Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Missing more mails than ever

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel Drake
John J. Foster wrote: Does anyone here know who runs this list? The number of missing emails is running quite high lately, and some threads are getting hard to follow, depending on the respondents quoting and snipping style. I seem to have missed almost half of the discussion on domainname going

Re: [gentoo-user] Vitesse VSC8601 Lan support

2006-08-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Helge Kaltenbach wrote: just wanted to check if anyone knows if there is a linux driver out for that gigabit lan chip...didnt find a lot with google. its on my msi k9n neo f mainboard.. Pretty sure it is supported by forcedeth. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with gst-plugins-mad depclean

2006-07-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Peter Kelly wrote: /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild: line 10: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `' /var/db/pkg/media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4.ebuild: line 12: syntax error: unexpected end of file Not too

Re: [gentoo-user] usb hp cd-writer 8200 series

2006-07-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Alexander Fortwinder wrote: I'd appreciate if anyone tell me what kernel options are needed to make my usb drive to work. Thanks, Alex Probably CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_USBAT. But you'll have to use something brand new such as 2.6.18-rc2, I broke HP8200 for most users for a few releases. Sorry

Re: [gentoo-user] what's exactly --deep for ?

2006-07-21 Thread Daniel Drake
Enrico Weigelt wrote: What happens when a newer version of A requires some newer version of B than currently installed ? Is B updated automatically ? Yes. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mdadm 1.12 vs 2.5.2

2006-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Trenton Adams wrote: There appeared to be a version bump around 1.12, according to gentoo change logs. This bumped it to 2.0. Does that mean that 1.12 is very similar to 2.0, and that the version bump was really the only change? The ChangeLog is for the ebuild, when we say version bump we

Re: [gentoo-user] Build error: Gnome update

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Requested 'gnome-vfs-2.0 = 2.14.2' but version of gnome-vfs is 2.12.2 This is now fixed in the portage tree. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
. 2.6.16-r12 is protected from this bug. From the ChangeLog: *gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12 (06 Jul 2006) 06 Jul 2006; Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] +gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r12.ebuild: Update to Linux 2.6.16.24 for coredump privilege escalation security fix However, there is a new security bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux Kernel Warning

2006-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake wrote: However, there is a new security bug in the wild, with similar implications. Keep an eye open for new kernel releases over the next few hours. No patch yet, suitable workaround is: # mount -o remount,noexec /proc Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] weird behaviour - unable to connect to wireless router

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Fernando Meira wrote: I been trying to connect my laptop to a wireless router but without success. The router is a common Linksys WRT54G. My pcmcia card is also a Linksys WPC54G. I am now using a new driver (bcm43xx), instead of ndiswrapper, but I think the problem is not from that. I did use

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc wants mozilla - but I don't

2006-07-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Richard Fish wrote: You can also file a bug that the nsplugin dependancy should be satisfied by mozilla-firefox-bin as well. I'm not sure that mozilla-firefox-bin is actually sufficient to configure vlc with --enable-mozilla=firefox, but that should be easy enough to determine. I doubt it.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux' IO performance sucks

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel Drake
� wrote: So about every 200MB (i guess the linux box writes the data into the cache in the RAM first) linux writes the harddisk. But during that time - during the time it writes that 200MB to disk, there is no chance for any other IO. I'm playing an mp3 from the very same fileserver. It stops

Re: [gentoo-user] linux make modules solved

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Justin R Findlay wrote: I finally figured out why linux wouldn't build its modules. Although I learned a lot about make it was because I had set GREP_OPTIONS=--color=always Using --color=auto would have circumvented this problem and still given you pretty colours when you run grep from the

[gentoo-user] Gentoo UK 2006 Conference: London, July 8th

2006-06-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, A quick note for those who have not heard about it already: We are hosting a users-and-developers conference in Central London on July 8th. Anyone interested in Gentoo is welcome to attend. The day will consist of presentations and sessions run by Gentoo developers, plus one or two from

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system crumbling, reports of gcc death

2006-06-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fPIC -Wl,-O1 -ldl-Wl,-O1) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables.

Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive

2006-06-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Richard Fish wrote: One problem with this. Udev will apply all matching rules until it finds one with a NAME entry. So you probably want MODE:=0666 to prevent any later rules from overwriting your mode. This isn't entirely true, udev doesn't stop at NAME any more. It stops at the end of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that, so do not expect to gain too much. /usr/portage/distfiles will be taking up much of that 1.5GB. It's safe to clean that. Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Low TCP RWIN value

2006-02-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Mick wrote: Reading another posters comments (you learn all sort of interesing stuff here ;-) I checked my internet connection using the SpeedGuide.net TCP/IP Analyzer and discovered that my TCP Receive Window is somewhat smaller than anticipated, or than what a M$Windoze box which is running on

Re: [gentoo-user] nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller and alsa on amd64?

2006-01-13 Thread Daniel Drake
David Meyer wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 10:41:23AM -0800, David Meyer wrote: Has anyone gotten this to work? What I find is that the kernel fails in trying to load snd_pcm_oss and snd_mixer_oss (they have bunches of unknown symbols). Works for me. Fron

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/hda not created

2006-01-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael George wrote: I've got one of my servers that doesn't have /dev/hda on it at boot time. I've got a lite-on DVD burner there that works just fine (once I create the device) and is noted as hda in the boot messages. However, /dev/hda doesn't exist. That's a problem. /dev/hda?* did

Re: [gentoo-user] inotify missing with 2.6.14-gentoo-r2

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Yoandy Rodriguez wrote: Hello, After moving to 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 inotify device got lost. I have CONFIG_INOTIFY set to yes and /proc/filesystems shows a inotifyfs (never heard of it). any hint about what might be happening?? Inotify is now system-call based, so no device node is created.

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Ernie Schroder wrote: I'm obviously looking in the wrong places, but I can't find documentation on getting udev to start at boot. Sound and a few other things you don't notice right away fail to work until I do: # udevstart /dev/dsp is created with correct permissions and I'm good to go. The

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge starts slowly

2005-12-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Justin Krejci wrote: Yes, the second run and subsequent runs for a period of time all seem to be fairly quick, but I thought it odd that my AMD64 system is always quick. The initial slowdown is due to portage having to scan over the entire tree of installed packages, calculating virtuals.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/cdrom has gone!

2005-09-03 Thread Daniel Drake
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i alway build it into kernel, i already checked my config file, the BLK_DEV_IDECD=y is just there. Are you really really sure? What do you have in /sys/bus/ide/drivers ? Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Something wrong with udev: cdrom dev-file does not appear!

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Cadaver, Cadaver wrote: udevd doesn't create's device file, but when i manualy copy it from static dev tree my cdrom works fine, and sometimes udevd even creates symlinks on it (i.e. cdrom and cdrw), but this is not restore's after reboot. What's going wrong with it? I'm running 2.6.12

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI Emulation Problem for USB

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Tobias wrote: Please help! It would help if you started by explaining what you are trying to do, what you have tried, what problems you have faced, etc. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrom /dev/cdroms/cdrom to /dev/hdc?

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Michael W. Holdeman wrote: Actually the problem is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 has been the cdrom since this machine got Gentoo, now all the sudden it is listed in dmesg as /dev/hdc. dmesg has listed it like that for a long time. Chances are in your previous configuration (whatever that was) you had

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Ben Munat wrote: PS: I also found the following stuff in my logs starting at the time when I lost control of the keyboard and mouse; there's this MTRR stuff and then hundreds of lines with the call trace stuff: Aug 16 22:46:31 venus mtrr: no MTRR for cd80,80 found Aug 16 22:46:31

Re: [gentoo-user] unison requires Mozilla, doesn't accept Firefox?

2005-08-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: I could look at removing the global mozilla flag and using it only on certain apps, but really I'm wondering why Unison didn't accept Firefox as a browser and wondering if the ebuild for it, or more likely evolution-data-server, could be improved in that area. I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dvd playing up

2005-08-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Antoine wrote: Using mplayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mplayer dvd://1 Playing dvd://1. libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device: /dev/dvd /dev/dvd is there - but I am not sure if this is right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Please unsubscribe!

2005-08-05 Thread Daniel Drake
Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: Ok so cause he was getting spammed its ok to spam us all? Does any one around here (Gentoo team or such) have access to remove him? I contacted Gentoo Infrastructure and he has now been unsubscribed. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge monodevelop - dependency with mozilla

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Catalin Trifu wrote: Thanks for the answer. I tried to hack the ebuild too and same result. I guess I would have to emerge mozilla too, but I don't like the idea at all. Perhaps the maintainers will find a solution to get rid of mozilla. Hopefully they will split out the SDK into its

Re: [gentoo-user] bizzarre I2C kernel selection

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Drake
James wrote: I've got a very weird problem. When I go to build either a 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 or 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel on a paticular AMD athlon, I cannot change the I2C selection: device driver - I2C support option. It is a dash. Manually deleting the .config file does not help. I use 'make

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo not detecting full amount of memory

2005-07-24 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Mark Shields wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Mem MemTotal: 1034284 kB MemFree:953172 kB Thanks for the tip. But strangely, 12mb is still missing. That sounds perfectly normal. The kernel usually secures 10-20mb RAM for itself, which isn't available

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Mark Knecht wrote: which would have made the device. Is the fact that the device isn't created a problem with the ebuild? Even if it was, how should this really be created for a udev system? A rule somewhere in some udev.conf file? Its a kernel bug which is fixed in 2.6.12. If you

Re: [gentoo-user] make dev / udev question (1394 related)

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Mark Knecht wrote: What's throwing me is that the libraw1394 emerge makes this limited complaint: Required /dev/raw1394 device file not found. Run 'make dev' to create it. This is more suited for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Jim Hatfield wrote: BTW, what is the received wistom wrt building things into the kernel or building them as modules? As well as the G400 I have an Intel NIC and a VIA sound card, and this time round chose to build them in, though before I built them as modules. I'm not clear as to the pros

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with udev

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I switched last night from devfs to udev and had the same kde problem. I solved it by running udevstart as root. Oh, and I checked the permissions file in /etc/udev If running 'udevstart' fixes your ownership/permissions problem, try logging in again and see if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Interesting install experience

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Allan Gottlieb wrote: *Very* interesting. Please let us know when the documentation is available. I have build everything into the kernel (including alsa) and so far it is working well, but I haven't stressed audio. What problems should I be looking for and do you advise rebuilding the

Re: [gentoo-user] AMI MegaRAID 428 Ultra SCSI RAID Controller

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Colin wrote: It's not being detected under the LiveCD. I booted with doscsi, but I don't see /dev/sda. In addition, lspci tells me this: :00:11.0 Unknown mass storage controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID 428 Ultra RAID Controller (rev 04) What do I do? We should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Dave Nebinger wrote: The only question I would have is why a new ebuild would be released before the genpatches tarballs were made available in the distfiles... Wouldn't the genpatches tarballs be requirements for the new ebuild? I always wait until the patches appear on the mother mirror

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody know where to ftp genpatches-2.6.12-7.base.tar.bz2?

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Dave Nebinger wrote: My sync occurred last night at 12:10 am EST but I didn't get a chance to emerge -uD world until around 11am EST this morning. I searched through 10-15 ftp mirrors manually looking for the file and it hadn't been released anywhere that I could see. Just checked a few

Re: [gentoo-user] raw1394

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Drake
luis jure wrote: searching the web, all sources i found say that udev does not manage ieee1394 devices, and that you must create the nodes manually with something like this: I suggest you upgrade to Linux 2.6.12. It will then be created and managed automatically. Daniel --

Re: [gentoo-user] raw1394

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Mark Knecht wrote: Daniel, What sort of ATI support do we get inder 2.6.12 at this time? I've noticed other threads talking about acceleration problems, or possibly no TV out, etc. Both of these matter to me. I have no idea. Try it and find out :) Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.12 (was raw1394)

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Drake
luis jure wrote: thanks neil, mark and daniel for your comments, the different alternatives are much more clear to me now. re kernel 2.6.12, what's its current status? visiting www.kernel.org i found 2.6.12 (17-Jun-2005) and 2.6.12.1 (22-Jun-2005). i really don't get this 4 numbers thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugzilla and new ebuilds

2005-06-22 Thread Daniel Drake
James wrote: In may I requested network management package be added to portage, jffnms. It was entered into bugzilla (92501). Since then it has progressed to a masked package in portage. I don't see it in portage. I just (today) got email that is rather cryptic to me. Help understanding

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bugzilla and new ebuilds

2005-06-22 Thread Daniel Drake
James wrote: emerge -s jffnms Searching... [ Results for search key : jffnms ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-analyzer/jffnms [ Masked ] Latest version available: 0.8.2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bugzilla and new ebuilds

2005-06-22 Thread Daniel Drake
James wrote: Curiously the last part 'maintainer-needed at gentoo.org' does not show up in my mozilla.? You have to log in first. Is this an actual huminoid/cyborg, or a solicitation for somebody to maintain the package? Hah. It has to be a person :) OK, I see his name at the bottom,

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't save Mixer config

2005-06-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Rafael Fernndez Lpez wrote: I do use gnome and alsa for my sound. Everytime that I boot I've to set up mixer properties and volumes, because it doesn't save them as default. I don't know how to do it, but I don't like to set up it everytime that I boot. The ALSA guide can probably help you

Re: [gentoo-user] where to find udev tarball

2005-06-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Mark Knecht wrote: My question is how do the devices get created if TARBALL=no? Is it only the 50-udev.rules file that's responsible? The whole tarball thing is strongly against the ideas behind udev. udev reads information about your hardware from /sys (and listens for and creates nodes based

Re: [gentoo-user] So how does one write a CD in 2.6?

2005-06-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Holly Bostick wrote: Rob, I regret to inform you that your syntax seems to be all wrong, and this stands a good chance of being your problem. I don't myself use cdrecord directly all that often, but I did manage to remember cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus Last time I checked (2.6.11),

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: vanilla-sources and the risk of using them

2005-05-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Holly Bostick wrote: The vanilla sources are the same sources you would get on kernel.org. No extra patches (as you would find in gentoo-dev-sources) or optimizations/patches (as you would find in ck-sources) and no bleeding edge patches (as you would find in mm-sources). The kernel doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie's problems with Gentoo (messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE) - part 2

2005-05-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Marcin Balcerzak wrote: When loading, just after: Calculating module dependencies... I've got 3 or 4 lines like: error calling: unlink in 'GLOBAL' and the last is ended with [OK]. After some non-suspicious lines and Setting user font [OK] I've got: action_compat: error unlinking: * No

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems mounting CD-Rom Device

2005-05-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Cornelia Menzel wrote: When I try to mount the device with: paul # mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom the system gives back: mount: only root can do that! Try just: mount /mnt/cdrom That way, it will look at the settings you have put in fstab. Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing