Re:Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-13 Thread Lavender
I don't think that has anything to do with KDE. Maybe this forum thread is part of the answer? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-886248-start-0.html - Mark This problem has solved,but I got another one.When I use startx , it says that modules ati vesa fbdev don't existand no screens

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 08:03:25 Lavender wrote: I don't think that has anything to do with KDE. Maybe this forum thread is part of the answer? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-886248-start-0.html - Mark This problem has solved,but I got another one.When I use startx , it says

Re:Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-13 Thread Lavender
It seems that you have not installed the correct drivers for your card and/or have not defined these correctly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if indeed you have created such a file (it may not be necessary to create it unless there is a particular configuration need for your hardware). I suggest you

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-13 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Friday, November 11, 2011 08:48:42 AM Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, November 8, 2011 10:33 am, Dale wrote: The only report that raccoon will give is a bright flash of light. Shorting out 250,000 volts sort of puts a period on the end of the briefest report there has ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 08:34:55 Lavender wrote: It seems that you have not installed the correct drivers for your card and/or have not defined these correctly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if indeed you have created such a file (it may not be necessary to create it unless there is a particular

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I disable renaming of root fs to /dev/root?

2011-11-13 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Victor. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 03:43:33PM +0400, victor romanchuk wrote: Jarry wrote, at 11/11/2011 09:37 PM: Hi, this is actually not problem but rather a matter of customs: My new fresh installed system shows root-fs in df as /dev/root, not actuall device (in my case /dev/md2).

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-13 Thread Lorenzo Bandieri
One more question.  What is a easy to install but WELL tested and STABLE binary distro?  I'm thinking something that needs a update 2 or 3 times a year or something. If you want a *really* well tested and *really* stable linux binary distro, Debian stable is your friend :D I have a debian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another hardware thread

2011-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:11:11 -0200, Érico Porto wrote: What kind of computer are you looking for? If you are not a gamer but do like to watch high res videos, go for a fanless video board. If you like to do image processing, nvidia boards are also a good idea because of CUDA capabilities..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: app-emulation/virtualbox-modules and kernel sources

2011-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:32:31 +0100, Jonas de Buhr wrote: Presumably there isn't a Makefile in /usr/src/Linux? sorry, i was in a hurry, i really should have asked more specific questions. yes, there is no makefile in the kernel sources and that causes all make commands in the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:03:25 +0800 (CST), Lavender wrote: This problem has solved,but I got another one.When I use startx , it says that modules ati vesa fbdev don't existand no screens found .-_-|| Alright, how to get it done? What is VIDEO_CARDS set to in /etc/make.conf? -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot start up KDE desktop Environment

2011-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:34:55 +0800 (CST) Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com wrote: It seems that you have not installed the correct drivers for your card and/or have not defined these correctly in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, if indeed you have created such a file (it may not be necessary to create

[gentoo-user] Xen-4.1 + Gentoo-Sources 3.0.6 in Dom0 = no blktap

2011-11-13 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I am using Xen 3.4.2 with xensources for Dom0 and DomU at the moment. Now I tried to upgrade on a testsystem to 4.1.1 and a 3.0.6 Kernel for Dom0. The problem is, since there is no blktap driver in the 3.0.6 Kernel I have to fall back to file:// instead of tap:aio for the disks for the

[gentoo-user] Cant emerge asterisk 1.8

2011-11-13 Thread William Kenworthy
Has anyone come across this error before? Emerge bails out at this point with this error - Ive just re-run make in the build directory to recreate the error. Ive been running various versions of asterisk on the machine for a few years - but cant get any version of 1.8 to build because of this

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-13 Thread Dale
Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: One more question. What is a easy to install but WELL tested and STABLE binary distro? I'm thinking something that needs a update 2 or 3 times a year or something. If you want a *really* well tested and *really* stable linux binary distro, Debian stable is your friend

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-13 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, November 11, 2011 08:48:42 AM Dale wrote: Now that you mention it, maybe they will run out of test subjects. o_O They're currently in the middle of negotiations to take over the penal system of the rabbits ;) Once they get that contract, they'll have a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-13 Thread Grant
And if I pull, none of my backed-up systems are secure because anyone who breaks into the backup server has root read privileges on every backed-up system and will thereby gain full root privileges quickly. IMO that depends on whether you also backup the authentication-related files or not.

[gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for my Kindle Fire as well as other computers on _only_ my home network. Sort of an in-house

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 10:45:46 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: One more question. What is a easy to install but WELL tested and STABLE binary distro? I'm thinking something that needs a update 2 or 3 times a year or something. If you want a *really* well tested and *really* stable linux binary

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 14, 2011 1:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for my Kindle Fire as

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 18:21:17 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for my Kindle Fire as well as other

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.11.2011 19:26, schrieb Mick: On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 10:45:46 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: One more question. What is a easy to install but WELL tested and STABLE binary distro? I'm thinking something that needs a update 2 or 3 times a year or something. If you want a *really* well tested

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Pandu asked a similar question a few days ago about serving up files, but mostly for distfiles IIRC. It got me thinking about doing the same sort of thing, but this time to serve up MP4 video files for my Kindle

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-13 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 13.11.2011 19:03, schrieb Grant: And if I pull, none of my backed-up systems are secure because anyone who breaks into the backup server has root read privileges on every backed-up system and will thereby gain full root privileges quickly. IMO that depends on whether you also backup the

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Nov 14, 2011 1:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   From browsing around a lot of pages on the web it seems that there are a number of small light servers (in terms of memory anyway) in portage. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Both thttpd and boa that I am using are extremely simple to configure - just a few lines in their config files and your iptables rules to allow access from your LAN, or from a particular IP address.  Apache is also

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/13/11 13:03, Grant wrote: And if I pull, none of my backed-up systems are secure because anyone who breaks into the backup server has root read privileges on every backed-up system and will thereby gain full root privileges quickly. IMO that depends on whether you also backup the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Are push backups flawed?

2011-11-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/13/11 13:03, Grant wrote: Then I could have the backup server pull that copy from each system without giving it root access to each system. Can I somehow have the correct ownerships for the backup saved in a separate file for use during a restore? If you're intent on making a

[gentoo-user] Display name and Wacom tablet

2011-11-13 Thread Daniel D Jones
I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti running nvidia-drivers 275.09.07. It supports dual monitors via Twinview. I have a Wacom Inspire3 6 x 8 Tablet. The tablet is working but it covers the entire display across both monitors and I'd like to restrict it to one monitor. This is supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 19:45:38 Mark Knecht wrote: Wow! That certainly qualifies for the simple part! The trick seemed to be to cd to the video directory before running python, but once I did that I am able to get video. One 'problem' if you will is the video isn't streaming but rather the

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Nov 14, 2011 6:01 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 13 Nov 2011 19:45:38 Mark Knecht wrote: Wow! That certainly qualifies for the simple part! The trick seemed to be to cd to the video directory before running python, but once I did that I am able to get video.

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 November 2011, at 19:45, Mark Knecht wrote: ... One 'problem' if you will is the video isn't streaming but rather the whole file is being copied and then xine is being run. That leads to no disk space over time. See if you can run Samba client on this device (and Samba on the server,

[gentoo-user] bash date puzzle

2011-11-13 Thread Philip Webb
To convert a UNIX date to a human-readable version the command is : 556: ~ date -d @1321251520 Mon Nov 14 01:18:40 EST 2011 I would like to create a Bash alias or function to do this, but can't get the Bash syntax right: it keeps telling me date: the argument `1321251520' lacks a leading