Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Problems...

2008-05-11 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a couple seasons of Star Gate SG-1, and can read nearly all the DVDs except the 3rd DVD of Season 2, which under Kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 yielded the following error messags to dmesg

[gentoo-user] DVD Problems...

2008-05-10 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I recently got a couple seasons of Star Gate SG-1, and can read nearly all the DVDs except the 3rd DVD of Season 2, which under Kernel 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 yielded the following error messags to dmesg: hdc: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: media error

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 P2

2008-05-08 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I'd recommend 2007 based on the below. I put 2007.0 on my PII 233 last fall. It does take a while, but it really didn't take that much longer than my AMD64 build - though, I don't think I put KDE on it, which I did on the AMD64. YMMV. FYI - you can always upgrade the 2007 profile to 2008. I

[gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I'm working on a Sparc system (SunBlade 2000 Desktop Server) that needs an initrd image to load (due to having a QLA 2200 SCSI controller); but I am having some trouble with the initrd image. (I had tried the gentoo-sparc list, but it is slow - I'm not getting responses - and I need to finish

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: My main question comes down to this: I am using the 'genkernel' package to build install the kernel and initrd image. Both show up in /boot. How much can I rely on genkernel to build a valid initrd image? Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating an initrd for loading...

2008-03-27 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:31 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 12:35 -0400, Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: How can I mount the initrd image to verify it has the modules, etc. and verify it is a valid image? There is a wiki-entry

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a printer to XP: Samba vs IPP

2008-03-18 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
David Blamire-Brown wrote: Hi, This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm restriction in this part of the world in any case! I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] To x86_64 or not to x86_64

2008-03-18 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Alex Schuster wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: I have an AMD 64x2 that I have been using only in x86 mode since I got it. I have been thinking of going to x86_64 mode but I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble with multilib, chroot'ing, firefox-bin and other compromises (admittedly some

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-12 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Wael Nasreddine wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. Best place to check is Intel's website

Re: [gentoo-user] Which arch do I have ?

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
As you have an Intel Core Duo, you should have the EMT64E version - Intel's version of the AMD64 instruction set - thus x86-64 compatible. Best place to check is Intel's website - here's what I found: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sspec=sl9dv

[gentoo-user] Default sound card for output...

2008-02-06 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
My system has two sound-cards - one on the motherboard (snd_intel8x0) and an one via PCI (SB Audigy/snd_emu10k1). I don't mind having the driver compiled for the snd_intel8x0 card, but I want the Audigy as my default card chosen for playback. Some applications (e.g. Rosegarden) let me select the

Re: [gentoo-user] Default sound card for output...

2008-02-06 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Marc Joliet wrote: Am Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:03:01 -0500 schrieb Benjamen R. Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My system has two sound-cards - one on the motherboard (snd_intel8x0) and an one via PCI (SB Audigy/snd_emu10k1). I don't mind having the driver compiled for the snd_intel8x0 card, but I want

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Firewall UPNP

2008-02-04 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I would like to be able to fully participate in Torrents for downloading ISO, such as the Gentoo ISOs. However, since my gentoo/iptables firewall currently is not forwarding any ports to my client systems, so I appear as a torrent leech - I'd like to try to change that. I'm using kTorrent under

[gentoo-user] openexr vs. ilmbase

2008-02-04 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I went to update my system (emerge world -vuDNp) and noticed a block by openexr (being updated) on ilmbase (new package). So, I was wondering what they are and which one I should be using. media-libs/openexr-1.6.1 [1.4.0a] Update! media-libs/ilmbase-1.0.1New!

[gentoo-user] Apache build error...

2008-01-26 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I'm trying to update the software on my system, among which is Apache, going from 2.2.6-r5 to 2.2.6-r7. However, I am running into a problem with it. Apparently the old install was using the apache2-builtin-mods file; so I followed the documentation at

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-21 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Galevsky wrote: On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 PM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlike commonly perceived wisdom I don't think that LVM is a panacea for all ills, or a necessity as such. It is however bloody convenient, especially on a growing fs. A server that is not expected to change much in

[gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space on the root partition (3.8 GB). As a result, I took a partition that I had cleaned up (this was from a rebuild of a system that was a different distro in

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:50:33 Benjamen R. Meyer wrote: I set up a server system a little while ago, and in performing updates to portage it ran out of disk space as I didn't quite allow enough space on the root partition (3.8 GB). That's way too much. 256M

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting Question...

2007-12-20 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
Dale wrote: Mick wrote: SNIP With regards to your 47G /usr/portage partition I think that it is a waste of space. It won't harm you other than the fact that the 3.8G OS partition is in all likelihood too small. This is what I would do: tar the contents of /usr/portage elsewhere (even

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Network Configuration

2007-08-26 Thread Benjamen R. Meyer
kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: eth0 gives you the default gw via DHCP, and you're trying to set a default gw for eth1, right? If so, you can't do that. There can only be one default gateway (hence the name). What are the functions of the NICs on the private networks (eth1/eth2)?