Re: [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC?

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Igoe
Tim Garton wrote: Anybody know if this is possible? I have a single-head graphics card capable of doing 2048x1536. I want to start X with a virtual desktop of 2048x768, make my ViewPort be the left half of said desktop, start x11vnc using the -clip option so that it only shows the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SOLVED Creating loop devices

2006-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 20:28, Uwe Thiem wrote: Problem solved! With the last kernel upgrade I must have changed my loop devices from compiled in to modular, and there's no loop entry in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. If I modprobe loop everything works like it's supposed to.

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 October 2006 22:49, Bryan Whitehead wrote: If you are so concerned with the awesomeness of XFS's caching... why not turn on data-journaling? Then data (not just meta-data) is committed to the journal. You can also tune XFS to not wait so long to hold cached data. It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] X USE flag

2006-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:13:17 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I let the emerge run anyway last night, took about 2 hours for 143 packages, lots of them just fonts which install quickly. So now I guess It'll have to be done again in a day or three. If you add X to

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:28:45 +0200 Daniel Iliev wrote: Hi, everyone! Hi, I have little to offer to you... I decided to activate the portage ELOG system. I can't make portage send mail or write in the syslog. save appears to be the only working PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM - it saves log files in

[gentoo-user] Booting from Install cd

2006-10-31 Thread Kyle Vorster
Hi guys, I am sorry for such a newbie question but I really wane start learning more about linux and use gentoo on my desktop computer. Now I've burned both pcc and pcc64 to two cd's but when rebooting it just boots back into my old system which were Mandriva 2006 with Lilo Any one got any

AW: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the new!shiny! way of changing the java environment for a script with java-config-2???

2006-10-31 Thread Liebich, Wolfgang
Hi, Von: Harm Geerts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mo 10/30/2006 3:49 An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the new!shiny! way of changing the java environment for a script with java-config-2??? SNIP That would be GENTOO_VM according to the docs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fake Dual-Head with VNC?

2006-10-31 Thread Randy Barlow
Tim Igoe wrote: It sounds like Synergy would be a better solution to what you are trying to do (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/). I don't use it myself, but I was looking into it when I've sorted my laptop out, to use it as an extension of my screen. This was actually the first thought that

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from Install cd

2006-10-31 Thread Pawel Kraszewski
Dnia wtorek, 31 października 2006 11:14, Arnau Bria napisał: I am sorry for such a newbie question but I really wane start learning more about linux and use gentoo on my desktop computer. Now I've burned both pcc and pcc64 to two cd's but when rebooting it just boots back into my old

[gentoo-user] Cups and USB

2006-10-31 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi, I installed cups and my printer is recognized by the kernel (usblp.ko module), but when I try to add a new printer, cups doesn't show usb option, why? How to solve this? Thanks, Leandro. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups and USB

2006-10-31 Thread Arnau Bria
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:00:23 -0300 Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, I installed cups and my printer is recognized by the kernel (usblp.ko module), but when I try to add a new printer, cups doesn't show usb option, why? How to solve this? add USE usb: usb Adds USB support to

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups and USB

2006-10-31 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
But there is no usb USE option for cups: # equery u cups [ Searching for packages matching cups... ] [ Colour Code : set unset ] [ Legend: Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ] [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ] [ Found these

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 15:06, Daniel Iliev wrote: 1) About the real server: Well, echo test | sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. So why don't you just take advantage of that? PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail -- Bo Andresen pgpYLBhdzhlVG.pgp Description: PGP

[gentoo-user] Help me to setup IRDA

2006-10-31 Thread Andrey
Hi, guys! my dmesg: SMsC IrDA Controller found IrCC version 2.0, firport 0x100, sirport 0x3e8 dma=2, irq=3 smsc_ircc_set_sir_speed(), Setting speed to: 9600 No transceiver found. Defaulting to Fast pin select IrDA: Registered device irda0 Then I start /etc/init.d/irda: * Starting IrDA ...

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, I have little to offer to you... I have been having problems with same, but using a real mail server (for your [EMAIL PROTECTED] I assume you're using default postfix install, am I right?) Thank you for you response. 1) About the real server: Well, echo test |

[gentoo-user] Qt installation error

2006-10-31 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
Hi list, I'm trying to install QT but I got the following error: Emerging (1 of 3) x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r4 to / * qt-x11-free-3.3.6.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * qt-x11-free-3.3.6.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * qt-x11-free-3.3.6.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] drift: cron, emerge and mail

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: All logs go into $PORT_LOGDIR (usually /var/log/portage) if it is defined. These are the full output of each emerge command, plus another file containing the elog/ewarn/einfo/error output. The ELOG files contain only the e-messages you specify and go in $PORT_LOGDIR/elog.

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt installation error

2006-10-31 Thread Leandro Melo de Sales
OK. I tried to reemerge the packages you suggested but I got other error: Emerging (1 of 2) x11-libs/libXrandr-1.1.1 to / * libXrandr-1.1.1.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ...[ ok ] * libXrandr-1.1.1.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt installation error

2006-10-31 Thread Andrey
XRandR auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql) Could not find XRandR lib anywhere in /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/mysql /usr/X11R6/lib64 /usr/shlib /usr/lib /lib XRandR disabled. XRender auto-detection... (-L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql)

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:04, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 October 2006 09:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find it useful to keep in mind that XFS is a file-system (i.e. a system for files), and not necessarily a severly disk-bound filesystem Would you mind to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub problems

2006-10-31 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Thanks Mick. The problem turned out to be hardware related. I moved the primary SATA hard drive cable from SATA4 to SATA1, and that fixed the problem. One fresh install later and I was up and running. Jeff -Original Message- From: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 31, 2006 12:13 PM

[gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

2006-10-31 Thread darren kirby
I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: Display and Weather Service. I am able to select my new city in the Available stations and even check the weather using Update All, however, I can not set

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox2.0 can't start up

2006-10-31 Thread Régis Décamps
On 10/30/06, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/10/30, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The output of: # equery check mozilla-firefox[ Checking www-client/mozilla-firefox-2.0 ] * 3570 out of 3570 files good # equery check mozilla-launcher[ Checking www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.52 ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:06:01 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Now. The things got even more weird and unexplainable for me. I did emerge -DuNav world and there were some font packages to be rebuild because of a change in the USE flags. After emerge finished I got emails for the those packages but

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG

2006-10-31 Thread Daniel Iliev
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 15:06, Daniel Iliev wrote: 1) About the real server: Well, echo test | sendmail -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] works. So why don't you just take advantage of that? PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbin/sendmail Thanks,

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:04, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 October 2006 09:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: I find it useful to keep in mind that XFS is a file-system (i.e. a system for files), and not necessarily a severly disk-bound filesystem Would you mind to elaborate on this? I simply do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Usb sound and ALSA

2006-10-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
Any clue? Thank you, your device identifies itself to the kernel as human input device (HID). Many manufacturers seem to like to make their devices to behave like this. On ALSA, the module snd_usb_audio is responsible to drive your card. But as it already works, it seems to be loaded. Then

[gentoo-user] Strange symptoms, can't identify cause

2006-10-31 Thread Grant
I was just on the phone with a buddy of mine to get my system connecting to his via VPN. I followed his instructions (he uses Red Hat) and now I have two problems. 1. An openvpn process starts at boot and has a different pid each time I check on it with ps. /etc/init.d/openvpn is not started

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
Daniels advice is actually the best that you can get. It will give you the smallest chance of corruption due out of order journal commits that caching can cause. js On 10/31/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:04, Uwe Thiem wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

2006-10-31 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
darren kirby wrote: I have just moved and one thing I needed to do was update the weather station for my panel applet. In the config dialogue I have two tabs: Display and Weather Service. I am able to select my new city in the Available stations and even check the weather using Update All,

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:50, Daniel Iliev wrote: Then I would propose you to use hdparm -W0 /dev/(what-ever) to disable the write caching (no matter which FS you use). Nothing can give 100% guarantee against power failure. This disables only hard disk cache. If I understand correctly,

[gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-10-31 Thread James
Hello I have cyrus-sasl built on one sytem but it fails on an identical mother board both running gentoo: crystal james # eix cyrus-sasl * dev-libs/cyrus-sasl Available versions: 2.1.21-r2:2 ~2.1.21-r3:2 2.1.22:2 2.1.22-r1:2 Installed: 2.1.22-r1 sheet james # eix cyrus-sasl

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-31 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:45, Ryan Tandy wrote: I think that's what Daniel intended. If you were *really* paranoid about power outages, you could do that AND mount your FS with -o sync... Ah ok, my misunderstanding then. Thank you! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-10-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:45:39 + (UTC), James wrote: I have cyrus-sasl built on one sytem but it fails on an identical mother board both running gentoo: What's the failure message? I had the latest testing version fail to build this week, because of a problem with my Java setup. Re-emerging

[gentoo-user] Re: cyrus-sasl build problem

2006-10-31 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I have cyrus-sasl built on one sytem but it fails on an identical mother board both running gentoo: What's the failure message? I had the latest testing version fail to build this week, because of a problem with my Java setup. Re-emerging both

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kweather panel applet: unable to set station

2006-10-31 Thread darren kirby
Thanks Peter and Anthony. Editing the config file manually and adding the ICAO code has got it going... Thanks again, -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and

[gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all of this mean? hda/hdc are my remaining MAXTOR drives combined are a RAID1

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-10-31 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all of this mean?

Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues AIGLX slowness)

2006-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 03:08 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 02:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: [SNIP] By default equery only queries your installed packages (the specific versions). # equery -N u -a xorg-server | grep aiglx\\\|xorg-server [ Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
On 10/31/06, Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all of this

Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?

2006-10-31 Thread Alan
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know of any