Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade

2007-05-21 Thread Wernfried Haas
Hi, On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:36PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: So I have my answer. It raises another question though: Am I the only one who has modules go AWOL when doing make vmlinux make modules_install. If so, why? If not, should I be filing a bug against the docs? Which document are

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Missing modules after kernel upgrade

2007-05-21 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Wernfried Haas: Hi, On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:23:36PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: So I have my answer. It raises another question though: Am I the only one who has modules go AWOL when doing make vmlinux make modules_install. If so, why? If not, should I be filing a bug against

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Mick
On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 00:30 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: Yes, it is a RAM defect. Is there a way to define upper limit of RAM, so I can perform some back-up before I take my laptop to a warranty

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive

2007-05-21 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:16, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Friday 18 May 2007 15:11, Mick wrote: On Friday 18 May 2007 13:25, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Did you try the recovery tools for the FS in question? I tried fsck.msdos but didn't fix it. [snip... lot's of good advice] Bottom line: I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Montag 21 Mai 2007 09:08 schrieb Mick: On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 00:30 +0300, Nistor Andrei wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: Yes, it is a RAM defect. Is there a way to define upper limit of RAM, so I can perform some

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-21 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Sat, 19 May 2007 07:00:58 +0400, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Imo, the cyclic dep problem could be solved as thus, A depends B B depends C||A Where C is a minimalist subset of A required for building B, which is only depended on if A is not present. A is also a

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Marek Miller
I think, I have found a way to tell the kernel how much memory I have. Simple mem=300M appended to the boot command and all defunct RAM (above 300M) is inaccessible. So far, my laptop works as if nothing has happened. Linux's great. Thanks for all for handful tips. Marek Miller Florian

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 21 May 2007, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote: Just curious: why nobody suggests to allow Portage to use the preferred   method of binary distros: emerge several interdependent packages in one transaction. Just prepare the source for A and B and compile both in any order. IMHO this is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:57:14 +0400 Andrey Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious: why nobody suggests to allow Portage to use the preferred method of binary distros: emerge several interdependent packages in one transaction. Because this just wouldn't work. They're not called

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge freealut fails.

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Hi, Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2007 schrieb David Harel: Sorry for being stupid here but I don't know what else to add to this problem. The bad file is alutInit.c the bad line is: if (!alcCloseDevice (device)) I couldn't find where the function is but obviously it returns the wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive [ot]

2007-05-21 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:47:03 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that there are horses for courses me too, linux discs are for computers, windows discs make good coasters. ; ) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail

2007-05-21 Thread Jure Varlec
On Sunday 20 of May 2007 20:16:43 Mick wrote: OK, I also tried Validate with CRL and I am now getting a CRL related error: = 5 - 2007-05-20 19:09:00 gpg-agent[7251]: handler 0x80c8820 for fd 0 terminated 7 - 2007-05-20 19:09:01

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSL certificates and Kmail

2007-05-21 Thread Jure Varlec
On Sunday 20 of May 2007 19:20:11 Elias Probst wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007 14:53:06 Jure Varlec wrote: As, for the solution, it seem Kleopatra wants app-crypt/dirmngr, emerging it solved my problem. I'm not sure why relevant KDE apps don't depend on it. If kleopatra and other KDE apps

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:18 +, Marek Miller wrote: I think, I have found a way to tell the kernel how much memory I have. Simple mem=300M appended to the boot command and all defunct RAM (above 300M) is inaccessible. So far, my laptop works as if nothing has happened. of course!

[gentoo-user] How can i open links in urxvt

2007-05-21 Thread oahong
Hi, list! A little question here. Is it possible to open weblinks in rxvt-unicode? How can I do that? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] how could I make Eterm fonts look like xterm fonts?

2007-05-21 Thread Denis
I love the spiffy look of the Eterm, and it seems pretty fast with bash_completion, so I really tried to customize it to my liking, but so far I failed (probably due to my n00bness). The thing with Eterm on my system is that when the color scheme is applied, the colored characters are poorly

Re: [gentoo-user] How can i open links in urxvt

2007-05-21 Thread Naga
On Monday 21 May 2007 23:32:06 oahong wrote: Hi, list! A little question here. Is it possible to open weblinks in rxvt-unicode? How can I do that? echo URxvt.urlLauncher: firefox ~/.Xresources for firefox (man urxvtperl). -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can i open links in urxvt

2007-05-21 Thread Naga
On Monday 21 May 2007 23:32:06 oahong wrote: Hi, list! A little question here. Is it possible to open weblinks in rxvt-unicode? How can I do that? Forgot... URxvt.perl-ext: matcher needs to be there too -- Naga -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] strange system behaviour.

2007-05-21 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 12:18 +, Marek Miller wrote: I think, I have found a way to tell the kernel how much memory I have. Simple mem=300M appended to the boot command and all defunct RAM (above 300M) is inaccessible. So far, my laptop works as if nothing has

[gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up a linux box as my desktop machine. I've got X up and running, am about to do the kde install, but have a question regarding remote X windows. I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, it's still in my office but X will be running

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 22 May 2007 00:30:46 +0800 Andrew Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, it's still in my office but X will be running across the network, Sun server so that I can run a CAD system. In the past I've done this from Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 21 May 2007, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up a linux box as my desktop machine. I've got X up and running, am about to do the kde install, but have a question regarding remote X windows. I have the situation where I have to connect to a

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Lowe writes: I have the situation where I have to connect to a remote, it's still in my office but X will be running across the network, Sun server so that I can run a CAD system. In the past I've done this from Windows using telnet and an X emulator, exporting the DISPLAY

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-21, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if the remote SSH server daemon has set its X11Forwarding configuration setting set to yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:22:39 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if the remote SSH server daemon has set its X11Forwarding

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 May 2007 19:01:15 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: If the Sun has ssh running, use ssh -X or -Y to connect. If not, or if this would be too much overhead and slows things down, You could use ssh -c blowfish -X/Y. Blowfish is faster and uses less CPU time while still being secure

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread james
Andrew Lowe agl at wht.com.au writes: I'm in the process of setting up a linux box as my desktop machine. I've got X up and running, am about to do the kde install, but have a question regarding remote X windows. Hello Andrew, For a complete guide look at this:

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-05-21, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:22:39 + (UTC) Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if the

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 from another machine

2007-05-21 Thread Guillermo A. Amaral
On Monday 21 May 2007 09:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up a linux box as my desktop machine. I've got X up and running, am about to do the kde install, but have a question regarding remote X windows. SNIP Any thoughts on this greatly appreciated,

[gentoo-user] OT: Recommend a good PCI or PCMCIA b/g wifi card

2007-05-21 Thread Daevid Vincent
I've been using a Senao Engenius NL2511 (200mW) card for several years in my Gentoo Linux server as my AP. I use the host_ap drivers in the kernel and life is good. However, 802.11b is starting to show it's age at 11Mbps. Sooo I would love to upgrade this as painlessly as possible to one

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok, track length and moodbar problem...

2007-05-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 21. Mai 2007, Nistor Andrei wrote: Hello list, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length is not displayed. I'm unable to scroll forwards or backwards in the song, and moodbar

[gentoo-user] OT: Recommend a good PCI or PCMCIA b/g wifi card

2007-05-21 Thread Jeff Horelick
I use an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA wifi card (2Wire branded) and i love it...it has full linux compatibility and you can pick one up for under $30 on Ebay

[gentoo-user] cannot emerge sys-block/nbd

2007-05-21 Thread Michael George
I am trying to emerge sys-block/nbd for my LTSP system. I get the error: configure: error: Could not find an nbd.h from 2.6 or above. But locate nbd.h gives me: /usr/include/linux/nbd.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/include/linux/nbd.h

[gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-21 Thread John J. Foster
Hi, My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never restarted X and obviously never rebooted. Yesterday we had a 3 hour power outage that my UPS couldn't keep up with, and when I finally got power

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start X after a few months of updates

2007-05-21 Thread deface
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: Hi, My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a few months nonstop. Every Saturday I'd run an update world. But, I never restarted X and

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-amd64] cannot emerge sys-block/nbd

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/21/07, Michael George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to emerge sys-block/nbd for my LTSP system. I get the error: configure: error: Could not find an nbd.h from 2.6 or above. But locate nbd.h gives me: /usr/include/linux/nbd.h /usr/src/linux-2.6.19-gentoo-r5/include/linux/nbd.h

[gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? Would it be possible to draw down the whole archive all in one shot using wget or similar, dump it all

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:06 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? all of the distfiles? about 7 or 8 Gb I

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Iain Buchanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:30 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:06 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes...

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Naga
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 06:06:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, Here goes... How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory of the average server? Would it be possible to draw down the whole

[gentoo-user] emerge -f

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
If I use emerge -f on a package, will it fetch that packaged dependencies as well? For instance, if I use 'emerge -f xorg-x11', will it check the system, then download everything that it needs to install that package? If I were to use 'emerge -uf world', would there be a huge number of packaged

RE: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Naga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question snip According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-21 Thread Dale
Naga wrote: According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want _all_ distfiles. Holy smoke. O_O That's a lot of stuff. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -f

2007-05-21 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use emerge -f on a package, will it fetch that packaged dependencies as well? For instance, if I use 'emerge -f xorg-x11', will it check the system, then download everything that it needs to install that package? If I were to use 'emerge -uf world', would

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -f

2007-05-21 Thread burlingk
-Original Message- From: Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:26 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I use emerge -f on a package, will it fetch that packaged dependencies as well?