Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Simon Thelen
u chose will compress the file and add the appropriate extension all on its own and tar will use that (and the file magic) to find the appropriate decompresser when you want to extract files later (you can use `tar tf' to test if you want). -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-07-29 Thread Simon Thelen
these requirements : can anyone help ? The dependencies on python2.7 are being added by the mozcoreconf eclasses. The firefox requirement is in eclass/mozcoreconf-v6.eclass, spidermonkey has essentially the same thing but in -v5.eclass -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Youtube-dl and file time stamps.

2020-07-15 Thread Simon Thelen
veral other file download programs set the mtime to the last-modified header or similar, but they tend not to touch the ctime. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev and eudev clash. Something wants to remove eudev and install udev.

2019-10-27 Thread Simon Thelen
c/portage/package.mask/package.mask: > =sys-fs/udev-242 eudev was forgotten in the deps for virtual/libudev-232-r1, there should be a fixed virtual/libudev-232-r2 in the tree already. Resync and it should (hopefully) just work™. [..] -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn rc script dependencies

2018-04-10 Thread Simon Thelen
re were a way to modify require/provides without having to edit the init scripts themselves. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd: disable zerconf

2018-01-22 Thread Simon Thelen
Holle, On 18-01-22 at 12:49, Lucas Ramage wrote: > Hello, > > How does one disable zerconf for dhcpcd or at all in Gentoo for that matter? Do you mean ipv4ll? Add noipv4ll to /etc/dhcpcd.conf . -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv: no sound anymore...?

2018-01-20 Thread Simon Thelen
ve any useful ideas here. > Using for example zynaddsubfx (softsynth) via qjackctrl/jack I can > play sound. > Mpv does not show up in qjackctrl What samplerate does that generate sound at? 48k or 44.1k? -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] application to configure mouse

2017-12-13 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-12-14 at 00:45, Simon Thelen wrote: > On 17-12-13 at 15:47, R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 11:10 AM, wabe <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Sorry for this offtopic, but is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] application to configure mouse

2017-12-13 Thread Simon Thelen
and write it into ~/.xinitrc if you don't have root. I have a 05-mouse.conf containing: Section "InputClass" Identifier "Kingsis Peripherals ZOWIE Gaming mouse" MatchIsPointer "on" Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1" EndSection You can look for the xorg.conf variable names you need in xorg.conf(5), or just google it. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

2017-12-03 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-12-03 at 12:06, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-12-03 18:58, Simon Thelen wrote: > > > Palemoon builds fine with gcc 6.4.0 (just not with gcc 7.2.0), if the > > ebuild you're using requires an older gcc it's either wrong or doing > > something weird. > It bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

2017-12-03 Thread Simon Thelen
n. GL with fixing that. Palemoon builds fine with gcc 6.4.0 (just not with gcc 7.2.0), if the ebuild you're using requires an older gcc it's either wrong or doing something weird. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] iputils - caps and filecaps USE flags?

2017-10-03 Thread Simon Thelen
break less things. The "filecaps" flag is the "equivalent" of the suid bit but for specific capabilities (so instead of providing ping with suid-root you can give it CAP_NET_RAW only). It is almost always better to enable both of these where possible since it helps decrease the attack surface for the programs in question. Read capabilities(7) for more information. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange Xmonad problem

2017-09-29 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-09-29 at 22:09, Melleus wrote: > Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> writes: > > On 17-09-29 at 12:13, Melleus wrote: > >> Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> writes: > >> > On 17-09-28 at 20:30, Melleus wrote: > >> > [..] > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange Xmonad problem

2017-09-29 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-09-29 at 12:13, Melleus wrote: > Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> writes: > > On 17-09-28 at 20:30, Melleus wrote: > > [..] > >> Might I ask another Xmonad question in this thread? I would like to have > >> the Firefox goes fullscreen on F11,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange Xmonad problem

2017-09-28 Thread Simon Thelen
applications > (like > Zathura) can go fullscreen and hide Xmobar even without that stanza. Did > I misconfigured something? You probably want fullscreenEventHook from [1] as shown in the Usage. [1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.13/docs/XMonad-Hooks-EwmhDesktops.html -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange Xmonad problem

2017-09-27 Thread Simon Thelen
t; > Thank you ahead of time. > https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/blob/master/CHANGES.md#014-not-yet-released Probably the Bug Fix listed under 0.14 (Not Yet Released) try deleting ~/.xmonad/xmonad.state before starting xmonad -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Readline mode for all users?

2017-09-19 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-09-19 at 14:48, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2017, at 01:30, Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> wrote: > >> Is it possible to set this for all users, please, so that this edit > >> mode is used for root? > > Readline is customized by puttin

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Readline mode for all users?

2017-09-18 Thread Simon Thelen
t -o vi" doesn't seem > to work. Either "set-editing-mode vi" in /etc/inputrc for all readline programs or in /etc/bash/bashrc (for bash-only) -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-08 Thread Simon Thelen
The only other possibility I know of would be creating an lvm partition for that file and using lvm snapshots. You should also be able to implement the functionality via fuse on top of an ext4 base if the other solutions aren't to your taste. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Read-only access to a git repo

2017-09-04 Thread Simon Thelen
day. You can look at [1] if you want a really minimal example of a git permissions management system. [1]: https://github.com/cbdevnet/fugit -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] conf.d/net routes

2017-09-02 Thread Simon Thelen
n the "INTERFACE HANDLERS" section and potentially the "Advanced Routing" section. > Motivation: I want to add a route for a point-to-point interface. You probably only need to list the peer address on a single line and then that peer should become routable. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] network interface names in gentoo

2017-06-11 Thread Simon Thelen
empty" elog "file /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link, or symlink it to /dev/null" elog "to disable the feature." Depending on which of those you have installed. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why?

2017-05-21 Thread Simon Thelen
stem, you put a filesystem on a dmcrypt device. [1]: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/blob/master/README.md -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clang has gone walkabout

2017-04-10 Thread Simon Thelen
On 17-04-10 at 18:59, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/10/2017 03:58 PM, Simon Thelen wrote: > > Try running `env-update && source /etc/profile'. Your path should be > > extended by /etc/profile.env which is generated from /etc/env.d/10llvm-9995. > > Just log

Re: [gentoo-user] Clang has gone walkabout

2017-04-10 Thread Simon Thelen
the dir to the path with no > problems, I'm more concerned about why I have add the path - is the > ebuild screwed up in some way? > > What is the portage/ebuild doco like? Is it well documented or are > there gaping holes that lead to frustration - my level of understanding > of coding is 25 years of C/C++ coding on CAD systems & engineering > applications and even though I run a Gentoo box as my default machine, > I've never had the need to get into bash scripting - but might. > > Andrew > Try running `env-update && source /etc/profile'. Your path should be extended by /etc/profile.env which is generated from /etc/env.d/10llvm-9995. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Has someone managed to compile nvidia-drivers against a 4.10.*-Linux-kernel?

2017-03-18 Thread Simon Thelen
dia-drivers-378.13 and having no problems. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] help securing system / remote unlock

2017-02-06 Thread Simon Perfer
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help securing system / remote unlock On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 22:16:38 +, Simon Perfer wrote: > Can't seem to find a tool that will generate an initramfs with support > for ZFS, LUKS and Dropbear so that I can remotely unlock the sy

[gentoo-user] help securing system / remote unlock

2017-02-06 Thread Simon Perfer
Hi – I've successfully set up whole disk encryption by using LUKS and ZFS on top of it. I can boot by unlocking the drive via some remote console. Can't seem to find a tool that will generate an initramfs with support for ZFS, LUKS and Dropbear so that I can remotely unlock the system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Metalog & runscript

2016-12-03 Thread Simon Thelen
all the package to get the new initscript. You can rebuild all packages that use /sbin/runscript with: `emerge --oneshot -av $(grep -l '/sbin/runscript' /etc/init.d/*)' This was mentioned in a newsitem draft on gentoo-dev, but as far as I can tell that newsitem was never published. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-29 Thread Simon Thelen
k search found [1] [2] [3] [4]. Though binding an alias to `mpv $(xsel -b)' and then executing that after copying a url shouldn't be that hard. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-with-mpv [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/external-video [3] https://addons.mozi

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

2016-09-07 Thread Simon Thelen
concept of "Trash", the creation of such a mailbox is the prerogative of the client (unless the server itself feels that the imap client doesn't know what it's doing and moves deleted emails into a different mailbox; not that I've ever seen a mail server do that), therefore changing the locale on the mail server won't help and it is indeed something on the client that needs to be changed. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

2016-04-16 Thread Simon Thelen
acktracking didn't help so I'm not sure exactly why it didn't want to update, but explicitly telling emerge to install it seemed to help for me. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Make QEMU guest visible to other machines on LAN

2015-12-19 Thread Simon Thelen
on that website should be fine for the host, and then pass these command options to qemu -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hn0,mac="52:54:00:12:34:56" -netdev bridge,id=hn0,br=brkvm You can change the mac address to your liking. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking facebook

2015-12-11 Thread Simon Thelen
On 15-12-12 at 05:05, Simon Thelen wrote: > On 15-12-11 at 20:03, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Does anybody have an idea how to block facebook? > The only way to blacklist facebook would be to create a whitelist and > drop everything not on said whitelist. Oh, and even

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking facebook

2015-12-11 Thread Simon Thelen
ses they'll use a proxy/vpn. If you use deep packet inspection they'll use TLS or a VPN or an SSH tunnel. If you can control the systems so that they don't do any of the above, it's possible but you've admitted that you can't (unless you can control all the Virtualbox instances). -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-15 Thread Simon Thelen
of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this could be a thing. Note how the Manifest for busybox in the gentoo.git tree doesn't have manifests for any of the ebuilds. [1] [1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-apps/busybox/Manifest -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended)

2015-07-13 Thread Simon Thelen
also, which may be part of this problem, but I don't know.) It worked for me after I added --backtrack=30 -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Simon Thelen
and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Simon Thelen
past the blocking USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed. I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of. Have you tried: emerge -pDU --with-bdeps=y @world That should list all packages where the installed use-flags differ from the current use-flags. -- Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] How to automate an sshfs (fusermount) mounted share

2015-01-03 Thread Simon Thelen
want to get rid of allow_other etc. -- Simon Thelen

Re: [gentoo-user] Zsh completion

2014-07-04 Thread Simon Thelen
zshcompsys Look at the path-completion and accept-exact-dirs styles. You can try setting accep-exact-dirs to true or path-completion to false. -- Simon Thelen Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd as a Profile - practical or not?

2014-02-18 Thread Simon László
How to unsubscribe? 2014.02.18. 17:26 ezt írta (Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org): Hi all, Ok, before I go and open up a bug requesting this... I know there have to be a lot of people on this list who can answer this question... Is making the use of systemd or not based on a selected

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I rewrite all empty sectors with zeros?

2012-07-23 Thread Simon
and recreate it each time (easy, and I often change the partition layout anyway). Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAT problem

2012-07-20 Thread Simon
curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FATX Simon On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have a Garmin GPS with a 32GB SD card. If I attach my

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-08 Thread Simon
Also, there was a thread a good while back with this issue and their fix was to do a emerge -e world with everything optimized for their CPU and such.  May be worth thinking about at least. Video playback and CPU optimisations go hand in hand. One video I have had for a long time, I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Any experience with swapfiles?

2012-05-02 Thread Simon
on 256mb file), then swapoff the 256 (takes a bit of time for swap data to move over), delete the 256. Downgrade can be done in the same manner. swapon -s (status) will be a good friend of yours now. Good luck! Simon On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I have two machines

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.2.12 Kenel wont boot

2012-04-25 Thread Simon
The error just means it cannot find any device called /dev/sda4, but can only find your CD (sr0). I get this when booting from a usbkey and I need to tell the kernel to wait 5-10 seconds before detecting hdds. I also had this error when I used a config from my normal computers onto an older

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for saving power needed...

2012-04-02 Thread Simon
approx time left. Many recomendations already posted in this emails will be suggested by powertop. Simon On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Apr 2, 2012 5:00 PM, Robert David

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-28 Thread Simon
Then copy /usr over: mount -o bind / /mnt mount -o remount,ro /usr cp -a /usr/* /mnt/ The bind moun t makes the root FS appear in a 2nd place, without /usr being populated by the content of your /usr partition. Don't forget to remove /usr from /etc/fstab. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} USB 3.0 hard drive speed test

2011-08-11 Thread Simon
It is my opinion that benchmarks should be done with a real benchmark tool. Try with bonnie++ This will really show you the strengths and weaknesses of your setup. Good luck, Simon On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am Donnerstag 11

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-03 Thread Simon
good in combination with my suggestions, I haven't tried but it does seem very attractive. Simon

[gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Simon Siemonsma
I did python-updater as said by the ebuild. After it I did emerge -a --depclean which removed python 2.6 Boy I was I happy that I have daily backups. portage did not work anymore. Changing the active python version before running python-updater gives a lot more packages. I did portage by hand.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Simon
that depend on glibc. I believe glibc was actually updated during my very initial update on monday and I haven't come to do that... but I guess everything will go smoothly from here. Thanks again for all your help guys! Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-08 Thread Simon
at full capacity and with zero errors. I don't know if I felt as good as this when I found the root cause... I just know that having root again feels great! ;) Okay... and now let's upgrade the kernel... ;P Thanks again, Simon On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Hi there, something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with system, they all fail

[gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
-rebuild was freezing, this one froze while finding dependencies)... if anyone has a guess, I'll try rebuilding that pkg and the winner gets a genuine 100$ of monopoly money. Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there,  something went wrong during a previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
/portage sys-apps/baselayout sys-fs/udev sys-apps/busybox I will redo a simple fsck.ext3 -c -c -f /dev/xvda and see what it says exactly (if it says anything). And then i will --sync and -e @system again... I'll reply to the list with my results... Thanks, Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
-z + %% worked at this point). I'll reply here again with the next issue... Thanks, Simon Emerging (35 of 151) sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 * Package:sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: toolch

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
// On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, the fsck reported nothing wrong... I still got the same bug again... while doing `emerge -e @system`... It got stuck right after the Installing line below... Dale, I just checked my python

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Simon
Ok, was just doing a fsck.ext3 -c -c -C 1 /dev/xvda from within a rescue OS provided by my VPS provider... and it froze at the middle of it!!! So I guess Gentoo is not responsible after all... I've opened a support ticket with them... I'll let you know how it turns out. Simon On Fri, Jan 7

[gentoo-user] emerge portage error

2010-05-16 Thread Simon
Hi, Please help me to get rid of this error while emerging portage: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Verifying ebuild Manifests... starting parallel fetching pid 6030 Emerging (1 of 2) dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r4 to / * Python-2.5.4.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...

[gentoo-user] libXfont 1.4.0 fails to emerge

2009-08-30 Thread Simon Hunt
I need libXfont-1.4.0 because xf86-video-intel-2.7.99.902-r1 depends on xorg-server-1.6.3 which depends on libXfont-1.4.0. But libXfont fails to emerge. Here is the end of the libXfont build.log: libtool: link: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared .libs/dummy.o -Wl,--whole-archive

[gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
I posted this on the forums but I want some more information. I have a bit of a dilemma. With these settings, xf86-video-intel: 2.6.3-r1 xorg-server: 1.6.2-r1 and 1.6.3 kernel module: i830 kernel: gentoo 2.6.29-r5 and 2.6.30-r4 sometimes when stopping or starting X my computer would freeze and

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:48:59PM -0500, Andr??s Becerra Sandoval wrote: Hello, I have a 865G too, the only combination that works for me with the i915 intel driver is: kernel: gentoo-sources-2.6.28 driver: xf86-video-intel: 2.7.1 Anything above that (=gentoo-sources-2.6.29,

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 03:40:14PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote: Works for me, YMMV. -- Keith Dart And you don't get freezes or anything?

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
Hey, nevermind about my USB wireless-LAN card not working, it just requires a different firmware for that kernel, I looked it up (although the problems with it hanging still remain). By the way, I know I should be replying to the messages I already sent right? But those messages don't appear in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
Well I tried the .28 kernel with the package versions you suggested, and when the X server starts, it's just a black screen BUT the machine doesn't freeze and there is video output, it is just black. These lines seem relevant in the Xorg log: (II) GLX: Initialized DRI GL provider for screen 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
And I just sent the last two messages in the wrong order because I forgot I still only had a draft of my first message, I never actually sent it until I realized that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:44:31PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote: === On Sat, 08/29, Simon Hunt wrote: === And you don't get freezes or anything? === No, everything seems to be working fine now. -- Keith Dart Okay, I did everything you said and THANK YOU! I don't get freezes anymore

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:55:16PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 04:44:31PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote: === On Sat, 08/29, Simon Hunt wrote: === And you don't get freezes or anything? === No, everything seems to be working fine now. -- Keith Dart Okay

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
Yes, it's me again. I think upgrading to the newest unstable vanilla-source (31-rc8) makes it definitely go faster, but Firefox is still a little laggy. Although Epiphany really isn't, so I think it's just Firefox's fault. Anyway, my computer actually did freeze once. Just wanting to provide an

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:06:35PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote: Well I tried the .28 kernel with the package versions you suggested, and when the X server starts, it's just a black screen BUT the machine doesn't freeze and there is video output, it is just black. These lines seem relevant

[gentoo-user] Re: Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:00:35PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote: I posted this on the forums but I want some more information. I have a bit of a dilemma. With these settings, xf86-video-intel: 2.6.3-r1 xorg-server: 1.6.2-r1 and 1.6.3 kernel module: i830 kernel: gentoo 2.6.29-r5 and 2.6.30-r4

[gentoo-user] Re: Intel dilemma

2009-08-29 Thread Simon Hunt
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:30:02PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:00:35PM -0400, Simon Hunt wrote: I posted this on the forums but I want some more information. I have a bit of a dilemma. With these settings, xf86-video-intel: 2.6.3-r1 xorg-server: 1.6.2-r1 and 1.6.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Hunt
Well I think I fixed the problem by upgrading the kernel to vanilla-sources-2.6.31-rc7 and xf86-video-intel-2.8.0 (and recompiling against the new kernel), and switching to the i915 module in the kernel. I did this because of the suggestions at http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver (I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Hunt
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank

[gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-24 Thread Simon Hunt
Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the computer. The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because

[gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread Simon Hunt
I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. The Radeon framebuffer radeonfb in the kernel doesn't support this

Re: [gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread Simon
it will convince me i should program my own, better it will give me some good ideas or fortify some of my own good ideas and at best it will be the thing i've been looking for! Thanks again! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-25 Thread Simon
, once per day)... i've quickly calculated the key will last around 27 years. I'll be glad to buy a petabyte usbkey for 10$US in 27 years man! lol Simon

[gentoo-user] File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-22 Thread Simon
this is the right choice. Thanks for reading, hopeful to be reading your answers! Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-20 Thread Simon
What did you recompile? There may still be a library using the sse2 flag. Have you tried using the --newuse or --reinstall changed-use emerge flags? Well, since all my problem were related to the use of ssh, i did a full: emerge -e openssh (took a 2 days on that super old pc, while shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-20 Thread Simon
I'm running memtest86 on that pc at the moment, i will Went through 1 pass with zero errors, I'll try some more passes in case later... look more into the flags (i havent checked in the /etc/portage/packages.use, there might be some sse in there too that i missed). Checked all make.conf and

[gentoo-user] SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Simon
Hi there! I'm getting this issue where even very small transfers through ssh will cause this error message: Corrupted MAC on input. I've done my homework and found out this is not necessarily related to the network hardware as TCP would retransmit such corrupted packets, moreover the error

[gentoo-user] Re: SSL giving corrupted MAC on input

2009-07-06 Thread Simon
A quick troubleshooting i've done was to setup apache and simply wget a very large file over plain HTTP. Transfer worked, i did it a second time and diff'ed the two downloads, they were the same. I then did the same test over HTTPS and got an error (SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
ServerAliveInterval) Thanks all! Simon

[gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
the unionfs at some point, etc...). What do you think? Should i start working on this? Or is there anything better out there? Thanks, Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Storage space comes pretty cheap these days, so prehaps it's just easier to get dirt-cheap 80G harddisk and build (and keep) all the packages from sum of the worlds on it in a dedicated chroot or VM? Well, i'm keeping all packages currently, and diskspace is cheap for home computers, but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
Or you can create raid0 with partitions on both drives (sda1+sdb1) and mirror it on the second set of partitions on the same drives. But then you do not have any protection from total disk failure you'd normally expect from raid1. Only some very little protection against a sector failure.

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
on my HD against its local archive... anyway... Thanks, Simon

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-03 Thread Simon
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5976 http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/ http://www.google.com/search?q=homedir+version+control Hey thanks Stroller, I'd be interested in these solutions, but i dont have enough space to copy everything in double (keep a backup). So what i do, and this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving an installed system to RAID10

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
I know I'll need to change /boot/grub/grub.conf, /etc/fstab and any other files that refer to my current drive partitions, /dev/sda{1,2,3,4}. I am concerned whether my current kernel will recognize the /dev/md{1,2,3,4} arrays on booting, and before switching from the initrd root disk. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Nitin Kanaskar nitinv...@gmail.com wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on vulnerabilities, exploits and IDS. Hence I am

[gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
hi there! I've been using unison to synchronise and backup my computers. unison is based on rsync IIRC but with the difference that it 'remembers' the state of the folder that was synchronised. This way, if I delete a file on A, when sync'ing it will be deleted on B. While rsync would leave

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-02 Thread Simon
If you are using ssh with unison, are you using the KeepAlive yes option in your ssh configuration? If not, add it, and your connection should not close from inactivity. If you are using direct sockets, unison will use a keepalive so it can timeout if the communication link is broken. Well i

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-05-01 Thread Simon
You do NOT need PPP, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (= 2.6.27 at least, not sure of the details). You need at least CONFIG_USB_RNDIS_WLAN as m or y. With udev and 'm' things work mostly automatically on the linux side. On the phone you enable advanced networking (or else you will see

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-04-29 Thread Simon
with several external drivers) so i should be fine. I'll give this a try asap, but since i have a day off tomorrow, i might do some fiesta tonight, in any case, i should reply soon with success or failure! Thanks again! Simon

[gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Pocket Putty or similar

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
Hey guys! i just got my internet connection working through a new cellphone (pda). the connection works fine but is a battery eater (i share the cell data connection to wifi, and then from the pc connect to the phone's ad-hoc ap, very cool, but have the charger handy!) Anyway, I've come

Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID vs Fake RAID

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
FS, i dont use ntfs because it used to lack write support long ago). That is, in windows, i would move the files in a folder created on the desktop, and then in linux, i would mount the windows drive and copy/move the files in /mnt/windrive/Documents*/simon/Desktop/folder_for_linux/. If you wish

Re: [gentoo-user] [slightly OT] Pocket Putty or similar

2009-04-28 Thread Simon
Hey guys!  i just got my internet connection working through a new cellphone (pda). I think we'll need to know which operating system(s) the phone runs in order to suggest anything. Makes sense! Sorry that i forgot! The phone is an HTC TyTN (also known as Hermes100, i think). It is running

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