Re: [gentoo-user] audiocd:/mnt/cdrom not working

2007-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Richard Marzan, Run mount, When you insert the CD before you take the step that fails to work for you and show me the output. Does the cd have to be mounted before any operation takes place? You cannot mount audio CDs (unless they also contain a data track). Either put audiocd:/ in the

[gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I'm trying to set up my laptop as the router for my PC. In the end it should look like this: ppp0 - laptop - eth0 --- eth0 - PC My problem: As soon as set up eth0 with ifconfig 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 ppp0 is no longer used. I tried to follow this howto:

[gentoo-user] problem with gentoo-sources on sparc32-platform

2007-09-02 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I built a 2.6.22-r5 kernel on a sparc32-platform. However elftoaout refuses to convert this with the message 'wrong elf version'. File on the kernel gives me: vmlinux: ELF 32-bit MSB relocatable, SPARC, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped So I guess elftoaout is right since the kernel is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with routing

2007-09-02 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm trying to set up my laptop as the router for my PC. In the end it should look like this: ppp0 - laptop - eth0 --- eth0 - PC My problem: As soon as set up eth0 with ifconfig 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 ppp0 is no longer used. I tried to

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo still not up -- now no kbd driver

2007-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:52:11 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 19:24:51 Hendrik Boom wrote: Have you enabled the keyboard USE flag under INPUT_DEVICES in xorg-xserver? You can set this in make.conf. make.conf ends with the lines INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo still not up -- now no kbd driver

2007-09-02 Thread Eric Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Boom wrote: Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 230 kB # equery check x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard -bash: equery: command not found emerge gentoolkit -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-02 Thread Roman Zilka
Hi Liviu, it seems you're only allowed to access web, FTP and rsync services on the Internet through your proxy. Both rsync and NTP use their own ports and protocols, different from HTTP/FTP/rsync. Firstly, you need a proxy server (or some other form of tunnel) that will allow for rdate/NTP

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-02 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 There is a tool in portage or freshmeat, if my memory doesn't fail me, that uses HTTP to sync time/date. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Servicios Ofrecidos: http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ Unase a los

Re: [gentoo-user] proper proxy syntax to synchronize time via rdate

2007-09-02 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * net-misc/htpdate Available versions: ~0.9.2 0.9.3 1.0.0 Homepage:http://www.clevervest.com/htp/ Description: Synchronize local workstation with time offered by remote webservers - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman -

[gentoo-user] Re: X now starts. (was: Gentoo still not up ...)

2007-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: So I proceeded to emerge xorg-server for real. No more keyboard problems. Instead I get the black screen of death. The monitor on light starts bliking, indicating it is getting no signal, ctrl-alt-backspace and ctrl-alt-delete

Re: [gentoo-user] audiocd:/mnt/cdrom not working

2007-09-02 Thread Arnau Bria
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 09:25:30 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Richard Marzan, [...] You cannot mount audio CDs (unless they also contain a data track). Either put audiocd:/ in the location bar or select Audio CD Browser from the Services tab in the Konqueror sidebar. with audiocd:/ worked

[gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
While installing Gentoo recently, I managed to pull off a cute stunt that... a) minimizes wasted disk space b) retains the ability to wipe and re-install the OS, without wiping user data I'm considering doing a Gentoo Wiki entry, if one hasn't already been done. First, I'll run it past

Re: [gentoo-user] Finally installed Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530 desktop

2007-09-02 Thread b.n.
Walter Dnes ha scritto: I checked dell.com's support knowledgebase. Only the most recent kernels support SATA drives in IDE mode, Sorry for the ignorance... but what does this mean? I use a SATA disk at home but they are not in IDE mode, AFAIK... it shows up as /dev/sda - Can you explain me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X now starts.

2007-09-02 Thread b.n.
Hendrik Boom ha scritto: I still haven't found a way to browse the list of available packages the way I used to do in Debian using aptitude or packages.debian.org. Well, before the incident, http://packages.gentoo.org/ was online. Now we have to wait. In the meantime, emerge gentoolkit and

[gentoo-user] amavis + dspam + dspam+web (analysis tab)

2007-09-02 Thread Norberto Bensa
Hello list, does anyone know if the analysis tab in dspam-web is broken when dspam runs from amavis? Many thanks in advance, Norberto This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X now starts.

2007-09-02 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 b.n. wrote: As for Portage (X-based) GUIs, I don't use them, but AFAIK the most mature of them is Kuroo. I don't know of text-based interfaces, I remember me and some guy on the ML planned to write one but never did. Yep. With me. Genetic. The

[gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

2007-09-02 Thread sean
Trying both Xine and Amarok neither is pulling in music info from the Internet. Use flag cddb is present. Later after emerging K3B Xine and Amarok starting pulling in cd info. Since emerging some other packages, they have once again stopped. Is anyone able to give me some tips as to what to

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

2007-09-02 Thread b.n.
sean ha scritto: Trying both Xine and Amarok neither is pulling in music info from the Internet. Use flag cddb is present. Later after emerging K3B Xine and Amarok starting pulling in cd info. Since emerging some other packages, they have once again stopped. Is anyone able to give me

Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Walter Dnes, Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 60801 4883840015 Extended /dev/sda5 1 62 497952 83 Linux /dev/sda6 63 549 3911796 82 Linux swap /dev/sda7

Re: [gentoo-user] Music Retrieval

2007-09-02 Thread sean
b.n. wrote: sean ha scritto: Trying both Xine and Amarok neither is pulling in music info from the Internet. Use flag cddb is present. Later after emerging K3B Xine and Amarok starting pulling in cd info. Since emerging some other packages, they have once again stopped. Is anyone able to give

Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 2. September 2007 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Hello Walter Dnes, Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 60801 4883840015 Extended /dev/sda5 1 62 497952 83 Linux /dev/sda6 63

Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:00:50PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote Am Sonntag, 2. September 2007 schrieb Neil Bothwick: One disadvantage of your system that springs immediately to mind is that if a user manages to fill /home, it will stop the whole system working properly because /var is also

[gentoo-user] failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-02 Thread LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS
Dear Sirs After I had downloaded and burned on K3B the forementioned CD I don't get it booted on my machine amd64 +3000. I've already its manual and doc, I upgraded my K8VXSE motherboard BIOS...nothing! I don't know what else to do...

Re: [gentoo-user] failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag, 3. September 2007, LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS wrote: Dear Sirs After I had downloaded and burned on K3B the forementioned CD I don't get it booted on my machine amd64 +3000. I've already its manual and doc, I upgraded my K8VXSE motherboard BIOS...nothing! I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

2007-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Walter Dnes, This setup is for a desktop PC that has a user not a bunch of users. I am *NOT* running a server with a bunch of users. If I was, I'd be using quotas to prevent the problem described above. It only takes one user to have a runaway process, or even just one that uses

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2007-09-02 Thread james
Hello, Im installing a new dell laptop. Mostly the install has been routine. I cannot seem to get ati-drivers to install. bugs.gentoo.org did not reveal anything useful (not from what I read). Here is the error: /var/tmp/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.35.5/work/common/lib/

[gentoo-user] Re: failure on booting Gentoo Linux 2007 amd64 Live CD

2007-09-02 Thread James
LUIZ AFONSO BELLO DE CAMPOS luizbcampos at click21.com.br writes: Dear Sirs After I had downloaded and burned on K3B the forementioned CD I don't get it booted on my machine amd64 +3000. I've already its manual and doc, I upgraded my K8VXSE motherboard BIOS...nothing! I

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers

2007-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
You need to discover with lspci what ATI controller is in the machine and then check which ati-drivers packages support it. After doing that you need to make sure that the ati-drivers package you have chosen matches up with the kernel you are attempting to build/install. Basic lesson: Not all

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-02 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: You need to discover with lspci what ATI controller is in the machine and then check which ati-drivers packages support it. After doing that you need to make sure that the ati-drivers package you have chosen matches up with the kernel you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers

2007-09-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/2/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: You need to discover with lspci what ATI controller is in the machine and then check which ati-drivers packages support it. After doing that you need to make sure that the ati-drivers package you have

Re: [gentoo-user] HAL: how to prohibit mounting certain partitions

2007-09-02 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On 9/1/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have windows Linux installed on the same hard disk. In Linux I've set up KDE + hal. It allows users to mount any removable devices, and also windows partition. I don't wanna to disable ntfs in kernel, but I don't want to users be able to

[gentoo-user] about permission setting for /var/tmp/portage/../work

2007-09-02 Thread William Xu
Hi, why the `work' subdir under /var/tmp/.. has this sort of permission setting: , | drwx-- 3 portage portage 80 Sep 3 10:43 work ` This way, it seems rather difficult for a non-root user to access them. Currently I'm trying to debug emacs, which requires me to start emacs