Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 May 2006 19:57, John Blinka wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: How are the boxes connected to the network? A hub? A switch? Router maybe? Try using the network spot (where one of the failing boxes is connected) with a notebook or another machine that you know has no problems. Also check

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 May 2006 20:26, John Blinka wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: We originally used hubs and later moved to switches - my mistake. But it hasn't made much difference in performance. Our performance bottleneck is elsewhere. But that's another discussion. Alright, but I would really like

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 May 2006 00:00, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Trust me, it makes sense for me :-) Just after clicking New Snapshot button, double-cress cursor appears, and KSnapshot window intends to disappear, i.e. apps under KSnapshot window must _redraw_ themselves. At case redrawing is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 19:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: For KDE-users: I'm at ~x86. After some of KDE upgrade (don't remember exactly to wich version) I have noticed ksnapshot delay-related field (numeric field for seconds) is disabled at Region mode. How to restore this feature? By selecting another

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 18:19, Hani Duwaik wrote: On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switched to Gentoo: It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up the network interface. But dhcpd quits,

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I mount a compact flash?

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 19:28, K. Mike Bradley wrote: It gives me an error saying the file system type must be specified. I did: Mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/flash And it says bad block Is it really sdb, or is it sdb1? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ksnapshot delay disabled

2006-05-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 May 2006 22:30, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Of course, I'm forced to use another modes. But earlier Region mode _worked_ with delay. Do you mean such changed behaviour is by-design? Yes because a delay in region makes no sense. The moment you select a region the snapshot gets done. What

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) A eureka moment!

2006-05-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 May 2006 08:33, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I just discovered something (I think). Probably everyone else already knew it but didn't tell me. Shame on all of you! Do all audio cd's have the mp3's and ogg files on them also No. I happened to look at one with konqueror and noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning a Gentoo box

2006-05-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 May 2006 14:18, Ronald V. Vazquez wrote: Hello all: I wanted to get some ideas from the list on how to clone a Gentoo box. Perhaps others on the list are interested as well. I simply tar up the whole box (except what I do not want like log files and such). After booting the other box

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Deny specific Mac Addr IPs

2006-04-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 April 2006 15:55, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, In my current situation, my home network has 1 DHCP server for all the clients on the home network. My laptop, also runs a dhcp server, for when I use my laptop as a firewall/router at work. (no HUB/switch available) WHen I get home

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron problem

2006-04-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 April 2006 06:08, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: For the last few days I have had a cron problem. It started when I was trying to to find a way to modify the crontab by a script. Don't know what I did but ever since, every cron script (root's only) emails me a notice like the following:

[gentoo-user] drupal / php

2006-04-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody running drupal here? If so, which USE flags did you switch on for PHP? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] error after update

2006-04-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 April 2006 16:03, wcw84 wrote: # This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* # scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, # please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration # in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge hotplug

2006-04-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 April 2006 19:44, Marko Kocić wrote: Hi all, I wanted to do some cleanup of the system to get rid of some unneeded modules. emerge -pv --depclean suggested me lately that I should remove hotplug I have hotplug added at runllevel default. I'm using vanilla-sources with udev for some

Re: [gentoo-user] mirror email servers

2006-04-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 April 2006 19:17, El Nino wrote: Dear list friends, i deployed several testing mail servers on different locations(towns). now i need to mirror these all servers. how to do this? idea(scenario) like, o when one mail server goes down 2nd mail server get the email. but when 1st up, 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] remote boot

2006-04-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 April 2006 11:23, Hiren Dave wrote: Hi All, Does any one know how to boot diskless client from linux server? Also how to create boot image in linux! You can set it up all yourself but if you want to save yourself quite some work go with LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project). It is in

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping

2006-04-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 April 2006 03:06, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, i would like to shape the traffic of my DSL-connection, but somehow i never really understood the machanisms that linux offers. All the scripts i wrote were simply worthless somehow, because they didn't really improve anything. Is there any

[gentoo-user] curious thing during download

2006-04-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, Kernel is 2.6.14-r3. I am using splash and, probably ore important, a background picture in a framebuffer on every virtual text console. A long download is running on one text console (ppp with an analogue modem). I am in X and switch back text console to check on the download. Each

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE version

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 18:12, Schleimer, Ben wrote: Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' 'stable' ? 'Testing' would be literally that, asking for feedback from users; 'probation' wb already tested for a defined period -- say 30 days -- How about a crazier idea:

Re: [gentoo-user] file .ogg

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 20:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. I think gentoo is driving me crazy. Since I found out the I can listen .wav file but not .ogg file, to-day I installed libvorbis, mpeg123 and vorbis-tools. But the result is the same . . . I cannot listen .ogg file. Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] limewire won't start

2006-03-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 March 2006 18:16, maxim wexler wrote: See my reply to Ryan. Somehow overnight my complete path statement returned. I don't remember the last time I ran env-update etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it run automatically after completion of emerge some package. Perhaps this is

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables question

2006-03-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 March 2006 15:38, Hiren Dave wrote: Hi, I want to configure firewall such that network 192.168.1.0/24 can only access http server from server1(192.168.0.2/24) and network 192.168.0.0/24 can not access http server. So I tried this: #service iptables stop #iptables -P INPUT DROP

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting

2006-03-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 March 2006 15:30, Michael Kintzios wrote: Hi All, This has been talked to death. I never recall having any problems setting my system clock and getting it to automatically adjust to the British Summer Time change. I recently moved my fs from my desktop to a laptop. Unfortunately,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting [SOLVED]

2006-03-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 March 2006 19:40, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 March 2006 15:28 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Summer Time setting My /etc/localtime is pointing to /usr/share

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE desktop icons

2006-03-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 March 2006 23:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using KDE 3.4.3 Gentoo amd64. Almost every time I login the icons of the desktop moved and mixed. I tried checking every possible options (KDE Comtrol Center), with no results. Any hints. Is it a bug? Yes. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg emerging

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 March 2006 07:34, Luigi Pinna wrote: Hello! I broke a disc and I had to reinstall my gentoo box in these days; in the ffmpeg emerging, I found a lot of problem: no ebuild will complete with success the process. All the ebuild failed with with error: from

Re: [gentoo-user] Further probs/phenomena

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 March 2006 22:51, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, another thing I am currently not able to understand: In search of a dvb-t tv watching applikation I found kaffeine (as far as I know not supoorted by Gentoo). Pardon? uwix uwe # emerge --pretend --verbose kaffeine These are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing linux's internet connection with an iMac?

2006-03-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 March 2006 09:07, Ian wrote: Hi there Just because you guys/gals are smart. I have a Linux laptop, and an iMac. This linux laptop uses a wifi connection to a router for network/internet access. While its connected to the network, can I plug in my iMac to my laptop and fool it into

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 March 2006 22:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody. To-day I installed kdebase using emerge kdebase. But the installed version was 3.4.3. Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version? You did an emerge --sync in beforehand, didn't you? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products

Re: [gentoo-user] MOV to AVI

2006-03-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 March 2006 09:37, Justin Hart wrote: Hey, I need to convert an MOV to an AVI... anybody have a way to do this? mencoder blabla.mov -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vqmin=2:autoaspect -ffourcc DX50 -oac mp3lame -lameopts vbr=0:br=128 -o blabla.avi Uwe -- Why do

Re: [gentoo-user] sendmail with outlook

2006-03-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 March 2006 15:34, Hiren Dave wrote: Hi, I have a setup of mail server with sendmail 8.13 and pop3/imap. Now the problem is that I can send mail from outlook via sendmail but I am not able to receive message. The error is coming that Your server has unexpectedly terminated the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: QT 4

2006-03-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 March 2006 18:48, James wrote: Hello Uwe, So when will we see KDE-4? My personal opinion? At the earliest end of this year - but honestly, I doubt it. More probably, there will be a a developer alpha or some such by the end of 2006. One with a stabilised API but not necessarily

Re: [gentoo-user] QT 4

2006-03-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 March 2006 05:16, Glenn Enright wrote: Just out of interest how far along is qt4? Last time I looked the next major release of kde *might* be using it, if it becomes stable in time. Is this still the case? The current version is Qt-4.1.1 AFAIK and it's pretty stable. KDE4 will be base

[gentoo-user] gdk-pixbuf

2006-03-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi all, this should probably asked on the developers list but I am not subscribed to it. Maybe, enough gentoo developers are on this list as well. ;-) rant Who made gdk-pixbuf dependent on gnome-libs? From the ebuild: RDEPEND=media-libs/jpeg media-libs/tiff =x11-libs/gtk+-1.2*

Re: [gentoo-user] Still got a problem with vesafb-tng

2006-03-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 March 2006 10:03, sHadoW MaN wrote: Hi I am not able to fix the problem with vesa-tng, While the boot process the screen resolution is adjusted as specified on my kernel configuration [EMAIL PROTECTED] (actually I use 2.6.15) . Everything is ok until the xdm is loaded,then when I

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 March 2006 00:00, Joseph wrote: Is there any limitation in using dd to generate backup of DVD (dvd is 4.7, unencrypted)? There is not. If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso First of all, I would add the bs option to increase the buffer and therefore speed. Something like: dd

Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 March 2006 21:28, Mike Williams wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 19:00, Uwe Thiem wrote: Would you please shed some more light on this? I am under a deadline here and need it to work by Monday. ;-) Sure. MMIO for sundance was on by default and I didn't read the help for that option

[gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DFE-580TX

2006-03-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 March 2006 20:19, Mike Williams wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 17:58, Uwe Thiem wrote: did anyone here get the D-Link multiport ethernet card DFE-580TX to work on gentoo with kernel 2.6.15 or, preferably, 2.6.14? Well, strangely enough, I have a machine on the other desk not doing

Re: [gentoo-user] splash screen on bootup

2006-03-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 March 2006 15:25, c.s.prakash wrote: i had installed gentoo without splash screen on boot up (ie., bootsplash) how can i configure now Don't use bootsplash; that's obsolete. Instead, use just splash. Emerge splash and whatever theme you want. Emerge, if you haven't done so, genkernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs sharing: same user name, but different user id.

2006-03-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 March 2006 10:35, Robert Persson wrote: I am trying to export nfs shares from the linux box to a mac and vice-versa. The trouble is that. although there are users on each box with the same name, they have different numeric user IDs. For instance user robert on the linux box has userid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sound... a known method to track down problems

2006-03-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 March 2006 13:44, Harry Putnam wrote: Alexander Puchmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Harry! Did you load the alsa-modules before launching kde? I have now after following ChistophE's suggestions. I still get nothing when attempting to play something. But warnings and erros that

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA OSS modules not found

2006-03-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 March 2006 20:26, Raj Swaminathan wrote: Wendy 847 465 1020 Extn ; 3011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I have installed the alsa-driver package following the Gentoo ALSA guide. supERcoMp raj # lsmod Module Size Used by snd_seq56672 0 snd_intel8x0

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 17:27, Muthu wrote: Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 18:48, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/27/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to boot from a device your kernel has no built-in driver for use an initrd (for the nit-pickers: initramfs) generated by genkernel. ;-) This won't help. Grub uses BIOS calls

Re: [gentoo-user] need to be in wheel for sound?

2006-02-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 February 2006 22:13, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/27/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tux ~ # ls -l /dev/sound/ total 0 crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 12 Jan 19 20:29 adsp crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jan 19 20:29 audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 3 Jan 19 20:29 dsp

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 February 2006 17:17, John Blinka wrote: David Helstroom wrote: Hi John, Just a quick thought - a thought quite possibly well and truly off track - could it be related to mime-types? Perhaps the CUPS web server has a problem recognising the HTML mime-type and thus is not sending

Re: [gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 February 2006 20:07, Willie Wong wrote: The question is how you are recognizing the files? From what you are saying, it sounds to me like you are double-clicking in some KDE file browser and letting KDE do the job of deciding which application to call. Since I know naught about KDE, I

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 February 2006 18:36, John Blinka wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Does your /etc/mime.types file contain an entry for text/html? How does the line look like? I presume you mean /etc/cups/mime.types. These two files are *very* different on the working and nonworking machines. Among many

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 February 2006 10:10, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'm developing a C++ application which runs as a UNIX demon or windows service. Until now I'm used mainly xemacs, but since I learned about better IDEs (for example the JAVA developers have IDEA), I'm looking for something like this for

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing Keyword

2006-02-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 February 2006 22:38, Nick Smith wrote: Use /etc/portage/package.keywords (with an actual keyword, instead of the default ~ARCH) or your local overlay. what is the actual keyword if it doesnt have one? just add it to my package.keywords file and add the arch to it? i dont see how that

[gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

2006-02-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am struggling with traffic shaping. I have ironed out most rough things but are stuck with one remaining issue. It happens as soon as I enter any one of the following lines: tc filter add dev eth2 parent 1: prio 2 handle 1 fw flowid 1:20 tc filter add dev eth2 parent 1: protocol ip

Re: [gentoo-user] open-Xchange

2006-02-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 February 2006 19:48, Steven S. wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, anybody in the know here what is going on this openXchange? It has been masked since September last year. Other distribution ship it. Did the Gentoo developers drop out or what? Uwe Ze

[gentoo-user] mime type experts / *.pps

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, this is about Powerpoint Presentations and Gentoo and (almost) any other linux distribution. There are two different types of presentations: *.ppt and *.pps. The difference is that *.pps have an interpreter linked into the document so you can run it under Windows without having

[gentoo-user] open-Xchange

2006-02-20 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody in the know here what is going on this openXchange? It has been masked since September last year. Other distribution ship it. Did the Gentoo developers drop out or what? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 February 2006 15:05, Maarten wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: Maarten wrote: Or else, if /usr can be mounted noexec without trouble, I'll donate 75 bogomips to the FSF. Can we get that in writing, with a signature, creative use of {sym,hard} links and nested mounts

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 10:15, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Change the kernel line to: kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.14-gentoo-r5-fb root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 quiet video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent,fadein,theme:emergence quiet

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 11:16, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, It makes sure the splash screen start as early as possible (don't forget the quiet option). On my systems, it starts immediately after the kernel and the initrd are loaded. Kernel panic ... hm ... How did you generate your

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 13:10, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Try: genkernel --gensplash=emergence --gensplash-res=1024x768 initrd genkernel puts all those nifty little things in your initrd. You could add --menuconfig if you want to check your kernel options. Look up the exact name of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 15:32, James wrote: Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: Hey, this is cool, do you have an example 'ip-up' config file? My customised part of ip-up looks like this: snip Doesn't matter whether it uses a modem, just a serial line or any other media, /etc/ppp/ip-up

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 February 2006 17:35, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi Uwe, Yes, it is. You can use genkernel to create your initrd without haven used it for the kernel itself. i would like to thank you very much for your help. Effectively the system is working now. Thanks again. Congratulations! Since

Re: [gentoo-user] printer won't stop puking

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 09:56, Robert Persson wrote: My (parallel port laser) printer started spewing garbage (i.e. pcl data as text - a few characters per sheet) as a result, I think, of a loose cable. Trouble is I can't stop it. I cleared the print jobs. Even stopped cups. Tried to rmmod

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 22:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:40:49 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: needed - What's needed, anyway? / and swap, nothing else :) Actually, not even swap. ;-) Amazing how passionate people turn over how to partition the system. Uwe -- Why do

Re: [gentoo-user] fbsplash starting after local and not during boot

2006-02-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 21:50, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi list, i've followed this how http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash to have a framebuffer splash under gentoo. I've added splash to the boot runlevel; however the framebuffer images start only in the default runlevel. # rc-status boot ..

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2006 08:52, Richard Fish wrote: On 2/12/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about dsp and such? Shouldn't there be rules to create them as well? Yes, your 50-udev.rules file should contain: /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL==adsp, NAME=sound/%k, SYMLINK+=%k

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting time in middle of session

2006-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 February 2006 09:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had to temporarily switch to dial-up from a broadband connection and of course /etc/init.d/ntp-client fails since a connection is not available on boot-up. I have tried manually executing this but it has occurred to me that setting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 February 2006 09:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:40 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 06:34, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:54 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 14 February 2006 00:35, Iain Buchanan wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds

2006-02-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2006 11:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:30:13 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I | stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed | on my system. | | How can I

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 23:21, Christoph Eckert wrote: The devices of interest are under /dev/sound and not under /dev/snd # ls -l /dev/sound total 0 crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 4 Feb 11 15:19 audio crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 3 Feb 11 15:19 dsp crw-rw  1 root audio 14, 0 Feb 11

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 22:19, Christoph Eckert wrote: Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of devices under /dev/snd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/snd $ ls -l total 0 crw-rw 1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 23:04, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 00:59, Uwe Thiem wrote: Sound is gone. Artsd complains that there is no /dev/dsp - and rightly so. All sound-related devices under /dev are gone. There are a couple of devices under /dev/snd: The devices of interest

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 February 2006 21:21, Christoph Eckert wrote: Did you raise the master and PCM sliders in alsamixer -c 1? What does that have to do with udev not creating the special device files? Nothing, just the default answer if there's no audio output. Well, default answers aren't all

Re: [gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 February 2006 00:25, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Monday 13 February 2006 00:29, Uwe Thiem wrote: No, they are not. That's OSS stuff and not present on my box since I don't use OSS. I have this in my /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules which is related to ALSA # alsa devices SUBSYSTEM==sound

Re: [gentoo-user] Stuch on k3b at dep install of Transcode

2006-02-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 February 2006 18:29, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm trying to install k3b. One of its dependancies is transcode. The emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking bugzilla I see this is a known problem. I am away from my portage tree right now, so I can't check this. AFAIK,

[gentoo-user] udev / sound

2006-02-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I did an update world last night with a --sync that was a couple of days old because it took me several nights to get all the stuff (deltup didn't have most of the diffs, so I had to download the whole tarballs). After emerging, compiling, installing all of it, I did an etc-update.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDM - KDE root problem

2006-02-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 February 2006 19:45, El TuZa wrote: Hi, I'm new to gentoo..I have just emerged KDE and it works fine, but I can't log with the root account from kdm Assuming your KDE version is 3.5: Go to /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm, edit kdmrc and search for AllowRootLogin. Set it to true. If your

[gentoo-user] font server

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I need to run a font server but x11-apps/xfs seems to depend on the new modular X server. Is there really no font server for X 6.8.2? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] font server

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 10:58, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 09:28, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I need to run a font server but x11-apps/xfs seems to depend on the new modular X server. Is there really no font server for X 6.8.2? I use the font server with 6.8.2 by setting

[gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server on the thin client. I tweaked /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc any way I could think of - to no avail. I even

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 19:26, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 19:26, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Detecting when a USB device is attached

2006-02-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 February 2006 16:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 13:36:54 + (UTC), James wrote: dbus/hald/ivman is broken on gentoo, but, it used to work automatically, and I could use my unix and mtools commands both on the usb memory. No more Please don't tell my computers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Detecting when a USB device is attached

2006-02-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 February 2006 17:20, James wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Mine too, although things were broken for awhile until I figured out I needed to be a member of the 'plugdev' group. OK, I'll admit this new information plugdev:x:413:root,james makes it work again,

Re: [gentoo-user] One host, two NIC's...

2006-02-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 04:53, Walter Dnes wrote: Is there a way use dialup without tearing down eth0? Sure. Delete your default route before dialing. Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying products they will live to curse? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a 0 with a 0 will lead to another

Re: [gentoo-user] artsd using a TON of memory

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:13, Dale wrote: If I kill artsd how do I restart it? Actually, you can got the Control Center - Sound Muldimedia - Sound System. You switch it off and then on again. ;-) Maybe they will phase it out later on. It will not make it into KDE 4. The main developper

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE programs starts slowly

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:46, Korondi Márk wrote: kill kdm and rm all the ICE, ksycoca and .dcop .X11-blabla stuff? I don't use kdm. Probably it's the problem? ;-) It could be because kdm tries to load as much of KDE as possible while it is waiting for a user to log in. Honestly, I doubt this

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 13:56, Holly Bostick wrote: Abhay Kedia schreef: On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:41, Ian wrote: unmask all of the packages im building in package.keywords. You seem to have added them to package.unmask as well. Don't do that. Just as a note, there doesn't seem to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 January 2006 18:53, Michael Sullivan wrote: Keep in mind though that multiple emerges will share resources, so each process may lose speed... True, but --fetchonly emerge can pull in sources as fast as possible while the other emerge compiles stuff. That makes sense if you are paying

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 06:14, Abhay Kedia wrote: Is TZ set in your environment? If so, unset it and let /etc/localtime do the job. How can I know what is the TZ in my environment? Just curious. env | grep TZ Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 09:55, Robert Persson wrote: I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem

Re: [gentoo-user] ... fails to open device '/dev/hda2' after update

2006-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 January 2006 16:15, Fredrik Lundgren wrote: Thanks for the advice, To the best of my knoledge Kernel 2.6.15.1 was downloaded and installed. I haven't made any change with respect to devfs or udev. How should i make the migration? And I haven't used etc-update. What should I start with?

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 17:28, Abhay Kedia wrote: Hello Everyone, I am facing a very annoying problem with my system clock. Here is what is happening. I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 January 2006 18:10, Michael A. Smith wrote: Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if

Re: [gentoo-user] Mysterious dev-lang/php 'n' junk 'n' stuff....

2006-01-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 09:50, gentuxx wrote: I went to do an `emerge -Duatv world` tonight, and I get dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php blocking. So I uninstalled them, and thought that I would re-install later (if necessary). When I run it again, I get dev-lang/php blocking dev-php/php-4.4.0-r4

[gentoo-user] joomla

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, any joomla or mambo experts here? I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1. When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/joomla/administrator/index.php on line 83 I just

Re: [gentoo-user] php blocking

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 January 2006 20:20, James Ausmus wrote: On 1/24/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've looked at the previous threads, but I cannot seem to remove (unmerge) these packages: [blocks B ] dev-php/mod_php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php

Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 January 2006 22:25, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, any joomla or mambo experts here? I have got joomla-1.0.7 and php-5.1.1. When I try to log into the site as admin after configuring it, I get this: Fatal error: Call to undefined function

Re: [gentoo-user] joomla

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 00:22, Robin wrote: Arrghhh Bad Habits... Add: dev-lang/php session to your package.use file That's what I actually did. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep --

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 January 2006 06:46, Tom Smith wrote: I read something some time ago that suggested if you transfer a compressed file over a compressed SFTP connection, for example, that it would take longer to transfer the data versus if only the data or the connection was compressed. The reason, as I

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