't use the sound very much so it's hard to say what caused it, but now I need to start use a SIP phone so I need the sound. I've double-checked everything mentioned here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml but I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:16, Robert Welz wrote: Are there hooks in portage with which I can execute some scripts after an emerge -u world? I need to check my libraries in the chroot jail :) I build for boinc today against their original counterparts in the file system. This would be

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound stopped working (xfce4 problem?)

2006-10-06 Thread Grant
Sound stopped working at some point on my laptop. I don't use the sound very much so it's hard to say what caused it, but now I need to start use a SIP phone so I need the sound. I've double-checked everything mentioned here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml but I can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Robert Welz
Bo Ørsted Andresen schrieb: On Saturday 07 October 2006 03:16, Robert Welz wrote: Are there hooks in portage with which I can execute some scripts after an emerge -u world? I need to check my libraries in the chroot jail :) I build for boinc today against their original counterparts in

[gentoo-user] About Gnome desktop

2006-10-06 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, Gentoo_64 Gnome-light Gnome desktop On Desktop -- Administration -- there is only 1 item Login Window clicking it starting; Could not launch menu item Details: Failed to execute child process gdmsetup (No such file or directory) Please advise how to fix it. What package shall I

Re: [gentoo-user] how to execute some scripts after an emerge

2006-10-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 07 October 2006 05:23, Robert Welz wrote: [SNIP] What do you think? There is no such hook. Write a separate script or a wrapper. Since it's supposed to run after the emerge and not during the emerge I really don't see why it should need to use a hook. [SNIP] What is the right

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 October 2006 20:54, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?': dd if=/dev/dvd of=image.dvd This is it's a standard store-bought DVD, this will end up copying the encrypted (CSS) data to your HD, which will add CPU

[gentoo-user] wireless

2006-10-06 Thread Ted Ozolins
Just acquired an Atheros based wireless card. acquired madwifi-ng and tools. Using the /etc/conf.d/wireless.example I set up as per RTFM'n . I have in /etc/conf.d/wireless: essid_ath0=patkno mode_ath0=managed channel_ath0=6 key_patkno=s:** enc open and I have in /etc/conf.d/net the