Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote: Sebastian Günther wrote: * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]: Hi folks, After getting the mailing list working I did some techy shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large files. I used Kbackup to create a tarball of my

Re: [gentoo-user] congruant gentoo servers

2008-06-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: Hello, I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network, with just a few custom applications. However, to periodically update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent) system, that can be physically swapped for update, or

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: This looks like the two-wire cable between the CD ROM and your soundcard is missing or loose. you don't need that cable. Really. You don't. Sure. Some software can rip tracks off the CD

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-06-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Yoav Luft wrote: Hi, I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and

Re: [gentoo-user] firewall + dns secondary

2008-06-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 21 June 2008, James wrote: Hello, I'm adding primary and secondary name servers to my small (5 static) ip network. Are there any security reasons that I should not run the secondary (Bind) name server on the firewall (iptables) directly? Well, security holes have been

Re: [gentoo-user] the details of Council Meeting

2008-06-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 105 minutes were closed and 57 were open - what is 57? Minutes : what else ?! You mean the new meeting continued 105 minutes and then 57 minutes again? Minute has

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Pawel K wrote: I compiled the kernel with all modules: make allmodconfig make make modules_install I have udev running on my machine since more than a year. I created the following section in grub.conf: title vanilla-all-modules root (hd0,0) kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox lock me out of my X session and X get 100% cpu usage

2008-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Claudinei Matos wrote: Hi guys, I'm having a weird problem here. I do have an amd64 install of gentoo with KDE 4. Well my problem is that sometimes (once or more per day) when using Firefox I do click in some link or try to scroll down/up the scrollbar my system

Re: [gentoo-user] $LINGUAS question

2008-05-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mick wrote: Mine has been set to LINGUAS=en_GB el for many years now, but mplayer still shows up with scrambled characters on the terminal (aterm/rxvt). However, when rebuilt like:

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? there is no 'libmad-0.2.1' on my system. It's weird. libmad-0.15.1b-r5

Re: [gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster

[gentoo-user] libmad.la missing

2008-05-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail during link stage. Is it a known issue? Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice level for X11

2008-05-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote: Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least when I used Debian). Nice factor for X makes graphical software run fater? I don't thinl so. Not at all. Uwe --

[gentoo-user] emerge-delta-webrsync fails

2008-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I use emerge-delta-webrsync. I get an md5 error for snapshot-20080501-20080502.patch.bz2 for a couple of days now. Anybody in the know what is going on? Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Windows XP on Gentoo Laptop

2008-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would have given you a prompt. I don't follow Alan. The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to restore the disk to

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 David Relson wrote: ...[snip]... As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small programs and compiles them. I can see how caching

Re: [gentoo-user] ccache results [was; checking for.....

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:39 +0100 Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400 David Relson wrote: ...[snip]... As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie: Too bloody smart for it's own good yeah. i can't burn dvd/cd anymore thanks to hal. Every couple of seconds another 'media

Re: [gentoo-user] who does fire HDD led?

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what to config? Sorry, in spite of multiple answers

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0 CD - 2008.0 install

2008-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2 system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files using whatever I

Re: [gentoo-user] -fomit-frame-pointer switch

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, James wrote: Hello, On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the executables will be recompile (willing to wait) or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch? No need

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote: I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things. Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-) You were very

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: USE=doc adds extra documentation, usually API information for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with depressant side-effects Just watch TV for a while. Yeah right :-) 4 possibilities: SABC 1 SABC 2 SABC 3 eTV Which would

Re: [gentoo-user] portage nfs permissions

2008-04-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 28 April 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs. Everything is working great but I would like to increase the security a little. I was wondering if

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 25 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. 8G

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86. mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps. As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring mktemp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Net Warrior wrote: Well, after all I'm confused after reading the thread. Should I use this or not ? *USE=-ipv6 -ftp emerge -av mplayer* No. Rather put it in /etc/portage/package.use. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.:

Re: [gentoo-user] kolab questions

2008-04-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote: Hello, I just found this page: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/ Groupware is the general category. My questions are: Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it? Lng time ago. ;-) Would one run a traditionally

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote: Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!! You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't really paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit

[gentoo-user] mesa / 3d driver for openchrome

2008-04-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, according to the mesa web site, mesa-7.0.2 contains a 3d driver for openchrome. Unfortunately, the ebuild knows only about a very limited number of video cards, openchrome not amoung them. How can I convince it to compile the openchrome 3d driver? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group

Re: [gentoo-user] [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown] another dead email address

2008-04-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Eric Martin wrote: Original Message Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Eric Martin [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am. It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead. Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed. ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: In any event, when portage says A blocks B your options and always only: - unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later - do not use A I have always resolved A blocks B

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Migrating servers to a new box

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: This morning my server box died (power supply problem I think). You didn't mean it, did you? Sending an email just short of 1MB to a mailing list. Please tell me you made a silly mistake. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia:

Re: [gentoo-user] VQF deprecated?

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: Multiple parse errors. :-( Didn't get at all what you were trying to say. Please don't get me wrong. I know your mother tongue isn't English, neither is mine. You have got one thing to keep in mind: If your command of the language you

Re: [gentoo-user] X (i810) won't start with undefined symbol

2008-04-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Grant wrote: When I try to start Xorg, the exa module unloads with undefined symbol: fbGlyph8 and then i810 unloads with undefined symbol: exaDriverFini. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? (II) LoadModule: exa (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa.so

[gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, emerge --update world tells me: [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me: --- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge. So let's be more specific: emerge --unmerge =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10 tells me: --- Couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: local caching DNS?

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend? consider maradns

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, emerge --update world tells me: [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me: --- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge. So let's be more

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] network question

2008-04-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 05 April 2008, ionut cucu wrote: I had a buddy in my lan with whom I shared files and such. But recently our campus network management decided to give our my dorm building another external ip, and put a firewall( I think) between us. So now instead of both of us having the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:52:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Are we talking about the same thing? I mean the top half, it contains Back, Forward and Up items, as well as System:/, Trash:/, various removable media and fish/ssh/smb sessions I was

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: cannot start sshd as net.eth0 could not start

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, The Subject line explains the issue No, it does not. It does explain that sshd cannot start because your network isn't up. Now you have to find out why the network doesn't get started. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia:

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Basically, it is the history of your browsing. *You* populate it by browsing different sites. Are we talking about the same thing? I mean the top half, it contains Back, Forward and Up items

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for the Go menu? Mine looks like such: Menu name=go

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for the Go menu? Mine

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for the Go

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is populated? have you fiddled with: right-click (on the taskbar menu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote: ... In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I understand that right? ... Get real. When you're describing someone who has annoyed you

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3

2008-03-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-) Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happens to me

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hello, I have inst. gtoo on a workstation at work. But portage complains '-14:24:52-- ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfile s/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2 = `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2'

Re: [gentoo-user] Static mod_perl with apache2

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Mario Ignacio Rodríguez Cortés wrote: Hi list: The situation is the next, i'm trying to install mod_perl as a static module with apache2, What is a static module?Something like a female stallion? Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote: If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use torify Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large downloads is

Re: [gentoo-user] virusses on Linux [was: Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows]

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that nobody has physical access to them. What if you sell them or give them back (leased machines)? Do you erase your discs

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Fei Liu wrote: Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here is my setup /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome, xvmc and mplayer

2008-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Marc Blumentritt wrote: Hi, I just read on this list, that the x11 driver openchrome for via chipsets hit the tree. Does anyone know, if mplayer in portage tree is patched to work with openchrome and xvmc? It doesn't need to be patched. Just emerge it with xvmc

[gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the source line in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf: VIDEO_CARDS=openchrome via Now I get this: uwix ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose xorg-server These are

Re: [gentoo-user] openchrome in portage

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Why on earth is it excluding openchrome? Because the xorg-server ebuild does not support openchrome. yet. Just add openchrome to world until it does Well, didn't look into the ebuild. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Grant wrote: On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune to a LiveCD. Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only destroy/overwrite it. Yes, I realised

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab entry

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 24 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Peter Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 March 2008 10:19:25 Collin Starkweather wrote: ... you left a '' out of your rsync call. It's fixed below. His version is exactly the same as yours,

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? If you could passwords were useless. ;-) But you can boot from a LiveCD,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Linux Basic commands to begin with

2008-03-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: hi can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with Basic commands for what? If Linux in general, google for bash. Read any of the introductions. If Gentoo-specific stuff, read the manual. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia:

Re: [gentoo-user] NEURAL NET SOFTWARE

2008-03-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote: HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE? First of all, don't shout at us! AFAIK, snns is a very good OSS implementation - and it's in portage. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.:

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you HOW

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 - KDialog - DBUS

2008-03-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 13 March 2008, cypherstrong wrote: Hi, KDE change dcop for dbus The problem is that dcop it's really easy to use, but dbus ... Go to: http://techbase.kde.org/ and search for DBUS. Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: I have 3.5 as monolithic and 4.0 meta. What concerns me is that adding xcomposite will not re-emerge anything from 4.0 - and there is where I need/want it. OK, I see what you mean. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Short version: kdelibs krunner kwin libtaskmanager plasma Actually I did that meanwhile. Unfortunately, it doesn't help insofar

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I guess my problem is this: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. I got an X driver for it from www.openchrome.org which doesn't seem to work properly with my IGP version

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP. Aaahh. Say no more. I can get you good deals on Dell kit. Interested? What do you mean by Dell kit? A whole rig? A DIY kit where I have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Which version of the driver are you using? I have an IGP chipset and use x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.901 from the Sabayon overlay. I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:07:06 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn checkout from openchrome.org. I can't see openchrome in portage.http://www.tectonic.co.za/http://www.tectonic.co.za/ Go to x11-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo. You and everybody else. Plus tons of ram, 1TB storage and a good graphics subsystem. Yeah! Uwe -- Informal Linux Group

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: I also see that kde-4.0.2 just hit portage, complete with 345M of sources to be downloaded. It's compiling here right now. On two boxes using distcc. BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. The other lads in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: KDE 3 is known for its long build times. Thanks to the new build system, KDE 4 builds orders of magnitude faster (kdelibs 4 build takes way less than an hour on my Core 2 Duo laptop, while kdelibs 3 takes more than 3 hours). Oh, oh, oh. 1 hour

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:29:59 +0100 (CET), Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Make it 2 TB - 1 TB is not enough. But what a machine to compile OO.o with... not bad, ehh? *drooling* Forget compiling OOo, that machine would be fast enough to run it

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup. Uwe Dial-up user reporting in here. What is this feature you speak of here? How does this work? Instead of downloading the whole tarball of a new version

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the know *what* parts of KDE I have to re-emerge? (Wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with my graphics chipset. Now I'd like to re-compile

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.2 and composite

2008-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:47:51PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: set xcomposite in USE. It'll rebuild a couple of things: Hm

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one (1) CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 03 March 2008, Stroller wrote: On 3 Mar 2008, at 09:57, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 3 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: NOTE: I don't speak spanish. But somehow, I read it thusly: On Mon, 03. Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spammed my inbox with todos los temas relacionados con soporte

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do port-based routing?

2008-03-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Monday 03 March 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to do port-based routing. I found a HOWTO that does pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do: http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/iproute2.html However, it's using iptables, which I thought was deprecated, Not to my

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

2008-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: /me thinks it's time to remember that only livestock are supposed to get Foot and Mouth disease, not geeks sheepish grin People (including geeks) can get it as well. It's hard but possible to get infected. Sieve the spores out of your soil.

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi! I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run a dnet-client. Then I've got a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Tweak nice

2008-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Since nobody seems to have an idea, maybe someone can tell me how I allow processes with real-time priority (nice -n -20) to be started by an ordinary user? Of course I'm aware of sudo but I don't want a simple media encoder to have

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS changes

2008-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 21 February 2008, James wrote: Hello, Current CFLAGS=-O2 -march=i686 -pipe I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to my CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running for months. Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with somelike emerge -e ? It's safe. Of

Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote: I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? Thanks With recursion: chown -R

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in the meantime.

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

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, Aaron Clark wrote: xfs: high performance, especially when dealing with many large or small files; Gets along very well with raid arrays. Noticeably higher cpu usage than ext3/jfs. IIRC, it aggressively caches its writes so there is a slight possibility of data

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi, my 2 cents: | So if for example I copied everything over to a different hard | drive and then copied everything back, it would be defragmented | then? I think so yes, but still I would not do it as I think you will hardly notice the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted partition then remade the file system and copied it back using

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: I did a little test. Something fishy here. I did a test with the /data partition. I store pictures and documents there and it was fragmented. I cp -av to another reiserfs formatted

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote: Now I remember why I stopped using prelink: The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable. I only prelink after major updates. Never had any problems in between. I knew there was a

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Yes, everything will be defragmented. In addition, it will leave gaps between files. So if a file lateron grows it will not immediately fragment. Which will cause a stupid script to report

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >