Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-12 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 May 2009 10:21:56 pm James wrote: Not a bad idea, Jerome. I imagine you create a new DVD every year or so so that you don't have to wait forever when updating all packages on your system? -j Hi James, Actally, I update the dvd pretty regularly. I'm a real bug about staying

Re: [gentoo-user] automated install || stage4? rapid deployment?

2009-05-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 May 2009 08:14:07 pm Adam Carter wrote: I'm curious how other sysadmins rapidly deploy a slew of new Gentoo systems? In this case I'm setting up many dozens of Gentoo servers inside of VMware ESX and having to destroy and redeploy said systems regularly. The hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.3.2

2009-04-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 03 April 2009 05:15:21 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:47:25 +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: I like the -march=native and -mtune=native options. As long as you don't use distcc with differing hardware. I did that by accident once and trust me, it's a unforgettable lesson.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they

[gentoo-user] ibiblio dumps Gentoo distfiles to save space

2009-02-12 Thread Jerry McBride
Imagine my surprise when the nightly rsync of Gentoo distfiles with ibibilo resulted in my distfile repository getting totally deleted. After a few emails wit the admins at ibibilo I finally got the answer that I was looking for... the truth... Jerry, We are no longer rsyncing the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 05:52:16 am Norberto Bensa wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Jerry McBride mcbrid...@comcast.net wrote: If you need more info, feel free to email me direct. why? off-list communications should only be done with off-topic conversations. If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 12:53:22 am Dirk Uys wrote: Hi I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 ebuild fails: Scanning dependencies of target kdeinit_kxkb [ 23%] Building CXX object kcontrol/kxkb/CMakeFiles/kdeinit_kxkb.dir/kdeinit_kxkb_automoc.o [ 24%]

[gentoo-user] Gcc-4.3.3

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else noticing problems with the new compiler? An example, sysklogd no longer builds with 4.3.3, but did with 4.3.2-r3, etc. etc. New (~x86) version of sysklogd fails too So far, I'm not able to get the sources cleaned up enough to get it to compile cleanly... I'm going back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-4.3.3

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 31 January 2009 05:54:27 pm Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Saphirus Sage wrote: I couldn't even install gcc4.3.3 on my amd64 machine. The build failed each time and I essentially decided to just wait for the next revision. Working fine here. glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1 with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel config hell

2008-12-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 27 December 2008 10:48:19 am Harry Putnam wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: [...] Well, my bit of wisdom here: Don't use modules. Do a make menuconfig, disable everything you don't need, and compile everything you need in-kernel instead of as a module.

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 15 November 2008 02:45:04 pm Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? What's wrong with gentoo-wiki.info? As for backup yes tar is good, but how about

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

2008-11-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 15 November 2008 07:08:42 pm Mick wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I keep mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 October 2008 04:07:27 pm b.n. wrote: Roy Wright ha scritto: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Well, I took notice that kde 4.1.2 is in portage... I quickly removed kde-svn and layman and began the unmasking and keywording of 4.1.2. I let it all install over night and... This morning, with a little trepidation, I booted into KDE-4.1.2... no problems! This is the first of the recent

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:26:06 pm Adam Carter wrote: rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.1 SLOT in kdesvn-portage

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 21 September 2008 09:26:15 pm Mike wrote: Mike wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, I use the kdesvn-portage overlay (the portage one, not the paludis-only one). To still stay this side of sanity, I emerged the 4.1.1 SLOT. I updated layman -S today only to find that the entire

[gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

2008-09-14 Thread Jerry McBride
In case you've missed it... the latest of the 3.5 version KDE is now in portage. It's still keyworded and masked, but still usable. Compiling it now. Cheers... If only 4.1.1 was there... :') Cheers again... -- I was once told that adding ice to Makers Mark was alcohol abuse... Thank God!

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

2008-07-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 02 July 2008 06:00:57 pm b.n. wrote: This thread is getting depressing. I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3 beta

[gentoo-user] Compiz-Fusion display error?

2008-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
I upgraded my KDE 3.5.9 laptop to use compiz-fusion. It works! But i have a display problem... My laptop lcd is 1280x800 native. KDE, without compiz, uses theentire display, no problems... However, once I start up compiz, I loose the right third of the screen. That is, the display get

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 04:53:24 pm Grant wrote: I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 for either end of the connection, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 05:21:50 pm Grant wrote: I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about 150 feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 for either end of the

Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE

2008-03-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 18 March 2008 08:08:22 am Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? Hi Gavin, What would you do with a neural net? You've got me interested. For a long time now, I've been wanting to write a smart piece of software that would take in answers

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 07 March 2008 10:52:09 am Daniel Beecham wrote: On 3/5/08, Rodrigo Lazo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you seen ubuntu brainstorm? http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ What do you think? Personally I believe is a very good idea and may be worth copying. Regards --

[gentoo-user] New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected

2008-03-04 Thread Jerry McBride
In case you guys missed it [ Quote ] | New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation  were just elected. The foundation | takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and | money. It ensures that nobody violates our copyrights and trademarks, serves | as a place to

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what ever is that keeping my lan together) suddenly stops working while I'm using sshfs my computer crashes, or if I;m lucky enough I get to do

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:58:32 pm ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:51:59 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 04:19:22 pm ionut cucu wrote: I'm running sshfs very often and I've noticed the following issue: whenever the hub/swich(what

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 15 February 2008 03:05:13 pm Wael Nasreddine wrote: Hey guys, Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to /, /usr, /var, /home, /usr/portage, /mnt/storage the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around 12000)

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 14 February 2008 06:08:23 pm Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 February 2008 12:48:44 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos, either with the embedded player or the standalone. Jeff Works here. Running Gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Viewing BBC videos on Gentoo

2008-02-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:04:28 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:00:38 Ian Lee wrote: Jeff Cranmer wrote: Has anyone had any luck viewing videos on news.bbc.co.uk using gentoo? I have Firefox and mplayerplug-in installed, however I cannot view videos,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend

2008-02-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 08 February 2008 09:40:04 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:45 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge information: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sound in mythfrontend

2008-02-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 07 February 2008 08:45:50 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:23 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: I have no sound in mythfrontend anymore. Here's the emerge information: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

[gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Morning... A small question to satisfy my curiosity about the CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf... Currently I have CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu on a computer with a pentium4 processor. Would it make any differences, at all, to change this to CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu ? Would the compiler then

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. Where do I find a list of

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} CUPS alternative?

2008-02-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 February 2008 08:42:25 pm Grant wrote: port-knocking is the biggest load of fud (Microsoft products apart) I have heard about in ages. The term snake-oil comes to mind, as does security by obscurity and obfuscation which we all know is no security at all. Uhm.

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-02-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 01 February 2008 08:21:38 am Michael Sullivan wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:32 +0100, Pintér Tibor wrote: works fine more me, and always worked. workstation 5.5 has issues with it though, so upgrade to 6.0.x t Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 19:58:26

Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: Hi all, may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird. Regards emilio You have a good trail to follow for your problem in the other messages... For my problem, with regards to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anti-aliasing

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:25:46 pm Mateusz Mierzwinski wrote: Jerry McBride pisze: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 10:50:02 am econti wrote: Hi all, may be this is a stupid question but I am not able to set the anti-aliasing on firefox and thunderbird. Regards emilio You have

Re: [gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 01:17:34 pm Phil Sexton wrote: -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list NO! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 04:26:01 pm Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On 1/29/08, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Mike, I passed on vmware for my use as it is quite the overkill for my simple needs. Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. And secondly

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
, really hashed up, closeup Qemu... delete the cow file and start afresh... A perfect way to dump the worms, viri, malware, etc... or your accidentally hosed linux image... Really, really good stuff. Cheers. Jerry McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] VM Ware or not?

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 05:02:58 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:36 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: Also, vmware does not currently run on the most recent kernels. It's working on 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 here. When I was at the vmware website, browsing the system requirements

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-27 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 27 January 2008 07:06:59 am Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: unsubscribe NO! -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:28:51 am 443-653-1569 wrote: Wow! Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb in the past, guess I'll give it a try. Bill Roberts On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote: Posted -- please let me know what you think:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry McBride
Alan McKinnon wrote: All in all, a very nice point-0 point-0 release. After using it for a few hours, I can understand what all the hype was about :-) It does grow on you and it is an excellent step forward. That said, I can't wait to see this get polished off and fully fleshed out. I

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0 and dbus compile error

2008-01-22 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 09:42:08 am Dale wrote: Hi, I started my emerge of KDE 4.0 a while ago and I keep getting this error: Emerging (1 of 177) app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 to / * strigi-0.5.7.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 21 January 2008 06:40:42 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:09 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: not quite the same :) emerge -u world would download one package, and compile it, download the next, compile it. So

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Jerry McBride
Now to spend the next couple days downloading all the KDE 4.0 stuff. Stinking dial-up. :-@ That will take a lng while. Most KDE4 packages are far larger than there KDE3 counterparts. Just as an example: kdebase-3.3.8.tar.bz2 was 24MB. Now we have three kdebase tarballs:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 19 January 2008 02:58:11 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Samstag, 19. Januar 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 19 January 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, after the painful and time-consuming creation of /etc/portage/package.unmask for KDE 4, emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Stroller wrote: Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt

[gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
this... modprobe loop modprobe ntfs mkdir /mnt/iso mount -t ntfs /path/to/your/iso /mnt/iso -o loop,ro Assuming the iso is ntfs and you have loop and ntfs as modules... Cheers. Jerry McBride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image

Re: [gentoo-user] Sandisk mounting problems

2008-01-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 05 January 2008 02:02:09 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: I have a new Sansa Sandisk MP3 player. When I plug it in, I get the following dmesg output usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 ehci_hcd :00:1d.7: port 1 reset error -110 hub 2-0:1.0: hub_port_status

Re: [gentoo-user] mount cdrom: No buffer space available

2008-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 10:50:26 pm Cocoy Dayao wrote: Encountered: warhammer etc # mount /dev/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available i googled and found a no buffer space available. followed suggestions on the

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi guys, I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on laptop with Gentoo. - ReiserFS looks unsupported now - ext3 looks slow some time - XFS maybe? Requirements are: - low memory usage - fast enough for

Re: [gentoo-user] FS for laptop

2007-12-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 04:37:30 pm Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 18 December 2007 03:56:10 pm Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi guys, I just had discussion with my friend which file system to use on laptop with Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 17 December 2007 04:30:16 am Eduardo Otubo wrote: Hello Marzan, I have the same wifi card and tryed the same methods to get it working and nothing. I'am using ndiswrapper right now, just until I can find a way to make it work. Any news gonna mail our list. []'s On Dec 13, 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McBride
Sorry for the second post on this, but if it helps... My /var/log/messages contains the following after loading the bcm43xx driver. Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx driver Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Number of

[gentoo-user] Audacious Madness???

2007-11-25 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here noticed how badly Audacious 1.4.2 is? I get random crashes and a host of other problems... something never experienced with XMMS. I traded a few emails over Audacious and it seems as though it sports a new (improved) thread model. Once I humbly suggested the new model has some

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP 5

2007-11-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 18 November 2007 08:38:04 pm sean wrote: Is anyone able to tell me what the status is of Gentoo moving to LTSP 5? http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Ltsp5Status shows Gentoo as not supported but states work is being done to provide LTSP-5 in the future. Doing some searches I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 10 November 2007 01:42:04 am Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote: If you do not like my opinion, you should look at what Daniel Robbins had to say, as I ran across a posting of his today, about this very issue. An awesome collection of techies does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 29 October 2007 10:40:08 am Grant Edwards wrote: On 2007-10-29, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Farrell ha scritto: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:13:25 +0100 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think of an AP as a way to connect wireless interfaces to the same switch/hub as you can the

Re: [gentoo-user] Alsa kernel driver problem

2007-10-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 03:34:52 am Adam Carter wrote: Alsaconf doesnt find any sound devices, however modules (in particular snd_via82xx) are loaded; localhost linux # lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss29664 0 snd_mixer_oss 12160 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_dummy

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 compile failure

2007-10-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 15 October 2007 09:30:52 am Stuart Howard wrote: As part of regular updates I have come across an error with gcc, the system is ~x86. The error has been occurring for a week or so and my usual wait till it goes away approach does not seem to be working. Originally the error was

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc problems...

2007-10-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:37:21 -0500 Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: I've identified a few packages that simply will not compile when distcc is being used. Has anyone noticed problems with; ncurses, groff or libpcre? I'm thinking about modifying /etc/portage

[gentoo-user] Distcc problems...

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McBride
package listed. Maybe even honor a custom make option -j for listed packaged too. Would anyone else find this useful? -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 + nvidia-driver = death ?

2007-10-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:28:16 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, having installed gcc-4.2.2 (and making it the default with the new gcc-config - hurrah) You have a gcc-config that works??? What version is that, please? -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

[gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
net file? Thanks for your time... and for the flame bots out there... I've googled my self to death and have been through the gentoo.forums. My specific setup issues aren't addressed. --- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless question...

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with Broadcom 4306 wireless chips... I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but trying to get it done automatically is troublesome

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 01 October 2007 10:19:57 pm Jed R. Mallen wrote: Do you guys have a trick that will update a new kernel quickly? I'm using 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 right now, and have foregone upgrading to 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 and -r8 because I read somewhere that I can't just use my old .config file for a new

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 30 September 2007 12:31:51 pm Grant wrote: Do you back up anything other than /etc and /home on a standard system? snip... Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2007-09-30 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Jerry McBride, Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build process I run this script via cron... #!/bin/sh rm /portage.list

Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 07:16:09 pm Grant wrote: I recognize everything in 'ps -ef' I think, but I've never really used netstat before. Under Active Internet connections I don't recognize: tcp localhost:10030 tcp *:snpp Also, snpp is for pagers:

[gentoo-user] openMosix? Now what?

2007-09-01 Thread Jerry McBride
Well... since the demise of openMosix... What similar cluster software are gentoo users using? Anyone? -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 19 August 2007 01:32:27 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selon Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Problems with mythfilldatabase

2007-08-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:52:35 pm Michael Sullivan wrote: Has anyone else had problems updating program listings with mythfilldatabase? Here's my output from it: No problems... I still have access to the zap2it servers until october, 10 of this year. After that I'll have to deal with:

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

2007-08-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 18 August 2007 04:51:20 pm Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 18. August 2007, Mick wrote: Which of the two is it suitable for a desktop? SLAB slub is still very experimental, not well tested and extremly buggy. Don't use slub except on test systems. That said, slub is

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless setup bcm4311

2007-08-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 04 August 2007 01:40:30 pm Matthew R. Lee wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2007 12:59, Mick wrote: On Saturday 04 August 2007 16:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: I'm having problems getting the wifi on my laptop to work. The laptop is a Compaq Presario V5214ea The wifi card is a

[gentoo-user] einit?

2007-07-22 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here using einit? I've a small problem. I can set a static ip address, no problems. But how and where do you establish the route to a gateway? I've googled to the wee hours and still haven't figured it out. I'm running einit from the layman overlay. Cheers. -- From the Desk of:

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-16 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 16 July 2007 08:15:43 am Mark Shields wrote: Personally... reading what I have about the gpl 3.0 , I'd be pretty comfortable having Gentoo/Portage moved to it. It offers a lot of protection that gpl 2. does not. Anyway, if it makes Microsoft catch up then it must be good. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 12:39:48 pm Willie Wong wrote: I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server running just to read documentation.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote: 070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: Danyelle Gragsone wrote: If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP] (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 01:05.0 VGA

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Jerry McBride
have to work with. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE

2007-06-10 Thread Jerry McBride
damn too memory intensive (I need to use it on an office machine with 512 K ram, and it eats almost half of it). Any other suggestion? m. Anyone mention SPE? Nice, small foot print, completion, etc... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] encfs/fuse fails after update world

2007-06-02 Thread Jerry McBride
. The best part about ecryptfs is that the filesystem deriver is in recent kernel sources. Cheers. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs/fuse fails after update world

2007-06-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 June 2007 05:25:33 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:47:10 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following recent update world, encfs encrypted partition refuses to mount with error: EncFS Password: Error decoding

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry McBride
something really STUPID. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically

2007-04-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:32:19 pm Danyelle Gragsone wrote: Hi, I tried rewritting my conf.d/net file the way you explained. I still can not get networking to work unless I edit my resolv.conf. Any Suggestions? Sorry, no. On 4/16/07, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
Would you take the time and post what motherboard the Supermicro is plugged into and whether you are running 32bit or 64bit Gentoo? Thank you, in advance. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv support for gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r7 and higher?

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
. Each version increment, requires a specific version of ivtv... If you need more details, feel free to email me direct. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
it greatly. Thanks for the info... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z���(��j)b�bst== 51... and feeling a lot like 40. :.) well... maybe 42. Cheers... -- Jerry McBride

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites /etc/resolv.conf automatically

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255) routes_eth0=(default via 192.168.0.1) dns_domain_eth0=(my.domain) dns_search_eth0=(search hsd99.nj.comcast.net.) dns_servers_eth0=(68.87.75.194 68.87.64.146) -- -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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