RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-20 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 9:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... The first thing that jumps to my mind is you have an older initrd that has

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread James Homuth
_ From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 1:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day

[gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread James Homuth
I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine.

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: daid kahl [mailto:daid...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 2:02 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 19 February 2010 14:49, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I performed

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-22 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: August 21, 2009 1:50 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome? On 08/21/2009 07:54 PM, James

[gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread James Homuth
I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things. Just one problem. I emerge said things, and the system flatlines until such

[gentoo-user] Enable DRI on HP Presario 2200 with PCI graphics?

2009-07-24 Thread James Homuth
I'm trying to configure xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 to use DRI on a 5-year-old notebook with a PCI graphics card, but the only documentation I've been able to track down that means anything assumes you're using AGP. I've installed the Intel video drivers for xorg-server, and built the ones I could find

RE: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

2009-06-26 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Florian Philipp [mailto:li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net] Sent: June 25, 2009 11:33 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server. Is your user in the video group? It is, yes. And, just for kicks, I also ran

RE: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

2009-06-26 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Gene Hannan [mailto:gjhan...@yahoo.com] Sent: June 26, 2009 4:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server. James Homuth wrote: I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard

[gentoo-user] Stuck on enabling drm for xorg-server.

2009-06-25 Thread James Homuth
I'm running Gentoo on a 5-year-old Presario 2200 series with onboard intel graphics card. I've managed to get everything working on it so far, with the exception of xorg+dri. I *think* I've compiled everything into the kernel that needs to be for intel's GMA graphics cards (I have an 852/855 card,

[gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
Hello all, First off I'll admit to not knowing as much as I should about my system, and am hoping to correct that as I go (that's part of the reason I'm actually doing it this way). I'm trying to set up X on my system, and am not entirely sure which video card I have. I've already checked out

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: June 10, 2009 2:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have? On 06/10/2009 09:50 AM, James Homuth wrote: Hello all, First

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Adam Carter [mailto:adam.car...@optus.com.au] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:18 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? lspci | grep VGA Or if that doesn't work lshw -class display Lspci worked.

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: June 10, 2009 4:05 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Best way to determine what video card I have? On 06/10/2009 10:20 AM, James Homuth wrote: On 06/10/2009 09

RE: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have?

2009-06-10 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Mike Kazantsev [mailto:mk.frag...@gmail.com] Sent: June 10, 2009 3:41 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to determine what video card I have? On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:35:58 -0400 James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: Lspci

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade question: is it adviseable?

2009-06-03 Thread James Homuth
I noticed yesterday gentoo-sources-2.6.29 was released, and was wondering if it's required that the kernel be upgraded (I'm currently running 2.6.28. I did download the sources (Should I have done that?), but in the event it's not mandatory or anything to upgrade the kernel I'd really like to not

[gentoo-user] Best way to resolve man-pages block?

2009-06-01 Thread James Homuth
I have a new Gentoo instalation on a laptop, and am one blocker away from emerge --update --deep --newuse world. The only problem is I'm not exactly sure how to resolve the block without potentially breaking the system. [blocks B ] sys-apps/man-pages-3 (sys-apps/man-pages-3 is blocking sys-a

[gentoo-user] Newbie Kernel question.

2009-05-31 Thread James Homuth
Appologies if the answer to this question's painfully obvious, but this is my first local instalation of linux. I'm curious as to whether or not, when using genkernel, one still needs to add hardware modules to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Something's telling me no, since it generates an

RE: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-22 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Philip Webb [mailto:purs...@ca.inter.net] Sent: March 22, 2009 7:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? 090322 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:58:57 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Now I'm doing an emerge -u

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madum...@gmail.com] Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) To which the guru replied: If

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org] Sent: February 21, 2009 2:21 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo'sadvantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) Are you on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-07 Thread James Homuth
On Sat, February 7, 2009 12:23, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:53:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm not gonna duplicate what I wrote. Read it again :P Repeating something does not increase its validity. That's why I didn't repeat it in the first

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts?

2009-01-22 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: January 22, 2009 11:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Why isn't sshd blocking repeated failed login attempts? Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at

RE: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable?

2009-01-22 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk] Sent: January 22, 2009 7:16 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removing PAM from my system, is it adviseable? On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:11:12 -0500, James Homuth wrote: Will my system blow

[gentoo-user] Digest failure on net-firewall/iptables?

2008-12-07 Thread James Homuth
Ran a pretend update on one of my boxes, and this was spit back: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies /!!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/net-firewall/iptables/iptables-1.4.0-r1.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded

[gentoo-user] Possibly OT - Denyhosts regex question

2008-11-20 Thread James Homuth
Hello folks, I'm using the latest stable x86 versions of Denyhosts, Openssh and PAM as pulled off the portage tree, and am having a little bit of trouble getting Denyhosts to play nice with the messages PAM is throwing into auth.log. I've tried google for it, and threw the question to the

RE: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK?

2008-11-05 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Denis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 5, 2008 1:08 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] fix for e2fsprogs BLOCK? This probably was already discussed at length... But I keep waiting for an automatic portage tree fix to this...

[gentoo-user] How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
There are several packages that were thrown around on the list, or versions of packages, that I've come across that I figure I might want to take an active interest in. However, to avoid sending my boxes into a tailspin, I'm staying away from installing the still in development versions. What I'd

RE: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: BRM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 31, 2008 9:10 AM To: Users Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a systemcatch-22... I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable?

2008-10-31 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikos Chantziaras Sent: October 31, 2008 10:38 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to know when a package is due to go stable? Justin wrote: James Homuth schrieb: There are several

[gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread James Homuth
During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and naturally, google, but all I found were lots of the same error, and no information on it/what's broken. Anyone else having this particular problem? The block errors are below.

RE: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 28, 2008 5:58 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync? On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:18:05 Steven Susbauer wrote: Careful with the unmerges.  

RE: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-28 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: Mark Knecht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 28, 2008 10:35 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix Are there any issues with all these blocks that I need to fix for updates? Thanks, Mark [ebuild U ]

[gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread James Homuth
I went to run emerge update, and it threw this curious little block loop at me. emerge --pretend --quiet --update --deep world produces: [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2) [blocks B ] =sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5) Anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious emerge behaviour.

2008-07-02 Thread James Homuth
Will the package itself be removed at some point? And if so, I'm assuming Portage will take care of killing it from my system at that point? At 01:26 AM 03/07/2008, you wrote: On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM, James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to run emerge update, and it threw

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem

2008-01-29 Thread James Homuth
At 06:58 AM 29/01/2008, you wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Every time I write address different then local server (postfix) returns info 5.7.1 (some address): Relay access denied. What should I do?

[gentoo-user] Mod_suphp masked?

2008-01-26 Thread James Homuth
Is there any particular reason why for the x86 arch, the Apache mod_suphp ebuild's been masked? And any means of keeping track of things like that without periodically trying to install something only to be told it's not happening? I'm looking into ways of security my Apache/PHP instalation,