Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: CUPS has been working flawlessly for quite some time, one of the feats of newer GNU/Linux installs (to one who couldn't get an HP mainstream inkjet working right some 10 years ago).Simultaneously, I notices that Apple now owns the copyright, and after a recent upgrade,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People in this thread speak of 2 and 3 boots and editing in between in the same message where `5 minutes' is mentioned.  That doesn't wash. You're way past that time frame.  But still not in the guiness book realm I guess... hehe. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Then you are stuck figuring out what on earth a hypervisor is. Alt+F2 wp:hypervisor ENTER Hey thats a pretty neat trick. Now if I wondered if that would be important since I

Re: [gentoo-user] A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 19:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: trial-and-error is probably your best bet. Get it working with a full genkernel setup. Note which modules get used in real life, start removing them in batches and make notes when stuff breaks There's a reason for the existence of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-06 Thread TimeBreach
Yes i've the same: ls /lib/firmware/rt73.bin /lib/firmware/rt73.bin But i don't remember to setted up it. Grant a écrit : For rt73usb no firmware is needed. Just use vanilla kernel built-in module. as i did: CONFIG_RT2X00=m CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB=m CONFIG_RT2X00_LIB_USB=m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:58:12 +0400 Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to know more on this... Is there really any reason to worry about kernel size... I mean in most cases with a standard desktop install? yes. Bigger kernel = more cpu cache used up = slower system.

[gentoo-user] Autofs or ivman?

2008-01-06 Thread Stroller
Hi there, I was on #gentoo yesterday asking about autofs someone recommended ivman instead. Which does gentoo-users think I should use? My principal interest is in NFS mounting /usr/portage on my PS3 an old laptop, as neither has a lot of disk-space - I have an always-on server that

[gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
I tried to send a comic strip as an attachment to my wife and I got a Mailbox Unavailable error. I'm running: baby log # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.68 USE=exiscan exiscan-acl ldap

Re: [gentoo-user] A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread Stroller
On 5 Jan 2008, at 16:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Configuring a new kernel is a dreaded task here. It seems I walk through a bewildering array of stuff that when pressing F1 on them I get more bewildering information I barely understand a word of. For 8 or 9 yrs now I've mostly skirted the

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: It's usually immediate. Has been for me in the past anyway. Even when you 'top post' and use html messages in mailing lists?! -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 6, 2008 7:42 AM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to send a comic strip as an attachment to my wife and I got a Mailbox Unavailable error. I'm running: baby log # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies...

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, January 6, 2008 7:55 am, Mark Shields wrote: On Jan 6, 2008 7:42 AM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to send a comic strip as an attachment to my wife and I got a Mailbox Unavailable error. I'm running: baby log # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB Wireless Network Adapter?

2008-01-06 Thread Grant
Yes i've the same: ls /lib/firmware/rt73.bin /lib/firmware/rt73.bin But i don't remember to setted up it. Well, it wasn't the kernel right? :) Were you experimenting with driver packages for the rt73 outside of the kernel? That's where mine came from. If you remove that firmware your

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Try rmmod ehci-hcd, then modprobe ohci-hcd and see what happens. Also, include from /var/log/messages everything printed from when ohci-hcd is modprobed to then end of actually plugging in the Sansa. And again when trying ehci-hcd. -- ohci was not included in my kernel. I recompiled with

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:12:10 -0600 (CST) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own espersunited.com, so it is on my end. ...and so should be exim's logs, right? I usually find it easier to read actual error reports than (stripped) configurations for complex software that is claimed to

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Dale wrote: Alan E. Davis wrote: Any ideas? I ran into something similar to the a while back and I had to un-merge cups, delete the config files, then reemerge cups and reconfigure my printer. Keep in mind that when you unmerge something, the config files

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:47 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:12:10 -0600 (CST) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own espersunited.com, so it is on my end. ...and so should be exim's logs, right? I usually find it easier to read actual error reports

Re: [gentoo-user] My apache server dosn't work after update.

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 05 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apache server dosn't work after update. Recentrly, I have updated all portage tree and after that can't start. Does anyone know how to fix it? My apache version is: www-servers/apache-2.2.6-r5 and /etc/init.d/apache2 start shows me

Re: [gentoo-user] Autofs or ivman?

2008-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Stroller wrote: Hi there, I was on #gentoo yesterday asking about autofs someone recommended ivman instead. Which does gentoo-users think I should use? Dilemmas like this are best resolved by finding out what problem a technology was designed to solve. A good

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: It's usually immediate. Has been for me in the past anyway. Even when you 'top post' and use html messages in mailing lists?! hehehehe, good one :-) It's now 48 hours and my old address hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:47 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 08:12:10 -0600 (CST) Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own espersunited.com, so it is on my end. ...and so should be exim's logs, right?

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments

2008-01-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:09:15 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use evolution. I tried using Squirrelmail and got this: Message not sent. Server replied: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 550 Rejected: spam score 6.5 Ah, I see. Exim does

[gentoo-user] How to find USE flags of a tbz2?

2008-01-06 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, if an ebuild was executed with --buildpkg, is there an easy way to extract the USE-flags that were in place from the resulting .tbz2? Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find USE flags of a tbz2?

2008-01-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:05:18 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if an ebuild was executed with --buildpkg, is there an easy way to extract the USE-flags that were in place from the resulting .tbz2? qtbz2 -xO your.tbz2 | qxpak -xO - USE -hwh --

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find USE flags of a tbz2?

2008-01-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, if an ebuild was executed with --buildpkg, is there an easy way to extract the USE-flags that were in place from the resulting .tbz2? That is not possible as the information is not in the tarball. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] How long to unsubscribe?

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Mick wrote: On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: It's usually immediate. Has been for me in the past anyway. Even when you 'top post' and use html messages in mailing lists?! hehehehe, good one :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find USE flags of a tbz2?

2008-01-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:05:18 + (UTC) Konstantinos Agouros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if an ebuild was executed with --buildpkg, is there an easy way to extract the USE-flags that were in place from the resulting .tbz2? qtbz2 -xO

[gentoo-user] Re: A pared down kernel config

2008-01-06 Thread reader
Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a reason for the existence of genkernel - it's so that you don't have to go through all this pain and suffering, and can instead remove stuff a bit at a time with reasonable confidence it won;t blow up in your face :-) There is a fairly

[gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Clearly 2007.0 is getting quite loong in the tooth so we're wondering if there something newer somewhere that we could use?

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:21:07 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Are these SATA drives? Are the controllers running as AHCI? I have a P5E

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Clearly 2007.0 is getting quite loong in the tooth so we're wondering if there something newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 6, 2008 3:42 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:21:07 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: My son built a PC Friday using an Asus P5E motherboard. We went to install Gentoo 2007.0 and found it didn't see the disk drives and hence cannot be installed. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
I have installed two or three times, deleted /etc/cups and reinstalled the printer. It showed up as an HPLIP device when installing, w/ CUPS and/or the kde printer utility. NOtably the utility OR the localhost:631 interface did not show any option for a USB printer. The address that ended up

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:52:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The drive is SATA. I'm not familiar with AHCI. (What? Advanced Host controller Interface or something like that? If this is a driver that needs to be loaded let me know and I'll try booting again and looking around. Yep, good guess :)

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: I have installed two or three times, deleted /etc/cups and reinstalled the printer. It showed up as an HPLIP device when installing, w/ CUPS and/or the kde printer utility. NOtably the utility OR the localhost:631 interface did not show any option for a USB printer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 6, 2008 4:11 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:52:14 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: The drive is SATA. I'm not familiar with AHCI. (What? Advanced Host controller Interface or something like that? If this is a driver that needs to be loaded let me know

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Alan E. Davis
Yes. Even installed as hplip, when jobs are printed, they are immediately marked as stopped in the jobs interface. There is no indication that the printer is on line at all, except that it shows up as Ready. Thank you, Alan On Jan 7, 2008 10:24 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan E.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 13:16 -0800, BRM wrote: [snip] However, that is not a solution I can use as I might not be the long term maintainer, and I'd like an easier solution as it requires a lot of work to download stuff. I'd like a solution similar to the following: # tar xvjf

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: Yes. Even installed as hplip, when jobs are printed, they are immediately marked as stopped in the jobs interface. There is no indication that the printer is on line at all, except that it shows up as Ready. Thank you, Alan On Jan 7, 2008 10:24 AM, Dale [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] ip_conntrack - is it missing

2008-01-06 Thread reader
I'm working my way thru this document: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Iptables_and_stateful_firewalls Somewhere in this part: #Should_I_take_this_tutorial (add it to the above url) Once there scan for the work /proc and a few hits will get you to this line: (emphasis is mine) If you've

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Dale wrote: They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system? Sorry to steal the thread a bit, but should hplip show up as an option for the driver to your printer? Because I still see hpijs as the printer driver even though I have the hplip package. -- Randy Barlow

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Randy Barlow wrote: Dale wrote: They recently changed it over to hplip. Is that installed on your system? Sorry to steal the thread a bit, but should hplip show up as an option for the driver to your printer? Because I still see hpijs as the printer driver even though I have the

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Randy Barlow
Dale wrote: On my system hpijs was a blocker if I recall correctly. I read somewhere that hpijs was no longer being maintained and that hplip was the new thing to use. Not sure why tho. Also may be worth noting that hplip used to be a service that was started as well. /etc/init.d/hplip

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS problem

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Randy Barlow wrote: Dale wrote: On my system hpijs was a blocker if I recall correctly. I read somewhere that hpijs was no longer being maintained and that hplip was the new thing to use. Not sure why tho. Also may be worth noting that hplip used to be a service that was started as

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: If you have two CD drives, you can boot Knoppix or another live CD and install from there. Why two? I have never done this but have read where others have and had no problem. Yep, did a Gentoo installation on a new laptop using a GRML 1.0 CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Any newer Gentoo install CDs?

2008-01-06 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Dale: If you have two CD drives, you can boot Knoppix or another live CD and install from there. Why two? I have never done this but have read where others have and had no problem. Yep, did a Gentoo