Re: [gentoo-user] Hacked by association?

2007-09-19 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/19/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night my host sent out a message that their database had been compromised. I contacted them this morning and it turns out that all of their trouble tickets were exposed. I checked my records and (stupidly) I had included my root

Re: [gentoo-user] chage can't open /etc/passwd

2007-09-17 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/17/07, Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having this problem on one of my machines for a while. As a user or as root I cannot run chage: $ chage -l marduk chage: can't open password file I've looked at /etc/passwd*, /etc/shadow* /etc/group* and

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/31/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really, I like to read people's opinion about genkernel, but no one has tried to answer my question yet. In my first reply, I suggested looking at a diff between your config and genkernel's config. How did that turn out? -- Ryan W Sims --

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/31/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann skrev: because I have seen more than one non-booting totally f* up kernel created by genkernel. I won't touch it ever again. If something sucked in the past, the change is great that it sucks again in the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/31/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:41:19 -0400 Ryan Sims wrote: On 8/31/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Really, I like to read people's opinion about genkernel, but no one has tried to answer my question yet. In my first reply, I

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/31/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: an idiot using it wrong. so viciously done in this thread is nothing but FUD. change is great that it sucks again in the future. Plus it doesn't really make things easier, does it? All the rest of his hate drivel ... made up FUD you

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-31 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/31/07, Steen Eugen Poulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims skrev: Please stop using inflammatory language. Everyone. If you must have an argument, start a new thread or take it off list. It's perfectly fine for someone to criticize genkernel, or portage, or a hammer, or a car

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11: How To Calibrate Monitor Color?

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using xorg 7.2.0 with open source drivers on an ati card. How would I calibrate my monitor? i.e. what a photographer or graphics person would want to to, do ensure I'm seeing accurate colors on my screen? Well, it sort of depends on how you

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time by hand, so I did: 1.-) moved config.gz to .config in new /usr/src/linux link 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag 30 August 2007 20:16:02 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 8/30/07, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used genkernel for compiling kernel in my home server. Yesterday I wanted to compile a new kernel, but this time

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel vs kernel manual compilation

2007-08-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/30/07, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Freitag, 31. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:51:44 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 30. August 2007, Arnau Bria wrote: Hi, 2.-) make oldconfig 3.-) make all make

Re: [gentoo-user] message i don't understand in dmesg

2007-08-15 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/15/07, Elyahou ITTAH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x1c SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: (spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x0 SAct=0x1c FIS=004040a1:0002) ata1.00: cmd 61/08:10:99:7c:b3/00:00:06:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out res

Re: [gentoo-user] message i don't understand in dmesg

2007-08-15 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/15/07, Elyahou ITTAH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that my HD doe's not support ncq... What i have to do ? Use google. http://linux-ata.org/faq.html#ncq http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html Also, please don't top-post. -- Ryan W Sims -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overheated, which part is damaged?

2007-08-08 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/8/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007 02:21, Grant wrote: My power supply's fan died and ended up really elevating the temperature in the case during a qt compile. Now I'm seeing all kinds of strange and colorful artifacts on the screen, even after the system

Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable stack randomization?

2007-08-03 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/3/07, Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I execute the same program, its stack starts at a different address. After some studying, I know it is caused by stack randomization in kernel. Although stack randomization impedes stack buffer overflow, it introduces some

Re: [gentoo-user] enable musicbrainz on amarok?

2007-07-19 Thread Ryan Sims
On 7/19/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I recently recompiled amarok with the musicbrainz USE flag enabled, to allow tagging of mp3 files with musicbrainz. However, when I try to Edit tag information... the Fill-in tags using MusicBrainz button is always disabled. It tells me to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-18 Thread Ryan Sims
On 7/18/07, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: it takes just as much power to spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes. So ... spin it down after a few more minutes? -- hendrik No, only spin it down when the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-user+unsubscribe

2007-06-27 Thread Ryan Sims
On 6/27/07, Lenny Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list So close... Who's turn is it this time? -- Ryan W Sims -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-06-03 Thread Ryan Sims
On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Test!

2007-05-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: dark85x [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:06 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Test! On Monday 28 May 2007 19:04:16 Tobias Heinlein wrote: Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it your versions in world? Should one do this once a week? Once in two weeks? How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and system tool chain? As soon as new things

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/07, Tim Allinghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last thing before I hop off each night, emerge --sync followed by a -pv -uDN world, if I'm happy I fire it up and head to bed :) I'm sure that makes for particularly sweet dreams ;-) One thing I've

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-24 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/24/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are these any options in the kernel and in the gcc to optimize for Intel's Core 2 Duo chips? When I set up my gentoo box for the Pentium Processor Extreme Edition (dual core prescott), I just used -march=prescott in make.conf Which -march flag would

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses; e.g. pressing Left Arrow, gives $ ^[[D which is annoying as I have to delete part of the command

Re: [gentoo-user] remote ssh session does not reflect my keyboard inputs

2007-05-07 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007 16:55, Ryan Sims wrote: On 5/7/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a Ubuntu server certain keyboard actions (like pressing the Up or Left arrows) are not translated on the remote box, but give ASCII responses

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CFLAGS

2007-05-03 Thread Ryan Sims
On 5/3/07, Csányi András [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin írta: the howto is: remove the system and start from scratch. uhhh... 3 days before changed I the cpu type in /etc/make.conf file and recompile the system. And it is work without problems... I'm very lucky... From what

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-16 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/16/07, Thomas Tuttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On April 16 at 06:46 EDT, Alan McKinnon hastily scribbled: On Friday 13 April 2007, Ryan Sims wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/16/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:14:07 -0300 Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deface wrote: If you want a new release, just emerge --sync. :) Not true. 2006.1 doesn't boot on my hardware. I needed to bootstrap on an old box, then swap hard

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. This sounds like juju. Did your source provide numbers in support of this conclusion, or is it just concern about hard drive thrashing? If there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS ...-O3 -pipe vs ...O2 no pipe

2007-04-10 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/10/07, Davi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Terça 10 Abril 2007 17:15, Jesús Guerrero escreveu: El Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:08:40 -0300 Davi [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Em Terça 10 Abril 2007 16:56, Jesús Guerrero escreveu: ** Thinking: rebuild all = all packages = kde + Xorg + glibc + OOo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heliodor?

2007-04-04 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/4/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:57:01 +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: echo 'x11-wm/heliodor' /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -av heliodor Do the following, instead :) echo 'x11-wm/heliodor ~amd64' /etc/portage/package.keywords Either will

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread Ryan Sims
On 3/21/07, purple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well,if you want it do it for your self.. If who wants to do what for themselves? -- Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with no gnome 2.18 in portage?

2007-03-21 Thread Ryan Sims
On 3/21/07, purple [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i talk to guy started this list.. Sorry, that's what I get for getting too clever. Please quote context when you reply. -- Ryan W Sims -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients - what can replace Evolution?

2007-02-28 Thread Ryan Sims
On 2/28/07, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/28/07, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:59 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, I've got a machine that will no longer run Evolution. For whatever reason all versions of Evolution in Portage crash. I

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS Variable in-kernel drivers?

2007-02-27 Thread Ryan Sims
On 2/27/07, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:59:21 +0100 Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: b.n. wrote: Jakob Buchgraber ha scritto: Hi! I just read about the required ALSA_CARDS variable when using in-kernel drivers in the Gentoo Newsletter. Since

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating gentoo to a new machine

2007-02-04 Thread Ryan Sims
On 2/3/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: Throught the years I've build-up a good collection of gentoo packages that I'm currently running on my notebook. Now that I need to move to a new notebook, I build

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/11/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? I think there was just a thread on top-posting, btw. IIRC, you pass -DPHP5 or -DPHP4 to apache in /etc/conf.d/apache (or possibly

Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

2007-01-10 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/10/07, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself, but I can't get AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package I am missing (searches yielded nothing of interest thus far) or another piece of

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 64-bit Intel Core Duo 2 system?

2007-01-08 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/8/07, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any documentation on setting up a native system on my 64-bit Intel Core Duo 2 system (E6600)? I note there was mention of new compiler options to build for core 2 duo, but I haven't seen anything specific for a new install. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Found eth0, what's depreciated

2007-01-05 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good call Karl; I had been thinking of an older system when I modprobed what I thought was my card. It still didn't work after a modprobing, but I compiled it straight in, and it worked just fine. Thank you, Karl. Just out of curiosity

Re: [gentoo-user] Error when trying to emerge --update --deep --newuse world

2007-01-05 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/5/07, Shawn Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] [blocks B ] sys-apps/coldplug (is blocking sys-fs/udev-103) I can't emerge: sys-fs/udev-103 or udev-103 b/c that's not a valid package atom ... The correct way to specify a particular version is =sys-fs/udev-103 (or = or = or ~, etc).

Re: [gentoo-user] Several arches installed, flag kernel automatically

2007-01-03 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/3/07, Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have here two gentoo systems one 32-bit and one 64-bit. To save space on my harddisk the mounts /home and /boot are used from both systems. Now I have the problem with the kernel version. Both systems running kernel 2.6.18-gentoo-r6.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot mount volume on Gnome 2.16 when inserting CD?

2006-12-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 10/2/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I've got a /media directory. When I try to manually mount the CD using hal and gnome-mount, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gnome-mount --hal-udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_NEW --text --verbose gnome-mount 0.4 **

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot mount volume on Gnome 2.16 when inserting CD? [SOLVED]

2006-12-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I've got a /media directory. When I try to manually mount the CD using hal and gnome-mount, I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gnome-mount --hal-udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

2006-12-17 Thread Ryan Sims
are well. uim failed with an error about mygettext not declared in this scope, so I set it to +nls in package.use, and it's happy again. On 12/16/06, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:57:51AM -0500, Ryan Sims wrote Thanks. I do have my LINGUAS variable set to en

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

2006-12-17 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/17/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims wrote: #en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 #ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP #ja_JP.UTF-8 UTF-8 #ja_JP EUC-JP #en_HK ISO-8859-1 #en_PH ISO-8859-1 #de_DE ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 #es_MX ISO-8859-1 #fa_IR UTF-8 #fr_FR ISO-8859-1

[gentoo-user] rhythmbox plays music too fast (oss problem?)

2006-12-17 Thread Ryan Sims
I recently emerged Rhythmbox to give it a shot, and I've found that it plays all my music noticably fast, so that the pitch is altered noticably. Audacious did this for a while, and I fixed it by changing its output plugin from oss to alsa; my guess is that's the problem with rhythmbox, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

2006-12-14 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/13/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims wrote: I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on versions of the documents in languages I don't speak. After trying a few things, I found

[gentoo-user] should my computer really be able to speak russian?

2006-12-13 Thread Ryan Sims
I noticed while updating to Gnome 2.16 today that gnome2-user-docs took a long time (38 min +), and most of that time was spend on versions of the documents in languages I don't speak. After trying a few things, I found that disabling the nls use flag in scrollkeeper reduced the gnome2-user-docs

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/12/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 December 2006 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: I have never seen anyone (except non-native speakers by mistake) use mouses as the plural for a computer mouse. Are the people of the Oxford dictionary nuts, or is this really correct and mice

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Visualizer

2006-12-12 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/12/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several years ago I saw a (unfortunatly windows) program that when pluggined into a network, would allow the user to visualize traffic across the network. In that particular program, the network (or segment) was represented as a circle

Re: [gentoo-user] almost completely OT: mouses

2006-12-12 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/12/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:20:43 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: In Argentina we do not say raton (spanish translation for mouse) As a cordless mouse has no tail, should we call it a hamster? ;-) I like it. What about trackballs? --

Re: [gentoo-user] eix double naming with colon?

2006-12-08 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/8/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been meaning to ask - what's with the new double name thing in eix? Why is a package now shown as ~2.6.19-r1:2.6.19-r1 instead of just ~2.6.19-r1 How does this help me, or what isit trying to accomplish? As a user type it sure

Re: [gentoo-user] eix double naming with colon?

2006-12-08 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/8/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 December 2006 17:21, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've been meaning to ask - what's with the new double name thing in eix? Why is a package now shown as ~2.6.19-r1:2.6.19-r1 instead of just ~2.6.19-r1 The second one is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best method for automounting...

2006-12-01 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/1/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:19:44 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: That's probably because you're running two automounters, which are conflicting. You don't need autofs, and probably should not run it, when using KDE's system. Why should autofs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best method for automounting...

2006-12-01 Thread Ryan Sims
On 12/1/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:50:29 -0500, Ryan Sims wrote: If I'm thread hijacking, let me know, but it seems related to me: what is it that mounts things under /media? I seem to have a couple things fighting for devices, none of which obey my

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 11/30/06, Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently evaluating some exotic packages in the portage tree and found out that they're almost 2 years old, don't compile or crash immediately. When I go to their home page or forums, I see that lots of new versions have been

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do if packages are old?

2006-11-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 11/30/06, Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Webb wrote: It would help if you listed the packages in question. Also thanks to Ryan and Steve to illustrate the situation in the not_so_common_packages scene. (BTW, how do I check for an overlay somewhere?) [snip] The gentoo

[gentoo-user] amd64 install from x86 livecd?

2006-10-01 Thread Ryan Sims
There are a couple liveCDs in the forums for booting boards with the tricky JMicron goodness, but the one that seems to have the best shot at booting correctly is an x86-based livecd. If I boot from that, use it to setup my partitions and so on, but use an amd64 stage from the internet, will I

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 install from x86 livecd?

2006-10-01 Thread Ryan Sims
On 10/1/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 02 October 2006 00:07, Ryan Sims wrote: There are a couple liveCDs in the forums for booting boards with the tricky JMicron goodness, but the one that seems to have the best shot at booting correctly is an x86-based livecd

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-09-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-09-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965

Re: [gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-09-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/30/06, Duane Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/09/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965

[gentoo-user] JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Ryan Sims
I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498160-highlight-p965.html) that seem to indicate

[gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at upgrading to a Core 2 Duo system, and looking at the Asus P5B series of motherboards. I've found a couple forum posts (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494387-highlight-p965.html and http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-498160

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID, they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should be ok, right? Well I don't own one of these things, but it looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/29/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims wrote: On 9/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID, they only run through the P975 southbridge, and I should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: JMicron confusion

2006-09-29 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Sims wrote: On 9/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me rephrase my question: If I only use SATA drives, non RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading question

2006-09-21 Thread Ryan Sims
On 9/20/06, james [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Ausmus james.ausmus at gmail.com writes: [snip] OK it's underway the system is headless right now (in the server room) so I just opted for a straight upgrade of all This may sound like a stupid question, but why bother with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home

2006-08-13 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/13/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:32:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: [snip] What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? dm-crypt with cryptsetup using the LUKS format. Same here, but only for /home and my backup directory. I really

[gentoo-user] question about slotting

2006-07-06 Thread Ryan Sims
Recently finished getting CJK support for KDE done, via a howto in the wiki. One of the requirements was to compile qt with the immqt-bc useflag enabled. I discovered that I have two versions of qt installed, one in slot 3 and one in slot 4, all well and good. Version 3.3.6 of qt uses the immqt

[gentoo-user] xextproto download madness

2006-06-30 Thread Ryan Sims
This is odd: Emerging (1 of 199) x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.2 to / Resuming download... Downloading http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 --15:50:32-- http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/proto/xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 =

Re: [gentoo-user] xextproto download madness [solved]

2006-06-30 Thread Ryan Sims
On 6/30/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 30 June 2006 21:54, Ryan Sims wrote: I find it strange that emerge can say fully retrieved, nothing to do and Couldn't download in the same breath. I've tried a few things like cleaning out distfiles and downloading the file

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program to create buttons and graphic text

2006-03-01 Thread Ryan Sims
On 3/1/06, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jeff, 2006/3/1, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://gimp.org/ thanks for this. In fact i've used it and it is very nice. However i'm searching for something easier and quicker to use. [pretty darn OT] If it's text you're after, many would

Re: [gentoo-user] Good program for ogg?

2006-02-13 Thread Ryan Sims
On 2/13/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. Want to make ogg's out of my CD's, but don't want to have to download a zillion GUI's/libraries ala KDE or GNOME. I love fluxbox, so something that works in console would even be great! What's your fave? abcde ( a better cd encoder ) is a

[gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Ryan Sims
I just bought a 512M stick of Crucial ram to complement another 512M stick...suddenly I'm getting tons of crashes, reboots, failed compiles, etc. I removed the new stick, and all is well, now I'm trying just the new stick alone, see if perhaps it was the both together... Something odd I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] ram question

2006-01-14 Thread Ryan Sims
On 1/14/06, Robert Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you got the Crucial stick from them, not second hand, it's very unlikely it's bad- they test them at the factory- I've never gotten a bad stick from them in many years of building computers. Does the Crucial stick by itself cause the

[gentoo-user] gnome/gdm logout problem

2005-12-08 Thread Ryan Sims
Having an odd problem with gnome (or perhaps gdm). Whenever a user logs out, instead of going back to the greeter, I get an (unresponsive) grey screen with a white rectangle where the username input box goes. It seems to be only the themed greeter that has this problem. The box is still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default stage3

2005-11-21 Thread Ryan Sims
I installed gentoo on a dual Opteron box this weekend, I've always done stage1 installs, but this time decided to try the recommeded stage3 method. I understand the concept of doing an emerge -e world in order to get the optimization of a stage1 install, and I've done this ( one time ) on the

Re: [gentoo-user] ati -- dreaded xf86-ENOMEM error

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Sims
On 8/23/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Maxim, An AGP support issue probably. Which kernel are you using? I found that running with a 2.6.12 kernel gave me this error; downgrading to 2.6.11 fixed it. here's a relevant forum topic:

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-23 Thread Ryan Sims
Seems that someone filed the bug report this morning while I was at work: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100048 To fix it for now, I'm switching to the source-based version, which is still compiling, but I assume it will be fine. Sorry to have touched off a conflict, but thanks for the

[gentoo-user] thunderbird/firefox conflict

2005-07-22 Thread Ryan Sims
I just upgraded to mozilla-thunderbird-bin-1.0.6-r1 and mozilla-firefox-bin-1.0.6-r1, and they seem to be conflicting with each other, i.e. when I install firefox, running thunderbird gives me a /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: can't find the browser :-( error, so I remerge thunderbird and it runs,

[gentoo-user] xdm problems

2005-07-14 Thread Ryan Sims
I'm trying to finish up a fresh install of gentoo, and I've run into the following problem: when trying to start xdm, the screen turns black, flickers once, and the system freezes. According to the xdm log (attached) I get errors regarding AGP, sometimes xf86_EINVAL and sometimes xf86_ENODEV. I

[gentoo-user] Re: xdm problems {SOLVED}

2005-07-14 Thread Ryan Sims
On 7/14/05, Ryan Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far the forums and googling have yielded unhelpful results, except for the suggestion of changing the permissions, so I'm assuming I've done something boneheaded that perhaps the list will catch. Thanks in advance. Yes, boneheaded indeed