Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Kelly
On Sunday 12 November 2006 14:02, Richard Fish wrote: On 11/12/06, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the daemon is running. It starts when you modprobe ipw3945. There isn't a wifi switch that I've found. There is an LED that blinks slowly. The card appears to be on. I just can't

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Kelly
On Sunday 12 November 2006 02:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 12 November 2006 01:33, Ryan Tandy wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start Also, make sure that you have pressed the WiFi button to switch

[gentoo-user] java failure (or DVArchive issue)

2006-09-22 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I'm slowly, but surely, moving away from the Windows platform. My latest challenge is DVArchive, a utility for ReplayTV users. When I run it as root, there is no issue. I ran it as a user once, but every time since then I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ java -jar

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

2006-07-21 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I decided to perform my (semi) monthly `emerge -a --depclean`, and ran into a problem. Part of the cleaning involved -- media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad selected: 0.6.4 protected: none omitted: 0.8.11 Well, doing this bails with

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaner USE variable in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Kelly
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 06:04, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a long USE variable (starts with -*, so I enter stuff manually. At one point it got to be something like... USE=-* 3dnow X a52 aac alsa bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr dga dio divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif ffmpeg flac fortran gb

[gentoo-user] What mouse protocol does xorg use when 'auto'?

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I've just recently fixed a problem I had when scrolling up. Doing that would send out a signal that I had pressed the scroll button, and try to paste. Changing the mouse protocol in xorg.conf from #Option ProtocolIMPS/2 Option Protocolauto fixed the problem. That's

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] What mouse protocol does xorg use when 'auto'?

2006-06-08 Thread Peter Kelly
On Thursday 08 June 2006 20:19, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, Great. How can I find out what protocol xorg is using now? Apparently, I'll need to know pretty soon. Duh. Look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You'll see a neat little line that says (**) Mouse1: Protocol: ExplorerPS/2 Never mind. Peter

[gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, I'm running http-replicator on a desktop (server). The laptop asks the desktop for files correctly, and that works just fine. The problem I'm seeing is on the desktop. Every night I do # emerge world --update --deep --newuse --fetchonly # /usr/bin/repcacheman which gets all the files

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 02 June 2006 09:03, Teresa and Dale wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, snip Here are a few pertinent lines from /etc/make.conf http_proxy=http://crichton:8080; RESUMECOMMAND=/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \ \${DISTDIR}/\${FILE} # ping crichton PING localhost

Re: [gentoo-user] http-replicator fetching on the server

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 02 June 2006 10:02, Teresa and Dale wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: On Friday 02 June 2006 09:03, Teresa and Dale wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, snip Emerging (1 of 3) kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.3 to / Downloading ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/distfiles/kdelibs-3.5.3

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 02 June 2006 14:55, Mike Owen wrote: On 6/2/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install everything except toys, games and educational

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping' [SOLVED]

2006-05-27 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 27 May 2006 06:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:14 -0500, Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, Everything *seems* to work fine, but then there's that silly 'stopping' comment that doesn't google very well. Anyone seen this, or have an idea? dunno, maybe the init

[gentoo-user] xdm is 'stopping'

2006-05-26 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, Two days ago I updated the nvidia drivers, so I killed gdm and restarted xdm to reload the newer modules. Problem is, it looks like xdm never restarted. root ~ $ /etc/init.d/xdm status * status: stopping root ~ $ /etc/init.d/xdm stop * ERROR: xdm is already stopping. rc-status

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Peter Kelly
On Friday 05 May 2006 17:36, Maurice E Johnson wrote: OMG Will this thread ever stop? It's been high jacked 5 times. Will the guy that asked the original question please either grow a brain or use the one he has. So rest of us don't have to create filters for this list? What does

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links

2006-04-03 Thread Peter Kelly
On Monday 03 April 2006 04:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 16:34:01 -0600, Peter Kelly wrote: I only see the [broken] message when I use `rc-status -s`. If I just type 'rc-status', I get a correct response for the default runlevel. There's a bug files here: http

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links

2006-04-02 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 01 April 2006 19:22, Jeremy Olexa wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Now, it shows that every service is [broken], but the advice to remove the broken service using rc-update -d (service) and add it in again does nothing. Everything is still [broken]. Anyone seen this, and have

[gentoo-user] rc-status and broken links

2006-03-28 Thread Peter Kelly
Hola! After a recent rebuild starting with a failed hard drive, I think I've got everything nailed down... except root ~ $ rc-status -s default Runlevel: all alsasound [ broken ] apmd[ broken ] ... xdm

Re: [gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost [SOLVED]

2006-03-16 Thread Peter Kelly
On Thursday 16 March 2006 00:22, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: Peter Kelly wrote: Hello to all. snip I know its a basic one but you say you re-emerged baselayout and bash but did you re-emerge pam-login? Maybe pam and shadow also? Maybe shadow was emerged without USE=pam? The funny thing

[gentoo-user] Return from the dead... almost

2006-03-15 Thread Peter Kelly
Hello to all. After an exciting week of a failed hard drive (/usr, /home, /var) killing the IDE port on the motherboard, I've finally got my gentoo box running again. Thank gawd for backups (/home, /var, /etc and all data). I finished the 'emerge -e world', but have a couple issues. First, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-04 Thread Peter Kelly
Dale wrote: Something like 640 packages according to the line count in Kwrite. Try emerge -pe world |grep ebuild |wc -l to get the exact number of packages. Peter -- Jesus is my POSTMASTER GENERAL ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Posting to mail list through knode

2005-12-20 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, Before I did something (the big question), I could post to the gentoo-users list through knode. I still get all the messages through kmail, but it's so much easier to follow threads through knode. How can I post to the list through knode? What did I un-do to stop this? Thanks.

[gentoo-user] Allmost freakin' done.

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas. I did the gcc upgrade. Most stuff works, but there are a couple things to put to bed. During the days long emerge of system and world, and the subsequent reboot, things are the same. From what I know, this is what's changed, in addition to new compile. baselayout1.12.0_pre11-r3

[gentoo-user] can't rebuild autofs after gcc upgrade

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Kelly
Hola, I recently did the gcc upgrade to 3.4.4. During the emerge -system/world, autofs failed, so I moved on with the --skipfirst. Now that emerge -e world has finished, I'm looking into the failures. So, a little more looking shows this. lookup_hesiod.c:20:20: hesiod.h: No such file or

[gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas, After a week or so of upgrading gcc, emerge -e world/system, watching hal/dbus toggle between +/- 0.5 versions, and having gentoo upgrade udev while I'm doing all this, I've finally got a clean, rebuilt system. revdep-rebuild gives comes up clean. emerge -autvDN world comes up empty.

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 16:59, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/10/05, Peter Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, upon reboot, I can't get a USB backup drive to mount correctly. It's an LVM2 partition that should show up as vgusbhd, mounted to /mnt/usbhd. Something seems to die between

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 17:35, Peter Kelly wrote: using bad netiquette by answering my own message And this command fixed it. /dev/mapper/vgusbhd-usbhd exists. crichton ~ # ll /dev/vgusb/usbhd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 10 16:07 /dev/vgusb/usbhd - ../sda1 This is wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 10 December 2005 19:43, Thomas Harold wrote: Out of curiosity, is this the only LVM volume that won't boot? (i.e. do you have other LVM2 volumes?) Yes. It's the only volume that isn't detected at boot. crichton log # mount |grep mapper /dev/mapper/vg-usr on /usr type ext3 (rw)

[gentoo-user] Serious pcmcia network issues

2005-10-30 Thread Peter Kelly
Hola, I've got this old laptop that I'm bringing back from the dead (attic) for a special project. It needs sound and network capability. As it's a 300MHz PII, and I'm running gentoo on the 3GHz home server, I thought the optimizations of gentoo might pay off. First, I did a stage 3

Re: [gentoo-user] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-29 Thread Peter Kelly
On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:03 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. emerge --update world told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I unmerged libungif and compiling kuickshow of kdegraphics failed because it needs libungif. test ~ # equery